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Ohio Republicans leapfrogged other states in crafting what could be the most radical anti-choice bills in the nation, the “heartbeat” bill. Passed in the state house this summer, the bill bans abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected — an occurrence that can happen “six to seven weeks into a pregnancy” or before many women even knows their pregnant. The measure contains no exceptions for victims of rape, incest, or for the mental health of a woman.
To convince the state House Health Committee of the bill’s merits, activists recruited the youngest witness every to “testify”: a nine-week-old fetus. Unfortunately for the group, the sideshow failed, since the fetus’s heartbeat was pretty much undetectable. Several months later, and with the bill now before the state senate, Republicans brought in the nine-week-old baby that has developed from the fetal “witness” to act as a “silent witness“
Ohio GOP Brings In 9-Week-Old Baby To 'Testify' For Anti-Abortion 'Heartbeat' Bill
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I find it ironic that conservatives supposedly hate regulations so much, yet the entirety of their anti-abortion strategy is to end-run around the Constitution by regulation abortion so much that it literally can't be done anymore.
I mean that behavior is literally, in ever meaningful sense, what they complain about when it comes to every other type of regulation in the world.
When Grover Norquist said he wants to shrink the size of government small enough to drown it in a bathtub, it apparently gave other conservatives an idea. Shrink the size of government small enough to fit into a woman's vagina.
GOP: Get out of American's private lives with your invasive Big Government. Stop treading on women. You know, all that @!$%# you lie about believing in.
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#1 - Thu Dec 8, 2011 1:48 PM ESTThose fools claim to be against government being in our lives and such but want them in our most personal decisions!
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Yet they do not want bc to be covered by our insurance either. They are insane!!!
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oops
::rolling eyes::
A patient in a hospital who has no brain function but whose heart still beats is considered brain-dead, as in no longer a personality. Orders to allow removal of machines to force them to breathe and keep the heart beating are routinely approved.
Why? Because without a brain, it's not truly life. Yet they want to use the heartbeat? When a persons heart stops they are not declared dead by rescuers. When the brain flatlines and they can not get it back, then they are declared dead.
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#2 - Thu Dec 8, 2011 2:18 PM ESTOh for Christ's sake, don't these mucking forons understand the difference between a 9-week old baby and a 9-week fetus? I have a 10 week old granddaughter at home, she weighs 12.10 and is 25" long......a 10 week fetus would be about the size of a kumquat....weighing in at .25 ounces and 1" from head to rump.....http://www.babycenter.com/slideshow-baby-size
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#3 - Thu Dec 8, 2011 3:12 PM ESTExactly!!! Most women abort in the first trimester when the fetus is barely anything. Huge difference between that and a fully formed, viable 9 week old baby.
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GOP: Governing Our Privates.
yesterday, there was a raging debate about how the governor of rhode island referred to a tree.
seems like every day fox has a report equal to that of 9/11 regarding the "war"(what a riot) on christmas.
every day these fightin' for fetus types insist on imposing their beliefs on people who just want to be left alone. they have no solutions for real problems so they must invent problems. pitiful bunch!
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