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One of the problems of a weekly publishing cycle is that a lot of political stories go cold before you go live. But dangit, I interviewed the Pro-Life Unity woman, I wasn’t going to drop that footage in the archives. So this week’s MTV piece:

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For the out-of-Georgia readers, some background:

While the goal of HR536 is ostensibly to end abortion, its definition of life at the earliest possible biological stage — and the attachment of “the inviolable right…to life” to that moment of fertilization — would effectively mean that several forms of birth control, including some hormonal pills or shots and intra-uterine devices (IUDs), which prevent implantation of the early blastocyst into the uterine wall (thus preventing pregnancy), are terminating human life. According to HB1, which also states that a “fetus is a person for all purposes under the laws of this state from the moment of conception,”

‘Abortion’ means the intentional termination of human pregnancy with an intention other than to produce a live birth or remove a dead fetus…. Such term does not include a naturally occurring expulsion of a fetus known medically as a ’spontaneous abortion’ and popularly as a ‘miscarriage’ so long as there is no human involvement whatsoever in the causation of such event.

Thus, intentionally taking or using a form of birth control which by its nature interferes with a fertilized egg, zygote, or blastocyst after “the moment of conception,” could be considered an abortion. HB1 continues,

Any person performing an abortion in this state shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided in subsection (d) of Code Section 16-5-1.

Section 16-5-1 (d) applies to felony murder, punishable by death or life in prison.

And the language is open enough to leave one to ponder whether a woman who refuses to give up her morning cup of coffee and then suffers a miscarriage would be guilty of the “human involvement whatsoever in the causation” of an abortion.

Tea and cake or death! Tea and cake or death!

The Pro-Life Unity woman — a 31 year old mother of 6 who clearly enjoys defining “persons” as often as biology will allow — said this was all part of the eugenics movement that started in the 1800s to “exterminate the blacks” and the weeds of the poor classes, and it’s created a big “hole in the work force” which we don’t miss ’cause we have all them illegal aliens coming in.

See, if you’d stop aborting all the black babies, you could put them to work on the farms, I guess. Wait, what?

And of course, the real cure to the eugenics problem is to outlaw abortion so that poor women who don’t have the same access to birth control are forced to have poor babies, and not to do something about poverty so that working class women could afford birth control and afford to raise children.