Oklahoma really doesn’t like women.
Back in June, Oklahoma passed the Humanity of the Unborn Child Act, which includes a provision that requires public restrooms — for instance, those in restaurants, public schools, and hospitals — to feature anti-abortion signs that urge pregnant women to carry their fetus to term.
Along with a link to the Oklahoma Health Department’s website, the signs would read:
“There are many public and private agencies willing and able to help you carry your child to term and assist you and your child after your child is born, whether you choose to keep your child or to place him or her for adoption. The State of Oklahoma strongly urges you to contact them if you are pregnant.”
The state of Oklahoma really has no business telling women who happen to need to pee what to do about their pregnancies. There’s such a thing as “none of your fucking business,” and pregnancy is one example of that thing.
Also, of course, it’s a damn lie that there are many agencies willing and able to help you and your child after your child is born. If that were true, there would be dramatically less poverty in this country.
Also why should needing to pee be an invitation for a state to lecture women? And would the state do this to men? Has it ever? Or is it only women who are talked to as if they were children? I know what my guess is.
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Sometimes I’m glad I left Oklahoma…the problem is, I’m not too fond of where I ended up. I need out of the Midwest…is there any room for Midwestern refugees on the coasts? Please, someone, send me a lifeline! (Like…a decent job, which is tough for a 56 year old woman who is educated beyond her usefulness, apparently).
There’s Maine. I know several people who’ve taken refuge there.
Maine is my dream! We lived in Maine when I was a kid. We moved to Oklahoma from there (in the middle of August -is there a category of climate based child abuse?) I wanted to stay there but my dad was from Oklahoma and wanted to get back. When you’re 10, nobody let’s you have a say.
Got to love these small-state conservatives who oppose government overreach, and any reduction in individual liberty and freedoms from excess legislation.
Yeah, Graham, their motto should be “get the government out of the boardroom and into the bedroom”
Yeah, I’ve said for awhile now that the whole “small government” line is a shell-game, where they use the phrase to mean three different things, and try to smoothly change from one to another as needed in the course of conversation.
You’ve got your ‘smaller budget’ government, your ‘small-as-in-local government’ (in Congress, they push state’s rights; in state legislatures, they push home rule municipalities, but only when convenient) and your ‘small and non-intrusive government’. These CAN ally, at times, but often they work at cross-purposes. In particular, local government tends to be WAY more intrusive into daily life than the feds. And sometimes going federal IS the financially efficient way to get something done, because then you don’t have fifty different sets of bureaucracies trying to re-invent the wheel.
And yeah, abortion and gay rights prove just how much bullshit the entire notion is.
Of course, that whole “states rights” thing was a euphemism for the right to slavery, and then the right to segregation once they lost that battle. It basically means “we want the right to treat minorities like shit”
I’m STILL hearing Stein voters ‘splaining Trump away because ‘the Democrats didn’t offer an alternative.’
Nope, the American voting public is dominated by lunatics. The square-state voters appear to be a different species.
Anyone who can say Hillary Clinton was not an alternative to Trump is someone who has their head stuck far up…some portion of their anatomy where all they can see is fecal matter.
Next I am in OK and need to use the facilities, I believe I will do it wherever I am, to avoid the nasty intrusive bathrooms.
Bathrooms, eh? Almost as though they’re trying to isolate women as much as possible before telling them what to do.