Mississippi advances ban on abortion after fetal heartbeat

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press
Updated 6:08 pm CST, Wednesday, February 13, 2019

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is working toward enacting one of the strictest abortion laws in the nation, in a race with other states to push a legal challenge to the more conservative U.S. Supreme Court.

The Republican-controlled Mississippi House and Senate passed separate bills Wednesday to ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, about six weeks into pregnancy. Efforts to pass similar bills are underway in Florida, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina and Tennessee.

"I see in this country that we protect sea turtle eggs and we protect other endangered species of animals with a greater degree of scrutiny and zealousness than we protect a child in the womb," Republican Sen. Angela Hill, a sponsor of the Mississippi bill, said as she fought back tears during a debate.

Anti-abortion legislators and activists believe President Donald Trump has strengthened their cause with his appointments of conservative Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Abortion opponents foresee the possibility that the high court might either reverse Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion, or uphold specific state laws that would undermine Roe.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Mississippi-advances-ban-on-abortion-after-fetal-13614427.php

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Dear lord I wish men could get pregnant.

Then maybe, just maybe, they'd understand.

[VWolf]

9. If that were the case, abortion would be a sacrament n/t

[Luciferous]

10. Yep!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. The same Republicans will vote to strip Funding for those same children not aborted....

Be that Housing Assistance, Food Assistance, Heating Assistance, Education, etc.

Their attitude is...Keep birthing those babies, but do not expect us to help you.

[SunSeeker]

3. It's a fetus, not a child. It is part of a woman's body. Carrying it to term is HER CHOICE.

If the tearful nutjob cared about actual living breathing children, she would support the availability of abortion. Most women have abortions to protect the quality of life of their existing children.

[sakabatou]

4. WTF?!

[sandensea]

5. Now, these very same people.

If their daughters became pregnant by, say, an African-American man, they would:

a) find said man, and beat him to a pulp;

and b) rush to Memphis, girl in tow, for a discreet abortion STAT.

I lived in Mississippi, and have heard these stories.

[RainCaster]

6. "a child in the womb" must be protected, so we can deny health care once it's born

Disengenuous bastids.
Fake piety
False faith

[sandensea]

11. +1

[LuckyLib]

7. This is a state whose legislators should be about the business of raising it from

last place in everything to a higher quality of life for its citizens. So much to focus on, and they obsess about women and their reproductive rights.

[Buckeyeblue]

12. It will be this type of bill that will gut Roe

Even though the majority will claim the are upholding Roe, the new opinion will use the viability language in Roe to say that medical advances made since 1972 make viability possible at a much earlier stage of pregnancy, so they'll adopt the fetal heartbeat standard.

They will go to great lengths to say Roe has been revised not stricken down.

But will that happen before the 2020 election? Most likely not.