Oh, Arkansas

The Christian state of Arkansas has passed a new pro-coathanger law which gives rapists the right to sue physicians who carry out abortions on pregnant victims. The charmingly-titled Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act has been rushed through in less than a trimester to protect God's little globules from dilation and evacuation procedures, which have the Satanic attribute of being safe for the incubator and are thus, in the words of one coathanger enthusiast, "gruesome, barbaric" and something that "no civilised society should embrace". Parents and legal guardians will be able to intervene to prevent abortions on minors, including minors who have been impregnated by their God-fearing, family-valuing ownselves; and husbands who take an aggressive stance on conjugal rights will also be able to stop any attempt by the incubators to vandalise their biological product. The ACLU will be challenging the law before it goes into effect; six other states have passed similar laws, and in the four where it was challenged the notoriously uncivilised courts induced a termination.