Brickbat: Watch What You Say, or Think

A Scottish law took effect in September setting up 200-meter "safe access" zones around abortion clinics. The law was sold as a way to protect women seeking abortion from being harassed. But now the government has sent letters to residents of those zones telling them they face up to six months in prison if they do "anything" including "religious preaching" and "silent vigils" that "would cause harassment, alarm, or distress" to staff and patients. They letter said they could face penalties even if what they do is done on private property or even inside their home.
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The law was sold as a way to protect women seeking abortion from being harassed.
Abortion is the prime human right. All other human rights are subject.
If the Anti-Sex League were doing its job, we wouldn’t have so many abortions.
What's the overlap between the Anti-Sex League and the Crazy Cat Ladies demographic?
The Venn diagram would probably be one large circle.
I’m thankful that all these women, over 100% in fact, had been impregnated during raped, engaged in incest, and/or were going to likely die without snuffing out the clumps of cells.
I'm glad that in the USA, we have the Wisdom and the LOVE of literal clumps of cancer, such that the life of the cancer outranks the life of the mother.
Oklahoma now vying with Idaho for most fanatical!
https://news.yahoo.com/woman-cancerous-pregnancy-told-wait-215500885.html
Woman with Cancerous Pregnancy Was Told to Wait in Parking Lot Until She Was 'Crashing'
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/molar-pregnancy/symptoms-causes/syc-20375175
From there, we see that MOLAR PREGNANCIES ARE NEVER VIABLE!!! Yet fascist assholes like sore-in-the-cunt cuntsorevaturds want to endanger women in the Sacred Name of Unique Human DNA, which is present in a womb-slave!
From the listed source…
There are two types of molar pregnancy — complete molar pregnancy and partial molar pregnancy. In a complete molar pregnancy, the placental tissue swells and appears to form fluid-filled cysts. There is no fetus.
In a partial molar pregnancy, the placenta might have both regular and irregular tissue. There may be a fetus, but the fetus can’t survive. The fetus usually is miscarried early in the pregnancy.
raped, engaged in incest
Personally, I like the continued argument about these exceptions. Really highlights how fucking dark (and narcissistic) the female psyche is.
"I mean, obviously, I'm going to get tested for STDs but am I going to keep my rapist brother's baby? I'm going to need 20 weeks to think about this..."
"But... what about all the girls locked up in their uncle's rape dungeons for 19 weeks, 7 days, 23 hours, 59 min., and 59s? Are you going to deny them the ability to abort?"
"Where do you live that there are so many uncles with their nieces in rape dungeons that you need a clinic to address them all?"
"We *need* these exceptions encoded into law. Otherwise, society collapses and women will suffer. [Proceeds to prosecute Daniel Penny]."
If you are going to codify restrictions into law you need to codify the exceptions. You must codify how long the exceptions are good for.
I don’t think all rapes are immediately reported (some apparently only after the guy gets nominated for some court). There could also be say a child living in the home with the rapist. I get the potential for fake rape allegations to justify the abortion after that (20 weeks?) timeline.
I think there should be some exceptions with protections against the mattress girl crowd.
Religion is forbidden
What could possibly go wrong?
NAZIs could commit genocide on Jews and others?
Vote for fascists, get fascism.
Every time.
Remember, remember, the fifth of November.
A certain commenter will have consumed a fifth on the fifth before the polls have even opened.
He who shall not be named so as to not turn up in search.
Hitler?
He hitler twice and then she called CPS.
I did NAZI that cumming!!!
Just wondering why we should be worried about what happens in Scotland.
Deal straight on with our issue in the USA!
Hey Henweigh... What's a Henweigh, anyway? In my old age, I have learned a wee tad about taking the measure of a man, butt a Henweigh, any day, sad to say, leaves me flummoxed... So enter the fray (we shall not stay to slay ye), and have your say, today!
But the locals there might get off Scot free!
Easy win for the Brick-batter?
British police are even dumber than American police, but fortunately, they're generally not all given guns to play with.