It Took Three Days For Louisiana to Criminalize Miscarriages, Too.
This is war.
After the leak of the first draft of the Supreme Court’s majority opinion overturning Roe vs. Wade, the all out war on reproductive rights and bodily autonomy has escalated even further. It took three days. Three days for Louisiana to pass legislation that not only bans performing abortions outright, but determines women who get an abortion will be open to prosecution, and includes absolutely no exceptions.
Greg Hilburn with USA today writes:
“…Louisiana already has a “trigger law” criminalizing abortion should Roe v. Wade be overturned, which would subject doctors or others who perform abortions to up to 10 years in prison. But the law does not call for prosecution of the pregnant woman.
McCormick’s bill, which would amend homicide statutes, has no exception and abortion rights attorneys said it would subject women to prosecution.
“This is saying that people can be charged with murder for any act that they take against their own pregnancy,” said reproductive rights lawyer Ellie Schilling.
McCormick said the Rev. Brian Gunter of First Baptist Church in Livingston helped author the bill.
“No compromises; no more waiting,” Gunter said. “The bloodshed in our land is so great we have a duty … to protect the least of these among us.’…”
Rev. Gunter, it’s worth noting, was clipped on the TODAY show as I write this, explicitly saying he doesn’t even believe in exceptions for the life of the mother so of course, said exceptions were not in the legislation.
They call themselves pro — life. Except, of course, when it comes to a mother.
I don’t think enough people have stopped to reflect on the significance of what that means.
How much more do people have to see and hear about these pieces of legislation before they realize women are going to die. As much as I hate to bring up these scenarios because we shouldn’t even have to resort to talking about them in the first place, ectopic pregnancies occur. If a woman gets pregnant and the fertilized egg latches onto the fallopian tube, if it is not aborted then when the tube ruptures as the egg grows, in a…
