After voters largely rejected anti-abortion legislation in 2012, Republicans in Wyoming are drawing up new bills that target women’s reproductive systems, just two weeks into the New Year.
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Rep. Kendell Kroeker, R-Evansville, is pushing a bill that could prohibit abortions as soon as a heartbeat is detectable in the embryo. Current law states that abortions are prohibited after the embryo is viable (at about 22-23 weeks).
Kroeker is calling it the “fetal heartbeat” bill.
“It became clear that if a baby had a heartbeat, that seemed simple to me that it’s wrong to kill it,” he said.
In 2012, restrictions on late term abortion procedures were challenged by Republicans; several laws seeking to ban abortions at 20 weeks were blocked in court because they threatened a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion under Roe v. Wade.
But Kroeker’s bill, if passed, will make it illegal to receive an abortion in Wyoming after six weeks of pregnancy, a time where most women don’t even know that they are pregnant.
According to Kroeker, limiting abortion procedures by an additional 17 weeks is “a unique way to look at life.”
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This is always a sensitive subject, but do you think banning abortions at six weeks is taking it too far or just what we need?
SOURCE: Think Progress
