re: #3 brookly red

Comparing gun control to abortion rights is insane.

There has never, ever, ever, ever, been a state in the US where you couldn’t pick up some sort of gun in at most a week. Only those who were insane or felons could not achieve this. A very few cities have made this more difficult— cities, not states.

However, there have been entire criminalizations of abortion in entire states, harassment campaigns against abortion doctors— not to mention murders of abortion doctors.

You don’t get screaming insane people outside gun stores— how could you? There are so fucking many of them.

Complete victory. Fuck.

Oklahoma Abortion Law: No Exceptions, Even Rape

But under a new law in Oklahoma, women like Casteix, who have been sexually assaulted, will be forced to undergo a second trauma. The law requires them to undergo a sonogram, and depending on the state of pregnancy, it could be a transvaginal one, which involves insertion of a wand.

The doctor must then turn the screen towards her and describe fetal dimensions and details like the number of fingers and toes and heart activity.

There are no exemptions for victims of rape and incest.

“The law takes no account of the trauma of the victim,” said Casteix. “I just can’t imagine what that would have done to me. It upsets me just thinking about being in that position. If you are the victim of a violent crime, it’s absolutely devastating.”

That’s far more of a ‘victory’ than they should ever fucking get. Shameful. Foul. Re-raping rape victims.