Thread by @soychicka

I'm waiting for a challenge the Ohio law on these grounds:

Prohibiting a woman from terminating a pregnancy in cases of rape/incest is no different from a state-sponsored 9-month extension of the rape.

cbsnews.com/news/ohio-abor…

Note:
all acts that control sexual reproduction, including both abortion and continued gestation, are "sexual acts."

Gestation is a period of prolonged contact with the female genital tract.
If that contact is unwanted, it's non-consensual.

Penetration by any object that is unwanted is non-consensual, and thusly forcing that contact is sexual assault.

In fact, requiring any female to retain someone else's genetic material in their body, even if sex was consensual, is unwanted genital contact, or, one could cast as trespassing, increasing risk of death or bodily harm for a woman.

The irony is that the majority of fundamentalist-run states passing new anti-abortion laws concomitantly enforce the Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground laws when it comes to use of lethal force for those using weapons to protect a building...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_do…

But those same fundamentalists don't want women to be able to exert the same choice when they're a victim of sexual assault, or when the fetus they've been carrying for 6 months is dying inside of them...

thedailybeast.com/texas-forced-t…

Forcing a mother who wanted a child she is carrying to feel her struggling, dying inside her?

Forcing a woman who was already a victim of sexual assault or abuse to allow her assailant to perpetuate his genes?

No.
That is both inhumane + inhuman.

And, technically, any woman would be able to shoot herself in the stomach to end the trespass in her abode if the fetus were a person - so allowing someone else to help end the trespass safely in her home should be legal.

Maybe in-home abortion care would be a workable loophole?

In any case, while abortion should never be treated as a form of commonly used birth control, until sperm stop trespassing in womens' uteri, it is these laws - and this ideology - that demand termination.