Conservatives Want to End 'Exceptions' for Women’s Lives and think no one will notice
25 November 2024
This post provides excepts from Jessica Valenti’s blog discussing how conservatives are:
strategically redefining ‘abortion’ across law, culture and medicine while pushing the false claim that abortion is never necessary to save a person’s life. The end game is legislation that bans abortion in all cases, mandating that doctors only end life-threatening pregnancies using c-sections or induced vaginal birth, no matter the risk to the pregnant person.
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In addition to dividing women into those who ‘deserve’ care and those who don’t, the goal is to divorce abortion from healthcare.
Even though this definition has no basis in medicine or reality, Republicans have embedded it in state laws and policies anyway—often after being lobbied by anti-abortion groups.
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