GOP War on Uteri: South Dakota's Sick New Anti-Choice Law

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by Melissa McEwan at Shakesville, via AlterNet:



GOP War on Uteri: South Dakota's Sick New Anti-Choice Law


It is profoundly contemptible that this has become an almost daily series, but here we are again: Republican South Dakokta Governor Dennis Daugaard has signed into law a bill requiring women to abide a 72-hour waiting period, the longest in the nation, and "consult with a counselor at a pregnancy help center" before being allowed to get an abortion.

"I think everyone agrees with the goal of reducing abortion by encouraging consideration of other alternatives," Daugaard said in a released statement. "I hope that women who are considering an abortion will use this three-day period to make good choices."

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

"Abortion" and "good choice" are not mutually exclusive concepts. I don't know why Daugaard doesn't trust pregnant people, primarily women, to make the best choices for their own bodies, but maybe the fact that he doesn't trust women isn't, in fact, the great political attribute we're meant to believe it is, but is instead evidence of precisely why it is that he shouldn't have the power to encroach on women's agency and bodily autonomy. Ever.

I am really running out of ways to make the point that women are not imbeciles who are unaware of their options (even though Republican-favored abstinence-only sex ed programs endeavor to turn them into exactly that). Women don't need time to "make good choices" or "consider alternatives" or whatevthefuck Governor Dipshit and his Mendacious Band of Anti-Choice Fuckheads are alleging will happen in the three days they delay women from terminating a pregnancy. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/537046/gop_war_on_uteri%3A_south_dakota%27s_sick_new_anti-choice_law/

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1. Kapitalism is a ponzi scheme, babies are dynamos of consumption

it requires many thousands of new babies to make Kapitalism keep working for the super-rich.

I know that sounds totally uncoupled from reality, but I've been wearing tinfoil and reading a lot of crap about the Koch brothers lately. That sort of thinking doesn't seem too unreal anymore.

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2. Very impressive rant from what reads like a female Rude Pundit

I hope the State Supreme Court throws the law out as unconstitutional.