{"id":877,"date":"2011-02-24T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T10:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/?p=877"},"modified":"2011-02-24T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T10:36:31","slug":"iowa-republican-anti-abortionists-attacked-over-their-amendment-9532","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/iowa-republican-anti-abortionists-attacked-over-their-amendment-9532\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Republican Anti Abortionists Attacked Over Their Amendment-9532"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iowan republican politicians have been accused of not taking certain outcomes into account in their relentless bid to ban abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Health professionals say that pregnancy<\/a> can have a number of different outcomes, none of which appear to have been considered. These include: natural miscarriage, threat to the life of the woman, foetal abnormalities and even the delivery process itself.<\/p>\n

The new law it seems would ban a woman having a late abortion \u2013 after 20 weeks; health experts say this is very rare and is only considered if absolutely necessary. In Iowa in 2006, only 9 late abortions were actually carried out.<\/p>\n

Opponents of this new law say that it is wrong for the Government to interfere in a woman\u2019s right to control her own health and well being simply because pro life people are against abortion. They also point out that when things go wrong in a pregnancy, the woman and her family are already in a highly charged emotional state. Consequently, draconian laws as those proposed by anti- abortionists are only going to fuel further anguish.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the State of Dakota in the USA is bracing itself for a clash between pro and anti abortionists.<\/p>\n

While Iowa is considering introducing a law to stop late abortions, the debate in the Dakotan legislature surrounds whether a foetus is in fact human life. But the bill goes further than that; its aim is define humanity at every stage of development.<\/p>\n

Republican Robin Weisz, who is the chairman of the House Human Services Committee, believes this new law will have great ramifications. He told reporters: “It defines a human being as, basically, from conception on, as what we define in code as a human being, and because of that, then, it`s afforded the same protections that any other person is afforded in the State of North Dakota.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill has the support of Melissa Ohden who is an Iowan resident. She is travelling to the State Capitol to give evidence. She said: “This bill certainly is about protecting lives of the unborn and declaring that children are human beings from the point of conception.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Iowan republican politicians have been accused of not taking certain outcomes into account in their relentless bid to ban abortion. Health professionals say that pregnancy can have a number of different outcomes, none of which appear to have been considered. These include: natural miscarriage, threat to the life of the woman, foetal abnormalities and even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2254,455,557,478,185],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion","tag-anti-abortion-groups","tag-foetal-abnormalities","tag-miscarriage","tag-pregnancy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t