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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans want national pregnancy registry
I'll be honest, read this and it kind of made my stomach sink. This is about as dystopian a development in a world that just seems to be getting worse. Feels like things are getting worse.I am genuinely afraid my niece and all women, will grow up in a world in which she has no rights and I feel powerless to stop it. Voting is NOT going to make these people just go away. If only it were that simple. It's not that simple. They are not going to stop until they have a totalitarian theocracy. I truly believe that and all the evidence supports that belief.
Reference: https://meidasnews.com/news/sen-katie-britt-introduces-bill-to-create-federal-database-of-pregnant-people
Mossfern
(2,619 posts)or forced to wear identifying patches or bracelets with your fertility status. Will there be penalties for not disclosing it?
Dystopian indeed.
Even the consideration of such a thing is horrifying.
lostnfound
(16,209 posts)She may be a kook but not marginal for the GOP
erronis
(15,566 posts)Captain Zero
(6,909 posts)At the same time.
Require the pregnancy submitter to register the spermDad of the pregnancy.
BonnieJW
(2,284 posts)What happens to those who are not fertile? What happens to women in menopause? What happens to men who are sterile? What happens to men who have a vasectomy? Can a woman have her tubes tied?
bucolic_frolic
(43,663 posts)This is just so, SO Reaganesque Get the Government Off Our Backs!!
Model35mech
(1,635 posts)(probably as well as information on DOXing the patient in and out of her home state).
Seems that database could arguably be protected under HIPAA, especially if the database is going to be shared outside the patient's medical team, as in shared with law enforcement and prosecutors from states banning abortion.
Captain Zero
(6,909 posts)It's ok, there's not Not enough room in these title lines.
no_hypocrisy
(46,410 posts)hlthe2b
(102,667 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,839 posts)Let's put men on registries.
TSExile
(2,624 posts)REGULATE THE PATRIARCHY!!!!!
Irish_Dem
(48,837 posts)bdamomma
(64,012 posts)they keep on showing that commercial (I can't recall the name ) regarding Cialis/Viagra a combination of both drugs. So misogynistic.
Otto_Harper
(523 posts)I will make it my business to register myself onto that list early and often. The more noise, the less effective it will be.
Whadda they gonna do, prevent me from getting an abortion?
TSExile
(2,624 posts)After all, men are the only ones who count, according to the Grand Old Patriarchy.
Otto_Harper
(523 posts)to these cretins would be a lecture, in a quiet room, just me and my teaching stick.
TSExile
(2,624 posts)Thanks.
bdamomma
(64,012 posts)That is what I think.
They are afraid of the stronger sex, us women!!! Some men feel threatened by strong and independent women.
Irish_Dem
(48,837 posts)I think reporting monthly cramps would be a nice touch.
GiqueCee
(674 posts)... and I think that's a great idea. Flood the Zone until the goddam thing crashes.
Captain Zero
(6,909 posts)Also bogus entries
Could probably even create a script with AI to flood it.
Biophilic
(3,774 posts)So glad that Katie Britt continues to distinguish herself with being a really vile person. On the other hand this may persuade a few more people to vote straight democratic. Fear is a powerful motivator and this certainly scares me.
Diamond_Dog
(32,291 posts)This is absolutely APPALLING! And for a woman to come up with something like this??
musette_sf
(10,211 posts)Volaris
(10,293 posts)Permanut
(5,747 posts)and numbers tattooed on their arms. Oh, and maybe a little patch on the sleeves of their coats.
Jilly_in_VA
(10,064 posts)As the mother of three granddaughters and two great-granddaughters I will fight this kind of thing until I'm dead and my daughter will too. This is ridiculous intrusion.
Srkdqltr
(6,451 posts)why are they saying pregnant people.? the only people pregnant are women. Men don't.
Its Pregnant Women.
hlthe2b
(102,667 posts)highly publicized pregnancy that made this man a bit of a celebrity for a while. I'm sure there may have been others, but numbers would logically remain very small.
And yes, pregnancies ARE and remain overwhelmingly an issue for women. But because of the former and the potential for others, there has been a push to use the more inclusive term--and HHS under the current administration has adopted it. -- Just stating the factual issues behind the change sans any projected personal opinion whatsoever.
Mad_Machine76
(24,473 posts)littlemissmartypants
(23,011 posts)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_pregnancy
bdamomma
(64,012 posts)powerless, we all need to VOTE. Do not give up. We are majority of people, not the minority.
Do not play into their sick dystopian ideas. They want fear to be instilled in everyone.
riversedge
(70,630 posts)Katie Britt: Introduced a bill to create a federal database of pregnant women.
Also Katie Britt: Opposes federal database of gun ownere
Link to tweet
gun owners.
ShazzieB
(16,739 posts)I have never hit anyone in my life, but I'd be willing to start with her!
slightlv
(2,914 posts)Register women and pregnancies/abortions. Don't register people with guns. Tells you all you really need to know about a country, doesn't it? (sigh)
I am so opposed to this, but I can see where it's not going to stop there. After taking away our contraception, they'll be coming for our voting rights next. After that, they'll again try to classify jobs or work environments back to either "male" or "female" suitable. We'll also have our financial rights stripped about this same time.
One female rep (can't remember who) recently made the comment she looked forward to where there was accountability for each sex act; pregnancy being that accountability. She also made the comment that people should not engage in recreational sex; that sex should ONLY be for procreation. Now, that's one sour woman, if you ask me.
DemocraticPatriot
(4,569 posts)for election deniers.... and their registration should be mandated by law, just as if they were sex offenders
(and many of them probably ARE, although they may as yet be un-indicted...)
orwell
(7,784 posts)...and a good "smiting" when you need one.
Let us "prey"...
kysrsoze
(6,027 posts)Its coming if they get their way.
won't get "their way" if we vote in record numbers. We women, are not going back.
Stinky The Clown
(67,863 posts)Johonny
(21,041 posts)So we could have a modern health care industry like every other industrial nation? You know who hated that idea, Republicans. But tracking just pregnancy, that they like. 👍
rambler_american
(792 posts)was an optimist.
oldmanlynn
(118 posts)I dont care what any religious person says. Religion started this mess and no other religions spoke out against the crazy going on.
jayschool2013
(2,325 posts)in the Constitution of the United States of America, First Amendment:
"Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion ..."
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littlemissmartypants
(23,011 posts)Yeah...no.
Warpy
(111,556 posts)Vote them out, every last, rotten one of them.
Then keep them out. Every last rotten one of them.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,144 posts)jayschool2013
(2,325 posts)That's some literal nanny-state shit right there.
Fugging hypocrites.
Sessuch
(113 posts)Tree Lady
(11,554 posts)What we actually need is a gun registry with everyone trained, licensed, and have insurance.
Mad_Machine76
(24,473 posts)Takket
(21,769 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,569 posts)like sex offenders....
Eko
(7,442 posts)I would.
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