Remember the pregnant woman on life support

[MountainLaurel]

Who was kept on life support against her wishes to gestate the fetus she was carrying, until finally someone realized the fetus wouldn't be viable?

Well, a Democrat in Louisiana wants to make it law that pregnant women can't be removed from life support. The committee hearing is today.

http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=224060

[theHandpuppet]

1. Will the insanity ever end????????????

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. With things like this

it's really hard to believe that some people don't view women as anything but "incubators". It's tragic when things like this happen but it seems almost macabre (to me) for the state to keep women on life support simply for this purpose by force of law.

[MountainLaurel]

3. If you look just at the Louisiana legislature this session

You can see very much that these forces see pregnant women as less than a full person and more like a machine.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. and yet they mock us when we accuse them of waging a "war on women"

If it isn't a "war on women", then WTF is it?

Like with LGBT equality, marriage equality, I just don't get why so many people are apparently so concerned with mucking around in other people's private lives that have ZERO effect on them personally. It seems like they have no life whatsoever.

[hamsterjill]

4. To hell with what the grieving family wants, or what the woman's wishes may have been.

This is so sick in so many ways!

[MountainLaurel]

6. And it passed with no objections

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/04/louisiana_pregnant_woman_life.html#incart_m-rpt-1