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Death
Penalty for Miscarriages?
by Jen Phillips
It's only February, but this year
has been a tough one for women's health and reproductive rights.
There's a new bill on the block
that may have reached the apex (I hope) of woman-hating craziness.
Georgia State Rep. Bobby Franklin - who last year proposed making rape
and domestic violence
"victims" into "accusers" - has introduced a 10-page bill that would
criminalize miscarriages and
make abortion in Georgia completely illegal.
Both miscarriages and abortions
would be potentially punishable by death: any "prenatal murder"
in the words of the bill, including "human involvement" in a
miscarriage, would be a felony and
carry a penalty of life in prison or death. Basically, it's everything
an "pro-life" activist could
want aside from making all women who've had abortions wear big red "A"s
on their chests.
How crazy can the insane sons of bitches get?
As crazy as they want - because the Democrats are too scared to speak up.
We talked about this many years ago - if they make abortion illegal, then they'd
have to file manslaughter charges against, say, a pregnant woman who miscarried
after falling on the ice "because her actions resulted in the death of a 'baby'".
And what about those murdering nuns?
Every month, a 'baby' flows out her uterus and she never brings it to term?
Too bad our president isn't in to confrontation.
His silence gives every mouse-y Democrat an excuse not to speak up.