Reproductive rights thread

Republican states want to raise the teen birth rate

New court filing in the mifepristone lawsuit is scary jive!

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In the amended complaint, the Attorneys General for the states of Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri make many of the same bogus claims found in the original lawsuit, including debunked pseudoscience and references to retracted papers. But one of the states’ claims is sure to make your skin crawl.

In a section, “Sovereign Injuries to Plaintiffs’ Population Interests,” the three states claim that mifepristone is “depressing expected birth rates” for teenage girls “in Plaintiff States,” which injures Plaintiff Sates by depriving said States of increases in population (p. 190) — as if teenage girls, which the States refer to as “teenaged mothers,” exist for the purposes of churning out new citizens for the States.

Teenagers!

The Plaintiff States then claim that this population injury results in the “diminishment of political representation” and the “loss of federal funds” (p. 190).

You have to read it to believe it.

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If passed it would grant personhood to fertilized eggs North Carolina, even before the egg has implanted in the uterus, and therefore classify harming a fertilized egg as homicide.


The bill calls intent to receive or seek out any procedure that could harm a fertilized egg—which could include abortion, IVF, or even using an IUD birth control implant, since an IUD prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus—attempted murder, while actually terminating the egg would be classified as first degree murder, and could result in the death penalty.


The bill does not offer any protection for women who undergo a procedure to remove an ectopic pregnancy, which is a life-threatening condition where a fertilized egg implants in the Fallopian tube instead of the uterus. If the egg is not removed the Fallopian tube will rupture, causing the woman to bleed out. Since the fertilized egg would be harmed in this procedure, this bill would likely make it illegal for doctors to treat ectopic pregnancy, condemning women to death.


The bill also opens to the door for individuals to claim defense of a human life by killing or harming women who have terminated, or declare their intent to terminate a fertilized egg, in the same manner that killing someone who was in the act of committing murder could be deemed justifiable.


This section of the bill’s text reads, “Any person has the right to defend his or her own life or the life of another person, even by the use of deadly force if necessary, from willful destruction by another person.”


Such a law would give a green light to abusive partners to murder women and claim it to be justifiable under this law for something as simple as using an IUD.

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