Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed one of the nation’s most extreme abortion bans into law Tuesday morning, making it a felony to perform or attempt to perform an abortion in the state unless the pregnant person’s life is in danger.
In the immortal words of Dr. “Sleepy” Ben Carson:
“There is no war on women. There may be a war on what’s inside of women, but there is no war on women in this country.”
In the immortal words of Tio Wally:
“Never call Ben Carson a ‘twisted son-of-a-bitch’ or a ‘two-bit whore’ out loud because you’ll wake him up and he’ll beat you to death with a bag of quarters.”
“Attorney General John O’Connor and I know this bill will be challenged immediately by liberal activists from the coast, who always seem to want to come in and dictate and mandate and challenge our way of life here in the state of Oklahoma.”
As opposed to you two, who aren’t at all dictating, mandating and challenging women’s lives in the state of Oklahoma. There may be lots of conservative women who oppose abortion rights, but ultimately this is about men controlling women and their bodies and freedom. Always has been, always will be. Absolutely nothing to do with the bible, Jeebus, religion or morality. 100% patriarchal power, period. They just can’t stand it when women try to be their own persons. Cuts them and their medieval view of things to the core and threatens their self-imagined manhood and vitality.
" red states prohibit their providers and patients from traveling elsewhere to provide or obtain services"
But FREEDOM, right? This country is fast deteriorating into something unrecognizably hideous.
To be fair, Stitt and O’Connor don’t want outsiders abusing their women — they’d rather do it themselves.
“We want Oklahoma to be the most pro-life state in the country — we want to outlaw abortion in the state of Oklahoma,” Stitt said
Popularly known as “the death penalty,” capital punishment is a legal sentence under Oklahoma’s criminal statutes for certain crimes. Oklahoma has executed a total of 111 people since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, giving the Sooner State one of the highest rates of executions per capita.
One of these things is not like the other.
“We want Oklahoma to be the most pro-life state in the country — we want to outlaw abortion in the state of Oklahoma.”
Cool. But that’s also too bad, since standing legal precedent says abortion must be legal and accessible to those who need it. This is borderline nullification, deciding which laws and precedent you just don’t want to follow. It’s hugely problematic that the fascist right has decided this is okay to do again.
“Attorney General John O’Connor and I know this bill will be challenged immediately by liberal activists from the coast, who always seem to want to come in and dictate and mandate and challenge our way of life here in the state of Oklahoma.”
Oh fuck off with this. Yet you have no issue constantly complaining about TEH MECICANS CROSSING TEH BOARDARS!!11 when you’re not even close to one.
And let’s be even more specific: They just can’t stand it when low income, women of color try to be their own persons. The rich white women will get whatever abortions they need. But it’s important the poor non-white women are not granted this right and can be shamed and kept in poverty.
It’s insidious.
I’m no legal scholar, but I can’t see how this would work.
Beyond that, I’m curious to see what if any backlash comes back to the politicians who passed these laws. Will they pay a political price for this?
Okay, so once they have fulfilled their wet dreams of banning abortion, how are they going to turn their voters out? That’s been the big driver for decades — will the Goopers become the dog that caught the car?
This.
Stitt’s favorite argument is that he is fighting the “special interests” that control state government. Never mind that the GOP has been in control for years and that the most powerful special interest in the state is oil and gas. Instead we pretend that the liberals and socialists are in control.
Stitt makes me nostalgic for former GOP Govs, a statement I would never have thought I would make.
Sounds a lot like the Trumpistas who ran around the country trying to overturn election results in states other than their own.
The Supreme Court has nullified precedent as a meaningful legal concept and has granted all the good Christianists among us an exception to secular laws they don’t like, so all is good.
Why don’t we return the issue of slavery back to the states while we’re at it?
Don’t give 'em any ideas - they’re getting terribly close to restoring America, not to the 1950s, but to the 1850s.
And here’s where the SCOTUS decision on Roe is going to cement the loss of medical care to women. Should be a crime to do this, but the legislation makes it legal.
How long can America suffer its failing states? These are theocratic governments with their hand out to the Fed every year. And they only want more.
Marriage equality, as they’ve already been signaling. And there’s this school choice / CRT smokescreen to cover their efforts to ban material about demographics they don’t like.
When you look at some of the great judicial overturns in SCOTUS history, most of them have dealt with expanding rights. Brown came after multiple smaller test cases that challenged Plessy in various ways, creating precedent that led to the big decision. Here, aside from trying to restrict rights, the right wing is kinda skipping the whole test case thing and just bluntly ignoring whatever it wants. And the SCOTUS is biting (intentionally, of course) instead of doing what it did to defiant states in the aftermath of Brown.
I prefer my Stitts to be Sonny.
Unfortunately, some pregnant women with ectopic pregnancies are going to be dying soon. Let’s not forget to publicize that in the NuevoFascist states where that will happen.