Posts Tagged extremisim

If Georgia criminalizes miscarriage, will used tampons become evidence?

You know a bill is bad when completely outlawing abortion is not even the worst of it.

The Georgia bill, proposed by Rep. Bobby “rape victims aren’t victims” Franklin, would make abortion a felony, potentially punishable by death, and require that all miscarriages be investigated to ensure they were not caused by any “human involvement whatsoever.”

Now Franklin is known as an extreme fringe politician and, obviously, a bill that makes a legal, medical procedure a crime punishable by death is going nowhere fast. (I hope, at least–these days it really does feel like any fresh new horror is possible.)

But I still think it’s important to highlight bills like this because they illustrate ...

You know a bill is bad when completely outlawing abortion is not even the worst of it.

The Georgia bill, proposed by Rep. Bobby “rape victims aren’t victims” Franklin, would make abortion a felony, potentially ...