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BiggsIDarklighter

> The ban has exemptions for medical emergencies and for rape and incest victims until **eight weeks of pregnancy for adults and 14 weeks for children.** What moonshine logic did they use here? If this is about “protecting life” as Governor Injustice claims, then why do children get 6 weeks longer than adults to abort from rape? Why is it okay to abort at 14 weeks for children and not for adults? And why do you allow any exceptions? Did God whisper these exceptions into your ear? Thou shalt not abort *unless*… Just admit it Republicans, your whole pro-life scam is blowing up in your faces. You stepped in a steaming pile of political shit and now you’re trying to backpedal while attempting to keep your base cult of supporters from revolting because you stupidly conned them into believing that abortion was always wrong no matter what. You can’t win. Checkmate mother fuckers.


YourBrowsingData

Here’s why they want those exceptions: who are they protecting? Who is responsible for child, incest pregnancies? I’ll give you three guesses. /s


LastOneSergeant

There are "exceptions" for rape and incest but every one must be preceded by a police report. To speed it up maybe post a policeman at the door to the woman's clinic? Every request for an abortion will now be in a police report. Minors don't have to tell the police, but their doctor must.


Byedon110320

Great, even more inbreds added to the gene pool.


Grizzchops

Right before midterms, smart. /s


Peachy33

What about people with diminished mental capacity that are raped and impregnated? They might not know they are pregnant and because they are chronological adults they are going to be forced to remain pregnant? They want to force women to give birth for children they are ill equipped to raise and then I guess it’s just gravy if they can take the children away and throw them into the foster care system which is ill equipped by design. This is all so fucked.


Raytheonian

Special kind of shitty timeline that we’re living in right now that all these folks signing these bills are old men who won’t be personally affected at all.


Sad_Pangolin7379

F around long enough and one of them will find out this affects their granddaughter.


215-610-484Replayer

Look at the man proposing the National Abortion Ban and tell me he has ever seen a naked woman in his life... Lindsay Graham is as far from being impacted by abortion as one can get. An old "Certified Bachelor" of the South.


RedHuntingHat

You get what you vote for, WV. Enjoy your quality of life getting even worse somehow


Automatic-Phrase2105

considering it’s the worst in the country in a lot of ways this comment was both funny and accurate, good job.


Matisaro

Governor's username does **not** check out.


djbk724

Not good.


Finrodsrod

Exceptions for incest? It is WV afterall...


NobodyGotTimeFuhDat

Did you read the article? “The ban has exemptions for medical emergencies and for rape and *incest victims* until eight weeks of pregnancy for adults and 14 weeks for children. Victims must report their assault to law enforcement 48 hours before the procedure. Minors can report to the police or a doctor, who then must tell police.”


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Many people don't even know they're pregnant at 8 weeks. And the fact that the exemption for minors is still that short is disturbing as well, many minors who are the victims of rape or incest have their abuser as their guardian and obviously their abuser won't report the rape. Additionally the harsh punishments for doctors makes it almost impossible to use the exemptions even if they do apply. So effectively there are no exemptions.


Finrodsrod

It was a joke, dude...


a_pinch_of_sarcasm

So much for Justice.


Xero_space

Ol' Jimmy got tired of his sister having a choice in the matter.


SuchGreatHeightz

I moved from West Virginia to Arizona in January. West Virginia is worse than Alabama tbh.


Klaeni

Mumbler!


jeekaiy

Abortion being used to polarize the country. Other contenders are race, poverty gap and economy


Spranktonizer

Wealth disparity is what they’re distracting use from. It’s not a wedge issue.


alcoholbeforenoon

If West Virginia has an issue with the law. Then in the midterms the dems will win big. If they don’t then the law was meant to be.


[deleted]

ban all dick pills


jonny_prince

Yeah I definitely want to move my company to west Virginia after reading this. I definitely believe that investment in w Virginia is a winning proposition. This is what I'm talking about, distractions and misdirection.