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Senate panel moves bill to criminalize certain abortions A legislative panel voted February 4 to make it a crime to terminate the pregnancy of a fetus with a genetic abnormality by declaring that it has the same legal rights as anyone else. SB 1457 would make it a Class 3 felony for a doctor to perform an abortion knowing it is being sought because of a genetic abnormality of the fetus. That carries a presumptive prison term of 3.5 years. The measure also would outlaw the use of telemedicine for medical abortions, precluding women from getting abortion-inducing pills through the mail. It also would require that any aborted fetus be either buried or cremated and impose new restrictions on public educational institutions from counseling or referring a woman for an abortion other than to save her life. ....
Capitol Media Services PHOENIX A legislative panel voted Thursday to make it a crime to terminate the pregnancy of a fetus with a genetic abnormality by declaring that it has the same legal rights as anyone else. SB 1457 would make it a Class 3 felony for a doctor to perform an abortion knowing it is being sought because of a genetic abnormality of the fetus. That carries a presumptive prison term of 3.5 years. The measure also would outlaw the use of telemedicine for medical abortions, precluding women from getting abortion-inducing pills through the mail. It also would require that any aborted fetus be either buried or cremated and impose new restrictions on public educational institutions from counseling or referring a woman for an abortion other than to save her life. ....
The struggle for religious freedom â from Thomas Jefferson to Black Lives Matter Out of America s paradoxical history of religious liberty comes a great push for Black freedom and racial justice January 23, 2021 5:08PM (UTC) Thomas Jefferson | Black Lives Matter Plaza poster is seen on a building on the 16th Street NW next to the St. John s Episcopal Church (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images) ....
(RNS) Since the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the Georgia pastor and Democratic senate candidate, described himself in a tweet on Dec. 9 as a “pro-choice pastor,” he has drawn fire from everyone from his Republican opponents in the state’s Jan. 5 runoff election, to a host of fellow Black ministers. Doug Collins, a GOP congressman Warnock defeated in a primary on Nov. 3, declared at a recent rally, “There is no such thing as a pro-choice pastor. What you have is a lie from the bed of Hell.” But the Rev. Cari Jackson, director of spiritual care and activism at the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, said there is no contradiction in supporting abortion rights while maintaining a Christian faith. ....