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posted by janrinok on Thursday May 03 2018, @06:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-many-women-voted? dept.

Iowa approves one of strictest abortion bills in US

The US state of Iowa has approved one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, banning most abortions once a foetal heartbeat is detected. Republican lawmakers, who control both chambers, passed the bill in back-to-back votes, sending it to the governor's desk to sign into law.

If [signed], the bill would ban most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Critics argue the bill makes having an abortion illegal before most women even realise they are pregnant.

[...] If [Governor Kim] Reynolds signs the bill into law, it will likely be challenged in court for possibly violating Roe v Wade, the US Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in 1973. [...] Some Republican lawmakers welcomed the challenge. "I would love for the United States Supreme Court to look at this bill and have this as a vehicle to overturn Roe v. Wade," Republican Senator Jake Chapman said.

Also at NPR, Reuters, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, and The Hill:

Nineteen states adopted a total of 63 restrictions to the procedure in 2017, which is the highest number of state laws on the issue since 2013, according to the Guttmacher Institute. State legislatures have proposed 15 bills that would ban abortions after 20 weeks and 11 bills that would ban abortions if the sole reason is a genetic anomaly like Down syndrome.

Related: Ohio Bill Would Ban Abortion when a Prenatal Test is Positive for Down Syndrome
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @09:43AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @09:43AM (#675558)

    The idea that life started well before the baby took it's first breath.

    No. For Jews of the period, the soul is one's breath. The Christian misconception on the subject is actually a Greek & Latin translation issue combined with immaculate birth dogma being heavily affected by pagan stories about how Zeus would change forms and mate with animals to create Gods / monsters. Hebrew didn't even have a separate word for "soul". It literally used/uses "one's breath" (נשמה). It's further exemplified in how the bible idiomatically refers to living people as כל־נשמה in different places. A separate (and likely later though it's debated) Jewish folklore states that an angle descends upon a child's birth and breaths life into their lungs by kissing them similarly to how Adam was made.

    And this is actually the most compatible interpretation with modern Christian values regarding birth. The common Jewish belief, then and now, is:

    “We do not mourn for fetuses (nefalim), and anything which does not live for 30 days, we do not mourn for it.” — Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Hilkhot Aveilut 1:6

    “The infant, for 30 days, even including the full 30th day (if it dies), we do not mourn for it.” – Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De’ah 374:8

    Regardless, mainstream Christianity is so hopelessly removed from the Hebrew sources and biblical studies (let alone science) that it makes the backwater mainstream Rabbinical Judaism look enlightened. Moreover, people forget the information age actually reached biblical scholars and everything they were/are taught by their religious leaders is centuries behind what research now knows and accepts about the scriptures. The understanding of the language in terms of grammar and idioms alone makes 99.99% of Catholicism, Protestantism and no small amount of Rabbinical Judaism simply wrong and obsolete.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday May 08 2018, @04:26PM

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday May 08 2018, @04:26PM (#677080) Journal

    It wouldn't be the first time that the Jews made a mistake. Assuming the babe in the womb isn't a real person. Why would Elisabeth's baby (John the Baptist) have been noted as having leapt for joy? Please note "Messianic Judaism" is the only sect of the religion that actually believes Jesus was the Messiah.

    Luke 1:41-44
    "41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
    42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
    43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
    44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy."

    --
    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"