Attack on Abortion Law
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order banning abortion care during the coronavirus pandemic, making the procedure illegal in most cases in the state for the first time since before Roe vs. Wade was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.
The ruling and the order are examples of “a state government using the pandemic to violate the individual rights of women to seek abortion and for physicians to provide them,” tweeted infectious disease physician Dr. Amesh Adalja.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) said that the UN should not use the coronavirus pandemic “as an opportunity to advance access to abortion as an ‘essential service'” during the crisis.
John Barsa accuses the UN of “cynically placing the provision of ‘sexual and reproductive health services’ on the same level of importance as food insecurity, essential health care, malnutrition, shelter, and sanitation” in a Covid-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan.Barsa hailed the president’s anti-abortion agenda, saying that the president “has made clear that we will never tire of defending innocent life” and warning the UN against “intimidating” member states “that are committed to the right to life”.
Akila Radhakrishnan, president of the Global Justice Centre, called the USAID’s demands “a disgraceful and dangerous attack on essential health services at the worst possible time”.
“No matter what the US government says, abortion is a fundamental human right and reproductive care is always essential, including during a pandemic,” Ms Radhakrishnan said in a statement. “At a time when countless lives are at risk, the US has yet again decided to put its efforts into restricting healthcare instead of expanding it.”For how long humanity is going to be dealing with the reactionary government of the USA?
Norma McCorvey, most notable for being the plaintiff known as Jane Roe in the 1973 landmark supreme court case Roe v Wade that led to abortion becoming legal in the United States, made a stunning admission just before her death in 2017. Her role as an anti-abortion advocate was largely funded by ultra-conservative groups.
“I took their money and they’d put me out in front of the cameras and tell me what to say. That’s what I’d say,” she said. “I did it well too, I am a good actress.”
Abortion was legalised in Northern Ireland on 31 March after a decades-long campaign. Terminations can now be carried out up to 12 weeks on request, and up to 24 weeks if the mother’s mental or physical health is jeopardised.
A leading reproductive rights group and a doctors’ organisation say that GPs are refusing to refer pregnant women to hospital services so they can access the tablets needed to undergo a medical abortion. They are also aware of midwives and nurses refusing to care for patients before and after the procedure.
pro-choice activists in Gibraltar were hopeful that their territory’s abortion laws – the harshest in Europe – could soon be overturned.
Terminations are banned in the tiny British territory, even in the cases of rape, incest, or foetal abnormality where the foetus will not survive. Abortions are punishable by life imprisonment, except when the woman’s life is in danger.
A historic referendum, originally scheduled for March, would have given Gibraltar’s citizens the unprecedented chance to vote to decriminalise abortion. But just a week before the vote was due to take place, the government announced that it would be postponed because of coronavirus. Six months on – and despite seeing only 350 Covid-19 cases and no deaths – Gibraltarians are still waiting.
Bars and shops are open, and now that life has returned to relative normality, pro-choice activists argue that rescheduling the referendum must be a priority.
Sometimes the social events are like a Boomerang, those women who voted for Donald Trump are going to see the consequences when abortion becomes illegal again
The “Global Gag Rule” is a US government policy that requires non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that are not based in the US and that receive US global health assistance to certify that they will not provide, refer for, counsel on, or advocate for abortion as a method of family planning.
While prior iterations applied only to family planning assistance (US$575 million in 2016), Trump’s new version extends the restrictions to nearly all US global health assistance – an estimated US$9.5 billion – which includes funding for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and maternal and child health. For example, it now means that an organisation that provides HIV care and treatment with US funding may not also provide safe abortion.
NGOs were forced to choose between providing safe legal abortion services and accepting US global health funding. NGOs that turned down US funding had to then find replacement funding from other sources. This led to health facilities being closed, frequent contraceptive stockouts, staff layoffs and salary cuts. It also led to the curtailment of community-based activities, such as community health volunteers referring women for services. NGOs that provided comprehensive integrated sexual and reproductive health services – such as HIV, child health and maternal health – reported closure of some components of their service delivery when they were forced to choose between US funding and funding for these other services. This meant that women encountered more difficulties obtaining these services.
https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/here-are-the-dire-effects-of-the-u-s-global-gag-rule/
White evangelicals make up roughly 15% of the population, but they vote in large numbers. According to National Election Pool exit polls, they made up more than a quarter of all voters in the 2016 US presidential election — and the overwhelming majority of them voted Republican.
“Abortion is one of the largest genocides in human history,” Manring tells DW. “I think everyone should want to stop it.”
Trump is what many of his supporters call the “most pro-life” president ever, and for the large number of evangelicals who are so-called single-issue voters, that’s what matters.
https://www.dw.com/en/us-2020-election-abortion-evangelicals-donald-trump/a-55159590
But they approve the killing of children living in the USA concentration camps and the killing of the Islamic children. They are just a bunch of hypocrites
https://www.dw.com/en/polands-top-court-rules-against-abortions-due-to-fetal-defects/a-55360700
Poland’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that a law allowing abortion due to fetal defects is unconstitutional. Chief justice Julia Przylebska said in the ruling that existing legislation allowing the abortion of malformed fetuses was “incompatible” with the constitution.
After the ruling goes into effect, abortion will only be permissible in the case of rape, incest or a threat to the mother’s health and life. Just two judges out of the 13-member court did not back the majority ruling.
The “Geneva Consensus Declaration” is a group of about 30 largely illiberal or authoritarian governments which calls on states to promote women’s rights and health – but without access to abortion. The signatories, “Reaffirm that there is no international right to abortion, nor any international obligation on the part of states to finance or facilitate abortion”.
Most of the signatories are among the 20 worst countries to be a woman.
The protests in Poland continue
the protests …“They are led by young women. This is decentralised, locally based, grassroots…”
…it was unclear how the protests would immediately affect Poland’s politics because the protesters had no clear links to parliamentary politics, and their leaders have said they do not want to become a political movement. “But it feels like something, definitely, is shifting,”
“We are a religious state where we are all demanded to think in one possible way.”
Poland was “years behind. In this country, because of the politics and doctrine of the government and the religious fanatics, someone who is different is worse. The way they treat LGBT people, migrants, all minorities – and now women … Society has had enough.”
protesting “not just against this hell for women, decided by this so-called constitutional court, but against this government, against church involvement in political affairs, for minority rights. Simply for freedom.”
Argentina becomes the latest country to legalise abortion
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