Mississippi seeks abortion ban for race, sex, genetic error

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press
Updated 11:30 am CST, Tuesday, March 3, 2020

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's Republican-led Legislature is trying to restrict the reasons women may seek abortion, after federal courts blocked time limitations that the state tried to put on the procedure the past two years.

House Bill 1295 moves to the full House for more debate.

Abortion would be prohibited if a woman is seeking the procedure because of the race, sex or genetic abnormality of the fetus, under a bill that passed a state House committee Tuesday. The only exception would be in case of a medical emergency. Other states have been sued over similar laws, and opponents questioned whether Mississippi is inviting another lawsuit over abortion.

“We have had a solid record of supporting pro-life measures, and we wanted to continue that,” House Judiciary B Committee Chairman Nick Bain, a Republican from Corinth, said in explaining why his committee passed the bill.

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https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Mississippi-seeks-abortion-ban-for-race-sex-15101844.php

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1. "We have had a solid record of supporting pro-life measures, and we wanted to continue that,"

Says the state with the death penalty, and a history of supporting most US military actions...except the one where they got their asses kicked...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. They have a history of lynchings and other forms of racial murder.

The "pro-life" measures are not measuring up.

[Warpy]

3. Pro life but not for living women.

Women are just walking flowerpots into which those men sow their seed, biblical and dead wrong.

How fucking DARE they try to tell any woman whether or not she can manage raising a child she does not want?

How fucking DARE they tell anyone pregnant with a castrophically damaged fetus that will consume all the family's resources and prevent the birth of a future, healthy child to make that kind of sacrifice?

How fucking DARE they?

[Ilsa]

7. Trust me, it is hard enough raising a disabled child

that isn't "catastrophically damaged" genetically. Many states do little to help families outside of school IEPs.

[Warpy]

10. I understand completely, many friends are in the sa,e boat.

That "genetic" clause was added for Downs children. I've known a lot of people with Down's all my life and I generally enjoy them tremendously. They can be naughty but I've never met a single one with the capacity to be mean or spiteful. In that way. they are treasures.

However, some of them have catastrophic cardiovascular and other damage. It's the woman who should be left to decide whether or not she and her family are equipped to deal with all that, and whether she wants to put a child through the surgeries it will require to repair.

Republicans love the idea of forcing these things onto women and their families. No one has ever challenged a single damned one of them about just who the hell is going to pay for it all, including the sacrifice of one family member's income in favor of full time, unpaid caregiving.

Just once during my lifetime, I want to see those fuckers challenged on things like that. They're great at 10 year cost projections and how the hell we're ever supposed to get health care or national pensions. They just do their "god will provide" magical thinking on their garbage and I'm sick of it. God doesn't provide. WE have to.

(Yeah, this shit makes me furious, but certainly not at you or your child in the particular hell of "mild disability.&quot

[Ilsa]

11. On Downs, I have a friend who sets anyone straight about the

So-called sunny disposition. He said his Downs kid is grouchiest in the morning, more than anyone he's ever met, but generally does not carry that happy-go-lucky disposition. One in a million, I guess. Anyway, it isn't a given.

I know about the cardiovascular isses, having been a professional nurse. The medical care is certainly less traumatic than it used to be, but it isn't easy, not by a long shot. I can't imagine being a nonmedical person having to care for a child with these problems.

I've known moms who terminated after 22 weeks because of the DS diagnosis. With older children growing up in the family, the parents did not want to leave them having to devote so much of their lives caring for a sibling, not when life is hard enough already.

This is a decision best left up to a woman and her doctors.

[sandensea]

6. And the highest infant mortality and age-adjusted death rates in America.

Rates similar to the more advanced 3rd world countries.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. And just how the hell will they prove why she's seeking an abortion?

[Ilsa]

8. Can they get an abortion just because

They don't want to be pregnant any more?

[LuvNewcastle]

5. I wish the Mississippi legislature worked as hard at improving

Mississippians' quality of life as they do at protecting deformed fetuses. They don't even want to extend Medicaid down here, yet they want to force women to give birth to children with gross abnormalities. It's no wonder so many of us down here have such a twisted sense of humor.

[SunSeeker]

9. That is sickening. Women should not be forced to give birth against their will. Period.