Kansas House Passes Most Dangerous Sweeping Anti-Abortion Law In the
Nation
May
7, 2012
“In March, Addictinginfo reported on
a dangerous anti-abortion bill being considered by the Republican dominated Kansas House
of Representatives. We are now horrified to report that the Kansas House has
passed that bill and it now goes to the Senate.
“Republicans are poised to make the
69 page bill the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the nation. Among the
provisions include:
“ A sales tax on all abortions. Even
rape victims would have to pay the tax, which could be as high as 6.3%. Despite
their objections to millionaires paying more taxes, Republicans feel it’s okay
to tax women for making a personal decision about their own bodies. This makes
abortion more expensive…
“ A personhood measure that would
define life as beginning at conception, which would almost certainly make
abortion equivalent to murder and outlaw all abortion in the state of Kansas.
Many forms of contraception could also be banned.
“ A measure that significantly
limits abortions in the third trimester.
“ A provision that bans women from
claiming abortion insurance coverage and services on their taxes.
“Doctors are hereby ordered to tell
women that abortion causes breast cancer, which is a damned lie.
“ Doctors are also shielded from
lawsuits if they withhold critical health information from pregnant women that
could cause them to decide to have an abortion. In other words, they don’t have
to tell women about the health of the fetus they carry and don’t have to tell
women about any problems with the pregnancy.
“Such measures would make it nearly
impossible for women to get an abortion in the state of Kansas. They would
severely restrict a woman’s right to make her own health decisions. And the
bill forces women to submit to the will of men…”
Read the
excerpts above and tell me that you can, in any manner, find a single bit of
justification for the actions of Kansas legislators. Realizing, perhaps, that the women of the
state are no longer intimidated by religion-based lies about eternal damnation
to prevent women planning when, and whether or not to reproduce; this gang of
old white men now use lies about acquiring cancer to terrify Kansas women into
allowing men to control their reproductive choices.
I lived in
Kansas for a while. I lived for another
period in SW Missouri, just about 20 miles from Kansas. In both instances, I found Kansas to be
interesting places to live with good school systems, good healthcare and
culturally forward-looking with a noticeable commitment to the quality of life
for all its citizens.
Well, there
was that “dry state” idiocy that we all worked around by visiting state-run
liquor stores and joining “private clubs in order to obtain reciprocity and the
opportunity to buy liquor by the drink along with food.
However, I
moved to Kansas from Arkansas. Most
places would have seemed culturally forward-looking. In the second instance, life in SW Missouri
is such that it makes even the Boy Scouts seem interested in equality and
culturally progressive. I like Kansas in
those days.
Well, I haven’t
changed all that much politically or culturally. Therefore, something must have really happened
to Kansas. Kansas was a free state,
opposed to whites owning black slaves.
Kansas citizens fought a long and bloody war, mostly with neighboring
Missouri in order to abolish slavery.
Kansas was a prime factor in the desegregation of schools and other
facilities and institutions.
Somewhere
along the way to abolishing chattel slavery Kansas elected some leaders who
have decided that the freedom matter applies only to males. It appears that we may yet be fighting
another long and bloody war to free women from repressive religious intrusion
into their lives. Kansas is an appropriate
place to begin the 2nd American civil war. 2012 is as good a year to start as any.
No comments:
Post a Comment