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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs A Woman In Arkansas Your Husband Owns You. He Can Control Your Reproductive Life.
Based on a Huffington Post article. Legislature is working on passing a law that allows your husband to stop an abortion. He can sue the doctor or get a court order. How many more ways will these pricks try.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Only four clinics in the state.
Two (Little Rock and Fayetteville Planned Parenthood, don't provide surgical abortion, only abortion pill up to 9 weeks. Don't know about the other two. (Guttmacher Inst, reports existence of four, but can't find them via google.)
And this New Legislation? Here's what I fond about it:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a52795/arkansas-abortion-oklahoma/
The legislation also states that a civil suit may be filed by a woman who receives or attempts to receive the procedure or by the woman's parent, spouse, guardian or health-care provider. It makes performing the procedure a Class D felony punishable by up to six years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
This on top of all the other hoops already in place:
https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/state-facts-about-abortion-arkansas
-- A woman must receive state-directed counseling that includes information designed to discourage her from having an abortion, and then wait 48 hours before the procedure is provided. Counseling must be provided in person and must take place before the waiting period begins, thereby necessitating two trips to the facility.
-- Health plans offered in the states health exchange under the Affordable Care Act can only cover abortion if the woman's life is endangered, or in cases of rape or incest, unless individuals purchase an optional rider at an additional cost.
-- The use of telemedicine to administer medication abortion is prohibited.
-- The parent of a minor must consent before an abortion is provided.
-- Public funding is available for abortion only in cases of life endangerment, rape or incest.
-- An abortion may be performed at 20 or more weeks postfertilization (22 weeks after the womans last menstrual period) only if the womans life is endangered, rape, incest or if her physical health is severely compromised. This law is based on the assertion, which is inconsistent with scientific evidence and has been rejected by the medical community, that a fetus can feel pain at that point in pregnancy.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Intended to control women's lives. I hope they can get to a facility out of state.
By the way, "AK" is Alaska, "AR" is Arkansas. At first, I thought you were bringing Alaska laws into the conversation.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)I know better.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)DU has really smart folks on board. Easy mistake to type and overlook.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)I can only imagine that at some point, we are going to have to develop a network of helpers that will work to get women to safe places (safe states or safe countries) where they can freely and without the Fundy Evangelicals control make their own reproductive choices.
I mean we have to continue the fight but we also have to plan for a dire future where even birth control could come under fire.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)We are becoming a third world country.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi. Just leave those places if you are a woman and value your choices.