By Marisa Iati and Marisa Iati Email Bio Follow Deanna Paul Deanna Paul Reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow May 17 at 3:31 PM The rush of Republican-controlled states to mount a challenge to the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion nationwide has sparked confusion about what these new laws actually do. Here’s what you need to know.
“I have prayed my way through this bill,” said Alabama state Rep. Terri Collins , who sponsored that state’s abortion ban, on Tuesday. “This is the way we get where we want to get eventually.” Alabama’s bill explicitly states that women are exempt from criminal and civil liability. Instead, the law targets doctors, who can be prosecuted for performing an abortion, a felony punishable by up to 99 years imprisonment.
The measure could not be used to successfully prosecute women, Planned Parenthood’s Staci Fox previously told The Post. But if a woman had a miscarriage, she could be pulled into an investigation looking at whether someone performed an illegal abortion on her.Georgia’s law does not unequivocally say that women are exempt, but legal experts point to other areas of Georgia’s penal code which have specific defenses for women, including those who miscarry.
An ultrasound will usually show electric activity in an embryo’s forming heart at about six weeks of pregnancy, said Jen Villavicencio, an OB/GYN and member of The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She said although that activity is not the same as a heartbeat that pumps blood, she often uses the term “heartbeat” with her patients at that point because they are familiar with that terminology.
Many women do not realize it until the fifth or sixth week, she said, especially if they did not expect to become pregnant. Women are taught to suspect pregnancy if they miss their period, but other factors — like stress, obesity or new medications — can also disrupt a woman’s menstrual cycle.
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I love these abortion bills abortion is nasty and it should never happen you are killing babies you nasty people
You just have to know that this law is disgusting
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how horrible!
The day the state or Government pay my Bill's then they can talk about my vigina
Isn't it amazing all this pro-life States so passionate ban abortion praise the death penalty ?
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1. They do this knowing it will be overturned. 2. Abortion is their cash cow. 3. Abortion keeps them in office. 4. The left goes crazy and the right praises Jesus. 5. See, we tryin. 6. Yankee judges is killin your babies. 7. Keep them checks and votes comin. 8. See ya next time.
So as long as Trump is doing what evangelical want, they are ok with selling their souls to one who is more in line with Satan. Yes, he is...
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Abortion is murder, and good people are finally doing something about it