DesertShark
19th December 2008, 16:46
If you're a woman, s/he can, beginning the day before Bush is out of office.
I originally posted this in the Discrimination topic, but since its a political discrimination I thought it should be brought up here.
I first saw this article in Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/id/172593 (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.newsweek.com/id/172593) and it pissed me off and scared me. I looked around and found similar articles:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_113199.html (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/bush-administration-tryin_n_113199.html)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/...rica/abort.php (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/18/america/abort.php)
and http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...02&ft=1&f=1001 (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97971002&ft=1&f=1001)
The gist is that Bush has made an executive order that would make it legal for doctors to provide false/inaccurate information to women about their reproductive health and options associated with it. This is fucked up and scary. This is far from equality, this is fascism. We can give a man a boner who otherwise wouldn't be able to have one, and then lie to the woman he impregnates or wants to copulate with about her options. Seriously, what the fuck?
What other rights will women be denied if this goes through? Will we loose the right to vote? To have jobs? Our own bank accounts? To go anywhere without a man present? Has anyone read A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood? This has unpleasant similarities.
I originally posted this in the Discrimination topic, but since its a political discrimination I thought it should be brought up here.
I first saw this article in Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/id/172593 (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.newsweek.com/id/172593) and it pissed me off and scared me. I looked around and found similar articles:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_113199.html (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/bush-administration-tryin_n_113199.html)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/...rica/abort.php (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/18/america/abort.php)
and http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...02&ft=1&f=1001 (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97971002&ft=1&f=1001)
The gist is that Bush has made an executive order that would make it legal for doctors to provide false/inaccurate information to women about their reproductive health and options associated with it. This is fucked up and scary. This is far from equality, this is fascism. We can give a man a boner who otherwise wouldn't be able to have one, and then lie to the woman he impregnates or wants to copulate with about her options. Seriously, what the fuck?
What other rights will women be denied if this goes through? Will we loose the right to vote? To have jobs? Our own bank accounts? To go anywhere without a man present? Has anyone read A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood? This has unpleasant similarities.