Clay Jones for May 16, 2019

Just castrate ‘em all.

Where is the penalty for the fathers?

GOP wants to track every woman’s sex life but they can’t show us Trump’s taxes.

The GOP’s is certainly doing a bang up job of suppressing women and their rights…hurling them into the ancient times of non descriptiveness.

Someone really needs to point out the differences between the Republican Party, and the Taliban, or ISIS… if you can FIND ANY DIFFERENCES!!!

Towns that border Alabama are going to see a rapid increase in clinics opening.

“Welcome to Alabama, where it’s STILL 1845! Come for the heat, stay for the hate!”

THERE’S the new slogan for the Alabama Department of Tourism!

The Republican Party is in the hands of religious extremists.

Alabama needs women voters…

This country has been going backwards for awhile now.

Republicons love America. America of the 1800’s that is.

Republicans always do this to women.

Talabama

You see what Republican Sharia law is like.

Pro-life groups, domestic terrorists.

Next the American Taliban will be publicly whipping women for wearing too much make up or exposing an ankle in public.

and put them up against the wall street and shoot them all to hell.

how to castrate the bull of wall street

Having had friends die of pregnancy, having known someone refused an abortion by a judge even though every physician who addressed the court said that neither she nor the fetus would survive the pregnancy, but if it was terminated then at least she would survive, and knowing that of the world’s industrialized nations the U.S. has the worst complication and survival stats, I can not help but be appalled by the recent states’ restrictions. (In Georgia a woman who has a miscarriage will actually have to somehow prove that she did not get an abortion. How does a person prove a negative? I ask that as someone who miscarried and who certainly has known women across the generations who have done so since it is not a particulary unusual outcome.)

If heartbeat defines life then people with brain dead family members who still have a heartbeat will be committing murder if they choose the mercy of removing life support, won’t they? On that regard, what will that do to organ transplant needs? It will worse that chance, won’t it, thereby resulting in deaths which could have been avoided due to one un-thought-out definition of life.

https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Neural_System_Development

Here you can see what the fetal brain (actually not really a brain yet early on) is like and its sizes at ages 6 and 8 weeks compared to late in pregnancy but still before birth:

Go to the link for image of the relative brain size embryonic (week 4, 5, 6, and 8) and late fetal (third trimester)

No one knows when the ability to feel pain might begin but there may be developmental reasons to think that week 26 is possible (so many countries require pain meds from week 22 on if surgery is done for any reason to give an extra month of being safer on that score) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440624/

Note that the fetal brain does not reach a level of development where it can even begin controlling some functions till much later, week 27:

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002398.htm

This is an interesting piece on some additional considerations associated with defining personhood according to humans with a heartbeat. It might be that Alabama of one the others using that definition (if their definitions survive the courts)may become the safest place for a pregnant woman who is otherwise at risk of deportation to be during her pregnancy, because if the fetus is a person then deporting her would also amount to deporting someone recognized as a person under the laws of those states and therefore violating that fetus’ rights:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/if-a-fetus-is-a-person-it-should-get-child-support-due-process-and-citizenship/2019/05/17/7280ae30-78ac-11e9-b3f5-5673edf2d127_story.html?utm_term=.2faf54dd1697