Legislation is latest in raft of anti-abortion laws passed in states across the country since supreme court overturned Roe v Wade
  • lemillionsocks@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    6 weeks is effectively a ban. That’s not even enough time to know you’re pregnant.

    Like I can comprehend their being upper limits to abortion if the mother’s life isnt at risk when the fetus is viable. There dont seem to be many people protesting states with a 24+ week to third trimester abortion bans that do exist in a lot of northern states. This is so far and away from that.

    6 weeks is hardly even pregnant. The fetus is the size of a lentil, and with aid of a microscope you can see it resembles a what you’d see inside of a fish egg more than a human. That’s barely enough time to really know a person is late for their first period especially if there is spotting from the placenta attaching or a hematoma

  • Artemis@beehaw.orgEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    It wasn’t enough when they resoundingly voted ‘No’ in a statewide referendum, R’s just do it by other means. Anything to hurt someone who isn’t a white conservative dude.

    • FIash Mob #5678@beehaw.orgEnglish
      25·
      1 year ago

      Anything to hurt someone

      This is the crucial point, because the policies Republicans support are observably flawed and don’t work. The country with the lowest abortion rate in the world is The Netherlands, where there’s universal health care, sex education (and not the kind where people get to lie to you), and abortion is legal.

      The cruelty of it is the point.

    • n2burns@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I know other states have had referendums, but I don’t remember hearing about Iowa and I can’t find anything about one on the web. Do you have a link or a date or anything?