Even
if a rape survivor sits through a mandatory counseling session in order
to get an abortion, or happens to have documentation from a “medical
treatment” relating to the incident, the language also appears likely to
move the onus for verification (and potential legal issues should any
of the information be wrong or incomplete) onto the provider. The end
result of these new rules, as anti-abortion activist Jill Stanek notes,
is to make medical professionals unwilling to offer an abortion after 20
weeks even if that person was impregnated due to sexual assault and
technically should be allowed to obtain one. “The new language will make
committing late-term abortions with exceptions very unappealing to the
slime who would commit them in the first place,” writes Stanek.
- Read the rest at DAME Magazine, where my new weekly column, "Access Denied" is published.
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