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Pearlie posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago
Today, the Louisiana Legislature passed a bill to forbid and criminalize the usual D&E procedure for abortions. This is the most usual abortion procedure, considered very safe. It is also a procedure very commonly used with recent rape victims even if they are not yet determined to be pregnant.
Also today, the Oklahoma legislature voted to criminalize, as a felony, ANY and EVERY abortion, at any time of gestation. Both woman and doctor are guilty of a felony, go to prison, and the doctor loses his/her license. The governor is expected to sign this.
This is going on evidently because of the 4-4 split on the Supreme Court which caused the Court last week to send back a birth control dispute rather than reach an official tie decision that would enshrine the lower court decision.
I realize that my audience here is among the least likely to worry about unplanned pregnancies, but this is just a short step from Mandatory Motherhood; from compelling you to bear your rapist’s child, maybe even (as in The Handmaid’s Tale) some future legislation that will compel you get knocked up to supply a soldier or a prole for the fatherland.
A great surprise: The Oklahoma Governor vetoed the abortion criminalization bill. This was very unexpected, but there are rumors that the Governor is angling to be Trump’s VVP candidate.