Easy for Walker to say that forced and intrusive body cavity probing not ordered by the doctor or sought by the patient is fine with him: he's not the one being told he has to submit:
“I don’t have any problem with ultrasound,” Walker said Tuesday, according to the AP. “I think most people think ultrasounds are just fine.”
Voters in Wisconsin will remember this ugly misuse and manipulation of state power when Walker runs for re-election, or in any other campaign.
And especially shameful is that these restrictions, which continue to close more Planned Parenthood clinics that provide substantial health services to Wisconsin women, are being put into place with bogus language about protecting women's health.
The ultrasound requirement and relating bills are not about protecting women's heath and guaranteeing women important levels of service. It is about the exact opposite, and about barriers to abortion and undoing Roe v. Wade while it is still the law of the land, and about patronizing women in a 19th-century style.
Men would never accept such attacks on their bodies, freedom, medical treatment, health care decision-making, and legal rights dictated by the government, or the opposite gender (and don't hold up to me the faux-feminist political charade that put arch-conservative and strongly-anti-abortion State Sen. Mary Lazich, (R- New Berlin), out front in the Senate) as proof that this is all about women caring for women.
That's not what I hear.
Lazich has been consistent on these issues, and I am not doubting the sincerity of her beliefs, but substituting her for another run-of-the-mill-father-knows-best male legislator as perhaps the leading legislative force in the Senate didn't fool anyone or undercut the basics - - this is all about a certain kind of male politician controlling women's behavior and rights, and that's wrong.
Cross-posted at Purple Wisconsin.
Attack on a woman's body? The woman isn't being "attacked" by an ultrasound procedure.
ReplyDeleteThe child a woman is carrying in her womb is about to be attacked and murdered by her licensed health care professional.
This requirement should have been implemented from the beginning of RvW. There's absolutely no harm.
Perhaps an ammendment to the bill would be a requirement for a proctoscopy for all politicians before they are allowed to take the oath of office. This would give the public a more honest view of the hearts and minds of these people.
ReplyDeleteThere's absolutely no harm.
ReplyDeleteAnybody taking bets that this person is a dude?
I would like to see gun shops subject to the level of regulation this bill uses to put women's health clinics out of business.
And I know the anti-choice brigade never hears this, but let's try again: INside a woman's body, it's not a child. It's a fetus, or, at the point at which most abortions are performed, a clump of cells.
I will believe the 'pro-life' moniker when they stop trying to close down clinics that provide health services for women.
Yes, Zombie, and when they start adequately funding pregnancy and well baby care, parenting assistance, day care, health care for mothers and families, housing assistance, food stamps, public education AND MORAL SUPPORT needed to raise babies to healthy, well-functioning adults in our society.
ReplyDeleteThere has always been a simple answer: If you don't approve of abortion, don't have one.
To that I'd add: And if you biologically can't have one, then it's none of your business.
well said, B.
ReplyDelete"To that I'd add: And if you biologically can't have one, then it's none of your business."
ReplyDeleteAs long as you were inseminated at a sperm bank where a male already gave up his parental rights, that baby has 2 owners. RvW strips the co-creator of fundamental rights. Enough with the women's rights; what about a man's rights to that creation that took two to procreate?
As long as you were inseminated at a sperm bank where a male already gave up his parental rights, that baby has 2 owners.
ReplyDelete"Owners"?
Really?
That reveals so much, anony-dude.
"Man's rights . . . "
ReplyDeleteMAN should worry less about his rights and more about his responsibilities when it comes to unintended pregnancy.
"MAN should worry less about his rights and more about his responsibilities when it comes to unintended pregnancy."
ReplyDeleteMan has no rights. Man is nothing but a sperm donor. Get it zombie? Your wife could have aborted your son without your saying a freakin' word.