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So was Kansas, Roe has been around for 50 years but they needed to get this done in two months. Roe was supported by 60% of the population and that includes conservatives.
I find it hard to believe that this was a shock to the majority of people who live in Indiana.
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Originally Posted by natalie469
Voters didn't decide because it wasn't on the ballot.
Of course they did. They elected the reps who voted on it.
Roe protected abortion rights even in states where GOP legislators wanted to ban it.
Any attempt to claim otherwise is a lie.
Now that the protection of Roe is gone, state legislators can either let voters decide directly, or can decide themselves. After Kansas, you can be sure GOP legislators will be afraid to let voters decide directly.
I find it hard to believe that this was a shock to the majority of people who live in Indiana.
Of course they did. They elected the reps who voted on it.
Put it on the ballot and I think the decision would be much like the decision in Kansas. No one wants government telling us what to do with our bodies.
Put it on the ballot and I think the decision would be much like the decision in Kansas. No one wants government telling us what to do with our bodies.
And yet, I find it hysterical that people in this thread want to tell people in Indiana what they should be doing.
Courts can say whether laws are constitutional or not. Roe vs Wade said banning abortion was unconstitutional. Thus, after Roe, states were forced to let abortion be legal.
The bill, which will go into effect Sept. 15, allows abortion only in cases of rape, incest, lethal fetal abnormality or when the procedure is necessary to prevent severe health risks or death.
so it allows most critical abortions
btw did you know the RvW made abortions not allowed after the second trimester...hmmm
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From the second trimester on, the Court ruled that evidence of increasing risks to the mother's health gave states a compelling interest that allowed them to enact medical regulations on abortion procedures so long as they were reasonable and "narrowly tailored" to protecting mothers' health.[7] At the end of the second trimester and from the beginning of the third trimester on—the point at which a fetus became viable under the medical technology available in the early 1970s (26 weeks)—the Court ruled that a state's interest in protecting prenatal life became so compelling that it could legally prohibit all abortions except where necessary to protect the mother's life or health.[7]
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