If a doctor suspects that a woman is being forced to get an abortion by her trafficker or that a child’s gender transition surgery was illegally performed, this proposed rule would prevent the doctor from sharing these concerns with proper authorities. The administration also wants to define the term "person" to exclude unborn babies, devaluing human life when we know that a child has a beating heart by at least week 6 and can feel pain by at least week 15. Once again, the administration is finding ways to insist that an unborn child is “just a fetus” and not a full person deserving human rights.
All of these changes bring about great concern for those who want to increase protections for women and children, rather than weaken them. The proposed changes would create safe harbors for criminal behavior and allow for more abortions and gender-transition surgeries by creating a federal avenue to sidestep state law.
You can help stop this proposed rule from being finalized! Help protect women and preserve the innate value of unborn life by submitting your comment to the administration no later than Friday, June 16.
