A step toward getting rid of abortion altogether
That was Oklahoma, today. Tuesday, it was South Carolina.
The South Carolina legislature passed a bill yesterday that bans abortions after 19 weeks, and is now on its way to Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk, where she will likely sign it. That would make South Carolina the 17th state to pass the ban.
Rep. Wendy Nanney, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act’s sponsor, said the bill is a step toward getting “rid of abortion altogether.” The bill does allow for exceptions if the mother’s life is in danger, or if a doctor determines the fetus cannot survive outside the womb. There are no exceptions for rape or incest, and it would be illegal to abort a fetus with a severe disability—which is normally detected at 20 weeks.
Anything to make sure women are kept enslaved to their own bodies. Any way to keep the escape hatch nailed shut from the outside.
The bill would also only affect hospitals, as the three abortion clinics in the whole state of South Carolina don’t perform abortions after 15 weeks.
Three in the whole state – and they don’t do them after 15 weeks.
Sorry, women – it’s your own fault for being born with a uterus.
If the fetus could not survive outside the womb that would be a severe disability and be a violation of law to abort. I have thought for some time that these badly written bills are not badly written at all.
And now since the Supreme Court has non-decided on the Little Sisters of the Poor case, it might be more difficult for a lot of women to get contraceptives, too, since they have become so incredibly expensive. This isn’t considered a crucial issue by so many people. As long as men can get their Viagra paid by insurance, why worry about women? The women shouldn’t be having sex anyway.
That’s what this is really all about, as our fearless blogger has mentioned so many times – controlling women’s sexuality. Just plain controlling women. Keeping them barefoot and pregnant. In the bedroom and out of the boardroom.
I finally got motivated by all of this bullshit to do something, however small. In a week and a half, I go to the orientation session for new clinic escort volunteers.
19 weeks is a very arbitrary date. Why 19? The current earliest date of foetal viability is 22 weeks though outcomes remain exceptionally poor until 25 weeks when they are merely poor. In the UK where the legal abortion limit is 24 weeks we are just starting to see premmies of 23 weeks surviving several weeks or months. 19 weeks sounds like a number plucked from the air.
Steamshovelmama:
It’s signaling, as much as anything else. In order to be more pro-enslaving-women than the last asshat, you have to be even more restrictive. So if someone puts out a law tied to 24 weeks, then you need to call for it to be rolled back to 20, and so on. Since these folks seem to ride digging machines, there’s no chance of them ever actually bottoming out.
‘Enslaved to their own bodies’?
Not on your life. They’re to be enslaved to their OWNERS.
NC and OK. Both with women in the executive office…