In states like Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, TRAP laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) have forced ridiculous rules onto clinics, doctors and patients to ultimately diminish the total number
of abortion procedures.
Defunding Planned Parenthood — which provides the majority
of abortion procedures in the United States — has been at the center of the Republican political agenda for nearly two years.
Not exact matches
A new effort under President Donald Trump to protect the rights
of health workers who object to
abortions and other
procedures will cost the health care system more than $ 300 million to implement.
Republican legislators sent Iowa's governor a bill early Wednesday that would ban most
abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks
of pregnancy, propelling the state overnight to the front
of a push among conservative statehouses jockeying to enact the nation's most restrictive regulations on the
procedure.
The UK's highest court has overturned a ruling made in favour
of two Catholic midwives who object to any involvement in
abortion procedures.
They are extremely rare
procedures, as most
abortions take place before the 9th week
of gestation, when the fetus is nothing more then a ball
of dividing cells.
Just as it is OK for a doctor to perform an operation or a medical
procedure that has a good chance
of causing an
abortion in a pregnant woman.
Abortion, being a medical
procedure, can be done in an environment where the woman will have the hgihest chance
of a quick and safe
procedure (for her at least).
Furthermore, as I became more involved in the feminist conversation (some feminists are pro-life,
of course, but many are pro-choice), I began to understand some
of the arguments against the criminalization
of abortion, like that banning
abortion does not necessarily reduce the
abortion rate, that enforcing a ban on all
abortions would be impossible, and that women would likely seek out
abortions through unsafe, illegal
procedures anyway.
What frustrates me about the pro-choice movement is the lengths to which advocates go to de-humanize unborn children and sanitize the
abortion procedure, reducing life to nothing more than a cluster
of cells and the implications
of pregnancy to little more than a choice.
I don't think you can be a pro-life feminist and argue that women need to be condescended to and «informed
of what they're doing» as though they don't already know (cf. laws that institute mandatory waiting periods so they can «think it over,» which puts an untenable burden on those who have to travel for
abortion procedures and do not have the money to do so).
As a result, states were permitted to outlaw
abortion in the third trimester
of pregnancy except when the
procedure is necessary to preserve the life
of the mother.»
Nothing revealed the radicalism
of Roe quite so dramatically as the Court's invalidation
of a Nebraska statute prohibiting the grisly
procedure known as partial - birth
abortion in the case
of Stenberg v. Carhart.
The uninformed thought the [partial - birth]
procedure gratuitously cruel, akin to infanticide; they didn't realize that the only difference between it and the methods
of late - term
abortion that are conceded all round to be constitutionally privileged is which way the fetus» feet are pointing.»
They will be on the spot, especially if the Bush Administration proves to be creative and determined in pressing the legal implications
of the Act when it comes to hospitals that allow the killing by exposure (or more direct means)
of children who survive
abortion procedures.
(A case in point is that
of a publicly supported, church - related hospital which is the only hospital in town and which refuses to permit certain medically accepted surgical
procedures — such as
abortion or tubal ligation — which are objectionable to the church but not to the patients
of other faiths or no faith who depend upon that hospital for health care, and whose tax dollars support it.)
If he knowingly commits a post-24 weeks
abortion, based on such stringent life and health criteria, the doctor must certify his judgment about the threat in writing; acquire the concurrence
of a second doctor in that judgment based on a «separate personal medical examination»
of the woman; perform the
abortion in a hospital; employ
procedures designed to maximize the unborn child's chances to survive; and have a second physician present, ready to consider any surviving child his primary patient.
Sparks also said that the video doesn't show evidence
of Planned Parenthood violating ethical or medical standards or
of them altering their
abortion procedures just so they could get more fetal tissue, presumably for selling.
The reason: «Proponents
of abortion rights overcame Americans» qualms about the
procedure with a long series
of claims about the benefits
of unrestricted
abortion on demand.
And it was Doe's broad definition
of «health» as «well - being» that the Court would later use to strike down even bans on the cruel
procedure known as partial - birth
abortion.
Various connectors that trigger the memory
of a past
abortion, such as the death
of a loved one, sounds (like that
of a hoover, recalling the sound
of the suction during the
procedure) or even weather, can induce these symptoms unexpectedly.
These videos feature Planned Parenthood officials haggling over the cash value
of fetal tissue and blithely talking about «crunchy»
abortion procedures.
At this point, the
abortion procedure has the appearance
of a live birth.
Nebraska's position was buttressed by various statements
of the American Medical Association, which had previously supported a federal version
of the ban on partial «birth
abortion, and which after expert study had been unable to identify any circumstance where partial «birth
abortion was the only appropriate
procedure.
