North Dakota Senate Passes ‘Personhood’ Amendment, Forgets Women Are People

[Mystical]

How bout dem Nodaks eh?

The stupid just gets stupider.. Daily.


"Yesterday the North Dakota House passed their stringent "fetal personhood" amendment with a 57-35 vote, which, when proposed to voters in 2014, will ban all abortion with no exceptions for rape, incest, or when the woman's life is endangered by the pregnancy. But the ripple effect continues throughout women's health issues; it may outlaw some forms of contraception and IVF."

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Today's Cluster of Cells Outrage-Fest Boogaloo is a real doozie.

Yesterday the North Dakota House passed their stringent "fetal personhood" amendment with a 57-35 vote, which, when proposed to voters in 2014, will ban all abortion with no exceptions for rape, incest, or when the woman's life is endangered by the pregnancy. But the ripple effect continues throughout women's health issues; it may outlaw some forms of contraception and IVF.

Here's Keith Mason, president of the anti-abortion advocacy group Personhood USA, lying through his teeth:

"This amendment strikes the balance of accomplishing more for the unborn than any other amendment the nation has ever seen, while protecting pregnant women and their right to true medical care."

Did the definition of "protecting" change to "oppressing,

Similar bans were turned down in Mississippi and Colorado, but North Dakota—which recently pushed through a six-week abortion ban courtesy of our best Jesus-friend Bette Grande—has now established itself as one of the nation's frontrunners in anti-choice butthurt. The president of the North Dakota Medical association calls it "a direct insertion of the state into the physician/patient relationship" and fears that it may even affect life-saving organ transplants.

Even some of the state's Republicans oppose it, and plan to join a women's health rally on Monday.

Representative Kathy Hawken says: "We have stepped over the line. North Dakota hasn't even passed a primary seatbelt law, but we have the most invasive attack on women's health anywhere. [...] I have so many friends with grandchildren from in vitro fertilization, and to take that away from these people who desperately want children is not okay... I believe if men had babies we would not be having this discussion."

Another bill passed in February at the same time aimed to shut down the sole women's health clinic in the state, the Red River Women's Clinic in Fargo.

http://jezebel.com/5992056/north-dakota-...are-people

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[CleanShavenJesus]

Morons.

[Rev. Rye]

Didn't the people of North Dakota try something like this a couple years ago? And didn't it fail?

[Darkstar]

This is about how I feel right now.

[Mystical]

Oh I am sure they'll fail again. It just proves how out of touch with reality the law makers there are. Like, every doctor nurse, and CNA in this state is going to totally say oh yeah sure no problem lets just vote that right in. *Scoff

And come to think of it, the more time goes on the more I see pathetic attempts of PR like this. They can't do anything about what the voters want so they spend their money on ad campaigns to show that someone (preferably alot of someones) believes in this shit. Then they go for the gold, and automatically lose by default. Meanwhile they take their passive agressive bullshit out on those easiest to target in society: the working class poor, and all meet up once a week in a golf course to pat each other on the back at a job well done.

[Minimalist]

The republicunts have ceremonially "repealed" Obamacare 36 times since it was passed.

They seem to have no limit for playing to their base and annoying the living fuck out of the rest of the country.

[Violet]

Just tell me when they put just about every mammal on the personhood list... I know it's a long time coming, but I figure it's gotta happen sometime.

This is just the usual bread and butter. Least they could have done was to drizzle some honey across it, or spread some jam, or sprinkled some brown sugar... but noooo: they had to be boring. Again.

[Rev. Rye]

You know, interestingly enough, if a fetus is considered a person, it's still subject to the laws other people are subject to. So, I think there's a loophole: say they're trespassing in the womb.

[KichigaiNeko]

The funniest thing is that abortions will occur no matter what the religious legislators write down.

FACT: you have to catch the perpetrators
FACT: EVERY period is an abortion

[Something completely different]

If you live there, you should leave!