Arkansas Senate passes bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks

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19. Why do we need a law about this?

Who gets to 20 weeks and never wanted to be pregnant in the first place? Ask yourself who is the focus of this law.

There are only two groups of people.

1. Those who find their babies have some kind of abnormality. And the fact that there COULD be an exception made doesn't mean there will be, or that the anti-abortion people deciding what will be an exception will be what the mother will think should be an exception.

2. Those women who have difficulty getting abortions due to anti-abortion efforts that have already been out there for some time, and therefore are delayed. I think these are the people they're going after. In order for it to be reasonable to say, "If you want an abortion, get one before 20 weeks," they have to make it easy to get an abortion before 20 weeks. But they make people take trips that require time off work and money to spend the night places. They make women get additional unnecessary medical services and have waiting periods, that all take time and money. They are the reason for the delays, and now they're saying, "If we have succesfully delayed you long enough, you're out of luck."