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Women should 'Watch an abortion being performed' prior to having one
Arizona Lawmaker: Women Should ?Watch An Abortion Being Performed? Prior To Having It
By Igor Volsky on Mar 21, 2012 at 8:30 am
The Arizona legislature is considering at least two separate bills that would significantly limit women?s access to abortion by banning the procedure after 20 weeks of gestation and strip funding to Planned Parenthood. But those restrictions don?t go far enough for conservative lawmaker Rep. Terri Proud (R) who told a constituent in an email that women should be required to ?watch an abortion being performed? prior to having it:?Personally I?d like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a ?surgical procedure?. If it?s not a life it shouldn?t matter, if it doesn?t harm a woman then she shouldn?t care, and don?t we want more transparency and education in the medical profession anyway? We demand it everywhere else.
Until the dead child can tell me that she/he does not feel any pain ? I have no intentions of clearing the conscience of the living ? I will be voting YES.?
Proud made headlines earlier this year when she sponsored a bill requiring the Bible to be taughtas an elective in high school, but not the Quran. ?The Quran hasn?t influenced Western culture the way the Bible has,? she said, noting students already learn about some ancient religions, including Greek and Roman gods, in their coursework. ?We?ve put so much fear around any discussion of the Bible that I think it?s really causing our kids to miss out.? The measure passed the House and is now in the Senate.
Proud is now co-sponsoring a measure that would allow employers to opt ou of covering birth control in their health insurance plans.
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"You don't get to be all puke-face about your kid shooting your undead baby daddy when all you had to do was KEEP HIM IN THE FLUCKING HOUSE, LORI!" - doctorwho
Re: Women should 'Watch an abortion being performed' prior to having one
Watching an appendectomy is going to squick me for the same reasons. Hell, I birthed a baby and had no desire to watch any part of it.
If it's not a baby it shouldn't matter??
Dude, I don't want to watch mundane dentistry. Does this mean I shouldn't be permitted to get my teeth fixed?
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for the loveoffuck.
Another example of how the unborn trump the born.
From her Facebook page: I always try to answer every email that I receive - friendly or hostile. I don?t apologize for emails I state are my personal opinion. I may not be cut out to be a politician, but I am cut out to be a Representative and it's sad that the left like to play ?I gotcha? games through emails while sitting in my office. Some legislators don?t even respond to emails for fear it?s just another ?gotcha? moment ? thank a Democrat for that.
Love the gotcha games people play with her own words! Remember - thank a Democrat for that.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DFFS, this is getting more ridiculous by the day. By.the.day.
There are a million reasons this is appalling, not the least of which is how do they get around, oh, I don't know, HIPAA requirements? I mean, the patient that is having the abortion performed on her has no say? Or is it expected to be a "Pay It Forward" type of deal where legislators say, "Okay, you can have your abortion...except you have to let the lady sitting in the waiting room watch your procedure so she can have hers. And then we'll make the next patient in the waiting room watch hers...and then..."
WTeverlivingF?
Can all these people just go somewhere already? Ugh. GO AWAY.
HORRIFYING. Ugh.
"Are you suuuuure you want to do this, you poor, hormone-addled woman?"
I think actually watching an abortion would be less icky that the knee surgeries I've seen on TV.
And seriously, who's starting a protest. Something tells me I'll be marching in Topeka before the summer is through. Sigh.
Well, sh!t.
I guaran-damn-tee if a man got to watch a vasectomy first, he wouldn't have one. Hellooooo, alarmingly increased birth rates! Those little sperm are pre-babies, yo!
I'd also be interested to know how watching an abortion being performed is going to magically undo all the reasons the woman doesn't want the baby in the first place.
Will it make her boyfriend less of a douchebag? Or perhaps watching the video makes the last two years of college just fly by. Maybe it will increase her income? Or maybe watching videos is some kind of medical miracle that cures in utero defects? Does it make rape less rapey? Suddenly change your perfect father into an upstanding member of society? Or does it turn you into a woman who suddenly does want kids?
Just wondering outloud here.
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"Until the dead child can tell me that she/he does not feel any pain ? I have no intentions of clearing the conscience of the living ? I will be voting YES"
Stupidest. statement. EVAH.
Let's make a deal Representative Proud, ok? When the "dead child" tells you that he/she feels pain, then we'll gladly outlaw abortion, ok?
You may have to report back to us from the afterlife or limbo though. When we get your message, we'll act on that right away!
You know, I've been thinking about this a lot since this whole "war on women" started ramping up. Women don't get knocked up in a vacuum. Where is the conversations on responsible partners? On absent fathers? Where's the proposed legislation on sterilizing dead-beat dads, or legally requiring men who want a vasectomy to have a 3 day waiting period? (Not saying any of that is a good idea, but ykwim). Anyone who denies that there is a blatant attack on women being able to make their own personal choices in regards to their reproductive health going on in politics lately is insane.
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I've watched birth, and I've watched a c/section. They were both messy and kind of scary. I've also watched a full hip replacement which, to my weird self, was awesome.
Compared to all that, watching an abortion would be completely boring. It would be like watching a tooth cleaning, kind of sucky and gross, but not that big a deal. Really, watching an abortion would be more likely to convince people it's no big deal, especially compared to giving birth.
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I was required to watch a video of an epidural before I was allowed to receive one.
Fixed that for you.
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I love that Arizona has turned into the fundamentalist crazy state of the union. As a voting resident- I have no idea how all these off their rocker people continue to hold office.
I promise Arizona is not all this bat sh!t crazy!
All of THIS RIGHT FUCCKING HERE!
I know, let's also start requiring couples going through IVF watch porn first, because you know, they need to see how babies are really made.
So maybe politicians should have to watch soldier dying grisly deaths before agreeing to senseless wars?
Should they also have to live without health care and pensions if they vote against them? This opens up a lot of possibilities....
Those who want to abolish the minimum wage--let them try to live on it.
that is my issue with this too! Let's make this and watching a vaginal birth part of sex ed for boys while we're at it. Oh but we can't b/c we can only talk about abstinence in so many states these days. Yah, that makes complete sense now.