I don't particularly like the dead baby joke genre either. I was just mocking the thread title. The fact that the post in question was briefly censored was the most amusing thing to me. Lastly, in my defense I exercised restraint in only posting 10 of the 50 DBJs from the webpage I found.
I've received the following request: "Someone should maybe at least explain this. Maybe I’m missing something. I must be. This seems outrageous" While I agree that these jokes might be in poor taste and/or outrageous they are not at the expense of or intended to insult any member directly. We try to moderate things very simply. An outrageous or poor taste rule would be very subjective and very hard to explain in a way for all to follow and for staff to enforce. Now if there were multiple posts with multiple dbjs we would probably look to move the jokes to one of the many joke threads that already exist but that didn't seem necessary. And I want to thank the person for asking about this. Good question!
Woman arrested in Starr County on murder for ‘illegal abortion’ A woman was arrested Thursday and charged with murder for having a self-induced “illegal abortion.” According to the Starr County Sheriff’s Office, Lizelle Herrera, 26, was arrested and served with an indictment “on the charge of Murder after Herrera did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.” Herrera is currently in custody at the Starr County Detention Center. She faces a surety bond of $500,000. The case remains under investigation. Her arrest comes as Texas enacted one of the strictest abortion laws in the country last year in SB 8 which encourages private citizens to sue individuals or organizations that help people get an abortion after six weeks of gestation. The law is currently being contested in court. https://myrgv.com/local-news/2022/04/08/woman-arrested-in-starr-county-for-illegal-abortion/
Idaho Supreme Court temporarily blocks new abortion law BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a new state law that would ban abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and allow the law to be enforced through lawsuits. Idaho last month had become the first state to enact legislation modeled after the Texas statute banning abortions after about six weeks. The ruling from Idaho’s high court in a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood means the new law won’t go into effect as planned on April 22. Republican Gov. Brad Little signed into law the measure that would’ve allowed people who would have been family members to sue doctors who perform abortions after cardiac activity is detected in embryos. But when he signed it, Little said he had concerns about whether the law was constitutional. The law would allow the father, grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncles of a “preborn child” to each sue an abortion provider for a minimum of $20,000 in damages within four years after the abortion. Rapists can’t file a lawsuit under the law, but a rapist’s relatives could. Planned Parenthood of Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky had called the law unconstitutional. The law was modeled after a Texas law that the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed to remain in place until a court challenge is decided on its merits. The Texas law allows people to enforce the law in place of state officials who normally would do so. The Texas law authorizes lawsuits against clinics, doctors and anyone who “aids or abets” an abortion that is not permitted by law. When he signed the bill, Idaho’s governor noted his concerns with the legislation. “Deputizing private citizens to levy hefty monetary fines on the exercise of a disfavored but judicially recognized constitutional right for the purpose of evading court review undermines our constitutional form of government and weakens our collective liberties,” Little wrote. He said that he worried some states might use the same approach to limit gun rights. https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-...ourt-temporarily-blocks-new-abortion-law.html --The Associated Press
The people who think we should restrict gun access (etc) should totally model a law after this. Saying anyone who killed someone with a gun can be sued by anyone in the state. Family, neighbors, whatever.
I really dislike guns. Period. Never have owned one. Errr....wait, other than the Red Ryder my brother-in-law gave me one Christmas as kind of a joke. We had all just seen a live version of A Christmas Story a few weeks previous.
It would make good precident I guess, though I wouldn't vote for anybody who supported either of these laws. I agree with this judge. Lawsuits like these are a big part of the problem here in the US.
If the uterus is government property, does that mean a hysterectomy should be approved by the government?
There is literally no point in talking to @ABM about this. He has shown time and time again the hypocrisy that is the Republican way with abortion. Force a woman to carry out the baby. Then not give a shit if the kid has medical issues or starves after they are born. "ItS nOt My ReSpOnSiBiLiTy To StOp ThEm FrOm GoInG tO hEaVeN"
This has been said ad nauseum too. Obamacare made it so the lifetime benefit limit did not have a cap. That means that your insurance company can't cap your LIFETIME benefits at an amount like 1 million dollars anymore. You know how far 1 million in medical takes you now? Not as far as you would think. That is one of the single best rules put into a health insurance initiative there has ever been. Republicans and Democrats are not the same in "trying to fuck over everyone else so they ruin healthcare and die." The Republicans do that enough by themselves.
