Bosma: "We're not making a determination about women's health. We are trying to protect the right of the unborn; they cannot speak for themselves." A-hole, who appointed you to speak for them?

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COMMENTS: 
*  Gov Pence is an IDIOT! Indiana is NOT a monarchy. Quit making decisions based on your own backward, fundamentalist Christian motives. Can't wait til you are out of office. You are a disgrace and make Indiana look like a bunch of morons. Pro-choice means we WOMEN decide what our bodies require.
*  I assume then, that the state of Indiana will make themselves financially and morally responsible for disabled and mentally challenged children whose mother requested an abortion which was denied from their birth until their deaths so the parent(s) will be able to cope with the hardships and the children will have every advantage possible. This should be included as part of any bill such as this passed by any state!
*  Is the state going to compensate these women with a severely disabled child for the rest her and the child's live assuming that the child survived past the first day? If they make the woman keep the child they better help her pay for him/her. One of the parents probably have to stay at home to take care of the child 24/7 for the rest of their lives and the medical bill is going to be HUGE. Oh no, of course not, these people only care that the child is alive, it doesn't matter that the whole family is suffering.
*  It is so nice that the republicans don't want to involve themselves in the personal lives of people.
*  These rich politicians could care less whether you can afford to raise a baby or not and why they want you to have it I will never know. All I know is being poor, broke, and unhealthy all your life. I would rather not be born at all. So could we please pass a bill that says that if you make less than $30,000 a year you get to place your baby on the door step of politician that makes over $100,000 a year?
*  So fi a woman is forced to have the baby and she dies while giving birth, do the politicians who forced her to have the baby, get charged with murder, it would only seem fair.
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Indiana Passes Anti-Abortion Bill so Insane That Even Anti-Choice Republicans Are Outraged
By Prachi Gupta, March 11, 2016

Indiana state Legislature has passed an anti-abortion bill so egregious that even ardent anti-abortion Republicans are concerned about the effect it will have on women in the state.

If House Bill 1337 is signed into law, abortions sought because a fetus has been diagnosed with a disability (such as Down syndrome) will be banned. Abortions sought over a fetus's gender, nationality, race, or ancestry will also be banned. Providers who perform such abortions could be sued for wrongful death. This bill also requires pregnant women to view the fetal ultrasound and hear the heartbeat at least 18 hours before the abortion procedure, requires providers to have admitting privileges at local hospitals, requires providers or individuals in possession of aborted or miscarried fetal to cremate or bury them, and criminalizes the transferring or collecting fetal tissue, which would become a felony.

If enacted, Indiana would become the second state (after North Dakota) to ban abortions of fetuses diagnosed with Down syndrome and other genetic disorders.

The bill has rattled several anti-choice Republicans. CBS reports that the abortion ban was sneakily introduced to the bill when it landed in the Senate, after the bill had already passed in the House. It was then sent for a vote in the House without any negotiation or debate.

Amazingly, anti-choice Republicans who oppose the ban sound like pro-choice feminists when they voice their complaints. Rep. Sharon Negele, a Republican who previously took aim at Planned Parenthood with an anti-abortion bill last year, told CBS, "The bill does nothing to save innocent lives. There's no education, there's no funding. It's just penalties."

Rep. Sean Eberhart, also a Republican, said that he discussed the bill with his wife - who is staunchly anti-choice. Even she found the bill abhorrent. "Today is a perfect example [of] a bunch of middle-aged guys sitting in this room making decisions about what we think is best for women," Eberhart said. "We need to quit pretending we know what's best for women and their health care needs."

The other provisions in this sweeping anti-abortion legislation bill aren't really doing women any favors either. The law will undoubtedly increase costs to women who have to travel long distances to abortion clinics or who have to pay for cremation or burial services, will emotionally burden women during their pregnancy, will impede honest communication between patients and their doctors, and will deter medical researchers from using or collecting fetal tissue for their work. These hurdles, sadly, are in line with the increasing number of anti-abortion restrictions that Republicans have been enforcing across America since 2010. The fate of some of these prohibitive laws currently rest at the feet of the Supreme Court, which last week heard oral arguments for a Texas anti-abortion law.

Indiana Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma is not thinking of the living and breathing women whose lives will be forever altered by these laws, however. Instead, he is thinking of the fetuses - or as he refers to them, the "unborn children."

"Those unborn children are Hoosiers and they have constitutional rights," he said after the bill's passage. "We're not making a determination about women's health. We are trying to protect the right of the unborn; they cannot speak for themselves."

The bill now goes to Governor Mike Pence for consideration.
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