Montana Invents Fun Science Experiments To Do On Ladies Who Want Legal Abortions
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Still legal right?
Montana Invents Fun Science Experiments To Do On Ladies Who Want Legal Abortions
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try not to be pregnant in Montana
Pretend you’re a state legislature, and you really REALLY want to make it so ladies don’t do abortions, even though that is a thing that is still legal in U.S. Jesus America. You have lots of options! You could try to ban all abortions after 20 weeks, which 10 states and Congress are trying to do. You could ban all abortions at some other gestational point, which 32 states are working on. You could try to scare ladies away from having an abortion by offering information that is not necessarily even accurate about fetal pain, as 12 states do. Or you could get really creative, like in Montana!
Rather than just proposing all those old-fashioned kinds of 20-week bans, a Montana House Committee is taking up H.B. 479, the Montana Unborn Child Pain and Suffering Prevention Act, which would require mandatory fetal anesthesia prior to an abortion at 20 weeks or later. (West Virginia Republicans introduced a similar bill in January, requiring anesthesia at 7 weeks.)
What’s so wrong with requiring a pregnant woman to have anesthesia administered to the fetus she’s aborting, whether she wants it or not? Well, for one thing, it is based on the scientifically incorrect assertion that fetuses can feel pain at 20 weeks. For another thing, the health effects of fetal anesthesia on pregnant ladies are unknown. But pregnant ladies would probably be fine with their bodies being used as a science experiment, right?
The Montana bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Albert Olszewski, is another one of those magical Republican lawmakers who just knows things about ladies’ bodies. He is an orthopedic surgeon, and he has probably treated lady patients, ergo, he has a nuanced understanding of the female reproductive system and doesn’t need to pay any attention to the findings of actual ladyhealth doctors who have studied this subject. In response to a question about whether and at what point fetal pain would even be possible, Olszewski said:
Based on the scientific research accomplished and published over the last three decades, the answer to this question is when the unborn child is 20 weeks gestation or older.
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Read more at http://wonkette.com/580027/montana-invents-fun-science-experiments-to-do-on-ladies-who-want-legal-abortions#R3TOV7qvlus8w0HE.99
