North Carolina Republican wants "rape panels" to decide whether victims can get abortions

[Celerity]

Bo Hines pushes "community-level review" of whether individual survivors can terminate their pregnancies

https://www.salon.com/2022/11/02/north-carolina-wants-rape-panels-to-decide-whether-victims-can-get-abortions/



A North Carolina Republican congressional candidate floated a proposal to create a community review process that would determine whether survivors of rape and incest can get abortions.

Bo Hines, the GOP candidate for North Carolina's 13th Congressional District, wants to outlaw all abortions unless the mother's life is at risk.

"He wants victims of rape and incest to be allowed to get an abortion on a case-by-case basis through a community-level review process outside the jurisdiction of the federal government," local news outlet WRAL reported.

The proposal was widely panned by critics. Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall described the proposed review boards as "rape panels." "Something from a nightmare," wrote civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. So all your neighbors discuss the details of your rape, pregnancy and options?

[Celerity]

3. it's a dystopian nightmare

[hvn_nbr_2]

17. And in the end, they decide to burn the witch. nt

[Irish_Dem]

20. Same as Salem Witch Trials. Women killed/punished for made up sins.

The neighbors get some sort of gratification from all of it.
Back in the witch trials and now in the abortion trials.

Must be a real turn on to have control over young women.

[Turbineguy]

2. Where do these guys get these ideas?

[Ilsa]

4. They jackoff to them. nt

[Irish_Dem]

13. Yes the woman must relive all the details of the rape in public.

Sounds like rape porn to me.

[Celerity]

6. ...

[Irish_Dem]

12. Men who wished to control, humiliate, and subjugate women.

[vercetti2021]

5. I got a better idea

How about we have panels to discuss proper punishments to those who go against our constitution like oh I don't know...committing seditious conspiracy against the US? That would be fun. We decide what the punishment is for those who do such a treasonous act.

[Mr.Bill]

10. I like that.

Outside the jurisdiction of the federal government, of course.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. And next, they'll want panels to discuss every facet of your medical care, etc., every bit of it.

Abortion is only the start of this despicable trend, and it's ironic considering that one of the concerns/issues that they claimed that Obama Care would create is medical panels reviewing every facet of our care, and here they are, actually doing it. They need to have this tossed into their faces and throw their own words back into their faces w/ what they said back when Obama was pushing Obama Care for Americans to be voted in. They don't even know their own despised history (repugs).

[Lovie777]

8. Per media, women are not voting against this?....

[NickB79]

9. Nothing sick and creepy about this at all. Nope

Just a room full of mostly older men asking a young woman to tell them all the details about her rape. And definitely not getting a boner over it either. No, they just want to help. That's all.

: Sarcasm:

[allegorical oracle]

11. In the small rural towns around my area, everybody already knows all that. No need for

anything organized, like a panel. Hell, around here, there's no need for social media or telephones...word of mouth (true or not) spreads faster. That's why I stay to myself. Figure the folks around here think I'm a witch or something.

[MOMFUDSKI]

14. I will simply echo Joe Biden:

"Just who in the hell do these people think they are?".

[iemanja]

15. These are the death panels they claimed would accompany Obamacare

Now they can't wait to implement them.

[keithbvadu2]

16. Pro-life to conservatives/republicans is a myth.

Republicans are in favor of killing living babies and have done so.

Pro-life to conservatives/republicans is a myth.

The supposed pro-lifers cared naught when the state of Texas (republican gov, republican Prez) deliberately killed living baby Sun Hudson against the mother's wishes because he was an inconvenience to the state.

It is not a matter of life to the supposed pro-lifers.

It is a matter of control.

[Meowmee]

18. Hard to believe this insanity 😖

[Jersey Devil]

19. Unfortunately this is my Congressional District, NC-13

When we moved to NC 6 years ago we were in NC-1 and represented by Butterfield (D). That year we were moved to David Rouzer's (R) district (5), then again in 2020 we were moved back into NC-1 with Butterfield again. Now we are in the new NC-13 which is less Democratic than the district was as District 1 with only about a 2 point Dem advantage in registrations (it used to include the Raleigh area). I just hope this knucklehead Hines loses to Wiley Nickel, the Dem and we are not saddled with a right wing nutjob for our rep.

[dsc]

21. Believe it or not

this is an improvement over his original position which was a ban with no exceptions. Unfortunately he is slightly favored in his race (I live in an adjacent district). The district runs from Wake county (Cary, south Raleigh) all of Johnson County (very GOP) and parts of Wayne County (mostly Democratic parts). This district is a toss up but given the year not as much. If we win this district, then NC is likely to split 7-7

[Straw Man]

22. Lately I've been thinking ...

... that if there's no rape exception for abortion, then it could potentially lead to the death of the rape victim. So let's make rape a capital crime again, shall we? I mean, as long as we're supposed to be hankering after the "good old days" and all ...

[Emile]

23. Republicans have always been judgemental assholes! Smaller Government my ass!

[MissMillie]

24. This is what they call "small government" (n/t)

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[area51]

25. Madison Cawthorn II?