With the new Alabama Supreme Court Ruling that embryos are "children", i.e.
Women in the middle of In-Vitro Fertilization procedures have been knocked for a loop. That this ruling is a cockeyed abomination is self-evident. Leave aside for the moment the fact that no sane person in his or her right mind can possibly regard a "zygote" as a person (i.e. child), or a fetus as an (already born) "baby". It follows that neither can an embryo be regarded as a child either.
There is simply no standard by which that passes even elemental laws or tests of logic, or science. A child cannot be an "unborn" embryo because by definition it has already been born! Thus, we send the 'child' to school, get him to do his homework, to take his medicine, cross streets safely, respect his elders and so on. If unborn, it's a fetus, or an embryo but not a "child" - so all those activities are preposterous. They also show the entity is not a person. Don't these ignorant twits know any better? Did they even take basic high school biology?
Look for other red state supreme courts to now run muck following the first cracker state's lead to implement more stringent anti-abortion legislation.
This has also come on the heels of the recent report by Lisa Lerer and Elizabeth Dias (NY Times) that allies of Trump are now getting ready to implement some of the most draconian anti-abortion laws on the planet, one wonders how many Americans are on to it. According to the pair's Feb. 16 reporting:
"Allies of former president Donald Trump and officials who served in his administration are now planning ways to restrict abortion in ways hitherto unseen. This assumes a return to power in November in which case an impetus for a national ban on abortion will take hold which goes far beyond laws already enacted in conservative states across the country."
Adding: "Behind the scenes the specific anti-abortion bans being proposed by Trump's allies are sweeping and legally sophisticated. Some of their proposals would rely on enforcing the long dormant Comstock Act of 1873 to criminalize the shipping of any materials used in abortion to anywhere in the U.S."
For those who need reminders of the Comstock Act and its background please see:
And:
Much of this will also mark the take off point for the campaign being planned by Trump allies to toll back all abortion access is people are stupid enough to vote him back in. Or get distracted, i.e. by Biden's age, Gaza, inflation or what not to not vote at all or leave the presidential choice blank. We know in the midst of chaos and distracting events and issues voter IQs can crater. But this election is not the time to let it happen.
Jonathan F. Mitchell, the deranged brain behind the 2021 Texas law that enabled vigilantes to track women seeking abortions in that state, has been forthright in his aims if Trump gets back in. As reported by Lerer and Dias, quoting the zealot:
"We don't need a federal ban when we have Comstock on the books. We have a smorgasbord of options."
Adding:
"I hope he (Trump) doesn't know about Comstock, because I just don't want him shooting his mouth off prematurely. We need to get elected first. I also think the pro-life groups should keep their mouths shut as much as possible until the election."
In other words, these verminous rats are ready to spring it on a mostly unwary populace in the wake of the Nov. 5 election, when most might just have pulled the lever to get rid of a too-old guy like Biden. Who is seen as barely able to walk with an ounce of vigor, and whom the Right media has painted as the next thing to an animated vegetable. But beware, because this is just the sort of distraction the Right's fevered loons want.
To be sure, polling clearly shows that plans banning or severely limiting abortion would be severely unpopular. But let's be frank: unpopular laws - like those giving inordinate protection to gun owners- have a way of getting passed just the same. In the case of the Comstock anti-abortion legislation envisaged by Mitchell and his Trumper apes, it would be a simple matter of applying the Comstock law to whatever impediment they can conceive.
Let us further note the irony here in all these planned anti-abortion laws. That is, even if passed widely or if a national ban is enacted, the Rights legal maestros have no intention of helping those millions of newly hatched embryos - who now have become actual children. Children who need school meals, or just basic nutrition in homes stretched too thin.
Thus, we have seen the recent spectacle of Nebraska governor Jim Pillen who rejected free government nutritional aid to his state, declaring: "I don't believe in welfare". Later reversing course after a state legislator introduced a bill to require participation. But other red states have not been so compliant. Gov. Tate Reeves in Mississippi, for example, declared the nutrition assistance an "unnecessary big government program". This prompted a pregnant Mississippian to remark: "Why do you care so much about how many babies I'm having or aborting when I still have to feed this child? Why do you care, when you are not helping me to do that?"
Well, because none of these crackers, whether in Mississippi, Alabama or Texas really care if an embryo is a human or not. Once it actually gets born, exits the womb and becomes an actual child - they want no part in facilitating any sustained nutrition program. Too much money! Too much welfare! Just use the anti-abortion and "personhood" themes as cudgels to try to keep American women barefoot and pregnant - under the thumbs of their respective red states.
And just in case you think this plot by Trump's allies to savage abortion rights is the only thing they've got up their sleeve, think again! They also have a plan for military mass deportations and detention camps e.g.
Trump and allies plotting militarized mass deportations, detention camps
Should this slimy traitor refuse manage to grab power again, or entice enough dummies to vote for him.
See Also:
Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are children, imperiling IVF - The Washington Post
And:
Alabama’s Embryo Ruling Challenges IVF Practices Nationwide
And:
Texas Version Of Taliban Imposes Draconian Abortion Law - Time To Boycott & Strike
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by Jim Hightower | February 22, 2024 - 6:42am | permalink
Excerpt:
Here’s our big word of the day: extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting that rulers in one state have a right to enforce their laws in another state.
Its most prominent was in the infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required officials in Northern anti-slave states to capture and return escaped slaves to their plantation “owners” in the South, thus applying Southern slave laws in Northern jurisdictions. This abomination was finally repealed in 1864.
But 160 years later, here comes another faction of right-wing zealots trying to revive the slave-law concept of extraterritoriality — this time applying it to any and all American women who dare to make their own reproductive health decisions.
I’m ashamed to say that this repressive use of the doctrine is being led by my state’s misogynistic governor, Greg Abbott, and our corrupt attorney general, Ken Paxton. These two tyrannical men have already saddled Texas women with the most draconian abortion ban in the country, including piously forbidding abortion in cases of rape and incest.
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