Mississippi pushes abortion ban at 15 weeks, earliest in US
Source: Associated Press
Jeff Amy, Associated Press
Updated 2:06 pm, Friday, February 2, 2018
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi lawmakers are pushing ahead with a bill that could make the state the first to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, setting up a possible court challenge.
Mississippi already bans most abortions after 20 weeks. It's tied with North Carolina for the nation's earliest ban.
Members of the Republican-controlled House on Friday passed House Bill 1510 , which would allow exceptions if a woman's life is endangered or a fetus has a severe abnormality. The bill goes to the Senate.
House Judiciary B Committee Chairman Andy Gipson says Mississippi wants to prevent women from being adversely affected by abortion.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Mississippi-lawmakers-debate-banning-abortion-12547085.php
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)This should be completely Unconstitutional with Roe VS Wade and the Supreme Court must come down HARD on this!
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)The idiots making these laws have no background in medicine. They have no idea why women need abortions in the second and third trimesters.
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