Iowa’s Republican government ended subsidies for emergency contraception for victims of sexual assault. Several conservative think tanks are already urging politicians to ban or restrict access to certain contraceptives that they claim induce abortions, when they don’t.
While you could argue this doesn’t mean contraceptives and birth control are being targeted, I once argued that even IF Roe v Wade were overturned, it no state would outright ban it. This turned out to be false. As it stands, the current representatives of the Republican Party clearly have an agenda that they think is worth allowing pregnant women to die.
Doctors following abortion laws in Texas, and other states that ban abortions, including after the legislature had to rewrite them to clarify those protections for a mother’s health are still dying. The laws are incompetently written and needlessly attack doctors. It is basically legislated forced malpractice. They either save the life of the mother and lose their license, or wait until she is too much at risk of death to save them; and a few cases, they die. When, without this strict legislation, they could’ve been saved.
Further, they’re already proposing to ban medical tools that are used in abortions. These are not strictly abortion tools. They are tools used to ensure a mother id healthy and safe after a pregnancy or even a medically necessary abortion from a pregnancy gone wrong. Such attempts to ban these tools would be ludicrous. And only worsen the problem.
Further, the argument that they just want to leave it up to the states is also bull, as they’re violating HIPPA of women who’ve traveled outside of state to track if/when they learned they were pregnant and if they aborted out of state.
Even IF this is for medical necessity.
Nothing here strikes me as beneficial. It sounds rather nefarious to me.
