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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: 2) by VLM on Friday May 04 2018, @03:05PM
Posted to edit that there is a specific name for that style of argument "tactical nihilism" where we MUST destroy society in order to save society.
There are entire reams of leftist thought on numerous topics that get written off by the Old Right and New Right as yeah yeah whatever nice argument "proving" civilization was a terrible idea and totally proving its impossible, therefore we must get rid of it and stamp out any semblance of civilization, and the response being something like I'd rather live in civilization so nice argument but oh well.
Its like taking a print out of that scientific paper that proved given simplified obsolete fluid dynamics equations, honeybees are unable to fly, then walking up to an active honeybee hive full of happy and busily working bees, and screaming that paper over at over at the bees as loud as possible from every form of media imaginable then being surprised the bees don't magically fall out of the sky, or the bees don't feel really bad about the proven facts of the argument, or really have much of any reaction other than "they crazy" and "I'm not electing that character as our next queen, no way" "sorry busy running civilization over here plz be quiet and get out of the way with your parodies".