While we were distracted by forest fire and the dizzying stream of Project 2025 inspired guidelines If we flow out of the Oval Office, we cannot forget that the war waged by Republicans against the reproductive rights of women does not show any signs of losing weight.
In fact, it heats up again.
Last week a senator of the democratic Mississippi state with an ironic sense of humor hired a law wanted to draw attention to the absurdity of America's permanent efforts to control women's body.
Opinion columnist
Robin Abcarian
Senator Bradford Blackmon, 36, introduced the “before”Concept of contraception begins in the erection law“The ejaculation -” the discharge of genetic material ” – would criminalize without” intention to fertilize an embryo “.
Yes, it's silly. But he has a point. Why should women take over the entire responsibility for unwanted pregnancies? After all, there would be none without men who ejaculated irresponsibly.
In a written explanation, Blackmon noticed That the case of the Supreme Court of 2022, who reversed women's right to abortion, comes in Mississippi, where it is now illegal to have an abortion unless law enforcement agencies – as if, for example, an injured adolescent will run directly to the police .
In 2023, a 13-year-old girl in Clarkesville, Miss., Who was raped by a stranger, had to rape at birth because her mother could not afford to bring her to the next abortion provider, 600 miles away in Chicago. She started seventh grade as a new mother. That protects children?
“The submission of this law should indicate the double standards in legislation,” said Blackmon. “You have legislators dominated by men in Mississippi and all over the country, which say goodbye to laws that determine what a woman can do with her body.”
His words are reflected A famous exchange for 2018 Between the then US senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) And the then Supreme Court candidate Brett Kavanaugh during his hearing. “Can you imagine laws that give the government the authority to make decisions about the male body?” Asked Harris. Kavanaugh stuttered and then admitted that he couldn't.
Last week, President Trump signaled the anti -table wing of his base that, despite his campaign promises, he will not be left to the states.
On Friday, He revived a number of anti -waste guidelines this president biden had lifted.
Trump returned a bidding order that “protect and expand and expand” the access to abortion care, including medication absence, birth control and emergency prevention.
He has also set the Reagan era “Mexico City Policy” again, which ritually expose democratic presidents and use the Republicans again. The guideline prohibits foreign groups that receive US funding by providing or promoting family planning, which includes abortion – even if the funds they use for this purpose do not come from the United States. ((Critics call it a global gag rule.)
These are not benign political changes; People die If access to abortion is refused and studies show that the Mexico city's policy is in force, Contraception and family planning reduce overall.
In 2022, A study by the National Academy of Sciences It found that the policy of the Mexico City is associated with higher mothers and children's mortality rates and higher HIV rates worldwide. During the first presidency of Trump, politics, according to the academy, led around 108,000 deaths for mothers and children and 360,000 new HIV infections.
In 2011, A Stanford University study It found that the number of abortions in 20 African countries actually increased when Mexico City's policy was revived during the second government of George W. Bush after being suspended during the Clinton administration. Less access to contraception, as the researchers theorized, may have prompted women to replace birth control.
Last week, Trump also pardoned 23 extremists against anti -chamber, including some who penetrated and blocked for violent and blocked, an abortion clinic in Washington, DC, in 2020 to temporarily close them. Trump described the radical-old one of them in the federal prison as “peaceful pro-life demonstrator”.
“They shouldn't have been pursued by criminal law,” he said. “Many of them are older people.”
If you were as fragile, how did you succeed in hurt clinic workers because they used bicycle locks, ropes, furniture and their bodies to barricine the clinic doors? You may remember a bizarre footnote for this case: Protestinitor Lauren Handy, 31, It was found that he had five fetuses In your fridge.
You and your extremists are now free to hinder the abortion clinics again.
As a slate rights analyst Dahlia Lithwick said it Last week: “Anyone who decided to take the law into their own hands is okay as long as he did for something that Donald Trump likes.”
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