Easy for him
The Missouri House of Representatives voted 117-39 Wednesday to approve a bill that would effectively ban abortions in Missouri except for medical emergencies.
The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Nick Schroer, R-O’Fallon, would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is usually around six weeks of pregnancy.
The legislation, sponsored by someone who will never, under any circumstance, be forced to undergo 9 months of increasing physical strain and then hours of trauma, to force people of the sex he is not to undergo 9 months of increasing physical strain and then hours of trauma. A man sponsored legislation that would (if passed) force women to suffer pregnancy and then childbirth against their wills. That’s what this legislation does: it forces women to suffer trauma they don’t want.
Supporters of the legislation called it the “strongest pro-life bill in the country” at a time when Missouri has only one abortion provider.
“I think here in Missouri, we know that life is precious. We want to give women, men, young people the choice: the choice to live,” Schroer said.
Women? No. They are not giving women the choice. They are hoping to force women to continue pregnancies that they don’t want.
We are giving you the choice to have to do what we say.
Here in Iowa, one state to the north, where we also have the governorship and both houses of the legislature under the control of the bloody coat hanger party, a similar “fetal heartbeat” bill, “the most restrictive in the country”, was passed and signed last year. The intention, of course, was to get it ruled unconstitutional, and appeal it up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where Roe v. Wade would be overturned. The state Planned Parenthood cleverly appealed it to the (reasonably liberal, still) state supreme court under the state constitution, and the law was negated as unconstitutional. So abortion services are still available in Iowa, and there is more than one provider.
If any woman in Missouri needs a bus ticket to Iowa, get in touch.
Peter N, I will second that. Get in touch – I would foot the price of a bus ticket to Iowa. At least until they find a way to close the borders between forced birth states and free states. Then I’ll probably feel compelled to move to Missouri to start my own version of the underground railroad, this one freeing women from involuntary pregnancy.
I third the motion. I both love and hate your underground railroad idea iknklast. I love it because fuck these woman-hating assholes but hate that such a thing might even become necessary.
Re footing the bill: just reminding people that this organization and its affiliates exist.
National Network of Abortion Funds
Sackbut, I have long been a donor to that group – it’s a fine group. And this one:
https://wmfwisconsin.org/
Though that one does focus on Wisconsin.
Just days ago, I heard something on the radio about how women are potentially putting their pregnancies at risk with cheap heart rate monitors bought online, because they think if they can hear a heartbeat, baby is fine. And sometimes baby isn’t. The thing the expert said was that the monitors used by midwives cost thousands, and they have years of training in using them correctly, but finding a foetal heartbeat is still difficult because there is also the woman’s heartbeat and they have to be sure which one is which. All of which made me wonder if there isn’t a possibility that health care workers who are anti-abortion might, you know, not try that hard to distinguish between the two.