Tonight’s main topic concerns abortions.
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Nineteen percent might seem small, but anti-abortion sentiment has a huge affect on a woman’s access to abortion providers, as John Oliver breaks down on Last Week Tonight.
The segment itself examined many angles of the ongoing debate on abortion laws, including the law makers in various states who have worked tirelessly to shut down clinics by citing questionable rationales. Safe and legal abortions have a mortality rate of 0.00073 percent – almost ten times less than what one study found was the risk of dying as a result of a colonoscopy.
Oliver outlined that current state laws lean on the 1992 Supreme Court ruling Planned Parenthood v. Casey, after which “women can be asked to jump through a few hoops, just not too many” to undergo an abortion.
John Oliver began Sunday night by excusing the 19% of people who think abortion should be illegal, telling them to rejoin the program at 11:29 p.m., the final minute of the show, to watch a video of “a bucket of sloths”, which he called “almost violently delightful”.
It can be a real challenge to keep up on everything going wrong with abortion rights in the United States – although if you’re trying, we have a suggestion.
The Alabama Women’s Center closed its downtown Huntsville clinic in June 2014 and reopened in its new location after getting the go-ahead from state Department of Public Health officials. The bill also requires that Texas clinics’ doctors have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, despite the fact that if necessary, hospitals would admit a clinic’s patients regardless of such privileges.
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A bill first proposed in 2015 and back for discussion this legislative session would prevent abortion clinics from operating within 2,000 feet of a public school – the same regulation imposed on convicted sex offenders.
