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Pro-Choice

eppur_se_muova

(36,259 posts) Tue Mar 29, 2016, 12:04 AM Mar 2016

Alabama 'personhood' proposal would effectively ban abortion (XP)

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Alabama 'personhood' proposal would effectively ban abortion (XP) (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Mar 2016 OP

It will also get struck down fairly quickly Warpy Mar 2016 #1

Rational people might concede that point ... but ... eppur_se_muova Mar 2016 #2

Warpy

(111,245 posts)

1. It will also get struck down fairly quickly

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 12:13 AM

Mar 2016

since it also effectively ends the personhood of the woman in whose body the fetus resides.

eppur_se_muova

(36,259 posts)

2. Rational people might concede that point ... but ...

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 12:15 AM

Mar 2016

Dr. Jim Belyeu, an OB/GYN who spoke in support of the bill, called a fetus "totally separate" from the mother.

"The mother only contributes the egg and the incubator," Belyeu said.

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