Meet Jim Olsen
Headline: CNN, 4.5.2022
Republican state Rep. Jim Olsen, the bill's principal House author, told CNN that he believes "rape and incest is a horrible crime" and though the baby is conceived in a "horrible situation," that it "still has a right to life." "The baby should not be liable for the sins of the father," he said. "It's still a life."
The bill's passage coincided with abortion rights advocates' protest on Tuesday at the Oklahoma state Capitol against restrictive abortion bills being considered this legislative session.
3/26/2022 update starts here.
Meet Joni Albrecht
Headline: 3NewsNow, 3/26/2022
Introduced by State Sen. Joni Albrecht of Thurston, LB 933 is a so-called “trigger” bill that would automatically ban abortion in Nebraska in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy if enabling national legislation were adopted or the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade guarantee of abortion rights.
That would effectively make abortion illegal in all instances in Nebraska
3/26/2022 update starts here
Meet Nancy Barto
Headline from NPR, 3/24/2022
But Sen. Nancy Barto, the Republican sponsor of the bill, has said she hopes the high court upholds Mississippi's law banning abortion after 15 weeks.
"The state has an obligation to protect life, and that is what this bill is about," Barto said during Senate debate last month.
She's also a homophobe.
3/23/2022 update statrts here
Meet Wendi Stearman
Headline from 19th News, 3/232/2022
Oklahoma’s lawmakers relied heavily on Texas as an example for their bill, with the Republican sponsor of HB 4327, Rep. Wendi Stearman, repeatedly citing the leading role that Jonathan Mitchell, a former Texas solicitor general, played in drafting Oklahoma’s legislation.
Abortion restrictions in states like Oklahoma, which has become a critical access point, would cause a ripple effect across the region. Oklahoma was one of several surrounding states that reported a massive influx of people crossing state lines after Texas’ law went into effect last September.
3/19/2022 update starts here
Meet Rebecca Alexander
Headline from The Guardian, 3/21/21022
“This bill is modeled directly after the legislation passed in Texas last year,” said the Republican Rebecca Alexander, the legislation sponsor, in a committee session. “Abortions since that bill has been passed have dropped 60% in Texas.”
Yes, but...
3/19/2022 update starts here
Meet Jean Schimidt
\Headline from The Highland Press, 3/18/2022
“With the U.S. Supreme Court hearing the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, there is renewed hope that states will once again be able to outlaw abortion and protect the most vulnerable in our society,” Schmidt said in a statement.
Schmidt’s bill would not only ban the abortion procedure, but also medications, instruments or devices “intended for the purpose of abortions.” The new legislation deems an organism as an “unborn child” from “fertilization until live birth.”
The only time an abortion is allowed under the bill is when two physician submit in writing that the abortion was necessary in their “reasonable medical judgment” to avoid death or serious risk to the pregnant individual.
3/17/2022 update starts here
Meet Max Wise
Dictionary definition of terrorism from Oxford Reference (highlights added)
Headline from ABC News, 3/16/2022
By taking preemptive action, Kentucky’s stricter ban would “withstand challenge and be immediately enforceable” if the Mississippi law were to be upheld, said Republican Sen. Max Wise, the bill’s lead sponsor.
Kentucky law currently bans abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Two states have enacted 15-week abortion bans — Mississippi and Louisiana, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.
3/16/2022 update starts here
Meet Stephen Harris
Dictionary definition of terrorism from Oxford Reference (highlights added)
Headline from ABC News, 3/15/2022
The bill is the first in the country to be modeled after the recent law passed in Texas that bans abortions after six weeks, before many women know they're pregnant.
Idaho's bill prohibits abortions after six weeks and allows the father, grandparents, siblings, uncles or aunts of the fetus to sue a medical provider who performs the procedure.
Family members can sue for a minimum of $20,000 within four years of an abortion. While a rapist wouldn't be allowed to sue, their family members could. [emphasis added]
Well, I guess that makes it all right!
Original 3/15/2022 post start here.
Meet Mary Elizabeth Coleman
Dictionary definition from Oxford Reference (highlights added)
Headline from Kansas City Star, 3/8/2022
Like a similar law in Texas, the prohibitions could only be enforced through lawsuits filed by citizens. State government would have no enforcement authority. The U.S. Supreme Court has, for now, allowed the Texas law to remain in effect while courts consider challenges to it.
But Coleman’s measure goes further by asserting authority over what happens outside of Missouri. “
If your neighboring state doesn’t have pro-life protections, it minimizes the ability to protect the unborn in your state,” Coleman told The Washington Post, which reported on her proposal earlier Tuesday.
In reference to WaPo headline: Lizzo supports a woman's right to choose.
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