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jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
1. Probably not
Sun May 19, 2019, 09:50 PM
May 2019

Also, condoms will be sold only for disease prevention, all other forms of birth control will be banned, and (if the pregnancy rate remains too low) one live birth every five years will be required.

lordsummerisle

(4,649 posts)
2. Are you speaking of a particular state or nationally?
Sun May 19, 2019, 10:08 PM
May 2019

Such legislation would have a hard time getting passed on a national level...

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
10. It won't happen
Mon May 20, 2019, 01:10 AM
May 2019

Frankly, no jurisdiction that I have ever heard of has tried anything to restrict access to contraceptives or surgical sterilization. Yes, we had the Hobby Lobby decision, but if I went to work for an Orthodox Jewish organization, and when they offered to buy us all lunch, I would expect some resistance to my request for a bacon double cheeseburger.

hatrack

(59,442 posts)
14. Give it time . . .
Mon May 20, 2019, 08:26 AM
May 2019

Considering that birth control pills are considered "abortofacients" by the Thumpers, they will never, ever stop.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
16. What we're going to see
Mon May 20, 2019, 03:06 PM
May 2019

is a consolidation of all of the cases involving red states' various restrictions on abortion. There will be the "hard line" view, notably Alabama, that will make the heartbeat and 20 week variations look reasonable by comparison. And exceptions for rape, incest, and serious health complications for the mother will be a part of the decision.

Then, there will be two Americas, but we've already been moving in that direction on a number of topics for quite a few years now.

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
3. men would always be allowed anything
Sun May 19, 2019, 11:38 PM
May 2019

that's why pharmacists with "deeply held beliefs" are anti-birth control but pro-boner pills

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
5. "Pro-boner pills"! That cracked me up!
Sun May 19, 2019, 11:46 PM
May 2019

"Conquering hair loss and prolonging erections" is what it's all about in our Idiocracy!

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
4. In Kansas(1978) I had to have my husband's approval for a tubal ligation
Sun May 19, 2019, 11:42 PM
May 2019

He had to come with me to the DR office and sign the paper..

Even though I was 29 years old and had had 3 sons in 5 years.. TWO of the three pregnancies were pre-term abruptions...(the first almost killed both of us).
Kansas law, y'know

Hekate

(90,196 posts)
7. In the Good Old Days a woman had to get her husband's consent. If she had no husband, the slut....
Sun May 19, 2019, 11:50 PM
May 2019

...oh, sorry, did I say that? -- had to search for a doctor and hospital who were willing to take her personal word for her desire to have no children.

Minus needing the husband's permission, I can certainly see a return to making it very difficult. Thanks to George W. Bush, the "conscience clause" to health care already allows providers to refuse to dispense medication or perform procedures that offends their delicate fee-fees. Thanks to the SCOTUS decision on Holly Hobby, this has been further reinforced.

marlakay

(11,370 posts)
8. My daughter begged the doctor
Sun May 19, 2019, 11:53 PM
May 2019

To tie her tubes when she had a stomach operation, they told her she was too young around 25, and had to keep separate.

Few years later she had a ectopic pregnancy that almost killed her. She was using birth control that didn’t work.

She had two kids in her early 20’s and didn’t want anymore. After that she was real careful doctor told her it would kill her to get pregnant.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
11. I'm sure a part of that
Mon May 20, 2019, 01:14 AM
May 2019

was that sterilization operations were considered generally irreversible a few decades ago. Nowadays, there are special techniques used that make them considerably more reversible.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,147 posts)
13. Depends on the person. The government has sterilized thousands without their consent or even, in
Mon May 20, 2019, 08:23 AM
May 2019

some cases, their knowledge at the time. State force is an ugly thing.

Bettie

(15,998 posts)
15. Men will never have their bodies regulated in any way
Mon May 20, 2019, 08:44 AM
May 2019

so vasectomies will always remain legal.

Condoms too, since those boys have to protect themselves from all the "predatory women" out there.

Any thing that allows women to take charge of their own reproductive health? Probably going to be illegal in many states before long.

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