It must be hell for healthcare providers to not only know medical stuff but also keep tabs on all the courts' back and forth decisions about healthcare.
100% spot on. The state supreme Court will overturn him, but they now have to assert that what he wrote is wrong and women are property with rights decided by men. His writing is one of disgust that he was even having to write it in the first place because we should be past this. We used to be past this.
He could have gone one better. Instead of saying "should" here: "When someone other than the pregnant woman is able to sustain the fetus, then — and only then — should those other voices have a say in the discussion", he should have said "could" or "it might be appropriate". That said, thank you, McBurney.
Right! Because even after the magic 20 weeks, there are still situations that put the pregnant person at risk, even dire risk. So there are still potential decisions to be made regarding how much risk the pregnant person should take on to maybe successfully give birth. And only the pregnant person gets to decide how much risk to take on - and must be provided with the very best information possible to weigh that risk (so lawmakers and other non-medical types should butt the fuck out).
Republicans made the mistake of telling women, "we don't care about women's pain and suffering," they only see a woman as a host for the fetus.
Conservative men see women as a commodity to be managed, or controlled. And those men are horrified that people they see as mentally inferior have the ultimate control over human population growth.
It isn't just control of our own bodies. It's control of the future of humanity. Conservatives want another Baby Boom and plummeting birthrates interferes with their plans for future corporate profits and political domination.
There are 8.2 billion people on Earth. We simply cannot continue to promote unfettered human reproduction. Women around the globe are refusing to reproduce like wild animals. Is it women's intuition, mother's instinct that women around the globe are refusing to spend their entire adult lives pregnant?
Women hold the ultimate power to shape the future of humanity, and Conservative men will not stop trying to take that power for themselves.
Come on, scientists! Get to work on technology that lets men get pregnant and carry a baby. I’m sure all the right to lifers will volunteer right away to serve as incubators.
I'm gonna be frank, here. I don't care who he was when he was appointed or whatever. A guy who references A Handmaid's Tale in a ruling overturning a draconian abortion ban no longer sees eye to eye with the Republican Party. Welcome to the fuckaduck side, pal.
Pro-Birth, Anti-Life: The GOP's Child Welfare Hypocrisy
From anti-abortion crusades to shrugging at child care—because who needs health care or food, right?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-148613239?r=4d7sow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
I love the name of the plaintiff for no other reason than it will make so many Republican heads assplode.
Ta, Robyn. No, we are not community property. Nor are we broodmares, nor are we handmaids. We are human, and I'm glad this judge acknowledged that.
It must be hell for healthcare providers to not only know medical stuff but also keep tabs on all the courts' back and forth decisions about healthcare.
Whoa. A Handmaids Tale reference in a legal opinion. Mcburney wasn't playing.
Huh -- a GOP man (or a probably GOP man) with a conscience and some respect for women. I thought they were extinct.
*sigh* I can't help it; sorry, Robyn:
"trump’s" should be "trumps". It's not a possessive, it's a verb.
The writers don't read the comments; if you want this to be fixed, then send her a DM.
Good catch.
Democrats: Love trumps hate!
Whereas Republicans love Trump’s hate
100% spot on. The state supreme Court will overturn him, but they now have to assert that what he wrote is wrong and women are property with rights decided by men. His writing is one of disgust that he was even having to write it in the first place because we should be past this. We used to be past this.
Righteous ruling!
He could have gone one better. Instead of saying "should" here: "When someone other than the pregnant woman is able to sustain the fetus, then — and only then — should those other voices have a say in the discussion", he should have said "could" or "it might be appropriate". That said, thank you, McBurney.
Right! Because even after the magic 20 weeks, there are still situations that put the pregnant person at risk, even dire risk. So there are still potential decisions to be made regarding how much risk the pregnant person should take on to maybe successfully give birth. And only the pregnant person gets to decide how much risk to take on - and must be provided with the very best information possible to weigh that risk (so lawmakers and other non-medical types should butt the fuck out).
Republicans made the mistake of telling women, "we don't care about women's pain and suffering," they only see a woman as a host for the fetus.
Conservative men see women as a commodity to be managed, or controlled. And those men are horrified that people they see as mentally inferior have the ultimate control over human population growth.
It isn't just control of our own bodies. It's control of the future of humanity. Conservatives want another Baby Boom and plummeting birthrates interferes with their plans for future corporate profits and political domination.
There are 8.2 billion people on Earth. We simply cannot continue to promote unfettered human reproduction. Women around the globe are refusing to reproduce like wild animals. Is it women's intuition, mother's instinct that women around the globe are refusing to spend their entire adult lives pregnant?
Women hold the ultimate power to shape the future of humanity, and Conservative men will not stop trying to take that power for themselves.
And... since women being forth life, the conservative male demands the power of death over her hopes, independence, and her life itself. Uterus envy.
But, but Sir Toby the Witch Hunter said in 1521 that…
matthew hopkins witchfinder general is my personal favorite.
Hello, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, my good man. You are. A good man.
Come on, scientists! Get to work on technology that lets men get pregnant and carry a baby. I’m sure all the right to lifers will volunteer right away to serve as incubators.
Make Host Bodies Great Again!
I'm gonna be frank, here. I don't care who he was when he was appointed or whatever. A guy who references A Handmaid's Tale in a ruling overturning a draconian abortion ban no longer sees eye to eye with the Republican Party. Welcome to the fuckaduck side, pal.
https://youtu.be/W99n083E0IA?si=1L9JV2RVKmuJzzaG
That balance, he explained, should favor the mother while no one else can incubate the fetus, and the fetus once someone else can take care of it.
Ahh yes, the doctrine of "Love the fetus, hate the child."
Actually, what I inferred from this is referencing the blowhards who think late term abortions are a thing.