UPDATE ON LEAVE OHIO FOR ABORTION = FELONY... IMPRISON THE WOMAN!

[BlooInBloo]

Wasn't sure if I should start a new thread or not... Apologies if not...

I emailed the reporter, asking what the penalty would be for the "felonious woman". The reporter's answer is below.

"To answer your query, the state legislature is considering the bill at this time. The possible penalty for a woman and/or her significant other leaving the state to have an abortion is an undetermined amount of jailtime."

Republicans make me :puke:


EDIT: It just occurred to me: if they jail the woman for longer than 9 months, they'll be forcing the woman to give birth by putting her in prison! Can you believe that motherfucking shit? Talk about male dominance over a woman's womb... :(

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Oh, dear; there's this little Constitution thingy.

And I sure wish some of these cretinous douchebags would actually read the damn thing before they spew out such idiotic legislation. Just so happens that there is a constitutional right to travel and to engage in interstate commerce. As long as abortion is legal somewhere, it will be legal to travel there to get one.

[jsamuel]

11. exactly, your county can't charge you for consuming alcohol in another

county or state... same thing.

[0rganism]

14. IMHO, the entire point is to raise a constitutional challenge

Of course they know it's a violation of state-fed separation, and they know it's counter to current caselaw. The goal is to get it all overturned.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Will you have to have a passport to get in and out of Ohio now?

[thinkingwoman]

4. and a doctor's note

swearing you're not pregnant. :eyes:

[electron_blue]

3. taking a hop skip & jump here, does this mean that

you would have to prove who you were to get an abortion anywhere? I was under the impression you could get one anonymously if desired. Not that this bill has any chance of becoming law, but the only way it is enforceable is if there are quasi-public lists of everyone who had an abortion.

[jeff30997]

5. I'm Canadian(Is it important?) and this is my opinion:

Over here abortion is perfectly legal.Of course we have a couple of weirdos who still
protest that but in general abortion is OK.

The fact that abortion is a crime in the US is very troubling to us.

I'm very sad that you have to endure middle-ages laws in a country that's so advanced technologically.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Sigh. There's a lot about the US that should be troubling to you...

For example, being in the US, one thing at least I don't have to worry about is gw bombing me...

Any other country - even Canada, I don't think I'd feel so secure about that...

:(

[jeff30997]

8. I'm very scared about Dumbya and his gang...

They're creeping me out!

[OnionPatch]

9. Believe me, we are sad too

very, very sad. :(

[jeff30997]

13. You have all my sympathy American friends...

Damn!We have the same culture.the same way of life and those bastards wants to make the US a Police State! It's revolting!

[Lars39]

7. They are laying the groundwork for a civil war.

That may not be the intended consequence, but it will be the outcome.

[MissB]

10. Why don't these assholes just head on down to El Salvador

and settle in to their "Pro-Life Nation"?

[niyad]

12. "handmaid's tale" here we come. this is living proof of my oft-stated

position that EVERY anti-choice argument, and legislation, has at its heart, a most profound hatred for women.

so, are there going to be vagina police at every single road into and out of ohio--will women be forced to submit to vaginal exams on leaving and re-entering? how in the HELL do they think they are going to enforce this crapola? more fear-mongering BS.

the feminist self-health movement of the early 70's, and sonia johnson in the early 80's, said that women needed to learn how to perform abortions (this was before ru-486) and I agreed. if one out of every 50 or 100 women could do it, would they try to jail all of us? now, I think it is time for an underground railroad to bring EC everywhere (as in here in CO, where the idiot governor has once again, kowtowing to the religious reichwingnuts, vetoed over-the-counter EC. He also vetoed, last year, a law requiring ALL medical facilities to make the availability of EC known to victims of rape--the damned catholic hospitals were screaming)

[Old and In the Way]

15. Daily pregnancy tests.

You can't protect the blasto-citizens if you don't know they exist.

[Generic Other]

16. I like the idea of being called a "felonious" woman for running away

from Ohio! I guess if you decide to move before you get pregnant in another state, they will demand you be extradited?

[DanCa]

17. Stem Cell Research has this penality too.

The only state that I know of that has this restriction right now is Kansas City. The bill states that if I want to leave KS for stem cell treatment to cure my parkinsons I wouldn't be allowed back in the state. The next step is to make it a fine to leave the state for said research. I think it's pretty sickening really.
We have got to start standing up to the dominionist. I refuse to use the word "Christian" to desrribe these people. And I say that we start buy picketing their churches. Is anyone up for a little civil disobedience?