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Thankfully even though the African American maternal mortality rate is higher than the other ones, it's still not terrible or why most abortions even happen. Even though many abortions are done on African American women.
What maternal mortality rate would you consider "terrible"?
Well, I think the premises are faulty in the first place because we're talking about the natural mammalian reproductive cycle. It's not as if the baby is just some parasitic invader, it's her developing child. What are you are calling risks are really possible medical complications which could happen but aren't likely and you try to minimize those so you have a healthy pregnancy. It's not unlike trying to maintain your health in general, except now it's two people instead of one.
Ayyyy that’s a novel way of looking at it. I’ll have to let that one cook in my noggin for a bit.
Yeah and you still don't seem to understand that applies to minors being trafficked across the border by adults who are not the parents' children's or Guardians without permission."Lubbock County, Texas, is now the fourth and largest county in the state to pass an anti-abortion ordinance that would bar pregnant Texans from traveling to access an out-of-state abortion.
Lubbock now joins three other Texas counties—Goliad, Mitchell and Cochran—that have passed similar anti-abortion travel ordinances.
Texas has one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. Many Texans are forced to travel out of state—or even out of country—to access an abortion; it is estimated that Texans seeking an abortion have to travel an average of 240 miles each way to access care.
Abortion travel bans are enforced through private civil lawsuits filed against people who “knowingly transport any individual for the purpose of providing or obtaining an elective abortion, regardless of where the elective abortion will occur.” While the pregnant people themselves do not face legal liability, people who help them obtain an abortion could face a civil lawsuit for doing so. Anti-abortion activists have dubbed these ordinances anti-“abortion trafficking” laws.
These ordinances were drafted by ant-abortion extremist Mark Lee Dickson and former solicitor general of Texas Jonathan F. Mitchell, the architect of Texas’s “bounty hunter” abortion ban who recently demanded patient information from several Texas abortion funds. Attorney Lisa Needham has written that “Mitchell is much more than the man who helped make it legal for anti-choicers to moonlight as bounty hunters … If a culture war is going on, Mitchell is in the thick of it, representing people who used to be relegated to the legal fringes, but are now engaged in a concerted effort to move the law much further to the right.”
Dickson has also spent the last year lobbying for the passage of anti-abortion travel ordinances across the state. “Guys, I long for the day [when], coast to coast, abortion is considered a great moral, social and political wrong and is outlawed in every single state,” Dickson told the Lubbock commission.
On Tuesday, the Texas city of Amarillo, in Potter and Randall counties, held a long public hearing to consider a similar abortion travel ban that would apply to roads that lead to New Mexico and Colorado, abortion safe haven states that have seen a large uptick in patients from Texas over the past year. The Amarillo city council decided not to immediately vote on the ordinance. “These abortion trafficking ordinances really are the next stage in an abortion-free America,” said Dickson, who also made an appearance at the hearing."
Four Texas Counties Now Ban Travel for Abortions
The travel ban bars pregnant Texans from leaving the state to access an abortion. From Truthout's Zane McNeil.www.texasobserver.org
"AMARILLO — The Amarillo City Council prolonged its debate over a so-called abortion travel ban on Tuesday, spending more than two hours in front of a packed room reviewing draft rules that would attempt to block access to Colorado and New Mexico, two states where a Texas woman could legally obtain an abortion.
The five-member council discussed three different drafts of the ordinance, with varying measures in each, and left the table without resolution. Abortion rights activists and legal scholars have sharply criticized the ordinances, calling the rules unconstitutional.
The meeting offered a rare window into how a local government wades into one of America's thorniest and most politically charged issues. The council — which includes no women — governs a city of more than 200,000 people and has bucked the trend of other smaller, rural cities and counties that passed similar ordinances with little debate.
The Amarillo council has now spent three different meetings grappling with whether to approve the rules that were first proposed by anti-abortion activists. The Panhandle city has been a hot spot for the debate, as Interstates 40 and 27 run through the city."
Amarillo City Council says it needs more time to debate abortion travel ban
After weeks of debate, the council took no action at a politically-charged meeting Tuesday. It is the largest city in Texas to debate an ordinance that would outlaw travel on its roadways to get an abortion.www.texastribune.org
Most abortions are not due to the mother's life being at risk.
You should've known better. Lol
Thankfully not many women even mention the health of the mother or baby (fetus if you want to call it that) when mentioning why they are choosing abortion. So I do not see myself in that role.
If you support abortion restrictions, you're placing yourself in that role.
It's not. It's about women. Women aren't minors. They're adults.
That would be you.
No I am not. And I have already made an exception for the actual life of the mother. I believe that should be between the mother and doctor.
The vast majority of women do not even mention their own health or the health of the baby.
Therefore they don't care about the risk, so therefore it's okay for you to impose the risk on them?
No it's your lack of knowledge of what the law is actually saying.
Just FYI, a little bit about mammalian biology.
The main reasons anyone gives for having an abortion are financial and that the timing isn't ideal.
Another one of your fantasies, pretending to be family is not how minors who are sex trafficked are brought into the US. They are conned into offers of jobs in the US and then held after being secreted across the border, usually hidden in normal traffic.