Abortion: The Controversy Of Restriction

Joseph P. Williams (09/14/15) writes that restrictions on abortion are a success. Over two hundred eighty new laws have been passed in the last few years to either discourage or even entirely block women from terminating their pregnancies. One new popular restriction is a “waiting period,” which is appearing more and more in different states’ rules. The waiting period forces women who want an abortion to wait days or even weeks to rethink having an abortion, but most of the time it actually causes women to miss the cut off date for many clinics, meaning that the women are too pregnant to safely have an abortion at that clinic, so they have to carry out the unwanted pregnancy. One organisation to help women get abortions is paying for women’s