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MountainLaurel

(10,271 posts) Wed Apr 23, 2014, 11:51 AM Apr 2014

Remember the pregnant woman on life support [View all]

Who was kept on life support against her wishes to gestate the fetus she was carrying, until finally someone realized the fetus wouldn't be viable?

Well, a Democrat in Louisiana wants to make it law that pregnant women can't be removed from life support. The committee hearing is today.

http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=224060

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Remember the pregnant woman on life support [View all] MountainLaurel Apr 2014 OP

Will the insanity ever end???????????? theHandpuppet Apr 2014 #1

With things like this Proud Liberal Dem Apr 2014 #2

If you look just at the Louisiana legislature this session MountainLaurel Apr 2014 #3

and yet they mock us when we accuse them of waging a "war on women" Proud Liberal Dem Apr 2014 #5

To hell with what the grieving family wants, or what the woman's wishes may have been. hamsterjill Apr 2014 #4

And it passed with no objections MountainLaurel Apr 2014 #6

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