Mississippi was rocked with indifference as Governor Phil Bryant signed into law a set of regulations, restricting abortions to women who are less than 15 weeks pregnant. This bill took the name of the "Gestational Age Act", and it only makes exceptions for medical emergencies. These regulations have strong implications on doctors who practice abortion in Mississippi. From now on, whenever a procedure is performed, statistics need to be gathered methodically in order to assure the public that nothing over 15 weeks of age will die at the hands of medical science. These procedures must be regulated, lest their medical license be suspended. Mississippi, with one remaining clinic, was already restrictive in terms of access to abortion. For this reason, political critics are calling this tightened ban "arbitrary" and characterizing it as a way to "feed political meet". With the vast majority of abortions occurring at the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, many Mississippi women will lose access to the procedure, leaving room only for those who don't need time to gather resources to pay. It's a legislative tragedy that only negatively effects a cross-section of Mississippi's women.
Original Story: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/19/health/mississippi-abortion-ban-15-weeks/index.html
i just wrote my post about this article as well. this can be used as another example of how preferentiality is given to people who have money, which perpetuates the cycle of poverty. If women who are poor can't get abortions, more poor children will be coming into the world and the cycle will repeat.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that people don't see the government passing legislation to keep poor people poor and rich people in power. With this legislation, it doesn't allow poor women to get abortions.
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