Alabama’s Insane New Abortion Law- lawyers for the fetus

[cali]

Ever since Sandra Day O’Connor resigned from the Supreme Court in 2006, anti-abortion activists have been playing a game of chicken with the justices. On one side are the activists, who want to push anti-abortion laws as far as they can without getting slapped down by the court. On the other side is Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wants to let states make abortions harder and harder to obtain without actually outlawing them. For more than 20 years, Kennedy has approved literally every anti-abortion law he’s encountered, leading some liberals to fear he’d finally abandoned Roe v. Wade altogether.

Soon, however, Kennedy may finally be forced to balk. On Tuesday, the ACLU sued to halt an extreme new Alabama law targeting minors who are seeking abortions. The measure is very clearly designed to degrade and humiliate teenage girls, far beyond what any state has previously attempted (and what the Supreme Court has allowed). Alabama already requires a minor to secure parental consent before obtaining an abortion, but if she cannot—if, for instance, it was her parent who raped and impregnated her—she can ask a judge to bypass this requirement. The new law takes that judicial bypass and turns it on its head, permitting the judge to appoint a lawyer to represent the minor’s fetus and advocate for its best interests. The judge may bring the district attorney into court to question the minor. And, worst of all, the district attorney can call witnesses to testify against the minor—and in favor of her fetus.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/10/alabama_s_abortion_law_the_aclu_sues_over_a_regulation_that_puts_teenage.html

[hobbit709]

1. doncha know the wannabe theocratic assholes consider women property and have no rights.

[cali]

2. but a fetus of 6 weeks does.

[hobbit709]

3. They think a zygote has more rights than a female.

[riqster]

4. Original Sin doesn't kick in until birth, so the bundle of cells is more pure.

Seriously, it's what Fundagelicals think. Life begins at conception, but sinfulness begins at birth.

Kookoobirdies, the lot of them.

[Mariana]

5. Then a fetus goes straight to heaven if it's aborted, doesn't it?

If it's born, it may go to hell. It makes no sense at all that they oppose abortion so much.

[riqster]

9. Logic cannot operate in the FundieVerse.

That parallel universe operates outside of all normal laws and assumptions.

[sufrommich]

6. That is sickening.The anti choice crowd is shameless,

absolutely shameless.

[cali]

7. and frighteningly successfully. Abortion rights no longer functionally exist in this country

[sufrommich]

8. I posted an article in HoF about the abortion laws in

El Salvador and the massive amount of death and destruction it's causing.The anti choice groups here in the U.S. hold them up as an example of what they hope to achieve here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125551462