What's to prevent these doctors from engaging in a bit of creative writing? The pt feared she had been impregnated by an alien and didn't want to give birth to a human-alien hybrid. Or the pt was going to be due in September and believed there were already too many Virgos on the planet.
Whatever. Stupid questions get stupid answers. Malicious compliance for the win.
So is there provision for the bureaucratic instrumentality needed to make this whole thing work? To make sure that dastardly abortion providing people cross the 'T's and dot the 'I's?
As a retired bureaucrat this interests me.
Will there be funding to: Rent an office? Lease a copier? Install a wifi? Add a database? Get office supplies? Decorate the break room? Provide phone service? Actually PAY civil servants to sit at the desk and process the information and file the paperwork?
No? No funding? No bureaucracy? Just some file cabinets somewhere where all the submitted information just disappears into the drawers and nothing ever gets done about it? No one gets referred to law enforcement? No one follows up with a phone call? No one sends a letter requesting more information? No one points out that form L-7 is supposed to be attached to Schedule Seven- Eleven and both need to be notarized?
Nothing?
Well I gotta say these Kansas pols simply do not know how to run a police state!
Some of the asshats in the KS lege leadership have made statements that are more than telling, such as, "The Governorโs unreasonable fear of this data collection is nothing but a roadblock to helping serve these vulnerable women better.โ VULNERABLE?! ๐คฏ Vulnerable from these attacks, but not because they chose abortion! ๐คฏ
AND
"the chair of the House Committee on Health and Human Services, which sponsored H.B. 2749, stated regarding the bill: โWe just want to have more information. Make sure weโre making the right decision for these women.โ" ๐คฌ Well, that's the whole point, isn't it?! "We. Are. Making. The. Decision. For. These. Women." ๐คฌ
HIPAA strikes terror into the hearts of all those who see patients, or should. For those of you out in TV land, it's the Federal rule that says that a medical professional cannot chit-chat about their patients or their conditions with anyone who doesn't have a legitimate need to know.
Dr. Hibbert could not have revealed Marge Simpsons' webbed toes without violating HIPAA.
Heavy periods have the possibility of being a lost pregnancy. Ladies, time to start mailing pads to these wanna be doctor dictators and asking them to make sure that you havenโt accidentally had a spontaneous abortion. Itโs for science, after all.
And if you are in Texas, report every MAGA activist lady under the age of 60, who fails to get pregnant at least once a year, as having had an abortion.
It's okay, the Texas statute explicitly says one cannot be sued for malicious lawsuits brought under it.
When you have Republicans in any position of power, you're going to get things like this. Make sure to punish these panty-sniffing godbotherers with your ballots. Mount up!
If they feel strongly about this they can beat the gerrymander by voting as thinking individuals rather than Republican pavlovian dogs.
Seriously - voters have actual agency...and what red state voters tend to do is come out to fix a problem that could affect them (as Kansans did) and then go right back to voting for the same people who inflicted it.
This is the result because the forced birthers are always 10 steps ahead.
"...in Kansas โ where abortion is still legal, thanks to a Democratic governor and oh, just the entire electorate that voted overwhelmingly to keep it that way!"
One of the other ways this happened well before the referendum in August 2022 is that folks kept voting for the KSSC justices that made the the ruling finding that the state constitution supports the right to abortion. That's what the amendment was meant to overrule.
HIPAA would like a word.
What's to prevent these doctors from engaging in a bit of creative writing? The pt feared she had been impregnated by an alien and didn't want to give birth to a human-alien hybrid. Or the pt was going to be due in September and believed there were already too many Virgos on the planet.
Whatever. Stupid questions get stupid answers. Malicious compliance for the win.
So the next step is for all men seeking help with Erectile Disfunction to have their names plastered on billboards? Yes?
Ta, Robyn. Do these R legislators want to empty their state of women and the people who love them? What kind of plan is that?
grrrrrrr
๐คฌ๐คฌ๐คฌ
So is there provision for the bureaucratic instrumentality needed to make this whole thing work? To make sure that dastardly abortion providing people cross the 'T's and dot the 'I's?
