How Pro-Life Laws Lead To Later Abortions

Texas anti-abortion laws are leading to more abortions in the second trimester of pregnancy. This is an unintended consequence of the strong pro-life regulations put into place by the state in 2013. Subsequently, there are much fewer abortion providers in the state and waiting lists to get the procedure have increased dramatically. Thus, women are getting abortions much later than they would otherwise. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

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“Here’s a little something to file under “unintended consequences” (maybe): We already knew that Texas’s terrible 2013 abortion law, HB2, which placed strict new regulations on clinics that perform abortions, caused a lot of clinics to close. Hooray for life, right? Thing is, women still want abortions, because they are evil sex-having sluts, and so the wait times at the state’s remaining 18 facilities providing abortions have increased to insane levels:

In some cases, women had to wait nearly a month to be seen. In others, clinics had to turn women away, since they had no available appointment slots open.

As a result, women are waiting longer to have abortions, resulting in a lot more second-trimester abortions, the kind that “pro-life” people especially detest. The data on increased wait times was compiled by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, which predicts that if the Supreme Court upholds the most restrictive provision of HB2, the requirement that all clinics meet the same building codes as ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs), so many more clinics will be forced to close that the number of second-trimester abortions will double, from 6,600 in 2013 to a projected 12,400 annually. That provision of the law is currently on hold until the Supremes make a ruling.”

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The Young Turks October 8, 2015 Hour 2

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