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5 Sep, 11 tweets, 4 min read
It appears that it is Ms. Sherman who needs to read a book.

Induced abortions were homicidal acts under common law at the nation’s founding. Post-quickening ones were felonies; pre-quickening ones were misdemeanors. Statute laws started clarifying in 1821 & evolved w/ embryology
Since I will inevitably receive defiant replies, questioning what I have read on the topic, here are some pre-14A sources (chronologically):

1. Henry of Bratton (c. 1210-1268) Bracton: De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliæ, Vol. 2, pg. 341, lines 30-32. amesfoundation.law.harvard.edu/Bracton/Common…
2. Blackstone, William. (1765) Commentaries on the Laws of England, vol.1, ch,1. p.129. hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.35112…
3. The South-Carolina Justice of Peace, (1784) “Bastards,” pp.60-61. 3rd Ed. 1810. New York: T & J Swords. hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.35112…
4. Wilson, James. (1790) The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, LLD, Vol. II, “Of the Natural Rights of Individuals,” p.475. Philadelphia: Lorenzo Press (1804). hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015…
5. Hening, William Waller. (1795) The New Virginia Justice, “Homicide,” p.231. Richmond: T. Nicolson. hdl.handle.net/2027/emu.00001…
6. Commonwealth v. Isaiah Bangs, 9 Mass. 387, 1812 WL 1295 (Mass., 1812), pp.369-370. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, & Wilkins, 1828. hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.35112…
7. Beck, John. (1817) An Inaugural Dissertation on Infanticide, pp.28,36-40. New York: J. Seymour. hdl.handle.net/2027/nnc2.ark:…
8. Chitty, Joseph. (1819) Practical Treatise on Criminal Law, vol. III. “Indictments for Giving Drugs, etc., to Produce Abortion,” pp.229-233. Philadelphia: Edward Earle. hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101…
9. Joseph Hall, Judge of Probate etc. v. John Hancock, 32 Mass. 255 (Mass. 1834) hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.35112…
10. Hodge, Hugh L. (1854) “On Criminal Abortion,” p.12. Philadelphia: TK and PG Collins, Printers. hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35558…

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8 Sep
Since there have been a few requests on this hot topic: I’m summarizing Texas Senate Bill 8, known as the “Texas Heartbeat Act”.

I have included a link to the enacted legislation, if you would like to read it in its entirety.

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capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/bi…
§1 Title: “Texas Heartbeat Act”

§2 Finding: The state never repealed the abortion statutes pre-dating Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113 (1973)

§3 Amendments to Ch. 171 of Health and Safe Code, adding subch. H, regarding detection of fetal heartbeat

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§3 (cont) H&S Code, Ch. 171

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(1) “Fetal heartbeat” - cardiac activity, steady/repetitive rhythmic contraction of fetal heart w/i gest sac
(2) “Gestational age” - time from 1st day of woman’s last period

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9 May
Last year, I published Prenatal Child Support Across the United States, a book w/ original legislation scans for every state/territory going back as far as 1793.

I originally started researching legal history after seeing how the mainstream media gave no effort in research.

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This year, Utah’s legislature expanded (Fig 1) the state’s existing prenatal child support requirements from those of 1996 (Fig 2) & 1997 (Fig 3), bringing the state from the bare minimum Federal requirements (Fig 4) to being at the forefront in the nation.

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Obviously, UT wasn’t the 1st state w/ reqs. (It was 46th.) Yet, the media reported otherwise, using Planned Parenthood & (sometimes) the bill’s sponsor as their sources, rather than actually referencing the Utah Code.

Let this thread serve as a wall-of-shame for lazy media:

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18 Aug 20
I had made a statement earlier today that induced abortions cause more pregnant women to die annually than the lives of pregnant women who are saved by them. This topic seemed worth making into a thread to explain in detail, so here we are. The focus will be on the US.

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First, it’s important to decide on a definition for an induced abortion. As is standard, this CDC definition excludes treatment for ecoptic pregnancies & post-miscarriage treatment. Since the focus is only legally induced abortions, we will discuss illegal ones separately.

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We will exclude the more-encompassing general terms “fetal homicide” or “feticide”, & focus only on actions performed or consented by the pregnant woman.

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30 Jul 20
It has come to my attention that this viral TikTok video has been spreading the claim that women can be arrested for miscarriages in 38 states. This video is propagating serious misinformation that I would like to correct.

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When claims like this were made last year about Georgia’s LIFE Act, I became suspicious & decide to read the legislation for itself. It said nothing of the sort. The fears seemed to stem from the declaration of personhood to the unborn.

Read it here: legis.ga.gov/legislation/en…

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There were still 2 glaring problems w/ the claim:

1. Hillman v. State (232 Ga. App. 741) established maternal immunity for fetal demise in 1998. In this case, Hillman attempted a self-induced abortion w/ a handgun & was charge w/ criminal abortion...

law.justia.com/cases/georgia/…

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18 Jul 20
W/ Judge Jones striking down Georgia’s LIFE Act (HB481, 2019), the topic of #PrenatalChildSupport has, once again, returned to the media discourse, due to §5 of the act. Unfortunately, authors of the articles on HB481 are doing a disservice by being unfamiliar w/ the topic.

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Here is an excerpt of the Act & the resulting Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 19-6-15(a.1)(2), for reference.

The typical discussion is that Georgia had a wild, new idea of allowing a pregnant woman to collect child support for her unborn child.

legis.ga.gov/legislation/en…

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There are multiple problems w/ the media reports:
* #PrenatalChildSupport isn’t a new concept
* Georgia already had such requirements
* OCGA § 19-6-15(a.1)(2) was simply meant to clarify what already existed for the state.

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13 Jun 20
So far, Kansas is the last state I’ve found to enact prenatal child support, doing so in 1990 & 2006. What’s unique is *how* the legislature worded it. The presumption is that the father *did* provide support during pregnancy, & the statutes list penalties when he did not.

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The 1990 legislation (SB 431) makes changes to Chapter 59 (Probate Court) of the Kansas Statutes in relation to adoption. If it can be proven that the father knew of the pregnancy & neglected to provide support, the mother can place the child for adoption w/o his veto.

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This legislation also specifically allows for the adoptive parents to provide support as part of the adoption contract. (All references to support are 2nd trimester onward.)

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