{"id":1643202,"date":"2022-09-16T15:22:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1643202"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T19:23:06","slug":"stacey-abrams-calls-proposed-15-week-abortion-ban-deeply-problematic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-calls-proposed-15-week-abortion-ban-deeply-problematic\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams Calls Proposed 15-Week Abortion Ban \u201cDeeply Problematic\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstacey-abrams-calls-proposed-15-week-abortion-ban-deeply-problematic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1643202&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>                Stacey Abrams, who is once again running for Georgia governor after her <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/stacey-abrams-underperforming-with-black-voters-poll\">loss<\/a> to Republican Brian Kemp in 2018, took to &#8220;The View&#8221; on Wednesday to criticize abortion bans after a certain gestational period, calling them &#8220;deeply problematic.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you think there should be any legal limits on abortion, such as the third trimester or viability?,&#8221; co-host Alyssa Farah asked the former Democratic state representative during the episode.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that abortion is a medical decision, not a political decision,&#8221; Abrams replied. &#8220;Arbitrary politically-defined timelines are deeply problematic because they ignore the reality of medical and physiological issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Abortion is a medical decision, not a political decision &#8230; The limit should not be made by politicians who don&#8217;t understand basic biology or apparently basic morality,&#8221; she said.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2014 Stacey Abrams sounds off on &#8220;The View&#8221; about Sen. Lindsey Graham&#8217;s proposed 15-week federal abortion ban <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pJXik8KHvI\">pic.twitter.com\/pJXik8KHvI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1570089153483661312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;What I believe is that it&#8217;s a decision that should be made between a woman and her doctor,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;That viability is the metric; and that if a woman&#8217;s health or life is in danger, then viability extends until the time of birth, but women do not make this choice lightly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conversation took place as news of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham&#8217;s proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/09\/13\/lindsey-graham-national-abortion-restrictions-bill\">15-week abortion ban<\/a> sparked outrage amongst abortion advocates, despite the fact that most abortion procedures performed in the United States would still be legal if the bill became law. In 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/ss\/ss7009a1.htm\">92.7% of abortions<\/a> in the U.S. were performed at 13 weeks or before, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the state of Georgia, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/20\/us\/georgia-abortion-ban.html\">6-week abortion ban<\/a> was enacted soon after the overturn of Roe v. Wade earlier this summer, which Abrams also took to Twitter to criticize after her appearance on The View.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under my administration, the law will affirm that abortion care IS medical care,&#8221; she said of her policy if she were to win the race against Governor Kemp in their <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/stacey-abrams-now-a-millionaire\">second face-off<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<span>Under Kemp\u2019s 6-week abortion ban, women can be forced to carry a pregnancy to term and doctors are afraid to provide care because they fear losing their license or face up to 10 years of jail time.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Under my administration, the law will affirm that abortion care IS medical care.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/staceyabrams\/status\/1569676489976684545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u200b<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacey Abrams, who is once again running for Georgia governor after her loss to Republican Brian Kemp in 2018, took to &#8220;The View&#8221; on Wednesday to criticize abortion bans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1643204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}