That may sound far-fetched. However, I submit, Gentle Reader, that if the so-called "Personhood Amendment" passes in Mississippi, that is exactly what will happen.
A woman who is has a difficult pregnancy in Mississippi will run the risk of prison time or not inconceivably, being executed. If you don't believe that prosecutors in Mississippi will not end up targeting poor mothers who had miscarriages and trying to send those mothers to prison, if not Death Row, then I respectfully submit that you should read up on the sheer vindictiveness of the legal system in that part of this nation.
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And it'll likely be up to the woman to PROVE she didn't do anything to cause the miscarriage, rather than up the the State to prove she did. Never mind that a goodly number of pregnancies end before a woman even realizes she's pregnant. Any sexually active, presumably fertile, woman is at risk.
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We really ought to call in the military to evacuate all female humans from that toxic hellhole, (and any sane males if they exist,) then seal its borders for a century.
ReplyDeleteNangleator said: "then seal its borders for a century." Oh, I don't know if it would ever be safe to unseal the border....no telling what would grow. More sunlight is what's needed.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but hey. Lower taxes and all the guns you can afford, right?
ReplyDeleteSeems MS is trying to become the first, Republic of Gilead.
ReplyDeleteIf that is unfamiliar read Handmaids Tale. It was science fiction in 1987.
The whole thing is full of fail and sickness.
Eck!
All the women who fail to implant would be guilty under the new law. but how would anyone know? The state will obviously need to establish a new law enforcement agency to police every Mississippi woman's no longer privates.
ReplyDeleteIf we ever resume above-ground nuclear testing, let's start with Jackson, MS.
ReplyDeleteHey folks, chill! Just chll out. Chill, I said!
ReplyDeleteThe proposition got voted down (Yes, In Mississippi!) six to four.
Maybe those folks have more common sense than we've been giving them credit for. Maybe the crazy right is more fried than you'd think.
Yours crankily,
The New York Crank.
NY Crank: it went down 55/45 (10-pt diff, not 20).
ReplyDeleteWhat interests me is that pre-vote opinion polls showed a 45-44-11 (y-n-?) distribution, meaning that almost all of the "undecidededs" went against it. This makes me wonder how undecided they were.
Actually, Dr. Bubbles, the Washington Post is putting it at 59 to 41 percent. A difference of eighteen points, not ten.
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Why are we fighting among ourtselves? It must be YOUR fault.
Very crankily yours,
The New York Crank