Trigger Laws


Oyster linked to the following article:

BATON ROUGE -- Legislation that would ban most abortions in the state passed a Senate committee 7-0 Wednesday after the bill's author agreed to make go into effect only if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

Senate Bill 33 by Sen. Ben Nevers, D-Bogalusa, cleared the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare after the provision was added. The bill would allow abortions only to save the life of the mother. But Sen. Diana Bajoie, D-New Orleans, said she wanted to "make it more pro-life" by not allowing any exceptions.

She did not offer the amendment but served notice she will on the Senate floor, where Nevers is expected to take up the bill next week. "I do have some concerns about this bill," Bajoie said. "It should be all or nothing. . . . Life is life."

Nevers said he will work with Bajoie to "get as much of a pro-life bill as I can...

The South Dakota Legislature recently passed a law that would ban abortions except to save the life of a mother. Anti-abortion forces said six states besides Louisiana are debating similar anti-abortion proposals...

Nevers' bill would set penalties of a minimum of a year in jail and a maximum of 10 years, and a minimum fine of $1,000 and a maximum fine of $100,000 for anyone who performs an abortion. A woman seeking the procedure would not face criminal charges.

Well, the bullshit quotient is just as off-the-scale as ever with these assclowns, who are about as "pro-life" as your average viral infection. And, as YRHT has pointed out, over and over again, NATURE is the most prolific abortionist on earth. Wanna stop abortion? Fight against nature. One thing, though: you'll lose.

Going so far as to exclude exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, as Rep. Bajoie wants, is not pro-life--it's an argument in favor of the possible death of an adult human being...one who has implicit and explicit in the Constitution.

Besides, as the saying goes, if you don't want an abortion, DON'T GO AND GET ONE. There is no mandatory abortion.

Or, as the late, great Bill Hicks once said, if you're so pro-life, don't lock arms and block abortion clinics. Block cemetaries instead.

Oh--and earlier this week USA Today actually had a pretty good article on the mess created by wingnuts on this front.