A GOP bill is moving through the Louisiana legislature that defines abortion as “murder” and will send women to prison for life, with no exceptions for rape or even saving the life of the mother. It also would imprison doctors for destroying in-vitro fertilization embryos, and ban Plan B[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Louisiana’
September 20th, 2022 - 12:21 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Louisiana Republicans go Taliban on abortions
Ban abortions or the sewer gets it!
No abortion enforcement, no flood control money. That’s the position of Louisiana attorney general Jeff Landry, a sanctimonious Republican anti-abortion zealot who’s flipping the (mostly black) citizens of New Orleans a big bird because their city government asked local law enforcers to [...]
Southern justice
“Louisiana man jailed for 44 years on rape charges is freed as prosecutor dismisses charges after judge calls for new trial” He’s black, of course. White people don’t get treated like this. “In 1977, it took just minutes for a jury of 11 White men and one Black woman to convict Simmons[...]
March 23rd, 2021 - 8:48 pm § in Law and Courts
The cost of an unconstitutional law
“Louisiana’s taxpayers could be forced to pay nearly $9 million in legal expenses after the state’s failed effort to enforce a 2014 abortion law … nearly identical to a Texas abortion regulation … struck down by [the Supreme Court] in 2016,” CBS News reported on T[...]
September 2nd, 2020 - 3:27 pm § in Politics
GOP congressman threatens to kill armed black militia with help of white vigilantes
He has no problem with armed white vigilantes. Never mind that where it’s legal for vigilantes to carry guns, it’s legal for protesters to carry them, too. This article contains liberal commentary. Facebook deleted his post; the image below is a screen capture. The “captain” [...]