Just as you start to think we are slowing progressing to move forward and become a more fair planet with more laws around justice and protection for those who need it.
Since the Supreme Court ruling on abortion in 1973, the number of abortion clinics has dropped in many US states, and in 2017, six states reportedly had just one abortion clinic in operation.
Earlier this year the governors of Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Ohio signed bills banning terminations if an embryonic heartbeat could be detected. BBC NEWS.
Abortion is now illegal in nearly all cases in Alabama.
Most of the US state laws banning or severely restricting access to abortions have been voted on by male politicians. Should men have the right to rule on an issue that impacts women so intimately? This question really hit me hard, how can men really rule on a ban that none of them will experience. It's so easy to run away. The decision has clearly come from a board of men who are very narrow minded. It's very easy to think that abortion is cruel but without looking into each case individually( looking into the age, situation or even rape ), I don't know how a law can be made in such a way to generalise the outcome and take away that right to be able to control your body. If the child's or even mothers life is going to be made miserable then surely it's more humane to have an abortion in that situation, rather than the long haul of suffering that they may endure.
Delaney Burlingame, one of the young pro-choice activists protesting outside the state house earlier this week, "These people don't care about protecting human rights. It's about controlling women."
"They just want to be able to say: 'I control what happens in your body'."
The largest percentage was the 34% for legal in most cases and combined with the 25% of people who thought it should be legal in all cases. That means 59% of people thought it should always be legal or atlas legal in most cases.
The state clearly ( like many others) doesn't care what the people who live in it, definitely not there own opinions and freedom of speech. For me personally this just confirms that the fact we still live in a mans world, I know I'm lucky enough to live in UK when everyone who wants it has the choice to have an abortion under most circumstances up to generally 24 weeks but for many women they're not as lucky.
If we live in a world where our own body decisions and acts are controlled by men, then are we really living our own lives anymore? You're just living for other people.
I think it strings back to the psychology that the power of authority leads people to abuse there power. I think abortion is just the power of punishment over sex and that if you're not careful that you will be punished for the mistake you made. A mistake which will now follow you for the rest of your life in Alabama.
Alabama like a lot of the American states is living in the past, this is 2019. Where have we really come if women can't make decisions over there own body's. If anything they're getting stricter and tighter. If anything the whole situation is massively depressing and I can't imagine how the women who actually live in one of these states are coping.
A large amount of the men need to step down and have a panel who represent the state as a whole, as much as the photos of the men who ruled for abortion in Alabama didn't shock me its clearly one of the main the issue's within the state and the reason for this outcome over the past few days. For example a EVEN mixture of men and women who can see both sides. We need to stop living in a world where men are allowed to make LAWS THAT DON'T EFFECT THEM.
Anyone who tells me we don't still live in world run by men is a lying or ignorant. End of.