{"id":182600,"date":"2015-07-29T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/29\/why-alabama-is-a-punch-line\/"},"modified":"2015-07-29T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T23:09:00","slug":"why-alabama-is-a-punch-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/29\/why-alabama-is-a-punch-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Alabama is a Punch Line"},"content":{"rendered":"
Alabama is seeking to terminate the parental rights of a woman incarcerated in Lauderdale County, Alabama so has to force her to carry a child to term that she wants to abort<\/a>:<\/div>\n

Alabama officials are currently seeking to prevent a pregnant prison inmate from obtaining a legal abortion by stripping her of her parental rights, in a case where a lawyer has been appointed<\/a> to represent the interests of her fetus.<\/p>\n

An unnamed woman, who is referred to in court documents only as Jane Doe, is asking for permission<\/a> to travel to Huntsville to end her pregnancy. She says she was unable to get an abortion before she was taken into custody and is now feeling desperate. \u201cI am very distraught, and do not want to be forced to carry this pregnancy to term,\u201d she wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jane Doe \u2014 who has to get permission from the court to be transported to the nearest clinic because prison officials consider abortion to be a non-emergency procedure \u2014 is being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, which argues that it would be \u201ccruel and unusual punishment\u201d for the state of Alabama to deny her constitutional right to abortion. <\/p>\n

Now, as Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly prepares to argue against this request, he is asking the court to strip Doe of her parental rights<\/a> so that she will no longer have the right<\/a> to end her pregnancy. In a hearing to determine the outcome of the case, which is expected to be decided by Friday, the state court appointed an attorney<\/a> \u2014 known as a \u201cguardian ad litem\u201d \u2014 to serve on behalf of Doe\u2019s fetus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt appears to me that what the state is attempting to do is turn Jane Doe into a vessel, and control every aspect of her life, forcing her to give birth to a baby, which she has decided she does not want to do,\u201d Randall Marshall, one of Doe\u2019s attorneys, told the Huffington Post. \u201cThe case has certainly moved to this new dimension, but welcome to Alabama.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, welcome to Alabama.<\/p>\n

The kind of gleeful evil doing by the District Attorney here is of biblical proportions.  We are talking Amalek and Sodom and Gemorra here.<\/p>\n

This ratf%$# is trying to destroy a helpless (she is pregnant and in jail) woman to inflict his warped morality.<\/p>\n

Why doesn’t DA Connolly go to Syria and fight for ISIS, they are clearly his ideological bedfellows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alabama is seeking to terminate the parental rights of a woman incarcerated in Lauderdale County, Alabama so has to force her to carry a child to term that she wants to abort: Alabama officials are currently seeking to prevent a pregnant prison inmate from obtaining a legal abortion by stripping her of her parental rights, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,971,970,969,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-evil","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}