WOMEN'S HEALTH- Women Now Need Permission From Men To Get Abortions in US
The ACLU is trying to block a bill that gives men (including rapists) equal say. By Jenavieve Hatch Arkansas legislators clamped down on abortion access even further by passing a law that forces women to have their partners’ permission to access the procedure. A recently-passed bill, H.B. 1566, is a provision under the Arkansas Final Disposition Rights Act of 2009, which states that, in the matter of a person’s death, family members have to agree on what to do with the deceased person’s body. H.B. 1566 includes aborted fetuses into that Act, which means that both the mother and the father of the fetus will have to agree on what to do with fetal remains, thus requiring a woman to tell whoever impregnated her that she’s planning on having an abortion. Both parties will have to agree on what to do with the remains. This law could also apply to women impregnated by abusive partners, and those impregnated after a sexual assault. (For women under the age of 18, the decision about what t