GOP Congressman introduces federal heartbeat bill to effectively ban all abortions in the US

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory


ELIZABETH PREZA
13 JAN 2017 AT 21:46 ET

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) Thursday introduced a bill that would implement a nationwide abortion ban, modeling it after the “heartbeat bills” already found unconstitutional in federal court.

Under HR 490, an abortion provider who performs an abortion without “determining … whether the fetus has a detectable heartbeat,” “informing the mother of the results of that determination,: or “after determining … that the fetus has a detectable heartbeat,” will face fines and up to five years in federal prison.

In a press release, King called Roe v. Wade “unconstitutional,” arguing, “lives have been ended by the abortion industry, all with a rubber stamp by the federal government.”

“Human life, beginning at the moment of conception, is sacred in all of its forms and today, I introduced a bill that will protect the lives of voiceless innocents,” he said.



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/gop-congressman-introduces-federal-heartbeat-bill-to-effectively-ban-all-abortions-in-the-us/

[cstanleytech]

1. SCOTUS already ruled these laws are unconstitutional so I doubt they will be inclined to revisit

settled law.

[Ilsa]

8. Unless they get enough Dominionists on the bench, I bet.

I'm hoping you are right, but some of the religious whackjobs will find excuses to reverse Roe if the chance presents itself, I believe.

[yuiyoshida]

2. The GOP doesn't care if they Slaughter women, there

will be no Health Care anyways, and back to the back alleys we to to Coat Hanger deaths. We might have to just over run the Nation's Capital...

[lark]

3. God, I am so glad my daughter is no longer a teenager.

I hate to think what would have happened if she had to have the spawn of the asshole who forced himself on her. OMG, makes me so sick what these repug assholes are trying to do. A strict interpretation of this would disallow birth control and our birth rate would skyrocket, many of them to poor young mothers who aren't prepared for children and are mostly still children themselves. It's part of their long term dream, a huge underclass of workers who have no education (they want to end free public education too) so have no choice but to work for slave wages and will die young due to lack of healthcare. They want to return to the days of serfs and barons and guess what role they want for us?

[Ilsa]

9. "...strict interpretation of this would disallow birth control ..."

Not if medical doctors explain how birth control, all forms of it, actually work. I know of no birth control that stops a beating heart.

But I get your point, completely, and am so glad I have no daughters and am unable to get pregnant myself. That doesn't mean I'm going to quit advocating for reproductive rights, though. What the gop wants is terrifying.

[Orrex]

4. Well, I hope that America's women enjoyed their brief flirtation with personhood

Back to chattel status for you, ladies.

[DK504]

7. Hope they are happy they voted for these pigs

All the rural areas have as many abortions as the sniff, big city. What are they going to do when they can't even go to a doctor to find out if they are pregnant? Take pregnancy tests 2 weeks after they have sex?

All these troglodytes like King need to be voted out of office before he can do any more damage.

[Bengus81]

5. Sure thing and....let's outlaw booze again. If outlawed NO one will be able to drink right?!?! n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Somebody ought to use Comrade Don's tweet on Lewis to send one

to King, telling him to stay in Iowa and clear of women's decisions.