Oklahoma Legislator Files Bill to Put Women in Jail for Life if They Have an Abortion

[JHan]

Oklahoma Republican State Sen. Joseph Silk has pre-filed a bill he plans to introduced in February when the legislature is in session. SB 13, the “Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act,” would give a fertilized egg all the same “rights, powers, privileges, justice and protections” as adult humans.

Which means if women have abortions — essentially, commit murder under this new bill — they could spend the rest of their lives in prison.

Any person who commits any assault and battery upon another, including an unborn child… shall upon conviction be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding life.

The irony here is that church pews would empty out pretty quickly if this law ever came to pass…

Silk tried passing a similar bill two years ago. In that one, doctors who performed the procedure would have been charged with first degree murder. It thankfully failed. But a guy who wants to punish women this badly isn’t going to stop just because he didn’t get his way the first time around.
This is what happens when you vote for Republicans. It’s forced pregnancy for women, with no exceptions for rape or incest. It’s cruel. It’s torture. It’s the culmination of the warped logic that equates a minute-old fertilized egg with a full-grown adult. It’s ignorance wrapped in conservative rhetoric, and women would suffer as a result.

Let’s hope this bill meets the same fate as Silk’s previous one.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/11/30/ok-legislator-files-bill-to-put-women-in-jail-for-life-if-they-have-an-abortion/

[duforsure]

1. Maybe legislators need a bill for themselves

Giving them a life sentence mandatory if caught doing anything illegal helping themselves from corrupt and illegal acts.

[dlk]

2. Why Doesn't Silk Just Join the Taliban & Get it Over With?

His rabid misogyny is sickening!

[lunatica]

3. What a pig!

[Hortensis]

4. The more of these extremists who expose themselves the better.

Our high courts are being stuffed with people who similarly believe the constitution does not provide any "right to privacy" from government interference in our reproductive decisions (and many others).

Read it from end to end, you won't find it either. What one court chose to infer from phrases here and there another can un-infer. That's a big part of what Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were installed to do.

[JHan]

8. theocratic governance and its nightmares

[Hortensis]

10. Yes. A thank-you to this creep for stepping out of the shadows.

Of course they're just a subset of all authoritarians. "God" is the ultimate authority, after all, but for most a Trump or other who'll promise to save them from too much freedom, their own and those of people they don't like, will serve.

[Le Gaucher]

5. Maybe we should have federal law that puts state legislators in Jail for proposing stupid laws

[Moostache]

6. Only if the penalty is capital punishment...(n/t)

[Aristus]

7. He'll be receiving his check from the private prison industry any time now...

[plcdude]

9. Fortunately

Our State Supreme Court is oddly enough rational and progressive. This may not see the light of day with the new and younger legislature we just voted in.

[avebury]

13. Exactly why the Rethugs periodically threaten to impeach and/or

defund the OK State SC.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

11. Wondering... do people even go to jail for life for murdering an actual person? n/t

[avebury]

12. There is no bill that could ever be unconstitutional enough that Rethugs

would not vote to pass in Oklahoma. And, when it does pass and gets enacted into law, the OK State AG will then waste taxpayer money to defend it in the inevitable lawsuit.

[Archae]

14. This guy's mistress will be exposed as having got an abortion...

On his insistence in 3-2-1...

[gratuitous]

15. What's with the half measure, Rep. Silk?

How about life in prison for the man who got the woman pregnant? And if he needed viagra or cialis to do the deed, how about life in prison for his doctor and pharmacist? When are you going to get truly serious about abolishing abortion, instead of being such a lukewarm namby-pamby soft on crime wimp? You know what the Bible says about being neither hot nor cold.

[ProudLib72]

16. Don't you know that every man who gets a woman pregnant is willing and capable of being

a good father? Men would never ever ever have sex with a woman without being fully prepared to accept the consequences!

[brooklynite]

17. Can I assume you can shoot the fetus if you fear for your life?

[JHan]

18. ... k&R.....

[Mariana]

19. This man is certainly living his faith.

He's no hypocrite. He's a Southern Baptist, and the Southern Baptists believe abortion is murder and they utterly oppose it.