At least 11 states have passed laws this year regulating or restricting abortion, giving opponents of abortion what partisans on both sides of the issue say is an unusually high number of victories. In four additional states, bills have passed at least one house of the legislature.
In a flurry of activity last week, Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi signed a bill barring insurers from covering abortion in the new insurance exchanges called for under the federal health care overhaul, and the Oklahoma Legislature overrode a veto by Gov. Brad Henry of a bill requiring doctors who perform abortions to answer 38 questions about each procedure, including the women’s reasons for ending their pregnancies.
It was the third abortion measure this session on which the Legislature overrode a veto by Mr. Henry.
This positive momentum is encouraging. But about a million abortions still take place every year in the US. We still have a long way to go.
David Handy+
[blockquote]At least 11 states have passed laws this year regulating or restricting abortion, giving opponents of abortion what partisans on both sides of the issue say is an unusually high number of victories.[/blockquote]
This article presents the issue as if there are only pros and cons on the abortion issue and although I am opposed to abortion and am glad that the states are stepping in, I do think that an argument should be made that U.S. taxpayers, (regardless of whether they are opposed, neutral, or pro abortion) should not be forced to pay for a woman’s choice to have abortion surgery. This does not interfere with her right to choose to have the abortion and it only asks her to pay for the abortion she has elected to have.
Taxpayers are required to pay for many burdens, but abortion is one they should not have to pay for.