Not all Republicans are racist, but all racists are cheering this Republican

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Same guy that just got the Arkansas Senate to ban abortion if a fetal heartbeat

can be detected (not that a heartbeat has anything to do with viability). In his opinion, if a 5 week old fetus is removed from a woman's body by God, it's a miscarriage and if done by a doctor it's murder.

On Wednesday, the Arkansas legislature lurched forward with a radical measure to ban most abortions if a fetal heartbeat is detected within six weeks of a pregnancy, a requirement experts say will force the state to insert a probe into a woman's vagina to detect.

The bill also penalizes doctors who perform abortions after the arbitrary cut-off date with a Class D felony, carrying up to six years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. The chief sponsor of the measure is Republican State Senator Jason Rapert, a fiddle-playing financial planner with his own evangelical outreach center that hosts mission trips to Uganda, Ghana, and the Philippines. He has been among the loudest anti-abortion politicians in the state, and has sponsored a number of other radical bills, including a very strange effort to organize a constitutional convention to give state legislatures power over the national debt limit.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/172584/meet-jason-rapert-koch-backed-evangelical-steering-arkansas-radical-abortion-restriction#