As a retired bureaucrat this interests me.
Will there be funding to: Rent an office? Lease a copier? Install a wifi? Add a database? Get office supplies? Decorate the break room? Provide phone service? Actually PAY civil servants to sit at the desk and process the information and file the paperwork?
No? No funding? No bureaucracy? Just some file cabinets somewhere where all the submitted information just disappears into the drawers and nothing ever gets done about it? No one gets referred to law enforcement? No one follows up with a phone call? No one sends a letter requesting more information? No one points out that form L-7 is supposed to be attached to Schedule Seven- Eleven and both need to be notarized?
Nothing?
Well I gotta say these Kansas pols simply do not know how to run a police state!
And I am not saying that like it is a bad thing.
Some of the asshats in the KS lege leadership have made statements that are more than telling, such as, "The Governorโs unreasonable fear of this data collection is nothing but a roadblock to helping serve these vulnerable women better.โ VULNERABLE?! ๐คฏ Vulnerable from these attacks, but not because they chose abortion! ๐คฏ
AND
"the chair of the House Committee on Health and Human Services, which sponsored H.B. 2749, stated regarding the bill: โWe just want to have more information. Make sure weโre making the right decision for these women.โ" ๐คฌ Well, that's the whole point, isn't it?! "We. Are. Making. The. Decision. For. These. Women." ๐คฌ
Those asshats need to learn to mind their own damn business.
Kansas tried this before and were beaten down by Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. Plus, there is something called "HIPAA".
HIPAA strikes terror into the hearts of all those who see patients, or should. For those of you out in TV land, it's the Federal rule that says that a medical professional cannot chit-chat about their patients or their conditions with anyone who doesn't have a legitimate need to know.
Dr. Hibbert could not have revealed Marge Simpsons' webbed toes without violating HIPAA.
Heavy periods have the possibility of being a lost pregnancy. Ladies, time to start mailing pads to these wanna be doctor dictators and asking them to make sure that you havenโt accidentally had a spontaneous abortion. Itโs for science, after all.
Maybe thatโs what the blood vials sent to the RNC were.
And if you are in Texas, report every MAGA activist lady under the age of 60, who fails to get pregnant at least once a year, as having had an abortion.
It's okay, the Texas statute explicitly says one cannot be sued for malicious lawsuits brought under it.
Can a patient say "I am getting this abortion because fuck you"?
They can say it, but the survey is a drop-down list without a place for "Other, please explain."
When you have Republicans in any position of power, you're going to get things like this. Make sure to punish these panty-sniffing godbotherers with your ballots. Mount up!
Abortion ban --> contraception ban --> same-sex marriage ban
Yep. Griswold v. Connecticut is the next stop on this train.
Rockwell. Wow.
(How did I even remember that that was the performer's name?!?)
Sometimes I remember the weirdest shit from 40 years ago, too, while I can't remember what I watched on TV last night.
If Kansans don't want it they sure have a funny way of showing it by voting gop year in and year out Kelly notwithstanding.
It's the miracle of gerrymandering.
If they feel strongly about this they can beat the gerrymander by voting as thinking individuals rather than Republican pavlovian dogs.
Seriously - voters have actual agency...and what red state voters tend to do is come out to fix a problem that could affect them (as Kansans did) and then go right back to voting for the same people who inflicted it.
This is the result because the forced birthers are always 10 steps ahead.
As useful as that data could be in the right hands, wingnut legislators in Kansas are not the right hands.
All in the name of FREEDOM!
"...in Kansas โ where abortion is still legal, thanks to a Democratic governor and oh, just the entire electorate that voted overwhelmingly to keep it that way!"
One of the other ways this happened well before the referendum in August 2022 is that folks kept voting for the KSSC justices that made the the ruling finding that the state constitution supports the right to abortion. That's what the amendment was meant to overrule.