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The Ghost of a Flea11/09/2012 10:44:28 am PST

I know I’m late to the discussion of Coulter, but I just want to chime in that no, parental and spousal consent laws are not in the slightest bit “reasonable.” They’re purpose-built to assign veto power to a person whose body isn’t carrying a baby, is probably male, and won’t be its primary caregiver. Also ugly is that there’s usually a reason a woman doesn’t include her husband in that intimate of a decision, so seeking “consent” outing her is putting her at risk. The most cited reason that women receive abortions under is having too many kids, not being able to afford another pregnancy and the child produced, and that their husband refuses to consider any other birth control option. The entire “slutty teens use it as contraception” meme is propaganda to make women who’ve used abortion services unsympathetic.

And partial-birth abortion is a drastic procedure never performed electively, so its bogeyman status on the right pretty much is another red flag that they don’t care about the medical reasons the procedure exist (or how rare it is).

So basically, she’s saying

Hey, drink only half the glass of stupid rhetorical anti-science and then fake that you’re being reasonable person. And let’s play-act that creating laws that make a woman’s body the property of her husband or parents is reasonable, not bugfuck medieval patriarchial crazy. Also, the Supreme Court before Rehnquist didn’t exist, and there aren’t like, five or six precedents that make “reasonable” anti-abortion legislation un-constitutional.