North Carolina House Passes 72-Hour Abortion Waiting Period

[niyad]

(the legislature must do this, because women are too ignorant, too stupid, too clueless, too indifferent, too uncaring, to think for themselves. not to mention making the cost prohibitive in terms of waiting periods, etc.)


North Carolina House Passes 72-Hour Abortion Waiting Period


The North Carolina state House last week passed a 72-hour waiting period for women seeking abortion care. HB 465 passed in the Republican-dominated House 74-45, and will now go before the Republican-controlled state Senate. Republican Governor Pat McCrory has yet to take a public position on the bill. In 2013, however, McCrory signed into law an extremely restrictive anti-abortion law that requires clinics to meet the same requirements as ambulatory surgical centers, eliminates most abortion coverage under state employee insurance plans, bans sex-selective abortions, and allows health care providers to refuse to participate in abortion-related care.

If this newest abortion restriction is passed, a woman in North Carolina seeking an abortion would have to wait 72 hours after consulting with her doctor before having the procedure. North Carolina already requires a 24-hour waiting period. Only three states, Missouri, South Dakota, and Utah, have enacted a 3-day waiting period for an abortion. Twenty-six states currently have an abortion waiting periods of at least 24 hours.

North Carolina State Representative Tricia Cotham asked in the debate over HB 465 why similar waiting periods were not required for any other life-changing medical procedure. “This is not about respecting or supporting women,” Representative Cotham said. “It’s about creating barriers that unfairly harm especially women of very limited financial means.” Waiting periods significantly increase the burdens women face when seeking abortions. Taking time off work, paying for child care, renting a hotel room near the clinic, or making multiple trips can be costly and time-consuming.

Representative Gale Adcock, who is also a nurse practitioner, sees the law as demeaning to anyone seeking abortion care. “I try very hard to make decisions based on evidence, and I think this bill makes an unfortunate and inaccurate assumption, that women haven’t spent sufficient time thoroughly considering their needs, their desires, their options,” Rep. Adcock said. “[The bill is] not about knowledge, it’s about delay. It’s about medically unnecessary delay.”

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/04/28/north-carolina-house-passes-72-hour-abortion-waiting-period/

[AuntPatsy]

1. Keep your religious beliefs and allow me to freely do the same

These people disgust me!

[niyad]

2. they use religion to hide their hatred and misogyny.

[AuntPatsy]

3. Absolutely agree

[Novara]

4. It's all about punishing women for wanting to control their own lives....

....and being a threat to patriarchy.

[niyad]

5. once I would have said that these woman-haters forget how they got here

in the first place, but that is actually at the root of their hatred: woman's ability to give birth.

[Novara]

6. I'm not sure that's entirely it

With some, definitely. But I am convinced that they simply don't want the patriarchy to change to a more egalitarian society because they think of it as a zero-sum game: if they give women rights, they lose rights. They can't fathom that giving women their inherent rights makes all of us better.

And they simply don't want to give up the power the patriarchy "naturally" gives them (in their minds). They're afraid they'll "lose."

[niyad]

7. no, it isn't entirely it, but it is the base of so much of their bizarre hatred and fear.

and yes, a zero-sum game, because they simply cannot think in anything except linear and binary terms.

there is a wonderful book called "the alphabet vs the goddess" by leonard shlain, which talks about how the brain got rewired when we transitioned from images to writing:




In this groundbreaking book, Leonard Shlain, author of the bestselling Art & Physics, proposes that the process of learning alphabetic literacy rewired the human brain, with profound consequences for culture. Making remarkable connections across a wide range of subjects including brain function, anthropology, history, and religion, Shlain argues that literacy reinforced the brain's linear, abstract, predominantly masculine left hemisphere at the expense of the holistic, iconic feminine right one. This shift upset the balance between men and women initiating the disappearance of goddesses, the abhorrence of images, and, in literacy's early stages, the decline of women's political status. Patriarchy and misogyny followed.

Shlain contrasts the feminine right-brained oral teachings of Socrates, Buddha, and Jesus with the masculine creeds that evolved when their spoken words were committed to writing. The first book written in an alphabet was the Old Testament and its most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first two reject of any goddess influence and ban any form of representative art.

. . .

http://www.alphabetvsgoddess.com/