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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: 4, Interesting) by pe1rxq on Thursday May 03 2018, @08:48PM (3 children)
At 7 billion our species (and the world we live on) could use a few abortions....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @09:20AM
The real heart-breaker for me is unwanted babies. Especially unwanted drug babies or malformed babies.
Is it better to bring a child into being, unwanted, a ward of the state, or should I be given the authority to decide its fate?
None of the above appeals to me.
I would suggest women be careful playing around with the baby factory until they are sure they want one.
Unless they too want to be burdened with decisions like this.
Incidentally, I have seen my momma-cat make these very same decisions, and I believe the very same God that fomented my existence also fomented the existence of that cat... and that cat - by instinct - has to do what it has to do. Momma-cat has done some "heartless" things, but so will the hawk. Its nature.
There are many things beyond my wisdom or knowledge, and I must accept that. I am not judge, jury, and executioner over such things, neither do I want authority ( and the responsibility that comes with it) over it either.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday May 04 2018, @01:58PM (1 child)
A hilarious modern and hot New Right troll is to trigger Old Leftists who are fundamentally primarily racist anti-white haters, by pointing out blacks are far over twice as likely to abort than whites, so in an absolute sense abortion is quite a horrific slaughter of the innocents but in a relative racial sense, abortion laws are supporting the white race and genociding the black race. Meanwhile for a few decades abortion has been a sacrament of the weird progressive religion of leftism. And cognitive dissonance makes white-hating leftists absolutely blow their tops hyper triggered into insanity. And it really pisses off the Blacks because once again the Jews (as the Left) are screwing over the Blacks for the zillionth time.
The Old Right was focused on "muh jesus" or "whatever supports Israel, our greatest ally" as exclusive priorities, so they were anti-abortion, but modern New Right is like "the left has killed three times as many supposedly leftist allied black babies as Hitler killed Jews despite the Old Right's opposition... just sayin maybe we should fight them on a different battle...".
Of course as black folks such as Kayne slowly escape the Democratic slave Plantation, this is probably going to tilt New Right perspectives as future right wing black leaders are not going to be amused at a genocide that has killed three times as many of their people as Hitler killed. The imaginary straw dog hollywood fiction anti-semite has always been Germanic, but the real world future concentration camp guards are probably going to be Black men wearing Nation of Islam uniforms.
I'm going to guess that as the left sunsets and melts down, its going to be a pretty uncomfortable position to be in, in near future decades.
I mean, regardless how much anyone likes or dislikes my political analysis above, its really not open to argument that in the boomer era abortion was all about leftists feeling good in the sexual revolution, but post-AIDS post-RedPill upcoming generations merely see racists genociding 20 million little black babies...
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @04:01PM
This is hilarious, VLM trying to play the race card. Go fuck yourself you racist douche.