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time for a rebrand! (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This belief depends entirely on the state. Other red states don't give a shit. Kansas and Florida for example haven't restricted it at all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not familiar with those states but after a quick search:

Florida has an an abortion plan that permits prosecution of a women as a third degree felony in some circumstances.

Kansas prohibits abortions after 22 weeks and “a woman who seeks an abortion will be given state-mandated propaganda designed to change her mind. She will then have to look at an ultrasound image, wait 24 hours and pay for the procedure out of her own pocket.”

“Not as bad” isn’t really a W.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every country limits abortion to some extent. The UK limits it at 24 unless medically necessary. Denmark is at 12 weeks.

The US was unique in that you weren't permitted to limit it at all due to the supreme court decision.

Some limitations are fine, imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wrong again:

During the first trimester, when it was believed that the procedure was safer than childbirth, the Court ruled that a state government could place no restrictions on women's ability to choose to abort pregnancies other than imposing minimal medical safeguards, such as requiring abortions to be performed by licensed physicians.[7] From the second trimester on, the Court ruled that evidence of increasing risks to the mother's health gave states a compelling interest that allowed them to enact medical regulations on abortion procedures so long as they were reasonable and "narrowly tailored" to protecting mothers' health.[7] From the beginning of the third trimester on—the point at which a fetus became viable under the medical technology available in the early 1970s—the Court ruled that a state's interest in protecting prenatal life became so compelling that it could legally prohibit all abortions except where necessary to protect the mother's life or health