Among states that have put obstacles in the way of a woman receiving an abortion, South Dakota is the most drastic with a new law that was passed this week. Republican state Representative Roger Hunt has been drafting regulations regarding abortion for years leading up to this. The law passed Tuesday requires women, including rape and incest victims, to wait 72 hours after the initial doctor’s visit to receive an abortion. It also requires any woman seeking an abortion to receive counseling from a pregnancy crisis center first. The state had a low abortion rate already, possibly because there are only two clinics offering abortions in the state.
First of all, politicians should not be able to make decisions about a woman’s body and what she can or cannot do with it. Men are allowed to do what they please with their bodies and they use that right freely. Rep.
Hunt is oddly offering women the right to maintain a relationship with their unborn children, instead of the right they are demanding, their right to do what they want with their bodies. With South Dakota’s low abortion rate it doesn’t seem like there is a high number of irresponsible pregnancies that result in abortion so it is wrong to make it hard for the woman who need it. It should be the decision of each individual woman to decide what to do with her own body.
At the very least rape and incest victims should be exceptions to this law. These victims did not make the decision to become parents so they should not have to. These girls should not be forced to go through labor or become parents because they were victims of crime.
Politicians such as Representative Hunt passed this law because they could not pass one completely outlawing abortion. They may claim that they are doing this to help woman not make a mistake in a panic but they are not. Putting obstacles in the way of women who are seeking abortion is unethical. Pregnancy crisis centers are privately owned, unmonitored places often filled with graphic pictures and propaganda to persuade a visitor against abortion. It is as unethical and unjust as forcing propaganda on anybody who is not a specific religion. It is the same as telling someone they can practice their religion but only after they sit through a seminar on how wrong their religion is. It is wrong to try and persuade woman not to exercise one of their rights.
What do YOU think?
First of all, politicians should not be able to make decisions about a woman’s body and what she can or cannot do with it. Men are allowed to do what they please with their bodies and they use that right freely. Rep.
Hunt is oddly offering women the right to maintain a relationship with their unborn children, instead of the right they are demanding, their right to do what they want with their bodies. With South Dakota’s low abortion rate it doesn’t seem like there is a high number of irresponsible pregnancies that result in abortion so it is wrong to make it hard for the woman who need it. It should be the decision of each individual woman to decide what to do with her own body.
At the very least rape and incest victims should be exceptions to this law. These victims did not make the decision to become parents so they should not have to. These girls should not be forced to go through labor or become parents because they were victims of crime.
Politicians such as Representative Hunt passed this law because they could not pass one completely outlawing abortion. They may claim that they are doing this to help woman not make a mistake in a panic but they are not. Putting obstacles in the way of women who are seeking abortion is unethical. Pregnancy crisis centers are privately owned, unmonitored places often filled with graphic pictures and propaganda to persuade a visitor against abortion. It is as unethical and unjust as forcing propaganda on anybody who is not a specific religion. It is the same as telling someone they can practice their religion but only after they sit through a seminar on how wrong their religion is. It is wrong to try and persuade woman not to exercise one of their rights.
What do YOU think?
I hate the people trying to outlaw abortion. Even if they try to justify it as murder, murder is illegal. Do people still do it? You betcha. Besides, rape victims shouldn't have to go through more misery than they already do. The process of abortion is horrific for the women that go through it, but not nearly as horrific as having to go through a labor you don't want to ALso, ever heard of a tocophobic? Yeah, those people CANNOT have babies. They would literally rather kill themselves.
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