Reproductive rights thread

[wonko the sane?]

And the women now know whom not to vote for next time.

 

[Anonymous X]

I was thinking about what’d happen if the GOP enact a federal ban of contraceptives. I mean, to be blunt, among other issues, it wouldn’t do the tourism industry much good, would it? I don’t think many adults of virile age would like to go on holiday/vacation to a place where having a packet of johnnies or a birth control implant could potentially lead to you ending up in prison.

 

[wonko the sane?]

It would do the same thing it ALWAYS does in the US. Starts a very healthy black market, of which the oversight on the ban will end either controlling or simply taking a cut. Tourist dependent areas simply will not do without tourists, and frankly: it'll be damned hard to enforce anyway.

 

[Paladin]

Arizona Supreme Court rules a near-total abortion ban from 1864 is enforceable

The ruling is on hold for 14 days, and voters will likely have a chance to weigh in on a ballot measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state's constitution this fall.

www.nbcnews.com

This law is so old it predates women voting but the Republican stacked court says it's valid.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Some of them may have been there when it was new.

 

[NovaSaber]

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they can cancel each other exactly as one's broken clock moment.

Indiana appeals court uses Mike Pence's religious liberty law to block abortion ban

The Indiana Court of Appeals issued a bold and unanimous ruling Thursday blocking the state's near-total abortion ban as a violation of a religious freedom law long championed by conservatives.

lawandcrime.com

 

[Paladin]

Texas keeps finding new ways to punish women for being women.

TX profs use abortion bans to punish "consensual sexual intercourse"

It's part of a larger pattern of men using the new law to control and abuse women in their lives

www.salon.com

 

[Pale Rider]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1801007820680401376

 

[KidTDragon]

They don't want people to get rid of unwanted fetuses, and they also don't want people who need help conceiving to get it. It's almost like their real goal is just to control women.

 

[Pale Rider]

So much for their panic about low birth rates.

 

[NovaSaber]

Republican states want to raise the teen birth rate

New court filing in the mifepristone lawsuit is scary jive!

www.reprotruth.com

In the amended complaint, the Attorneys General for the states of Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri make many of the same bogus claims found in the original lawsuit, including debunked pseudoscience and references to retracted papers. But one of the states’ claims is sure to make your skin crawl.

In a section, “Sovereign Injuries to Plaintiffs’ Population Interests,” the three states claim that mifepristone is “depressing expected birth rates” for teenage girls “in Plaintiff States,” which injures Plaintiff Sates by depriving said States of increases in population (p. 190) — as if teenage girls, which the States refer to as “teenaged mothers,” exist for the purposes of churning out new citizens for the States.

Teenagers!

The Plaintiff States then claim that this population injury results in the “diminishment of political representation” and the “loss of federal funds” (p. 190).

You have to read it to believe it.

 

[Rhinox]

This is the kind of jive when idiots vote in Kris (my middle initial is also K for a reason) Kobach as AG. Last time he was in a governmental position, a judge ordered him back to law school because he fucked up so badly.