Disgusted, no longer amused: Liberal Street Fighter
The war on women takes another beachhead, this time in Indiana:
Ind. Court Upholds Abortion Waiting Period
The Indiana Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a law that requires women seeking an abortion to get counseling about medical risks and alternatives, and to wait at least 18 hours after the session before going through with the procedure.
The court ruled in a 4-1 vote that opponents of the law could not pursue their lawsuit, which argued that privacy is a core right under the state constitution that extends to women seeking to end their pregnancies.
Silly girls, you obviously haven’t THOUGHT about what it is you want to do. Here, dear, take a look at some gruesome photos and listen to a person give you state-mandated details about the procedure, then go home and think about it for a couple of days.
The Center for Reproductive Rights has a good overview of mandatory waiting laws. They describe the Indiana law as:
Clinic for Women v. Brizzi (Indiana, USA)
Passed in 1995, Indiana’s waiting period law requires women to make two separate trips to an abortion provider before they can obtain the procedure; they must receive a state-mandated lecture designed to discourage the abortion choice at least 18 hours before the procedure is performed. The Center is charging that the law violates the rights of women seeking abortions by placing unnecessary, burdensome obstacles that serve no actual health purpose in their paths. The state court challenge follows a long history of legal battles over this law in the federal courts, including a petition to the United States Supreme Court.
This sort of waiting period is demanded by statute before NO other elective procedure in this country. We only treat women this way, and children, of course, which in the minds of far too many Americans amounts to the same thing.
It is worth remembering that these kind of restrictions were upheld in Casey, a case that bears the name of the father of the man that the traitorous “leaders” of the Democratic Party insist must be the next Democrat to run for the Senate from the State of Pennsylvania. The same infamous case in which ScAlito held in a lower court that women SHOULD have to receive the permission of their husbands/owners before obtaining an abortion. The same case that whittled away at women’s access to a medical procedure that should only be the business of themselves and their doctors.
Jane Crow continues to spread it’s wings, eager to shelter the Holy Fetus in a country that increasingly abandons its children to poverty, broken schools and no access to health care.
