Stop the Arizona birth control bill (Commentary is <lj user=mama_hogswatch>'s,

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I just signed the following petition addressed to: Arizona Sentate, Arizona State Legislature, Debbie Lesko.

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Stop the Arizona birth control Bill

If this bill passes the senate then women of Arizona would be forced to provide documentation that birth control is for medical purposes only. The "company" would not be required to cover birth control if it was for prevention of conception. Additionally this bill would give companies the right to fire women if they discovered that she was using a contraceptive to prevent pregnancy
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http://www.change.org/petitions/arizona-sentate-arizona-state-legislature-debbie-lesko-stop-the-arizona-birth-control-bill#

Cluegirl note: Please don't roll your eyes and click past because you're tired of this nonsense. We're all tired of this nonsense. We're exhausted with the Tiny White Men That Other White Men Seem To Insist Need To Live In Our Ladyparts, and we're tired of being treated like cattle and chattel just because we're capable of conceiving life, but WE CANNOT IGNORE SHIT LIKE THIS! We must speak up, in our thousands, and we must speak up EVERY DAMN TIME! We must roar and shake the bars because every time even one of these appalling little incremental atrocities passes without uproar, then the Tiny White Men use it as a platform from which to to launch another, only slightly more atrocious attack.

Don't get tired, get mad. Talk about it. Yell about it. SCREAM about it. Deny nay-sayers sex over it. Do. Not. Be. Worn. Down. Because once the chains go on, it takes a lot of blood to get them off again.

This signal needs to be louder than all the 'stop internet limitations' signals. This Conservative Agenda includes the enslavement of better than half the human race. It really, really is more important.

Act like it.

Common Sense Disclaimer: If you are not me, then these opinions, relative to the experience of being me, are not yours. Also, if your gender makes it impossible for you to become pregnant and carry a foetus inside your body without resorting to science and surgery, then you must expect that your opinions on a woman's right to choose when and whether to reproduce will NEVER carry as much weight with me as an actual breeder's opinions. For you, it's abstract. For us, it's real. Ergo, I expect any debate on this subject to be handled with maturity, courtesy, and restraint. No poo throwing, no tubthumping, no trolling, and no shaming. I will ban commenters who are deliberately provocative, rude, and cruel over this. Don't be douches.

You have been warned.

Jan Brewer has already voted this amendment into law, I heard from a friend who lives in Tucson.

Comments

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Additionally this bill would give companies the right to fire women if they discovered that she was using a contraceptive to prevent pregnancy

WHAT! SRSLY! WHAT!!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I'm really not clear on the status of this right now, since the reposted thingit above implies that it's already a done deal, but only recently, but a Google search showed only news from March. So yeah. I'm hoping someone will reply with more info.

Once again I'm glad I didn't get accepted to UA.

[sildra.livejournal.com]

This is just a guess. I have no legal expertise and I haven't looked it up.

I doubt it will give companies the right to fire a woman if they discovered that she was using a contraceptive to prevent pregnancy. What it would do is give companies the knowledge that a woman was doing that--and it would probably only give them the knowledge if they demanded it, which is to say, if they disapproved of it. They then can--and might--find whatever grounds they want to fire her. It's like how if you get pregnant some employers will say, oops, they ran out of money to pay everyone and they have to lay someone off, and of course it's the pregnant woman (I have a friend who that happened to about a year ago and it was not done subtly). Or even "you're not sufficiently dedicated to your job" and then, fired (happened to my mom when I was a kid, around 1990).

[weirdlilfaechld.livejournal.com]

Holy what the fuck.

I can't even fathom what goes through the heads of male legislators most of the time.