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thedailywhat:
Follow Up of the Day: A day after Virginia lawmakers were compelled to pass a non-invasive version of the state’s controversial ultrasound bill, the full Virginia Senate voted this afternoon to table the equally contentious “personhood” bill, which would have defined life as beginning at conception.
A motion by Senators Thomas Norment (R-James City County) and Richard Saslaw (D-Fairfax County) to send the legislation back to committee passed by a measure of 24 to 14, meaning the bill can no longer be voted on this year.
Modeled after a Missouri law, the personhood bill would have conferred certain legal protections on fetuses, making the vast majority of abortions illegal after conception.
Despite amendments to protect contraception and in-vitro fertilization, Sen. Norment said he recognized that “there are more legal complexities to this issue than I was aware of.”
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if there were “more legal complexities to this issue than [you were] aware of” then you really don’t know the true purpose of this bill and how it would negatively affect every fucking uterus-bearing person in Virginia. all you wanted to do, norment, was make sure your oh-so-important cis-male opinions were heard first and foremost before any uterus-bearing person could decide what to do with their body. you don’t give a single fuck about your constituents and their well-being and i hope you burn in the hell that you most likely believe in.
for those following me who aren’t aware of what personhood would do if passed in any state, not just virginia:
effectively ban abortion, regardless of cases of rape or incest
effectively ban all forms of hormonal birth control — the pill, the patch, the ring, the shot, some iud’s, the implant (on the grounds that it prevents conception and fucks with “god’s plan” or whatever, even though many people who take hormonal birth control take it for more reasons than just preventing pregnancy)
would require a full criminal investigation on every miscarriage
end embryonic stem cell research
end cloning research
effectively ban in-vitro fertilization
ESSENTIALLY MAKE UTERUS-BEARING PERSONS LESS THAN PEOPLE, BUT A TINY FUCKING FETUS A IS PERSON???
it’s literally the most disgusting type of legislation and i can’t believe that there are people out there (people that are running for president, no less) that think all of the above is okay and should be infringed upon others. they obviously have no respect for others’ bodily autonomy, even though it’s not theirs to control. people in this country are losing their fucking minds over the right to choice when what we really should be focusing on is improving education, ending corporate personhood, and so much fucking more than abortion. good lord.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzv9bhI0Yk1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
Follow Up of the Day: A day after Virginia lawmakers were compelled to pass a non-invasive version of the state’s controversial ultrasound bill, the full Virginia Senate voted this afternoon to table the equally contentious “personhood” bill, which would have defined life as beginning at conception.
A motion by Senators Thomas Norment (R-James City County) and Richard Saslaw (D-Fairfax County) to send the legislation back to committee passed by a measure of 24 to 14, meaning the bill can no longer be voted on this year.
Modeled after a Missouri law, the personhood bill would have conferred certain legal protections on fetuses, making the vast majority of abortions illegal after conception.
Despite amendments to protect contraception and in-vitro fertilization, Sen. Norment said he recognized that “there are more legal complexities to this issue than I was aware of.”
[pilot.]
if there were “more legal complexities to this issue than [you were] aware of” then you really don’t know the true purpose of this bill and how it would negatively affect every fucking uterus-bearing person in Virginia. all you wanted to do, norment, was make sure your oh-so-important cis-male opinions were heard first and foremost before any uterus-bearing person could decide what to do with their body. you don’t give a single fuck about your constituents and their well-being and i hope you burn in the hell that you most likely believe in.
for those following me who aren’t aware of what personhood would do if passed in any state, not just virginia:
- effectively ban abortion, regardless of cases of rape or incest
- effectively ban all forms of hormonal birth control — the pill, the patch, the ring, the shot, some iud’s, the implant (on the grounds that it prevents conception and fucks with “god’s plan” or whatever, even though many people who take hormonal birth control take it for more reasons than just preventing pregnancy)
- would require a full criminal investigation on every miscarriage
- end embryonic stem cell research
- end cloning research
- effectively ban in-vitro fertilization
- ESSENTIALLY MAKE UTERUS-BEARING PERSONS LESS THAN PEOPLE, BUT A TINY FUCKING FETUS A IS PERSON???
it’s literally the most disgusting type of legislation and i can’t believe that there are people out there (people that are running for president, no less) that think all of the above is okay and should be infringed upon others. they obviously have no respect for others’ bodily autonomy, even though it’s not theirs to control. people in this country are losing their fucking minds over the right to choice when what we really should be focusing on is improving education, ending corporate personhood, and so much fucking more than abortion. good lord.
