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GOP Proposes to Kill Women who Miscarry

By Glen Ashman

For anyone who thought Palin and Bachmann were the biggest nutcases in the GOP, the party has a bigger nutcase in Georgia.

From The Lookout:

...Georgia State Rep. Bobby Franklin, a Republican from Marietta, Georgia, has introduced a bill that would criminalize miscarriages, making abortion and miscarriage -- or "prenatal murder" in the language of the bill -- potentially punishable by death.  Under Rep. Franklin's bill, HB 1, women who miscarry could become felons if they cannot prove that there was "no human involvement whatsoever in the causation" of their miscarriage. There is no clarification of what "human involvement" means, and this is hugely problematic as medical doctors do not know exactly what causes miscarriages. Miscarriages are estimated to terminate up to a quarter of all pregnancies and the Mayo Clinic says that "the actual number is probably much higher because many miscarriages occur so early in pregnancy that a woman doesn't even know she's pregnant. Most miscarriages occur because the fetus isn't developing normally..."  last year Franklin -- a graduate of Covenant College who's served in the Georgia House since 1997 -- proposed a law that would reclassify victims of domestic violence as "accusers..." Franklin's online bio also states that he "has been called 'the conscience of the Republican Caucus' because he believes that civil government should return to its biblically and constitutionally defined role."

Details: Ga. lawmaker: Classify miscarriages as 'prenatal murder'

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Let me ask Bobby Franklin a question:

"Bobby: Since miscarriages are acts of nature, do you blame God and try him as the worst mass murderer ever?"

Frankly, it's pretty clear that Bobby is several fries short of a happy meal.  It's also clear that the GOP, if it does not want to be deemed to support this lunacy, needs to expel him from the party (which they have yet to consider doing).

Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on February 25, 2011 (boomark / email).