Women in Your 30’s-40’s: Abortion Ban Targets You!
Dear Mothers, Daughters, Sisters and Friends,
If you are a woman in your later 30’s or 40’s, beware – the 20-week abortion ban is aimed at you.
Even though it was beaten back in the Senate on Tuesday, the 20-week abortion ban will be back. It has been passed in the House and it is already the law in 13 states. Anti-choice extremists in Congress want to make it the law of the land.**
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These zealots are targeting your right to decide whether or not to have a healthy child. They want to force you to give birth to a child that is suffering from chromosome abnormalities and/or genetic disorders – whether you want to or not. Those of us who get pregnant in our late 30’s and in our 40’s are at a greater risk of giving birth to a child with a birth defect, because of our age. We know this. I knew this so I had three Amniocenteses*, one in each of my pregnancies. An Amnio is performed at 17-19 weeks, and it takes another 2-3 weeks to get the results. That will take you to 19 to 22 weeks. You will be out of time to get an abortion if anti-choice extremists in Congress and in states across the country have their way. That means all of us older women, who want to have children, will no longer be able to have accurate testing for chromosome abnormalities, genetic disorders, and neural tube defects, and do something with the results. The possible loss of this right is very real. Please, you need to: 2. Many people say, “By 20 weeks you should know if you want to be pregnant…” Take the time and explain to them what is really at stake in a 20-week abortion ban. 3. Vote every chance you get. This year Election Day will be November 3, 2015. When you vote, you decide who will fight for or against you. This year’s election will decide whether we succeed in electing a pro-choice majority so that we can override a veto of the Clinic Access Bill. In 2012, we did not have one, and anti-choice extremist Astorino vetoed the bill forcing women to risk their safety when accessing health centers in Westchester. It is up to you whether we win this time! 4. Contribute to WCLA PAC. Help us help and protect Westchester’s women. Onward, *The Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) is the other test that can be performed. It can be done at 10-13 weeks but it is not as safe, having a higher rate of miscarriages, does not detect neural tube defects (birth defects of the brain, spine, or spinal cord), and is not as accurate as an Amniocentesis. |
