Personhood for Women
Not a Joke: Personhood for Women
Melissa McEwan started a Personhood for Women petition suggesting that "a person identifying as a woman and/or having a uterus shall retain all of the full, basic, and fundamental rights of a US citizen as guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence" and urging Senators Patty Murray, Al Franken and Kristin Gillibrand to consider proposing this as an amendment in Congress. It's not a joke. As far as I can tell, it's an anti-"personhood for zygotes" (fertilized eggs) petition and important since we are apparently, as a country, electing people who are willing to endanger women's equality, liberty and fundamental rights.
What are you, as a woman, or as a man related to one, willing to trade when you vote for a presidential candidate who signed the Personhood Pledge or a legislator who supports anti-choice "personhood"-based bills? Are you really going to vote to trade rights for talking points?
Of the Republican presidential candidates, only Mitt Romney hasn't yet signed the Personhood Pledge, for which he's been castigated by the anti-choice movement. Presidential candidates, and those that support personhood, are pledging to do the following:
Give the government the right to seize a woman's body to protect a fetus
Empower hospitals and doctors, with government support, to force a woman to bear a child and/or have a cesarean against her will
Criminalize abortion (including all circumstances: rape, incest, life-threatening pregnancy, severe fetal deformity)
Criminalize stillbirths in certain situations (who decides which?)
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/03/11/personhood-women-its-not-joke
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