Defunding Planned Parenthood is a direct assault on women's health.
An embryo or fetus has no constitutional rights.
In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that the fetus' only inherent constitutionally protected right is the right to be born, overturning a High Court ruling that a fetus additionally possessed the children's rights guaranteed by Article 42A of the Constitution.
"Right to be born" is not about embryos, it is about a fully formed baby or a viable neonate making it out of the womb.
The passage of this bill is about elections and money for elections. That is all this is.
An embryo or fetus has no constitutional rights.
In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that the fetus' only inherent constitutionally protected right is the right to be born, overturning a High Court ruling that a fetus additionally possessed the children's rights guaranteed by Article 42A of the Constitution.
"Right to be born" is not about embryos, it is about a fully formed baby or a viable neonate making it out of the womb.
The passage of this bill is about elections and money for elections. That is all this is.
May 15, 2019
By Amanda Arnold
In August 2015, (click here) when Ivey was Alabama’s lieutenant governor, she and Representative Terri Collins — who sponsored Alabama’s extreme anti-abortion bill — called for the “immediate defunding of Planned Parenthood by Congress” and the passage of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. (The bill, which has passed the House multiple times but never the Senate, would make most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy illegal.)
Since becoming sworn in as governor in April 2017, following the resignation of Robert Bentley, Ivey’s stance predictably has not changed. In January 2018, when the Trump administration established regulations that made it easier for religious doctors to discriminate against women seeking abortions, and for states to cut Medicaid funding to organizations like Planned Parenthood, Ivey celebrated the news as “a big win for states to ensure that tax dollars are not used to fund abortion or abortion-related services.” And, just last August, Ivey renewed what she calls her “steadfast commitment to protect the lives of the unborn” after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision to strike down a bill banning “dismemberment abortions."...
Alabama and Georgia need to leave their theocracy in their Bibles on Sunday. Alabama's maternal death rate has increased by 20 percent in two years. The rate was 10 maternal deaths per 100,000 in 2016 and increased to 12 maternal deaths per 100,000 women.
California has 4.5 per 100,000 women and Georgia has 46 per 100,000.
Alabama has a difficult time keeping people alive, especially if they are minorities. Chambliss, the idiot that thinks nothing of mixing government and religion, states this is about human rights. Liar. He can't even keep the kids born alive.
May 15, 2019
By Ashley Reese
In Alabama, (click here) a state that just passed a total ban on abortion, more than a quarter of children live in poverty; 30 percent of those children are under the age of five.
Only half of Alabama’s 67 counties have an obstetrician.
Infant care for a single child in Alabama takes up an average of 11 percent of a family’s income. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, child care costs are unaffordable when they exceed 7 percent of a family’s income.
Single mothers in Alabama spend 29 percent of their income on childcare costs.
Child care costs for families with two children—an infant and a four-year-old—cost 28 percent more than the average rent in the state.
About 88 percent of Alabama’s rural hospitals are operating “in the red.”
Alabama has the second highest infant mortality rate in the country.
Alabama rejected the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, despite support for the expansion from the Alabama Hospital Association.
More children are living in poverty in Alabama now than they were almost 20 years ago, and the state has the fifth highest child poverty rate in the country.
Alabama’s child food insecurity rate is 22.5 percent. The national average is 17.5 percent.
There are no maternity leave or family leave laws in the state of Alabama.
Alabama is the sixth poorest state in the country, its most impoverished regions are predominantly black.
Alabama State Senator Clyde Chambliss, who sponsored the abortion bill, characterized the legislation as a necessary government intervention to protect human rights. “When God creates the miracle of life inside a woman’s womb, it is not our place as human beings to extinguish that life,” Chambliss said.
The law will cause to many problems. Heck, viability is not considered possible until 26 weeks outside the uterus. I have seen neonates at 21 weeks in NICUs, but, as to whether they survived, I don't know. The entire idea that an embryo is a citizen is not intelligent.
Periviability, also referred to as the limit of viability, is defined as the stage of fetal maturity that ensures a reasonable chance of extrauterine survival. With active intervention, most infants born at 26 weeks and above have a high likelihood of survival, and virtually none below 22 weeks will survive. The chance of survival thus increases dramatically over these few weeks, and this crucial time window may be considered the period of periviability.
I think Alabama needs to work on quality of life of it's citizens before it places more hardship on them.
Alabama's 2017 median household income grew by almost 2 percent over the previous year, according to recently released Census Bureau estimates. The median income in Alabama was $48,123, up from $47,221 the previous year.
Alabama legislators have a long way to go in moral content before they even try to make a theocracy out of the state.
Alabama and Georgia need to leave their theocracy in their Bibles on Sunday. Alabama's maternal death rate has increased by 20 percent in two years. The rate was 10 maternal deaths per 100,000 in 2016 and increased to 12 maternal deaths per 100,000 women.
California has 4.5 per 100,000 women and Georgia has 46 per 100,000.
Alabama has a difficult time keeping people alive, especially if they are minorities. Chambliss, the idiot that thinks nothing of mixing government and religion, states this is about human rights. Liar. He can't even keep the kids born alive.
May 15, 2019
By Ashley Reese
In Alabama, (click here) a state that just passed a total ban on abortion, more than a quarter of children live in poverty; 30 percent of those children are under the age of five.
Only half of Alabama’s 67 counties have an obstetrician.
Infant care for a single child in Alabama takes up an average of 11 percent of a family’s income. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, child care costs are unaffordable when they exceed 7 percent of a family’s income.
Single mothers in Alabama spend 29 percent of their income on childcare costs.
Child care costs for families with two children—an infant and a four-year-old—cost 28 percent more than the average rent in the state.
About 88 percent of Alabama’s rural hospitals are operating “in the red.”
Alabama has the second highest infant mortality rate in the country.
Alabama rejected the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, despite support for the expansion from the Alabama Hospital Association.
More children are living in poverty in Alabama now than they were almost 20 years ago, and the state has the fifth highest child poverty rate in the country.
Alabama’s child food insecurity rate is 22.5 percent. The national average is 17.5 percent.
There are no maternity leave or family leave laws in the state of Alabama.
Alabama is the sixth poorest state in the country, its most impoverished regions are predominantly black.
Alabama State Senator Clyde Chambliss, who sponsored the abortion bill, characterized the legislation as a necessary government intervention to protect human rights. “When God creates the miracle of life inside a woman’s womb, it is not our place as human beings to extinguish that life,” Chambliss said.
The law will cause to many problems. Heck, viability is not considered possible until 26 weeks outside the uterus. I have seen neonates at 21 weeks in NICUs, but, as to whether they survived, I don't know. The entire idea that an embryo is a citizen is not intelligent.
Periviability, also referred to as the limit of viability, is defined as the stage of fetal maturity that ensures a reasonable chance of extrauterine survival. With active intervention, most infants born at 26 weeks and above have a high likelihood of survival, and virtually none below 22 weeks will survive. The chance of survival thus increases dramatically over these few weeks, and this crucial time window may be considered the period of periviability.
I think Alabama needs to work on quality of life of it's citizens before it places more hardship on them.
Alabama's 2017 median household income grew by almost 2 percent over the previous year, according to recently released Census Bureau estimates. The median income in Alabama was $48,123, up from $47,221 the previous year.
Alabama legislators have a long way to go in moral content before they even try to make a theocracy out of the state.
