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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: 2) by janrinok on Friday May 04 2018, @08:55AM (4 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 04 2018, @08:55AM (#675547) Journal

    given that 20%+ of women have been raped

    It is not a given - citation please from a credible source.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @10:41AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @10:41AM (#675576)
    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday May 04 2018, @05:23PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 04 2018, @05:23PM (#675748) Journal

      So the citation that you gave claims nearly 1 in 5 - which is a terrible state of affairs but is not 20%+. So the exaggeration of the original claim was for what reason? Why shouldn't the true figures be sufficient enough to make the argument?

      Another response to my question gave the following as a cite: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence [rainn.org] but that only goes as far as 1 in 6 women being raped. Now there is a 6% difference in those reports, so it seems to me that the figure might lie somewhere between the 2 values claimed. Again, this is an unacceptable figure of which any nation should be ashamed but even this figure would have been good enough to make the case. It does not require any fudging to make the argument more credible.

      It hardly gives me any faith in the arguments that are presented if the argument is made with distorted figures. It does suggest that someone has another agenda to push when I see inaccurate claims being made.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @10:53AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @10:53AM (#675581)
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @11:30AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @11:30AM (#675593)

      I feel sick after reading that