Here is a clear example of just how the Ruling Class muddies basic
human rights.
The issue is who should have control over a woman's body. But anti
abortionists fog up the subject by making it a tug of war between
unfeeling women and innocent little cuddly fetus'. Once control is
exercised over the abortion issue, will a "safe" dress code be next?
Curfew hours might be needed in order to "protect" our women folk.
Next we will "protect"them by insisting that they only be in public
with a responsible adult male. To make certain our women folk are not
taken advantage of, they will not be allowed to sign any official
documents, hold personal bank accounts, or write checks without a
cosigner. We might need to take a look at the old practice once
popular in Asia, that of binding the female babies feet.
And of course, if our women folk get themselves into a compromising
position...and get caught, they must be flogged in public so other
naughty girls do not think that they can go about tempting innocent
young men.
On another subject, I'm beginning to wonder if the average IQ really
is 100. Maybe 70 would be closer to the norm?
Carl Jarvis
On 04/24/19, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> wrote:
> https://themilitant.com/2019/04/20/legislators-in-texas-push-to-make-every-abortion-illegal/
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> Legislators in Texas push to make every abortion illegal
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> By Brian Williams
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> Vol. 83/No. 17
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> April 29, 2019
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> The Texas state legislative Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee
> held unprecedented public hearings April 8-9 on a proposed bill to
> authorize criminal prosecution of all women who have an abortion and of
> the doctors who perform them. All abortions would be outlawed, including
> for rape, incest and the health of the woman.
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> While the bill failed to make it to the floor of the House, the
> publicity given to it was hailed as making it a legitimate part of the
> "debate" over abortion by anti-woman forces. It is the latest in a
> series of attacks by capitalist politicians in a growing number of state
> legislatures against family planning, including a woman's right to
> choose abortion.
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> The bill, called the Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act, would also
> strike down an exception for abortion from the Texas penal code for
> homicide. That would mean women and physicians could be prosecuted for
> murder and subject to the death penalty.
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> The bill says state and local government officials should enforce the
> legislation "regardless of any contrary federal law, executive order, or
> court decision."
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> Hundreds of people testified at the hearings over the course of the two
> days, both opponents of women's rights and those backing a woman's right
> to choose. "It was the first time in the state's history," the
> Washington Post noted, "that public testimony had been heard on a
> measure holding women criminally liable for their abortions."
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> Republican state Rep. Tony Tinderholt, who sponsored the bill, told the
> media that it would make people "consider the repercussions" of having
> sex. Tinderholt had introduced the same legislation in 2017 but it had
> been unceremoniously set aside without a hearing.
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> Even some who oppose women's access to abortion expressed misgivings
> over the criminal penalties that the bill would impose on women. Texas
> state Rep. Jeff Leach, who allowed the hearing before the judiciary
> committee to take place, said in a statement that while he's "pro-life,"
> this legislation was a step in the "wrong direction." The anti-abortion
> group Texans for Life also said it was against the bill.
>
> The intent of legislators promoting it, and many other bills being
> adopted that impose increasingly far-reaching restrictions on women's
> right to abortion, is to force a court fight to reach the U.S. Supreme
> Court to attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized
> abortion.
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> In Mississippi, for example, Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill last month
> that bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, often just six
> weeks into pregnancy — when many women aren't even aware they're
> pregnant. The Ohio Legislature approved a similar bill April 10. Similar
> laws are being considered by legislators in Kentucky, Missouri,
> Tennessee, West Virginia and Florida.
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> In Alabama, legislation was recently introduced to criminalize
> performing all abortions, with the only exception being a threat to the
> woman's life.
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> These attacks have been made easier by the character of the Roe v. Wade
> ruling. It "was based not on a woman's right 'to equal protection of the
> laws' guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, but on
> medical criteria instead," Jack Barnes, national secretary of the
> Socialist Workers Party, wrote in The Clintons' Anti-Working-Class
> Record: Why Washington Fears Working People.
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> "During the first three months ('trimester'), the court ruled, the
> decision to terminate a pregnancy 'must be left to the medical judgment
> of a pregnant woman's attending physician' (not to the woman herself,
> but to a doctor!).
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> "At the same time, the court allowed state governments to ban most
> abortions after 'viability,' … something that medical advances
> inevitably make earlier and earlier in pregnancy."
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> The SWP supports a woman's right to choose whether and when to have a
> child, free from state interference, and calls for working people to
> mobilize to defend clinics that offer women family planning, including
> the right to safe and secure abortions.
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> Defend a woman's right to abortion!
> The following statement was released April 17 by Alyson Kennedy,
> Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Dallas. Supporters of
> women's rights must condemn the attempt by Texas legislators to use the
> failed Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act to…
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> 66-year South Korean ban on abortion ruled unconstitutional
> Cheers erupted from hundreds of demonstrators chanting "New world! Right
> now!" outside South Korea's Constitutional Court in Seoul April 11 when
> the justices ruled 7-2 that a 66-year-old law banning abortion was
> unconstitutional. The court majority said the anti-abortion law…
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> Feature Articles •Today's fighters can learn from Algeria's 1962-65
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> •'Why do workers face so many problems today?'
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> •66-year South Korean ban on abortion ruled unconstitutional
> •Defend a woman's right to abortion!
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