Georgia heartbeat bill takes step closer to passage after clearing state House committee

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Georgia heartbeat bill takes step closer to passage after clearing state House committee

By Madison Park, CNN
Updated 0722 GMT (1522 HKT) March 7, 2019

(CNN) — A controversial bill that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected passed a Georgia House committee on Wednesday.

A fetal heartbeat can be found as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant.

House Bill 481, called Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, would prohibit abortions after that point, which would dramatically restrict abortions in Georgia, where women are now allowed to undergo the procedure up to their 20th week of pregnancy.

"No abortion is authorized or shall be performed if the unborn child has been determined to have a human heartbeat," the bill states, unless the pregnancy risks the life or poses substantial and irreversible physical harm to the pregnant woman.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/07/health/georgia-heartbeat-bill-abortion/index.html

[uponit7771]

1. Heartbeat doesn't men sentient, more government forced birth from the "small government" right.

[Buckeyeblue]

2. Will this type of legislation hurt Atlanta based corporations attract top talent?

[CurtEastPoint]

3. More importantly, the film industry has a HUGE investment here. They helped

defeat the religious liberty nonsense for the last 5 years. GD Baptists.

[RT Atlanta]

5. Yes - it will!

It's interesting that at one level. That is, that the self-described party of 'business' is like they are being compelled to take these backwards ass steps to what, what is the purpose? Aside from hating women and trying to put a box around them, what does it do?

The pukes must know this will cost GA business.

It's to the point now where my spouse and I are likely to re-locate out of GA this summer - in part because of the stupidity and women-hating decisions of the 'elected' leadership.

Once the film industry starts pulling out, the state gets boycotted for sports events and conventions, and larger companies start to move on to greener and more socially and women friendly pastures, then, maybe, they will learn.

Finally, I look forward to the day when boner pills are effectively deemed a 'controlled substance' at law, where men will need to go to a single dispensary in the state for a prescription - and only after a having an invasive medical procedure to determine whether their little swimmers are 'viable' enough to reproduce.

Stream of conscious rant off.....

[Buckeyeblue]

6. I have to travel to ATL for work

My boss has asked me several times if I would consider moving there. There is no way I would subject my kids to that backwards freaking state. I will find a new job first. Which is too bad because I don't mind ATL, crazy traffic aside.

[Hortensis]

4. Apparently home pregnancy tests can detect as early

as about 7 days after conception. Ability to detect pregnancy early would be key if they were to pass something like this. Our home is in Georgia, and we know a lot of people for whom this would be an immediate issue.

Btw, I read a Pew poll that said 36%, I believe, of Republicans were pro-abortion, about a quarter of Democrats anti-abortion.

Courts around the nation being stacked with anti-abortion religious and culturally right jurists, such as Kavanaugh on SCOTUS, and even the right to privacy interpretation of the constitution could be overturned. I'm wondering if this and other reproduction and privacy issues could finally cause more of the more moderate conservatives to finally break away from the far right "base."

We've gotten awfully used to being able to use legal contraception, for instance, and few would be happy to have to move to a state where possessing and using it was still legal.

[Ilsa]

7. Yes, but you have to remember that you are in

need of a pregnancy test. Not everyone has a regular or frequent cycle. It was fatigue that got me wondering if I was pregnant last time, and I was already five weeks.

[Hortensis]

8. True. :) "Last time" for me was a sneaking feeling that

maybe I should visit the doctor before paying my tuition for a registered nurse program. In those days you couldn't continue in the program if you got pregnant. I'd had to go "off" for a week to have a medical test, a strike delayed the test, and I couldn't go back on AND reschedule. (Apparently just saying no didn't occur. ) So the vaguest of not-really-founded suspicions before filling out a big check was my only indication.

I'm not saying this is okay, only that if this law passed it really could come into effect and then would hit us for real while appeals slogged through the courts and the rest of the nation was just discussing it.

Many of those we now know who'd be affected are actually older -- potential future bill payers, bail posters, legal fees providers, prison visitors, mortgage cosigners, and babysitters for life (again!/still!), possibly charged with ushering a new generation through infancy and/or adolescence, or lonely older people with family moved far away. Instead of relaxed, comfortable retirees with family close around, disposable income, world travel, and snowbirding in the winter to Arizona and Florida.