1. For those bemoaning what the future will be under the GOP lunacy on abortion - we're already there.
Pence's Indiana shows the drive to criminalize pregnancy. A severely depressed woman, Bei Bei Shuai, attempted suicide. In a sane world, this would lead to psychiatric care...
2...in GOP-ville, this resulted in criminal prosecution and imprisonment. You see, Bei was pregnant. At that point in Indiana, she no longer was a person, just an incubator. The fetus miscarried as a result of the suicide attempt. So she was charged with "murder."....
3...she was denied bail. Denied bail for attempting suicide. She was in prison for 435 days - about 1.5 years. (Meanwhile, Brock Turner was being sentenced to 6 months in prison - or 3, given time served - for sexually attacking an unconscious woman.) Bei had no money to pay...
4...for a defense, so a lawyer took her case and went public with it, seeking contributions for her defense. Prosecutors filed a motion seeking that the defense lawyer be admonished for tainting the jury pool by saying what had happened. Ultimately, Bei pleaded guilty to a....
5...misdemeanor and was sentenced to time served - a year and a half.
Or....Purvi Patel. She was arrested and charged with feticide and child neglect because she had a miscarriage. The evidence: Prosecutors found a text message where she discussed her doubts about having the...
6...baby and discussed taking an abortion drug. After the miscarriage, she was arrested. There was no evidence of the drug in her system. No evidence of drug at all.
But....she was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison. For having a miscarriage. Fortunately, not...
7...everyone in Indiana is a flaming idiot. On appeal, ta three judge panel said, essentially, "WTF is this??!!?" The court ruled that the law was never intended to cover self-induced abortion, so even if she had taken the drugs, it didn't matter. I don't know how much time she..
8...served in prison.
Here is the problem - when you have people who seriously argue that THIS (see attached) is a baby, it is impossible to have a rational discussion. They say "life begins at conception." Why? Sperm are alive. So are ovums....
9...shouldnt teenage boys across America be arrested for genocide? The sperm is a potential person - so is the zygote. Yes, both are ALIVE, but they are not life. But until we start addressing the assertions of fact that are just opinion - "life begins at conception" - the war...
10...on these fundamentalist absolutist who care nothing about torturing babies so long as women are locked up for pregnancy will not have begun.
When they say, "Love begins at conception" - always reply, "Prove it."
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