Republicans Push 700 New Laws to Regulate Women's Bodies

[Tx4obama]

Note: this is from April - but it is still a good article, with lots of hyper-links in it.
I did a search and couldn't find it on DU.

Republicans Push 700 New Laws to Regulate Women's Bodies

April 12, 2013


In the first quarter of 2013, states have proposed 694 provisions related to a woman’s body, how she gets pregnant, or how she chooses to end that pregnancy.

A new report released on Thursday by the Guttmacher Institute takes a comprehensive look at how the War on Women has continued past the election cycle and into 2013. It shows that the new legislatures across the country are still very much dedicated to restricting sex education, availability of medication, and abortion access for women. Indeed, 47 percent of the 694 provisions were directly related to abortion:

During the first three months of 2013, legislators in 14 states introduced provisions seeking to ban abortion prior to viability. These bans fall into three categories: measures that would prohibit all abortions, those that would ban abortions after a specified point during the first trimester of pregnancy and those that would block abortions at 20 weeks after fertilization (the equivalent of 22 weeks after the woman’s last menstrual period, the conventional method physicians use to measure pregnancy). All of these proposals are in direct violation of U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Legislators in 10 states have introduced proposals that would ban all, or nearly all, abortions. In eight states (AL, IA, MS, ND, OK, SC, VA and WA), legislators have proposed defining “personhood” as beginning at conception; if adopted, these measures would ban most, if not all, abortions.

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Full article here: http://www.alternet.org/republicans-push-700-new-laws-regulate-womens-bodies

[TexasTowelie]

1. Debate on the second reading of SB 5 in Texas is closing.

There were 26 amendments that were not discussed and Republican legislators ram-rodded the bill through the Texas House.

[SunSeeker]

2. Women will die because of this legislation.

And those Republican scumbags don't give a shit. But they know the rest of us do. That is why they did it quickly in special session, to minimize public input. Evil bastards.

[TexasTowelie]

3. I agree.

They did not have two-thirds of support in the Texas Senate since there is a 20-11 split that kept a bottleneck on the bill during the regular session. I changed my avatar back in April to an upside-down Texas flag because I recognized that Texas was in a state of emergency and my predictions for the worst are unfolding daily. My level of disgust is too great to express as it would most likely result in legal troubles. How this state is being ruined run makes me embarrassed to be a Texan.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Unfortunately these mutant sub-humans are all over the country.

Don't let it get you down. Sooner or later the human race is going to pull itself out of their slimy grasp.
It won't be one moment too soon, either.

Something has gone really, really wrong for them to have stolen this much power over sane people.