[qaz123]

Let us get past the fact that the city cannot ignore a state law. But then again, this is the City of Atlanta and since the majority of the state hates Atlanta, it tends to get a lot of wiggle room in the things that it does.

But, one of the most glaring things in the article, IMHO, is(from the article):

"The vote comes as a number of district attorneys across the city have vowed not to prosecute women seeking abortions in the state in wake of the new law."

I'm assuming that the writer meant to say something like: a number of ADAs in Fulton County have vowed not to prosecute women.......

Well, if that is the case, either way, then this is just another glaring example of everything that is wrong with the justice system. The District Attorney can decline to prosecute if they feel that there isn't enough evidence. However, they don't have much of a choice in things, when it comes to going before a Grand Jury. Yes, they can slow walk it. They may not even present it. But, at the end of the day it is the, PEOPLE, that decide what will get prosecuted, not a county lawyer.

Additionally, the law states that women, who choose to have an abortion CANNOT BE PROSECUTED. The law applies to doctors/health practitioners.

Other DAs in the state have made statements about it as well, saying they won't prosecute, telling me that they didn't read the law. Their statements are knee jerk reactions. Or they're morons.

https://nypost.com/2019/05/20/georgia-district-attorneys-refuse-to-enforce-new-abortion-law/

These are the people that are defending us in court and trying to put away the bad people.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Wow, not one non-infanticide member of the Atlanta City Council ? That’s pretty sick and evil. Sounds like they should be BOYCOTTED for supporting evil.

[so_real]

This! This is why the electoral college is SO important. Without the electoral college we give cities like Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc, the ability to remake America in their image. (And wouldn't that be ugly.) Maybe the Founders were right and only land-owners should vote, and I'd add land-owners having children of their own. The only way to make the future better is to be invested in it.

[Always A Marine]

One of the great delusions of our day is widespread Black support for the tool that was designed to slaughter their own babies. “Blacks for Abortion” is no less puzzling than a “Jews for the Holocaust” movement would be. Strong delusion, indeed.

[clive bitterman]

It’s late at night and when I opened the article I thought is said “Atlantic City Council...” WHAT?!? As a Jersey exile now living in the Sonoran desert, I couldn’t believe that my home state would actually do something intelligent or decent. Thank God I read far enough into the article to realize skimming is no way to read a headline.

[Nifster]

A little bit of California in north Georgia

[relictele]

The Hill is especially good for unintentionally hilarious and contradictory sentences and headlines.

A ‘legislative body’ passing a ‘symbolic’ vote has all the impact of a bum urinating in the breeze.