{"id":37023,"date":"2019-05-15T20:33:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37023"},"modified":"2019-05-15T20:33:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:33:06","slug":"alabama-pushes-forward-radical-abortion-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37023","title":{"rendered":"Alabama pushes forward radical abortion bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Oh, I do hate commenting on abortion or, to borrow the current euphemism, “women’s reproductive rights.”<\/em><\/p>\n

However, the decision by the Alabama Legislature to make abortion a criminal act deserves a brief comment here.<\/p>\n

Alabama’s legislators have made a serious mistake. They have sent to the governor’s desk a bill that would punish doctors with prison terms of as long as 99 years for performing an abortion at any stage of a woman’s pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Here’s the worst part of it: The bill makes no exception for women who are impregnated in an act of rape or incest<\/em>; the only exception is if the woman’s health is in danger.<\/p>\n

If Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, signs the bill, it seems to set up a clear challenge eventually of Roe vs. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States.<\/p>\n

Here is a potential consequence of this legislation: We well might see a spike in what is called “back-alley abortions,”<\/em> where women who cannot carry a pregnancy to full term will seek illegal methods to end the pregnancy. Some of these processes are too gruesome for me to describe in this blog; you know what I’m talking about.<\/em> The consequences of these hideous acts also are dire in the extreme.<\/p>\n

So what does the president of the United States say about this Alabama law? He endorses it as a hedge against what he describes as procedures supported by Democrats who favor “ripping the baby from the mother’s womb” and essentially “executing” the child — which, of course, is a bald-faced lie.<\/em><\/p>\n

This blog post is going to get some blowback from readers who endorse the Alabama decision. Fine. I’m willing to take the hits.<\/p>\n

I am not<\/em> willing to remain silent while one of our states criminalizes an act that the U.S. Supreme Court has determined to be legal. I would never counsel a woman to obtain an abortion. That is my point. It’s not my business. It is hers alone!<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Oh, I do hate commenting on abortion or, to borrow the current euphemism, “women’s reproductive rights.” However, the decision by the Alabama Legislature to make abortion a criminal act deserves a brief comment here. Alabama’s legislators have made a serious mistake. They have sent to the governor’s desk a bill that would punish doctors with … Continue reading Alabama pushes forward radical abortion bill<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[122,8618,8617,5053],"class_list":["post-37023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-abortion","tag-alabama-legislature","tag-roe-vs-wade","tag-us-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37025,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37023\/revisions\/37025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}