On the flip side, it says that a person can use force, including deadly force, to prevent death or harm to themselves or another person.
So hypothetically, your doctor, is using lethal force, to prevent the person inside you from harming you.
Totally legal as the law is written.
IANAL ; best option is to move out of regressive states, and set the place on fire before you leave.
the law is a tool wielded against the working class by the ruling class, it will never protect you from them
to defeat fascism, you must organize. running away and random acts of violence accomplish nothing.
it is coming for you, wherever you run to.
join the IWW and get involved in local activist groups
From a practical standpoint how does one prevent the death of an unborn child via the use of deadly force against its mother?
I think its more about legalizing shooting doctors. What a healthy country we live in.
So is this just another one of those cases where Texas or one of the other mad Max worshipping chaos states, is trying to implement its law nationally.
Why stop there? They can’t work if their equipment and ward isn’t clean… kill the cleaners!
What about farmers supplying abortion doctors with food and goods?
Good point. Best shoot them too
It’s a law legalizing the murder of Planned Parenthood staff and Democrats who want to overturn the law.
Shhhhhh logic isn’t allowed in this bill
The purpose of their anti-abortion policies has always been to control women. They’re finally comfortable dropping the pretext of caring about babies.
That shows just how much they genuinely care for the life of the fetus. If the woman wants/needs to abort then it’s wrong. But if the woman wants/needs to abort then both lives are now forfeit
More accurately: someone raped a 14 year old girl, the pregnancy has become ectopic. The punishment for trying to save her life is worse than the person who raped a 14 year old.
Is this just a way to shoot your pregnant mistress for free?
Only if she’s trying to get an abortion
What’s she going to do? Testify she wasn’t?
I’m sure the burden of proof will be on the killer as is usually in self defence cases
We should probably try to find the girlfriend of this bill’s sponsor. I’m concerned for her safety.
Only if you leave her brain dead. You kill the baby as well and it’s first degree murder
It’s basically an excuse to shoot any woman, anytime, so long as you can conceive of a way to claim that you thought she was seeking an abortion. It would be a prosecutorial nightmare, at best, and open season on women at worst.
No, because that will terminate the pregnancy too. But since people are stupid, that’s how they will read it (as the upvotes prove).
It’s about shooting the doctor performing it and arresting women wanting it.
She doesn’t even need to be pregnant, you just have to claim to believe she was about to commit an abortion. Free women murders for everyone!
It’s worse when you realize the bill isn’t about the woman, but her doctor.
Well that explains why it’s ok to kill a woman and therefore her fetus to prevent her from killing her fetus. It’s not, but you can keep every abortion doctor in the area to prevent them from performing the procedure.
Do you have to have “standing”? Like do you actually have to even know the woman or is this just an open bounty on doctors?
We already have a shortage of doctors as a whole and obstetricians have been fleeing red states for years now…
Wouldn’t the use of deadly force to prevent the abortion actually aid the abortion?
Look, if they thought things through they wouldn’t be Republicans.
I’m increasingly the opinion that Republicans don’t actually know where babies come from.
I mean Republicans are stupid and all but I think they’re intending for this to be a deterrent. It’s a stupid and cruel deterrent, but it’s probably not meant to somehow kill the woman without killing the baby.
it might not be meant for that, but it will be used to excuse that
essentially through the entire pregnancy people will get to be terrified as all it’d take to legally murder them would be making them look like they wanted an abortion
I’m pretty sure that I saw a depressing statistic about the number of pregnant women getting murdered now. An unfortunate number of men murder their pregnant wives/girlfriends.
“Pro life”
It’s only pro life as long as the child is being carried.
Once the kids out, they don’t give a fuck about the woman or her child. They could both die, and they’d have no issue with it.
they don’t actually care about the child, or its mother, before it’s born, either. if they did, our health care system wouldn’t be a for-profit scam.
And they wouldn’t be letting people use deadly force on pregnant women.
