By Jacqueline Kantor and Reis Thebault Reis Thebault National and breaking news reporter Email Bio Follow May 29 at 7:19 PM BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana state legislature on Wednesday passed one of the country’s strictest abortion bans, advancing the bill to the Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, who, like a coterie of conservative executives before him, has said repeatedly he would sign it.
Nationally, however, Edwards, state Sen. John Milkovich, the Democrat who sponsored the bill, and other antiabortion Democrats have become unlikely intraparty combatants in a debate that has grown increasingly partisan. The legislation, a so-called “heartbeat" ban, resembles other bills passed this year in deep-red states that could outlaw abortions after an ultrasound is able to detect the electric pulsing of what will become a fetus’s heart, a milestone that can come at six weeks — before many women even know they’re pregnant.If signed, the ban would join a number of antiabortion laws already on the state’s books, many of which made it there with bipartisan support.
The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Katrina Jackson, another Democrat, said in an interview with The Washington Post before the vote that she plans to support the six-week ban, too. Her party’s preferences are no match for her own deeply held religious beliefs. “Things have become incrementally worse, and then suddenly catastrophic,” said Katie Caldwell, the clinic coordinator at the Women’s Healthcare Center in New Orleans.
Before any of the cases makes it to the Supreme Court, an appeals court judge would have to defy federal precedent and uphold one of the bans. The process could take years, and on Tuesday, the justices issued a compromise decision on an Indiana law that signaled they might proceed slowly on other abortion cases.
Give him Stockton's slap it should hlep!
Let this be a lesson, Democrats. “Pro-life” = anti-woman, and has no place in a party that claims to know our secular constitution. Theocratic fascism kills women and criminalizes pregnancy. It is their bodies the system will destroy, while swallowing the democracy.
ReisThebault traitor to women of both parties shame on him
Defy? Are you not allowed to have your own opinion in the D party?
Another Klansman drooling and slathering at the possibility that all the rape babies he can make WILL be born, carry his genes, and, he thinks, his hate. When will we go after the real problem? Acknowledge the KKK is behind all of this with their infiltration and Dominionism!
Good for him, finally a good democrat.
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