North Dakota Personhood Measure Passes State House

[Michelle420]

North Dakota became the first state on Friday to pass a fetal personhood amendment, which grants legal personhood rights to embryos from the moment of fertilization. The state House of Representatives voted 57 to 35 to pass the amendment, after the Senate passed the same measure last month.

The measure will now appear on the November 2014 ballot, and voters will be able to accept or reject it. If it passes, it will amend North Dakota's constitution to state that “the inalienable right to life of every human being at any stage of development must be recognized and protected.” The amendment would ban abortion in the state, without exceptions for rape, incest or life of the mother, and it could affect the legality of some forms of birth control, stem cell research and in vitro fertilization.

North Dakota Personhood Measure Passes State House

 

[FA_Q2]

The amendment would ban abortion in the state

Well… no it wouldn’t as the courts have been quite clear on this matter. Such may pass (and I am appalled that it has managed to make it this far) but in the end it is going to mean nothing.

 

[Stephanie]

they should name this place the hufferpost the 2nd

 

[Michelle420]

they should name this place the hufferpost the 2nd

How does this have anything to do with the thread topic Stephanie?

 

[Noomi]

It'll be overturned.

 

[boilermaker55]

stephanie never has anything intelligent to say only sarcasm.

they should name this place the hufferpost the 2nd

How does this have anything to do with the thread topic Stephanie?

 

[Agit8r]

Might as well change the name to Dakotastan

 

[Mr. H.]

Liberals are a voice to be reckoned with, unless they can't speak for those who have no voice.

That's when they have no voice for the speechless.

Can any Liberal here speak for non-voices?

Nope.

Because those with yet-to-be voices have not vote.

 

[Mr. H.]

A vote in-vitro is a vote best left un-lost.

Kill or killing, faster sins correct the flow...

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[Mr. H.]

Peaceful lives will not deliver freedom.

 

[Mr. H.]

Burn their children's laughter on to hell..

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The amendment would ban abortion in the state, without exceptions for rape, incest or life of the mother…

Which would render the amendment un-Constitutional:

A finding of an undue burden is a shorthand for the conclusion that a state regulation has the purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus. A statute with this purpose is invalid because the means chosen by the State to further the interest in potential life must be calculated to inform the woman's free choice, not hinder it. And a statute which, while furthering the interest in potential life or some other valid state interest, has the effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman's choice cannot be considered a permissible means of serving its legitimate ends.

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992)

 

[Mr. H.]

All life is viable.

We put more effort into preserving the life of tree frogs than we do our own human progeny.

 

[Mr. H.]

Human progeny... the last vestige of hope... after of course the ruffled grouse. Or the snail darter. Or the spotted owl.

 

[Mr. H.]

The fetus beatus to the punchus.. and it has no gratus.

Can't let the unborn beat you to the punch.

Stay ahead of the undead. The pre- undead.

The pre undead. That's the fetus.