Public Health: Abortion Ban By Republicans Health, Medicine Essay

Abortion Ban by Republicans
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The abortion legalization debate in the United States of America has been going on for a long time. The discussion has been made more complicated due to the political infiltration of an issue that should be of health and social orientation. The Republicans have come out strongly to oppose abortion without looking into the negative impact of the procedure on vulnerable women. Democrats, on the other side, have been advocating for safe abortion and reproductive justice. As it stands, it is the only Supreme Court that stands in the way of the Republican Party to ban abortion in all the states under its control. Most of them are in the process of passing and enacting the controversial reproductive health laws that focus on the blatant banning of abortion and severely punishing the perpetrators who most of which are medical experts.
Abortion Ban by Republicans
The recent enactment of The Human Life Protection Act by the Republican-controlled state senate in Alabama has emanated emotive debates among Americans. Several medical and legal concerns have emerged, questioning the passage of House Bill 314 (HB 314). The law to an extent takes away the right of an individual to reproductive health issues; it criminalizes consideration of abortion regardless of the stage of pregnancy. Though the new law allows abortion if the mothers' health is at risk, it fails to address several health concerns. It does not consider issues such as rape or incest that presents other social, mental health and legal challenges if pregnancies of such nature are allowed until conception. Despite the abortion ban anchorage on the constitution philosophy about the sacredness of life, there are several legal interpretations when life begins. Some schools of thought believe that the right of an individual begins at conception while other ideologies strongly believe and individual liberty starts at birth (Jacobs, 2018). The law seems not to be mindful of these critical philosophical discourses. The abortion ban appears to be more of political orientation.
The members of the civil rights movement are of the opinion banning of abortion contravene human rights philosophies. Through a court process, the civil rights organizations have successfully been able to block the implementation of it as previously scheduled temporarily. The district court judge issues a temporary injunction to allow both parties to argue their position in the court for determination. From some of the quotes of state Rep. Terri Collins, the author of the bill, it is apparent that several legal gaps were not carefully analyzed. It seems that the republican senate intended to counter Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court decision to allow abortion. The bill complicates meaningful clinical practice processes such as the reproductive health and the obstetric/gynecological procedures that are the primary targets of the law. The medics who are found guilty of performing an abortion unless the patients are at risk will be liable for a jail term of between 10 and 99 years. The severe health risk that the law purports to protect has no proper definition. The legislation makes it difficult for clinicians to make critical clinical decisions putting them in a dilemma (Nelson, 2015). Life of most of the women will be at risk since the practitioners will steer clear of some of these lifesaving procedures to avoid infringement of the law. 
The abortion ban debate must be delinked from political arguments to have logical and professional arguments as its implementation will negate the gains that the United States of America has made in the past in the reproductive health sector (Weitz & Yanow, 2008). The radical political approach evokes emotive arguments that have no legal, moral, and clinical basis. It presents a cruel and dangerous conservative political position that is making an effort to address moralism without looking into the bigger picture. After the Alabama governor assenting to the bill waiting for it to become fully operational in November, it seems the lawmakers were ready for court battles. The politicians were aware that the civil rights organizations and other interested parties were to contest the move in court. According to the lawmakers, they are looking forward to Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade's ruling to have a blatant ban on abortion. These will propagate the republicans' anti-abortion policy across other states in the US.
The Republicans' position on abortion is coming out clearly as they influence the banning or restriction of abortion in Alabama, Ohio, Georgia, Mississippi, and Kentucky. There have been more than 300 anti-abortion bills filed in most of the US state legislative assemblies. Approximately 50% of these laws relentlessly restrict women from accessing safe abortion. These developments are against the wish of most Americans who believe that abortion should be made legal to a certain extent. According to a recent poll, 54% of Americans support safe abortion clinical procedures. The women's reproductive rights must not be taken away from them in a country that is known to be upholding liberty and high human rights standards. One of the confusing interpretations of the bills is the use of reproductive health options such as emergency pills. It makes it difficult for the clinicians and most of the women to know which specific reproductive health services or procedures are legal or illegal. Some of these concerns are the reasons why organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood believe that the bill is unconstitutional and insensitive to American women. ACLU is of the position that every woman has a right to decide about her health, body, and future. The abortion ban bill has the potential for unsafe rep...