The systematic injustice I would like to talk more about is the Texas abortions laws, there are seven million women of childbearing age in Texas, and the law will make it more difficult for all of them to obtain abortions in the state, as legislators intended. This law bans abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, which is about 6 weeks. Many questions on this law have been asked. Such as who in the population will be most affected by this law? Some population groups that are most affected by this law than some others are “teenagers, who often don’t realize they are pregnant until later in a pregnancy; low-income people, who need to find about $550 to cover the cost of the procedure; people of color; and immigrants without legal status.” These groups are not only being oppressed because of their gender but due to their age, race, and finical status. This law empowers individuals to enforce an abortion ban giving power to Anyone who successfully sues an abortion provider. This creates more victims in this systematic injustice
Another question asked is are the fathers of the children responsible as well? The answer to this is no they are not. Within this law, women are only responsible for this child but the men are not. This shows the injustice towards women within this system because they are having a choice about their bodies taken away. These women are being put in uncomfortable situations that they have no choice but the men in these situations do. After 6 weeks, women are forced to have the child but the father of the child is not responsible to stay around for the pregnancy. Why are men not responsible for something they helped create? Children are not us the women’s genetics it’s 50/50 so why are women 100 percent responsible for the child and men have a choice to be zero percent responsible. This system is taking all the power away from these women. Society has painted a picture that the women take care of the children well the men work. This is a single story that has been created from history and since the men are the ones in this story, they continue to have more power than women.
Another question asked about the Texas abortion law was, Does the law make exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, or to protect the life of the mother? The answer is no it does not make any exceptions for rape or incest, but it does make exceptions for health reasons. These exceptions are narrow, they allow termination if the pregnancy could be dangerous to the mother’s life. It’s sad that this is what it must come down to for a woman to have the right to an abortion.
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1033202132/texas-abortion-ban-what-happens-next