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The Prenatal Discrimination Act (Prenda) seeks to make it illegal to have an abortion based on the sex or race of the fetus. But advocates argued the proposal would force physicians to report on patients they suspect of having an abortion for those reasons without having any real way of knowing. They warn it would also effectively institutionalize racial profiling on the part of doctors and violate the physician-patient relationship.
This bill is so horrendous that I could not believe it when it was first brought up, said Representative Judy Chu of California. It is a nightmare. This is a piece of legislation that would impose criminal penalties on providers and limit the reproductive choices of women of color and all women.
She said providers facing the possibility of jail time for failing to report on minority women having abortions as a catch-all, and worried that it could also further discourage physicians from serving underrepresented communities.
Chu also pointed out that the committee is composed entirely of men.
If you ask a black woman if she has had an abortion because her child is black, she will say thats absolutely insane. She would instead talk about her economic state, her access to healthcare, whether she might be in a violent relationship, Simpson says. Our elected officials are supposed to be in office to move forward legislation to make us healthier and better, but Im seeing the opposite. So it makes me question a lot of things, especially as a black woman living in this country. With bills like this, it becomes more and more obvious that my life doesnt matter and thats disheartening and hard to hold as a person who has to walk in this world every day.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/15/prenatal-discrimination-act-house-hearing-asian-stereotypes
Rex
(65,616 posts)over something that is none of their business! Our nations roads and bridges and schools are falling apart, yet all the GOP cares about is what a women does with her uterus! Total madness, this cannot continue forever.
salinsky
(1,065 posts)... it should be renamed the House of Monkeys Flinging Poo.
certainot
(9,090 posts)dems have to go on the offensive.
at a cheap $1000/hr x 15hrs/day x 1200 stations, rw talk radio is worth 4.68 BIL$/ year or 390MIL$ /month FREE for pro republican wall st anti abortion think tank propaganda and swiftboating
and then we let 90 major universities support 268 limbaugh stations!
those universities are perfect places to protest this type of bullshit.
if they stimulate a discussion of the issue in the uni community, advertisers will flee rw radio. the monopoly is already hurting big time. the republicans would become very afraid of losing their most effective weapon for disinforming and intimidating and enabling, both media and their reps and hacks.
it could give dems supermajorities.
AxionExcel
(755 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)They only care about money $$$$$$ and their Christian Taliban dogma.
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)instead of that lame ass budget shit.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)between Republicans and Democrats, right? What the fuck does it matter if people stay home on election day rather than vote for Hillary? I'm sure Cruz and Trump would veto shit like this just as fast as Obama, right??
salinsky
(1,065 posts)... that mindset is inconceivable.
LiveLong101
(13 posts)Much like voting for the lesser evil has not made our country move forward, but backward instead.
Abortion used as a "bargaining chip" to erode choice.
rladdi
(581 posts)Many Republicans are sex abusers, many never charged. Some are serving in city, state or federal government positions
eggplant
(3,913 posts)Because the right to abortion is meaningless if you can't afford one.