Katie Britt proposes federal database to collect data on pregnant people

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: UK Independent

Sat 11 May 2024 17.28 EDT


Katie Britt, the Republican US senator from Alabama best known for delivering a widely ridiculed State of the Union speech in March, marked the run-up to Mother’s Day on Sunday by introducing a bill to create a federal database to collect data on pregnant people.

The More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed (Moms) act proposes to establish an online government database called “pregnancy.gov” listing resources related to pregnancy, including information about adoption agencies and pregnancy care providers, except for those that provide abortion-related services. The bill specifically forbids any entity that “performs, induces, refers for, or counsels in favor of abortions” from being listed in the database, which would in effect eliminate swaths of OB-GYN services and sexual health clinics across the country.

The website would direct users to enter their personal data and contact information, and although Britt’s communications director said the site would not collect data on pregnant people, page three of the bill states that users can “take an assessment through the website and provide consent to use the user’s contact information” which government officials may use “to conduct outreach via phone or email to follow up with users on additional resources that would be helpful for the users to review”.

Britt introduced the legislation on Thursday alongside two co-sponsors: fellow Republican senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/11/katie-britt-proposes-federal-database-to-collect-data-on-pregnant-people

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Hey Katie!

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How about something substantial for mothers like:

Salary with Social Security
Paid maternity leave
Paid time for federal holidays
Worker's compensation
Paid vacation

[Walleye]

3. would think that that would be the Christian thing to do

[Walleye]

2. But a national Registry of guns is out of the question with these people

I am never going to be shot and killed by somebody else’s pregnancy or abortion. Abortion no danger to the public. Guns are a supreme danger. Also what about the guys who contributed to this pregnancy, with their sperm, do they get registered?

[2naSalit]

6. Well, see...

Guns TAKE lives, women bring them into the world, a power men don't have. Men can only take lives, sure they participate in bringing them into being, for a whole few minutes. That's why there's so much interest in controlling women, we have power that men don't and they just can't have that.

[Walleye]

15. That is exactly right!! That's the very thing I have thought for years

[raising2moredems]

18. Doncha know...

that uteri, vaginas, and ovaries are far more of a threat than guns? I propose an Incel website too - it would be of use to ensure (mostly) women avoid creeps/those not partner material.

[mpcamb]

4. Attaching 6 mo. post partem leave and national gun regestration would

make for interesting debates.

[Novara]

5. No honey, read the 4th Amendment

Also? The state of pregnancy is not a crime. There is no "probable cause" implied in the status of pregnancy.

While you're at it, take a look at the 14th Amendment.

WOMEN ARE NOT OWNED BY GOVERNMENT.

[2naSalit]

7. Okay, Katy, you go first.

How about we monitor your body for the next 20 years, every sexual encounter, every period with all the details, and what you wear every day... all posted online for everyone to see. After that, you tell us how that worked out for you.


Also, fuck off all the fucking way to eternity.

[getagrip_already]

8. Or how about a national sex or partner abuse registry?

For those who have been convicted of sex crimes or abuse, or had restraining orders taken out against them at local levels.

That might be useful.

[HandmaidsTaleUntold]

13. 💯💯💯

[dlk]

9. Next will be the ankle monitors

There is something seriously wrong with Britt.

[jvill]

10. No gun deaths database, but tracking women is a-ok? Welcome to Stepford.

N/t

[HandmaidsTaleUntold]

12. Thought The Same

These people have no conscience or no ability to self-reflect.

[HandmaidsTaleUntold]

11. She Is Wretched

Don’t ever listen to another republican talk about freedom or rights. They of all people deserve none when they propose shit like this. Dystopian Orwellian nightmare.

[joanbarnes]

14. My plan

Us Woke Baby Boomers jam the site with our 30-year-old post pregnancy 'memories' for nostalgia. Let them track us and realize it ain't working.

[LudwigPastorius]

16. _

[RazorbackExpat]

17. Welcome to the GOP

where the inmates rule the asylum