New Law Lets Dads Veto Abortions

[Native]

A new Arkansas law bans one of the safest and most common abortion procedures and allows family members to block an abortion by suing the abortion provider.

Arkansas Act 45, signed by Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson last Thursday, bans dilation and evacuation abortions, the most common abortion procedure during the second trimester of pregnancy. Rushed from filing to law in less than two months, the legislation effectively blocks abortions after 14 weeks by making the safest procedure a felony. The earliest current abortion bans block the procedure after 20 weeks.

With no exception for rape or incest, and a clause that allows a woman’s spouse or parent to sue an abortion provider, the law potentially allows the fetus’s father to sue even in cases of spousal rape or incest, abortion rights activists say. The law could go into effect as early as spring.

Realistically, under the new legislation, “the only option that anyone in Arkansas would have would be to leave the state,” Musick said.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/02/new-law-lets-dads-veto-abortions.html

[izzybella]

1. That's repulsive!

That would mean expensive and invasive paternity testing for pregnant women or a man having a say over a woman with only his word as proof that he is the father.

Only a heartless idiot would give a rapist any control over his victim. Disgusting!

[Native]

2. it extends to the pregnant woman's parents as well

[shenmue]

3. Horrible

[TlalocW]

4. Need to get this to the Supreme Court fast

Before whatever Trumpista is installed.

TlalocW

[elehhhhna]

5. An emergency hearing in a lower court will stop this before it's implemented.

[Initech]

6. This is so wrong.

[smirkymonkey]

7. This has nothing to do with being pro-life and EVERYTHING to do with

hating women. I so hate these motherfuckers!

[JHan]

8. Yep +++

[ProfessorGAC]

9. If You Can Find Them

It's not a state secret that some guys take a powder if they know a woman is pregnant and the baby is from them.

Happens all the time. So, in those circumstances, what would the law suggest. A nationwide manhunt at taxpayer expense for a guy who ran from any responsiblility he may have?

Stupid proposal

[sarcasmo]

10. Christian Theocracy.