Radical right-wing abortion restrictions will kill women
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Some Republican abortion foes have called for a federal law
along the same lines, criminalizing abortions nationally as homicide.
Most of the new wave of anti-abortion statutes include no
exceptions for incest or rape. A 14-year-old girl who does not want to give
birth to her father’s child could be imprisoned for 10 or 15 years. So could a
mother who refuses to add a rapist’s child to her family.
Under many of the statutes, a human egg is defined as an “unborn child”
from the moment of fertilization, even before the egg has become implanted in
the womb. Criminal penalties therefore apply no matter how early a woman seeks
to terminate a pregnancy.
A pregnant person could be charged with the “murder” of what doctors call a “blastocyte,” the stage an egg reaches around the sixth day after fertilization. Anti-abortion laws define this microscopic entity — less than one hundredth of an inch long — as an “unborn child.”
An estimated one fourth of American women have had or will in the course of
their lives have an abortion. On this basis, “pro-life” legislators are calling
these 34 million women and girls murderers — and possibly subjecting them to
steep prison terms or execution. . . Mitchell
Zimmerman
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Reckoning: L A Review of Books: “Gripping …
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Kirkus: “Riveting.” Freedom Rider
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history.” Fed. Judge Thelton Henderson: “a
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