Wyoming: F*** South Dakota, we REALLY hate them Libs!
Published by punkass marc January 29th, 2007 in Bodily Autonomy, Rights? What rights?, WingnutsPoor Wyoming. If you had to order the states from most memorable to least, Wyoming would probably land in the low forties, nestled somewhere between Nebraska and Idaho. [Actually, scratch that -- Idaho's shape is quite memorable compared to our National Square of Wyoming.]
Point is, when it comes to Wyoming, there isn’t a lot to think about.
Until now.
Some states market their beaches, others their national parks, but the states that get the most notice are the ones who sell an image of either naughty heathen-ness, like California and Nevada, or freedom-hating moral rectitude, like South Dakota. Seriously, would you ever think about South Dakota if it wasn’t for their deep devotion to enslaving women to the male seed?
Wyoming doesn’t think so. But they’d like their legislation to reach beyond the inhibition of women’s rights - this forward-thinking hate state hopes to carve out a niche as being anti-doctor, as well:
The House is scheduled to consider a bill sponsors call the Women’s Right to Know Act. It would require doctors who perform abortions in the state to inform their patients beforehand of alternatives, and warn them of potential risks and side effects.Supporters of the act say it’s intended to protect women from the physical and psychological problems they say have been associated with abortion.
But abortion-rights groups say they view the bill as part of the effort to ban the procedure in the state.
Kudos to Wyoming for not only insulting women who choose to receive an abortion by forcing doctors to treat them like ignoramuses, but also making sure those doctors are forced to promote “alternatives” — possibly places like Crisis Pregnancy Centers, or as we call them around here, Liars For Jesus’ L’il Embryos. I hope Wyoming sticks to its cruel new image by resisting the urge to require CPCs to explain alternatives to their plan of coaxing women into birth and then tossing them out in the cold.
But this bill’s just half the fun. In addition to debating the anti-choice legislation this week, Wyoming’s also retaliating against their image as the Brokeback State:
In the Senate, a bill that would specify that Wyoming won’t recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states also is likely to get considerable debate this week.
Other states passionate about discrimination and injustice better watch out. Wyoming’s on the war path, and it won’t be long until they lead the nation in half-baked jackassery.
Except for one thing–doctors are already required to give patients that information before any procedure. It’s called informed consent. I have to do that before I give a patient so much as a knee injection.
The point of these “Right to Know” laws is not to make sure the doctor gives the patient the information, but to require specific information. This usually includes outright misinformation, like the long-ago-debunked increased risk of breast cancer, and various bits of propaganda. It sounds innocuous when you describe it like the article does, but the devil is in the details.
Looking at Wyoming’s bill online, it appears to be straight from the pattern.
Thanks, J Train. Great perspective.
*sob* Poor Wyoming - if only I had told them before that when I was a child forced to recite the 50 states, I always forgot Iowa and counted Wyoming twice. But now it’s too late and they’ll never know they were always loved.
Well, that’s that other law that goes way past informed consent…you know, the one where if you have your baby circumsized there’s a law that requires the butch nurse to come in and hold the father’s penis between her thumb and forefinger, and then pinch like there’s no tomorrow while saying, “There is a potential for your son to feel pain, as you are, and there’s the side effect of soreness akin to what you’ll be experiencing over the next few days. Skipping the procedure is one alternative.”
You know, that law. They already have that law up there, right? I think they have it in every state already.
I’m confused by the fact that “alternatives” is pluralised.
As far as I can see the only alternative to abortion is carrying the pregnancy to term. What other options are there?
I mean, I guess you could use a time machine to stop yourself from getting pregnant in the first place, but then you’d never have been pregnant, so you’d never have used the time machine in the first place, so you’d just be pregnant again.
Seriously, “alternatives”?
You forgot suicide, Christopher! Always a respectable choice for a dishonorable woman.
Christopher, the “s” at the end is a dog whistle so supporters know the law requires doctors to pressure women into giving children up for adoption.
That reminds me of ads for a CPC or whatever that were in the buses I rode in college. They said: “Pregnant? Scared? You have options!”
I always wanted to scratch out the ’s’ in an act of civil disobedience, but I really needed to ride that bus and didn’t want to be kicked off
hmm, what did I know about Wyoming before this? uhh, isn’t it Dick Cheney’s base?
At which point, this seems relatively restrained
The bill was rejected yesterday