Women’s Reproductive Rights, State by State

Oh, a quick note to anyone who takes that Goober lady seriously... Abortions are done so early on in the pregnancy that the fetus usually doesn't have limbs. I'm not sure what videos she claims to have seen, but unless a woman's life is in danger, the thing being removed looks nothing like a person. I know some people will say that just because it doesn't look like a person doesn't mean it isn't one, but that's not the point I'm trying to make.

Register. Vote.

Pay attention to the statements of the candiates.

Tell both Republicans and Democrats that you want candidates who reflect your views on reproductive rights.

Be active in supporting candidates who support your views on reproductive rights.

Write letters to politicians in office and tell them your views and that you intend to only vote for candidates who match your views.

Of course, this is not the only issue where all of us should insist on better voting behavior by our elected officials. The same process applies.

Talk to men about this. Tell them it is important.

Register. Vote.

Weren't you all disgusted when Congressman Darrell Issa held a committee hearing on women's health issues and the only people he allowed to testify were men?

Why are women's rights still an issue? The government needs to take it's elbows off my ovaries, it's starting to get sore.

Roe VS Wade should have prevented such state by state bans, but the states regained control since after the Reagan years and the legislature is too chicken to get back in there and reaffirm the federal statute.

Forced pregnancy is as horrible as forced abortion and in this century, we can send people to the moon but we still don't believe women should be able to control their lives and bodies. It's a sad and tragic irony.

How sad for a nation as the US. It makes me wonder how long it will be before it will be against the law for women to wear pants and have short hair. I suppose if the theocrats have their way, that's were we will be, and that case how are any different from many nations in the Middle East? So much for the land of the free.

2 things are going to be the ruin of the Republican Party.Contraception and Rush Limbaugh.

I think its time our government show these backward states what the Equal Rights Ammendment means.

Abortion is not now or should never be a political issue. Having decent morals requires we seperate church and state.

Funny how this is all about women and the vote is all about men.

Santorum 2012.

if a baby isn't born how can it have rights thats stupid, if a mother wants a abortion its her baby and her right, the states should mind their own business, its the mothers business not the nosy state

Reproductive rights is so much bigger then abotion! Reproductive rights is also about access to birth control, being free from pressure or force to reproduce and also being free from discrimination when we do reproduce. STOP ONLY FOCUSING ON ABORTION

What has happened to human rights in this country. Roe vs. Wade has been the law of the land for longer than most of you have been alive. As a Kansan, I deeply regret, the kind of law that allows a fine christian Gentlemen, Like Dr. George Tiller to assassinated in the lobby of his church by an out of state assassin and listening to all the so called right to life people cheer on the low life who was coerced in performing act. Is their nothing these animals will not do to please their Pope? Wake America! You will be next on their list.

Punishment for failure to pay child support on two or more children: mandatory vasectomies!!

BTW, abortions in Louisiana will only be banned IF Roe vs. Wade is overturned. Currently, abortions are legal in Louisiana (unless you have more than xx amount, then your banned from using abortion as birth control).

Like everything else, this would not be an issue if it were used responsibly. It's the 1% that ruin it for everyone else.

If you take a human life, is that murder?

Young women better get up, stand up.....Things are moving in the wrong direction and I think a lot of the blame lies with all the women who consider "feminist" a negative word and take the strides made during the women's movement for granted. It's really a shame that 40 years later so much has reverted back or has gotten worse for women. Someone dropped the ball. The term feminist got a bad connotation because men felt threatened, didn't want to share the power and fought back by verbally abusing and discriminating against "feminist types" - and by giving preferential treatment to women who didn't rock the boat and who didn't mind being treated as sex objects or second class citizens. And it worked. Look at how many of today's girls and young women aspire to be sex objects or feel that no matter how smart and talented they may be they still have to be sexy for men in order to be valued. I recommend looking up the word 'feminist' and learning what it really stands for. It is not about being anti-male unless you consider equality to be anti-male. And it's about owning your own body.

why do people insist on forcing their beliefs in pro life to everyone and making everyone else suffer?

if you are pro life, pay more money for children shelter and abandoned children then you can feed all the children that parents did not want

I keep saying this and I will say it again. If people who disagree with this don't speak out or vote, this will continue to happen. Laws being passed we all don't agree and hate, but will have to live with it because our State politicians allow it (regardless if you guys like it or not). The more people we have (like Occupy Wall Street) to speak out against it, then the more good it will bring showing them we wont' stand for it. Honestly, we need to get up off our lazy butts! Politics is important if you care so much about your rights.

"why not dictate the MALE Reproductive Rights state by state as well ?"

They absolutely are dictated. We have no rights. We cannot choose to not have a child we don't want because we aren't ready, have other priorities, don't love the woman in question; we are simply forced by law to accept the woman's choice or go to jail if we don't. We cannot choose to have a child we want if a woman decide she isn't ready, has other priorities or doesn't love us. We simply have to live with our child being terminated. Not only are our babies born or aborted without any rights to say so or not, they are often born or terminated without our knowledge. How can a human being I am legally responsible for for 18 years or be jailed for the same timeframe be terminated without my knowledge? In fact, a woman can have my child, not tell me, tell another man she was having sex with at the same time it is his, and not only is my right to be informed not a consideration, the man who was duped who then finds out is forced by law to support that child despite the fact the woman has defrauded three people in ways that will catatsrophically affect their entire lives.

The easy way out answer of course will be to tell me if I didn't want a child I shouldn't have had sex and that is where my rights end. If my input is so insignificant why is my responsibility so vast and so legislated? If Roe V Wade can be based on the premise that a woman should not be forced into indentured servitide for 9 months to have a baby she is not ready for and does not want, how can the same premise not be extended to not forcing men into 18 YEARS of indentured servitude for a baby they are not ready for?

Here is the male reproductive right that should be made into a constitutional right; a woman should have to inform EVERY man who might be the father within the first 90 days if she wishes to keep the child. Each of those men can then accept or decline the child. If the woman wishes to have the child anyway it is her choice and responsibility. If the man wants the child an the woman does not, she can of course abort it anyway (or not tell him). That is a law based on justice and consistent principles. Women have the ultimate choice over their bodies and the ultimate responsibility as well. If they choose to have it they are responsible for it. If the man choose to participate then he is as well. Children couldn't be used as weapons to trap men or their finances. Less children would be born and less men would be forced to give up their lives and choices simply because they chose to, just as women claim the right to, enjoy a sexual encounter that they did not intend to end up in a pregnancy. Abortion would either be state funded, or in the case of a father who declined be the financial responsiblity for the father.

Any woman who argues against that does not beieve in the veyr principles of Roe V Wade she claims to.