Anti-Women Legislation Pending In The Dakotas Would Make Pregnant Women A Ward Of The State.

[TheMastersNemesis]

The most restrictive anti women legislation in the country passed or pending in the Dakotas would make women who become pregnant practically wards of the state. They could not act on any health issue that would effect the status of their pregnancy. If personhood passes could jail or imprisonment face women who had a miscarriage or did anything to negatively affect the pregnancy itself? Fines and imprisonment already loom for doctors who "do not do the right thing" in relation to women.

For a party that is into small government it does NOT apply to the average person particularly women. The GOP version of government in "daddy state" on steroids.

Unless women openly fight back they will actually lose all their freedom pertaining to health care and productive rights. Just being on the internet or social media really won't be good enough until women make it personal and openly challenge these legislators in their districts, in their town halls and outside of their homes. The GOP is making it clear that it will pass all these laws on the state level and they will be in place until the courts rule. Meanwhile the laws will remain in force for years or until the RW and religious zealots get the kind of "kangaroo courts" they desire. And right now the courts are very well stacked with RW judges who will do their bidding.

And we have to remember that the present Supreme Court has 6 Roman Catholics on it. And at least 3 of them are radical Opus Dei members. And that is the hope the religious zealots hang their hats on.

[niyad]

1. "the handmaid's tale" is alive and well.

[Mnemosyne]

2. My first thought also, very disturbing. nt

[hfojvt]

3. there is no "the Dakotas"

is this happening in North Dakota or South Dakota or both? And is it pending or has it passed? Because many things are proposed but never passed. A bill to abolish the income tax has been proposed for a long time in Congress. It even has 50 or 60 co-sponsors. But it still has not become law.

[TheMightyFavog]

4. Link?

[cali]

5. This is just incorrect.

any legislation that passes would be unconstitutional and would not go into effect. That's happened repeatedly with anti-abortion laws that attempt to lower the bar on viability.

Personhood proponents in Oklahoma sought to amend the state constitution to define personhood as beginning at conception. The state Supreme Court, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, ruled in April 2012 that the proposed amendment was unconstitutional under the federal Constitution and blocked inclusion of the referendum question on the ballot.[44] In October 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the state Supreme Court's ruling.[45]

And why is it only up to women to fight this? It's a fucking civil rights issue. You, I'd bet anything, are a man. Instead of the patronizing lecture filled with error, why aren't YOU out there doing what you're telling us to do?

You don't have any understanding of the current judiciary.