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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCriminalizing Birth Control Ultimate Goal Of Religious Right And GOP.
The Trump attack on insurance for birth control and even abortion is to criminalize it. The ultimate goal is to pass laws making it a felony to inform, use, provide or even assist the use of birth control or perform any abortion even to save the life of the women. What Trump is doing is only just the beginning. Moves at the DHS and war on Planned Parenthood reveal the strategy even further. And it is obvious why Pence could even be worse.
The GOP is also fully behind such a goal. If you look at all the laws that the GOP is proposing thought the states where they have control. Even crossing state lines would be criminalized with the GOP in control. Prosecuting and jailing any and all participants involved could be in the future of the US.
We are facing the most radical agenda about women's health than we have in decades. A super extreme right wing Supreme Court could find such laws constitutional.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)I guess prostitutes should join in to really make the point stick. Lots of men will be sitting in front of their computers more and more.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)love the LGBT community?
pwb
(11,270 posts)For women's rights.
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)uses birth control and goes to a state where it is illegal, can she get arrested?
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Mathematically, anything is possible, regardless of religion, radicals or party affiliation.
Everything else is simple prophecy for example, political mass deportations, soon-in-a-commonwealth-near-you civil wars, mass incarcerations of progressives and a host of other poorly thrown hooey).
TheBlackAdder
(28,201 posts)MineralMan
(146,311 posts)When I was a young high school kid in California, condoms could only be purchased in pharmacies by people over the age of 21, and all packages were labeled, "For Prevention of Disease Only." It was illegal for doctors to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women, and the only form of contraception for women at the time was the diaphragm.
All of that changed in 1964 and 1965. The birth control pill finally became available. At first, it could not be prescribed for unmarried women under the age of 21, but that restriction went away quickly, and the sexual revolution was underway.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Nothing is more devastating to the finances of low wage earners than having children.
Childcare, diapers, clothing, school expenses, etc. all eat deeply into paychecks without much margin over basic needs.
A woman who wants to go to school or just study to get ahead, save something at the end of the month, will now be at high risk of permanent poverty.
Which is what the GOP wants.