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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: 5, Insightful) by SpockLogic on Thursday May 03 2018, @06:52PM (7 children)
The GOP's war on women's right to choose on full display.
They want to keep them barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 03 2018, @09:54PM (1 child)
My wife chose to be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. We have 11 kids. I hope you can be tolerant of her choice. Realistically, I know you are disgusted by her choice. You don't respect her at all.
Oh, not only that: she is Catholic, she homeschools, and she voted for Trump in a swing state. No oral or anal, obviously, because that isn't connected to the womb.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @11:49AM
We didn't need to know your wife doesn't do oral or anal
TMI!
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday May 03 2018, @10:15PM (1 child)
Hasn't that ship totally, completely, sailed? Two income families are the norm now. American households depend on two incomes. With DC cutting the throats of entire industries at a stroke with trade deals that outsource everything, a single-income family just doesn't have any power to negotiate a wage that can make up the difference anymore.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @09:01AM
I think we got just what Helen Reddy sung about when I was a kid.
My Dad recognized it and I distinctly remember him telling me what would happen if what she sang about took hold.
It did, and Dad correctly foretold the future. Where even two people working combined would barely afford a place to sleep.
While bankers live in luxury off the usury of loaning money they never had.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @01:37AM (2 children)
Do tell when the absolute latest an abortion should be allowed. I'm waiting here with baited breath. Oh, you don't want to talk about that? Why not?
(Score: 2, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday May 04 2018, @07:22PM (1 child)
WRONG! The correct phrase is "with bated breath", "bated", as in "abate" or "rebate", or "probate", literally "held back". Do your part to improve Soylentil literacy!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday May 05 2018, @03:48AM
Another pro-tip for the professional Soylentil! +1 Pedant is the proper mod for helpful corrections such as above. Never, in fact NEVER EVER mod a grammarian -1 Troll. Hell hath no fury like a grammarian troll-modded, and it makes the actual trolls quite upset, whether from jealously or umbrage at being so compared we do not know. In any case, this mod is a dangerous move. You have been warned. Best to avoid grammatical errors in the near future. Just saying . . .