What Is the Personhood Bill? HR 586 Is an Affront to Women Everywhere
Amidst executive orders and presidential memoranda concerning everything from Obamacare to oil pipelines — and just days after Women’s Marches took place in cities around the world — congressional Republicans introduced a “personhood” bill to further criminalize abortion. HR 586 is a bill sponsored by Georgia Rep. Jody Hice and roughly 20 other House Republicans that would define human life as beginning at fertilization.
Hice, a Republican, argued on his website that this personhood bill would “end the plight of abortion on our nation.” Moreover, Hice clarified that his definition of human life as beginning at conception is without exceptions, which means he would not approve of exemptions based on the pregnant person’s health and safety, or in cases of rape and incest.
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