Medical Arguments Against Abortion

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Acting against a law can be justified when an unjust or ill-purposed motive is behind it. In the state of Mississippi, officials passed a restrictive new law which requires anyone doing abortions in a clinic to be an OB-GYN with privileges to admit patients to a hospital near the facility where the abortions are done. An abortion clinic in Jackson was the only one left in Mississippi that had not yet obtained the privileges for all of its physicians and was facing being shut down. But, it was not for any fault of the clinic—every Jackson-area hospital where it applied for privileges said no. Despite the fact that with the 1973 Roe v. Wade case, the U.S. Supreme Court established a nationwide right to abortion, Mississippi governor Phil Bryant…show more content…
State officials who pushed for the mandate say the law is intended to protect women who might suffer complications while having an abortion. The truth is that hospitals grant admitting privileges as a measure of quality assurance, but needing a doctor to have admitting privileges to get patients into a hospital if they need to go is unnecessary. Emergency room doctors have admitting privileges, and if people need to be admitted, they will be admitted. The law is designed to complicate the process so that it will be more difficult for abortion clinics to provide the procedure. Many states have passed laws that restrict abortion clinics, and the number of clinics in the U.S. has consequently dropped from 2,200 in 1991 to 678 by September 2011, and that number has continued to dwindle. Mississippi has only one abortion clinic, and the only physician who has admitting privileges is the one who does not perform abortions. An admitting privilege requirement is a de facto ban on abortion, which violates the constitution. Governor Phil Bryant and other Mississippi lawmakers have openly stated that their purpose is to eliminate abortion in the…show more content…
The law is based on morals and opinions that those affected by the law do not share, as well as based on the possibility of a complication that has another solution. Admitting privileges are not necessary when a complication in an abortion occurs, and therefore the law that requires the obtaining of privileges is not necessary as well. Acting out against this unfairness that denies women their law-given right to abortion is a justifiable
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