Here’s what will happen in SA if the US reverses abortion rights

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The end of legal abortions in the US is not a legal threat to SA – it’s a political one. | Bhekisisa_MG

If the opinion is adopted officially, Americans’ right to abortion would, as almost 50 years ago, be decided entirely by the state they live in. The Supreme Court’s support for Roe v Wade made it possible for states’ anti-abortion policies to be struck down.A report from the policy research organisation Guttmacher Institute showshave written anti-abortion laws that are lying in wait for the switch to be flipped on the Roe ruling — among these Kentucky and Louisiana.

So even though abortion is currently a national right in the country, some states have put bureaucratic measures in place that make it difficult to implement abortions on the ground, even without the type of abortion ban that undermines the Roe v Wade ruling.over the past decade, the institute argues, since most restrictions were created during this period.The 1973 court case was based on the experience of Norma McCorvey.

A question many South Africans are asking is: what are the implications for our country, where abortions are legal, if the US reverses abortion rights? Would the US, for instance, put restrictions on aid money for reproductive health programmes in SA and say funds can’t be used for abortion services?

 

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