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Originally Posted by MRCboicgy
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I lived in Poland when they enacted their widespread abortion ban in 2020. The only way a woman could receive an abortion was if they was either a direct threat to the mother's life, or it could be proven in a court of law that the fetus was conceived by sexual assault/rape.
2 things wrong with that. First of all, some older more conservative jesus-loving doctors were ignoring when mother's were lives were in danger and forcing the women to carry to term, regardless. I heard a bunch of stores in the news how women at risk were in hospital beds begging for doctors, but instead the hospital brought over priests to issue last rights. If the woman died, it was "god's plan". If she survived, then she wasn't really at a threat of dying. Either way, the solution was literally to pray the problem away. No repercussions to the doctor/hospital if a pregnant woman died.
Second of all regarding conception by rape, the only way a judge would rule in a woman's favor to terminate the pregnancy was if the rapist was convicted. This means that charges had to be filed, a court case takes place, and the rapist is found guilty. This does not take into accounts the delays or appeals which happen. This also all has to happen before the 3rd trimester. Also saw many news stories how lawyers were just filing motions to delay and appeal.
Many women would just leave the country to get abortions since they can travel the Schengen zone to pro-life member states. But the government caught on quick and had a pregnancy registry setup to track who was pregnant, the time frame, estimated due date, and could follow up to ensure the child was born. Last I heard before I moved back to Canada was that the newly elected left-leaning government was going to retract the law, but a quick google search shows the ban remains in place and the retraction never happened.
Not sure how this will work in the US if the ban happens, but likely it will go the same way. In my city where I lived there were 27 deaths in the first few weeks of the abortion ban. Plastering it on the front page news didn't change much either.
I don't understand how any woman of childbearing age who fully understands what it is like to physically be a woman and the trials her body goes through could vote for Trump. That is, unless you hate immigrants, black/brown/asian people so much that you are willing to put your own sex's lives at risk. I guess then, sure, vote for him
