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By Tara Culp-Ressler on Jun 17, 2013 at 1:25 pm
As a map from the Huffington Post details, there are currently more states that impose a waiting period on women seeking an abortion than states that impose a waiting period on people seeking to buy a gun. And there isnt much overlap between those policies, so the majority of states that require women to wait at least 24 hours before obtaining legal abortion services dont require people to wait any time at all before purchasing a firearm:
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(Credit: Huffington Post)
A recent study found that imposing waiting periods on abortion care leads to excessive emotional hardships for women seeking to terminate a pregnancy. Requiring women to wait a 24-hour period forces them to make two trips to a health clinic, which can prove to be too difficult for the women who dont have time to take off of work, money to pay for childcare, or means of transportation.
Of course, although waiting periods provide a direct comparison to gun policy, thats not the only type of anti-choice law that limits access to abortion care. Republican-dominated states also impose restrictions on abortion providers that force health clinics to close their doors, require doctors to tell women scientifically inaccurate information about abortion risks, force women to look at images of their fetus on an ultrasound before being allowed to proceed with an abortion, prevent women from using their own insurance coverage to pay for abortion care, require women to seek out counseling at right-wing crisis pregnancy centers that attempt to dissuade them from choosing abortion, or ban the procedure altogether before the cut-off defined under Roe v. Wade.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/06/17/2167491/abortion-gun-waiting-periods/
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badtoworse
(5,957 posts)They are completely unrelated issues.
niyad
(113,802 posts)badtoworse
(5,957 posts)If you want to discuss the abortion issue, that's fine. Leave guns out of it.
niyad
(113,802 posts)if we want to compare the waiting times, we are certainly free to do so. you, of course, are free to object to us pointing out the hypocricy.
badtoworse
(5,957 posts)The need for and duration of any waiting period should be governed by the facts surrounding the issue in question. Arguing that a waiting period should be shorter than that applying to a totally different and unrelated issue is, at best, illogical.
I know it's now fashionable on DU to drag guns into everything, but at some point, it becomes ridiculous. This is well past that point.
hack89
(39,171 posts)it is unconscionable that women's right to choose is restricted in such a manner.
niyad
(113,802 posts)sacred thing, apparently.
ileus
(15,396 posts)With a pretty nice stock of firearms. I was in our LGS this weekend and basically anything you wanted was on hand. Except the new SR45, XDS45, and a few others I was wanting to check out.
If you like gunbroker you don't even have to wait just bid and win, it'll ship to your FFL and you can have it in a few short days.
As for abortions you have 40 weeks to get it done...