Questions for ND

For the Reps and potential-voting Senators, that is. And, I suppose, anyone who supports this legislation.

So you (the Reps) have just passed something that says fetuses have personhood/legal rights. When do these rights start? Conception, right? Perhaps one day when there will be a test for that. I suppose that means they retroactive then, from a positive pregnancy test? When will an embryo get its social security number? How many more government officials will you be paying to deal with this? Speaking of giving embryos SSNs, what are you planning on doing for the ones that are frozen in the IVF clinics in your state? What, again, were you planning with regards to infertility treatments?

Since a woman's body is giving life to the embryo or fetus via the placenta/umbilical cord/blood/uterine environment and this embryo or fetus has full rights of personhood, how will the woman then be monitored? If she eats something like, oh, sushi...will she be fined? After all, you aren't supposed to do that as it could be dangerous to the embryo/fetus and the embryo/fetus is a full legal person that one cannot submit to harm. How much is too much Starbucks? Again, how will this be monitored?

Also, how much more money will have to be put into Medicaid and the like to pay for all the women now legally forced--yes, that's what it is--to give birth? How much are you going to raise taxes to pay for more hospitals, more doctors, and more clinics? Oh and I'm sure the over-burdened and under-funded foster care system thanks you.

Speaking of harm, what about miscarriages? If an embryo/fetus has full legal standing as a genuine/individual person, the its 'death' will need to be investigated via autopsy. When I miscarried, I started bleeding on a Wednesday. I went in for my ultrasound on Thursday where it was confirmed. I couldn't get into see my ob/gyn until very early Friday morning, which by then I had naturally passed everything (into the toilet). Should women who face the same situation straddle a bucket to bleed in? Keep her pads? Take the contents to the police? The contents of such will need to be investigated to make sure that there was no foul play involved, as again, an embryo/fetus is a full legal person whose death would warrant an investigation and, eventually, death certificate (which, btw, are not given for miscarriages now). How much more money will this cost? These ideas were submitted before the VA state legislature some time back, btw, if you recall. But also necessary if declaring embryos full-fledged people which you are doing.

So. An embryo is a person of legal standing and abortion is murder. Ok then. Murder is a very serious crime. So, somehow or another, a woman is 'caught' trying to abort (or aborted). Perhaps the tox screen of her miscarriage contents show black cohosh. Maybe she showed up septic at the hospital with a partially done abortion like so many women in the mid-late 20th century. Either way, she's guilty of trying to or already committing murder under your new legislation. Where are you going to put all these new prisons? How are you going to pay for them? If "abortion is murder" there must be criminal investigations, trials, more prisons, and it all has to be paid for.

So you have more social workers, more foster stipends, more hospitals, more clinics, more welfare needs for those who don't relinquish, more police time in criminal investigations, more DA's to prosecute, more prisons...so what programs in ND are going to get the axe to pay for all of this?

Let me know what you come up with. I'm sure it will be something of the same stunning caliber as the initial law you retrofuck, mysoginistic assholes just passed.