The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 that it was superseded by a newer state law that criminalizes abortions only after a fetus can survive outside the womb.

  • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    There’s also an argument that it doesn’t matter. An unborn child is 100% feeding off of the parent carrying them. Nobody has the right to force that choice on anyone.

    • 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Oof … I’m very much for women making the final decision, yet the idea of no cutoff date (assuming a perfectly healthy mother and fetus) makes me uncomfortable. I’m imagining someone just changing their mind at 30 weeks. But of course that’s a highly unlikely scenario. More likely is a relationship ending and the mother realizing she won’t have the support she had anticipated. Or an abusive partner prevented her from getting the abortion sooner. I suppose there could also be financial reasons they couldn’t do it sooner.

      Ya, it just makes me uncomfortable after the point of viability, but it’s not my life or my child or my choice, so I don’t disagree with you.

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      2 days ago

      Definitely - there are lots of reasons why abortion needs to be legal; I was only running down one avenue.