Anti-abortion is oppression and a violation of a woman's body. The state doesn't belong in this. Abortion clinics are safe and affordable when a pregnancy is unwanted.
For some time now I have believed the Hyde Amendment is the springboard to the religious extremism that began with the presidency of George W. Bush. The Hyde Amendment opened the assault against the Affordable Care Act and the contraception women asked to have to protect from unwanted pregnancy.
The Hyde Amendment empowered financial discrimination and the most impoverished are the minorities in this country. The Hyde Amendment is a form of bigotry. There was no sense to discuss the Hyde Amendment until the country was ready to do so. It is a harbinger of abuse of power, yielding religious preference wrongly over the USA Constitution.
It could be said the Hyde Amendment began the breakdown of the wall that separated church and state. It was passed because of the money the American people would have spent through Medicaid to allow impoverished women their choice in how their bodies were used. In fact, the Hyde Amendment guaranteed poverty and more of a burden to the USA people through their federal treasury.
The Hyde Amendment as it relates to abortion rights of women is completely wrong and I believe it opened the USA Constitution to abuse of religious power in the USA making it weaker and susceptible to attacks by the religious right. If A is constitutional, then B, C and D are constitutional.
The USA Constitution guarantees the free and open practice of religion, regardless, the faith or denomination. It also guarantees the lack of religious practice and the open and free expression of that self-will. In realizing more and more laws were passed by anti-abortion activists throughout the Republican states it is easy to realize how this religious movement took hold in the states. It has to stop.
The reason there are so many anti-abortion laws being passed is to prove to the Supreme Court it is what the country wants. It is not what the country wants, it is the right wing extremists want to ensure their votes to extremist candidates.
January 18, 2019
By Jordan Smith
....On August 7, (click here for video) Danielle boarded a Greyhound bus for the three-hour trip to Jackson. She left the kids with their grandmother, and she packed a duffle bag because she’d be gone at least three days — Mississippi law requires abortion patients to have an initial visit in which they’re counseled on the choice they’re making, and then a second appointment for the abortion itself. In between is a state-mandated 24-hour waiting period, allegedly necessary to allow the patient extra time to wrestle with the gravity of her decision.
This meant that in addition to the bus fare and the $450 she needed to pay for the abortion, she would also have to come up with money for a hotel, meals, and cab rides back and forth to the clinic, all of which posed a significant burden, especially since Danielle was between jobs. By the time she left Jackson three days later, Danielle estimated that she would have less than $30 to cover family expenses for the rest of the month....
