The Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 amended the law in England and Wales to create the offence of child destruction – in cases where any person "who, with intent to destroy the life of a child capable of being born alive, by any wilful act causes a child to die before it has an existence independent of its mother". For the purposes of this Act, a child whose mother has been pregnant for 28 weeks is deemed "capable of being born alive".
Doctors now consider 22 weeks the earliest gestational age when a baby is "viable," or able to survive outside the womb. But this is still extremely premature, and a baby born at this age will need a great deal of medical attention. Even if he survives, the risk of permanent disability is very high.
GrahamB wrote:Forced birth in a country that doesn't have mandatory maternity leave or universal healthcare.
The number of men dancing around on Twitter thrilled by the reversal of Roe versus Wade makes me want to vomit. Please pipe down, we are NEVER going to have to make this choice.
So, to sum up the Supreme Court’s week: life begins at conception and ends in a mass shooting.
If this was about babies, there would be universal healthcare. Free education. Free daycare. Southern states would be doing all they can to drop the Black maternal mortality rate. This is about power and control.
Welcome to The Handmaid's Tale.
(all these are quote from other people, but it sums it up for me).
Abortion in Germany is forbidden by law but without punishment in the first trimester under the condition of mandatory counseling and is permitted later in pregnancy in cases that the pregnancy poses an important danger to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman.
BERLIN — Lawmakers voted on Friday to end a Nazi-era ban on the advertisement of abortion services,
a measure that had effectively criminalized doctors who provided information about the procedure.
origami_itto wrote:This is not democracy. This is activist judges working the will of oligarchs.
I love you windy.
Any us foreign policy is evidence of their incompetence we evil, but standard right wing trampling of individual rights and access to medical care is a good thing.
You are a partisan puppet.
Edward Lazarus, a former law clerk to Roe's author, Justice Harry Blackmun, who writes:
As a matter of constitutional interpretation and judicial method, Roe borders on the indefensible. I say this as someone utterly committed to the right to choose, as someone who believes such a right has grounding elsewhere in the Constitution instead of where Roe placed it, and as someone who loved Roe's author like a grandfather. . . . .
What, exactly, is the problem with Roe? The problem, I believe, is that it has little connection to the Constitutional right it purportedly interpreted. A constitutional right to privacy broad enough to include abortion has no meaningful foundation in constitutional text, history, or precedent. ...
1. The Court's decision in Roe v. Wade exceeded its constitutional authority.
Under the legal system established by the U.S. Constitution, the power to make laws is vested in Congress and retained by state legislatures.
It is not the role of the Supreme Court to substitute the policy preferences of its members for those expressed in laws enacted by the people's elected representatives.
The role of the judiciary in constitutional review is to determine if the law being challenged infringes on a constitutionally protected right.
A situation in which abortion is prohibited absolutely and everywhere in these United States would be entirely consistent with the Constitution.
So would a situation in which there are no restrictions on abortion at all.
This is a matter for legislators, not a matter for judges.
origami_itto wrote:Indeed, should be legal up until actual birth.
Because some times you need to do that to save lives.
windwalker wrote:origami_itto wrote:Indeed, should be legal up until actual birth.
Because some times you need to do that to save lives.
Always said by those not aborted...
Funny how that works out
origami_itto wrote:
Your command of logic is indeed stunning.
Steve James wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEmw7k1MPIA
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