Abortion Ban Laws Begin In Three More States

[Webster]

...well, there's three more states (along with Florida & Georgia) I don't plan on visiting anytime soon...

(The Guardian) Three US states saw abortion trigger bans kick-in on Thursday, Tennessee, Texas and Idaho joining eight other states that have formally outlawed the procedure since the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in June.

Depending on the state, trigger laws are designed to take effect either immediately following the overturn of Roe or 30 days after the supreme court’s transmission of its judgement, which happened on 26 July.

Nearly one in three women between the ages of 15 to 44 live in states where abortion has been banned or mostly banned. According to US census data, that is nearly 21 million women.

“More people will lose abortion access across the nation as bans take effect in Texas, Tennessee and Idaho. Vast swaths of the nation, especially in the south and midwest, will become abortion deserts that, for many, will be impossible to escape,” Nancy Northup, chief executive of the Center of Reproductive Rights, said in a statement.

“Evidence is already mounting of women being turned away despite needing urgent, and in some cases life-saving, medical care. This unfolding public health crisis will only continue to get worse. We will see more and more of these harrowing situations, and once state legislatures reconvene in January, we will see even more states implement abortion bans and novel laws criminalizing abortion providers, pregnant people, and those who help them.”

Slew of trigger laws kick in as three more US states ban abortions

Women in Tennessee, Texas and Idaho will lose access and in certain cases doctors will be punished for performing procedure

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[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Lives to be saved or personal responsibility. Tough call for a leftist

 

[Webster]

Lives to be saved or personal responsibility. Tough call for a leftist

No, more like allowing women bodily autonomy and not letting others tell them what to do with their bodies.

On the other hand, I'm becoming more and more convinced that the Right views The Handmaid's Tale not as dystopian literature but as a manual for how to run America.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

No, more like allowing women bodily autonomy and not letting others tell them what to do with their bodies.

On the other hand, I'm becoming more and more convinced that the Right views The Handmaid's Tale not as dystopian literature but as a manual for how to run America.

At least the handmaids tale was about preserving the unborn so it’s a poor comparison. But the rest as we have seen during Covid this should be there favorite show on you control a people

 

[Webster]

At least the handmaids tale was about preserving the unborn so its a poor comparison

You sure about that? Per TV Tropes,

A 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, set 20 Minutes into the Future. A portrait of a Dystopia.

The setting is the Republic of Gilead, a newly-established theocracy still fighting rebellion at its borders in the former United States. Money has been abolished; laws are based on the state's interpretation of Christianity, and many crimes are punishable by public execution. Everyone has a specific role to play - especially women.

Global fertility rates have plunged well below replacement levels. Pregnancy is rare, and one in four of those children will be born with severe birth defects. In Gilead, fertile women are rationed like everything else. Handmaids are given to the Commanders and other high-status men of the nation, to bear children for them and their Wives.

The protagonist is known only as Offred - "of Fred", her current Commander. She can remember before, when women still had rights and were allowed to read; her mother, a feminist who raised her alone; her husband, who left his first wife for her; her daughter, who was a toddler seven years ago when the revolution happened and the family tried to flee to Canada. Offred has seen none of them since, though she is told her daughter is happy with her new family.

Offred also remembers her time in the Rachel and Leah Centre, under the training of the Aunts, to become a Handmaid. She remembers her friend Moira, who escaped from the Centre, and the other women, who did not. Now they, like her, live in the homes of the wealthy, going from one assignment to the next, hoping to become pregnant. Failure to bear a healthy baby means death or worse, and Offred is running out of time to produce one.

Care to revise your comment, sir?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

You sure about that? Per TV Tropes,

Care to revise your comment, sir?

Not really, no, you just cemented what I wrote earlier.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Tennessee, Texas and Idaho

Shocker! Lol