Oklahoma Republicans pass bill requiring state officials to call abortion murder

[DesertRat]

Oklahoma lawmakers have passed legislation that would require officials to consider abortion to be murder.

The Tulsa World reported a law was passed Monday afternoon that would force any state official to defy the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized privacy for the procedure. It was also done without any discussion or debate on the House floor.

The bill’s author, Republican state Rep. Chuck Strohm, spoke after the bill’s passage claiming the high court violated “every act of decency and law” when it decided Roe v. Wade. He declared the founding documents of the United States were abused by “forcing the murder of unborn children on our society.”

He went on to tell his fellow officials that they took an oath to uphold the Constitution and “to exercise their authority as appropriate in their respective jurisdictions to stop the murder of innocent unborn children by abortion.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/oklahoma-republicans-pass-bill-requiring-state-officials-to-call-abortion-murder-in-public-statements/

[greymattermom]

1. So if every time you kill something that is alive, you have to call it murder,

then masturbation is murder.

[Buckeyeblue]

2. Mass murder--every sperm is sacred!

[sarisataka]

24. Indeed

[Chipper Chat]

3. Even stepping on an ant

or swatting a fly.

[MineralMan]

4. Oklahoma - The Ahimsa State?

Gosh...no...I can't imagine it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa

[Soxfan58]

5. When people die

From lack of insurance, is that murder? I think so.

[spanone]

6. so the supreme court weighed in and sanctioned murder? these people need to be in a home somewhere.

i thought these fuckers took an oath?

[Chipper Chat]

7. Every Oklahoma republican that runs over an armadillo

should be arrested.

[KWR65]

8. The Pro-lifers only care about the fetus until they are born...

then it's up to the parents to provide. If the parents don't then too bad kid you are on your own.

[DesertRat]

11. You're absolutely right

It just makes me sick. Cut medicaid-save babies?!

[Orrex]

9. If they are permitted to get away with this...

then they will have claimed the authority to declare what a human life is.

They will thereafter also claim the authority to declare what a human life is not, i.e., women, LGBT people, etc.

[DesertRat]

13. A precursor to the Handmaid's Tale.

[Orrex]

18. Right?

Can Soylent Green be far behind?

[Exilednight]

10. What's more disturbing is the fact he is wanting to regulate free speech.

Welcome to 1984, or is it Farenheit 451?

[JustAnotherGen]

15. Thank you

I saw that too.

[LonePirate]

16. And that is why/how this absurd bill will be thrown out in a court of law.

[DesertRat]

19. I hope so!

[Exilednight]

22. I wouldn't take that view for granted. there are no guarantees.

[LonePirate]

23. While true given the idiocy of some judges, this is clearly gov't supported speech suppression.

It's an obvious violation of the First Amendment.

[Cracklin Charlie]

12. Lysistrata!

Sounds like the War on Women is in full swing this season!

[DesertRat]

14. Disguised as trying to "save babies"

[BigDemVoter]

17. Leave it up to fucking Oklahoma.

Last edited Tue May 9, 2017, 03:58 PM - Edit history (1)

Apologies to ANY progressives from OK, but your state sucks!

On edit-- I want to add that my home state isn't much better!

[DesertRat]

20. As a Liberal represented by rw assholes, I can empathize with them

[meow2u3]

21. I'll take "compelled speech" for $2000, Alex