windywave wrote:
Amnesia wrote:
Yeeper wrote:
BLeP wrote:
You’re right. It never specifically says that they will use this database to track pregnancies and arrest women in states where it’s illegal to get an abortion so I guess that wouldn’t happen! What was I thinking?
Hang on, unless I’m reading this wrong then you’re the one that’s reading it wrong. The call isn’t to create a database of the pregnant women. It’s to create a database of resources and providers FOR pregnant women.
And it says it may ask for contact info of the women. But that’s no different than any other site I sign up for. It doesn’t mean than any of those women are currently pregnant. They could just be doing research and planning ahead.
So again, by my cursory read the database is of providers, not the pregnant women.
I think this needs some clarification.
It specifically is to create resources and providers that are pro life for women and not allow any resources or providers that are pro choice to be included. It specifically does not allow them to be included.
Being a medical specialist in Women’s Health in Australia and not the USA, this government led approach to dictating Women’s choices seems so backwards and discriminatory, although it comes as no surprise after the Roe judgements.
I know I will likely get trolled/taken to task by the Dem v Rep crowd on here which is not my intent, it’s more the irony of a country such as the USA, that has gone to war with entities that oppress women’s rights in truly horrendous fashion and used that oppression as part of a rationale for their intervention, seems to be ok with what really is oppression of women’s choices and rights in the modern world in which we live.
Where I live the government respects women’s rights to make their own choices and takes the viewpoint that they are there to support both sides of the equation so that women get safe access to the care that is required no matter what their choice.
I guess that’s democracy for you though, as this has only been able to occur because that is what the American population has voted into power and given the ability to govern over them. Unfortunately it’s the complete opposite to what the other side of the political spectrum believes in and stuck in the middle is American women.
I'll point out the obvious that Oz's abortion laws would get you burned at the stake for interfering with a woman's medical care etc. by the pro-abortion wing in the US.
Yep, and in Australia those same pro life views would get you shunned and burned at the stake for protesting etc and interfering with an individuals own choice for what is best for them!!
Ok a bit of an exaggeration, but we have laws here preventing protests etc within a certain distance of an abortion clinic etc.
We just hardly hear about it. It’s not such a big issue that it creates much in the ways of news over here (ie abortion reform).