2 States Introduce Radical Bills To Prosecute Pregnant People For Abortions

[Captdon]

It works but if I were pro-abortion then I would still challenge the law based on it can't be a murder if your not charging the woman that paid for it. That is selective prosecution. They can't claim it is a crime and only blame one party. Charging the woman would be political suicide.

Sure they could ban doctors from doing an abortion and not charge women. Why would they have to do anything about the woman? They aren't claiming victimhood. They are saying doctors can't do something.

[Captdon]

Nothing will stop doctors performing abortions imo.
No? A doctor is going to chance losing his/her license over abortions?
But how do we really know how much abortion has dropped in states like Texas? Maybe more just went underground to the backyard butchers.

Will a doctor chance losing her/his license to perform an abortion?

[donttread]

This is not a thread on abortion, no, it is a thread on how the media distorts facts, nay, outright lies.

2 States Introduce Radical Bills To Prosecute Pregnant People For Abortions




What first caught my eye was "Pregnant People." What state, passing an anti-abortion bill, would use "pregnant people" in the language of the bill? None. In fact when they quote one of those bills, you can see it says "pregnant woman."

You can go look at the bills themselves: Oklahoma Senate Bill 287 and Arkansas House Bill 1174.

No mention of pregnant person at all.

The Oklahoma bill does mention person, for example:



Not pregnant person but person who performs the abortion.

But, wait, that's the second even more outrageous lie. The bills do not "allow authorities to criminally prosecute pregnant people for seeking abortion care." The bill allows authorities to criminally prosecute persons who perform abortions.

Why does the media need to so blatantly lie about this?

Gotta stir up the readers these days.. Although I believe the ridiculous concept of banning women from traveling for abortions. Both sides have their own version of virtue signalling and then media...

[Thfan132]

Everyone is trying to make a huge deal of this. If states go too far outside what their constituents want we will see a large turnover in these states elected leaders. I myself think banning the morning after pill is going too far. This was a condom broke defense for me more than once.

[countryboy]

Everyone is trying to make a huge deal of this. If states go too far outside what their constituents want we will see a large turnover in these states elected leaders. I myself think banning the morning after pill is going too far. This was a condom broke defense for me more than once.

I agree, as long as zero tax dollars are ever used to pay for one of these things. But that isn't the case is it?