US girls lose more rights 2
Here’s a mean-spirited and sick new federal law that criminalizes family and friends who help young women seek abortions outside their home state to escape parental consent laws imposed in 26 states.
Do not be fooled by Bush and friends, who insist they are “protecting” young women. If this were really about the rights of teenage girls, you wouldn’t have 51 Republican and 14 Democratic Senators (mainly male) or her parents determining what a young woman should or shouldn’t be able to do with her own life and body, as if she were some kind of property of the state.
The details of the legislation are amazingly backward. Anyone driving a pregnant teen to a doctor in another state risks upto one year in prison. The right to chose abortion is still protected in the US constitution, but in many states, it’s made practically impossible – sometimes even requiring the approval of a judge first.
So if she takes a bus out of state to get an abortion does that make the bus driver and the company liable?
Words fail me when I read news like that (and it’s been getting gradually worse in the past year in the US, it seems).