The War on Women

Shiftless2 said:
" the "Roe Effect" #20
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I have virtually zero doubt Republicans would like to outlaw women's right of choice for perpetuity.

According to corroborating demographic reports, females comprise a majority of the U.S. national population.
Thus, the Republican anti-choice agenda discriminates literally against a majority of the population.

Discriminating against a despised minority is easy, the Uyghurs in China an easy example, the Kurds in Iraq.

But females in the U.S. ?!

Notably, Hitler made similar mistake. Hitler tried to take over the planet. If he'd settled for the portion he could adequately ruthlessly control, he might have dodged the D-Day bullet.
 
The more things change ....

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Re #23

Introduced in House (01/31/2023)​

This joint resolution provides that the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, was ratified by three-fourths of the states and is therefore a valid constitutional amendment, regardless of any time limit that was in the original proposal.

The Equal Rights Amendment was originally proposed to the states in 1972. The original proposal included a deadline for ratification of March 22, 1979; Congress subsequently extended the deadline to June 30, 1982. Although the requisite 38 states have ratified the amendment, three of these states did so after the deadlines, and five states subsequently rescinded their ratifications. The status of the amendment has been the subject of litigation.

This from Wiki

It was written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman and introduced in Congress in December 1923 as a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"No - the anti-abortion crowd is pro-birth. Not pro-life." S2 #27
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U.S. Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan called it "semantic infiltration", tricking an opponent into accepting misnomer terminology.
For years the authoritarian prohibitionists tricked their opponents into accepting the "pro-abortion" label.

I don't know of any labels more accurate for this dispute than:
- pro-choice, &
- anti-choice.

Anti-choice is an insight into the consequence of making policy in ignorance. They're all in favor of criminalizing women's healthcare, until a woman they care about needs such healthcare.
 

Police are questioning Florida voters about signing an abortion rights ballot petition​

KATE PAYNE

State police are showing up at Florida voters’ homes to question them about signing a petition to get an abortion rights amendment on the ballot in November, and a state health care agency has launched a website targeting the ballot initiative with politically charged language.

Critics say they’re the latest efforts by Florida’s Republican elected officials to leverage state resources to try to block the abortion rights measure, moves which some Democratic officials argue could violate state laws against voter intimidation.

“Ron (DeSantis) has repeatedly used state power to interfere with a citizen-led process to get reproductive freedom on the ballot,” Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried told reporters on Monday. “This is their latest desperate attempt before Election Day.”

The ballot initiative known as Amendment 4 would enshrine abortion rights in Florida law. If approved by 60% of voters, the procedure would ...

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Shiftless2 said:

Police are questioning Florida voters about signing an abortion rights ballot petition​

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I'd like to know both the specific questions asked, and what specific stipulation in their police charter that requires / authorizes such investigation.

I'd also like to know:
- Are the government agents performing the interrogation in uniform? Police uniform? Displaying ID? Under arms?
- Who ordered this investigation?
- For what purpose?
- How is the collected data being processed?
- What is the intended use of this data, once compiled?
 

Wyoming judge strikes down abortion, pill bans​

The judge said the laws — one of which was a first-in-the-nation prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy — violated the state's constitution

What happened
A Wyoming judge struck down two state abortion bans Monday, including the nation's first explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy. Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens said the laws, passed in 2022 and 2023, violated the state constitution's guarantee that adults can make their own health care decisions.

Who said what​

The bans on abortion generally and medication abortion specifically "impede the fundamental right to make health care decisions for an entire class of people, pregnant women," Owens said, and they "are not reasonable or necessary to protect the health and general welfare of the people." Wyoming voters overwhelming enshrined the right to make personal health care decisions in a 2012 constitutional amendment passed "amid fears of government overreach following approval of the federal Affordable Care Act," The Associated Press said.

One of the six plaintiffs in the case, Dr. Giovannina Anthony, said she was "grateful and relieved that

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