motherjones: “A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of ‘justifiable homicide’ to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions.” A Mother Jones exclusive from Kate Sheppard. The Republican Party never ceases to amaze me. This is in addition to the Protect Life Act introduced by far right Congressman Joe Pitts (R-PA). Writing for RHRealityCheck.org, Jodi Jacobson explains: They want to “protect life” so much that they have written into the bill a new amendment that would override the requirement that emergency room doctors save every patient, regardless of status or ability to pay.  The law would carve out an exception for pregnant women; doctors and hospitals will be allowed to let pregnant women die if interventions to save them will kill the fetus. […] The Pitts bill effectively turns all hospitals into arms of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.  In other words, your health care is now fully subject to fundamentalist religious ideology. The so-called Protect Life Act is one of a slew of pieces of legislation that seek to effectively ban abortion in the United States, establish personhood of fertilized eggs, and outlaw contraception. In short: Fertilized eggs are people; women are not.

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“A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of ‘justifiable homicide’ to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions.” A Mother Jones exclusive from Kate Sheppard.

The Republican Party never ceases to amaze me. This is in addition to the Protect Life Act introduced by far right Congressman Joe Pitts (R-PA). Writing for RHRealityCheck.org, Jodi Jacobson explains:

They want to “protect life” so much that they have written into the bill a new amendment that would override the requirement that emergency room doctors save every patient, regardless of status or ability to pay.  The law would carve out an exception for pregnant women; doctors and hospitals will be allowed to let pregnant women die if interventions to save them will kill the fetus.

[…]

The Pitts bill effectively turns all hospitals into arms of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.  In other words, your health care is now fully subject to fundamentalist religious ideology.

The so-called Protect Life Act is one of a slew of pieces of legislation that seek to effectively ban abortion in the United States, establish personhood of fertilized eggs, and outlaw contraception.

In short: Fertilized eggs are people; women are not.

Source: motherjones

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  1. monfresh reblogged this from motherjones and added:
    The Republican Party never ceases...amaze me. This is in addition
  2. hausofdemi reblogged this from canisfamiliaris and added:
    Yeah, well… they’re dumbasses.
  3. waynestevens reblogged this from motherjones
  4. cirquedelavie reblogged this from mairos and added:
    And yet nothing is done to stop the terrorism within its own country
  5. mairos reblogged this from tsarevich and added:
    sigh. I don’t know what to do with the world anymore.
  6. tsarevich reblogged this from dressesandyarn
  7. dressesandyarn reblogged this from motherjones
  8. krycha reblogged this from pixelsrzen and added:
    This has to be a double-plus WTF?! What is WRONG with that country?!
  9. kindwordandagun reblogged this from drinkthe-koolaid and added:
    Please tell me this shit isn’t real.
  10. thatfizzsound reblogged this from motherjones
  11. mikesova reblogged this from drinkthe-koolaid
  12. smokefairydust reblogged this from alles-war-schoen and added:
    Do you see why everyone hates us?
  13. alles-war-schoen reblogged this from drinkthe-koolaid
  14. tayman reblogged this from drinkthe-koolaid and added:
    necessary reblog. This is either just a blip, or the U.S. is on course to implode on itself much faster than I have...
  15. carrielikethemovie reblogged this from drinkthe-koolaid
  16. drinkthe-koolaid reblogged this from sixkindsofbullshit and added:
    WTF is going on in this country?
  17. sixkindsofbullshit reblogged this from dendroica
  18. sixteenandbarren reblogged this from sueonherunicycle and added:
    i’m going to elaborate even though i reblogged something like this earlier. this is absolutely heinous and i LOATHE the...
  19. hoitycoity reblogged this from motherjones
  20. blackraincloud reblogged this from so-treu
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  23. notsodarling- reblogged this from thehighshelf and added:
    Where’s that petition so I can sign it?
  24. thedeadswan reblogged this from thehighshelf and added:
    If a woman can’t carry a fetus to term without potentially fatal consequences (perhaps to both herself and the child),...
  25. yourenorocknrollfun reblogged this from zieberkr and added:
    it will never go through. but really, how is that for irony.
  26. pixelsrzen reblogged this from motherjones and added:
    Can we please file this...#WTF ? I get it. Abortion is tantamount to murder, depending on...
  27. bespangled reblogged this from motherjones
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  30. fuckyeahneo-marxism reblogged this from canisfamiliaris and added:
    movement calls itself “Pro-Life”. With these people...statement is an oxymoron.
  31. canisfamiliaris reblogged this from motherjones
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