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posted by janrinok on Thursday May 03 2018, @06:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-many-women-voted? dept.

Iowa approves one of strictest abortion bills in US

The US state of Iowa has approved one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, banning most abortions once a foetal heartbeat is detected. Republican lawmakers, who control both chambers, passed the bill in back-to-back votes, sending it to the governor's desk to sign into law.

If [signed], the bill would ban most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Critics argue the bill makes having an abortion illegal before most women even realise they are pregnant.

[...] If [Governor Kim] Reynolds signs the bill into law, it will likely be challenged in court for possibly violating Roe v Wade, the US Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in 1973. [...] Some Republican lawmakers welcomed the challenge. "I would love for the United States Supreme Court to look at this bill and have this as a vehicle to overturn Roe v. Wade," Republican Senator Jake Chapman said.

Also at NPR, Reuters, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, and The Hill:

Nineteen states adopted a total of 63 restrictions to the procedure in 2017, which is the highest number of state laws on the issue since 2013, according to the Guttmacher Institute. State legislatures have proposed 15 bills that would ban abortions after 20 weeks and 11 bills that would ban abortions if the sole reason is a genetic anomaly like Down syndrome.

Related: Ohio Bill Would Ban Abortion when a Prenatal Test is Positive for Down Syndrome
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 03 2018, @10:24PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 03 2018, @10:24PM (#675363)

    You can't frame this as a men's rights issue. Don't even try.

    If you're concerned about child support (a regressive system that is inherently sexist against men), then free access to abortion can help, yet that falls short of being a complete solution on its own. You're correct in bristling at the sex-negative puritan shit when it's applied against men in the context of child support, so you seek to apply pregnancy against women in retaliation by opposing abortion. Or perhaps it's not retaliation, but more like grasping at straws.

    I'm not sure what you hope to accomplish. Child support should be abolished, and I'll be cheering you on if your mission is to repeal those laws. Attacking abortion is not the way.

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday May 03 2018, @10:36PM (3 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday May 03 2018, @10:36PM (#675367) Journal

    No, I whole heartedly support the notion of Child Support. Even though, it can be abused in some cases.

    What I'm saying is that people need to take responsibility for their actions.

    Laws Against Abortion and laws for Child Support are societies' way to tell people to grow up. You don't want to have a kid, then don't have a kid. Get a procedure to get your tubes tied, a vasectomy, use birth control of various forms, etc. Just don't use abortion as your means of birth control or your lack of responsibility to make it seem ok not to support the child you helped create.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @02:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @02:12AM (#675435)

      Fair enough then. I disagree but don't feel like belaboring the point. How will we fund the orphanages?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @02:23AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @02:23AM (#675441)

      Laws Against Abortion and laws for Child Support are societies' way to tell people to grow up.

      No, they're society's way of trying to get government thugs to force people to remain pregnant. Anyone who isn't a disgusting authoritarian opposes such laws.

    • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday May 04 2018, @12:28PM

      by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Friday May 04 2018, @12:28PM (#675613) Journal

      What I'm saying is that people need to take responsibility for their actions.

      That logic wipes out the vast majority of medical interventions, by the way. A very high number, both medical and trauma - including virtually every traffic accident - can be laid at the feet of the individual seeking treatment.
      Again, watch that mote you're looking for... the beam in your own will become apparent sooner or later.

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