Sunday, May 03, 2015

What the future could hold for America if the religious Right Wing get their way.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:

A 10-year-old pregnant with her stepfather’s child will not be allowed to get an abortion because the government of Paraguay doesn’t believe that her life in immediate danger. 

On April 23, the unnamed girl was reportedly checked into the hospital by her mother. She complained of stomach pains and tests showed she was already 21-weeks pregnant. Earlier this week, her mother apparently requested her daughter be given an abortion, and when it was revealed that her stepfather impregnated her, the mother was taken into custody. 

Doctors requested permission to perform the procedure. In Paraguay, abortions can’t be performed in the case of rape or incest, and only if the government decides that a life is in danger. In this case they decided it wasn’t.

So not only did this innocent child suffer the trauma of sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, but now she is expected to carry his baby to term. Which for a ten year old child is a prospect fraught with danger. 

For those who do not think this can happen in America, you are right.

For now.

But if the religious conservatives get what they ultimately want, incidents like this will start to take place right here in the US of A.

As a matter of fact if Mike Huckabee were to be elected, we could be dealing with this as early as 2017.

This courtesy of a New York Times article from 1996: 

Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas today refused to authorize a Medicaid payment for an abortion for a 15-year-old girl whose stepfather has been charged with incest, despite a Federal judge's order that such payments were required by Federal law.

Frightening isn't it?

And it is not only abortion that the Religious Right wants to do away with. It's also access to birth control.

From a book by Robert Boston called "Taking Liberties": 

The hierarchy of the Catholic Church lobbied to restrict access to all contraceptive devices and medications. Many Protestant leaders did as well. Most Protestant denominations would later drop their opposition to birth control. The Catholic hierarchy never did. 

It’s important to understand that church officials sought to ban birth control even for married couples and non-Catholics and that this continued until the 1960s. In addition, the laws that church officials pushed to pass didn’t just outlaw birth control, they also forbade information about birth control. Well into the twentieth century, in some states, a married couple could ask a doctor for advice about how best to limit the size of their family and be told that he could not legally distribute such information. Laws like this were common throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth century in New England states, which had a strong Catholic tradition.

Today these anti-contraception ideas have spread from the Catholic church and metastasized within the Evangelical community as well. 

They don't often publicize with the same ferocity with which they oppose abortion, but the Hobby Lobby case opened a preview into what they are ultimately fighting to attain.

Total control over a woman's reproductive system, which they see as a birthing center for God with which no man, or woman, has the right to interfere.

So do I need to remind you again why it is of the utmost importance to make sure to elect a President who will choose Supreme Court Justices that are pro-choice?

I didn't think so.

13 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:37 AM

    So, the Religious Right has turned our free women into a secular population and therefore has dominion over us. All those assholes on Alaska Dispatch that call it hilarious communist names and associations really don't know how Soviet Russia was, no birth control or sex ed (I don't know about abortions) but as a result, the population was stupid an debilitated, like the Palins. But it's all okay so long as your BFF's and use them as shields and get them into fights no kids should be exposed to. Exceptional.

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  2. Anonymous5:44 AM

    No, you don't have to remind me. Women's reproductive rights is my number one issue. Thanks for keeping it front and center!

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  3. Anonymous6:48 AM

    WHAT? 5:37 - you really need a hisotry class. You sound like a provincial imebcile.

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    1. Anonymous8:07 AM

      How 6:48, would you school 5:37?

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  4. Connie7:21 AM

    Colorado senators are already making sure the women here are kept in their place, three feet behind their man.

    Ugh. It offends me the anti choice crowd calls themselves pro-life. It burns my honor that they use their holy book to justify their stance when that book advocates abortion in several places.

    I am not an armed female but know many who are. Repugs want to control us they might find it harder than they expect. No one I know wants to have an abortion bit if it's needed it had better be available - I'm looking at you North Carolina (read the senators there slid in a provision to make teaching how to do an abortion a crime).

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  5. Anonymous7:29 AM

    10 years old.....
    I said 11 last week.. ANYONE who thinks this is acceptable in 2015 is a sedistic sick FUCKing monster. EVERYthing is about SEX..everything..

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    1. Connie7:57 AM

      Sex is the Ooo shiny. The real issue is control. As in females shouldn't have to worry their little heads about personal autonomy.

      If women treated men like they've treated us? Well I guess that is why repug men are so invested in the War on Women.

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  6. Anonymous3:32 PM

    It's only a matter of weeks before this little gir'ls life IS in danger, and it will stay that way for the next year.

    They should execute the stepfather.

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    1. Are they waiting for her to die so then they can charge the stepfather with murder? Oh, wait. He's a man.

      Never mind.

      Obviously her fault for tempting him.

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  7. Anonymous4:24 PM

    Legalize incest and putting a child's life in peril. Just because she CAN get pregnant, doesn't mean her body can take the beating a parasitic fetus needs over nine months. Put them all in jail, and get the girl the medical help she desperately needs.
    I was refused a medication because it was against the pharmacist's religious beliefs, it was imperative that I take it immediately or I'd have "bled out" (not to get too graphic) and died. I had no time to shop around, but the manager got a call from my lawyer and they got a world record for the quickest filling of a script. The bitch changed her tune quick when her job was on the line and two uniformed cops "had a little talk" with her.
    This child doesn't have the rights of an adult, but someone's got to intervene on her behalf.

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  8. Anonymous6:32 PM

    As for the Arkansas case, Incest? There is no blood relation involved. Just charge the bastard with good old fashioned rape.

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  9. Connie5:21 AM

    Awhile ago I commented that I was unsure of humanity. I'm no longer on the fence.

    This post and the Citizens United post have minimal comments. The two mentioning anything about the Palins is in the triple digits.

    I've read the Dominionist game plan. Once us uppity females are back in our 'correct' place and all 'others' shoved back into their respective closets they will be regulating everyone else to their waking breath.

    Not sure about everyone else but I remember history. Not fond of that route as humanity has done the same thing for the past two millennia.

    I'm now hoping for the best and preparing for the worst because worse is coming.

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  10. Anonymous6:26 AM

    its not just that the girl was ignored - the mother was also. attempted to report the perpetrator, TPTB ignored her - and now SHES the one wearing the charge? you cant get much clearer than that to saying "we dont give a shit about you unless you have male parts".

    depressing this happened in Paraguay; it will be even more depressing if the "moral" mob in the US get this going there too....

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