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sarchasm

(1,228 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 11:17 AM Feb 2021

Tennessee Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Allow Fathers To Veto Abortions

A bill introduced in the Tennessee General Assembly this week would allow a man who gets a woman pregnant to request an injunction barring her from having an abortion.

The legislation, SB0494 in the Senate and HB1079 in the House, would require a court hearing to be held within 14 days of a petition being filed by the individual seeking an injunction.

At the hearing, if the man can prove that he is the biological father and that there is a “reasonable probability” that the woman would obtain an abortion, the court shall issue an injunction prohibiting her from terminating the pregnancy. Proof of parenthood requires only that the petitioner acknowledges paternity. A DNA test is not required.

If the woman violates the injunction by obtaining an abortion, the court may hold her in civil or criminal contempt. There are no exceptions for rape or incest.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tennessee-lawmakers-introduce-bill-allow-fathers-veto-abortions_n_6025ae58c5b6f88289fa797a

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Irish_Dem

(57,435 posts)
18. He is a doll baby, but a 6 lb boss of the world.
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:46 PM
Feb 2021

Very vocal and connected to people.
A large personality in a small package.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
4. Oh, for Heaven's sake.
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 11:20 AM
Feb 2021

The TN legislature is WAY out of step with the majority of the people who live in the state. I am certain that TN isn’t even close to being this backwards.



-Laelth

CrispyQ

(38,245 posts)
5. I can hardly read this article through the anger I'm feeling.
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 11:23 AM
Feb 2021

When are the pro-choice groups going to wake up & start adding the Thirteenth Amendment to our arsenal in this fight for women's autonomy?

2010
Forced Labor, Revisited: The Thirteenth Amendment and Abortion
Andrew Koppelman
Northwestern University School of Law, akoppelman@law.northwestern.edu

https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1031&context=facultyworkingpapers

snip...

I. The basic argument The Thirteenth Amendment reads as follows:

1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

My claim is that the amendment is violated by laws that prohibit abortion. When women are compelled to carry and bear children, they are subjected to "involuntary servitude" in violation of the amendment. Abortion prohibitions violate the Amendment's guarantee of personal liberty, because forced pregnancy and childbirth, by compelling the woman to serve the fetus, creates "that control by which the personal service of one man [sic] is disposed of or coerced for another's benefit which is the essence of involuntary servitude."6

Such laws violate the amendment's guarantee of equality, because forcing women to be mothers makes them into a servant caste, a group which, by virtue of a status of birth, is held subject to a special duty to serve others and not themselves.


Parents can't be forced to donate their organs to their child, even to save the child's life. Why does a fetus have more claim on a woman's body than her child who has been born?

THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION A WOMAN CAN MAKE ISN'T YOURS.


niyad

(119,909 posts)
10. I am with you. It seems an obvious argument. Except that the gestational slavers do not see
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 11:34 AM
Feb 2021

women as actual people, but rather as brood mares, chattel.

niyad

(119,909 posts)
7. The WAR ON WOMEN continues apace. Thank you so much for posting this disturbing and
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 11:30 AM
Feb 2021

important piece.

Ilsa

(62,238 posts)
8. Any man filing request for an injunction should be required to post
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 11:33 AM
Feb 2021

a $5million CD for the medical costs and other costs of raising that child. We know

TN trying to tie victims and their children to rapists forever.

If I was of childbearing age, I'd move out of TN if I lived there.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
11. Have to wonder if Tenn. legislative geniuses are still pushing the periodic
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 11:34 AM
Feb 2021

Scopes-Monkey, Creationism, stuff?

mopinko

(71,802 posts)
12. well, at least they have cut to the chase.
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 11:42 AM
Feb 2021

this is what it has always been about.

but why they waste tax dollars on this nonsense is a mystery to me. not.

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