re: MS Senate passes 20 week abortion ban.

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Yep.

There really is no reason for an abortion at that point in the pregnancy if the mother's health is not an issue.

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Only about 1% of all abortions occur after 20 weeks. All states already have laws banning abortion after 24 weeks. So I don't get the fundamental rational for this law in the first place. It sound like you are taking choice out of a womans hands for moral reasonings only for weeks 21-23.
Arizona 20 week ban Ruling

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Arizona defends the statute on two grounds: that the risk
to pregnant women is considerably greater after 20 weeks
gestation, and that fetuses feel pain at least by 20 weeks

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Were the statute limited to protecting
fetuses from unnecessary infliction of excruciating pain
before their death, Arizona might regulate abortions at or
after 20 weeks by requiring anesthetization of the fetuses
about to be killed, much as it requires anesthetization of
prisoners prior to killing them when the death penalty is carried out

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As for Arizona’s claimed interest in the mother’s health,
people are free to do many things risky to their health, such
as surgery to improve their quality of life but unnecessary to
preserve life. There appears to be no authority for making an exception to this general liberty regarding one’s own health
for abortion.

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According to the judgment in Arizona, womens health does not matter ever in these cases.
As for the fetal pain argument, the researchers they cite in these bans don't agree with lawmakers about the 20 week limit.
Fetal Pain Research does not support bans


Mississippi's Last abortion clinic
MS doesn't even have an abortion clinic that does abortions past 20 weeks.

IDK sound like a lot of people seem to have a problem with Roe vs Wade and this is just bait for the Supreme Court.