A Warning To Virgins: Arizona Legislators Trying To Declare Pregnancy Two Weeks Prior To Conception
Arizona Legislators Trying To Declare Pregnancy Two Weeks Prior To Conception
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
April 2, 2012 - 2:27pm
Legislators have had so much success smuggling in ulterior motives with 20-week bans that they’re now looking for ways to expand the amount of hard right anti-choice nonsense they can attach to those bills. The most recent---and extreme---example is Arizona. There, lawmakers are writing a 20-week abortion ban that starts counting off at the first day of a woman’s period. Yes, they’re arguing that you’re “pregnant” while you’re actually getting your period. In fact, as Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones explains, they’re really trying to steal as many weeks as possible away from women seeking abortion:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/arizona-outdoes-everyone-new-anti-abortion-bill
That’s bad in and of itself, but taking a step back and looking at the big picture makes this law look even more sinister. Medically speaking, pregnancy starts when a fertilized egg implants in the uterine lining. Anti-choicers have attempted to define it earlier with their failed attempts to pass “personhood” law that would define not just pregnancy, but “personhood” as beginning at conception. Now in Arizona, they’re trying to argue that you’re pregnant a couple of weeks before you even had the sex that resulted in your pregnancy.
Think about the implications down the road. If a woman is “pregnant” two weeks before she becomes pregnant, than any fertile woman---including those currently menstruating!---should really be considered pregnant. After all, we don’t know the future. We don’t know that any non-pregnant woman couldn’t be pregnant two weeks from now, making her retroactively pregnant now. Considering that it’s anti-choice nuts we’re talking about, it’s safe to assume that they’d simply prefer a situation where all women of reproductive age are considered to be pregnant, on the grounds that they could be two weeks from now. Better safe than sorry, especially if that mentality means you get to exert maximum control over the bodies of women of reproductive age.
MORE:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/04/01/arizona-legislators-trying-to-declare-pregnancy-two-weeks-prior-to-conception
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Jeebus Haploid Christ juggling fish and riding a unicycle!!! 
It seems they get crazier and crazier about this shit every single day. 
Last edited Tue Apr 3, 2012, 09:45 PM - Edit history (1)
I have no words.
on edit: What she said:
Doctors will use LMP (last menstrual period) to get an idea of due date and determine gestational age. This is not always accurate and is somewhat misleading.
Again, it's proof that the repukes are attempting to insert themselves in the exam room between a patient and her doctor.
do not understand the bills they are passing. Every time they are called out on it they realize how stupid they are and back off some.
Lets hope they get embarrassed and eviscerated again and back the fuck off!!
