Trial for women seeking abortion?!?!

[zakur]

http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/StateFS.asp?ID=68373

Georgia state representative Bobby Franklin, a Republican from suburban Atlanta, has introduced a bill that would require any woman who wants to get an abortion to go through a trial and have a judge sign a death warrant for an "execution" of the fetus.

Even abortion opponents in Georgia criticized the bill. It is unlikely that this ridiculous bill will pass, but that's beside the point. If the courts can sanction lawyers for filing frivolous lawsuits, why can't we sanction idiotic legislators for introducing frivolous bills?

 

[Blue Monk]

Yeah this smacks of of a political stunt rather than any real attempt at any serious legislation.

Also this idiotic behavior is a pretty good example of exactly why we should be allowed to make our own decisions free of pin-headed politicians with their own agenda.

 

[aerocontrols]

Yeah, it's a political stunt.

Sanctioning lawmakers for introducing frivolous bills is heading somewhere a democracy definitely doesn't want to go.

MattJ

 

[Advocate]

Sanctioning lawmakers for introducing frivolous bills is heading somewhere a democracy definitely doesn't want to go.

Well, the voters can certainly "sanction" them at the ballot box. But depending on their constituency, the bill may go over well with them. This kind of stunt often does.

 

[The Don]

And if appeals can go on long enough then the pro-lifers can ensure that the process lasts ong enough for the foetus to become viable and preventing the abortion taking place at all.

 

[Q-Source]

Georgia state representative Bobby Franklin, a Republican from suburban Atlanta, has introduced a bill that would require any woman who wants to get an abortion to go through a trial and have a judge sign a death warrant for an "execution" of the fetus.

Execution of the fetus ???

Ha,ha,...

It is so utterly ridiculous that it does not even deserves a comment from a woman like me.


Q-S

 

[Crossbow]

It is just a cheap political stunt designed to get him support from those who are very opposed to abortion.

Does anyone else remember a few years back when there was a North Carolina Legislator who blamed women for getting pregnant when they were raped?

Same thing.

Just more stupid, outlandish statements designed to generate support for an upcoming election.

Ugh!

 

[arcticpenguin]

Speaking of cheap political stunts: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=8&u=/nm/20030207/od_nm/flag_dc

A Maine state legislator wants to eliminate the sales tax on U.S. flags - except for people who burn them.

 

[Smalso]

When I lived in Florida in the late '60s, there was a news report that a state legislator was given a ticket by a state trooper for failing to signal before changing lanes. He promptly introduced a bill in the Florida legislature that would make it illegal to signal before making a lane change. (The bill went nowhere, of course.)

 

[Roadtoad]

What's more frightening? The fact that this idiot was able to present this bill in the state assembly; the fact that he'll probably be re-elected; or that this guy is getting any mileage out of it in the first place?

My vote is for the last one. This is such a transparent publicity stunt, you've got to wonder why anyone even gave this prig any press at all.

 

[Supercharts]

So pretend I am a woman...
"Will you 'Charts sign this order to execute your fetus?"
['Charts draws out her .45 Colt and 'cocks it'.]
"Knowing that you will kill an innocent child?"
[Charts points the pistol at the speakers groin]
'How could you do such a thing?'
['Charts pulls trigger - Bam!]
But that's just me. Others may have a different opinion.
['Charts wonders why someone who will not take the responsibility of rearing and nurturing a child who is not wanted seems justified it making absurd questions of responsibility to a classy chick. 'Men!' she says. Can't live with them and can live much better without them". 'Charts has a glass of wine...