Post-Roe dystopia is here

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Published 2024-05-04
Before Florida’s six week ban went into effect last week, Florida was one of the last places in the southeast United States where a person could get an abortion at all. Now, depending on how advanced their pregnancy is, a person seeking an abortion will have to travel as far as Kansas or Virginia to get the care they need. But law professor and historian Mary Ziegler warns that the anti-abortion movement aims for sweeping, nationwide bans. ‘The ultimate goal for the anti abortion movement is to have the conservative US supreme court say essentially that fetuses are persons under the 14th amendment in the federal constitution’ says Ziegler.

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All Comments (21)
  • @lamars2486
    There is NO HEART IN A 6 WEEK OLD FETUS, its a cell structure, the heartbeat is the mothers pulse. GET THIS RIGHT
  • @Arahknid
    Her body. Her choice. I do not understand what is so threatening about a woman who does not wish to be pregnant.
  • @parlormusic1885
    Embryos are persons, but not their mothers? It’s obscene.
  • I started bleeding heavily at 13 weeks during my second pregnancy in 2006. I lost so much blood I couldn't move or speak. They gave me enough fluid that I could put on X on the consent form and rushed me into surgery. I'm so grateful to the doctor that saved my life. I woke up getting a transfusion. If hospital lawyers had to consult before surgery I just wouldn't be here, my daughter wouldn't have had a mother and my youngest child would have never been born. These laws aren't pro-life.
  • WASHINGTON (AP) — One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.
  • @gingw7333
    Had my sister-in-law's doctors been required to stop and debate the legality of intervening surgically when she had a ruptured tubal pregnancy and was minutes from bleeding to death, she as well as the cell cluster would not have survived. Later she had a perfectly healthy child. This Republican BS is insanity.
  • I thought it was a doctors business to monitor womens pregnancy, not the government!!
  • @lamiagumbo
    Forced birthers don't care about the suffering of children or women or young girls. The only thing that matters to the forced birther is that women and young girls know their place- as state property. All you have to do is look at their voting records to know that is true.
  • @lamars2486
    It takes SIX WEEKS TO GET INTO A DOCTORS OFFICE, let alone a obgyn
  • @user-cz5lj2vx1f
    If fetuses are considered "persons", then, WOMEN will NOT be seen as people--but, as CARRYING CASES for Fetuses--with NO RIGHTS that the laws are bound to respect.
  • @user-ne2vm9hn1h
    Child support payments should starts at 6 weeks. It’s despicable that women are carrying this burden
  • @sarabeth8050
    Because they are high demand, good doctors are moving out of red states to minimize risk.
  • So a fertilized chicken egg is the same thing as a full-grown chicken? Granting fertilized human eggs full personhood is just as nonsensical.
  • @analise17
    Seems like The Handmaid's Tale should be required reading in middle school. I read it back in HS and was incredulous that it could happen, but here we are.
  • @CalistaRea
    So, will women be facing jail sentences for miscarrying? I mean, it is the woman who is carrying the fetus so if something goes wrong, surely it is her fault. Where is the line - - heck, what happened to the sand to draw the line in. This is beyond ridiculous!
  • This map looks eerily similar to one from the 1850s. Slave states vs free states. Now we have forced birth states vs free states. It’s not the same thing but you do have a portion of the population whose agency has been stripped from them. This is the wrong direction.
  • @cococonlin170
    There are going to be a lot a "forced-fathers" who can look forward to paying child support for the next 18 years. Or, is it now 19 as it begins at 6 weeks?
  • @dilsadmeraler
    It’s beyond me that we are talking about women rights in this age How horrific that republicans brought us to this point