Story out of Iowa:
In case you missed it, an Iowa state senator argued on the Senate floor this week for a measure to make abortion a “hate crime” under the Iowa statute. A hate crime against a group that doesn't even exist in society: The unborn.
Adel’s Republican Sen. Jake Chapman raised the proposal as an amendment to Senate File 2284. That bill being considered would add gender identity and gender expression to the list of protected classes covered by the state’s hate crimes law. The law brings enhanced penalties for crimes committed out of hatred on the basis of a victim's immutable characteristics, such as race, religion and sexual orientation. It applies to groups recognized for protection under Iowa’s civil rights law.
The bill protecting transgender people is backed by a long list of church, civic and law enforcement groups. It took on added symbolic urgency because the previous week, Kedarie Johnson, a 16-year-old Burlington High School junior described as female-to-male transgender, was shot to death in an alleyway, and was buried Wednesday. No arrests have been made. But Chapman instead used the debate to make a case against abortion, by trying to apply hate crimes law to "the unborn." He went into unnecessary details on the Senate floor about the mechanics of abortion, even ignoring Senate President Pam Jochum's admonitions that the details were irrelevant. Cont.
Story from - The Des Moines Register
Image from - Pixabay
No comments:
Post a Comment