{"id":307069,"date":"2024-02-17T15:41:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T21:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=307069"},"modified":"2024-02-16T22:58:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T04:58:55","slug":"pregnant-mom-advocates-abortion-viability-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pregnant-mom-advocates-abortion-viability-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant mom advocates for unrestricted killing by abortion, calls viability cutoff ‘weird’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Decked out in her “Thank God for abortion” shirt, pregnant artist and mom Emily Boyd Dahab (@dahabulous) posted<\/a> to Instagram on her “viability day” to contemplate the idea that viability<\/em> determines the legality of abortion in many states. She argued that this “strange and arbitrary” day chosen by “our legal system” shouldn’t be a reason to restrict abortion.<\/p>\n

The ‘arbitrary’ age of viability<\/strong><\/p>\n

“24 weeks. In my opinion, there’s a single weirdest day in any American pregnancy and it’s the very last day that you could legally get an abortion. For me, that day was yesterday. In New York state, abortions become illegal when you turn 24 weeks pregnant, which is the time the average pregnancy has a good chance of being viable outside the womb. It’s so incredibly strange and arbitrary that our legal system has created one specific day before which abortion is allowed, and after which it isn’t,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

She’s wrong about the New York abortion law \u2014 abortion is<\/em> legal<\/a> after 24 weeks “if your health or pregnancy is at risk,” with ‘health’ being defined to include\u00a0reasons<\/a>\u00a0other than the\u00a0physical health<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0mother or baby<\/a> \u2014 so essentially any reason counts.<\/p>\n

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A post shared by Emily Boyd Dahab (@dahabulous)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n