State lawmakers are considering a bill that would make this state’s abortion laws among the most restrictive in the nation.
“We’ve seen a little over 200 women this past year that fell in that range,” Brewer explained. So, that’s 200 women that it would’ve affected.”
Bill sponsor Representative Andy Gipson and other supporters argued the bill on the House floor Friday with points like this.
“The medical science shows that the women who have abortions from 8 weeks to 18 weeks increase their risk of serious damage, personal injury, or death by 2,000 percent,” said Gipson. “What we’re interested in as a state is the protection of life, the mother’s life and health and the unborn child’s life and health.”
The bill does make exceptions including when the life of the mother is at risk or in cases of severe fetal abnormality.
But for Jackson Women’s Health Organization, they anticipate the constitutionality of a 15-week ban would likely be challenged in the courts.
