The male dominated Nicaragua government voted unaninimously to ban all abortions yesterday. That's right -- ALL. No exceptions for rape and incest, no exceptions for the woman's health and life.
Remarkably, this law doesn't change much for the women in that country. This past year, under the existing law, only six women were allowed to have a legal abortion.
But, 32,000 desperate women sought illegal abortions last year. If caught, they and their doctors would have faced jail terms.
Making abortion illegal doesn't stop abortions; it just stops women from having access to safe procedures.
Women's lives and reproductive health are a political pawn in Nicaragua and other countries around the world.
But it's not just somewhere else. The voters in South Dakota will decide on November 7th if abortion will remain legal in the state. The Mississippi legislature is poised to pass such a ban as well.
The immorality of coercing women to carrying pregnancies to term or forcing women to seek dangerous procedures on their own stuns me. My heart aches for them.
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While I am pro-life and support bans on abortion, I do wonder what will happen after the ban. People talk about bans, but I'd also like to see talk about increased assistance-government and private- for women who have unexpected pregnancies. I think most women have abortions because the feel they have no other choice. Give women support and I really think less women would take the abortion route.
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