The Latest Strategy To Prevent Women From Getting A Safe Abortion

[niyad]

The Latest Strategy To Prevent Women From Getting A Safe Abortion



A number of states have unleashed a new strategy to further restrict a woman’s legal right to end a pregnancy: Ban the safest way to perform a second-trimester abortion.


If we have an anti-choice president and Supreme Court, it could easily push us back to a pre-Roe era.

Called Dilation and Evacuation (D&E), this type of surgical abortion has become the only legal option left for abortions that take place after 14 weeks that doctors consider safe. But, using inflammatory language describing the D&E procedure as “dismemberment” abortion, state lawmakers are moving to block doctors from using it.


In the words of Mary Spaulding Balch of the National Right to Life Committee — the anti-abortion group behind draft legislation for D&E bills: “Dismemberment abortion kills a baby by tearing her apart limb from limb.”

The flurry of state-level activity over D&E has intensified since this legislation was first introduced in 2014. Just last week, Alabama passed a D&E bill — paired with legislation that would essentially treat abortion clinics like sex offenders. In March, West Virginia lawmakers overrode their governor’s veto on a D&E bill that’s now slated to go into effect at the end of May.

All told, at least 15 states have proposed new D&E bans this session. If these bills become law, and follow the path of previous abortion restrictions that eventually became federal law, women may no longer be able to obtain a legal abortion when they’re in most need. And according to some legal experts, this emerging trend could ignite a real fight to revoke a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion — especially with the threat of a Republican-led country on the horizon.

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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/05/09/3776058/de-ban-state-trend/

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. WTF?! It's unbelievable that, in 2016, we still have to worry bout protecting a woman's right to choose.

We can never let down our guard. No way we can let the Trumpster fire get anywhere near the White House and get control over Supreme Court nominees.

[niyad]

2. you are absolutely correct. that woman-hating asshole cannot be anywhere in charge.

anybody who says s/he will vote for herr drumpf for any reason is a person who clearly hates women, no matter what the rationale for the vote.