From lying that a ballot measure would cost the state “upwards of $12 billion' to claiming it allows abortion until “live birth,' they hit a new low.
, as the 24-week mark at which a fetus can theoretically survive outside the womb—and Democrats insist that they don’t. But the reality is that “viability” is medically imprecise, and any sort of lawmaking that polices abortion atstage places pregnant people in danger. All of this is, obviously, layered and a little complicated, but Ashcroft’s summary deliberately simplifies it in the worst, most stigmatizing way.
It could also place later abortion patients and providersStill, abortion rights advocates tend to struggle on whether and how to talk about later abortion, and that tension is easily exploited by anti-abortion activists. Missouri abortion rights advocates are challenging Ashcroft’s language in court but haven’t figured out whether their proposed amendment would address viability or not if it gets to the ballot,.
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