Trashing other people’s rights
Lindsey Graham opens a new front in the war on women:
Senator Lindsey Graham has unveiled his proposed nationwide abortion ban, which would outlaw the procedure after 15 weeks, with certain exceptions.
Not something that will ever ruin Lindsey Graham’s life. Women? Well that’s another story.
Graham said the proposal, dubbed the “Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act”, would match similar laws in European countries. He said the 15-week threshold is when fetuses will feel pain, however that doesn’t quite match the science. Many scientists say fetuses can’t feel pain before 24 weeks, although the subject is complicated and continuing to be researched.
And anyway what does it mean to “feel pain” at that stage of development? Is a 15 week fetus conscious enough to register pain?
And what about the pain the woman experiences while pushing out the baby? Why does the notional pain of a 15 week fetus trump the all too real and intense hours-long pain of a grown woman?
Count on Lindsey to do the wrong thing whenever given the opportunity.
It’s a good thing the acronym is so easy to remember. !
Thanks, Lindsay, for once and for all proving that “states’ rights” was never, ever, anything but a shibboleth.
States rights was always, and seems to me to remain, an excuse to allow people to discriminate against people of color without the feds interfering. There are a few other issues where states rights prevail, too, but states rights only applies to things the south wants to do. California, New York, and assorted other blue states are not entitled to states rights because they might do something Lindsey Graham (and all the other states righters) don’t like.
If I were president I’d get on TV and say “If I could, I’d save you the trouble and veto that bill right now.”
Peter N – I don’t think there is any need. In today’s world, that is a ‘moderate’ bill that is not likely to get enough support from the GOP in Senate to reach a vote. Banning it nationwide after 15 weeks is too close to allowing it before 15 weeks for it to be permissible.
iknklast;
The Fugitive Slave Law and Dredd Scott showed that ‘state’s rights’ was a sham from the beginning.