Does Ernie Yarbrough Want to Put You or Your Partner in Prison?

 

Ernie Yarbrough is the new state representative from Lawrence and parts of Colbert County. Did any of our readers vote for him? He's certainly starting his term in office with a bang...and not a good one.

Under current law, a woman who has an induced abortion or induces a termination of her own pregnancy can't be prosecuted. Guess what? Yarbrough wants any woman who takes part in such an act tried for murder. He's already pre-filed the bill.

Nothing says a man is a loving, dependable, follower of God's word like a geezer who wants to put distraught and confused women in prison for murder. But wait, as they say, there's more. Who gets to decide if a woman intentionally put her fetus in danger or not? In other words, a grieving young woman could be falsely accused of an illegal act when she had absolutely no part in her loss. 

We would have said five years ago that this bill would have zero chance. Now? It's in the realm of possibility that this bill could become law. Aren't you proud to live in Alabama?

Yarbrough is supported by D.J. Parton of Prattville who founded a group called End Abortion, Alabama. Parton talks about the pre-born. As we've said before, doesn't such rhetoric make all of us pre-dead? Unless you have access to those magic Sheffield tarot cards, there's no way to predict which fetuses will survive nine months and which will not. We're pretty sure such logic is lost on Parton.

While we don't support induced abortion as a form of birth control, we can't imagine wishing to incarcerate the women who are so desperate as to resort to such an act.

Alabama, spend your tax dollars on sex education and easy access to birth control and you will end 90% of these problems. Or is that just too logical for our state legislature?

Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it. Deut. 12:32