Make women prove that their miscarriage wasn't done on purpose but get government out of roads

[ck4829]

(Controversial Georgia state Rep. Bobby Franklin is making a bill saying the Supreme Court had no right to rule on Roe v Wade and declares that life begins at conception. Not new from the cult of the zygote), what makes this bill different, though, is the provision on miscarriage. Miscarriage is not be considered pre-natal murder "so long as there is no human involvement whatsoever in the causation of such event." There is no indication as to how such a determination is to be made, and critics are charging that the bill would require women who have had miscarriages to provide evidence that they were not at fault, and possibly be subject to criminal investigations by the state.

Franklin's bio on the state legislature’s website claims he "has been called 'the conscience of the Republican Caucus' because he believes that civil government should return to its biblically and constitutionally defined role." That same website has a nifty little option that allows you to sort proposed bills according to their sponsors; so it was easy to get a sense of what he means by government's biblically-defined role.

He sponsored legislation to eliminate restrictions on bringing guns to church and to school. He proposed that the state of Georgia adopt a hard money currency system, and offered a resolution lecturing a state supreme court justice on the difference between a "democracy" and a "republic." He has proposed amending the law so that victims of rape would be referred to as "accusers" rather than "victims" (this applied only to rape and not other crimes, so one couldn't argue it was motivated by preserving the concept of innocent until proven guilty). Franklin has such a "limited view" of government that not only does he oppose public schools but he also thinks the state has no authority to issue driver's licenses.

Right. The state cannot issue driver's licenses but it should regulate miscarriages.

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/julieingersoll/4317/georgia_legislator_behind_bill_criminalizing_miscarriage_bill_is_christian_reconstructionist/

[LeftinOH]

1. People voted for this cracker - so the bigger problem stretches beyond him personally..n/t

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Wow, read more of his opinions:

This dude having been elected -- repeatedly -- is scary.


http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=1109&PHPSESSID=aebc86446a418b921368921694a78366:scared:

[no_hypocrisy]

3. What are the chances of this passing?