{"id":1579,"date":"2010-06-02T20:08:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T02:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2010-06-02T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T02:08:07","slug":"there-oughta-be-a-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1579","title":{"rendered":"There oughta be a law&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In Utah, after a pregnant 17-year-old paid a man $150 to beat her in an effort to induce a miscarriage, legislators passed a law that would allow a woman in such circumstances to be charged with homicide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It always stuns me when people try to legislate misguided stupidity out of existence. Sure, punish them more,<strong> that&#8217;ll <\/strong>fix the issue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/03\/health\/policy\/03abortion.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/03\/health\/policy\/03abortion.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Utah, after a pregnant 17-year-old paid a man $150 to beat her in an effort to induce a miscarriage, legislators passed a law that would allow a woman in such circumstances to be charged with homicide. It always stuns me when people try to legislate misguided stupidity out of existence. Sure, punish them more, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}