Abortion reform: Take religion and politics out of the womb

The proposal to stop with the abortion committees is a big light.

An abortion is a medical decision, which requires a medical decision, which should ultimately be made by the pregnant woman only.

Prof. Talia Miron-Schatz

03/12/2021

Friday, 03 December 2021, 08:12

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What is the name of the body that in 2019, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics, approved 99.4 percent of the applications submitted to it?

It seems to me that 'rubber stamp' is an appropriate name.

And how to read body sitting with two physicians / s and Social Worker / time, to determine which queue, fill in for him form invasive encourage you to lie to him, and finally confirmed that 99.4 per cent of the requests? You guessed it - a commission for termination of pregnancy.

The Minister of Health, bud Horowitz, is interested in exempting us from this punishment.From the invasion of privacy and sexuality, climbers who ask us whether we have had a recurrent intercourse or whether we did not use contraception due to "forgetfulness / neglect". Our answer to these questions has no medical significance, so these questions I'm sure there's a better way to take advantage of the time of the doctors and social workers than to sit on committees whose purpose is to be a rubber stamp, and to embarrass women.

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The Minister of Health understands that according to the existing procedure, married women who do not have a psychiatric problem, and their fetus has no medical problem, and yet they want to have an abortion, are supposed to lie.

They know that the commission will approve an abortion for someone whose fetus is formed as a result of an extramarital affair.

Indeed, the most common section of the law approving the termination of a pregnancy was, in 2019, "pregnancy out of wedlock" - 51 percent of referrals.

Married women are supposed to lie to the committee.

A woman sticks her face in her hand (Photo: ShutterStock)

Abortion is a medical decision.

One that throughout the ages has been painted in the colors of religion and ideology.

Simon Weil, a Jewish Auschwitz survivor who was France's health minister and a revered figure, fought for abortions to be legal in France.

She well understood that when abortions are forbidden, they happen illegally, in the dark, in unconditional conditions.

She made ideological arguments, but the health argument she made was a winning one - to prevent female mortality during abortion, abortions must be performed in an orderly, sterile, light manner.

Also taking Fostinor, or another "the day after" pill is a medical decision, and any girl can make it - both the decision and the pill.

She goes to the pharmacy and asks the pharmacist for the pill the next day, just as she would ask for something for muscle pain.

The beginning looked different - when the pill arrived in Israel in 2000 she was on a doctor's prescription.

But the target audience for this pill is young girls, and often they do not have a gynecologist, they are afraid to go to the doctor, and are afraid to be tested.

This is not to say that they are ready to become mothers, and this pill, which was approved for sale without a prescription in 2002, gives them a choice, without the agony of embarrassment and bureaucracy.

The use of the pill the day after seems obvious to us - today.

Just as medical abortions, up to the ninth week, at the HMO, will seem obvious to us in a few years.

Today the use of the pill the day after seems obvious to us.

Woman taking pill (Photo: ShutterStock)

Let's admit it - today, in practice, abortions in the State of Israel are a matter of course.

With harassment, humiliation and invasion on the way, but yes, every woman - Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Druze - all turn to the abortion committee - and almost all will get permission to abort.

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The important reform initiated by Minister Horowitz requires the approval of the Knesset.

Which means that religion and ideology, and sometimes even the appearance of the political eye, can spoil it.

I would like to remind everyone who has the right to vote on the subject - women need doctors and permission to perform an abortion, but this is a medical operation, which requires a medical decision, which only the pregnant woman has the right to receive.

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• abortion

• Abortions

• Pregnancy

• pregnancy

• Women's health

• Women's rights

• Ministry of Health

• Nitzan Horowitz