There’s no need to worry now that Donald Trump has nominated conservative Colorado judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, with an eye on overturning Roe v. Wade, and could name additional conservative justices in the future. You live here in the good old blue state of Illinois. Hillary Clinton country. Your ability to control your own body won’t be threatened, not like that of all those poor women in Texas and Indiana and other backwaters.
Right?
Wrong.
Ladies, meet 720 Illinois Criminal Statute 510, as described in the Abortion Law of 1975. The bill grudgingly admits that abortion is legal, for the moment, but restates Illinois' belief that a fetus is a full human being from the moment of conception, and declares:
". . . if those decisions of the United States Supreme Court are ever reversed or modified or the United States Constitution is amended to allow protection of the unborn then the former policy of this State to prohibit abortions unless necessary for the preservation of the mother's life shall be reinstated."In layman's terms: the moment Roe is overturned, abortions are banned in Illinois unless the mother's life is at risk, one of four states to share what legislators call a "trigger law." The other states are Kentucky, Louisiana and South Dakota.
If you've never heard of it, join the club.
"Very few people know," said state Rep. Kelly Cassidy, D-Chicago. "The reaction is the kind of shock and disbelief you might imagine. It is the virtual smack up side the head."
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I hope all the leftist purity ponies, Bernie Bros, etc. who considered Hillary Clinton too "unlikeable" and who pooh-poohed the impact of Supreme Court nominations will read this and feel every word drop in their guts.
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I hope all will read this article!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteIf abortion is criminalized if may not effect the rate much, particularly since it can be accomplished safely with chemical rather than surgical means. One can imagine considerable complications if large scale prosecutions are attempted. Putting a lot of low level medical practitioners in jail would entail some public relations problems.
ReplyDeleteOn why the election was lost, it seems to have been a lot of little things. But the primary process did seem to hurt Hillary more than it did Trump.
Tom Evans