{"id":994,"date":"2003-03-12T16:05:38","date_gmt":"2003-03-13T08:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/13\/safe-abortion-in-jeapordy\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:00:41","slug":"safe-abortion-in-jeapordy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/12\/safe-abortion-in-jeapordy\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe abortion in jeapordy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15126,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.megnut.com\\\/political\\\/006623.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.megnut.com\\\/political\\\/006623.asp&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15127,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2003\\\/03\\\/12\\\/opinion\\\/12WED2.html?tntemail1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megnut.com\/political\/006623.asp\" title=\"Don't get distracted\">Meg reminds us<\/a> that in the midst of all the brouhaha in Iraq and Korea, things are still downright scary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/03\/12\/opinion\/12WED2.html?tntemail1\" title=\"Reproductive rights in peril\">here at home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  With legislation that would impose sweeping new restrictions on abortion seemingly headed toward approval by the Senate this week, the assault on women&#8217;s reproductive freedom has reached an ominous turning point.<\/p>\n<p>  Although billed as a narrow attack on one particular late-term abortion procedure, the measure&#8217;s imprecise wording would criminalize the use of the safest and most common pre-viability abortion method used after the first trimester, namely dilation and evacuation. The bill would thereby replicate a key defect that caused the Supreme Court to reject a similarly worded state law in 2000. Moreover, the bill omits an exception in cases where the mother&#8217;s health is in jeopardy, ignoring the Supreme Court&#8217;s insistence that such an exception is a constitutional requirement for any abortion regulation.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It may be too late to do much about this, but we can hope that it will get struck down if it gets contested and goes to the Supreme Court &#8212; though at the moment, it looks like the bill&#8217;s backers are counting on a newly conservative Supreme Court to rule in their favor by the time the case makes it that far. Not encouraging, in the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meg reminds us that in the midst of all the brouhaha in Iraq and Korea, things are still downright scary here at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}