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Stuff about women and stuff.

Arizona Rep. Terri Proud (R-WTF): Women Should Be Forced to Watch an Abortion Before Having One

*blank stare*

This is just getting out of hand:

Personally I’d like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a “surgical procedure”. If it’s not a life it shouldn’t matter, if it doesn’t harm a woman then she shouldn’t care, and don’t we want more transparency and education in the medical profession anyway? We demand it everywhere else.

Until the dead child can tell me that she/he does not feel any pain – I have no intentions of clearing the conscience of the living – I will be voting YES.”

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So now we’re traumatizing women just for shits and giggles?  Is that it?  These people want every woman to be as traumatized as Carolyn Jones was when Texas forced her to undergo an unnecessary ultrasound?  What is wrong with these people?

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Alaska Rep. Alan Dick (R-Dick): Women Need Paternal Permission for An Abortion

WTF.

State Representative Alan Dick (the jokes write themselves) doesn’t think that a woman’s pregnancy is really “her pregnancy” and would have “a little more peace” about this nasty abortion business if the impregnator was required to consent to the impregnatee’s decision to terminate the pregnancy.

[I]f you’re not fully convinced yet that Alaska is the next front in the GOP’s war on women, you just have to listen to State Rep. Alan Dick. He said that he doesn’t believe that when a woman is pregnant, it’s really “her pregnancy.” As a matter of fact, he would advocate for criminalizing women who have an abortion without the permission via written signature from the man who impregnated her. He stated, “If I thought that the man’s signature was required… required, in order for a woman to have an abortion, I’d have a little more peace about it…”

No word on exactly how much more peace Dick would have about it. My guess is not much.

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Helping anti-choice terrorists, one name at a time.

Last week, I got all caught up in my anti-War on Women fury and tweeted an article that, it transpired, was three years old. Oopsie!

In my defense, though, it was about a law in Oklahoma that was really, really heinous and had actually passed, so my brain was a bit addled. This law (later struck down by the courts) would have required that the details of every abortion conducted in the state be posted on a public website:

The questionnaire doesn’t include the woman’s name or “any information specifically identifying the patient,” but it does ask for age, race, level of education, marital status, number of previous pregnancies, and the county in which the abortion was performed, information which opponents of the bill argue would be enough to identify a woman in a small town. The questionnaire also asks about the mother’s reason for the abortion, her method of payment, and even what type of insurance she has, as well as whether the fetus received anaesthetic and whether there was “an infant born alive as a result of the abortion.”

So, you know – phew! At least we dodged that one!

Except we didn’t.

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Idaho Senate to Vote on Mandatory Ultrasound Bill

The Idaho Senate is set to vote on its mandatory ultrasound bill (SB 1387) and may do so as early as tomorrow — March 19.  And yes, there’s enough transvaginal probing for the whole family:

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#WarOnWomen: Arizona Close to Defunding Planned Parenthood

And the War on Women marches on.

The Arizona Senate Committee on Healthcare and Medical Liability Reform approved HB 2800 which strips state funding from any group (like Planned Parenthood) that performs abortion even though existing state law and the fucking Hyde Amendment already prohibit the use of state/federal funds for abortion.

Kerrrist.

From Think Progress:

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The Texas Sonogram Law Is Traumatic and Horrifying for Women: One Woman’s Ordeal

‘We Have No Choice’: One Woman’s Ordeal with Texas’ New Sonogram Law

This is what government intrusion on a woman’s choice has wrought.  It’s heartbreaking.

Halfway through my pregnancy, I learned that my baby was ill. Profoundly so. My doctor gave us the news kindly, but still, my husband and I weren’t prepared. Just a few minutes earlier, we’d been smiling giddily at fellow expectant parents as we waited for the doctor to see us. In a sonography room smelling faintly of lemongrass, I’d just had gel rubbed on my stomach, just seen blots on the screen become tiny hands. For a brief, exultant moment, we’d seen our son—a brother for our 2-year-old girl.

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Mississippi Can’t Pass the Anti-Abortion Laws Fast Enough: Two More Bills that have Passed the House

Fuck.  This anti-woman bullshit never ends.  The bills are coming so fast at us, it’s hard to keep up.  Today, I give to you two bills from Mississippi, one designated to make it harder for a woman to take the RU-486 pill, and the other strives to countermand Roe v. Wade without directly repealing it.

Let’s tackle the RU-486 pill bill first since it’s marginally less-loathsome than the other bill.  In Mississippi, a woman can take the RU-486 as telemedicine while a doctor monitors her remotely.  For example, a woman in the country may not have a pharmacy and a clinic that are near each other, so she can’t visit both in one day.  Obviously, it helps if she can take the meds while receiving instructions by phone or the internet.  Well, the Mississippi House just passed a bill that would require a doctor to be in the same room as the woman when she ingests the pill, and the bill is on its way to the Senate.  Really.  I wish I were making this up, but I’m not.  One Democrat was quoted as saying he was damn sick and tired of all these motherfucking anti-abortion bills being considered in this House!  Ok, I’m paraphrasing slightly, but it’s basically what he said*.
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OH State Senator Nina Turner Shows How It’s Done (UPDATED)

Well played, Senator Turner, well played.

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“Lawrence, we should be absolutely embarrassed as a nation that we are going backwards in time instead of forward, and to treat women as if we are feeble-minded uncapable of making decisions for our bodies is shameful.”

Ohio State Senator Nina Turner, #TeamUterati salutes you.

UPDATE: Petition in support of Turner’s legislation below the fold.  Continue reading

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‘God Hates Fags’ Church Preparing Ad for Oink Limbaugh Show

The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that Fred Phelps  and the bigoted wackaloons at Westboro Baptist Church are fixin’ to advertise on the Rush Limbaugh Show, if Oink will have them:

Guess who’s knocking on Rush Limbaugh’s door as his advertisers flee like rats from a sinking ship? It’s the people behind the infamous GodHatesFags website — the Westboro Baptist Church, the most notorious gay-bashing group in America — and they’re ready to step in to keep the embattled Limbaugh on the air.

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