Disgusted, no longer amused: Liberal Street Fighter
The war on women takes another beachhead, this time in Indiana:
Ind. Court Upholds Abortion Waiting Period
The Indiana Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a law that requires women seeking an abortion to get counseling about medical risks and alternatives, and to wait at least 18 hours after the session before going through with the procedure.
The court ruled in a 4-1 vote that opponents of the law could not pursue their lawsuit, which argued that privacy is a core right under the state constitution that extends to women seeking to end their pregnancies.
Silly girls, you obviously haven’t THOUGHT about what it is you want to do. Here, dear, take a look at some gruesome photos and listen to a person give you state-mandated details about the procedure, then go home and think about it for a couple of days.
The Center for Reproductive Rights has a good overview of mandatory waiting laws. They describe the Indiana law as:
Clinic for Women v. Brizzi (Indiana, USA)
Passed in 1995, Indiana’s waiting period law requires women to make two separate trips to an abortion provider before they can obtain the procedure; they must receive a state-mandated lecture designed to discourage the abortion choice at least 18 hours before the procedure is performed. The Center is charging that the law violates the rights of women seeking abortions by placing unnecessary, burdensome obstacles that serve no actual health purpose in their paths. The state court challenge follows a long history of legal battles over this law in the federal courts, including a petition to the United States Supreme Court.
This sort of waiting period is demanded by statute before NO other elective procedure in this country. We only treat women this way, and children, of course, which in the minds of far too many Americans amounts to the same thing.
It is worth remembering that these kind of restrictions were upheld in Casey, a case that bears the name of the father of the man that the traitorous “leaders” of the Democratic Party insist must be the next Democrat to run for the Senate from the State of Pennsylvania. The same infamous case in which ScAlito held in a lower court that women SHOULD have to receive the permission of their husbands/owners before obtaining an abortion. The same case that whittled away at women’s access to a medical procedure that should only be the business of themselves and their doctors.
Jane Crow continues to spread it’s wings, eager to shelter the Holy Fetus in a country that increasingly abandons its children to poverty, broken schools and no access to health care.
I really wanted to vote for both:
draconian impositions
sexist and demeaning
Love that button. Good for NOW.
TELL YOUR SENATORS, STOP ALITO:
http://petition.savethecourt.org/fwd/campaigns/savethecourt/register/fc3c4e7fd9e7c7702f2d1c855b206fc
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AND WHILE YOU’RE AT IT, SIGN PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S PETITION, TOO:
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/sc_round3_oppose2?rk=j1Al2BE1%5fzGQE
And NARAL’s:
http://prochoiceaction.org/campaign/sen_scotus_alito_103105/forward
AND DON’T FORGET: URGE CONGRESS TO SUPPORT PLAN B:
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/women_are_waiting/index.html
thank you for the very useful info.
Jane Crow continues to spread it’s wings, eager to shelter the Holy Fetus in a country that increasingly abandons its children to poverty, broken schools and no access to health care.
But then of course it becomes the province of the fundies to keep these people in line, so that they can be satisfied working at Walmart or McDonalds for $6.50/hour, an army of unquestioning drones.
Supply and demand….must have enough drones so that if one starts to show signs of friction it can be replaced.
Same reason nobody’s willing to actually HELP LDC’s rebuild their economies so people can actually LIVE there…. because if they stop coming here, who’s going to do the GOP’s lawns and raise their children?
thanks for all of the recommends.
I wonder whether it would satisfy the requirements of the statute to get the counseling before pregnancy?
If so, shouldn’t abortion counseling be part of standard junior-high curriculum?
And if so, shouldn’t every girl so instructed get some sort of certificate attesting that she is pre-qualified for abortion?
This is all about medicine, after all.
6 million children starved to death last year around the world.
you would think this would be a much higher priority than passing laws to intimidate women.
They barely care about the poor in this country. If they showed any interest in worldwide poverty, it would be enough of a miracle to make an atheist a believer.
Just once I’d like to one of these culture of life groups start campaigning for universal health care, better day care, better low-cost housing — anything at all that would actually improve life for the children who do get born.
LOL I voted Fetus Uber Alles.
America is strangling itself. Or as wolcott put it a few months ago, stumbling backwards slitting its own throat.
Between fundamentalist religion, the blind and mean versions of evangelicalism, hard right conservatism (Democratic triumphalism should persevere and win before crowing) and tethered as we are to hard right pugilistic Israel, foreign war..
But! Abortion uber alles.