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(what an appropriate name for this woman-hating bastard)
Alaska Rep: Men Should Have To Approve Abortions
Not one to be left in the cold, Alaska has jumped on the mandatory ultrasound bandwagon too.
But maybe its because these laws are becoming so routine conservative lawmakers feel the only way they can get headlines, and therefore campaign contributions, is to make each new proposal more outrageous than the last. That would explain State Rep. Alan Dicks (R) suggestion that women should have to get permission from whomever impregnated them before terminating a pregnancy. (so a woman would have to get PERMISSION from a rapist, for example?)
Dick would advocate for criminalizing women who had an abortion without such permission. If I thought that the mans signature was required in order for a woman to have an abortion, Id have a little more peace about it.
As Robin Marty reports, Ohio already tried such a move in 2009. That paternal consent bill would have required women obtain permission from the biological father before having an abortion, and, in cases of more than one partner, the woman must provide a full list of men with whom she had sex. Any woman who lied about the identity of a potential father or doctors who aborted without permission from the father would be prosecuted.
How long till we see a movement toward paternal consent in D.C. I wonder?
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/alaska-rep-men-should-have-to-approve-abortions.html#ixzz1poFdGoAe
Hippo_Tron
(25,453 posts)I'm here all week folks!
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Idiot.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)varelse
(4,062 posts)no man, no pregnancy, no problem, right?
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)I believe the consensus was that the power of your vote trumps using your sex as a weapon (thus reinforcing anti-feminist stereotypes).
Now don't get mad at me - all I'm saying is the power of your vote is much more powerful than a Lysistrata fantasy story.
niyad
(113,229 posts)as for the power of the vote, that would mean actually trusting in the process.
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Hint: lots of those guys don't even "prefer" women.
varelse
(4,062 posts)There really isn't any reason that sex has to involve men.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)Perhaps he should include a provision that the victim marry the rapist.
niyad
(113,229 posts)PDJane
(10,103 posts)As in other parts of the 'civilized' world? There's a reason I call them talibornagains.
niyad
(113,229 posts)remember the button with the coat hanger, and the words "never again" across it? wish I still had mine.
PDJane
(10,103 posts)niyad
(113,229 posts)time for northern sun or someone to make those again.
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Has he not heard of the Roman paterfamilias?
nolabear
(41,959 posts)I know it's tough. But you just can't.
NeverEnuff
(147 posts)Ithink this issue should be left up to men, just as soon as we start getting pregnant. Otherwise we should STFU.
niyad
(113,229 posts)newspeak
(4,847 posts)maybe the medical field should be looking at ways to allow men to carry the embryo. Remember the series where the aliens made a home on earth-the woman some how transferred the embryo to the man-joint pregnancy? Hmmm, there must be some way. Until then, it's not their decision to make, it's not their body.
My cousin, married, was pregnant, and her hubby told her either an abortion or I'm leaving. So, see men do attempt to make a decision already.
highplainsdem
(48,959 posts)Shannyn Moore
?@shannynmoore
Dear me, wanna see how #Alaskan women have responded to Rep Dick (that's his real name for a reason) http://on.fb.me/GFYshh
That shortened URL goes to this page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alan-For-Alaska/153736111401979?sk=wall&filter=1
niyad
(113,229 posts)I noticed there was not one single post approving of his idiocy. good for the citizens of alaska.
highplainsdem
(48,959 posts)Mz Pip
(27,434 posts)geez, these GOP reps act like there's a contest going on to come up with new and creastive ways to harass women.
Mz Pip
(27,434 posts)mine is gone so I added another...
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)I can have some respect for those who feel there is a human life that has a right to live. But this guy shows a much uglier reason - maintaining male control over women. And there are men who would like to be the ones to decide - have the baby or force the woman to abort - they want it to be up to them and aren't against abortions per se.