Also in Tennessee, where the IVE was already prohibited after six weeks, the new regulation establishes that those who perform abortions can be sentenced to prison. This southern state, like Texas, does not provide exceptions in cases of rape or incest, and observers believe that the law is not clear in the event of intervention to save the mother, the AFP news agency reported.
Meanwhile, in Idaho (northwest), the new text establishes sentences of two to five years in prison for those who have practiced an IVE, except in the case of incest or rape. However, a federal judge blocked part of this law last night and the state will not be able to prosecute doctors who perform abortions to protect women’s health.
On the eve, a reverse court decision had been adopted in Texas, illustrating the confusion surrounding legal battles that are multiplying across the country.
A total of 16 states -11 of them completely- installed restrictions on abortion in the United States, after the most conservative Supreme Court of the last 90 years decided to annul the ruling that guaranteed the constitutional right to IVE for almost half a century.
According to an analysis by The Washington Post, one in three women have lost access to most or all abortion services. “We live in a public health crisis … People who live in these states have fewer rights than those who live where abortion is still legal,” Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood, the largest American provider of reproductive health services.
Consequently, he stated that patients now must travel hundreds or thousands of kilometers to access abortion, while those who cannot afford the trip are forced to continue with their pregnancies and take medical risks and life-changing consequences.
In the long term, about half of the states in the North American country, especially those in the conservative and religious center and south, could outlaw or severely restrict the right to abortion.
In Indiana, such a law will go into effect on September 15. On the contrary, the states governed by Democrats seek to constitute themselves as “sanctuaries” of the right to abortion.
The US president, Democrat Joe Biden, made the defense of the IVE one of his campaign themes to mobilize his electoral base, in particular women, ahead of the November elections, which threaten his fragile majority in the Congress.
Two recent victories gave hope to the Democratic field. In early August, voters in traditionally right-wing Kansas voted to retain the constitutional guarantee of abortion, while last Tuesday a Democrat who campaigned for the right to IVF won against his Republican opponent in a election in a hotly contested district of New York State.
Source: Ambito
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