{"id":195364,"date":"2019-02-05T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=195364"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:27:23","slug":"abortion-pill-reversal-waiting-periods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pill-reversal-waiting-periods\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion pill reversal and abortion waiting periods save lives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-abortion website The Mary Sue reported on a bill<\/a> being considered in Wyoming that would institute 48-hour waiting periods before a woman can undergo an abortion<\/a>. Writer Kylie Cheung slammed the law as “offensive” and “condescending,” and claimed that waiting periods “have virtually zero bearing on changing women\u2019s minds.”<\/p>\n

“The bill suggests women are fundamentally incapable of fully considering their decision to have an abortion on their own, and that they quite literally have to be told to think, despite how women who go to clinics seeking abortion care have already made up their minds,” Cheung wrote. She also slammed\u00a0Sheridan Representative Richard Tass, who introduced the bill<\/a>. According to Wyoming Public Media, Tass said the bill is needed because “unlike a clothing purchase, women can’t change their minds about an abortion” and “the bill gives women time to consider the gravity of the decision.”<\/p>\n

Interestingly, both Cheung and Tass are wrong on this issue. While Cheung dismisses the necessity of waiting periods, they have been found to save lives<\/a> — and they don’t end up being horrible inconveniences to women, who often are still able to get an abortion in less than two weeks<\/a> —\u00a0meaning the pro-abortion narrative that waiting periods prevent women from being able to go through with their decision is patently false.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Contrary to pro-abortion study, waiting periods save lives<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps more importantly, Americans have consistently shown that they support waiting periods, in numerous polls from outfits like Gallup<\/a> and Rasmussen<\/a>. But what Americans actually want doesn’t matter to abortion advocates… after all, abortion wasn’t decided by the people through their lawmakers; it was decided by a group of unelected, unaccountable judges.<\/p>\n

As for Tass, it is true that women can’t change their minds about surgical abortions. But abortion reversal has become a reality for women who have begun the abortion pill regimen.<\/p>\n