Oklahoma to women: you have no rights, bitches
Oklahoma throws the very idea of women’s rights out the window. Don’t be stupid: incubators are machines, and machines don’t have rights.
An Oklahoma bill that could revoke the license of any doctor who performs an abortion has headed to the governor, with opponents saying the measure in unconstitutional and promising a legal battle against the cash-strapped state if it is approved.
In the Republican-dominated legislature, the state’s House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a Senate bill late on Thursday. Governor Mary Fallin, a Republican, has not yet indicated whether she will sign it.
Under the bill, doctors who perform abortions would risk losing their medical licenses. Exemptions would be given for those who perform the procedure for reasons including protecting the mother or removing a miscarried fetus.
This is America, we don’t believe in women’s rights. This is God’s Country, and God is a man. Women are afterthoughts, put here to make coffee and be fucked.
Supporters of the bill said it will help protect the sanctity of life.
There’s no such thing as “the sanctity of life.” That’s an advertising slogan, not a real principle or rule. How many animals do we as a people kill every day? How many insects, bacteria, plants? We don’t have any universal law about “the sanctity of life.”
“If we take care of morality,” bill supporter David Brumbaugh, a Republican, said during deliberations, “God will take care of the economy.”
Nope, that’s not true.
The Center for Reproductive Rights urged Fallin not to sign the bill into law. Amanda Allen, CRR’s senior state legislative counsel, told the Daily Dot in a statement via email that the total abortion ban was “cruel and unconstitutional.”
“Oklahoma politicians have made it their mission year after year to restrict women’s access vital health care services, yet this total ban on abortion is a new low,” said Allen. “When abortion is illegal, women and their health, futures, and families suffer.”
Yes, but women don’t matter. Women are underlings. That’s the system here on planet earth.
CRR told the Daily Dot in an email that Oklahoma currently has only two abortion providers. CRR has filed eight lawsuits against Oklahoma state abortion restrictions in the past five years alone.
Two. Oklahoma’s a big state. That’s a lot of travel for some women.
On Tuesday, prior to the House passage of SB 1552, the Oklahoma Senate voted in favor of another law restricting abortion. The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2016 passed by 39-6 after being approval in the House. It would ban abortions performed on fetuses with Down Syndrome or other genetic abnormalities. The legislation would also revoke the medical licenses of doctors who perform procedures on these fetuses.
If signed by Fallin, the law would make Oklahoma the third state in the country, including North Dakota and Indiana, to ban abortions on fetuses with Down Syndrome and other disabilities.
Well, it won’t be men taking care of those children, so it’s ok.
“Sanctity of life” is code for “foetus fetishisation”.
I know it’s insane, but on what grounds would a physician lose his or her license for performing a legal procedure judged by other physicians to be ethical and warranted?
You want sanity? She said it was Oklahoma. Isn’t that enough?
I was living in Oklahoma City when I had my abortion – there were more than 2 providers at that time, though the area wasn’t exactly well provided with them. I couldn’t have my procedure there, because they banned all procedures after 12 weeks, and I continued having periods for 2 months after I got pregnant, and was unaware of my pregnancy until 13 weeks, and unable to schedule my abortion until 14 weeks. I had to go to Texas. Even that might not be possible now…
I guess I should be glad I’m past reproductive age, but I don’t base the rights I support only on those that I expect to use. Too many people do that, and that’s why we have such an insane attack on women’s rights. The majority of our lawmakers will not be using them.
Ben @2,
I’m not sure what you’re asking here. This bill would itself provide the grounds.
Are you asking how the state legislature has the authority to do that? Medical licenses are usually issued by either the state itself, or some state-approved professional organization to which it has delegated some of the state’s authority.
So the state can decide what the criteria for receiving, maintaining, or revoking such a license will be. Subject, of course, to preemption by federal law, and within the bounds of the Constitution.
I assume there is no push to make sure there is money in the budget to take care of all these children.
“sanctity of life” eh? Yeah we have that in the USA – home of that evil creature Madeleine Albright who said that 500,000 dead iraqi children was “worth it”.