Thu May 12, 2022, 03:32 PM

Louisiana debates murder charge for women who get abortions

Source: Associated Press/Kevin McGill

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s House of Representatives, venturing farther against abortion than lawmakers in any other state, is debating a bill to make women who end their pregnancies subject to criminal homicide prosecutions.

Republican Rep. Danny McCormick pushed for a House floor debate on his bill Thursday afternoon despite a crescendo of opposition from traditional supporters of abortion rights and longtime foes of legal abortion. Louisiana’s anti-abortion governor said he’d veto it, and Louisiana Right to Life and the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops are against it.

“To suggest that a woman would be jailed for an abortion is simply absurd,” Gov. John Bel Edwards, a devout Catholic and a Democrat who has long broken with his party on the abortion issue, said in a news release Wednesday.

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McCormick disagrees, saying a woman who has an abortion should be in the same legal position as a woman who takes the life of a child after birth. “When I give equal protection to the unborn, that’s the possibility,” he said in a Wednesday evening phone interview.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-religion-louisiana-b73a7cfb0afc29c30d106a85c80c7c50

The demented minds of the GOP strike again. Let's hope this one doesn't advance.

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Louisiana debates murder charge for women who get abortions (Original post)	ificandream	May 12	OP
So 26 states will do this too n/t	hibbing	May 12	#1
the NORTH won the civil war and will do it agin.	Trueblue1968	May 12	#2
Every GQP candidate should have this insanity tied	SharonClark	May 12	#3
No wonder	DownriverDem	May 12	#4
The Dogs That Caught the Car. -NT-	ruet	May 12	#5
So the women with an ectopic pregnancy has a choice.	Lonestarblue	May 12	#6
Wouldn't expert medical witnesses be able to explain life does not begin at conception?	Lettuce Be	May 12	#7
How well will a murder charge fit the facts?	bucolic_frolic	May 12	#8
This cocky ignorant bunch doesn't think Republicans get any of the M of abortions each year?	Brainfodder	May 12	#9
If this goes down per the Supremes	MOMFUDSKI	May 12	#12
Which would create the very real scenario of rapists getting off scot-free,	tanyev	May 12	#10
Insanity.	LudwigPastorius	May 12	#11
They're really, really overplaying their hands	tishaLA	May 12	#13
Given the objections from the Catholic Church, I would hope not.	ificandream	May 12	#16
Fanaticism is truly ugly. I present to you the Ayatollah McCormick & his fatwa against women.	Hekate	May 12	#14
All this was predicted years ago...	Grins	May 12	#15
It is issues like this that manytimes I do not believe it is 2022 in the US!!	riversedge	May 13	#17
New headline at link: No more murder charge for women in Louisiana abortion bill	Eugene	May 13	#18

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Thu May 12, 2022, 03:38 PM

hibbing (9,117 posts)

Louisiana debates murder charge for women who get abortions

1. So 26 states will do this too n/t

2. the NORTH won the civil war and will do it agin.

3. Every GQP candidate should have this insanity tied

4. No wonder

5. The Dogs That Caught the Car. -NT-

6. So the women with an ectopic pregnancy has a choice.

7. Wouldn't expert medical witnesses be able to explain life does not begin at conception?

8. How well will a murder charge fit the facts?

9. This cocky ignorant bunch doesn't think Republicans get any of the M of abortions each year?

12. If this goes down per the Supremes

10. Which would create the very real scenario of rapists getting off scot-free,

11. Insanity.

13. They're really, really overplaying their hands

16. Given the objections from the Catholic Church, I would hope not.

14. Fanaticism is truly ugly. I present to you the Ayatollah McCormick & his fatwa against women.

15. All this was predicted years ago...

17. It is issues like this that manytimes I do not believe it is 2022 in the US!!

18. New headline at link: No more murder charge for women in Louisiana abortion bill