Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant just signed into law the what news reports are saying is one of the strictest abortion bills in the nation, banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
This means that, by conventional methods, abortions would be banned after only six weeks of pregnancy!
Here’s more from Reuters:
Mississippi’s Republican governor signed one of America’s strictest abortion bills on Thursday banning women from obtaining an abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can often occur before a woman even realizes she is pregnant.
Dubbed the ‘heartbeat bill,’ this is the second legislative attempt in less than a year aimed at restricting abortions in a state with a single abortion clinic.
In a tweet earlier this week, Governor Phil Bryant thanked the state’s legislature for “protecting the unborn” by passing the bill and sending it to him for his signature.
The Mississippi law joins a wave of similar Republican-backed measures recently introduced in Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia.
Conservative Republican proponents say these bills are intended to challenge Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark ruling that women have a constitutional right to an abortion.
U.S. states are jostling for a showdown on abortion rights in 2019, with all eyes on the conservative-dominated Supreme Court.
Just last November, a U.S. federal judge struck down a Mississippi law banning most abortions after 15 weeks, ruling that it “unequivocally” violates women’s constitutional rights.
I’m sure this is intended to setup a legal challenge that hopefully goes to the Supreme Court. And I welcome that.
But the purpose of this law is primarily to protect these innocent little unborn babies from the murderous left. To suggest that this is just about the Supreme Court is disingenuous.
It continues…
The new Mississippi bill prohibits the abortion of a fetus with a detectable heartbeat, before the point where a woman may be aware she are pregnant.
It also states that any physician who violates the restriction is subject to losing the license to practice medicine.
The law makes exceptions for women whose health is at extreme risk.
Of course the left is already threatening to sue:
“This ban is one of the most restrictive abortion bans signed into law, and we will take Mississippi to court to make sure it never takes effect,” Hillary Schneller, staff attorney at the global abortion rights advocacy group Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement.
“This ban — just like the 15 week ban the Governor signed a year ago — is cruel and clearly unconstitutional.”
The governor responded to this threat like a champ!
We will all answer to the good Lord one day. I will say in this instance, “I fought for the lives of innocent babies, even under threat of legal action.” https://t.co/4bHEmCqN74
— Phil Bryant (@PhilBryantMS) March 20, 2019
That’s right! This has everything to do with God and protecting HIS precious creation. Amen Amen Amen!