Notice your period is late? That's too late for an abortion in Georgia

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

That means that bringing someone back from the dead is a technical paradox in itself.

The "you" in the title is rhetorical, you pedantic klorbag.

I get it now. It's like a poem, not meant to be taken literally.

[Antiboyscout]

It's almost like the medical and legal definition of death is for the person's heart to stop beating and this law takes that pre-existing definition into account.

But that's not the medical or legal definition of death. People get resuscitated every day after heart stoppages without triggering probate. Medically, death is the permanent cessation of all biological functions.

do we need to edit the law to include the reflexive "breathing" that fetuses do?

[Darth Wedgius]

So if I type all this and excess verbiage and find I should have ended the sentence long ago but I didn't because I didn't notice when I should have ended the sentence it'll be too late for me to end the sentence if I'm writing in Georgia

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

So if I type all this and excess verbiage and find I should have ended the sentence long ago but I didn't because I didn't notice when I should have ended the sentence it'll be too late for me to end the sentence if I'm writing in Georgia

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

That means that bringing someone back from the dead is a technical paradox in itself.

The "you" in the title is rhetorical, you pedantic klorbag.

I get it now. It's like a poem, not meant to be taken literally.

read it as "if one notices one's period is late" if that satisfies your nit-picking persnicketyness.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

That means that bringing someone back from the dead is a technical paradox in itself.

The "you" in the title is rhetorical, you pedantic klorbag.

I get it now. It's like a poem, not meant to be taken literally.

read it as "if one notices one's period is late" if that satisfies your nit-picking persnicketyness.

I actually don't think any of that really pertains to pedanticism or nitpicking.

[Darth Wedgius]

So if I type all this and excess verbiage and find I should have ended the sentence long ago but I didn't because I didn't notice when I should have ended the sentence it'll be too late for me to end the sentence if I'm writing in Georgia

I have to admit, you not only have a way with words,but a way without them.

[Madner Kami]

I just read a different article on that subject-matter and it points out, that the fetus is legally recognized as a citizen and full grown human being, thanks to the wording used in the law and that suddenly, Georgia has a very glorious problem at their hands, given they currently have a couple houndred legal citizens incarcerated, who never concievably could have comitted a crime in their less than 9 months of life. GG.

Fucking hell. Why do people feel the need to fumble around in this matter at all...

[Worffan101]

There is no way this will hold up in court. No freaking way.

Even if I weren't in favor of abortion on demand as an absolute right (I believe very firmly that as long as the fetus is inside the woman's body it's her absolute right of bodily autonomy to do with that fetus as she pleases), I'd be disgusted at this pathetic act of political gamesmanship that will only succeed in screwing over poor women for a few months.

[Steve]

There is no way this will hold up in court. No freaking way.

Even if I weren't in favor of abortion on demand as an absolute right (I believe very firmly that as long as the fetus is inside the woman's body it's her absolute right of bodily autonomy to do with that fetus as she pleases), I'd be disgusted at this pathetic act of political gamesmanship that will only succeed in screwing over poor women for a few months.

See, this is why I hate this entire topic. It takes two of my most dearly-held views - bodily autonomy and the sanctity of life - and pits them into intractable conflict with each other. If we go for life, we tell women they don't have the right to control of their own bodies. If we go for bodily autonomy, we undermine the sanctity of life by saying that new life exists solely on the sufferance of the mother, who can terminate that life at her whim.

All I can say is... someone light a fire under the scientists of the world so they'll get us a workable artificial womb, then we can make this argument moot.

Also, this law is like any bad law: it's written shabbily by ideologues more interested in scoring points than actually addressing an issue, since that would require real thought.