Georgia set to ban almost all abortions after 6 weeks

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Totally dystopian.
www.vox.com/2019/3/30/18288283/georgia-abortion-fetal-heartbeat-bill
This Twitter thread explains how women will die because doctors will be afraid to initiate life-saving treatment if something goes wrong in pregnancy twitter.com/drjengunter/status/1111709845801951233

This makes me more angry than I know how to say.

“The legislature’s bold action reaffirms our priorities and who we are as a state,” Kemp tweeted Friday.

Yeah we know exactly what you are. Funny how pro-lifers couldn't give a shit about actual existing women.

Well that’s incredibly depressing and misogynistic.

Oh this is really awful. Incredibly depressing.

We were discussing this at work the other day. I'm sure it's one of a number of attempts to force a case all the way up to the Supreme Court so the right-wing majority on there can overturn Roe v Wade.

6 weeks - since pregnancies are dated from the last menstrual period, that's 2 weeks after the date you'd be likely to test assuming you had regular periods and a fairly stable lifestyle and were keeping track.

In reality, many women won't even realise they're pregnant till after the date at which they could legally have an abortion in Georgia.

Very disturbing. There really is a war on women from all sides currently.

Oh Crikey. When I read this i thought it meant Georgia the former Soviet Republic :(

Absolutely appalling. State sanctioned misogyny.

Urgh. Welcome to Gilead.

Notice the placard carriers saying "I regret my abortion". So once they have taken advantage of the freedom to have an abortion they want to deny it to everyone else.

Also - six weeks is when the heartbeat starts. So if this doesn’t happen, you might be carrying a non-viable pregnancy which won’t ‘naturally’ fail for some time.

Is there any allowance for this?

Fucking hell. Just awful.

Women will die. How is this about right to life?

Argh this is making my blood boil. I don’t understand how America can be digressing so badly. It’s actually horrific.

And absolutely agree, @Biologyisreal they don’t know if the pregnancies they aborted would have been regretted any way so it’s a complete non-argument!

The article says "A woman may terminate her pregnancy in cases of a documented medical emergency, or if she is a victim of rape or incest"

It doesn't even make any sense from the point of view of those who are pushing this legislation through. They say they value life, and that's why they want to ban abortions. But not if that life was conceived in a way they deem unacceptable.

Will women with ectopic pregnancies have to wait until it has reached a medical emergency before they can be treated? Or a partial molar pregnancy where there is a heartbeat?

Why do the public in these states vote in these people? Is it really the majority view of the electorate on those states?

Try being a feminist living and working in Georgia - dystopian doesn't quite cut it. There were fireworks here on Friday night celebrating.
Our local Planned Parenthood has more protesters than patients and the protesters are far from pleasant.
The religious force down here is very powerful and the Gov. is unapologetically ambivalent to women's rights and if you don't know him, check out his campaign videos:

Surely this will just cause some women to resort to unsafe abortions?

I’m also yet to see any pro-life groups who are also pro-benefits etc to help women raise the children they were forced to give birth too.

Perhaps these religious types think that any resulting babies should be handed over to good pious families to raise properly. In true Gilead style.

Michelle for presidency. Please.

Women in Georgia will hop over to the next nearest state to get an abortion then.
Abortion is ridiculously politicized in America.

You are just trying to scare people. Women would be helped in medical cases and very few women would die. Less than a hundred women died before roe vs wade. This is about protecting the unborn child who is routinely killed for a mothers sex life.

This is one of the comments on twitter. Chilling that someone should think that in one of the most advanced nations on earth that women dying of a preventable cause is acceptable. They seem confident that it would be "very few" women , surely one is too many when the medical technology exists to prevent it.

Such deliberately emotive language used in that quote TurboTeddy.

The idea that people might think that, oh ok, only a few women would die, that's totally fine then. It's hideous. And it is scary. No need to try to scare anyone, their legislation does that all on its own.

Women in Georgia will hop over to the next nearest state to get an abortion then.

Not sure the surrounding states would exactly be welcoming...

Someone at least is trying a protest - this from New Scientist:

^ IN THE US, a bill introduced to the Georgia state legislature would require men over 55 to report to the nearest authorities every time they ejaculate.
HB 604 also proposes a ban on vasectomies, requires men to obtain permission from their partner before prescriptions for erectile dysfunction medicine can be fulfilled, introduces a 24-hour waiting period for men wanting to buy pornography and makes sex without a condom punishable as aggravated assault.
Not expected to pass, the bill aims to highlight attempts to tighten abortion laws in the state. Dar’shun Kendrick, a politician in the Georgia House of Representatives, is one of the bill’s co-authors. She posted her “testicular bill of rights” on Twitter, declaring: “You want some regulation of bodies and choice? Done!”.^

legiscan.com/GA/text/HB604/2019

That means that they've outlawed abortion then. 6 weeks is a teensy, tiny window.

Had a conversation with DD1 and DP about this last night, and said that sitting on the fence was giving me splinters. I can't call myself pro-choice because its not really honest, as I am not 'any time for any reason', which is what I would truly call pro choice, but I pregnancy is unlike any other scenario where the rights of one human conflict with another, and medical situation can be so complicated, and the bald pro life position isn't mine either.

I just don't know what to say.