White House: GOP abortion ban would mean a nationwide crisis

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“Doctors could face criminal charges for performing an abortion to safeguard the health of the mother, offering miscarriage care, providing an abortion to a pregnant woman whose baby has no chance of survival, or treating a rape victim”

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White House: GOP abortion ban would mean a nationwide crisis - The Boston Globe
The White House and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say a Republican-led proposal to ban abortion nationwide after 15 weeks would endanger the health of women and have severe...
4:36 AM · Sep 23, 2022

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WASHINGTON — The White House and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say a Republican-led proposal to ban abortion nationwide after 15 weeks would endanger the health of women and have severe consequences for physicians.

“If passed and enacted, this bill would create a nationwide health crisis, imperiling the health and lives of women in all 50 states,” according to a preliminary analysis of the bill by Jennifer Klein, the White House Gender Policy Council chairwoman, that was obtained by the Associated Press. “It would transform the practice of medicine, opening the door to doctors being thrown in jail if they fulfill their duty of care to patients according to their best medical judgment.”

The measure introduced last week by Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, proposes a nationwide ban that would allow rare exceptions. The legislation has almost no chance of becoming law in the Democratic-controlled Congress. GOP leaders did not immediately embrace it and Democrats are pointing to the proposal as an alarming signal of where Republicans would try to go if they were to win control of the Congress in November.

Many in the United States had believed the constitutional right to abortion, established by the Supreme Court almost 50 years ago, could never be overturned. But that protection was stripped away this year by the court's conservative majority, and advocates are leaving nothing to chance.

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Makes you wonder where the legislators got their medical degrees,

doesn't it?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. The Republican party is the party of hate, misogyny, fascism and control.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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