The Emergency Problem of the Abortion Issue

It’s 2024.

We shouldn’t be where we are, discussing the abortion issue this late in the game. We are allowing politics to manipulate an aspect of women’s health that they shouldn’t wish to have, deciding what happens to them, their bodies, and now, their lives in an emergency situation.

And yet, since the SCOTUS reversed Roe Vs. Wade it has set in motion a chain of events, debates, and laws for individual States, allowing them to decide how they want those laws applied.

It doesn’t seem plausible that in this day and age, we have gone backward in time and made a correction to our detriment. It’s nonsensical, lacking the very fundamentals of reasoning and due critical thinking.

Moreover, one must consider that it has nothing to do with a lack of logic and all to do with politics.

But should politics overextend itself to this extreme? What does politics have to do with a woman’s right to self-determination? Or her right to choose?

And now they mandate that, even when in danger, her doctors could be jailed for trying to save her life.

That should only be a decision for her OB-GYN, and others in charge of her as a patient, not a pawn for political gain or to follow a court decision for the State she resides in, with no exceptions, not even an emergency.

If she has a miscarriage at 18 weeks, without immediate surgery, she has a high possibility of losing her life. A whole multitude of issues could develop, and many things could go wrong without proper medical intervention. It was ubiquitous nationwide before the Supreme Court judges decided otherwise.

A woman in such traumatic circumstances shouldn’t be required to travel to a different State to save her life. That shouldn’t even be a scenario. A woman shouldn't have to read on the internet what she’s allowed to do and not do or be current with each law the day it passes.

That shouldn’t have to be what she’s concerned about. Priorities are of the essence. Her life matters. She shouldn’t have to call her lawyer. Her doctor, then the clinic, then her lawyer again, then the local jurisdictions of the county she lives in to figure out the legalities of an action so personal and essential. It’s fundamentally her choice and her business.

She’s bleeding and losing her baby. Yet, sadistically to the core, Idaho requires her to follow the law and not seek an abortion or risk another terrible outcome: going to jail.

Idaho has a problem. The entire nation does, but we can address this State first.

They want laws overturned and new legislation to disallow the rights of women to emergency surgeries to save their lives. What happened to basic morality or respect towards life itself? We could fall into the dark shadows of crooked politics. Here, men’s ego and the seduction of power take precedence over thousands of women into an impossible situation, and even worse if they have economic woes of their own.

Ugly politics make a joke of common sense and by doing so, play a Russian roulette game with the lives of others, never with their own.

Idaho is the front line and battleground of the moment. If the state’s legislators get their way, not even in emergencies can a woman have an abortion. The absurdity of such a proposal is of such insanity that makes it sound like we are in the Dark Ages.

But it’s 2024.

The Supreme Court will listen, analyse all arguments and then make THE decision.

They’ll decide how valuable is the life of a woman in danger. Or perhaps they’ll study what constitutes an emergency. Explicitly, the Oxford Dictionary defines it as:

e·mer·gen·cy

/əˈmərjənsē/

noun

1) a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.

2)a person with a medical condition requiring immediate treatment.

There’s no way to make it more clear than that.

Let’s hope they do the Right Thing.

~o~

re; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-idaho-abortion-ban/

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-abortion-medical-emergencies-idaho-8ca89d7de0c1fa9256dcd27d1847e144