Let’s just go a step further. Every sperm and every egg is a child. Jail everyone for killing children, with sentences decided by number killed. Given men have murdered millions of children with every ejaculation, their sentences will be substantially longer than women who only kill one a month, but even so, it looks like it’s just going to have to be life sentences for everyone.
These policies aren’t about affirming personhood, embryonic or otherwise.
They’re about cruelty toward perceived undesirables, and that is how they will be used and enforced.
At the very least this could be interpreted as every egg = a child, so we should see wide interpretation varying from every woman murdered should be considered a mass murder case to if a pre-menopausal woman drives or rides in a car, it can be in the carpool lane.
I’ve posted this recently but I’ll say it again, we need to charge at minimum manslaughter to fetuses that absorb another fetus in utero. These people are born and walk around with us, the monsters!
Idaho got away with literally criminalizing abortion. It will be criminalized in half of the US states within a year or two, and no one at the Federal level is going to lift a finger to stop it.
This is the worst part: there is literally zero action in Congress to codify the right to reproductive care on a federal level (or equal rights, protections for trans health care, pushing back against book bans, education takeovers, or any other attack on LGBTQ+ folk). Congress knew for over a month that SCOTUS was going to kill Roe, and they did literally nothing. And since then, they have done literally nothing. There is simply no one at the fucking helm. No one is even trying to stop this fascist bullshit. The entire goddamned country is going to be a collection of conservative hellscapes, and Congressional Dems will still be trying to “reach across the aisle” and making sure to maintain “decorum” when it’s too late to do anything about it.
Abortion is a golden goose for Democrats. They fundraised $80,000,000 off just the Roe leak. I think, for that reason, they’re never going to codify it. The issue just makes them way too much money, and they can pocket that money legally by loaning their campaigns money at interest.
The GOP mistake was to kill Roe. The dog caught the bus. That was their issue and they blew it up. That’s not working now so they are doubling down towards theocracy. They are going to rack up a lot of horrific news by denying basic freedoms and health care. For issues, they’ve pivoted to the border, an issue they are artificially maintaining now. It’s a re-run and I am not sure how far it will carry them given how stupid they all look.
But the shoe is on the other foot now, isn’t it? I am not as cynical to think Dems will do nothing about abortion but if they do something, it will be after the election. Maybe you are right but I hope not. On the other hand, we’ve seen some major state-level wins on abortion post-Roe that cut across party lines and can’t be ignored forever.
Maga is on a self-destruct path it is just a matter of how much damage they do before they run out of time. It could be quite a bit. Dems can be compelled to do some good.
Immigration and guns are the Republicans’ golden geese.
They, likewise, will never be solved, and that’s on purpose.
Oh yeah guns, forgot about that and you are right. But abortion was the big one and they blew it up. Immigration for most is too abstract so I don’t think it is that strong. It isn’t nothing but it’s mainly down to propaganda. Guns as an issue are a bit more real but very polarized. Women’s health and family planning ultimately affect everyone and have proven to be not nearly as party line as believed.
I’m mean, it’s not that surprising that a republican controlled congress would refuse to pass federal laws overturning their hard fought state level wins. The dems have only had a majority this decade if you count democrats who started their careers as republicans and haven’t changed their stances since, but now run as dems because the republicans have drifted so far right that the dems are now closer to their own views.
I’ll comment here what I commented on another thread about this…
If they’re children then they can get social security numbers and be claimed on taxes, right?
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In a ruling that reads more like a theocrat’s sermon, the Alabama Supreme Court on Friday decided that frozen embryos — those created through in vitro fertilization — count as “children” under the state’s law.
The court’s decision specifically permits three couples whose frozen embryos were accidentally destroyed in a Mobile, Alabama, reproductive clinic to sue the facility for wrongful death.
It works in one of numerous ways pernicious anti-abortion and anti-trans laws around the country do: taking aim at health care treatments by rendering hospitals’ and doctors’ liability insurance unaffordable.
After the Dobbs decision, voters in six states — California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Vermont, and Ohio — voted in favor of abortion protections in constitutional amendment ballot measures.
In Friday’s ruling, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker invoked a 2018 “Sanctity of Life” amendment to the state’s constitution, ratified by voters, that requires courts to “recognize and support the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children, including the right to life.” Parker raised the amendment with religious fervor, citing biblical verse.
Restrictive laws on assisted reproduction passed two decades ago in Italy, for example, led to a decrease in success rates in IVF clinics and an increase in high-risk pregnancies.
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