Chipping Away at The Right To Choose: Abortion Restrictions At Astonishing Record High

[marmar]

from AlterNet:



Chipping Away at The Right To Choose: Abortion Restrictions At Astonishing Record High


Ten state legislatures are still in session, but the damage is done: 19 state legislatures have passed 80 laws to restrict or add obstacles to the women’s right to choose. The Guttmacher Institute reports that the new legislation is more than double the previous record of 34 restrictions passed in 2005.

While choice is a constitutionally protected right (Remember Roe V. Wade?), anti-choice crusaders will use whatever lowly means necessary to force their sexist ideology into action. In Raleigh, North Carolina, for example, anti-choice vandals spray painted “Thou Shalt Not Murder” amongst other graffiti on a Planned Parenthood facility. The action was not one of ill-informed (The clinic does not perform abortions) belligerence, but political activism to back efforts to cut Planned Parenthood from the state budget.

Using budget cuts as leverage, the war on women seems to be a full-fledged government attack. In states like Texas and New Hampshire, cuts to Planned Parenthood were disproportionate compared to other health services. Aside from cuts, state legislatures are also building obstacles to slow women’s access to abortions. Five states – Kansas, Indiana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Texas – mandated pre-abortion counseling and waiting periods. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/633887/chipping_away_at_the_right_to_choose%3A_abortion_restrictions_at_astonishing_record_high/

[Ohio Joe]

1. K&R - nt

[femrap]

2. Unless a woman

lives in a progressive state such as CA or MA, there is no 'real' right to an abortion. And don't forget, you gotta have the $$$.

If you can't afford the pill, it's doubtful you can afford an abortion.

And now with our new 'Austerity Programs' coming, single mothers and their children will be the first to have the rugs pulled out from under them...well, maybe second, after the gov't goes after poor old people.

I'd prefer my taxes going to poor women who don't want to give birth instead of The War Machine that kills women and children and elderly in other countries.

[spanone]

3. god's army never sleeps