Posted on 05/18/2019 12:10:20 PM PDT by John Semmens
This week, Alabama and Missouri enacted legislation severely restricting abortions carried out in their states. In Missouri, abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy were banned. In Alabama all abortions except those necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother were outlawed.
Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif) called these laws "an invitation to inflict the nightmare from The Handmaid's Tale on the women of this country." Unfortunately for her argument, in The Handmaid's Tale fertile women are enslaved, raped, and forced to bear children for the ruling class. Neither of these state laws does anything remotely like that. These laws aim to protect unborn humans from being murdered in the womb.
Margaret Atwood's novel wasn't the only textual source cited by Harris for her opposition. She also claimed that "these laws are an unconstitutional violation of the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decree that a woman's right to abort her unwanted child is an unalienable right. The Court, in its wisdom, discerned that the fetus has no rights which society is bound to respect."
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) concurred with her colleague and added her contention that "these laws violate our Christian faith. Christians believe in free will. A woman's decision to terminate her pregnancy is an exercise of free will. Government has no authority to interfere in such a decision. What it does have is an obligation to make sure that every woman in America, no matter what state she lives in or how much money she has in her pocket, can have guaranteed access to safe, legal and free abortion. This means public funding of the procedure. That's why the Court should also overturn the Hyde Amendment that prohibits federal taxpayer money from being use to finance these procedures. If the Court hasn't done this by the time I become president, I will do it by executive order."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif) also insisted that "preventing mothers from disposing of unwanted children is unconstitutional. It's the type of cruel and unusual punishment that is banned by the Eighth Amendment. Trump's refusal to send federal troops to arrest the Alabama legislators who committed this atrocity will be added to the list of offenses for which we will impeach him."
Meanwhile, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has banned Coloradans from traveling to Alabama, "lest they be stranded there without access to safe and free abortions. Abortions are a constitutional right enacted by the Supreme Court. Until such a time that the Court slaps down Alabama's attack on this right I cannot allow our state's inhabitants to take the risk of traveling to this dangerous 'no-go zone.'"
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/261365-2019-05-18-semi-news-semi-satire-may-19-2019-edition.htm
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If it is okay to have an abortion on demand, then why not a law demanding that all Democrats MUST abort their child in their womb?
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