We've Got Some Bad News On Our Hands.

[ladyofleithian]

Warning for potentially inflammatory content involving abortion/mentioned double standards, and triggering content involving miscarriage and rape/sexual assault. If these things upset you, it's best you turn back. I don't want to trigger/upset anyone by mistake.




Got this from valarltd (thank you, valarltd, for allowing me to repost this):

http://valarltd.livejournal.com/1508353.html#comments

To paraphrase, both Virginia and Oklahoma have passed Personhood Amendments -- remember the Mississippi Personhood Amendment that I posted about last year? Though the people of Mississippi rejected it, it didn't stop it from passing in Virginia and Oklahoma -- basically, they say that life technically begins at conception, so they not only passed laws that basically made miscarriages and abortion illegal (and on the miscarriages front, this isn't just something that's happening now, it happened last year), but they also made contraception illegal.

In addition, should a woman choose to have an abortion, Virginia has made it mandatory to have her undergo a transvaginal ultrasound, never mind if she wants it or not. It doesn't help that apparently, conservative commentators are also petitioning to repeal the 19th Amendment -- apparently blaming it for government growth as well as the double standards that are apparently abounding today. The petition I linked you to currently has one hundred signatures -- it is currently striving for one hundred thousand signatures.

*Sighs*

Our government's turning into a dictatorship with every passing moment. If anything, I fear for the future.

Comments

[ronofthedead.livejournal.com]

I consider myself to be right of center and this is just nuts. These dudes are chauvanist buttheads who are using conservative principals to wage a war on women.

As for the laws in Virginia and Oklahoma, they go way too far. I always thought that part of conservatism was wanting limits on the amount goverment can intrude into people's private lives. These laws give goverment more power to butt their nose inro the lives of its citizens. Nothing conservative about that.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

That's a very interesting perspective. I will confess, I've never really thought of that one.

And yeah, that's definitely the best explanation.