PUBLISHER'S NOTE:
I have taken on the issue of criminalizing reproduction - a natural theme for a Blog concerned with flawed science in its myriad forms and its flawed devotees (like Charles Smith), as I am utterly opposed to the current movement in the United States and some other countries - thankfully not Canada any more - towards imprisoning women and their physicians on the basis of sham science (or any other basis). Control over their reproductive lives is far too important to women in America or anywhere else so they can participate equally in the economic and social life of their nations without fear for loss their freedom at the hands of political opportunists and fanatics. I will continue to follow relevant cases such as Purvi Patel and Bei Bei Shuai - and the mounting wave of legislative attacks aimed at chipping away at Roe V. Wade and ultimately dismantling it.
Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.
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GIST: "Missouri
lawmakers passed a bill Friday to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat
is detected, the latest in a flurry of anti-abortion measures across the
country intended to mount direct challenges to federal protections for
the procedure. The Missouri House passed H.B. 126
in a 110-to-44 vote after hours of heated debate, including impassioned
speeches by both Democratic and Republican legislators and angry shouts
of “when you lie, people die” from those who opposed the bill. Those
protesters were eventually removed by the police. The
measure, known as the Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act, now moves to
the desk of Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, who is expected to sign it.
The bill, which bans abortions at around eight weeks of pregnancy, often
before a woman even knows she is pregnant, included no exceptions for
rape or incest. The passage of the
bill was the culmination of long years of effort by the anti-abortion
movement in the state, and Republican lawmakers voted for it
overwhelmingly. One of them, Representative Holly Rehder, a Republican
from southeast Missouri, implied in her speech that rape and incest were
not reasons for exceptions. “To stand on this floor and say, ‘How could
someone look at a child of rape or incest and care for them?’” she
said. “I can say how we can do that. We can do that with the love of
God.”"
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