Watch Your Back, They’re After Your Womb.
Shameless Agitator draws attention to a bill being proposed to the Ohio legislature which will outlaw abortion in the state. It is but one step in an ongoing war of attrition that is the attempt to overturn Roe v Wade and criminalise women who choose to abort, and anyone who helps them in any way.
“From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Lawmaker ‘positioning’ Ohio to fight Roe v. Wade:
A legislator who introduced a bill to ban all abortions in Ohio knows it would be deemed unconstitutional today but hopes it eventually will become the case used to overturn Roe v. Wade. “We’re just positioning the state for the future,” said sponsor Rep. Tom Brinkman, a Cincinnati Republican and candidate for Congress.
Those who perform abortions would be guilty of a felony and face a possible 15-year prison term under House Bill 228. It contains no exceptions for the life or health of the mother and would make it illegal to transport a woman to another state where abortions are legal. U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist’s battle with thyroid cancer injected a new sense of urgency into the abortion debate and has both sides of the contentious issue working to position themselves for a post-Rehnquist court. His departure could overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that legalized most abortions, and allow individual states to decide what laws should govern the procedures.
This is the way they do it. While we are diverted elsewhere by media freakshows – like housewife-superstar manque Laura Bush, parroting lame, scripted jokes that are eagerly lapped up by a press corps that fawningly allows Bush’s Republicans to lick their heads like so many celebrity child-abuse victims – the little Eichmanns swarm hungrily at the base of the structures that protect other women’s freedoms like so many maniacal religion-crazed termites. It’s enough to make one burst out in a torrent of overblown metaphors.
“We’re just positioning the state for the future,” says Brinkman. To which he should have added “…which belongs to us”. Shudder.
