America Moving Backward: Abortion Limits Sweep Through The South

[Cali_Democrat]

With New Bill, Abortion Limits Spread in South
By JEREMY ALFORD and ERIK ECKHOLMMAY 21, 2014

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana State Legislature on Wednesday passed a bill that could force three of the state’s five abortion clinics to close, echoing rules passed in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas and raising the possibility of drastically reduced access to abortion across a broad stretch of the South.

The new rules passed by Republican legislatures require that doctors performing abortions must have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, a provision likely to shut down many abortion clinics across the region. Legal experts say the legislation is raising a fundamental question: At what point is access to abortion so limited that it violates the right to the procedure granted by the United States Supreme Court in 1973 in Roe v. Wade?

When a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans, heard arguments on Mississippi’s law in April, a lawyer for the state said that although the law would force the state’s sole abortion clinic to close, abortion providers were available in neighboring states. One of the judges, Stephen A. Higginson, responded by bringing up a possibility that has since become reality.

“Alabama has passed a law,” he said. “Louisiana is considering one. So then what?”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/us/politics/new-bill-spreads-abortion-limits-in-south.html?_r=0

[yeoman6987]

1. I can't believe it

Not only are we getting poor access for woman, but I am getting an education I never thought I would. The way that Republicans talk, I thought their were abortion clinics on every street corner in America. Only 5 abortion clinics in the entire state of Louisiana? That is NOT a lot of clinics to begin with.

[theHandpuppet]

4. And of course we know who's hurt the most by this crap

Poor women.

[11 Bravo]

8. Probably just a coincidence.

[Cali_Democrat]

10. GOPers know this

...they know their policies hurt poor people. So rather than change their policies, they will use voter suppression and try to prevent poor people from voting.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. I think Mississippi only has one if I'm not mistaken. nt

[randys1]

2. The rightwing wants to kill some women, and control them, I see...

This physical war on Women, this attempt to kill Women who dont obey (illegal abortions kill women) is something us MEN should be

S T R O N G L Y

reacting to...Sadly most of us dont have the funds or time to mobilize to areas like this story talks about where the American Taliban terrorist organization (teaparty, republican party, all the same thing now) is so strong.

When a woman in your world dies from an illegal abortion, then maybe you will wake up, I wish we didnt have to wait for that to happen.

I know, most of you are awake, "what do we do?'

I dont know to tell you the truth, but I sure as hell know we gotta do something.

[Cali_Democrat]

9. We have to make sure people don't vote GOP

The problem is that these states are fully controlled by GOPers and they are imposing their agenda which is very anti-women.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Frightening and infuriating!!

No war on women? Bull hockey!!

[SamKnause]

5. Now if we can just get mandatory

Clitoral Female Circumcision added to the list, the U.S. will be on its way to the dark ages.

Why are dried up old white men making the health decisions for the majority of U.S. population (women) ????

(It is so easy for the poor and destitute to travel to another state to obtain an abortion.

1,2, or 3 day waiting period ?

No problem.

Poor women can afford to stay at a hotel or motel.

It will be good for the economy.)

It is a toss up as to what will destroy the human population;

Cultural beliefs
Religious beliefs

When you start chopping off parts of the human genitalia (male or female) it is time to question what your belief system is.

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. It seems like there needs to be renewed mobilization in defense of reproductive rights.

Effective access to abortion is becoming a bad joke in much of the country.

[LittleBlue]

11. The pic on Huffpo is heartbreaking

Right under the title of "Abortion limits sweep through the south".

Those girls look scarcely out of their teens, if they are at all. Already inculcated with anti-choice views.