Just watch this
In case you still think they are even human, get a load of this:
Jim Bopp, an Indiana lawyer who authored the model legislation in advance of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, told POLITICO on Thursday that his law only provides exceptions when the pregnant person’s life is in danger.
“She would have had the baby, and as many women who have had babies as a result of rape, we would hope that she would understand the reason and ultimately the benefit of having the child,” Bopp said in a phone interview on Thursday.
The Indiana Attorney General is now trying to charge the doctor who performed the abortion with a crime, investigating whether she filed some paperwork within a 3 day window.
Meanwhile, here are some others trying to dance on the head of a pin, pretending that their “life begins at conception” and “fetal personhood” position don’t lead inexorably to that little girl being forced to give birth to her rapists child:
Catherine Glenn Foster, the president and CEO of Americans United for Life, was responding to questions from Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) about whether she thinks a 10-year-old girl would or should “choose” to have a baby. After some back and forth, during which Foster refused to answer the question, she came up with a response.
“I believe it would probably impact her life, and so, therefore, it would fall under any exception and would not be an abortion,” said Foster.
“Wait,” replied Swalwell, puzzled. “It would not be an abortion if a 10-year-old with her parents made the decision not to have a baby that was the result of a rape?”
“If a 10-year-old became pregnant as a result of rape and it was threatening her life, then that’s not an abortion,” Foster said. “So it would not fall under any abortion restriction in our nation.”
Right. It would impact her life so it would not be an abortion. Would that apply to anyone whose life would be “impacted” by giving birth? Would it not be an abortion for them as well? Big, if true.
Here’s another example:
Tell that to the women who will be lying in an emergency room with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy while the doctors wonder whether they are authorized to treat her. Virtually every woman who has ever had the procedure has “abortion” on her medical record. That’s what it’s called.
“Fetal personhood” is going to pass in some states and it’s going lead to people with ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, IVF procedures and more being forced into the wingnut legal maw on this issue which the testimony above shows is not even slightly coherent or capable of answering. The logic of their position only leads one way.
During the 2016 election campaign a lot of people on both the left and the center right insisted that those of us who were freaking out about the open Supreme Court seat and the possibility of Roe being overturned were being hysterical. We were not, This day was coming from the minute Trump won and now it’s here. It’s going to be a nightmare unfolding every day. This poor little 10 year old girl will not be the last casualty of this intensely cruel regime about which anti-abortion leaders demand they must “understand the reason and ultimately the benefit of having the child.” It’s misogynist fundamentalism.