SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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
These 9 Places in America Will Pay You to Move There
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday May 03 2018, @10:23PM (3 children)
I should be able to mod this to +6 as it is one of the clearest explanations I have read of the US conservative christian mindset.
Thanks.
(Score: 5, Informative) by bzipitidoo on Friday May 04 2018, @02:42AM (2 children)
Thing is, it's not particularly Christian. In many respects it's the diametric opposite. There's no loving thy neighbor, no. Neighbors are enemies. It's extreme social conservatism, patriarchy, and it looks remarkably similar across cultures and religions. The defining characteristics are men of limited intelligence and imagination in control and women powerless. And men using this control to father lots and lots of children, the better to bury enemy cultures by sheer weight of numbers. "Go forth and multiply" is not a conscious plan, it's more of an instinct. To them, the world is a divinely created stage upon which this contest with other peoples takes place, and children, even their own, are cannon fodder for the religious war machine. They don't think about any of that much, they like to just rely on gut instincts. Thinking is hard work. The unstated and possibly even subconscoius goal is to make more babies than the enemies, and they're always trying to twist the laws that direction. That's how they can be opposed to abortion, but in favor of guns.
Afghanistan is a good example of this sort of society. Some try to prevent girls from getting an education, a very few going as far as to try to murder them just for going to school. On average, women have 8 children each, and half of them die of malnutrition, disease, fatal accidents through extreme recklessness and carelessness, or of plain murder before reaching adulthood. The deaths of the children who don't make it are shrugged off as "that's life" and as "must have displeased Allah".
The US has had this on much smaller scales. Every few years there's another crazy cult with the same dreary setup of an absolute dictator of a leader and a bunch of brainwashed, feeble minded, slavish followers. Peoples Temple. Branch Davidians, and Yearning for Zion to name just a few. The biggest may be the Mormons. Yearning for Zion was one of the more nakedly obvious. The leader and his inner circle ran their organization as basically a personal harem for themselves. Teenage boys were kicked out, and teenage girls were forced to marry one of the elders who would then impregnate them as quickly as possible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @12:51PM
And they call me fucking crazy. Yes, trying to keep people from murdering their children is like keeping women from learning their ABC's. Give me a fucking break clown-brain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 05 2018, @05:29PM
Depending on the Christian beliefs it might be more logical to save the baby and let the Christian mother die.
For example if you believe that not all babies go to heaven if they die but all Christians go to heaven if they die. Then logically the baby takes priority over a Christian mother.
BUT if all babies go to heaven if they die then if we want more people in heaven we should be aborting more babies before they become adults on Earth. Maybe even producing more babies for that purpose - send thousands or even millions to heaven then ask for forgiveness and it's a win-win for everyone right?
So which is it? ;)