Georgia set to ban almost all abortions after 6 weeks

Such deliberately emotive language used in that quote TurboTeddy.

The idea that people might think that, oh ok, only a few women would die, that's totally fine then. It's hideous. And it is scary. No need to try to scare anyone, their legislation does that all on its own.

You are just trying to scare people. Women would be helped in medical cases and very few women would die. Less than a hundred women died before roe vs wade. This is about protecting the unborn child who is routinely killed for a mothers sex life.

This is one of the comments on twitter. Chilling that someone should think that in one of the most advanced nations on earth that women dying of a preventable cause is acceptable. They seem confident that it would be "very few" women , surely one is too many when the medical technology exists to prevent it.

Women in Georgia will hop over to the next nearest state to get an abortion then.
Abortion is ridiculously politicized in America.

Michelle for presidency. Please.

Perhaps these religious types think that any resulting babies should be handed over to good pious families to raise properly. In true Gilead style.

Surely this will just cause some women to resort to unsafe abortions?

I’m also yet to see any pro-life groups who are also pro-benefits etc to help women raise the children they were forced to give birth too.

Try being a feminist living and working in Georgia - dystopian doesn't quite cut it. There were fireworks here on Friday night celebrating.
Our local Planned Parenthood has more protesters than patients and the protesters are far from pleasant.
The religious force down here is very powerful and the Gov. is unapologetically ambivalent to women's rights and if you don't know him, check out his campaign videos:

The article says "A woman may terminate her pregnancy in cases of a documented medical emergency, or if she is a victim of rape or incest"

It doesn't even make any sense from the point of view of those who are pushing this legislation through. They say they value life, and that's why they want to ban abortions. But not if that life was conceived in a way they deem unacceptable.

Will women with ectopic pregnancies have to wait until it has reached a medical emergency before they can be treated? Or a partial molar pregnancy where there is a heartbeat?

Why do the public in these states vote in these people? Is it really the majority view of the electorate on those states?

Argh this is making my blood boil. I don’t understand how America can be digressing so badly. It’s actually horrific.

And absolutely agree, @Biologyisreal they don’t know if the pregnancies they aborted would have been regretted any way so it’s a complete non-argument!

Women will die. How is this about right to life?

Fucking hell. Just awful.

Also - six weeks is when the heartbeat starts. So if this doesn’t happen, you might be carrying a non-viable pregnancy which won’t ‘naturally’ fail for some time.

Is there any allowance for this?

Notice the placard carriers saying "I regret my abortion". So once they have taken advantage of the freedom to have an abortion they want to deny it to everyone else.

Urgh. Welcome to Gilead.

Absolutely appalling. State sanctioned misogyny.

Oh Crikey. When I read this i thought it meant Georgia the former Soviet Republic :(

Very disturbing. There really is a war on women from all sides currently.

We were discussing this at work the other day. I'm sure it's one of a number of attempts to force a case all the way up to the Supreme Court so the right-wing majority on there can overturn Roe v Wade.

6 weeks - since pregnancies are dated from the last menstrual period, that's 2 weeks after the date you'd be likely to test assuming you had regular periods and a fairly stable lifestyle and were keeping track.

In reality, many women won't even realise they're pregnant till after the date at which they could legally have an abortion in Georgia.

Oh this is really awful. Incredibly depressing.

Well that’s incredibly depressing and misogynistic.

“The legislature’s bold action reaffirms our priorities and who we are as a state,” Kemp tweeted Friday.

Yeah we know exactly what you are. Funny how pro-lifers couldn't give a shit about actual existing women.

This makes me more angry than I know how to say.