Despite the fact that he has two children of his own, Alito displays astonishing ignorance about what many pregnant people and their families face in the wealthiest nation in the world, a nation that spends just $500 per child on early-childhood care — less than 2 percent of what Norway does. The consequences of that ignorance will be the difference between life and death, or profound suffering and unnecessary hardship, for so many.
I, for one, would love to live in the country that the draft opinion describes, where pregnancy is physically and economically safe, valued and supported. Unfortunately, we live in this one — where even a wanted pregnancy and birth can be among the most economically disruptive experiences most people can expect to face. In this America, reproductive autonomy remains a pillar of women’s equality and livelihoods. Until Alito has lived in our house, he has no business knocking down its walls.
|"That’s assuming, of course, that they make it out of pregnancy alive. The United States has the dubious distinction of having the worst maternal mortality rate among wealthy countries. And appalling racial disparities in resources and health care make pregnancy more life-threatening for some than for others. In Mississippi — the state whose abortion ban is currently before the Supreme Court in a case that the Alito draft addresses — the maternal mortality rate for Black women is nearly three times higher than that for White women. And in Washington, where the Supreme Court sits, Black people make up just 45 percent of the population but 90 percent of pregnancy-related deaths.''
Let's work from 3rd trimester abortions to an earlier date. Is there anyone who feels that abortion should be done in the 3rd trimester? Understand that in the 3rd trimester the infant can be delivered via C/S.
Please do not confuse this with 1st or 2nd term abortions. I am asking about abortion after 21+ weeks gestation.
Example, in France abortions are not allowed after 15 weeks unless you get a pair of doctors to sign off on it. Why doesn't the Planned Parenthood crowd go after them?
Did President Trump MAGA Macron?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.