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Trimester framework
The Court ruled that during the first trimester of pregnancy, a woman has an absolute right to an abortion and the government cannot interfere with that right. In the second trimester, the woman still has a right to an abortion, but the state has an interest in protecting the woman’s health. Therefore, while states cannot ban abortion in the second trimester, they can protect the woman’s health by requiring physicians and clinics to meet certain standards (e.g., cleanliness requirements) in order to perform abortions. States can pass laws concerning abortion in the second trimester only so long as they intend to protect the woman’s health. In the third trimester of pregnancy, the Court decided that the state has a right to protect the life of the unborn if it so chooses. Because the unborn child is viable—she is capable of surviving outside the womb—the state’s right to protect the unborn is now more important than the woman’s right to have an abortion. Thus, in the third trimester, states may pass laws that significantly restrict or even prohibit abortions, as long as there are exceptions for when abortion is necessary to preserve a woman’s life or "health."
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BTW, as I have tried to show in the past even Roe vs Wade CLEARLY states that women have a right to decide up to the second trimester, but on the third trimester the state can decide instead to protect the life of the human fetus.
And again, we have progressives even going beyond that and wanting to be able to give the "right to parents to murder their newborn babies even if they are perfectly healthy"...
South Carolina Code Title 44: Health, Chapter 41: Abortions
Statutory Definition of Legal Abortion Abortions defined as using instrument or medication with the intent to terminate a pregnancy (other than birth, to preserve a the baby’s live or remove dead fetus) are legal in South Carolina only under the following three circumstances:
In the first trimester with the pregnant woman’s consent
In the second trimester with the pregnant woman’s consent in a certified hospital or clinic
In the third trimester when necessary to preserve the life or health of the pregnant woman on the written recommendation of two doctors, and if the basis is mental health then both the two doctors and a consulting psychiatrist must agree in writing the abortion is necessary
Note this law says the husband’s consent is required in the third trimester, but spousal consent was found unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 and that can’t be enforced
statelaws.findlaw.com...
In the third trimester when necessary to preserve the life or health of the pregnant woman on the written recommendation of two doctors, and if the basis is mental health then both the two doctors and a consulting psychiatrist must agree in writing the abortion is necessary
Note this law says the husband’s consent is required in the third trimester, but spousal consent was found unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 and that can’t be enforced
originally posted by: dawnstar
a reply to: randomthoughts12
interesting you bring up new laws.....
south carolina had to back track when their new proposals for abortion included spousal permission being required for all abortion caused a backlash from their citizens.....
www.cbsnews.com...
again, the supreme court ruled long ago that spousal permission is not constitutional, at least until someone like trump gets in and manages to stack the supreme court...
then maybe the husband can have the final say as to weather a women should have to take the risk of death in a complicated pregnancy or if she is deserving of life!
because we all know that most certainly, the women can't be trusted with such a decision!!!
so you just can't bring yourself to trust the doctors to make the determination as to weather or not a pregnancy is dangerous or not?? just who would you trust then???
the party that thinks that their rights to guns... for self protection purposes are infringed by a law that requires them to make sure their guns are out of the hands of kids seems to think it's okay to take that same right of self protection from pregnant women when their pregnancies go sideways and put it in the hands of her husband!!!
originally posted by: dawnstar
a reply to: JoshuaCox
so, because society expects men to pay a portion of their income to support their kids, they should have the right to decide weather a women can have an abortion that two doctors are attesting that is necessary for the women's life or health???
tell ya what, accept the idea that the gov't in within their right to make you lock your guns up so those precious little children don't shoot themselves or each other by mistake!!!
originally posted by: Hazardous1408
a reply to: randomthoughts12
only god has that right.
I'm anti-abortion and religious and that's still bullsh*t to me.
It's the pregnant woman's right. No one else.
If her life is in danger why/how the f*ck would it be the government's job to intervene?
originally posted by: dawnstar
a reply to: JoshuaCox
so, because society expects men to pay a portion of their income to support their kids, they should have the right to decide weather a women can have an abortion that two doctors are attesting that is necessary for the women's life or health???
tell ya what, accept the idea that the gov't in within their right to make you lock your guns up so those precious little children don't shoot themselves or each other by mistake!!!
originally posted by: BlackProject
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This is not sarcasm before anyone jumps to that conclusion, I do mean it. Its absurd how the government or anyone can tell a pregnant mother what she can or cannot do with her child.
More power to the rights of the women and her unborn.
originally posted by: dawnstar
a reply to: randomthoughts12
south carolina had to back track when their new proposals for abortion included spousal permission being required for all abortion caused a backlash from their citizens.....
originally posted by: Bone75
originally posted by: dawnstar
a reply to: randomthoughts12
south carolina had to back track when their new proposals for abortion included spousal permission being required for all abortion caused a backlash from their citizens.....
It should be required if the woman's health isn't in danger.