The Missouri Senate has passed a bill barring abortions at the eighth week of pregnancy, with no exemptions for rape or incest.
According to NBC News, the bill now just needs an approval vote in the Republican-majority House and a signature from Gov. Mike Parson (R), who supports the legislation.
Missouri is coming hot on the heels of Alabama, whose governor on Wednesday night signed into law the country’s most restrictive ban on abortion. A spate of other states across the country have passed six-week abortion bans, though most of them are snarled in lower courts.
Anti-abortion activists are throwing spaghetti at the wall, hoping that one of the state laws will bounce its way up to the Supreme Court and let the conservative majority shred Roe v. Wade.
I’ve heard many people say that these bills are really about returning women to a place of subservience, and that’s surely an important element of the anti-abortion movement. But I don’t think it’s a coincidence that most of the current raft of bills come from states in which, historically, women, native Americans, African-Americans and other groups have been marginalized. In the end, it’s about the right to marginalize people on the basis of their status.
This should make everyone feel better today.
They were on their way to Lugar’s funeral. I’m sure it was all very innocent.
The scope and time alloted for Sherman’s orders were in hindsight entirely too restrictive.
Heh. You made me do some research on that.
Q-Tip Man and Yertle I understood but not CJ Roberts. Turns out, Roberts, who was born the day after I was years earlier, was raised in IN.
I’m sure there ware hearty laughs about the upcoming challenge to Roe.
@chelsea530
I think it was wrong in the first place to give a time limit to abortion. It turned the discussion into “when does life begin” and all we have seen is the continually narrowing of that limit. Abortion is about personal beliefs!