Race/Sex Selection Abortion: PRENDA's Proof Problem and Operation Spite Babies [Correction]

CORRECTION: THE HOUSE FAILED TO PASS THE BILL.***  

Today, the House passed PRENDA (H.R. 3541, pithily called the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act), and Trent Franks is very pleased with himself, indeed.

Sigh.

In March 2011, I wrote about PRENDA when Arizona  passed its version of the legislation that prohibits Race- and Sex-Based Abortion.  (That legislation was sponsored by Trent Franks because of course it was.)  I explained then why it makes absolutely no sense.

I must apologize for the lack of originality in this post, but when one has been writing about these bills for two years as I have, a level of irritation sets in that cramps my ability to churn out original posts.  All I want to write, day after day, is WTF?!  But that's not blogging, is it?  Neither is repeatedly quoting oneself, but you'll have to forgive me.  I'm at the end of my rope with this nonsense.

What follows is a snippet from a post I wrote about Arizona's Race/Sex Selection Abortion Bill (HB 2443). I note that Trent Franks, the doosh behind HB2443 is leading the charge at the federal level:

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Essentially, this law attempts to turn abortion into a hate crime in order to lend an air of credibility to the absolutely bullshit theory that abortion is some sort of black genocide.

::sigh::

Here’s the thing about hate crimes: They are different from “regular” crimes in that proof of hate crimes require proof of a little somethin' extra -- prejudicial motivation.

For example: It’s one thing to assault a guy and steal his wallet. It’s quite another thing to assault a guy while calling him a homo and screaming about how you’re going to teach queers a lesson, and then steal his wallet. Both are crimes. The latter is fairly undeniably a hate crime.

Of course, the former may also be a hate crime; maybe the assailant only steals gay people's wallets and maybe he keeps a journal somewhere entitled Number of Queer Wallets Stolen. Suck it, Homos! which can be introduced as evidence against him. But unless a prosecutor can prove a prejudicial motivation beyond a reasonable doubt, no conviction for a hate crime will result.

In order to morph a run-of-the-mill assault -- an act intended to cause an apprehension of harmful or offensive contact, and which causes apprehension in the victim that harmful or offensive contact is imminent -- into a hate crime, a prosecutor must prove that the accused's undisclosed intent was based upon prejudice.

So, not only does a prosecutor have to get inside the accused’s mind to prove intent, the prosecutor must then go one layer deeper into the accused’s mind to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that bias or prejudice formed the foundation for that intent.

If you’re confused, you should be. A hate crime is, essentially, the Inception of crimes -- a crime within a crime.

With that in mind, I give you a brief rant:

First of all, how dare these Teabilly assholes pretend to care about the plight of the Negro, when the very same Teabillies are gutting and intend to further gut the social programs on which black and brown women rely in order to keep their babymakers in check? I mean, Jesus F. Bieber -- how can they defund Planned Parenthood on the one hand, but then deem the abortion rate in the black community to have reached such critical levels that it should be called genocide?  How can they not see that these issues are directly related?!  What the hell is wrong with them?! (That’s a rhetorical question.)

Second of all, how in THEE hell are they going to get inside an abortion doctor’s head to determine whether or not s/he would have been less inclined to perform the procedure had the fetus been of a different race? Are there scads of “Black Baby B’Gone” clinics from which this law is intended to protect black ladies?

Looky here: You’re not fooling anyone, assholes. It is plain that you are using this “black genocide” angle to push your anti-abortion agenda. How stupid do you think we are?

Furthermore, how stupid are you? If your little plan works, and brown women have fewer abortions, we’re just going to outbreed you!  Yeah, let that little nugget of OMG! sink in for a while.  You need to decide which you hate more: Brown people or dead babies.

I swear, I’m going to go have a half dozen babies tomorrow – out of spite.

And in about 20 years, when my spite babies are all growns up, they’re going to join forces with all the terrorist anchor babies and BLOW YOUR SHIT UP.

***I misread Franks' press release. His press release was praising the bill's passage through the House Judiciary Committee. The bill was defeated today, 264-168.