Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, Ohio, Alabama passing 6 week abortion ban bills
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https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...n-reported-prevent-criminal/story?id=80416961
Can they possibly keep up with the Republican voters being killed by Covid?
Nothing… and I mean nothing… is killing Republican voters more quickly than the Covid misinformation being pushed by GOP politicians and pundits.
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What is in the Mississippi abortion law?
The Mississippi law that will be reviewed by the court makes most abortions illegal after 15 weeks of pregnancy, about two months earlier than Roe and later decisions allow. Most experts estimate fetal viability to be about 24 weeks.
The law was enacted in 2018 by the Republican-dominated Mississippi Legislature but never went into effect because of an immediate legal challenge that led to a federal appellate court blocking its enforcement.
The law bans abortions if “the probable gestational age of the unborn human” is determined to be more than 15 weeks, with narrow exceptions for medical emergencies or “a severe fetal abnormality.”
The state says that the fetus has made important physiological developments by 15 weeks, and that abortions are riskier to the mother at this stage of pregnancy. The Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which as the sole abortion clinic in Mississippi is at the center of the case, gave evidence to a federal appeals court showing that fetal viability is impossible at 15 weeks.
A federal appeals court said the state had not shown any medical evidence proving otherwise, affirming a lower-court ruling blocking the law and essentially saying that abortion is a right until a fetus is considered viable. If the law passed in 2018 were in practice, abortion providers who violated it could have their medical license suspended or revoked.
Murder of what? Generally speaking, not a functioning human that could survive outside of the womb. Sure, it has potential, but it requires a lot of work. It has no history, no memories, nobody ever met them, etc.