Oklahoma Senate Passes Personhood Act, Effectively Banning All Abortions

Oklahoma Senate Passes Personhood Act, Effectively Banning All Abortions
February 16, 2012By Stephen D. Foster Jr.





The Republican dominated Oklahoma Senate has overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill 1433, also known as the Personhood Act, by a vote of 34-8.

The bill would define life as beginning at conception, effectively banning all abortions and many forms of contraception. The bill would also ban women from getting an abortion if they are raped because there are no exceptions in it. In other words, Oklahoma Republicans are granting rapists more power over their victims. Not only will a woman have to deal with the pain and trauma of being raped, she’ll be forced by state government to remain pregnant for nine agonizing months, only to endure more pain while giving birth.

Basically, the rapist wins.

The bill would also prohibit women from obtaining life saving abortions from their doctors if the pregnancy threatens their lives. The language of the bill is so broad and encompassing that a woman may be forced to die in a hospital because her doctors would be powerless to save her. But that’s not all, under this language, it’s possible that even a natural miscarriage could be defined as involuntary manslaughter.

In-vitro fertilization could be defined as mass murder since the process involves placing many fertilized eggs into a woman to increase the chances of her getting pregnant, because some, or all, of the zygotes could die. This will essentially prevent doctors from performing the procedure altogether, meaning many women will lose their last hope of having a child. Even contraception could be outlawed by this bill because contraception by definition prevents pregnancy and many conservatives believe birth control is a form of abortion.

Oklahoma is the second state this week to pass such a bill. The Iowa House introduced a bill banning abortion on Tuesday and the Virginia House passed a personhood bill earlier in the week. In the midst of a federal battle over contraception, Republicans across the country are declaring war on women in an effort to control what they do with their bodies and enslave them to the will of men under a twisted interpretation of the Christian Bible.

Anti-abortion advocates and Republicans are no longer content with the American people deciding on personhood amendments via the vote. They know that each of their attempts to pass such amendments have failed, such as in Colorado and Mississippi. So, they are now just using the government to force personhood and anti-abortion laws upon us. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how Republicans view the will of the American people.

If we don’t join them, they’ll force us to.

Nystyle709 wrote:That's fucking unbelievable. Did they increase welfare in addition to this bill? *shaking my head* Glad I live in a civilized state.

Nystyle709 wrote:That's fucking unbelievable. Did they increase welfare in addition to this bill? *shaking my head* Glad I live in a civilized state.

Shale wrote:This makes me think that it could be dangerous for women to fuck men in Okie. Maybe it is time for women to pull a Lysistrata movement.

From Wikipedia:
Lysistrata is a play written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace — a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes. The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Hyacinth Girl wrote:Birth control is not a form of abortion, but abortion is a form of birth control, one that I don't agree with using as a means to that end, just for the sake of getting rid of an unwanted fetus because you don't feel like being a parent right now--cases of rape and serious situations where the health and well-being of the mother and/or baby is affected, I do think should be allowable for abortion.

tmontyb wrote:

Who uses abortion as a means to an end? Do you think women sit there and go let's f*** and if I get pregnant I can just go get an abortion? It does not compute.

The fact of the matter is, a lot of people do not think when they are in the heat of the moment and things happen, diseases, pregnancies, etc. If someone winds up pregnant and they know they will not be able to handle a baby or simply doesn't want to have the child, it should be their choice and no one should have a say in it UNLESS they are planning to help raise the child or raise the child himself/herself.


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tmontyb wrote:

Who uses abortion as a means to an end? Do you think women sit there and go let's f*** and if I get pregnant I can just go get an abortion? It does not compute.

The fact of the matter is, a lot of people do not think when they are in the heat of the moment and things happen, diseases, pregnancies, etc. If someone winds up pregnant and they know they will not be able to handle a baby or simply doesn't want to have the child, it should be their choice and no one should have a say in it UNLESS they are planning to help raise the child or raise the child himself/herself.


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Hyacinth Girl wrote:

You don't think people use abortion as a form of birth control? I do understand that once your emotions get away from you, yeah it's hard to control, but also a little "advance planning", i.e. birth control, does wonders to not get yourself in the position of having to make such a decision. You can have your cake and eat it too, if you make the effort to be educated about it.

Alan Smithee wrote:



There are women who have an abortion fetish.

tmontyb wrote:

Being an RN, MSN and having interned in a clinic where abortions were performed, I know first hand that the majority of women do not do it as a form of birth control. Most of them do it because they feel they have no other choice.

As far as your supervisor is concerned, I wouldn't pass judgment on her. It was her choice.

AtownPeep wrote:I would imagine that some kind of a repeal has to be in the works. You can't just roll the clock back 40 years like that without staunch opposition and reaction.

CatEyes10736 wrote:Glad I don't live in such an anti-female state. Next they will do away with laws prohibiting martial rape.

Oklahoma Personhood Measure Struck Down By Supreme Court

Posted: 04/30/2012 4:45 pm Updated: 04/30/2012 4:53 pm

The Oklahoma Supreme Court unanimously vetoed a ballot measure that would have given embryos full personhood rights on Monday, ruling it "clearly unconstitutional" because it would block a woman's legal right to have an abortion.

The personhood measure would give embryos the same legal rights as people from the moment of fertilization, which opponents say would ban abortion and complicate the legality of in vitro fertilization and many forms of birth control. Enacting such a law would violate the U.S. Supreme Court's 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which allows states to pass some abortion restrictions but prevents them from overturning the constitutional right to end a pregnancy.

"The mandate of Casey is as binding on this Court today as it was twenty years ago," the Oklahoma Supreme Court wrote in its decision. "Initiative Petition No. 395 conflicts with Casey and is void on its face and it is hereby ordered stricken."

A personhood bill also failed in the Oklahoma legislature earlier this month, when Republican leadership in the state House of Representatives decided not to bring it to a vote, despite mounting pressure from anti-abortion groups.

“This amendment would have run roughshod over the fundamental, constitutionally protected reproductive rights of all Oklahoma women," said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the case against the measure. "In affirming our request to strike it down, the court has struck a powerful blow against the repugnant tactics of those who seek to vote down the rights of others, and to enshrine their hostility to women’s lives, health, and rights in the laws of the land."





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