(CNN)A new Arkansas law will let a husband sue a doctor to stop his wife from getting a particular type of abortion. And it makes no exception for cases of spousal rape.
The law, called the Arkansas Unborn Child Protection From Dismemberment Abortion Act, was passed and signed by Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and goes into effect later this year. It prohibits dismemberment abortion, the most common procedure used in second-trimester abortions.
A clause in the law states that the husband of a woman getting the abortion can sue the doctor to stop his wife’s abortion. The husband has to be the father of the child. And because there’s no exemption in the law for rape or incest, a woman’s rapist could theoretically file suit to stop the abortion.
The ACLU of Arkansas claims the law is unconstitutional and plans to challenge it in court before it goes into effect.
One Arkansas lawmaker said there wasn’t much debate about those parts of the law.
“It was not something that was talked about on the Senate floor,” state Sen. Joyce Elliott told CNN affiliate KARK. “If we cannot make headway on something like an exception for rape and incest, I think it just felt kind of fruitless to make some sense out of the rest of what was in the bill.”
Elliott added, “They don’t see the outrage in constantly putting the thumb on women to dictate what they can do and not do.”
But another lawmaker believes husbands should have a voice in these decisions.
“I think a woman does have control over her own body, but when you have created a life, you created a life with someone else,” said state Sen. Missy Irvin.
Kansas and Oklahoma passed similar abortion laws, which are tied up in the courts, according to CNN affiliate KFSM.
A few states, with conservative lawmakers emboldened by President Donald Trump’s election, have passed strict new abortion laws, including Ohio, which passed a measure banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Source: CNN
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February 10, 2017 at 9:59 am
Well, Arkansas is doing what it can to keep product from the Baby Store (a baby is born every nine seconds in the US) spilling onto the street, where Fate awaits each new little Arkansan:
•Every eighteen seconds a child is born who for most of his life will barely, if at all, know his biological father
•Every 27 seconds, a baby is born whose parents never intended for him to exist
•Every thirty-six seconds, a baby is born who will not graduate high school
•Every thirty-six seconds, a child is born to a life without health insurance
•Every thirty-six seconds, a baby is born who will live in a family with an alcoholic parent
•Every forty-five seconds a child will be born to live in poverty
•Every sixty-three seconds a child is born who will be left alone at home unsupervised between the ages of five and fourteen
•Every eighty-one seconds a baby is born who will come home after school to an empty house
•Of the ten babies born every minute and a half, four are born to mothers weren’t “elated about their condition.”
•Every minute and a half a baby is born whose family pays more than half of its income for rent- two and a half times the national average
•Every minute and a half a baby will be born to a child
•Every minute and a half, a child is born who will experience lifelong depression
•Every minute and forty-five seconds a child will be born at an extremely low birth weight, at risk for school failure and for a felony conviction
•Every two minutes and twelve seconds, a girl baby will be born whose sexual abuse will begin at about age two and continue until about age 14
•Every three minutes, a girl will be born who will herself become a pregnant teenager
• Every three minutes, a child is born who will live in a household with no parent present
• Every three minutes and 18 seconds a boy will be born to suffer sexual abuse
•Every five minutes a child will be born who will run away from home. Almost every other child will be running away because of intolerable family conditions
•Every six minutes and forty-five seconds a child will be born who will have to receive state custody to protect him from his own parents
•Every twenty-two minutes and 20 seconds a child will be born who will go to jail
•Every hour, a baby will be born to die within the first year of life
• Every hour and fifty minutes, a child will be born to die from a gunshot wound
• Every third hour, a baby will be born severely damaged for life by alcohol while in his mother’s womb
,,, Let me know if you hear of a so-called “pro-lifer” who is concerned for any of these real human beings.
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February 10, 2017 at 1:21 pm
You omitted the worst of all, Chuck: Every fifteen seconds someone will be torn apart before she exits the birth canal.
We won’t be able to attack effectively those other horrors until we do that to horror #1.
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February 10, 2017 at 5:19 pm
Sorry, Mr. Dunkle, but those of us who are not afflicted with aborticentrism can see all of those things happening around us, every day and very often to someone we know and/or love.
It’s only the so called “pro-lifers” (who are so fixated on their need to be heroes) who refuse to attend to these real needs of real children.
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February 10, 2017 at 7:26 pm
Oh Chuck, such anti-scientific stuff.
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February 10, 2017 at 7:52 pm
You are living proof that so-called “pro-lifers” are so centered on abortion that they cannot care for human life. If you want to prove me wrong, just produce the children (born to others not related to you by marriage or kinship) you never intended to raise to adulthood but raised anyway.
Oh, you didn’t.
See? So all that remains is to identify the reason you are and have been unable to do so. All someone has to do is prove a fixation on abortion is not the reason, and “aborticentrist” will be replaced by a more fitting term.
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February 11, 2017 at 11:36 am
Chuck approaches a house he’s just bought. The front lawn’s patchy, the second front step is cracked, the doorbell doesn’t work, the door handle is loose, the rugs are stained, a kitchen cabinet door is missing, the faucet drips. As he goes through the house he finds things that need fixing in every room. In the basement he notices trash can burning and the fire about to spread. He does nothing about it. Why? Because he tells himself he has to fix those other things first.
Yup, it’s that bad. That’s what Satan is able to do to a basically smart guy.
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February 13, 2017 at 12:36 pm
Ooooh, didn’t realize I cut you to the quick that time, Mr. Dunkle….
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