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What “Rape Sonograms” Are Really About
Last edited Fri Feb 17, 2012, 12:47 PM - Edit history (1)
From Soraya Chemaly:
77% of the 13 states with personhood and invasive sonogram bills had anti-miscegenation laws as late as 1948-1967. Five of these states never repealed their laws, but rather had them overturned by the Supreme Court.
http://thefeministwire.com/2012/02/rapesonogramsareaboutcontrol/
This week, the Virginia State Legislature –joining Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa – passed two of the country’s most restrictive abortion bills. One, a personhood anti-abortion bill and the other, mandating a coercive mandatory transvaginal probe for women seeking abortions. This week’s momentum of the “personhood” movement is not surprising in that it is closely tied to conservative Republican’s inability to target the economy as a problem in a campaign year. A shift in focus on social issues is logical.
It struck me as particularly meaningful, therefore, that I was watching The Loving Story as I thought about the passage of these bills. That documentary is about the mixed race couple who took their challenge of Virginia’s anti-miscegenation slavery laws to the Supreme Court in 1963, exactly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Can you tell by looking at it, if that map is a map of states considering personhood bills or a map of the states that had anti-miscegentation laws up to 100 years after Emancipation? Of the 13 states that have introduced personhood bills, 10, that would be 77% of them, had anti-miscegenation laws on their books as late as 1948-1967. Five of these states never repealed their laws, but rather had them overturned when the Lovings won their case. Of the 13 current personhood states only one had no anti-misegenation law, Wisconsin.
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http://thefeministwire.com/2012/02/rapesonogramsareaboutcontrol/
This week, the Virginia State Legislature –joining Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa – passed two of the country’s most restrictive abortion bills. One, a personhood anti-abortion bill and the other, mandating a coercive mandatory transvaginal probe for women seeking abortions. This week’s momentum of the “personhood” movement is not surprising in that it is closely tied to conservative Republican’s inability to target the economy as a problem in a campaign year. A shift in focus on social issues is logical.
It struck me as particularly meaningful, therefore, that I was watching The Loving Story as I thought about the passage of these bills. That documentary is about the mixed race couple who took their challenge of Virginia’s anti-miscegenation slavery laws to the Supreme Court in 1963, exactly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Can you tell by looking at it, if that map is a map of states considering personhood bills or a map of the states that had anti-miscegentation laws up to 100 years after Emancipation? Of the 13 states that have introduced personhood bills, 10, that would be 77% of them, had anti-miscegenation laws on their books as late as 1948-1967. Five of these states never repealed their laws, but rather had them overturned when the Lovings won their case. Of the 13 current personhood states only one had no anti-misegenation law, Wisconsin.
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