That Missouri legislator who introduced a law that would require women to get the man’s permission before she can have an abortion – that guy is even worse than he seemed at first. He talked to a news program on Thursday to clear that up.
“It took two to come together and create a child, and right now the way it is the woman gets the full say and the father gets no say, and I think that that needs to change,” Brattin said. “With the women’s movement for equal rights, well it’s swung so far we have now taken away the man’s right and the say in their child’s life.”
That’s because the pregnancy happens to the woman in a way that it doesn’t happen to the man. With a planned, wanted pregnancy (or an unplanned but still welcome one) the man can do a lot to participate and certainly to become emotionally invested, but he still can’t actually do half of the pregnancy. That’s why he can’t have a veto. That’s why the state has no business giving him a veto.
He added, “It’s a child’s life that’s taken. The woman’s life is not altered.”
It’s not a child, and the woman’s life is very much altered.
This guy must be an out and out MRA.
Brattin’s bill includes an exception for victims of “legitimate rape” who report the crime to the police.
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Provisions that require women to prove the “legitimately” of sexually assault are a standard feature of state-level bans on Medicaid funding for abortion and many states force rape victims to produce a police report to obtain coverage for an abortion. Sexual assault prevention experts, however, point out that rape is a vastly underreported crime, with the majority of victims never reporting the assault to authorities.
Well, those rapes aren’t legitimate rapes then, are they.
According to one study, just 37 percent of the women who qualify for eligible abortions under Medicaid’s exceptions actually end up getting their procedures funded by the program.
Your tax dollars saved! And sluts who get illegitimate rapes taught a lesson, and the woman’s life is not altered.
Jawdropping.
How can anyone live in the world and be this ill-, un-, mis-, dysinformed? Are we starting to see the effects of people who spend their lives in their own worldview bubbles?
Christian-home-schooled? Maybe. Dumber than a largish box of rocks? Definitely. Dude, the day you can carry a baby to term, have at it. Until then, keep your fricking mitts off my uterus.
I bet he votes against WIC and head start and anything that helps children. The GOP will cover you from conception to birth. After that you are on your own.
Not even that much karmacat. They don’t want to fund any sort of prenatal care either. They want to ensure that the conception is maintained, but only by preventing abortion. Anything else is the just desserts of a slut after all *sigh*
And the suggested change is to make it so the pregnant person gets no say, and the father gets full say. Brilliant. So does this complaint work both ways? Or do only menz complaints count?
It’s swung so far we (teh menz) can’t even keep women pregnant against their will! Too far! Us poor males! *cries*
Man, it must suck to live in a poor, third world country where access to necessary medical procedures is so limited.
Oh…right.
I had pregnancy-related complications for a very-much-wanted pregnancy that put my in a coma with multiple organ failure. I live with the after-effects now–the only good thing to come out of that pregnancy was a very-much loved child. Nonetheless, people (mostly men) who knew my situation were after me just months after I got out of the hospital to go on and have even more children because “it’s only nine months out of your life!” They’re completely oblivious to the very-real dangers every pregnant woman faces.
I have a colleague who has had to work from home for her entire pregnancy thus far. Her “morning sickness” consisted of her throwing up every 10 minutes or so for weeks and months, having to go get IV fluids at the ER, and all kinds of other problems I’m sure I don’t know about. She’s thrilled now to be limited to only throwing up 3 times a day or so.
My wife had awful morning sickness with both kids. She had severe post-partum depression with both kids. She was anemic and weak and her job was barely tolerant, let alone accommodating and nevermind that she was the manager with 3 or 4 employees at the time. It floors me how these men with no first-hand experience can claim knowledge that they can’t possibly have. I worked hard to assist my wife in every way I possibly could when she was pregnant, both times, but I would never dare to claim that I had a clue what pregnancy feels like or does to any person, let alone generalize across an entire population.