MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers are proposing to outlaw almost all abortions as conservatives take aim at the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday will introduce legislation to make it a felony to perform an abortion at any stage of pregnancy unless the mother’s health is in jeopardy. If enacted, it would be the most restrictive in the country and certain to be challenged in court.
Emboldened by new conservatives on the Supreme Court, abortion opponents in multiple states are seeking to ignite new legal fights to challenge Roe v. Wade.
Kentucky and Mississippi approved abortion bans once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which happens at about six weeks.
Georgia’s governor is considering a similar bill. South Carolina lawmakers are also considering fetal heartbeat legislation.
I’m picturing these yutzes excitedly calling up Jesus and telling him they have great news, they’re honoring his precious Name by making women carry their rapists’ babies to term, and Jesus coming out of his chair and dropping a few F-bombs into the phone asking them if they’d like to tell him just exactly where in the damn New Testament he said anything about that being a good idea. My Jesus tends to default to moneylender mode, I should add, although I guess that’s obvious.
They’re fucking fascists and they want women reduced to the level of baby factories and service implements.
What unmitigated god-drunk bastards they are.
Why do they get to control women’s bodies. Why are fetuses in the uterus automatically more important than the women who carry them no matter the wonan’s preferences or circumstances? And why are they more important than the children outside the womb whom the Republicans have no trouble separating from their parents, or depriving of aid, or failing to fund necessary healthcare or education?
Like so much of the GOP’s mindset, it’s all about control.
Because they hate and fear women, just as they hate and fear POC, the non-Christian world, science, difficult and ambiguous choices, and a complicated universe. They want a simplistic binary us-versus-them world with all of their centuries of privileged advantage unexamined and unthreatened. They will never waver from the unjustified conviction that they are and must remain superior.
It’s a waiting game. We have to try to preserve the planet and the Republic while waiting for them to die off.
Sorry for the anger. This is just a particularly egregious example of god-drunk white fascism.
Alabamans should make the lawmakers who voted yes on this bill personally liable for the litigation costs once it gets to court. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to foot the legal bill for clearly unconstitutional legislation.