Every State That's Tried to Ban Abortion Over the Coronavirus

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Just days into the national surge of coronavirus cases, as an increasing number of states called for nonessential businesses to shut down, some Republican legislators began using the public health crisis as an opportunity to deny health care to patients seeking abortions. The tactic has been replicated in the past couple of weeks, with governors in several states peddling the cynical argument that temporarily banning abortion will help shore up their supply of medical gear for hospitals overwhelmed by the pandemic.

So far, lawmakers in six states — Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Arkansas — have attempted to halt abortion services indefinitely. In March, providers in Alabama, Iowa, Ohio, and Oklahoma filed lawsuits to prevent the orders from taking effect in their states. A similar lawsuit has been filed in Texas as well. On April 1, injunctions were granted in Ohio, Texas, and Alabama, so that clinics would be able to remain in operation. However, a federal appeals court quickly overturned the Texas injunction, kicking off a legal back-and-forth that has now escalated to the Supreme Court. On April 6, a federal judge in Oklahoma also granted an injunction, and the case against Iowa was dropped on April 1, after it was determined that the state would not ban all abortions.

Anti-abortion legislators are taking advantage of a crisis to further their agenda. Many states are moving to limit nonessential medical procedures, like dental checkups and colonoscopies, in an attempt to conserve protective gear for health-care workers; by labeling abortion, too, as “nonessential,” they hope to institute a de facto temporary ban. This ignores the widespread medical consensus that abortion is an “essential component of comprehensive health care” and that it’s a time-sensitive procedure. Were these directives allowed to stand, they would force women to have to travel hundreds of miles to obtain safe and legal terminations at a time when three-quarters of Americans have been urged or ordered to stay at home.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/every-state-that-s-tried-to-ban-abortion-over-the-coronavirus/ar-BB12gRB5?ocid=msn360

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...for visibility...nt

[katmondoo]

2. But according to Dr. Oz it is OK if a million kids die to save the economy.

[Hearthrob]

3. The push is on for chemical abortions.

Can't wait to show the' old white guys' how a vaginal speculum works.

[procon]

4. The religious right have been pushing these unjust

laws to restrict women's rights for years. They've added punishing new clauses intended to humiliate women, force them into submission and take away the same civil rights that men are allowed without question.

Republicans have made these antiabortion laws increasingly unfair and illegal, hoping to gain enough national notoriety and disparate court rulings that would eventually bump one of their draconian laws up to the Supreme Court.

Republicans and their conjoined twin, the fanatical religious right, are ecstatic. They believe they now have the perfect SCOTUS of their dreams. The court is stacked with ultra conservative Republican justices, many of whom have a long judicial record of anti women biases and rulings against Roe.

Roe v Wade is facing its greatest jeopardy under these partisan judges. It is not unrealistic to expect this court to over turn Roe, or gut it to the point that states are allowed to impose harsh new restrictions making it impossible for women to have a safe and legal abortion.