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TexasTowelie

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Fri Feb 1, 2019, 05:55 AM Feb 2019

Abortion waiting period an insult, not 'gift' to Wyoming women

Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: Abortion is nothing like buying clothes.

Maybe someone should tell that to Rep. Richard Tass (R-Sheridan), the sponsor of a bill requiring a 48-hour waiting period in Wyoming before having an abortion.

Tass told the House Judiciary Committee last week that recently he was buying a sports jacket and was worried about how it would “fit and feel.” The freshman legislator said he was assured by the clerk that if he didn’t like the jacket he could bring it back after a few days.

“Buyer’s remorse,” Tass said. “There’s no such thing with abortion. It’s final. There’s no returning it, there’s no taking it back. … This bill only asks that a woman be given the gift of just two days to consider this final act.”

I doubt he spent anywhere near the amount of time thinking about his purchase than a woman who contemplates an abortion. Nor did he have to drive across Wyoming to Jackson to see the only two medical providers who perform abortions in the state, pay for transportation and lodging and perhaps child care.

Read more: https://www.wyofile.com/abortion-waiting-period-is-an-insult-not-a-gift-to-wyoming-women/

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