I know everyone has different opinions on issues. I also
know that everyone has different religious beliefs. I have listened and read all of the proposed
laws regarding the reproductive rights .and lack of rights of women in this
country. I have read all of the new
proposed laws in different states and laws already on the books. Although I am
not a woman and far from an expert I do have an opinion on this subject and would
like to comment on some of these issues and proposed laws. This is just an opinion
from my prospective and life experiences. I believe all women have some basic
rights:
The right to life.
The right to privacy.
The right to freedom.
The right to bodily
integrity.
The right to decide
when and how I reproduce.
Here are laws and proposed laws now under consideration in
many states.
1.
Making women carry still-born fetuses to full
term because cows and pigs do.
2.
Consigning women to death to save a fetus. Abortions
save women's lives. "Let women die" bills are happening all over the
country. There is no simple or pretty way to put this. Every day, all over the
world, women die because they do not have access to safe abortions. Yet, here
we are, returning to the dark ages of maternal sacrifice. Do really have to
type this sentence: this is a violation of women's fundamental right to life
3.
Criminalizing pregnancy and miscarriages and
arresting, imprisoning and charging women who miscarry with murder, like Rennie
Gibbs in Mississippi or at least 40 other similar cases in Alabama or like Bei
Bei Shuai, a woman who is now imprisoned, is charged with murder after trying
to commit suicide while pregnant. Pregnant women are becoming a special class
subject to "special" laws that infringe on their fundamental rights.
4.
Forcing women to undergo involuntary vaginal
penetration (otherwise called rape) who are considering an abortion.
5.
Disabling women or sacrificing their lives by
either withholding medical treatment or forcing women to undergo involuntary
medical procedures. We impose an unequal obligation on women to sacrifice their
bodily integrity for another. For example, as in Tysiac v. Poland, in which a
mother of two, became blind after her doctor refused to perform an abortion
that she wanted that would have halted the course of a degenerative eye disease.
6.
Giving zygotes "personhood" rights
while systematically stripping women of their fundamental rights.
Inhibiting, humiliating and punishing women for
their choices to have an abortion for any reason by levying taxes specifically
on abortion, including abortions sought by rape victims to end their
involuntary insemination, imposing restrictive requirements like 24 hour wait
periods and empowering doctors to lie to female patients about their fetuses in
order to avoid prosecution. In
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