Abortion Bans Create a Public Health Nightmare
On Friday, the legislature of Missouri passed a ban on abortions, among the most extreme of any state. It prohibits any abortions after eight weeks of gestation, putting it among the category of misleadingly named \u201cheartbeat bills\u201d that use fetal cardiac activity as a marker for \u2026 well, illegality, really. Like a law signed earlier last week in Alabama, the Missouri bill contains no exceptions for cases of rape or incest.