War on women
In Alabama women are officially not people, they are just incubators owned by men.
Alabama lawmakers voted Tuesday to ban virtually all abortions in the state — including for victims of rape and incest — sending the strictest law in the nation to the state’s Republican governor, who is expected to sign it.
The measure permits abortion only when necessary to save a mother’s life, an unyielding standard that runs afoul of federal court rulings. Those who backed the new law said they don’t expect it to take effect, instead intending its passage to be part of a broader strategy by antiabortion activists to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion nationwide.
And by the way to send a strong message to women that we are not people.
The Alabama bill, which passed 25-6, is even more restrictive than prior state-level abortion laws, and it includes a penalty of up to 99 years in prison for doctors who perform abortions. Six of the Senate’s Democrats voted against the bill — one abstained — and they staged a filibuster into Tuesday night after debating the bill for more than four hours, with senators discussing the role government should play in legislating what a woman can do with her body and the definition of life.
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Republican Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth said in an interview before the vote that the debate was about the idea of “personhood” and whether a fetus has rights from the outset.
“Is it a life?” Ainsworth said. “I believe it is, and if it’s a life, you can’t have any exceptions.”
Is that so? I wonder what Ainsworth’s position on the death penalty is. I wonder what his view of war is. I wonder what approach he takes to police shootings.
Which suggests he does not agree with the exception to save women’s lives? Because that is an exception.
Which also undermines his statement, unless of course you consider that fully developed adult women are not, in fact, life. A blastocyst carrying two X chromosomes is alive; once she reaches the ability to give birth, she is no longer alive, she is just a machine.
And our only hope of maintaining Roe v Wade seems to be in the hands of Justice Roberts, and whether he will adopt a principled stance on this question as he has on (a very few) others. With Kavanaugh replacing Kennedy, Roe v Wade seems hopelessly endangered.
Principled may be overdoing it but I’m expecting him to be all “boo this nonsense, yay more TRAP laws”
Sickening
I see Reason have a tweet that makes a very valid point.
https://twitter.com/reason/status/1128654524841742337
I live in Alabama. A lot of my friends are reproductive rights advocates. My Facebook feed has exploded. ACLU of Alabama is looking to add to the nearly $4 million they’ve received from the state in recent years due to lawsuits, while others are concerned (or elated, on the other side, like the governor) that this case could overturn Roe. The Senate debate gallery was packed to overflowing with pro-choice people, but of course the legislators didn’t care.
The governor signed the bill today and mentioned overturning Roe in her remarks. It’s pretty obvious that this bill, like others, was initiated with overturning Roe in mind.
Rob, very telling tweet. It isn’t about the fetus at all, is it? But we knew that.
The tweet referred to by Rob begins
I wonder if that was the same sponsor I saw in a clip of an interview that was shown by John Oliver on his Last Week Tonight show last week? Oliver described the interviewee as a co-writer of the proposed bill. The reporter asked if the proposed bill would affect things like the morning-after pill. His answer was ‘I do not have the intelligence to know how abortions work or if the pill is a method of abortion. You’ll have to ask someone who is more intelligent than me to get an answer’!
Well, that speaks volumes.