As a man, I could never get pregnant. As a gay man, I am never going to get anyone pregnant. So, abortion is not a big issue for me except where I see the nexus of the right to control one’s own body in the pro-choice and LGBT rights movement.
It’s not that I don’t care about abortion. It’s just that I’d rather hear women tell me why this issue is so important to them than for me to try to do this for them. I most certainly voice my support for a woman’s right to choose. And I most certainly argue with right wing idiots ranting about being pro-life, pro-war, pro-death penalty, anti-healthcare, and why women should submit to men. As to the last point I always ask them if they are into BDSM? Because that sounds really freaky to me. “No, no, no, something, something BIIIIIIIIbullll!”
So, yes, I fight, argue, and vote pro-choice, but being devoid of a uterus, and seeing, after 27 years, that my life partner still hasn’t gotten pregnant, it is not a topic I bring up often.
So, it’s got to be some sick perverted shit by the pro-zygote crowd, for me to start a conversation about it. Well, by way of Raw Story, I got a doozie for you:
An anti-abortion bill being offered by Republicans in Iowa would effectively ban all abortions and give parents rights over the bodies of unmarried adult daughters.
A state House panel on Wednesday voted to send SF 471— the so-called “personhood” bill — to the full committee. The bill states that life begins at conception, giving fetuses the same rights as people.
Anticipating that the “personhood” provision of the bill will likely be struck down by courts, the GOP bill also provides criminal punishment for anyone who performs an abortion more than 20 weeks after conception. The bill makes exceptions if the life of the mother is at risk. However, it does not make exceptions for rape or incest.
Iowa House Democrats noted on Wednesday that HF 53, to which SF 471 is a successor, also gives parents the legal right to prevent unmarried adult daughters from having an abortion.
The bill states “injunctive relief to prevent a physician from performing abortions” may be obtained “by a parent or guardian of the woman if the woman is less than eighteen years of age or unmarried at the time the abortion was performed or attempted to be performed.”
Now, that’s some sick perverted shit! Iowa’s pro-embryo fetishists think so little of women that they won’t let adult women make their own decisions about their own bodies unless there is a man there to assist them in making their decisions, or if they have the good guidance of real adults.
The fetal tissue obsessionists have gone off the rails here. This sounds like a whole new angle for the anti-human liberty crowd. What next? The ability of parents to get injunctive relief to prevent their poor confused adult gay sons from getting anally penetrated?
The key word is “nexus.”