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by aw on Thu Mar 02, 2006 at 10:42:52 AM EST
Most of the people making the laws are men. They seem to be accelerating their assaults on women and their rights. Incest is no exception to a father's right to know what's going on in his daughter's life. That was the message from Utah lawmakers who refused Monday to make an exception for incest victims in a proposed law that would require parental consent and notification before a girl's abortion. Gov. Haley Barbour said Wednesday he would probably sign a bill under consideration in the state House that would ban most abortions in Mississippi. The measure, which passed the House Public Health Committee on Tuesday, would allow abortion only to save a woman's life. It would make no exception in cases of rape or incest. A Cook County judge backed off Wednesday after triggering a furor with a warning that he might lock up a woman for refusing to watch a videotape showing her alleged 2002 rape in a Burr Ridge home. To me, this is all of a piece with a renewed campaign to punish women whether she is a convicted criminal or not. Pregnant criminal: punish her. Rape or incest victim: punish her. Had sex: punish her.

Giving Birth in Shackles | 23 comments (23 topical)

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