2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Did I just watch Clinton hesitate on a woman's right to choose? [View all]Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)Roe v Wade draws the line at viability. That is usually seen as 24 weeks for a healthy pregnancy. For an unhealthy pregnancy that point may never come. Life of the mother should always be paramount.
Here are the real battle lines:
1. Access (many states have barely anyclinics left)
2. Efforts to ban abortions after 20 weeks (which is particularly cruel towards those whose feti are diagnosed with serious disorders at the 20 weeks anatomy scan) - se Kasich's record on this (and he's supposedly the most moderate Republican presidential candidate!)
3. Catholic health services taking over many rural hospitals, thus leaving women with no other options (did you know that they won't do an "abortion" even in the case of a tubal pregnancy - they will just remove the tube, thus replacing a simple medication procedure with surgery and in the process halving a woman's reproductive ability).