According to Dr. Martin Haskell, a leading proponent
of the
procedure, the appropriate instrument to be used at this stage
of the
abortion is a pair
of scissors....
Justice John Paul Stevens (joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) stated: «Although much ink is spilled today describing the gruesome nature
of late «term
abortion procedures, that rhetoric does not provide me a reason to believe that the
procedure Nebraska here claims it seeks to ban is more brutal, more gruesome, or less respectful
of «potential life» than the equally gruesome
procedure [D&E] Nebraska claims it still allows.»
Notable defenders
of the
abortion license, such as Naomi Wolf, have conceded that
abortion is no ordinary surgical
procedure....
«Although public opinion on
abortion has stayed relatively steady for four decades, support for legalizing the
procedure under any circumstance spiked in the early 1990s, when today's fortysomethings were coming
of age,» wrote Emma Green for The Atlantic in 2015.
Ahead
of Friday's annual March for Life, pro-life Christians celebrated new federal protections for health care workers who decline to administer
procedures such as
abortion, sterilization, or euthanasia on religious or moral grounds.
«It is stomach - churning to hear a top doctor for the national Planned Parenthood organization admit, on videotape, that Planned Parenthood abortionists can and will alter late
abortion procedures to facilitate the harvesting
of intact baby body parts — she specifically mentioned hearts, lungs, livers, even intact heads — in order to fill specific pre-orders,» said National Right to Life president Carol Tobias in a statement.
But any medical
procedure involves a level
of risk and
abortion is no different, legal or otherwise.
Lila Rose, the 21 - year - old leader
of the group Live Action, posed as a 14 - year - old seeking an
abortion who was told by a clinic employee that she could have someone with the same last name approve the
procedure.
If the
abortion lobby is going to highlight the risks to women
of unsafe
abortion, the logical response would surely be to campaign against a medically unnecessary
procedure and to work instead to offer women the assistance they need when facing a difficult pregnancy?»
In comparison to other developed countries, the
procedure is more available in the United States in terms
of how late the
abortion can legally be performed.
Moreover, I carefully pointed out that ethicists on this issue can basically be divided into two camps: those that view aborted fetuses as cadavers
of a medical
procedure and think that some good should come from
abortions, and those that view aborted fetuses as victims
of oppression, sin, and thoughtlessness, and therefore think that these victims should not be further exploited» especially under the guise
of a «good cause.»
That all the persons subjected to the
abortion procedure are female, and that casual sex leads to more rather than less
of all
of that.
Even so, there are many documented cases
of women being denied coverage for medical
procedures they need, like
abortion or sterilization.
When parents choose to terminate a pregnancy because
of severe medical conditions in the baby, the medical
procedure is technically a second - trimester
abortion or a «late - term»
abortion — and it is technically elective because parents can choose whether to let nature take its course or to end the pregnancy.
being the largest provider
of abortion services outside the NHS, performing over a third
of all
procedures in England and Wales each year.
So when discussing access to particular health services, things like blood transfusions or
abortion procedures many be against the religious beliefs
of those that run the private hospitals, and thus not be provided.
These outdated
abortion laws often mean that people have to travel outside
of the state for
abortion access, even for emergency health
procedures.
Before NOW - NYS supports this nominee, women need answers as to how Kagan will rule on issues
of reproductive rights;
abortion, contraception, and all forms
of medical
procedures that would affect a woman's privacy in making important decisions about her body.»
Proposals including Mr. Spitzer's plan to bolster state
abortion laws in the wake
of a Supreme Court decision restricting a disputed
abortion procedure were not even the subject
of serious talks.
Her mother paid # 600 for the
procedure, some
of which was covered by the
Abortion Support Network, and described the process
of raising the funds as «harrowing».
This means that the vast majority
of those seeking
abortion in Northern Ireland will need to travel to access a safe, legal
procedure.
Even those who support a woman's right to an
abortion often qualify their support by saying
abortion is a «bad thing,» an «agonizing decision,» making the medical
procedure so remote and radioactive that it takes it out
of the world
of the everyday, turning an act that is normal and necessary into something shameful and secretive.
As reported this weekend in the New York Times, Governor Andrew Cuomo is set to propose changes to the state's policies on
abortion as part
of his «Women's Equality Act» introduced during his State
of the State Address that include allow health care practitioners, not solely physicians, from performing the
procedure.
Abortion is just about the most emotionally - sensitive issue for lawmakers on both sides
of the aisle, but passions were kicked into overdrive in that afternoon's debate after Assemblyman Ron Castorina, a Republican who has been in the chamber for a little more than a month, compared the
procedure to «African - American genocide.»
Abortion procedures change according to the gestation (stage)
of the pregnancy.
I have recently watched a short documentary about
abortion and refusal
of performing such
procedures due to religious reasons in my native country.