However, this group supports the exception of life-saving abortion. “It’s not an act of abortion, because the purpose of abortion is to end life, and if possible, not to intervene to save lives,” she said.
But like some groups Pro Life Wisconsin And related things Abortion abolished Move, reject all exceptions. Doug Mastriano, Republican candidate For the Governor of Pennsylvania, who calls abortion a “genocide that denies science.”
Some abortion advocates claim that focusing on exceptions is going in the wrong direction. When people expressed shock that the new law did not allow exceptions to rape and incest, “they seem to suggest that the new restriction law would be more rational if those exceptions were allowed. “. Leslie J. Reagan, Historian of American Medicine and Public Health at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Some state bans, with or without exceptions, include criminal penalties. This was called by Dr. Reagan, author of “When Abortion was a Crime,” “a step back into the century of abortion crime that the United States has already lived.”
The history of exceptions goes back decades. 1959, American Law AssociationAn independent group of legal scholars, lawyers and judges, we have begun drafting a model bill to correct abortion crimes. If the doctor determines that there is a significant risk to the health of the woman or fetus, or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, she has suggested allowing her to retire.
At that time, two threats to the fetus were serious concerns. The first is thalidomide, a morning sickness drug tested in American women in the 1950s, which could cause severe birth defects and childbirth. The other, rubella, commonly known as German measles, can have life-threatening effects on stillbirths and babies (the vaccine was approved in 1969).