Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work… . I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started… . And an enormous debt to boot!

When Senator Clyde Chambliss, a Republican, for example, was asked if the law would allow for incest victims to obtain abortions, he responded: “Yes, until she knows she’s pregnant.”

And who among us can forget former Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, who once claimed that women can’t get pregnant if they’ve been raped because “the female body has ways to shut the whole thing down.” (Akin was not the only Republican congressman who believed this: In 1995, North Carolina’s former state Representative Henry Aldridge, claimed that when women are raped, “the juices don’t flow, the body functions don’t work, and they don’t get pregnant.”)

Sometimes, though, lawmakers’ absolute ignorance over the laws they are passing provides necessary ammunition to American women. When Alabama Senator Bobby Singleton, a Democrat, pointed out that Alabama’s new law could punish those who dispose of fertilized eggs at an IVF clinic, Chambliss responded, “The egg in the lab doesn’t apply. It’s not in a woman. She’s not pregnant.”

To me, it’s a matter of degree.

To be fair most Islamic jurisprudence allows abortion up to 120 days of pregnancy if there is a pressing need, such as health risks to the mother.

So Alabama is actually a lot stricter than Islamic law.

EDIT: I got it wrong, up to 120 days abortion is allowed, but you must have a good reason (“shit this is gonna be expensive” is not a good reason for example. If the pregancy is the product of rape or if the parent(s) are physically or mentally incapable of caring for a child, that’s legitimate).

After 120 days the fetus is considered a human being, but abortion is still preferable if not performing it means the death of the mother.

So it’s even more lenient.

Why are some people who are against abortions are the same people you don’t want to fuck in the first place?

 
HAH!