Georgia lawmaker re-introduces bill to make abortion and miscarriages murder

[werepossum]

Since none of our resident liberals have brought this up, I will. Georgia state representative Bobby Franklin (R-Moronville) has re-introduced his perennial HB-1 banning not only all abortions, but also any miscarriages with ANY human involvement.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-abortion-proposal-punish-women-miscarriages/

http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/display.aspx?Legislation=31965

Here's the actual text causing the kerfuffle (bolding mine):

(2) 'Prenatal murder' means the intentional removal of a fetus from a woman with an
intention other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus; provided, however,
that if a physician makes a medically justified effort to save the lives of both the mother
and the fetus and the fetus does not survive, such action shall not be prenatal murder.
Such term does not include a naturally occurring expulsion of a fetus known medically
119 as a 'spontaneous abortion' and popularly as a 'miscarriage' so long as there is no human
120 involvement whatsoever in the causation of such event.

Clearly, the representative does not intend to prosecute women for miscarriages, but the spin - that the State would be forced to prosecute any woman who could not prove her miscarriage was natural - does have some small basis in reality. If there is a death of a person which is a felony if there is ANY human involvement, then it does seem logical that the State would have to investigate every miscarriage as any other unexplained death and potential homicide. For instance, a woman who drinks a glass of wine and later suffers a miscarriage could possible find herself the subject of a felony murder prosecution by some overzealous prosecutor.

I have no doubt that this is a well-meaning man with whom I could surely find agreement on a number of matters, but anyone who does not accept that legal abortion is the law of the land by virtue of the SCOTUS decision, and who works to criminalize abortions by means other than a Constitutional Amendment, is too stupid to be a State Representative.

 

[Infohawk]

but anyone who does not accept that legal abortion is the law of the land by virtue of the SCOTUS decision, and who works to criminalize abortions by means other than a Constitutional Amendment, is too stupid to be a State Representative.

I don't think abortion should be illegal, but maybe he wants the USSC to revisit the issue. They've overturned precedent before and the court is conservative now. As a practical matter he's just a standard politician trying to get attention.

 

[chucky2]

This dude should be removed, permanently, from any public office.

This is the best thing he has to do with his time?!?!!?

This is the guy in Corp. America taking inventory of his allotted paperclips will the true important sh1t burns down around him. F, our Politicians are hopeless....

Chuck