As I’ve written about in many past posts, right-wingers, particularly religious conservatives hate the idea that women can choose not to get pregnant. They don’t object to Planned Parenthood because it provides abortion, they object because it allows women to plan whether they become parents or not. And that’s slutty — never mind that married women use birth control too.
So it’s no surprise SCOTUS has, among many other dreadful decisions this week, given the greenlight to states to deny Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. It’s a horrible decision and as with many decisions of the 21st century court, doesn’t give a crap about precedent, text or anything except what they can twist to get their desired conclusion.
Forced-birther Rep. Kat Cammack doesn’t care about facts much. After doctors hesitated in treating her ectopic pregnancy, putting her life at risk, she blames liberals for scaring doctors and confusing them about Florida’s laws. Not conservatives for not writing the laws more clearly and precisely. She also claims as it was a lifesaving procedure, it wasn’t an abortion at all, which is another lie — abortion is a medical procedure, not an intention.
Abortion and birth control have majority support but forced-birthers are trying to ban them anyway, even where voters have codified it in the state constitution. Plus, as noted at the link, violence and terrorism. I agree with Jessica Valenti (again at the link), even if they fail, they can start to seem normal, just a thing Republicans do. We need to remind everyone how monstrous forced birthers.
And perhaps we should do what the British Parliament is doing: decriminalizing abortion (the bill is expected to pass) to end investigations of pregnancy outcomes (abortions, stillbirths, miscarriages). Dems should press for that here. The forced-birth movement has been saying for years they don’t want women prosecuted; it’s a lie, but putting them on the spot would be good politics, and the cause is righteous. It would stop things like this.
“A Texas court has temporarily stopped the City of San Antonio from funding efforts to help residents travel out of state to get abortions.”
Abortion bans hurt the United States in other ways beside the oppression of women.
Crisis pregnancy centers exist to discourage women from abortions. They give crappy medical care. Now they’re being told to CYA by giving worse medical care.
“The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.”
