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Why I'm reluctant to sign the "Limiting government interference with abortion" petition [View all]
Read the Full Text of AmendmentCONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT FULL TEXT
Ballot Title: Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion
Ballot Summary: No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider. This amendment does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.
Article and Section Being Created or Amended: Creates - Article 1, New Section
Full Text of the Proposed Amendment: New Section, Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion
Limiting government interference with abortion.— Except as provided in Article X, Section 22, no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.
Ballot Title: Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion
Ballot Summary: No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider. This amendment does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.
Article and Section Being Created or Amended: Creates - Article 1, New Section
Full Text of the Proposed Amendment: New Section, Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion
Limiting government interference with abortion.— Except as provided in Article X, Section 22, no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.
I fully support the simple and straightforward principle that women have the right to control their own bodies (or more generally that we all have the right to control our own bodies), and forced birth is an egregious violation of that right.
But this isn't it! I don't want to support limiting government interference with abortion, I want to support outlawing government interference with abortion! No exceptions, no subjective provisions like "viability", and no arbitrary time limits involving "trimesters", etc. And I'd support "require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion" only if "before" is changed to "after". No minor girl should have birth forced upon her by anyone.
This proposed amendment would certainly be an improvement over what we have now, but by actually asking for these unjustifiable limitations it would severely weaken the possibility of ever achieving what women rightfully deserve, and I don't think we should settle for anything less.
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