He just doesn’t see
Alabama fanatics hope to get Alabama to emulate El Salvador in banning all abortions without exception, meaning even the ones that would save a woman’s life. Sorry, bitch, your life isn’t worth saving.
A co-sponsor of the bill, State Representative Jack W. Williams of Mobile, says the Personhood Amendment would allow Alabama voters to answer the question of whether or not life begins at conception through a referendum vote on the November ballot. If enacted as is, Williams says the bill will totally ban abortion at any time during pregnancy with no exceptions.
Ahem. Life is not the same thing as personhood.. The vast majority of life is not a person. No one disputes that fetuses are alive.
If the bill becomes law the Republican lawmaker from Mobile says Alabama would be the first state in the nation to enact a total ban on abortions.
“Oh I feel very personally. I’m all against abortion completely. I’ve lost a daughter myself I know how precious life is. I just don’t see how anyone can at four months abort a child and throw it in the garbage can when we’ll spend $1 million on a 4 1/2 month old preemie,” said Williams.
Well as long as he feels it personally, there’s no more to be said. Some guy’s feeling is all that counts.
False equivalence. We have this one premature baby that is spent all this money on, therefore all human cells must be equally precious from the moment a sperm is released to swim toward an egg.
I would rather not see any more unwanted children brought into the world; that is not pro-life, that is pro-pain, pro-suffering. A very Mother Teresa way to be.
So are they mainly trying to provoke a SCOTUS case instead of skirt around the established constitutional right? ‘cuz if Scalia isn’t replaced with an equivalent they’re gonna get shut down.
For the record, Williams is mistaken about a million dollars being spent on a 4 1/2 month preemie. The earliest they can be saved is 5 1/2 months, and the odds are not good.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/new-evidence-complicates-decisions-on-when-to-save-extremely-premature-babies/
Not that I’d expect the likes of Williams to care about accuracy. No doubt to him a zygote is a blastocyst is a 4-weeks embryo is an 8 1/2 months fetus is a baby. It’s babies all the way down.
IDU. Did Ms Williams Jr die from unwanted pregnancy?
How can a right protected by the US Constitution be completely outlawed by a state? Isn’t that — by definition — unconstitutional?
Yes. They don’t mind if it goes to court – either they’ll get Roe v Wade weakened further or overturned, or they’ll get to play martyr.
Yeah, this is just one of those please-the-base moves.
Overall, the legal strategy of the pro-life movement is to nibble away at Roe so that they can effectively get what they want without the Supreme Court having to explicitly overturn it. Which is a good strategy, since Justice Kennedy seems reluctant to go whole hog and overturn Roe, but is willing to uphold all sorts of restrictions. (Of course, if Scalia’s replacement is solidly pro-choice, then even Kennedy’s vote won’t be enough.)
This is more like when some local school board decides to teach creationism — it’s clearly not going to survive a court challenge, it’s probably going to waste a lot of taxpayer money, but they don’t care.
Of course they don’t care. It’s no skin off their noses.
Funny how their hatred of “wasting taxpayers’ money” doesn’t seem to apply, though.
That’s because any true taxpayer wants to have their money spent on important stuff like controlling women’s sex lives and bodies, stopping people of the same sex kissing and worrying about who uses which toilet. They certainly don’t want it wasted on providing decent roads, sewers, safe water supplies, education, local health care or community housing. Don’t even get them started on frivolous stuff like libraries, parks, gardens, disability access to public spaces, rubbish collection or community building.