Saturday, January 25, 2014

Texas - Anti Choice Law at its worst. The war against women continues

Republicans only want laws that invade your  vagina - other than that (and anti gay laws), people should not be restricted by petty laws, like gun laws.
The law denies women the same rights as men to make decisions regarding their end-of-life care, and allows the state government to overrule a woman’s ability to make her own healthcare choices. Yet that same government all too often lacks the interest, will or resources to assist families in raising children, much less children born to brain-dead mothers. And the hospital has not discussed any support that it will offer Munoz’s family in the case that the fetus is delivered alive.
Given Texas’s aggressively anti-choice behavior over the past year, it would be easy to say that these actions just demonstrate the perspective of one state. But such laws exist in over half the states in this country, although they vary in their wording and strictness. While Texas’s law falls on the stricter end of the spectrum, the knowledge that so many state governments
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-s-the-matter-with-texas-anti-choice-law-at-its-worst

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