Rep. Bruce Braley’s (D-IA) Senate campaign released a new ad Thursday hitting Republican opponent state Sen. Joni Ernst on her sponsorship of a “personhood amendment” during her time in the Iowa state Senate.
The ad hits Ernst for her “radical ideas” in the state Senate. Specifically, the ad focuses on Ernst joining 20 Republicans and one Democrat in 2013 to support the Senate Joint Resolution 10, an amendment, according to the Des Moines Register, that ensured “the inalienable right to life of every person at any stage of development shall be recognized and protected.”
The ad comes as a number of top Senate Republican candidates shift their stances away from supporting Personhood legislation to backing easier access to over-the-counter contraception. At a debate last night House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-NC) stressed his support for over the counter contraception.
Similar Personhood amendments have been introduced in a number of other states. Watch the ad, first reported by the Register below:
The TPM Polltracker gives Braley a 0.2 point lead over Ernst.
“Love the fetus, hate the child”
[quote] … “the inalienable right to life of every person at any stage of development shall be recognized and protected.” [/quote] Until actual birth.
FIFY.
The logical legal meaning of “personhood” amendments is that a zygote has the full legal status of a live child.
In turn, that means that every woman who has a miscarriage should be immediately taken into questioning by law enforcement authorities for possible homicide, even if the miscarriage takes place just one week after the pregnancy began. Only through extensive and invasive physical examinations and tests can it be legally determined whether or not the mother took actions to induce the miscarriage herself.
Furthermore, since a zygote has the same legal status of a live child, it is logically illegal for a woman who has miscarried—or the attending medical professionals—to not turn over the miscarried zygotic material to legal authorities for forensic examination to determine if a crime was committed.
In addition, any woman who has two or more miscarriages should automatically be placed under suspicion, as would any parents who have two live children die under their care in separate incidents.
Lastly, since zygotes have the same legal status as a live child, states should pass laws requiring the parents of a miscarried zygote to have a full Christian burial, as would any live child delivered to term.
Christianists, such as Ms. Castrator here are about their own freedumb to do you in. Proselytizers know no bounds (a little duck told me.)
Says the braggart who castrates pigs!!