I proposed a detailed policy package that is consistent with your policy’s ideals.
The biggest differences about my proposals are:
(1) does not grant a federal right to elective abortion; essentially leaves that to the states. Given the current GOP trifecta, it is NOT politically feasible to pass such a stipulation.
(2) My proposal allows a rape/incest exception but limits that to 15 week gestational time limit, and stipulates that this exception requires either a police report or medical record. Rape exceptions are controversial within the pro-life movement. Personally, I think that late term abortion against healthy babies is grotesque. There needs to be some sort of balance.
(3) Are you aware that abortionists repeatedly abuse the “health” exception to allow elective abortion until birth for ANY reason? By giving an undefined “health” exception, that allows abortion for mental health or financial health. Abortionists get around this by asking the woman if the continuing the pregnancy would cause her stress or financial impacts, for example. In my proposal, I specifically exclude mental health exceptions.
(4) Since Trump said that he will NOT sign any abortion ban whatsoever, my proposal says that while it does not prevent women from terminating their pregnancy at any gestational period… if the baby is determined to be viable, they cannot intentionally kill the baby prior/during the delivery; for example, they cannot dismember or inject the fatal digoxin shot into a viable baby. FYI- feticide/abortion is NEVER necessary to save a woman’s life- because if that’s the case, the baby could be delivered without feticide, within minutes, to save both their lives, whereas late term elective abortion takes several days to prepare for and complete.
(5) My proposal allows Medi-caid funding but only for abortions/deliveries that were necessary to protect her life and/or nonviable pregnancies.
Here’s my proposal: