Louisiana Senate votes to ban abortions based on abnormality

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Louisiana Senate votes to ban abortions based on abnormality

By MELINDA DESLATTE Updated 14 hrs ago

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Senators agreed Thursday to a proposal aimed at prohibiting abortions performed because the fetus has a genetic abnormality, rejecting concerns such a ban would lead Louisiana to a court battle it cannot win.

Republican Sen. Dan Claitor usually votes for bills adding new restrictions on abortion. But the Baton Rouge lawyer said he couldn't vote for the proposal, saying it clearly runs afoul of court decisions upholding a woman's right to an abortion.

"Why would you put me in a box to make a choice between supporting my oath to uphold the constitution ... and being pro-life?" Claitor said. "The bill as written, in my view, is patently unconstitutional."

Claitor tried to water down the bill to instead provide information to pregnant women about available services for infants born with disabilities, to discourage abortion based on genetic abnormalities. But his amendment was rejected in an 18-18 vote.

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1. What was all that blather about small government?

Apparently, the people of the Gret Stet of Louisiana aren't smart enough to know whether they have the financial, emotional, or physical wherewithal to take care of a special needs child. Thankfully, the Louisiana Senate is here to tell each and every citizen that yes you can! take care of a Down Syndrome child or attend to the 24-7 needs of a profoundly disabled child. Now, the State won't be assisting you in any way, or offering any consideration for having to quit your job or lose your house or whatever other extremity the situation visits upon you. The swell guys in the Louisiana Senate don't want you getting all dependent on government handouts, or incentivizing you to have a child with a disability. You're going to be fucked for life, and you're going to like it; thus saith the Louisiana Senate, which knows better than you.

That about cover it?

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. God damn it, it's not their decision to make!

They will not have to love that child, care for it or watch it suffer.

[yallerdawg]

3. Just the idea of the State forcing a woman...

to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term is so offensive as an act of overbearing government intrusion into an individual's Constitutional right to privacy and settled Supreme Court guidance - how do Republicans reconcile their small government/anti-regulation principles with this attack on the health and freedom of women?

[ismnotwasm]

4. It's not the states business

What reason a woman chooses to terminate her pregnancy.

[MrScorpio]

5. These fuckers aren't "pro-life," they're pro-fetus.

There's no limit to their woman-hating madness.

[Lancero]

6. pro-nothing, they're just anti-woman.