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Maraya1969

(22,441 posts)
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 10:48 PM Nov 2017

The GOP tax scam has a "person-hood" bit that furthers their attempts at anti-woman and anti-choice

On page 93 of the “tax bill” Republicans are trying to redefine what constitutes an unborn child as the moment of conception. The tax code is no place to slip in something that could be used to outlaw abortion. A yes vote on this is anti-women & anti-choice.









From Snopes.com regarding this: Thanks to still_one

https://www.snopes.com/gop-tax-bill-fetal-personhood-legislation/


Placing this language in the bill is a strategic political effort that further highlights an escalating trend and effort to constrain and curtail full reproductive health and rights of American women. […] The term used in the bill, “unborn,” is not a medical or scientific distinction, but a political one. Politicians are now seeking to grant the “unborn” legal rights, but primarily in relation only to women. […]

Substantively, these efforts not only seek to grant legal rights and identities to embryos and fetuses, but they also seek to frame a conflict of interest between women, endowed with constitutional rights, and an embryo or fetus such that legislators will claim there is no difference in the legal status between a pregnant woman and fetus.
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The GOP tax scam has a "person-hood" bit that furthers their attempts at anti-woman and anti-choice (Original Post) Maraya1969 Nov 2017 OP
Fucking Christians. stopbush Nov 2017 #1
Are you Fuc**ng kidding?? No fucking way!! 58Sunliner Nov 2017 #2
So..No medical prescriptions for women of childbearing age? Deb Dec 2017 #3
How does this provision pass the Byrd rule test? Gothmog Dec 2017 #4

Deb

(3,742 posts)
3. So..No medical prescriptions for women of childbearing age?
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 05:17 AM
Dec 2017

Because your Dr. can never be quite sure of damaging a "4+ cell person".
Let the lawsuits begin.

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