A lot of the lobbying money for anti healthcare stuff comes from woowoo supplement companies etc. Imo we should be regulating the shit out of those companies at every level of government. Ban advertising for the products to prevent false claims, etc.
It’s only pro life as long as the child is being carried.
Not even then, at this point. Using ‘deadly force’ on a pregnant woman is not going to go well for the fetus.
How is this even pro life anymore T-T
It never was. “Pro-life” was just a weaponized slogan.
What they really stand for is “Forced birth” and “Promiscuous women should be punished”.
Promiscuouswomen should be punishedThere, fixed it for you. Nothing promiscuous about getting raped
Nothing promiscuous about getting raped
You and I know that, sure.
But conservatives love victim-blaming in rape cases.
“Did you see what she was wearing? Her collar bone and ankles were showing. Slut was asking for it, she probably liked it”
Ugh
I was actually quite stumped by the “abortion is murder!” argument initially as it can get philosophical quick on what constitutes a life that can be “murdered” (i.e. does it have to be birthed, walking, able, etc, this is a bad summary)— but the spike in alt right violence against women, children, and just people in general in the US made the hypocrisy glaringly obvious.
but the spike in alt right violence against women, children, and just people in general in the US made the hypocrisy glaringly obvious.
A woman’s chance of getting murdered while pregnant (already distressingly high) has already increased significantly in states that outlawed abortion.
Yep pro life ends at birth
Idk why babies don’t just pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Oh, I know. Just pointing out the duality of their bullshit.
“Pro quantity” vs “pro quality”.
“Pro Rape” imo.
Here is the proposed text of the NC state constitutional amendment affirming personhood at conception, then including:
Any person has the right to defend his or her own life or the life of another person, even by the use of deadly force if necessary, from willful destruction by another person.
Here is the NC Dept. of Health and Human Service’s required abortion information describing the state’s abortion laws. They ban after 12 weeks, with exceptions for rape and incest before 20 weeks, and life-threatening anomalies before 24 weeks.
Here from the Raleigh Observer quoting state democratic lawmaker Rep. Julie von Haefen:
Von Haefen said the bill is a distraction from other bills being voted on and passed, including multiple constitutional amendments concerning unions and taxes, at least some of which will be on the ballot for North Carolinians to weigh. She said the amendments “are being used to drive conservative voter turnout.”
And here is my take: NC state republicans use women’s healthcare as a political pawn for pushing anti-worker and anti-tax interests, which neatly encapsulates the US culture war for the past 60 years. This bill will not pass, because it is insane, but it may succeed in its intent: looting the pockets of the people of NC.
This bill will not pass, because it is insane, but it may succeed in its intent: looting the pockets of the people of NC.
how many times have we said “It wont happen, it cant happen, its too insane” in the past 10 years? only for it to very much happen?
Shoot for the Gilead. If you miss, you still land among the capitalist nightmare hellscape.
“Our first mistake was teaching them to read. We won’t do that again”
If it’s to drive voter turnout, it’s also to keep Roy Cooper from flipping a US Senate seat
Have you met the voters of North Carolina?
I swear to god they’re trying to legislate a civil war. They preach us vs them political rhetoric and want everyone running around with a gun. What a shit time to call yourself an American, but then again I’m not sure there ever was a good time.
I swear to god they’re trying to legislate a civil war.
Yes. Thats what they want. They want a mass uprising that they can use to suspend rule of law, elections, etc, so trump can become el’ presidente’ for life and commence to doing whatever the republicans want to do, free from oversight of law, courts, etc.
I suddenly want to play Tropico.
trump can become el’ presidente’ for life
Honestly, I wouldn’t be opposed to that, so long as the two-term-limit remains effective…
I think its also them seeing vigilantism as a way to get around constitutional requirements like due process and the 8th amendment. This is the kind of law people created by people who see the constitution as an obstacle.
