State Republicans give Men the right to sue over Abortions, and take the word of cherry picked doctors over major Medical groups opposed to 20 wk abortion bill.

The instinctively brutal and punishing nature of the republican party is on full display now, and the state Capitol has never felt more repressive. The vicious attack on women's health choices borders on religious fundamentalism.

And Democrats, while putting up a great fight, failed to mention this important part of the 20 week abortion ban. Oops?:

Rolling Stone: Men can sue abortion providers for "emotional and psychological distress," The Huffington Post reports ... citing Guttmacher Institute data, "6 of the 11 states that currently ban abortion at 20 weeks post-fertilization -- Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma -- have similar language tucked into their respective laws that allow the parents to sue a doctor who performs an abortion after that point."

Sure it's unconstitutional, but that's the point. Republicans want to take this to the activist conservative supreme court, where outcomes are pretty easy to predict:

Twenty-week abortion bans are unconstitutional because they ban abortion before the point of fetal viability (today, considered to be around 24 weeks' gestation), the standard established for legal abortion in Roe v. Wade in 1973. As such, these bills, which have been enacted in over a dozen states and blocked in three, are designed to directly challenge Roe and ultimately end legal abortion in the United States.

Here's coverage from Madison's WISC and WKOW newscasts, along with a frightening Q&A showing the arrogance and callousness of the bills supporters:

While all the largest medical groups oppose the bill (like the Wisconsin Medical Society), we're supposed to write public medical policy on a few cherry picked like minded anti-abortion zealots (yes, they're doctors too). When asked why Republicans were ignoring the professional opinion of these groups, Sen. Mary Lazich didn't hesitate:

Crazy Sen. Mary Lazich: "I would put my trust in physicians that ah, that wrote this letter. I would want to be in their care if I were to be in a crisis situation...I would want them to be in the care of physicians that take the um, the life affirming approach."

In fact, Lazich "asked Tuesday why it mattered whether the bill was written by someone with medical training."

TPM:  The exchange began when state Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa (D) said: “Can I ask who wrote the bill and did they have medical training?"
“Who wrote the bill?” Lazich said. “Our drafting attorney wrote the bill. As all bills are written.”

“Do either of you have any medical training?” Zamarripa said.

“What does that have to do with the bill?” Lazich asked. “Do you have medical training?”

Lazich also dismissed the need to include a rape or incest exception in the bill, saying: “Rape and incest, people tend to deal with that in the very early stages — days, weeks.” Lazich’s comments come after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said Monday of the 20-week abortion ban that women mostly worry about rape and incest pregnancies “in the initial months.” On Friday, Walker said ultrasounds were “pretty cool,” when discussing the mandatory ultrasounds for women seeking abortions.