Another twist
The war on women continues to rage.
Oklahoma lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a bill to make performing an abortion a felony punishable by 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. That is likely to land the bill on the desk of the Republican governor, Kevin Stitt, who has promised to sign all anti-abortion legislation.
And this doesn’t make forced pregnancy the law in Oklahoma, it also catches Texas women in its trap.
More than 781,000 women of reproductive age live in Oklahoma. However, the bill is also expected to have an outsized impact on the nearly 7 million women of reproductive age who live in Texas. Thousands of pregnant Texans have relied on legal abortion in Oklahoma since Texas outlawed abortion after six weeks gestation in September 2021.
One way or another they will force women to stay pregnant when they don’t want to.
Before former president Donald Trump took office, federal courts routinely blocked abortion bans. However, Trump was able to confirm three conservative justices, which tipped the balance of the supreme court to the right.
Donald Trump who brags of grabbing women by the pussy, Donald Trump who bragged of never doing anything with his children when they were babies and laughed at the idea of walking them in the park, Donald Trump who has been accused of sexual assault by more than one woman, Donald Trump who leers at his own daughter and brags of how “hot” she is, Donald Trump who tells us which women are too ugly for him to molest, Donald Trump who is apparently never photographed with a grandchild in his arms or on his lap (have you ever seen such a photo?), Donald Trump who insults and ridicules women every chance he gets – he has succeeded in forcing thousands of women to stay pregnant or spend a lot of money and time getting an abortion. No skin off his ass is it.
“These legislators have continued their relentless attacks on our freedoms,” said Emily Wales, interim president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes, a related reproductive rights advocacy group.
“These restrictions are not about improving the safety of the work that we do. They are about shaming and stigmatizing people who need and deserve abortion access.”
Women, god damn it. It’s women who are forced to stay pregnant, women whose lives are ruined. If it were “people” this wouldn’t be happening.
And if he would accidentally impregnate Stormy Daniels or whomever, iff (sic) he didn’t want her to carry to term he would have no difficulty finding a back-alley place to have her pregnancy aborted, even in Oklahoma.
He wanted Marla Maples to have an abortion when she got pregnant with Tiffany. That is why he had zero to do with her once they divorced and he usually forgets she exists.
And now the GOP in Tennessee wants to eliminate age restrictions on marriage. I wonder which state will be the first to ban girls from school.
https://www.wjhl.com/news/regional/tennessee/gop-bill-would-eliminate-age-requirements-for-marriages-in-tennessee/
Well, Gary, it’s unfair to the girls, see, because if they’re old enough to get pregnant they should be allowed to get married.
A classmate of mine dropped out of 7th grade because she was pregnant, but the oppressive laws of the state wouldn’t let her get married. Which the kid who knocked her up would totally have done, otherwise.
Papito, there was a girl in my 8th grade class in the same boat, but she was able to return and finish high school. (Her parents were rich.) I do think, though, that dropping the marriage age isn’t the answer. I think it should be raised to the age of complete brain development myself. Dropping the stigma on unwed pregnancy would be a start, but even better would be comprehensive sex ed in the schools. Proper sex ed, not “abstinence only”. And I do think those things have changed; from what I understand, it is possible now for girls who get pregnant to stay in school.