Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban | CNN
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 that it was superseded by a newer state law that criminalizes abortions only after a fetus can survive outside the womb.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 that it was superseded by a newer state law that criminalizes abortions only after a fetus can survive outside the womb.

State lawmakers adopted the ban in 1849, making it a felony when anyone other than the mother “intentionally destroys the life of an unborn child.”

It was in effect until 1973, when the US Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide nullified it. Legislators never officially repealed the ban, however, and conservatives argued that the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe reactivated it.

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    My support for abortion is grounded in my belief that zygotes don’t have souls. I don’t know if I would support abortion in general without believing this. Here are some things you can try, assuming that you’re talking with a rational person:

    • Zygotes don’t have a nervous system, the house of the soul, at all; so they can’t have a soul. Even longer until they have brain activity.
    • Even their brain activity and complexity is nothing compared to that of, say, a chicken. So if you’re fine with eating chicken, you should be fine with abortions.
    • If you were in a burning building, and only had time to save one, which would you save? (a) a crying 5-year old, or (b) a thousand fertilized embryos on a tray.
    • parody@lemmings.world
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      1 day ago

      Great comment

      Bullet point three OMG, anybody posed that on religious forums yet (surely similar but I like that specific thought experiment)