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WTF Alabama?

Torin said:
The Alabama Senate just passed a law outlawing abortion, with no exceptions provided for rape or incest.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alabam...-no-exceptions-for-rape-or-incest-2019-05-14/
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SO THAT it can be challenged, and so that SCOTUS can overturn Roe Vs. Wade, SO THAT it devolves to the states, then all the anti-choice forces can descend on each state one-at-a-time until their way is the only way, and every "miscarriage" is investigated as a possible murder...
 
It's okay. There is no crime to get an abortion... only to perform it (though isn't that a contract killing?). That way, the doctor goes to prison. This is how you Make America Great Again... more doctors in prison!

It all falls to Roberts and whether he wants to destroy the concept of precedence. Roe v Wade has been addressed in several cases since then, and to remove federal protection of it, has the potential render precedence meaningless.
 
"Human Life Protection Act" -- bans all abortions in the state except when "abortion is necessary in order to prevent a serious health risk" to the woman, according to the bill's text.

"Serious Health Risk"

Who designs the guidelines that informs that determination? Is that at the Federal level? The Surgeon General? Or is it case by case, expert witness versus expert witness?

Simply define a "material change to any major life component" as "a serious health risk". Like loosing your home, ability to work, or income used to sufficiently improve one's life. you know... having a rug rat.
 
I just heard that the governor might veto the bill. It hasn't been signed into law yet.

Actually, the bill that was signed into law last week in Georgia is worse in some ways. It makes abortion illegal after about six weeks of pregnancy, or until a fetal heart beat can be determined. The thing is that the Georgia law has the potential to punish the woman with as much as life in prison. Some are claiming the death penalty could be used in some cases. WTF! And, to make matters even worse, a woman who goes to another state for an abortion can also be prosecuted, with up to something like 20 years in prison. I know these bills are trying to get SCOTUS to reexamine Roe v. Wade, but this is simply insane, and draconian. It takes away not only the right of women to have control of their own bodies, but it also takes away the lawful privacy that HIPPA laws provide regarding medical care.

Naturally, as always, Republicans are more concerned about the fetus than they are about the actual human being.
 
The Bill was signed, and talk is (from the evil cunts that drew up the bill) that the bill was designed NOT to "protect" clusters of cells, but to present a case to the supreme court to challenge roe v wade. Roberts has said that such practices to manipulate the SC into chiming in on an otherwise BS case will not fly. That the SC is not there to referee POLITICAL challenges. They can simply refuse to hear the case and just dismiss it.

Best case scenario: The appellate court knocks down the bill as unconstitutional (a no-brainer), and then the Supreme court refuses to hear it.
 
I think it is cute that Roberts thinks all this political stuff is wrong... But what did he expect? Oversaw the theft of a SCOTUS seat and with the retiring of Kennedy, the right-wing has launched a merciless onslaught of anti-abortion bills. All of them are grossly unconstitutional and only presented in yet the trillionth time to overrule Roe v Wade.
 
So are we still okay with felons not having the right to vote?
 
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