Public Health: Abortion Ban By Republicans Health, Medicine Essay

Abortion Ban by Republicans
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The abortion legalization debate in the United States of America has been going on for a long time. The discussion has been made more complicated due to the political infiltration of an issue that should be of health and social orientation. The Republicans have come out strongly to oppose abortion without looking into the negative impact of the procedure on vulnerable women. Democrats, on the other side, have been advocating for safe abortion and reproductive justice. As it stands, it is the only Supreme Court that stands in the way of the Republican Party to ban abortion in all the states under its control. Most of them are in the process of passing and enacting the controversial reproductive health laws that focus on the blatant banning of abortion and severely punishing the perpetrators who most of which are medical experts.
Abortion Ban by Republicans
The recent enactment of The Human Life Protection Act by the Republican-controlled state senate in Alabama has emanated emotive debates among Americans. Several medical and legal concerns have emerged, questioning the passage of House Bill 314 (HB 314). The law to an extent takes away the right of an individual to reproductive health issues; it criminalizes consideration of abortion regardless of the stage of pregnancy. Though the new law allows abortion if the mothers' health is at risk, it fails to address several health concerns. It does not consider issues such as rape or incest that presents other social, mental health and legal challenges if pregnancies of such nature are allowed until conception. Despite the abortion ban anchorage on the constitution philosophy about the sacredness of life, there are several legal interpretations when life begins. Some schools of thought believe that the right of an individual begins at conception while other ideologies strongly believe and individual liberty starts at birth (Jacobs, 2018). The law seems not to be mindful of these critical philosophical discourses. The abortion ban appears to be more of political orientation.
The members of the civil rights movement are of the opinion banning of abortion contravene human rights philosophies. Through a court process, the civil rights organizations have successfully been able to block the implementation of it as previously scheduled temporarily. The district court judge issues a temporary injunction to allow both parties to argue their position in the court for determination. From some of the quotes of state Rep. Terri Collins, the author of the bill, it is apparent that several legal gaps were not carefully analyzed. It seems that the republican senate intended to counter Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court decision to allow abortion. The bill complicates meaningful clinical practice processes such as the reproductive health and the obstetric/gynecological procedures that are the primary targets of the law. The medics who are found guilty of performing an abortion unless the patients are at risk will be liable for a jail term of between 10 and 99 years. The severe health risk that the law purports to protect has no proper definition. The legislation makes it difficult for clinicians to make critical clinical dec...