Abortion..
This one is for the Americans on here. How many of you support the new abortion law that allows women to abort a baby up until conception (9th month)
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Graylight · 51-55, F
First, it needs to be understood. The RHA permits abortions when a medical professional's “reasonable and good faith professional judgment is based on the facts of the patient’s case” — “the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.”
In other words, women may choose to have an abortion prior to 24 weeks; pregnancies typically range from 38 to 42 weeks. After 24 weeks, such decisions must be made with a determination that there is an “absence of fetal viability” or that the procedure is “necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.” That determination must be made by a “health care practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized” under state law, “acting within his or her lawful scope of practice.”
So an abortion at an advanced stage of pregnancy isn't "ripping a baby who can feel pain from his mother's womb." The fetus will die anyway or the mother will likely die giving birth.
Now imagine your a spouse or child of the pregnant mother. Without this protection you may leave the hospital with a new child but without your wife. Or you may have a sibling but no mother to raise you. Or you may all have to grieve the stillbirth of a family member who was never going to survive in the first place. This law aims to protect against physical harm and emotional devastation. This is not a cruel, immoral law. It's a measure designed to help women.
[i]Resource used: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/02/addressing-new-yorks-new-abortion-law/[/i]
In other words, women may choose to have an abortion prior to 24 weeks; pregnancies typically range from 38 to 42 weeks. After 24 weeks, such decisions must be made with a determination that there is an “absence of fetal viability” or that the procedure is “necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.” That determination must be made by a “health care practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized” under state law, “acting within his or her lawful scope of practice.”
So an abortion at an advanced stage of pregnancy isn't "ripping a baby who can feel pain from his mother's womb." The fetus will die anyway or the mother will likely die giving birth.
Now imagine your a spouse or child of the pregnant mother. Without this protection you may leave the hospital with a new child but without your wife. Or you may have a sibling but no mother to raise you. Or you may all have to grieve the stillbirth of a family member who was never going to survive in the first place. This law aims to protect against physical harm and emotional devastation. This is not a cruel, immoral law. It's a measure designed to help women.
[i]Resource used: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/02/addressing-new-yorks-new-abortion-law/[/i]