As more states place harder restrictions on abortions, the more the women need to fight for their rights. Nancy Northup president of the Center for Reproductive Rights states that the women should not have to yearly go to the court to ensure their constitutional right to an abortion is continuing to be protected (qtd. In "State Abortion Laws: Do State Abortion Laws Protect the Health of Women and Unborn Children, or Do They Violate Women's Rights?"). Regardless of how many restrictive laws the states insist on passing about abortions, they are still going to occur. Women will continue turning to illegal abortions if safe ones are not accessible. Rather than prohibiting abortions once the problem is too late, bills should be passed to help
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Due to the perception that abortion terminates the life of the fetus, and doctors are supposed to save people, special privileges are required to be allowed to perform abortions. These privileges allow physicians to be exempt from their ethical principles to perform these procedures (“Preface to ‘Can Abortion Be Morally Justifies?’”). Abortion does not violate the Hippocratic Oath because they are still following the necessary measures to help their …show more content…
One law in Texas stated that only doctors who had admitting privileges at a hospital less than 30 miles from the desired location were allowed to perform the procedure ("State Abortion Laws: Do State Abortion Laws Protect the Health of Women and Unborn Children, or Do They Violate Women's Rights?"). This made finding doctors who fit the criteria harder because it can be difficult to obtain admitting privileges. It also declared that clinics performing the procedure need to follow the same standards that centers performing surgeries are held to ("State Abortion Laws: Do State Abortion Laws Protect the Health of Women and Unborn Children, or Do They Violate Women's Rights?"). Although the clinics that perform abortions do follow the standards of the surgical centers, the outpatient care can be more difficult for a clinic to provide. The restrictions that have been placed on who can perform the abortions were only placed there to make it more difficult to obtain an abortion. While it is important that the doctor is certified, the extent of these laws shows that they are not in place to protect the women as much as they are to restrict abortion. This is seen because not only the surgical abortions have been restricted. Even if the abortion is not a medical procedure, meaning it is in pill form earlier in the pregnancy, there are restrictions. Some places require the
Due to the perception that abortion terminates the life of the fetus, and doctors are supposed to save people, special privileges are required to be allowed to perform abortions. These privileges allow physicians to be exempt from their ethical principles to perform these procedures (“Preface to ‘Can Abortion Be Morally Justifies?’”). Abortion does not violate the Hippocratic Oath because they are still following the necessary measures to help their …show more content…
One law in Texas stated that only doctors who had admitting privileges at a hospital less than 30 miles from the desired location were allowed to perform the procedure ("State Abortion Laws: Do State Abortion Laws Protect the Health of Women and Unborn Children, or Do They Violate Women's Rights?"). This made finding doctors who fit the criteria harder because it can be difficult to obtain admitting privileges. It also declared that clinics performing the procedure need to follow the same standards that centers performing surgeries are held to ("State Abortion Laws: Do State Abortion Laws Protect the Health of Women and Unborn Children, or Do They Violate Women's Rights?"). Although the clinics that perform abortions do follow the standards of the surgical centers, the outpatient care can be more difficult for a clinic to provide. The restrictions that have been placed on who can perform the abortions were only placed there to make it more difficult to obtain an abortion. While it is important that the doctor is certified, the extent of these laws shows that they are not in place to protect the women as much as they are to restrict abortion. This is seen because not only the surgical abortions have been restricted. Even if the abortion is not a medical procedure, meaning it is in pill form earlier in the pregnancy, there are restrictions. Some places require the