Ohio legislators want to give control of women's bodies to sperm sources

Aug 06, 2007 16:43

I can't for the life of me find a really detailed or super-reputable news source for this (which is fucking appalling), so you're getting several.

Several Ohio reps, who have a very sympathetic state Supreme Court, have submitted a bill which would require women to provide written consent from the pud-owner in question, to obtain an abortion in Read more... )

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harfang August 7 2007, 04:51:47 UTC
Thanks. <3 So do you think it's just posturing, making noise and furthering the cause? Or do anti-choice legislators do this in hopes of overturning such things? Is that possibly their goal?

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harfang August 8 2007, 00:14:51 UTC
So... that makes noise and further the cause, yeah? Or does it achieve something else?

I promise to be at least somewhat educated, in general, within the next few years. Really. :)

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kateorman August 8 2007, 01:07:58 UTC
A friend and I have started a campaign of emails, letters, and postcards to oppose the Bill - you can get the details here.

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harfang August 8 2007, 08:21:19 UTC
It did not occur to me that I could use my survivorhood as a tool in this. Furthermore, it's been a long time since I felt I could do something useful with it.

Am printing the list, am not a very together person but will do my best to write something striking and get it to these troglodytes.

Thanks so much for letting me know!!

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kateorman August 8 2007, 08:22:25 UTC
As we say Down Under: good on you!

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