Apalling Law Against Abortion

Women face many issues in today’s society; from their pay to gender roles and discrimination. There have been laws allowing women to be lower wages, refusing them their right to vote, and more. But a law refusing women’s right to do what they please with their bodies? State legislation in Alabama has come to the conclusion that it is fine to pass a law telling women that they may not abort their unwanted babies. They have even gone as far as to make it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion! Women have been put down for years and treated as second class citizens, but to pass a law to restrict what a women can and cannot do with their bodies is criminal. A law against abortion is not only appalling, but it is also detrimental to a woman’s health.

The week of March 5th, 2014 Alabama legislatures passed various restrictive bills in regards to abortion. These laws have been passed through the House of Representatives and Senate of Alabama which happens to be Republican dominated. Legislation is moving to pass laws that ban women from getting an abortion in as little as six weeks into pregnancy even though it takes five weeks for the body to secrete hormones for a test to be used to let a woman know she is pregnant. This leaves little time for a woman to realize she is pregnant and come to a decision about the pregnancy. These laws are explicit, but don’t specify whether or not an exception is made in the case of rape or incest; these laws are very similar to the laws passed in North Dakota. The only exception made for abortions is when carrying a baby would cause great harm to the women carrying such as permanent impairment. Neither the impairment, nor the great harm clause account for emotional or psychological harm. ...

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...eal regard to the women of the state nor their safety. These laws don’t even give the women the right to abort a baby in the case of rape or incest. Women in Alabama are expected to carry a painful reminder and just suffer the consequences, but this does not mean they will. Alabama legislature has opened the flood gates for back alley abortions, alcohol abuse, and maybe even drug abuse. These different last resorts won’t only be hurting the fetus, but putting a woman at risk as well.

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