Abortion is defined as the legal termination of a human pregnancy most often performed in the first 28 weeks of pregnancy.
Recently In America a series of laws have been discussed, restricting abortion in certain states, they were met with widely publicised protests involving women in red replicating the ‘Handmaids tale costumes’.
Many of the laws have been blocked, yet one has recently been passed by the supreme court in Kentucky, requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and show fatal images to the pregnant women before the abortion.This has come under fire from the ACLU (American civil liberties union) arguing it violates the physicians free speech.Again controversial due to the fact physicians are also prohibited from discussing gun safety with their patients.Where is the line drawn under what is protection?
If a physician breaches this new law the will either be fined or their medical license will be revoked.
Now in Kentucky doctors must describe the ultrasound in detail whilst the woman listens to the fetus’s heartbeat. Is this the end of restriction on women’s bodies or how far will they(the governments) go?
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