Post by Logan on Jan 25, 2016 15:28:32 GMT -6
Burdensome abortion legislation cruel to those who face difficult decision
Piling a new burden on Kentucky’s low-income women is not just bad policy — it’s downright mean.
Yet, the Republican-controlled Senate, in an annual rite, has approved an added burden on women exercising their right to a safe, legal abortion.
Foes of reproductive freedom gussy up this insult to Kentuckians’ intelligence by insisting that they want only to protect women from making uninformed decisions.
During Tuesday’s debate, Senate President Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, asserted that watching “body language” during a face-to-face meeting 24 hours before an abortion would somehow be more enlightening than hearing the same state-mandated briefing over the telephone as now required.
Continued at www.state-journal.com/opinion/2016/01/25/senate-bill-piles-on-low-income-women .
Piling a new burden on Kentucky’s low-income women is not just bad policy — it’s downright mean.
Yet, the Republican-controlled Senate, in an annual rite, has approved an added burden on women exercising their right to a safe, legal abortion.
Foes of reproductive freedom gussy up this insult to Kentuckians’ intelligence by insisting that they want only to protect women from making uninformed decisions.
During Tuesday’s debate, Senate President Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, asserted that watching “body language” during a face-to-face meeting 24 hours before an abortion would somehow be more enlightening than hearing the same state-mandated briefing over the telephone as now required.
Continued at www.state-journal.com/opinion/2016/01/25/senate-bill-piles-on-low-income-women .