I used to think Jan Brewer, racist, ignorant, and downright stupid, governor of Arizona, was the height of GOP stupidity, but I've recently discovered an entire legislature of lunatics in the Grand Canyon State, aka The empty Noggin State.
See, the Arizona Legislature has passed three incredibly harsh anti-abortion bills last week, including one that defines pregnancy as....wait for it...it's pretty amazing....two weeks before conception. I am admittedly a little dense in the internal workings of the womenfolk of the world--having kept my distance my whole life--but, um, pregnancy happens before conception?
It will, from now on in Arizona, because now it reduces the legal window of when a woman may have an abortion.
Arizona state Representative, Democrat, and a doctor, Matt Heinz does not want the state to set the gestational age since science could not provide a precise one. “I imagine it will be a legal dispute. How can a judge determine gestational age? If medical science can only determine gestational age to within 10-14 days, how can a superior court judge do it?”
Apparently, the wingnut contingent in Arizona thinks there are smarter than scientists and doctors, and thinks judges are, as well.
Now, this asshatted display of lunacy isn't the only anti-abortion bill to pass in Ari-Crazy. In addition to that bill that would prohibit abortions after the 18th week of pregnancy, the GOP-controlled House also passed a bill to protect doctors from being sued if they withhold health information about a pregnancy that might cause a woman to seek an abortion; and a bill to mandate that how school curriculums address the topic of unwanted pregnancies.
The 18th week bill has a sentence that defines gestational age as “calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman,” which would move the beginning of a pregnancy up two weeks prior to conception.
Lucky women, now they are pregnant before they actually conceive a child.
In Arizona at any rate. No word on whether wingnut Governor Jan "Eva Braun" Brewer will sign or veto any of these three bills.
oh gawd!! that means the twins were 17 days late - at 7.10 and 7.6 you don't want to imagine those last days...
ReplyDeleteThe people of Arizona are paying their leaders to have meeting about laws like these. Surely, they have bigger problems to solve.
ReplyDeleteIf I remember correctly, the abortion issue was settled almost forty years ago.
it's NOT scientifically possible for a woman to get pregnant 2 weeks before she actually becomes pregnant.
ReplyDeletewhat a buncha horseshit!
Total and complete crazy asshated humans.
ReplyDeleteThese asswipes just can't keep themselves from telling a woman what she can do with her body. The only solution is to vote these stupid, arrogant bastards out of office. I hope enough voters realize that is the only solution to this craziness.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that legislatures all over the country are in a word, nitwits.
ReplyDeleteI mean in AZ you have the open attacks on women's choice. And here in RI where vote fraud was about 5 one thousandth of a percent, they had to pass a Voter ID law.
I can't with this woman
ReplyDeleteAnd this is why I would never accept a job transfer to Phoenix even if it meant making more money.
ReplyDeleteThis is SO cool! All pre-pregnant women should FLOOD state agencies wanting free pre-pre-natal care. Drain those state agencies of every fucking dollar they have.
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