Yet another undue burden
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for a controversial Arkansas law that blocks medication-induced abortions to go into effect.
The law, passed in 2015, says that any physician who “gives, sells, dispenses, administers, or otherwise provides or prescribes the abortion-inducing drug” shall have to have a contract with a physician who has admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
So that will make it much harder to get the drug.
Planned Parenthood said it will “swiftly” make another challenge to block the law in US district court.
“Arkansas is now shamefully responsible for being the first state to ban medication abortion,” Planned Parenthood Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens said in a statement. This dangerous law also immediately ends access to safe, legal abortion at all but one health center in the state. If that’s not an undue burden, what is? This law cannot and must not stand. We will not stop fighting for every person’s right to access safe, legal abortion.”
That should be every woman’s right to access to safe, legal abortion. Men don’t need access to safe, legal abortion. If you disguise the class who is affected by this law you make it harder to explain the law and the ideology behind the law. This isn’t random; it’s part of the age-old policing of women’s reproductive capacities in the interests of men. If you don’t even understand that how can you know how to resist?
re “every person’s right”: I understand a medical provider like PP wanting to be respectful of minority groups. I bet it’s easier for PP to use sex-neutral terms rather than face the Twitter outrage/demonstrations outside clinics by people wearing DIE CIS SCUM t-shirts. And who knows? Now they’re not using inflammatory terms like “women”, perhaps they’ll get more support. “Abortion access is a men’s rights issue too!” could really catch on.
Trans people who believe that being a woman is a privilege have an essential political difference to feminists, such as between Israel and Palestine. It can’t be reconciled.
As for the “let’s ban the abortion pill”, those people are really invested in poor women carrying unwanted pregnancies, aren’t they? One step away from banning contraception.
Which makes the slashing of welfare benefits all the more devastating.
What’s the bet those same jokers are also fighting tooth and nail against raising the minimum wage?
They want to maintain the gulf between rich and poor. They want to ensure the existence of the miserably poor.
It’s Biblical. After all, Jesus said the poor will be with you always. If they manage to defeat poverty, it would make Jesus wrong…and then what sort of Son of God would he be?