Help, Help! There’s an Elephant in My Uterus!
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Alaska has become the latest state to fall victim to the Republican War on Women.
It’s difficult to imagine today that Alaska was once at the forefront of women’s rights, and reproductive choice, but in 1913, the Alaska Territorial Legislature gave women the right to vote as its first official act.
In 1970, a successful state-wide grassroots movement to reform Alaska’s abortion law, made Alaska the third state in the country to make abortion legal and safe, three years before Roe v. Wade.
Alaska has a proud history of individual choice, privacy, and non-governmental interference in its citizens’ personal lives.
So, it’s also difficult to imagine how it would be that today’s “conservatives” who claim to support this notion of a small government that stays out of your business, and out of your healthcare would be eagerly dismantling that philosophy in the Alaska legislature. Well… only when it comes to women.
We’ve seen legislation across the country that seeks to disempower women from making choices about their own bodies, their healthcare, and their reproduction. We’ve even seen places like Virginia and Texas propose mandatory ultrasound bills that would actually force women to undergo invasive medical procedures that have nothing to do with their medical care, and everything to do with politics. Conservatives who wail about the government getting between you and your doctor apparently find no problem legislating mandatory, unnecessary, invasive, and expensive medical procedures for women, who are in the process of making a difficult and perhaps painful decision.
Forced Ultrasounds
Alaska is now on board. The “Extreme Team” of right wing Republicans starring Cathy Giessel (R), Fred Dyson (R), John Coghill (R), Charlie Huggins (R) (and their token DINO Donny Olson “D”) have sponsored a forced ultrasound bill in the Alaska legislature. These are the group of four Republican ideologues who decided not to work with the rest of the bipartisan legislature, broke their crayons and now sit pouting, in the self-inflicted minority corner.
regardless of its medical necessity prior to performing an abortion—even though the Alaska Supreme Court has stated repeatedly that Alaska laws may not place unnecessary burdens on a woman’s right to an abortion. Forcing doctors to perform ultrasounds for political and not medical reasons is the definition of government intrusion.
Senator Dyson also stating that a forced ultrasound was “intended to ensure that a woman’s decision whether to abort is a measured, not emotional, one.”
We can’t just have women making decisions the way they think is best, now can we? They must be saved from themselves via forced medical procedures. You know how emotional they can be.
But wait, there’s more!
No More Full Disclosure of Options
Sarah Palin appointee, and fellow church member Wes Keller has also introduced a bill to eliminate public funding for abortion in most cases.
HB363, which will be heard on Thursday, forbids full disclosure of pregnancy options and referrals for abortions, in flagrant violation of requirements made by federal funding laws. But Abortion is a fundamental right in Alaska, as protected by two State Supreme Court rulings in and . Any law limiting access, particularly one such as HB363 that targets poor women, is an attack on our Alaskan values:
individual freedom from government interference, privacy and fair treatment under the law.
No worries if you’re wealthy. You’ll be fine. If not, then you shouldn’t have gotten impregnated in the first place. NO we don’t want to help you out with birth control, and NO we don’t trust your medical decisions. NO, we don’t want you to be on public assistance, and NO we don’t want to provide you with prenatal care, or healthcare for your baby, or food stamps, or welfare or pre-K care. NO, we don’t want to fully fund public schools either. So good luck with the kid. Next time, don’t be so poor and immoral.
Abortion Permission Slips from Men
And if you’re not fully convinced yet that Alaska is the next front in the GOP’s war on women, you just have to listen to State Rep. Alan Dick. He said in a House Health and Social Services Committee Hearing last week that he doesn’t believe that when a woman is pregnant, it’s really “her pregnancy.” As a matter of fact, he would advocate for criminalizing women who have an abortion without the permission via written signature from the man who impregnated her. He stated, “If I thought that the man’s signature was required… required, in order for a woman to have an abortion, I’d have a little more peace about it…”
He didn’t say whether a rapist would be able to send his signature by fax from prison, or not. But he’ll have “peace” and women will require a permission slip for their own bodies.
If you are an Alaskan – woman or man – and you are outraged by this,and tell Alaska legislators to vote NO on HB 363 on Thursday.
And to my fellow Alaskan women – remember, at this point you still have the right to vote, and the right and ability to voice your opinion loudly. Use them.
[*UPDATE – Rep. Dick has issued a “clarifying statement” on this issue ]
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Well there already is a society where woman don’t have basic civil rights or liberty – they are called the Taliban!
Also there already is a country where your employer is intimately involved in your contraception – its called China.
What is hypocritical is that conservatives claim Obama is bringing Sha’ria Law and socialism to the US; however these actions against women speak volumes of their intentions and overall lack of knowledge of American freedoms, the constitution and the civil rights of women.
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