Louisiana Personhood Bill Would Ban Some Forms of Birth Control and Give Fetuses Full Legal Rights

[niyad]

but there is NO war on women!


Louisiana Personhood Bill Would Ban Some Forms of Birth Control and Give Fetuses Full Legal Rights




Louisiana Senator Elbert Guillory (R) pre-filed a personhood bill this week calling for a constitutional amendment that would give full legal rights to a fetus, ban many forms of birth control, in vitro fertilization, as well as some health care procedures for pregnant women. Senate Bill 80 would add a section to the Louisiana constitution defining personhood as “a human being from the moment of conception.” The Louisiana state Senate is in session starting April 15, and is in session until June 11. SB 80 will be voted on in the Louisiana primary October 24, 2015, rather than in the general election in November.

Guillory, who just two years ago switched parties and became a Republican, is running for lieutenant governor against Billy Nungesser (R), President of Plaquemines Parish, and Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden (D). While Nungesser and Holden are showing campaign funding in the millions, Guillory is running a campaign in debt for the second year in a row.

This personhood bill is the latest in a long series of attempted restrictions for women seeking abortion care in Louisiana. Just this December, under the administration of Governor Jindal, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals issued a letter to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast refusing to allow its new state of the art clinic in New Orleans to perform abortions on the legal “excuse” that it did not show a need for a new facility to perform abortions in Louisiana. In 2012, Jindal’s administration passed a state law requiring abortion clinics to show that there is need for another clinic before applying for a license.

Similar personhood bills have been introduced in other states, including Colorado, North Dakota, and Mississippi, all of which defeated the proposed personhood bills over the past year.

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/04/02/louisiana-personhood-bill-would-ban-some-forms-of-birth-control-and-give-fetuses-full-legal-rights/

[Trillo]

1. Nature gave the woman control until birth.

This is a grab into every woman's womb.

[PumpkinAle]

2. So basically every woman is going to be guilty

of infanticide according to Guillory. I guess that just because the majority of fertilized eggs don’t become people is besides the point and just too scientific for the likes of Guillory to understand.

The forced birth movement has to be stopped. We need someone in power to point out that kowtowing to some religious fanatics is what happens in a Christian theocracy and we are not a theocracy - Christian or not.

[Takket]

3. Disgusting

[TreasonousBastard]

4. I do not for the life of me understand why this is still a fight...

(And yeah, I saw your other threads about the sign...)

One would think that the half of the population who can give birth would have something to say about it.

I suspect it has something to do with the basic male-female relationship where the female has generally been a lesser partner throughout much of history. I don't remember where, but I read somewhere about a study that showed that in homosexual relationships (male and female) the partners were usually equal, but in heterosexual relationships there tended to be a power mismatch. Once in a while the male was the lesser partner, but guess who got the short end most of the time...

I do understand that, aside from that, many women do have problems with abortion. My mother was one who gave up her organizing for Planned Parenthood when they started talking up abortion. She was all for every other family planning option available at the time, but that one she just couldn't accept. She did not, however, join the fight against abortion-- she just avoided it.

I suspect, however, that if she were alive today she would have seen this "personhood" bullshit as just that. It may even have been enough to bring her back into the fight.

Hopefully, somebody will come up with a message pretty much everyone but the troglodytes can get behind.

[AngryDem001]

5. These assholes make so angry.

Sometimes I want to scream at the top of my lungs.

[yuiyoshida]

8. THIS..

[TeamPooka]

6. a successful birth is not guaranteed by nature legislating biology is crazy

[Luminous Animal]

7. Whatever. It's women. There will be no call from sports teams to pull out of the state...

No businesses will pull plans from expansion. There will be no twitter outrage or indignant Facebook campaigns avidly supported by men.

In fact, the vast majority of men will quietly ignore it.

[niyad]

10. sadly, you are correct.

[sakabatou]

9. Ugh