... Here’s the All Lives Matter Act! Sponsored by Missouri state Republican Rep. Mike Moon, this bill has nothing to do with Black Lives Matter or police. Instead, Moon’s proposed bill is pretty standard anti-abortion bluster: Personhood for fertilized eggs, complete destruction of women’s rights and healthcare, etc, etc. Mother Jones has more on the bill itself:

The legislation has been moving through the Missouri House since its 2016 session began last week. Missouri already has a "personhood" law in place, but this bill would make the provision more extreme by repealing part of the law that says that the state personhood law must still comply with the US Constitution and Supreme Court precedent such as Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that legalized abortion. Without such a caveat, this personhood bill would virtually wipe out abortion access—and likely be found unconstitutional. In general, personhood bills can also restrict some methods of contraception because both the morning-after pill and IUDs canprevent an already-fertilized egg—a zygote that is considered a "person"—from implanting in the uterus. Opponents say such measures can also upend laws around abortion access. These laws usually preserve a woman's right to an abortion as established by Roe, but they establish the fetus as a "person," say, in the case of the murder of the mother or if the pregnancy, usually later term, results in a miscarriage. Under these laws, in vitro fertilization can be made illegal, and women who miscarry can potentially be investigated and prosecuted for fetal homicide. Personhood ballot measures have been roundly rejected by voters in many states—most recently in North Dakota, Colorado, and Mississippi—but are already on the books in Kansas and Missouri. Courts in Oklahoma and Alaska have also struck down personhood initiatives.

As Organization for Black Struggle organizer Christine Assefa notes at the Feminist Wire, this bill is a profound perversion of the image of the Black Lives Matter movement, and an attack on what it stands for. Missouri already maintains a strict personhood statute and the additional disregard of Roe in the bill would be found unconstitutional, so the point here was likely to make a pointed dig—both at BLM organizers and black womanhood. The movement is buoyed by black women and was founded by black women, and Moon’s bill can only be read as an attack against them.

Moon, it should be noted, is already the worst, as he has seriously proposed sending Syrian refugees to internment camps and using “manly firmness” to put an end to the Affordable Care Act, which provides free or affordable health insurance for many low-income women and people of color. Manly firmness. What a policy mind!