Arizona HB 2036--women defined as breeding stock
If you've been watching the recent flood of "pro-life" legislation, and wondering how far the extremists who are driving the neuvo-Republican Party want to go, the Arizona House has just offered a pretty good idea. As an easy-to-miss element in their latest effort to restrict abortions, they want to define life as beginning when the woman starts her last period BEFORE conception. Think about it. Think about it again. Then read this commentary.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8277-arizona-legislators-trying-to-declare-pregnancy-two-weeks-prior-to-conception
Is the commentary overstating things? Sadly, I don't think it is. We've already seen the threat of prosecutions of women who had a miscarriage, based on assertions that they had engaged in actions that could be injurious to a fetus.
Any woman who aspires to anything beyond being a broodmare between the ages of first menses and end of menopause needs to know about this, and they need to act. As a start, all of the so-called Republicans who have voted for and voiced support for "personhood" and the various other friendly sounding terms beloved of the anti-women wing of that party have to be voted out of office, or recalled, now. Those who are running for office and supporting these positions (yes, this includes all the GOP presidential candidates) must not get our votes.
I can not imagine what form of brain-washing, self-loathing, and self-deception is involved for any woman who supports this lunacy. I can only hope that we will act rationally before we look back to The Handmaid's Tale as a utopian fantasy.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8277-arizona-legislators-trying-to-declare-pregnancy-two-weeks-prior-to-conception
Is the commentary overstating things? Sadly, I don't think it is. We've already seen the threat of prosecutions of women who had a miscarriage, based on assertions that they had engaged in actions that could be injurious to a fetus.
Any woman who aspires to anything beyond being a broodmare between the ages of first menses and end of menopause needs to know about this, and they need to act. As a start, all of the so-called Republicans who have voted for and voiced support for "personhood" and the various other friendly sounding terms beloved of the anti-women wing of that party have to be voted out of office, or recalled, now. Those who are running for office and supporting these positions (yes, this includes all the GOP presidential candidates) must not get our votes.
I can not imagine what form of brain-washing, self-loathing, and self-deception is involved for any woman who supports this lunacy. I can only hope that we will act rationally before we look back to The Handmaid's Tale as a utopian fantasy.