The Atheist
The Grammar Tyrant
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Calling the naysayers who said it was all a red herring...
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We know this debate isn’t really about abortion. Republicans, who have a supermajority in the statehouse, have already passed the most restrictive abortion ban in the country back in 2019. With upcoming elections next year, however, the anti-abortion zealots had to find a way to one-up each other on their anti-choice credentials.
They’ve opted to disingenuously expand the definition of “abortion” to include using IUDs, like the Mirena and ParaGard, which is not an abortion by any stretch of medical explanation.
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I really detest politicians.
Gotta take the good with the bad. Sure, Republican freaks are going to make it extremely difficult to be a woman in this country, but they're also going to make things really ****** for trans people.
The price we pay for reactionary politics.
Gotta take the good with the bad. Sure, Republican freaks are going to make it extremely difficult to be a woman in this country, but they're also going to make things really ****** for trans people.
Ordinarily, enforcement would be up to government officials, and if clinics wanted to challenge the law’s constitutionality, they would sue those officials in making their case. But the law in Texas prohibits officials from enforcing it. Instead, it takes the opposite approach, effectively deputizing ordinary citizens — including from outside Texas — to sue clinics and others who violate the law. It awards them at least $10,000 per illegal abortion if they are successful.
Heidi Carter is a 24-year-old woman with Down’s syndrome. She is currently taking the UK health secretary Sajid Javid to court in an effort to change the 1967 Abortion Act.
Carter and her team want to take away the option women currently have to abort a pregnancy after 24 weeks in cases of non-fatal disabilities. Her supporters are framing this as a battle for the rights of disabled people. This is misleading. It should be understood as an attempt to limit the choice and freedoms of 34 million women.
It's not just the right-wingers that want to change abortion laws. In the UK there is an attack on their laws emanating from advocates for the 'differently abled'.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/07/disabilities-activists-are-waging-war-on-womens-freedom/
While I am generally for choice I do have to ask if there needs to be a line. At first, it was because there was a substantial risk to the health of the Mother or that the child was unlikely to survive. Now we're allowing abortion because the child might be disabled. Do we start allowing abortions because the child might need glasses by age 10, or won't be good at sports, or might have the wrong coloured eyes, or is the wrong gender? Is there a line that we draw when considering that the unborn child might have rights, or do we just throw open the doors and say go for it?
I am not familiar with UK abortion laws. It sounds like they are a lot stricter than US laws?
It's not just the right-wingers that want to change abortion laws. In the UK there is an attack on their laws emanating from advocates for the 'differently abled'.
While I am generally for choice I do have to ask if there needs to be a line.
There is a line already - it's the mother's choice.
That is literally not having a line.
It clearly is. That's what choice means - it's the mother's choice.
You can't have a clearer line.
It clearly is. That's what choice means - it's the mother's choice.
You can't have a clearer line.
That's like saying that the try line is wherever the Half-Back decides it is.