Opinion | Conservatives’ junk science is having real consequences

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Opinion: Our states are laboratories — run right now by mad scientists

By Dana Milbank Dana Milbank Op-ed columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist May 17 at 4:19 PM Louis Brandeis imagined that states could serve as laboratories of democracy. At the moment, they are serving as a bunch of mad scientists.

Chambliss then argued that, under his law, women would be free to get abortions during this period of time — so long as they don’t yet know they are pregnant. So a victim of incest could get an abortion? “Yes, until she knows she’s pregnant,” he reasoned, as journalist Abbey Crain recounted. So, once an egg is fertilized, no more abortions? Chambliss floundered: “I’m at the limits of my medical knowledge, but until those chromosomes you were talking about combine — from male and female — that’s my understanding.” Contradicting himself, he also said that throwing away eggs that were fertilized in vitro wouldn’t land you in jail because “it’s not in a woman. She’s not pregnant.”

And Georgia, in its bill banning abortion after six weeks, designated “unborn children as natural persons” with “full legal recognition” — thus inviting questions about whether it’s legal for fetuses in the uteri of female inmates to be imprisoned without charges, whether women who have abortions could theoretically be charged with murder and whether, if a tax deduction is claimed for the unborn child, it would be repaid after miscarriages.

 

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And a lot of Egors,, 'yeth master'

You in need of a religion, then you will understand how babies arrive

And you just noticed ,it started about 29 months ago.

Not helping that media bias image arent ya.

Los Angeles opens new rodent breeding unit.

Just look at California and New York for 2 failed laboratories run by Democrats.

Because they are against murdering babies?

Junk science like life begins at conception? Are you also mad that people disagree with you about the Earth being flat?

You mean like actual, real, genuine HUMAN LIFE begins at the moment of conception?

Minorities have abortions 5x more often... Who's mixed up again?

Well there goes the latest GOP plan to begin mass breeding of storks to ensure that we have a workforce deep enough to handle the upcoming baby deliveries.

They are definitely mad, but the are absolutely NOT scientists!

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Opinion: As soon as L. Lin Wood teaches you the limits of your First Amendment propaganda the better off the nation will be! CovingtonBoys

I can't believe it. USA is going down in many sectors. Return far back...

Opinion: Our states are laboratories — run right now by misogynistic antiscience men that will burn down the lab, rather than capitulate to ignorance.

There is NOTHING scientific about these laws.

DemocRATs are destroying every city, county, and state that control.

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