In Alabama Proposed Law Would Allow State To Appoint "Fetal Lawyers".

[TheMastersNemesis]

Right to lifers get more imaginative every day. Allowing the state to appoint a "fetal lawyers" to challenge women wanting to exercise their right to choose. What about "sperm lawyers" or "egg lawyers. Lets go even further to have sex referees to make sure all acts are for procreation.

[niyad]

1. well, that would certainly help solve the short-term unemployment problem there, wouldn't it?

[niyad]

2. are all the law schools going to have classes in how to be a "fetal lawyer" now, or will that be

the province of oral roberts and liberty u?

[kelliekat44]

3. I want a lawyer for my pet rock. nt

[MH1]

4. Rec for exposure.

Ugh.

[sakabatou]

5. WTF?

Do you have a link?

[Initech]

7. Jon Stewart covered this pretty heavily on the Daily Show last week.

I'll post a link to the clip later.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. Here is as podcast on this topic.

Penalizing Pregnancy: Lynn Paltrow on the Fight for Reproductive Justice

The effort to overturn Roe v. Wade and criminalize abortion has spiraled into challenging not only women’s right to abortion, but a women’s right to carry her baby to term. Across the country, women who seek medical help for pregnancy complications are being met with incarceration and outrageous sentences, all without proper representation. According to this week’s guest, if a woman would like to give birth in America, she needs to be prepared to surrender her basic liberties.

Here to discuss the fight for women’s pregnancy rights is Lynn M. Paltrow, founder of National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW), a nonprofit civil rights group that advocates for pregnant and parenting women. Paltrow has also served as a senior staff attorney at the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project, as Director of Special Litigation at the Center of Reproductive Law and Policy and as Vice President for Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood of New York City. Paltrow has not only done extensive work in challenging the restrictions placed on the right to choose abortion, but also fights the prosecution and punishment of pregnant women seeking to continue their pregnancies to term.

http://www.pointofinquiry.org/penalizing_pregnancy_lynn_paltrow_on_the_fight_for_reproductive_justice/

[TheMastersNemesis]

9. On Crooks & Liars. Had Trouble w/Link.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. This is already happening in other states.

The right wing religious theocrats are using child abuse laws to do an end run around women's reproductive health rights. Only affects poor people of course, who can't afford to hire their own advocate, so instead you have the state arguing the entire case with the "fetus" and the state both represented by lawyers and the woman not represented at all.

Best to not mock those vile religious motherfuckers either, their fee-fees might get hurt.

[Historic NY]

10. I sorry I thought it said..

fecal lawyers.