Israel loosens abortion regulations in response to Roe

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Guno צְבִי

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JERUSALEM -- Israel on Monday eased its regulations on abortion access in what the country’s health minister said was a response to last week's “sad” U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

The new rules, approved by a parliamentary committee, grant women access to abortion pills through the country’s universal health system and remove a longstanding requirement that women appear physically before a special committee before they are permitted to terminate a pregnancy.

https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...ns-abortion-regulations-response-roe-85799558
 
Women seeking an abortion will no longer have to physically face a review committee that approves abortions. Nixing the committee altogether requires legislation, which is unlikely to pass, but the new regulations mean there will now be no need for applicants to appear in person before the panels.


“The rights to a woman’s body are those of the woman alone,” said Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz in the statement.



https://www.timesofisrael.com/israe...celing-key-decades-old-mandatory-formalities/
 
Horowitz compared the developments with the US Supreme Court’s ruling last week reversing the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that prevented states from outlawing abortion.

“The move by the US Supreme Court to deny women control of their bodies is a backward move, oppressing women and setting back the leader of the free and liberal world by a hundred years,” Horowitz said.
 
guno said:
JERUSALEM -- Israel on Monday eased its regulations on abortion access in what the country’s health minister said was a response to last week's “sad” U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

The new rules, approved by a parliamentary committee, grant women access to abortion pills through the country’s universal health system and remove a longstanding requirement that women appear physically before a special committee before they are permitted to terminate a pregnancy.

https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...ns-abortion-regulations-response-roe-85799558
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If anyone knows how to interpret the sanctity of life, as articulated in the Old Testament, it would be the people who actually wrote it - the Jews.
 
The Israeli Knesset’s Labor Welfare and Health Committee on Monday approved moves to simplify regulations on women seeking to end a pregnancy, as the minister of health drew a pointed contrast with a recent US Supreme Court decision that scrapped a landmark abortion ruling.

Presenting the amendments of the reform at a committee hearing, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz lamented that the procedures and questions employed by pregnancy termination committees were “outdated” and written in a “chauvinistic and degrading” manner.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/06/...ays-easing-of-degrading-abortion-regulations/
 
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