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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSharia Law and Reproductive Slavery Imposed on Women & Girls in the State of Texas tonight
Women harassed, publicly humiliated about their bodies, voting and debate rules scrapped, law imposed against will of the majority and amidst vehement protest as men officially declared women and girls to be sexual and reproductive SLAVES:
http://www.thenation.com/article/166961/reproductive-rights-and-long-hand-slave-breeding
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Constitutionally, the fundamental civil freedom is enshrined in the Thirteenth Amendment. The amendments language is unadorned, so it was left to the political system to sort out what the abolition of slavery meant in all particulars. In a series of successive legal cases, the courts ruled that in prohibiting slavery the amendment also prohibits what the judiciary called its badges and incidents, and recognized Congresss power to pass all laws necessary and proper for abolishing all [of those] in the United States.
Bridgewater argues that because slavery depended on the slaveholders right to control the bodies and reproductive capacities of enslaved women, coerced reproduction was as basic to the institution as forced labor. At the very least it qualifies among those badges and incidents, certainly as much as the inability to make contracts. Therefore, sexual and reproductive freedom is not simply a matter of privacy; it is fundamental to our and the laws understanding of human autonomy and liberty. And so constraints on that freedom are not simply unconstitutional; they effectively reinstitute slavery.
It's a NASTY, SAD, IMMORAL day in America today.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
BainsBane
(53,077 posts)and this sort of Muslim-baiting is entirely unnecessary. If anything, Texas shows that such oppression of women and denial of their rights is not unique to states ruled by Sharia law. Your odd focus on Islam also completely overlooks the point of the article which is a comparison with antebellum slavery. The US maintained slavery for 300 years with absolutely no influence from Islam or Sharia law.
Triana
(22,666 posts)I'm in no mood to argue semantics with anyone tonight. So - carry on about how this post is imperfect/invalid/wrong/meaningless/"Muslim-baiting" or whatever.
Sharia Law OPPRESSES the shit out of women. That's what the TX Lege JUST. DID. And it's what's being done in all American Taliban-run (GOP/TeaBagger) states across the U.S.
You can pick on the fact that I use "American Taliban" now too. I call it as I see it.
BainsBane
(53,077 posts)and entirely unnecessary. Is your point to proclaim your own sense of superiority to Muslims or talk about the very real oppression that CHRISTIANS and REPUBLICANS in this country impose on women?
It is far from semantics. I care about women's rights, but I despise prejudice of all kinds. If you have to distort an article to grind a political axe, you weaken your case. Do you want to alienated Muslim women? Or do you just not care about them? Is this a white middle class women only need apply? No black Muslims, no Arab or Persian women? You're working for reproductive rights of a minority of American women, and have excluded others with your unnecessary Islamophobic language. Blame is on Islam, when it is obviously Christian fundamentalists behind this. What does that sort of distortion do but alienate women?
BainsBane
(53,077 posts)are not worth respect and you don't care about their reproductive rights. Perhaps that's the case.
You need to learn something about your own nation's history if you think transatlantic slavery can be blamed on Muslims.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)from a wingnut.
You know if they could get away with imposing strict biblical law, they would. Tonight is evidence.
love_katz
(2,584 posts)Sisters: we NEED to stand together, defeat this horrid agenda which aims to turn us into nothing but incubators for more slaves.
Make no mistake...reinstatement of slavery is what this agenda is all about. We need to defeat them so soundly, that they never try this crap again.
Triana
(22,666 posts)They intend to roll women's rights back to a time where few worked outside the home and those who did only did so temporarily and for much less money; where few women were college-educated; where no women had any rights in regards to their bodies sexually or their reproductive health (and no contraception either); and where women do not vote or own property.
To the Moral Majority, women are concerned with 3 things only: Church. Children. Kitchen.
That's where they're going with this.
love_katz
(2,584 posts)Kinder, kuche, kirche (can't put the umlauts in, but it is still the same thing).
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)I remind you of what Naval General (Admiral) Yamamoto, Isoroku is reported to have said around noon of December 7th 1941, "I fear all we have done today is to awaken a great, sleeping giant."
You fucked up badly
ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)Triana
(22,666 posts)We know these guys hate women.