Abortions Are Safe. Restricting Them is Deadly.
When I say that anti-abortion bills are summary executions of millions of women, that's what I mean.
Legal abortions in the United States are safe and effective, but the quality of abortion care depends on where a woman lives, according to a landmark study released Friday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.But the Kentucky General Assembly doesn't care about that. It cares about using myths of fetal viability to force women into a Handmaid's Tale prison.
What’s more, placing restrictions on abortion actually makes women less safe. And although Republican lawmakers often cite safety as a reason to restrict abortion access, those claims are not borne out by the evidence.
From the Herald:
Emotions ran high in a Senate committee Thursday afternoon as the panel approved a bill that would ban a common form of abortion for women who are 11 or more weeks pregnant.Yep, about as cruel and gruesome as disposing of a mouse that died under your refridgerator.
The measure then went to the full Senate, where it was approved 31-5. The House must now decide if it will accept or reject changes made to the bill by the Senate.
The proposal would prohibit doctors from performing an abortion procedure called “dilation and evacuation” on women who are 11 weeks or later into a pregnancy, except in medical emergencies. Doctors generally use the procedure in the second trimester.
Opponents of House Bill 454 claim it would force many women to undergo a procedure that is more costly, takes longer and involves a hospital stay. Supporters of the bill call the procedure, which involves dismemberment of a human fetus, cruel and gruesome.
For the nth time, a fetus is not a baby. It is not a child. It is not a precious anything. At 11 weeks, it's just a clump of cells. It's a tumor. It's an unwanted growth in a womanb's body that she can get rid of anytime right up until the moment the thing breathes oxygen outside her body.
Then it's a baby. And the anti-abortion freaks don't give a flying fuck about it.
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Yep, restricting them is deadly...and sometimes heartbreaking even though no one dies. I'm an old, so I remember (somewhat vaguely, I'll admit) the world before Roe v. Wade. There were still abortions - there will always be abortions - but they were illegal. I had a friend who's a little older than me. She was in college, working hard at her studies and at her waitressing job and she got pregnant. She really didn't want to have a baby right then, so she found an abortionist. But she got an infection and ended up in the hospital. And after that? She found out she'd never be able to conceive a baby or carry one to term, ever. No babies for her. All she wanted was an education and a planned family. She'd even thought about names for the kids she intended to have. Anti-choice people would probably be satisfied at this "punishment". I just think of a really cool woman who'd have been a wonderful mom.
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