Latest strategy to stop women from getting safe abortions

Posted by | May 9, 2016 08:52 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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Efforts by Republicans to limit clinic access are only hurting women, and now they have a new tactic.

Called Dilation and Evacuation (D&E), this type of surgical abortion has become the only legal option left for abortions that take place after 14 weeks that doctors consider safe. But, using inflammatory language describing the D&E procedure as “dismemberment” abortion, state lawmakers are moving to block doctors from using it.

If we have an anti-choice president and Supreme Court, it could easily push us back to a pre-Roe era.
In the words of Mary Spaulding Balch of the National Right to Life Committee — the anti-abortion group behind draft legislation for D&E bills: “Dismemberment abortion kills a baby by tearing her apart limb from limb.”

The flurry of state-level activity over D&E has intensified since this legislation was first introduced in 2014. Just last week, Alabama passed a D&E bill — paired with legislation that would essentially treat abortion clinics like sex offenders. In March, West Virginia lawmakers overrode their governor’s veto on a D&E bill that’s now slated to go into effect at the end of May.

All told, at least 15 states have proposed new D&E bans this session. If these bills become law, and follow the path of previous abortion restrictions that eventually became federal law, women may no longer be able to obtain a legal abortion when they’re in most need.

And according to some legal experts, this emerging trend could ignite a real fight to revoke a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion — especially with the threat of a Republican-led country on the horizon.

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8 responses to Latest strategy to stop women from getting safe abortions

  1. Larry Schmitt May 9th, 2016 at 09:03

    Calling a fetus “her” and “baby” doesn’t make it a baby. It’s still a fetus.

    • Carla Akins May 9th, 2016 at 11:56

      Like MO’s Kurt Schaefer’s “Sanctity of Life Committee” or Congress’s (Marsha Blackburn) Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives. People piss me the hell off.

  2. whatthe46 May 9th, 2016 at 09:22

    Damn shame.

  3. Suzanne McFly May 9th, 2016 at 10:07

    As long as we make these stories public, women (and sensible men of course) will come out in droves in November and will vote straight D’s.

  4. Carla Akins May 9th, 2016 at 11:53

    This law was passed in Kansas last year. Brownback was so proud of his work that he “reenacted” the signing of the law in all four corners of the state. SMDH

    • Bunya May 9th, 2016 at 14:19

      After a record-setting tax hike on the poor and middle class and truly Draconian social service cuts, the state is so broke that Brownback and Republicans had to resort to issuing a certificate of indebtedness to prevent the state from complete financial demise.
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      I guess he needs something to be proud of, since the financial state of Kansas is in the crapper.

  5. Red Mann May 9th, 2016 at 13:25

    Why is it that the preferred method of the “sincere” Christians is lying about almost everything?

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