THREAD:
1) Last year, Alabama enacted one of the strictest abortion laws in the country — banning the procedure at 6 wks & including no exception for rape/incest.
1) Last year, Alabama enacted one of the strictest abortion laws in the country — banning the procedure at 6 wks & including no exception for rape/incest.
2) Gov. Kay Ivey characterized the legislation as “a powerful testament to Alabamians’ deeply held belief that every life is precious.”
3) Last night, the state executed Nathaniel Woods, a black man on death row for being an accomplice to the shooting of three police officers in 2004.
4) Despite a confession from his co-defendant, who testified that Woods did not pull the trigger, and the pleas of one of the officers’ sisters to halt his execution, Ivey refused to step in and allowed the state to execute an innocent man.
5) I guess when Ivey said "every life is precious" she was only referring to fetuses.
6) Alabama is the only state in the nation where a jury does not have to be unanimous to impose the death penalty.
7) The hypocrisy of the GOP’s “pro-life” ideology is abhorrent.
8) Personally, I am anti-death penalty in every case. There is no moral justification for it that does not result in society being at least as much to blame as the criminal it's prosecuting.
9) As for abortion, I feel that it should be up to the woman and her doctor without interference from a society that clearly doesn't care enough about the fetus to be willing to support the child.
10) Don't want an abortion? Don't have one. But don't rail against those who make that choice unless you're willing to support the child through your taxes paying for health care, daycare, and good safe schools.
