The GOP is not pretending to attack women

At the risk of repeating myself: people who insist that Republicans aren’t really trying to destroy rights and lives of women would much rather give groups who are overwhelmingly white and male the benefit of the doubt than feel any concern for the women who are their victims.

The latest proof: Republican legislators in Ohio heady with the passage of their 6-week limit on abortion are working on another bill that will place additional limits on women’s rights.

And it includes mandatory experimental medical procedures that don’t work.

One fifth of the representatives in the House have signed on to a bill sponsored by Republican John Becker that would prohibit most insurance companies from offering coverage for abortion services.

“The intent is to save lives and reduce the cost of employers and employees health care insurance,” Becker says.

No one try to tell me that these perverts think the cost of birth control and planned abortions is much higher than carrying a pregnancy to term. Just don’t.

The bill would ban nontherapeutic abortions that include “drugs or devices used to prevent the implantation of a fertilized ovum.”

Becker says he doesn’t know how contraceptives work but anyway he’s not targeting contraceptives. And if contraceptives cause abortions, manufactures can just make them not cause abortions.

“When you get into the contraception and abortifacients, that’s clearly not my area of expertise but I suppose, if it were true that what we typically known as the pill would be classified as an abortifacient, then I would imagine the drug manufacturers would reformulate it so it’s no longer an abortifacient and is strictly a contraceptive,” Becker says.

While hesitant to claim expertise on contraceptives, Becker does think he’s an expert on gynecological surgery.

In an attempt to further limit the definition of therapeutic abortion, the bill would require physicians to perform surgical procedures that don’t exist and won’t work on women who have ectopic pregnancies.

“Part of that treatment would be removing that embryo from the fallopian tube and reinserting it in the uterus so that is defined as not an abortion under this bill,” Becker explains.

The thing he wants done to women is not a thing that can be done. If it was, I imagine some women would wanted to be pregnant would have it done.

So basically this would be an abortion. But instead of just removing the embryo from wherever it was lodged the woman would be subjected to a procedure that would give Dr. Beverly Mantle pause. It would subject her to all of the risks associated with a normal medical procedure, plus the risks associated with having someone poke around inside her for no reason other than to satisfy some sick fuck’s need to make sure women suffer as much as possible, possibly based on the belief that women will lie, or get their doctors to lie, and say a pregnancy was ectopic when it wasn’t. And then she would expel the embryo.

Yes, yes. Clearly this is part of a cunning cosplay in which Republicans force doctors to experiment on women in order to rile up the base. But they won’t really mean it.