Official Abortion Thread
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Anonymous
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Nope
"Alabama’s near-ban on abortion takes effect, performing an abortion would become a Class A felony, which carries a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison — the same minimum sentence as severe sex crimes like first-degree rape and sexual torture, under Alabama law. Incest and sexual abuse, however, are considered Class C felonies, with a minimum sentence of one year and one day in prison and a maximum sentence of 10 years. Second-degree rape usually applies to “what most people usually consider statutory rape,” explains Andrew Segel, a lawyer from Huntsville, Alabama, though it also applies if the victim is between the ages of 12 and 16 and the perpetrator is over the age of 16, and if the victim is “incapable of consent by reason of being mentally defective,” per the Alabama criminal code. In Alabama, second-degree rape is a Class B felony with a maximum sentence of 20 years. The implications of these sentencing guidelines are clear, and they are chilling: If HB 314 is enacted, a first-time offender who is accused of raping, say, an intellectually disabled woman or a 13-year-old girl could potentially serve less prison time than a doctor providing an abortion. And that’s assuming that they will serve any prison time to begin with. Compared to other victims of violent crimes, rape and sexual assault survivors are far less likely to report their assailants to the police, which leads to far fewer rape-related arrests and felony convictions; only a tiny fraction of those accused of sexual assault will ever spend a day in jail. In effect, if this law is enacted, performing a safe and constitutionally protected procedure that nearly one in four women will have in their lifetimes will be criminalized to a larger degree than sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl." https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/alabama-abortion-law-rape-sexual-assault-punishment-835583/ |
Anonymous
Ya, he would have been the judge instead. |
Anonymous
No, I think it's because Republican women probably use infertility services at the same rates as others, maybe even more so (because $$$). And presumably their Republican husbands also see themselves as consumers of fertility services. As usual politicians are acting like politicians and not doing things that would anger people who vote for and donate money to them. And Republican women already live with so many hypocrisies, what's one more. |
Anonymous
Mic Drop |
Anonymous
BOOM. |
Anonymous
| Meanwhile in Israel abortion is legal, easily accessible and not even a topic of debate. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/As-abortion-fight-heats-up-in-US-termination-in-Israel-easily-accessible-589923?fbclid=IwAR1FOtpR7cndplOitWGdZ04ODed8ytbllZVQhWdLE2VJAcWJKww6i0x8dGA |
Anonymous
They particularly like it for Palestinians. |
Anonymous
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What happens when you ban abortons
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/16/what-actually-happens-when-a-country-bans-abortion-romania-alabama/ Romania case study. Pretty grim. I don't see "small government" GOP supporters getting on board with such baby mill facilities. |
Anonymous
And paid for by the government health system. |
Anonymous
not a chance |
Anonymous
not in Alabama or Texas |
Anonymous
| Wealthy and middle class women will never bear children they do not want. All this is going to do is increase the number of poor people Alabama has to ability to handle. Great plan. |
Anonymous
And will speed up the decline in the share of the population which is white MABA!!! (Make America Brown Again) |
Anonymous
You can’t determine it. That’s why it is necessary to provide incentives to actually use birth control to make abortions rare. |
Anonymous
Not at all. If an abortion is needed for medical reasons by all means it should be available. The goal should be to make the majority of abortions that are not medically required as rare as the abortions that are medically required. |