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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 03 2018, @11:26PM (4 children)
You say "it's about their personal religious morality", but that misses the point. It's about God's universal morality. These people don't have a choice, and neither do you: the morals apply to everybody. It doesn't matter if you object to God's will or even if you deny God's existence. The morals are universal.
(Score: 4, Informative) by NotSanguine on Thursday May 03 2018, @11:40PM (1 child)
I hope you and your imaginary sky daddy will be very happy together.
And no, you've just mistaken your trained-in prejudices for the laws of nature.
Educate yourself or remain forever ignorant.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @01:32AM
Oh, bless your heart.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday May 04 2018, @02:49AM (1 child)
No it isn't.
Even if you accept the Bible as God's word, there's a lot of stuff that modern-day Christians make a big deal about which have dubious-at-best Biblical basis (e.g. prosperity gospel). Which means that some individual human's interpretation is involved, and they're describing as "God's universal morality" stuff that God didn't actually put in the instruction manual.
Furthermore, the people who like to talk about God's universal morality do an awful lot of picking and choosing about which rules they're going to follow or care about. For instance, I live not too far from where the "King of Kings" statue used to be, which could certainly be seen as one of those graven images specifically banned in the 10 Commandments. Said statue was destroyed by a bolt of lightning - can you get more "hand-of-God" than that? Without wasting a moment, the church started raising money for, and built, a second giant statue. I kind of wanted to sneak in a radio mike tuned to the same frequency as the preacher, wait for the pastor to start talking about the need for a new giant statue and say in a loud booming voice over the PA system "How did you not get the message the first time?!? I thought I was pretty clear!"
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @09:27AM
Now, THAT, just might bring me back into the Church! ( Well, for at least one visit! ).