Virginia Heffernan: The twisted foes of legal abortion
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
May 20, 2019
3 minutes
As anticipated on Oct. 6, 2018, the day alleged sexual assailant Brett M. Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court, high-stakes gynecology is back in the news.
On Wednesday, Kay Ivey, the governor of Alabama, signed into law a bill that could jail for life anyone who performs an abortion. Reminder: Abortion is a 20-minute procedure for ending a pregnancy or, conversely, restarting a menstrual period. It's one of the safest, least eventful procedures in all of medicine.
The Alabama law comes timed with proposals and
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