And you thought South Dakota was bad...

[krazykitkat]

Info here from NARAL Pro-choice Ohio and here.

House Bill 228 will make it illegal to perform any abortion on a woman, even if her life is at risk, or she was a victim of sexual assault. It would place felony penalties on anyone who attempts to coordinate an abortion for a minor, and would make it a felony to transport a woman across state lines to obtain an abortion, even to save her life. Just picture the state putting a husband in jail for 15 years just for driving her across state lines to obtain an abortion that will save her life. This is what will happen in Ohio if this law is passed.

So they've gone the extra step where they're quite happy to kill women.

And a note from twistedchick about how laws like this are being interpreted to mean that if a fetus dies, doctors may not be legally allowed to go in and remove the fetus before it poisons the mother.

Comments

[sternel.livejournal.com]

I'm going to pull out my uterus with my own bare hands and leave it in a pile on the legislature's podium.

Don't these people have daughters?

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

But they're pure and god-touched and will never be in a situation where they might need something like that *eye roll*

Just added some more info.

[sternel.livejournal.com]

::blink::

There has to be some way for Full Faith and Credit to apply here.

Seriously. This is not Republicanism. Republicanism says leave everyone the hell alone. This is...I don't know what this is.

Wait. Yes, I do. This is yet another sign that I need to get the frack out of here.

[zessa]

Where can I sign up for the abortion smuggling ring? I have a big trunk, we can put the poor pregnant woman there to get her outta ohio.

Idiot freakish people, they take an issue that you know, both sides have merit with and turn it into a crazy freakish neo-con joke. ACK.

Here's to hoping their state senate has some sense and it gets voted down or at least made somewhat sane?

[sternel.livejournal.com]

Where can I sign up for the abortion smuggling ring?

Same place you get the shackles and striped suit: that, too, will be a felony. And you better believe they'll extradite you.

No. You know what?

I'm with wicked_wish now. Stop fucking him. Just stop.

In fact? I'll quote it. Because it's just that good.

The solution is so obvious that it can be boiled down to three words: stop fucking them.
That's right. Stop fucking them.

If your man doesn't understand that if he's entitled to an orgasm, you're entitled to an unoccupied uterus -- stop fucking him. If he can't get it through his thick skull that his fleeting pleasure poses a mortal threat to you -- stop fucking him. No handjobs, no blowjobs, no orgasms for him whatsoever except by his own hand, until you can be completely assured of a baby-free future, at your discretion.

These men do not deserve access to your pants. Stop fucking them.

I don't know what you think you owe them, and I don't care how badly they whine or beg. I don't care if they're wonderful boyfriends otherwise. I don't care if you're married to them. Stop fucking them. It is still your body. It is still your call. Clearly, they do not understand this. So stop fucking them.

They will not die if you do not fuck them. Stop fucking them.

Remember: You can hold out longer than they can. I promise. Your sex toys are better,* your self-control is superior, and your stakes are higher. Stop fucking them. You deserve better. You deserve someone who is aware that your body is your domain, and who respects that. If he doesn't respect that, stop fucking him.

Just stop. Stop it. You deserve better, and he deserves a cold shower if he thinks he is entitled to control over your vagina and how you manage its daily operation. Stop fucking him if he thinks that someone other than you should determine what hangs around inside you. Stop fucking him, because he would sooner masturbate with a corkscrew than let you dictate how he receives his prostate exams.

Stop fucking him if he refers to birth control as your problem, then helps vote in legislation that makes it your really big fucking problem. Stop fucking him if he thinks that your inability to prevent conception should in no way prevent him from having sex with you.

It's not that complicated.
Stop fucking him.
Stop it. Seriously.
Christ.

[zessa]

God if this shit keeps getting worse... make way, I think me Kel and Christie might just make a run for Canada... ACK.

Hey, you who speaks decent German... wanna smuggle us into Germany? Funny that I'm contemplating exactly opposite of what people did in WWII.

[sternel.livejournal.com]

HA.


You got three years' living expenses? EU immigration laws are extremely strict.

Go for Mexico. Probably easiest, and CoL is cheaper.

[zessa]

No, but I know our former exchange student, whose father works for like some super uber-bank over there. I can go on street corners and sing for my supper. I'd rather sing for my supper on a street corner where I have all my rights than live in the nice cushy house I currently have and have them slowly taken from me.

[zessa]

And they also expect this bill to fail and than die a quiet death at the end of the term.

Yay Neo-Cons during an election year. (I think it's that time for the Ohio Governor.)

Thank god for cooler heads

[crushing83.livejournal.com]

just butting my head in...

Here in Canada we have Harper. And all he has to do is smile, and he terrifies me. (He's already planned on putting same sex marriage issues back on the table, and that's probably just the tip of the iceberg that's lurking in the PMO.)

So... I just wanted to warn you. Rights and freedoms and medical decisions may not be all yours to make north of the 49th parallel :P

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

That's what my mother said (though not with the fuck). But there are actually women who believe it too *shakes head*

the joy of Roe V. Wade

[vegawriters.livejournal.com]

As of this moment, anything like that will be stuck down by the courts. At this moment. So far the Roberts court hasn't been totally screwy with Roe V Wade. So far. Yes. I'm scared.

Re: the joy of Roe V. Wade

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

The NARAL website said that apparently it was deliberately written to be unconstitutional to force it to the Supreme Court in an attempt to overturn RvW. And South Dakota got theirs through (though it did give the exception for the life of the mother), though it looks like it may have to go to referendum.

Just the fact that they're putting these bills up is scary and worrying enough. That people still think that way in this day and age.

[girliejones.livejournal.com]

Thanks - this reminds me of the post I wanted to do about Boston Legal this week. I'll get it up today.

[crushing83.livejournal.com]

oh, good god. ohio's seriously... thinking about this?

*squicks*

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

Looks like it's back in the drawer. But yeah :( And South Dakota already passed theirs which wasn't much better.

[crushing83.livejournal.com]

ugh. these people drive me nutsy.

and they terrify me.