GOP controlled legislatures across the county have created a surge in anti-abortion bills and bills that attack women’s rights.
According to NARAL the number of anti-abortion bills this year is already close to 400. Last year there was only 174 similar anti-abortion bills that were introduced.
Republicans ran in 2010 on job creation and deficit reduction but have used many of their newfound majorities across the country to attack women’s reproductive rights, as well as the rights of public employees.
Via CNN;
Consider that 374 anti-abortion bills were introduced in state legislatures this year, 200 more than last year, said Ted Miller, spokesman for NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Of those, 61 bills in 25 states focus on prohibiting health insurance coverage for abortions. Another 20 in 10 states make ultrasounds mandatory before abortions.
And just this week, Kansas became the second state in the nation, after Nebraska, to sign a “fetal pain” law that bans abortions after 21 weeks based on the premise that “fetuses can feel pain beginning after the 21st week of pregnancy,” according to a statement by Republican Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s office.
Brownback also signed into law Tuesday a bill requiring minors who seek abortions to obtain consent from both parents. The law places certain prohibitions on late-term abortions.
Meanwhile, in Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, signed a bill banning state tax credits for donations to Planned Parenthood or other abortion providers.
The law also prohibits public funding for abortion training at universities and hospitals for physicians, said state Rep. Debbie Lesko, a Republican who was the prime sponsor of the new laws.
Read more at; http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/14/abortion.state.laws/index.html?iref=allsearch
So much for those that think “voting doesn’t matter”. And so much for the Republicans being “pro-life”. Anti-choice and anti-women bills are anti-life.
http://texshelters.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/what-you-have-to-believe-to-be-anti-choice/
Peace,
Tex Shelters
Question. Why do men think they should have any say at all in this issue? -__- I’m pro-choice in the sense that as a male, I will never be pregnant, never know what it feels like to have an abortion and don’t have any right to judge or impose.
To add to that, I’m not a doctor or a scientist (most people are not) and can’t be telling people when a fetus feels pain or life begins. (As Teabaggers do all the time.)
The imposing needs to stop as well as the messing with Planned Parenthood.
This is a female issue. THEY should have final jurisdiction.
I agree that a woman should have the final choice, however you have to keep in mind that men are pursued far more aggressively for child support than women are. Even if the child was not planned, a man is expected to support it regardless of whether or not he wants the child. If the woman wants the child, she has the liberty to get an abortion. That’s not a very fair route.
Before you argue “if he’s not ready for the consequences he shouldn’t have had sex with her”, the counter to that is “if women don’t want babies they shouldn’t have sex”.
“if the woman wants the child” should be “if the woman doesn’t want the child”.
I’m not arguing for men being allowed a say in whether or not the child is aborted, but they’re forced by law to pay child support for children they might not want that the woman refuses to give up. My mother technically owes my father 13 years of back child support. If you are a man and you don’t pay your child support, you have your license revoked and your wages garnished by the government in order to pay it.
I guess woman’s “parts” are not included in “big government” it’s fair game to political gains and law.
I’m so sick of “right to life” people deciding for me or any another woman what we can and cannot do, even sneaking around it like not providing education to doctors!
I guess we will just go back to the days of back alley abortions and women becoming scarred and damaged at best and dying at worst.
Just sick, I wish more women knew what was going on, and responded by going to voting booths.
I guess they won’t be done until we have to birth every baby, not have a right to education, a job or voting.
Sick sick sick!!!!
The only solution would be to “incorporate” our wombs. Since corporations are allowed to do practically anything with little or no regulation, this would be the perfect solution to get the Republicans to keep their hands and their ridiculous laws “off our bodies.” We all know it’s a CONTROL issue with Republicans … keep the women barefoot, pregnant and in the home. They’ll take our voting rights away next.
Authoritarians are very often patriarchal misogynists who both fear, and are jealous of, women, while denying and suppressing their own best “feminine” instincts such as compassion and empathy. This applies to males and females, so it includes women in power such as Jan Brewer and Debbie Lesko, Madeleine Albright, Condi Rice, and Hillary Clinton.
I am beginning to believe that such power may lead to sociopathology, or that it attracts sociopaths, as well.
In any case, those whom our culture has historically designated as the “nurturers” are a threat to authoritarians, especially patriarchal ones, so these “nurturers” must be put in their “proper place” and kept there. Read The Chalice and The Blade by Riane Eisler.