Wonders shall never end as the US
state of Arkansas passes a law empowering rapists to sue their victims if they
make any attempt to abort their baby.
The new law is expected to take
place sometime during spring, will make family members to stop a lady’s
termination by suing the abortion provider.
However the worrying part of the
coming law is that it does not include any exception to matrimonial rape nor
incest – which means, the supposed father of the foetus can sue the woman even
if she was being raped.
Speaking on the issue, Arkansas
representative Andy Mayberry, who is also a signatory to the Arkansas Act 45,
journalists that though the baby’s father (rapist) would be able to stop the process,
they the law would not allow them to claim any monetary compensations for
damages caused in rape or incest cases.
‘There is zero part of me that
understands why a rapist or someone who got pregnant against their will, maybe
incest, would have any right in that decision,’ Karen Musick, co-founder of
Arkansas’s Abortion Support Network, told the Beast.
‘I cannot wrap my brain around
the fact that there would be anyone who thinks otherwise.’
Act 45 also bans dilation and
evacuation procedures – the safest and most common procedure carried out during
the second trimester of pregnancy, being used in around 95% of cases.
Now, using the D&E procedure
could be punishable by a $10,000 (£8,006) fine or six years in prison.
This effectively blocks abortions
after the 14-week mark, as it has criminalised the safest procedure.
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