Republican wing-nuts have gone insane! At this rate people will not vote for any politician with an (R) behind their name for the next 4 election cycles…
Think Progress Justice
This year, the Georgia legislature considered a bill that would require women to prove their miscarriages “occurred naturally” and weren’t secret abortions. In a similar vein, the Guardian reportsthat states including Mississippi and Alabama are charging dozens of women with murder or other serious crimes who have miscarried or had stillbirths:
Across the US more and more prosecutions are being brought that seek to turn pregnant women into criminals.[...]
In Alabama at least 40 cases have been brought under the state’s “chemical endangerment” law. Introduced in 2006, the statute was designed to protect children whose parents were cooking methamphetamine in the home and thus putting their children at risk from inhaling the fumes. Amanda Kimbrough is one of the women who have been ensnared as a result of the law being applied in a wholly different way.[...]
The baby was delivered by caesarean section prematurely in April 2008 and died 19 minutes after birth. Six months later Kimbrough was arrested at home and charged with “chemical endangerment” of her unborn child on the grounds that she had taken drugs during the pregnancy – a claim she has denied.
“That shocked me, it really did,” Kimbrough said. “I had lost a child, that was enough.”
Kimbrough is now facing a 10-year sentence if her case is not reversed on appeal — a 10 year sentence that will deprive her three other children of their mother.
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- Pregnant Women Need Health Care, Not Jail Time/ Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, Reproductive Freedom Project (protectivemothersalliance.wordpress.com)
This is turning into a Nazi Germany. Where the fuck is the DOJ? They should be looking into all this nonsense that is going on, and start calling it these Republican assholes, and hold their feet to the fire.
These right wing so-called Christians have really fucking lost it.
The Nazi Germany comparison is spot on Don. However, in my mind this is nothing more than the “Christian Right Taliban”. Like a commenter said regarting this article on Think Progress: Nowonder they are afraid of Sharia Law it’s too much like their archaic religious beliefs and they don’t want the competition.
This is not an indictment on all Christians (note, WK) it’s an indictment on what I call the nefarious “Kristian Reich“.
Does it mean Barbara Bush can’t travel to these states anymore?
Good one jean-philipe. I would laugh but this issue is actually stupifying! How are these clowns getting away with this?
Barbour couldn’t care less, he’s retiring next year…
I hope Chicken little will face a good candidate in 3 years in Alabama…
The Nazi Germany comparison is spot on Don. However, in my mind this is nothing more than the “Christian Right Taliban”. Like a commenter said regarting this article on Think Progress: Nowonder they are afraid of the Sharia Law it’s too much like their archaic religious beliefs and they don’t want the competition.
This is not an indictment on all Christians (note, WK) it’s an indictment on what I call the nefarious “Kristian Reich”.