It is somewhat comforting that they still see the constitution as a barrier to the hellscape they envision for society.
Playing around with the monopoly of violence in the US strikes me as a bad idea.
But yes, they’re mobilizing the klan again.
The kuck klan aren’t the only ones with firearms and unfortunately for them people that hate the klan are arming themselves at a high rate.
Lemme get this right…
If you see someone trying to kill a woman while claiming she’s trying to get an abortion, you can kill this attacker without issue under the legal classification of acting to protect two people, including a soon-born. Is this what Republicans want? To facilitate the legal argument to kill right-wingers? Because I’d be totally fine with that.
By similar logic, couldn’t one kill the legislators who passed this bill? They are clearly inviting violence upon pregnant women, so it should theoretically be legal to kill them in defense of those women if this bill passes.
don’t bring logic in here!
No, no, let em cook
you’d be legally right but the cops will still squeal up in their full military gear and shoot you all the same. Although to be fair they were probably going to do that anyway.
Yeah I mean, previous and current fascism being the same, having an extra legal avenue to kill a fascist is always welcome.
You can shoot someone who is threatening the life of another person anyway.
Or any doctor prescribed a morning after pill or installed a IUD
I can’t even… Use of deadly force to save a baby in a mother’s womb? Are you like supposed also do a C-section right there on the spot so that the mother dies but the baby is fine?
Keep in mind, this is deadly force to prevent an abortion. Abortions are only done during the time that child is unviable. Essentially no providers give abortions past 24 weeks. So, even if you use deadly force to prevent an abortion, the baby is pretty much gauranteed to be unable to survive outside the mother at that point. You are then undoubtedly killing both mother and fetus.
haha I hadn’t even factored that in, so insane…
Sounds like a fitting addition to the repo men scenario. Sadly this is reality.
Killing live people - women, children, POCs, poor, other countries, etc - has always been acceptable and even promoted by Republicans. It’s only ending potential pregnancies when they “care” about lives. Except of course when it’s their wife, mistress, daughter who wants an abortion, then it’s ok.
The Only Moral Abortion Is My Abortion
This is 26 years old and still worth your time if you’ve never read it.
If I were to summarize how this fits into long term republican vision of society it would be the following.
“Abortion, like healthcare, home ownership, and free speech is a thing we should reserve solely to for the wealthy and anybody making less than 2 million a year should not have access to any of these things”
2 million a year is a close to perfect way to divide the owning class for the rest of us. A surgeon has more in common with a grocery store clerk than a CEO and people really don’t understand that.
Honestly in some ways the actual number doesn’t matter, if you earn your living by selling your labor for a salary or wages you aren’t the problem
I would agree. The TEM (temporarily embarrassed millionaire) problem is particularly visible in corporate middle management and small business owners.
“Rules for thee, not for me.”
It should be remembered its always an elitist view when people view a subset of the population as unable to appreciate, unworthy to have or ‘going to far with’ a freedom.
has always been acceptable by
RepublicansAmericansFixed that for you
Doesn’t using deadly force on a pregnant woman defeat the purpose entirely?
Depends on what you think the true purpose of a law like this would be.
Not if you’re using deadly force against a doctor willing to perform an abortion, which is the more likely intent of the law.
Or the driver taking her somewhere. Or the person who called the driver.
And so on.
I didn’t even think of that. This is just gonna green light a lot of psychopathic behavior.
Shhhh, logic is not allowed here.
Using deadly force against a pregnant woman leads to a dying fetus. That’s just the same thing the long way around. It also gives an infinite loophole to use deadly force against someone using deadly force. Basically the whole country could kill itself legally, with only one person surviving 🤷🏻♂️
There is no purpose besides cruelty. Whatever the shittiest interpretaion is, that’s what the republicans are gonna want to go with.
“Republicans hate women”
I think even republicans know that republicans hate women at this point
They’ve never made a secret out of it. Anyone who doesn’t see that lives in denial.
