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Originally Posted by kell490
Most of these red states give no exception for medical reasons such as fetal deformities.
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There's no way every state will ever get behind abortion prohibition again. Blanket prohibition came at a time when all women were basically the possessions of their fathers until they married and became the possession of their husbands.
Those times are gone forever.
You mentioned just one problem it has, but there are dozens of them, and they don't all exist in all state laws. Some states have always restricted abortion access, but not procedures. Others have prohibited access and some procedures, but not this single procedure.
Specifically limiting abortion procedures and allowing others won't ever work. Trying to get all 50 states to go with any law like that won't ever work. Trying to get women everywhere to agree with those laws won't ever work.
A blanket across-the-board prohibition law won't ever work either.
Such laws always conflict with our rights and liberties in some way or other. Our rights as men and as women.
They will all be struck down eventually, or will be watered down so much they're meaningless.
But while they are enforced, they will cause great damage to the state, no matter what the law contains.
When a doctor knows how to save a woman's life, and is constrained by law to force a woman to die so that her child may be born alive, and the woman wants to live, not die, what can a doctor do?
If he over-rules the woman's desire for an abortion, he won't be charged with a crime, but she'll die.
But if he goes with his patient's deepest wish- the desire to live- he could lose his license, everything else he's worked for, and his own freedom! Every doctor takes an oath to do as much as he possibly can to keep every patient alive to the best of his ability. They make that pledge before they're allowed to treat their first patient.
So what does a doctor do? He leaves the state and moves to somewhere he can practice that allows him and his patients the freedom to make their own choices on a matter that is always life and death.
As soon as he leaves, what's going to happen when he's gone to the pregnant woman and her baby?
Neither one will be healthy when the baby finally comes. Or when the mother dies before birth.
No baby that's been taken from a dead mother is healthy, even if they're alive. Who will care for them if the doctor is gone?
For sure, the care won't come from a politician. And there are worse outcomes than losing good doctors in restricting pregnancy. The politicians who wrote these new laws will have to answer to their voters for them.
All those politicians who are writing these laws should remember why Roe V. Wade happened.
Roe v. Wade set the conditions when an abortion could be done in compliance throughout all 50 states.
For the first time. Before this decision, the nation was the jumble it is now, and always had been stuck in that jumble.
It was the first official decision that allowed every woman to have autonomy- the ability to control her ability to control her own body herself.
A half-century later, it wasn't a fight any more. Nowadays, its a fight that should have never been allowed to restart.
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