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Arizona lawmakers gave final passage to three anti-abortion bills Tuesday afternoon, including one that declares pregnancies in the state begin two weeks before conception.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill to prohibit abortions after the 18th week of pregnancy; a bill to protect doctors from being sued if they withhold health information about a pregnancy that could cause a woman to seek an abortion; and a bill to mandate that how school curriculums address the topic of unwanted pregnancies.
The 18th week bill includes a new definition for when pregnancy begins. All of the bills passed the Senate and now head to Gov. Jan Brewer (R) for her signature or veto. Passage of the late-term abortion bill would give Arizona the earliest definition of late-term abortion in the country; most states use 20 weeks as a definition.
A sentence in the bill defines gestational age as "calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman," which would move the beginning of a pregnancy up two weeks prior to conception.
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MADem
(135,425 posts)HillWilliam
(3,310 posts)somewhere during the first beer. I guess that's what they mean when they say "arrive early and drink til they're purty".
polichick
(37,152 posts)BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)who are lured by evil women.
polichick
(37,152 posts)BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)WE DON'T NEED THEM.
polichick
(37,152 posts)Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)Someone failed biology class big time.
Wait a minute! Biology is SCIENCE. They probably just skipped it since science it the work of Satan.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,382 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I like your sunflower avatar, but have you retired that swell pic of your mom forever, or are you just switching up the avatars for a bit?
I liked that picture--she was a lovely young woman!
GreenPartyVoter
(72,382 posts)the pic of my mom, but now that my Dad is also gone I feel like I would be leaving him out. Unfortunately, to put a pic up of them together would be so tiny no one would be able to figure out what the pic is of.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Can't play favorites. Maybe you can incorporate them into your sig line...!
GreenPartyVoter
(72,382 posts)meow2u3
(24,774 posts)but this is absolutely insane! How are they going to enforce this? by putting cameras in every woman's bedroom?
Safetykitten
(5,162 posts)they are not THAT insane, are they?
CrispyQ
(36,540 posts)They truly believe we are property.
I lack words to express how much I loathe these assholes.
EC
(12,287 posts)I'd go out of state for prenatal care. Better yet, if affordable, I'd move out of state and never look back.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)kids I MAY have every year. That would be 12 kids a year over the course of 30 years of fertility. That would be 360 pre-fetuses for the state to allot me SNAP funds, welfare, housing subsidies and charitable donations.
These legislators are NUTZ!
EC
(12,287 posts)if you count every one of those thousands of eggs we expell every month.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)The lobbyists of Big Physics have always told us the Force is equal to mass multiplied by acceleration. I want that changed. I think force should be equal to mass squared, DIVIDED by 1/acceleration. If they can start pregnancies before the sexual intercourse takes place, surely they can also address my physics pet peeve.
I detest willfully stupid people, stress on the 'willfully' part.