IT'S ALRIGHT MR. KENNEDY, MY UTERUS IS ONLY BLEEDING.

IT'S ALRIGHT MR. KENNEDY, MY UTERUS IS ONLY BLEEDING. Marty Lederman points us to an interesting WaPo article, in which a few members of America's tiny minority of serious, principled "pro-lifers" have come to see that "Partial Birth" bans are silly, irrational laws whose primary purpose is to separate money from their wallets and funnel it to the Republican Party. Focus on the Family, however, maintains that the bans do have an upside: the law does increase the "danger of internal bleeding from a perforated uterus." If you don't believe me that most of the American forced pregnancy lobby cares a great deal more about punishing women for sexual choices they don't approve of than protecting fetal life, well, I say we take their word for it.

And, again, this explains the sexism in Kennedy's opinion; you take it away, and the legislation has no connection with a legitimate state interest at all. As you can see, most anti-choicers (despite the bad-faith congressional findings that 2+2=171) don't really think that these bans on a safer procedure protect women's physical health. They simply believe that women can't be trusted to make judgments about their own lives, and if this causes some women to be seriously injured that's a feature, not a bug. It's almost impossible to overstate how disgusting this legislation is, and how deeply entwined outright misogyny is with the American "pro-life" movement.

--Scott Lemieux

Comments

megfuse

Tue, 2011-12-20 18:02

Hi. My name is Megan. I was doing a search through google for my bloodwork all came back fine, but the truth is it is all in reference to what your article is stating...I had a daughter, she is 4 now. I had a c-section and we were through the state to help pay b/c we fall into a certain finacial bracket..and through the state's family planning I was encouraged to get on a form of birth control-FREE of course. And so, being that my hormones are "OFF" I didnt trust anything with a hormone since when I was in high school what was recommended to regulate my periods wound up on a TV commercial for lawyers to be notified if you or anyone you knew or loved has suffered blah blah blah came across the screen..I never trusted it...but being that I had my daughter and knowing the process and that I had a cousin whom had an IUD put in, that being the only form of birthcontrol available without a hormone, I had one put in through the health unit, being it was FREE and recomended and my cousin had had the procedure done...MIND you, It hurt and I have had it removed for it causing pain, abnormal bleeding and now I had blood work done yesterday thinking I am anemic and nope, everything is fine, BUT I cant help but feel something is seriously wrong from the procedure and I am just not up to par at all...Just had to share because I dont agree with the control this government brings but being that I am in a certain finacial bracket..It is what it is...just sayin.

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