Positively ghoulish. Like a comic book super villain levels of evil, but probably worse.
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Something about "god" and it wanting you to get raped by your sister.
If incest was good enough for Noah and his family, it's good enough for you
I mean if you go with the whole Adam and Eve junk, we’ve all got the genetics of a royal anyway.
Louisiana, a well-known shithole state.
Lousy-ana.
Frankly those exceptions are just empty rhetoric anyway. The legal process for obtaining one takes too long to have the abortion. If they wanna shoot themselves in the foot by not even making an empty gesture, fine.
Not like exceptions mean anything to begin with. States with exceptions don't create a process to receive those exceptions so victims have to navigate the states red tape in hopes that they get a pass in under 9 months. Spoiler alert, they won't.
To be fair, Exxon - the employer of the Louisiana State Legislature - has no official position on the subject. Their corrupt officials are doing this on their own time.
Leave the state ffs. This is just plain evil. Also democrats must campaign hard on this.
If people start jumping ship from these states, the problem gets worse. We actually need an influx of left wing voters in the south, especially in rural areas.
If you can work remotely, then housing is super cheap.
Hone insurance is skyrocketing across the south because of increased risk from hurricanes and flooding, and those areas are only going to become more inhospitable as climate change marches on.
The problem is living in the south sucks. There’s a reason why cost of living is low
Good point
Many Pelican State lawmakers are trying mightily to prevent their own daughters from aborting babies that they themselves have sired. Being deprived of the opportunity to be just like John Huston in Chinatown is clearly unthinkable to these fellas
No you misunderstand. These laws are for poor people. The lawmakers will have their daughters flown up north to a state where they can still get one
"The lawmakers will have their daughters flown up north to a state where they can still get one"
These are conservative lawmakers. They'll cut spending, by having someone in their security detail set things right,,with via the sharpest coat hanger on the rack
Because these issues… what? What is the justification?I have no idea. Fucking rape and incest?!
“It’s disgusting to me that we have a society where we can’t make exceptions in a situation where a young girl’s innocence has been taken away in the most vile way... and now she’s impregnated and somebody, somewhere, wants to force a nine, 10, 11, 12, 13-year-old child to have a baby for the monster that took away her innocence?” Knox said.
"Um, yeah. That would be us." -- Republicans.
They want women to be brood mares for the state. That's it, that's all.
Them military numbers aren't gonna pump themselves up, amirite?
The fundamental disconnect is that they believe a fetus is a human life.
So to them, you'd be asking for legal permission to do a murder so you don't have to be responsible for a child. I'm not saying it is correct, but it is internally consistent.
Consistent on the topic of abortion. One second after birth those lives aren't quite so precious anymore.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In the reliably red state, which is firmly ensconced in the Bible Belt and where even some Democrats oppose abortions, adding exceptions to Louisiana’s strict law has been an ongoing battle for advocates — with a similar measure failing last year.
“I will beg (committee) members to come to common sense,” Democratic state Rep. Alonzo Knox said to fellow lawmakers ahead of the vote, urging them to give approval to the exceptions.
In the hopes of advancing the legislation out of committee and to the House floor for full debate, bill sponsor Democratic state Rep. Delisha Boyd added an amendment to the measure so that the exceptions would only apply to those who are younger than 17.
Democrats have repeatedly fought — and failed — to loosen the law by clarifying vague language, abolishing jail time for doctors who perform illegal abortions and adding exceptions.
The bill attracted dozens of people to testify, including rape survivors who shared their own stories and doctors who argued that their hands are tied by the current law.
A study released by the Journal of the American Medical Association found that between July 2022 and January 2024, there were more than 64,000 pregnancies resulting from rape in states where abortion has been banned in all or most cases.
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