2022 Midterms thread

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Originally Posted by nonniey

Goddamn how many times do I have to post the links that show there are 10-15K late term abortions every year and the majority are elective?????? You all accept the data when I post it and then seem to immediately dump that data from your memory.

That said if these abortions aren't occurring what's the f-ing problem with passing regulations that ban abortions that in your view aren't occurring???


And yet again (for about the 10th time on this board).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6457018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muhL7dhUBqs

Reading the Health Services Management paper it sounds like late term abortions while elective are the result of lack of insurance and younger. This is a health policy issue not a women choosing to change their mind issue.

The data is also woefully out of date nobody should be citing or referencing a decades old data, but it does reference data on abortions is underfunded and lacks appropriate documentation. How many of these are teenagers hiding their pregnancy for fear? Don't have access to resources in early trimesters? Fighting with insurance to pay for procedure? etc.

The article uses this as source 4 which shows some of the complications and reasons for these late terms. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24188634/

If we are going to put a ban then we need to ensure we are providing essential supports, which we won't.

My guess is with the out right bans we are seeing you will see third trimester abortions go up not down because it compounds the reasons people have late term abortions.

I also have an issue with republicans calling the over turn of Roe as pushing it back to the states an now clamoring for a national law. Both parties push the goal posts I get it but regardless of who is doing it, it is insulting and disingenuous.