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The blind leading those with sight...

That is what this feels like at certain moments.

I also hope that if they force someone to give birth, they at the least find out if: the mother can provide at all for the child or is even mentally prepared for it too, if the child needs to be put up for adoption and making sure it happens (follow through; plus making sure the child gets to a good household), possible payment of medical procedures and check-ups...as this is forced, and quite a few more things I won't get into here--I listed the biggest ones.

What a circus.

@kceaton1:

I know you're being serious, and it's a completely and totally reasonable thing to assume and hope the state government offers such things.

But, I hope you know (and I really want to emphasize that I don't intend to be condescending), that will never, ever, ever, ever happen in Alabama.

A new, unfit mother, effectively forced to give birth to the child, would be lucky that they aren't arrested immediately upon giving birth for being unfit.

I was being, semi-serious and half-sarcastic. I know perfectly well that the state will do nothing but shove it's morally righteous high-horse into law. That seems to be the trend nowadays, especially so with the Tea Party brand of crazy Republican/Religious leadership.

However, I truly do feel sorry for the people they will hurt, all the time, with ridiculous law changes like this. I can only hope that every case is brought up with the ACLU and eventually taken before the Supreme Court, if this law goes into action. As there are also other stupid anti-abortion ideas flying around various states in this country (and some are already in effect).

The mother or the child (or both) get the real short-end of the stick here... The part that is so frustrating is that people that are defending this type of law, like the man interviewed in this video, have no clue why this law will be so damaging in the first place. They are oblivious to the real reality that exists underneath their religious or morally created existence where everything turns out "just fine". But, then, they never have to deal with any of the ramifications that result from their ridiculous laws, ideas, and behavior...