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4th April 2012

Link reblogged from Photography with 43 notes

I am not a farm animal. →

limetastic:

sweetupndown:

Even IF your fetus is DEAD. As in the state of GA is now forcing women to carry dead fetus’ and give birth to them.

“Commonly referred to as the “fetal pain bill” by Georgian Republicans and as the “women as livestock bill” by everyone else, HB 954 garnered national attention this month when state Rep. Terry England (R-Auburn) compared pregnant women carrying stillborn fetuses to the cows and pigs on his farm. According to Rep. England and his warped thought process, if farmers have to “deliver calves, dead or alive,” then a woman carrying a dead fetus, or one not expected to survive, should have to carry it to term.

In order for a pregnancy to be considered “medically futile,” the fetus must be diagnosed with an irreversible chromosomal or congenital anomaly that is “incompatible with sustaining life after birth.” The Georgia “fetal pain” bill also stipulates that the abortion must be performed in such a way that the fetus emerges alive. If doctors perform the abortion differently, they face felony charges and up to 10 years in prison. Given all this, the so-called compromise suddenly does not look like much of a bargain.”

Maybe they don’t remember that when abortions were illegal to obtain, women used to give themselves abortions at home. Usually these efforts ended in clothes hangers, trashed dead fetuses, and wounded women who were too scared to seek medical attention and died. I’m so glad to live in a country that would rather a woman go through that pain than give her a private option for a healthier choice. I don’t know why these idiots think a woman isn’t smart enough to choose for herself what to do with her body. What does a man know about childbirth? What makes him an expert on something he will never experience the same way as a woman? Furthermore, why are people listening to these people without ANY experience in the issue?

Source: sweetupndown9