New Hampshire legislators almost make homicide legal for pregnant women - Sensationalist Headlines

S[URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pregnant-women-legal-murder-new-hampshire-bill-republicans-pass-law-abortion-a7805361.html?amp"]ource[/URL] [QUOTE]Women in New Hampshire were almost allowed to commit murder with impunity, when Republican legislators failed to read the fine print in their own bill. New Hampshire Senate Bill 66 is one of dozens of “foetal homicide” laws across the country that allow foetuses to be considered people in cases of homicide or manslaughter. The New Hampshire bill defines a foetus as a person in such cases after 20 weeks. Supporters say this allows those who might kill a foetus – in a car crash, or assault, for example – to be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Women’s rights advocates, however, say the laws can also be interpreted to ban abortion. To assuage these fears, New Hampshire legislators added an exemption for women seeking abortions and the doctors providing them. As originally written, the act exempted “any act” committed by the pregnant woman or her doctor from cases of second-degree murder, manslaughter, negligent homicide, or causing or aiding suicide. “The bill as drafted allows for physician-assisted suicide and allows a pregnant woman to commit homicide without consequences,” Republican Representative JR Hoell told the Concord Monitor. Legislators, however, only caught the error after it had passed both chambers of Congress and was headed to Governor Chris Sununu’s desk. Members of Congress quickly voted to change the language through a process normally used to correct spelling and grammar. “No one in this chamber voted to allow anyone to be able to murder anyone,” Republican House Majority Leader Dick Hinch said. “That was not the intent.”[/QUOTE]

I have never seen that variant spelling of fetal before, I had to google 'foetal' to figure out what it meant.

execute bill 66

What is proofreading. Also holy shit that first image in the article :v: [img]https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2017/02/07/14/prevenge-1.jpg[/img] [QUOTE]Alice Lowe stars in her film, 'Prevenge', about a pregnant woman who goes on a killing spree[/QUOTE]

Bwahahaha, fucking idiots.

This reminds me of the time [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/florida-banned-computers_n_3561701.html"]Florida tried to ban internet cafes and inadvertently banned all computers and mobile devices across the board.[/URL]

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;52401296]This reminds me of the time [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/florida-banned-computers_n_3561701.html"]Florida tried to ban internet cafes and inadvertently banned all computers and mobile devices across the board.[/URL][/QUOTE] There was also a 72 hour period somewhere in the US where all drugs were perfectly legal because of a poorly worded amendment to a bill. How are politicians in america so spectacularly bad?

[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52402355]There was also a 72 hour period somewhere in the US where all drugs were perfectly legal because of a poorly worded amendment to a bill. How are politicians in america so spectacularly bad?[/QUOTE] Eh you see this incompetence to a greater or lesser degree in almost every country, it just sticks out like a sore thumb in places like America because they're supposedly the best lawmakers and democracy in the world.

[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52402355]There was also a 72 hour period somewhere in the US where all drugs were perfectly legal because of a poorly worded amendment to a bill. How are politicians in america so spectacularly bad?[/QUOTE] this is what happens when you ramrod legislation without committee and very little time to scan it for errors like this. lets hope the BETTER HEALTHCARE bill in the senate does something similar to show people how rediculous this process has been

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;52401296]This reminds me of the time [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/florida-banned-computers_n_3561701.html"]Florida tried to ban internet cafes and inadvertently banned all computers and mobile devices across the board.[/URL][/QUOTE] Sex is still illegal in my state afaik :v: [editline]26th June 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52402355]There was also a 72 hour period somewhere in the US where all drugs were perfectly legal because of a poorly worded amendment to a bill. How are politicians in america so spectacularly bad?[/QUOTE] also my state [editline]26th June 2017[/editline] god bless florida and our martian governor (not really, he's kinda' scummy)

Live free or die

[QUOTE=Xieneus;52402716]Live free or die[/QUOTE] It's like in those taco shell commercials. State motto: Live free or die. Legislators: Why not both? *Obligatory mariachi band music starts playing*

[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;52402553]Sex is still illegal in my state afaik :v:[/QUOTE] Do tell

[img]https://us.123rf.com/450wm/szeyuen/szeyuen1511/szeyuen151100017/48426449-asian-man-and-pregnant-wife-sitting-on-carpet.jpg?ver=6[/img] "What a sweet little pregnancy bump" "Our cute baby lump" "My sweet little [I]license to kill[/I]"

Well hey at least they caught it. The writers might be idiots but it's nice we have systems in place to catch this kind of stuff