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Thursday, May 9th, 2019

Georgia Just Criminalized Abortion. Women Who Terminate Their Pregnancies Would Receive Life in Prison.

Author:     MARK JOSEPH STERN MAY
Source:     Slate
Publication Date:     MAY 07, 20192:03 PM
 Link: Georgia Just Criminalized Abortion. Women Who Terminate Their Pregnancies Would Receive Life in Prison.
Stephan:   In almost every state controlled by Republicans, there is an aggressive effort going on to strip women of the power Roe v Wade gave them to control their own bodies. Georgia leads the way, and this is what they have come to. This is what the majority of voters in Georgia, who bothered to vote, voted for.  In the mid-term 2018 federal elections 55% of women who could vote did vote, and 52% of men. The rest watched television or played video games or something else they thought more important than voting.

Anti-abortion activists participate in the March for Life, an annual event to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18.
Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty

On Tuesday, Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a “fetal heartbeat” bill that seeks to outlaw abortion after about six weeks. The measure, HB 481, is the most extreme abortion ban in the country—not just because it would impose severe limitations on women’s reproductive rights, but also because it would subject women who get illegal abortions to life imprisonment and the death penalty.

The primary purpose of HB 481 is to prohibit doctors from terminating any pregnancy after they can detect “embryonic or fetal cardiac activity,” which typically occurs at six weeks’ gestation. But the bill does far more than that. In one sweeping provision, it declares that “unborn children are a class of living, distinct person” that deserves “full legal recognition.” Thus, Georgia law must “recognize unborn children as natural persons”—not just for […]

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1 Comment

  1. Eric on Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 3:07 pm

    I just don’t get this assault on Roe vs Wade. If it is repealed then it would become a States right thing and the blue States would allow it and the red States wouldn’t, which is exactly how it basically is now. Nothing would change.