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.

Rep. Kremer: no exceptions for 20 week abortion ban, even for Fatal Fetal Abnormalities. Suggests Perinatal Hospice.

Wisconsin Republicans are about to go the full distance reigning a women’s right to choose. Get familiar with the term, “perinatal or prenatal hospice.” It’s another right wing excuse to intimidate and torture women victimized by a 20 week abortion ban.

  

There’s nothing wrong with perinatal hospice services for women dealing with fatal fetal abnormalities. For personal reasons, prenatal hospice might be one person’s answer. But in Wisconsin, it’s being used to justify a 20 week abortion ban and to appear sympathetic, all the while forcing women to carry their pregnancy to term.

From WPR News, this jaw dropping story and grotesque comment from Rep. Jesse Kremer.

“It’s assistance for the family…from the time that the diagnosis is made, through the entire rest of the pregnancy, through the eventual probable death of the child.”  

Brutal. Extending the sadness and helplessness for days and many weeks is beyond cruel and unusual punishment. 

Think Progress wrote about this trending anti-abortion twist of torment:

Two obscure abortion proposals are currently advancing in Oklahoma and Alabama that would target women during some of the most emotionally painful moments in their lives. Both bills seek to prohibit women from having an abortion based on fatal fetal abnormalities unless their doctor provides them with “alternate options” first — essentially, information about perinatal hospice centers … some women and their partners decide that it is too emotionally painful to continue the pregnancy, or want to spare their unborn child future suffering outside of the womb. Those people make the extremely difficult choice to terminate a wanted pregnancy because they decide it’s the most compassionate option for their family.

Makes sense, right? But republican politicians know what’s best, not women:

State lawmakers are ultimately suggesting that the women … should hear more information about perinatal hospice care. State-sanctioned language about carrying the pregnancy to term would simply insinuate they’re making the wrong decision, potentially putting them under even more emotional strain. Elizabeth Nash, the states issue manager for the Guttmacher Institute, told ThinkProgress, “It revisits painful issues that have already been decided. A woman has already ridden the roller coaster — she got a diagnosis, talked it over with her doctor, and made her decision… It doesn’t make sense to re-open these wounds.”

It’s easy to follow the slug like slim that trails former and current republican administrations:

In 2006, Minnesota was the first to enact a law requiring women to receive information about perinatal hospice centers. Then Kansas followed in its footsteps in 2009. Arizona passed its own version in 2012 … thanks to Americans United for Life (AUL), an anti-choice organization that typically shops around draft legislation for state-level abortion restrictions. AUL produced a legislative guide for the 2014 session to encourage more lawmakers to introduce “perinatal hospice information” bills.

Is there ever an original idea from these freeloading big government one-size-fits-all republicans? 

Walker's 20 Week Abortion Ban another Non-Answer before Election, now he's sure?

WPR's Shawn Johnson brought a little sunlight to slick Scott Walker's sudden commitment to 20 week abortion ban:

Gov. Scott Walker's announcement that he will sign a law that would ban abortions after 20 weeks came a day after he'd been called out by a national conservative group for not doing enough to stop abortion. On Monday, Frank Cannon of the American Principles Project blasted Walker for not taking a harder stand against abortion ... The very next day, Walker's campaign promised to do just that.

Johnson then pointed out Walker's non-answer before the Journal Sentinel board during his campaign for another term, a touchy subject he knew could blow up...here's the audio with Shawn Johnson's report and video clip of the Journal Sentinel Q&A of slick Scott:

Walker repeatedly declined to say whether he'd support banning abortions after 20 weeks.

"Those are all things we'd have to look at in a future session out there," he said.

This latest move by Walker also came after he promised to sign a right-to-work law, despite saying for years that right to work would not happen under his watch.