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Chapter 7 is sometimes known as a "straight bankruptcy" or liquidation, and results
in a discharge of all eligible debts. Some debts cannot be discharged, such as
certain student loans, child support, or court ordered fines and restitution

         If I have this correct, and I may not, what the anti-abortion protestors
         want is an exemption for themselves from what happens to every one
         else. They want not equal treatment, but exception to it.

If I have this correct, and I may not, what the anti-abortion protestors want is an exemption for themselves from what happens to every one else. They want not equal treatment, but exception to it.

You do not have it correct. Say there are two protestors outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility. One is a nurse protesting the low pay. The other is a pro-lifer protesting the abortion business.

Planned Parenthood sues them both and gets a multimillion dollar judgment against each, neither of whom have the $$ to pay.

Under the bankruptcy bill as it is now written, the nurse could file for bankruptcy and discharge the debt, but the prolifer could not.

Some debts cannot be discharged, such as certain student loans, child support, or court ordered fines and restitution

Yes, court ordered fines and restitution for certain things cannot be discharged, and that is true whether you are pro-life, pro-death, ambivalent, or whatever. This is true mostly for criminal acts. Fines and restitution related to these things already cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. If this is all that Schumer seeks by adding this provision to the bill, then it is redundant. In reality, Sen. Schumer’s amendment would make it impossible to discharge civil judgments for even peaceful pro-life activity.

Currently, civil judgments can be discharged in bankruptcy (see my example above about my suing you). What they want to do is make it so that civil judgments against pro-life protestors cannot be discharged.

Pro-lifers aren’t seeking a special exemption. The law as currently written doesn’t have any such special exemptions based on political views, and we aren’t seeking to add any.

It is the pro-death types that are seeking to add specific language for the abortion context, not us, and they are specifically seeking to target pro-life protestors. We are fine with tightening the bankruptcy law, and are fine with the fact that debts from criminal acts cannot be discharged, but debts from civil suits should either be discharged for everyone, or not discharged for everyone. It is unfair to single us out.

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