Someone over the rainbow
The Washington Post takes the “someone” approach.
Democrats said the legislation would put someone experiencing a miscarriage at risk by forcing doctors to take extra time determining whether they qualify for an abortion. It also sets unrealistic time constraints for someone to report rape or incest to qualify for an abortion exception under the bill, they said.
Any particular kind of somone? Dunno.
Abortion rights advocates are vowing to fight the measure. If it is passed, Planned Parenthood North Central States will challenge the law in court and refer
patientsout of state if they need an abortion during the next few weeks, the group said in a statement.“We intend to show that in numbers on Tuesday at the Capitol, reminding those politicians really of the fact that they will be held accountable for every vote that they take to strip
Iowansof their rights,” said Mazie Stilwell, the director of public affairs at Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa.
It’s women who lose when abortion rights are demolished.
From the (paywalled) NYT article:
Gov. Kim Reynolds here manages to persuade herself and her supporters that a potential human’s right to life begins with the onset of that said human’s first fetal heartbeat, and at an arbitrary 22 weeks max.
The Catholic Church is a tad more logically consistent, maintaining that human life begins with the fertilisation of the ovum. This has led its priesthood in times past (maybe still) to rant and rail against use of contraceptives. But logic and consistency can only be stretched so far. That same church does not require its female supporters to bring their used tampons and sanitary pads to a priest just in case they contain a fertilised ovum (zygote) and so need the last rites before being accorded a proper Catholic burial. Otherwise, the immortal soul of the zygote could finish up in Limbo, or worse: in Purgatory or Hell. Because if its very first zygotic thought was impure, that could possibly, even easily, happen.
Maybe someone could inform Gov. Kim Reynolds of the above philosophical problems of her present position. I would if I had the time, but right now I have to feed the chooks.
Naked hostility to rights on one side, deference to trans concerns from the other. Real nice.