All Pregnancies To Be Reported To And Followed By the Police Under Personhood Laws

[TheMastersNemesis]

Personhood will deliver a pandora's box of horrors for women. Such and amendment would virtually make legally possible to force women to report their pregnancies to police authority so it can be monitored for the safety of the child. Women could be given instructions about acceptable activity.

Gosh the GOP could even have the churches built pregnancy centers where a woman has to stay until term.

As absurd as what I stated sounds all you have to do is look at the hundreds of ant woman laws that are waiting in the wings.
Ohio making it illegal to install an IUD. Forced ultra sounds. Forced waiting periods. Weakening domestic abuse laws. ,Look all around the country. Every day is a new insult to women.

Even though I am a man and former Catholic I believe that a woman has a right to control ALL her health needs. I spent 16 1/2 years listening to all that theocratic garbage. I was taught then that I could not do certain things as a practicing Catholic. I was also told that I could not force those beliefs on non believers.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Time to re-read "The Handmaid's Tale."

Margaret Atwood was prescient...

[lapislzi]

17. Except that...

They thought it was an instruction manual.

[tavalon]

20. Handmaid's Tale was the first thought I had

[Angry Dragon]

2. It is past time for politicians and religion to get out of my bedroom

[lastlib]

11. "Men [and women] will not be truly free...

... until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
(sorry, I can't find the author of that right now....)

[3waygeek]

13. French philosopher/writer

Denis Diderot.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Denis Diderot, I think.

[part man all 86]

3. Once the anti-women's party moves on this, it will be swift.

They believe it's is the divine moving them. Be careful, be safe and gather voters for November.

[sibelian]

4. It's utterly grotesque.

Wilful stupidity. And doubtless this filthy rubbish spouts from the same mouths that squeal "freedom" at every opportunity!

[Auggie]

5. This is so absolutley absurd that I want to believe it's a GOP con

[dembotoz]

6. wonder if the pee on a stick preggo test would go under state control

hell you can get them at the dollar store now....

maybe i ought to stock up

a good black market opportunity

[SaintPete]

7. Who will be the one

to stand up and say "Fuck No" ???

[TheMastersNemesis]

9. Women Of Like Mind Are Going To Have To Stand Up As a Group.

Standing up must be done as a group. It cannot be done alone. Women and OWS should unite on this matter because this attack is linked to the economic interests that want to control everything.

[lastlib]

12. ..And men too!! I'm in! n/t

[TheMastersNemesis]

8. Addendum

If you are willing to demonize the unemployed and welfare clients and force them to take drug tests that they must pay for themselves, then you are willing to do anything else. Remember women who were pushing for the womens' right to vote were in jail, abused and force fed when they went on hunger strikes. They were essentially tortured.

In the end the right to vote was passed by only ONE vote that was an eleventh hour change.

The religious right and GOP rapists will stop at nothing. And it is more than a con. It is for real if you just look at some recent laws that were already pass. Like Texas. They are a bunch of religious and cultural terrorists.

Waiting until August to protest will be too late. The war is happening now and the battle is now. There are hundreds of laws in the works.

I spent a year in Vietnam supposedly fighting for freedom. There is no way I would serve or protect a government run by Republicans. They are public enemy number one. And the fundies are just as bad.

[LiberalFighter]

10. It needs to be stressed that the church or any person on behalf of their reglious beliefs

has no right to imposed their religious beliefs on all women. Their right ends when they step off the church grounds.

[HockeyMom]

14. "We need to put GOD and PRAYERS back in PUBLIC SCHOOLS"

The Public Schools created a generation of God hating, Athiest, Feminist, "Dumboratt", LIBERALS. When I hear that being said, I want to roll on the floor laughing. They are BLIND and cannot see the forest for the trees. People, I had more GOD and PRAYING in 12 years of Catholic school that you could EVER put in a Public School. Actually, it more often than not, has the OPPOSITE effort of you want to do.

To the OP, I hear ya.

[jeff47]

15. You aren't being sufficiently Orwellian.

Right now, the 'official' spontaneous miscarriage rate is 25%. One quarter of all pregnancies don't go to term because something goes wrong. Well, if that fetus was a person, then it's time to investigate every single one of those deaths. We're going to need a lot more cops who will have to look really hard into a lot more women's lives.

Did she drink a beer before she knew she was pregnant? Well, that's reckless endangerment at least. Did she take all of her prenatal vitamins? Was her diet sufficiently good? Oooh, this one visited a sick friend and then caught the flu. Clearly she should have stayed at home.

Now that sounds awful. But it's not the worst part yet.

We don't know what the actual spontaneous miscarriage rate is. An unknown number of women get pregnant and then miscarry without missing a period. Well, we have to make sure that there weren't any persons being illegally expelled during her period. So, every feminine hygiene product will need to be tested by the government to ensure it's person-free.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

18. The Kotex Police. Who's gonna pay for that?

They might have to feature that one on the show Dirty Jobs.

[Tsiyu]

19. It's no doubt illegal to send "recycled" feminine protection items

But perhaps an onslaught of "pretend" used ones might be in order.

"You want to examine my feminine parts? Here's a head start..." followed by millions of pads and tampons mailed to every legislator who is overly concerned with the contents of women's bodies.

Just a thought.....I'd love to see the looks on their faces.

[Louisiana1976]

16. K&R

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22. Imagine No Religion

Until Americans start leaving their churches in droves (even the "liberal" ones) and shunning those of religious faith, we can expect more of this.