Republicans block attempt to add rape, incest exemptions to Missouri's abortion ban

[limbicnuminousity]

https://missouriindependent.com/2024/02/08/missouri-abortion-legislation-defund-planned-parenthood-defund/

As amendments aimed at legalizing abortion in cases of rape or incest were voted down, one Republican state senator defended the decision saying, ‘God does not make mistakes’

Republicans thwarted an effort to add rape and incest exceptions to Missouri’s near-total abortion ban on Wednesday but were unable to push a bill to bar Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements to a vote.

Under Missouri law, abortion is illegal except in cases of a medical emergency when “a delay will create a serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”


This is the kind of issue we need to be hammering home from now until November (and until it's fixed).

[Fla Dem]

1. You can bet any of their daughters got pregnant because of rape/incest

they would go out of state even out of country to get her an abortion.

[TSExile]

3. Exactly...

...pious hypocrites, the lot of them.

[Irish_Dem]

10. The GOP leadership knows these laws do not apply to them.

Their daughters, wives, girlfriends will have the best healthcare money can buy.
Abortion on demand, whenever and wherever they want it.

[Johonny]

2. They dont believe those are real crimes

Indeed they probably wish they could legalize them.

[TSExile]

5. Of course they do!!

I'm sure they want to bring back stoning women and girls in the public square, too!!

[dutch777]

4. OMG....what scum! God's will? They have lost any semblance of humanity.

[crosinski]

14. I'm with you

God's will - that line turned my stomach.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Props for consistency tbh

[limbicnuminousity]

8. Yeah, the R leadership and their supporters really seem to want to live like that.

[atreides1]

7. God makes mistakes...look at Trump!!!

"God" is an asshole and a total dick...and his mistakes have resulted in his followers murdering, raping(that's why rape isn't a mistake for these people), and torturing people.

[Marthe48]

9. more rwnj endorsing institutional oppression

The fascists are coming for you

[mzmolly]

11. Evil.

Thanks again to 'progressives' like Nader and Stein for their reassurances that it matters not who chooses our SCOTUS justices.

[Dorian Gray]

12. I'd like to think this will sink to the bottom of the ocean

like a 2000 lb turd, but I don't actually trust that the republicans will allow that to happen.

[Johnny2X2X]

13. Extremist

If Trump is elected, take the most extreme abortion laws you can imgaine and go further, that;s what the GOP will work to implement nationwide. Up to and including the death panelty for women who have abortions, and internment in camps for prgrnant women the ruling party deems at risk for wanting abortions.

[CousinIT]

15. Republicans consider women & girls livestock, not humans

Republicans consider women & girls livestock, not humans. Forced breeding/pregnancy/childbearing under any circumstance is acceptable to them as it would be for any herd of cattle.

[kimbutgar]

16. One could make great commercials attacking these anti choice repukes

Inferring in commercial a 10 year girl getting raped and forcing her to carry the rapists child. She’s in 5th grade and now has to drop out of school to carry her rapists baby under Missouri law, is this what you want for your daughter?

Because it could happen to your daughter, niece, grandchild or sister.

[keep_left]

17. Why? Because they think that women (or children!) would fabricate a fraudulent case...

...to the cops? And go through a sexual assault medical exam as well? All of that in order to procure an abortion?!

Oh, I forgot..."right to life" extremists are now trying to make this some kind of mainstream position. You can see it for yourself if you tune in radtrad Catholic networks like EWTN or Relevant Radio. And that kind of medieval thinking is found in the fundamentalist Protestant churches as well.

[Sugarcoated]

18. The bright side of this is

Women are holding them accountable at the polls and we keep winning elections