Mississippi Puts Anti-Abortion Law into Effect || Chloe Villa-Abrille 3/19/2018

House Bill 1510, signed by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant putting the bill of preventing abortions after 15 weeks into use last Monday, this new law is also referred to as the Gestational Age Act. The act says that the only circumstance that one can abort a child is if there is fetal abnormality or the mother is at risk of death and makes no exceptions if the child was conceived without will. Those that violate this will be fined $500 minimum and doctors will have their license revoked. Mississippi ad along with other states, make it increasingly difficult to receive an abortion before the 15-week cut off, with the need for repeated clinic trips costing too much for many and a limited number of physicians available because of the difficulty to be board-certified.

               Abortions have always been a topic of debate for the US, with women unable to hold power, men have continued to force these laws upon many. 1880 was a turning point in the views of abortion, before it was a widely practiced and profitable business and the church didn’t use morals as an abortion argument; the main resistance of it was the risk of being poisoned. 1873 came the Comstock Law banning abortion; however, in 1960 women’s rights soon became further noticed with the Women’s Liberation movement giving the rights to the women, but as time progresses law are appearing once more to limit the use of abortions, history is once more repeating its self.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/19/health/mississippi-abortion-ban-15-weeks/index.html