Last updated on July 22, 2017
We are writing our own version of the Handmaiden’s Tale, and it’s a brutal one.
(House Bill 1566) By the end of the month, women seeking abortions in Arkansas have to ask the biological fathers permission before they can have an abortion. And while this makes sense in a healthy relationship, it doesn’t in an abusive one. Sadly, that’s not all. The new law doesn’t exclude rape victims.
First, the women have to endure the humiliation of being violated and raped, and, since that’s not enough, now they have to ask the criminal for permission if they don’t want to have the child. The new law doesn’t exclude incest either.
A child being raped and abused by a family member doesn’t seem to have any rights anymore. What a heartless world it is!
There is a big difference between being pro-abortion or being pro-choice. We couldn’t have children and abortion is something I don’t approve of. Nevertheless, I am pro-choice. I think abortion should be the last option but in the end, it should be up to the Mother. It’s her life and her body. Who am I to judge? Who am I to order?
The bill passed Arkansas’ house and senate without anyone voting against it.
If there is a god, I hope it’s a woman, and I hope all those hypocrites making laws like that get bitch-slapped right there at the pearly gates before they get turned away. And while we are at it, may I be allowed to watch, please!
Goodness, what is this nation turning into and what is next?
This is the worst. It’s maddeningly irritating, and I’m so sorry it’s like that 🙁
I can’t even begin to tell you how much I hate it.
I am continually amazed at what passes for ‘conservative’ politics these days
You and me both
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Are people leaving Arkansas in droves? Or are they leaving USA in droves.This is frightening and It’s regressive at the very least.
Does this include times when the mother’s health is in jeopardy to continue the pregnancy? I hope the law suits have some effect on this, it is so wrong.
Your guess is as good as mine. The law is pretty heartless and protects only a fetus. I assume women’s rights will be stripped down to 0 in Arkansas.
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Did that Bill pass? Is it now LAW that women who have genetically defective (non-life compatible or bound to have such low quality of life that not being born is a blessing) children, rape victims and victims of incest are forced to bear children they didn’t want? Who are reminders (in the last two instances) of something horrible that happened to the woman? This world is getting too f*cked up to live in. *smh* And I’d like to spit in the eye of all those who went around saying that C-dump was going to be ‘fair to women’ after his election. Yeah, right.
The law will be in effect July 30th. Right now people are protesting and law suits are being filed. My guess is it will become law in Arkansas first -and other will follow. Trump is a great distraction. He gets all the attention, the real changes are being made hidden and quietly.
Well shoot. All the work in the cause of women’s rights and autonomy with their own bodies down the drain because of some idiot men … typical. I’d hoped to be gone by the time this sort of thing began to happen. It’s so depressing. 🙁 Thanks for sharing the update though!
You’re welcome.
Yes that’s the hidden, agenda behind it all.
Someday I hope the judges see that it is unconstitutional, that no one has a right to decide the fate of those babies
It is unconstitutional to force Mothers to have children, just because a few right-wing, religious nutcases force their beliefs on everybody.
In human development, a fetus or foetus is a prenatal human between the embryonic state and birth. The fetal stage of development tends to be taken as beginning at the gestational age of eleven weeks, i.e. nine weeks after fertilization.
We’ve been on each others’ blogs before and I thought you to be someone to hear all sides. I wasn’t discourteous in my reply and I have no agenda, just an opinion. Be well.
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good post
But what if they don’t know who did it? 😔
I think the new law has the hidden agenda to make abortion impossible. Either through humiliation or through restrictions and obstacles.
There was a similar sort of bad bill passed in Tennessee. Thank goodness it appears that implementation was delayed by a State Supreme Court decision. That’s why there are checks and balances among the branches of government at all levels. Of course, there are those sad occasions where narrow minded male morons are in the majority in all of them. Tennessee seems to have escaped that situation, at least for the short term. I hope you are as fortunate in Arkansas. I have no doubt that all these new laws that have come into effect, generally in the Bible Belt states though sometimes elsewhere, too, are meant to make abortions impossible. That’s why I almost don’t mind if Trump is not impeached. I know Mike Pence would be worse than him in this regard.
I fear Trump’s impeachment, I really do. Pence is worse than Trump.
This is horrifying. My guess is the women have to share custody with their rapist as well.
I have no words to express how I feel about this. I’m appalled.