r/benshapiro • u/FeaturingYou • Aug 29 '23
On The Issue Of Abortion Ben Shapiro Discussion/critique
The Democrats keep saying they don’t support abortion up until birth. They do. Evidence of this is in the bill they proposed in the Senate that every Democrat except Sinema voted for in May of last year.
Both the general rule and section 9 are important to pay attention to:
(a) General Rule.—A health care provider has a statutory right under this Act to provide abortion services, and may provide abortion services, and that provider’s patient has a corresponding right to receive such services, without any of the following limitations or requirements:
The above means that section 9 is completely legal
(9) A prohibition on abortion after fetal viability when, in the good-faith medical judgment of the treating health care provider, continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the pregnant patient’s life or health.
I italicized text to empathize. The term after fetal viability means after the baby can survive on its own outside of the womb - in laymen’s terms this means when it can be born and we can keep it alive. The term health is undefined. What this section means is that even if the baby is able to be birthed and survive, if the mother’s health is at risk it can be aborted. The term health is specifically ambiguous so to include mental health (so if you’re depressed from the baby, you get to abort) and it also doesn’t address what kind of health if it’s physical health so to encompass as many reasons for an abortion as possible without being able to question the legitimacy of the need. Again, there is no limitation on the progress of the pregnancy as noted in the term after fetal viability. That means up to 39 weeks.
There are other provisions in the bill that are also egregious in their own way, but this is the section that supports a 39 week abortion. It’s thinly veiled to act like it’s merely a women’s health issue but is actually a clause to let health care providers perform an abortion for virtually any reason.
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u/thekux Aug 30 '23
The reason I don’t believe it is because abortion access, laws will be being passed all over the country and they’re not. Where the left is in big trouble if they can’t tell us when it is inappropriate to get an abortion or what a woman is. They’re not the party of women. There’s a party of transgender. According to the left, a woman is whatever an individual has decided what a woman is. There is no real definition all up to individuals. So women that don’t wanna 6 foot four man with his junk hanging in the locker room in front of them. They’re bigots according to the Democrats. According to the Democrats, those women who don’t want this are bad people.