This has got to be the dumbest idea I’ve heard in, um, about 24 hours. Don’t bark about “the rapist has the right to fight for the unborn… right to life” garbage. You committed a crime and deserve jack flippin’ zero zilch nada of any rights.
Yes, I understand a woman should notify her husband/boyfriend. But informing the casual hook up would be hard if you didn’t exchange digits, but for woman (young/old) to have to communicate with their rapist about it, someone needs a reality check- PB/TK
In Arkansas, rape survivors will be forced to notify their attacker if they get an abortion – By Nicole Einbinder / July 10 2017
Arkansas women may soon be forced to notify their sexual partner or family members if they want to have an abortion, thanks to a provision passed in the state’s 2017 legislative session. H.B. 1566, the Tissue Disposal Mandate, would make it illegal for a woman to have an abortion without communicating with the man who impregnated her — whether that be her husband, boyfriend, a casual hook-up, or a perpetrator of sexual assault.
The new provision is linked to the state’s preexisting Final Disposition Rights Act of 2009. According to that law, family members related to the deceased person have say over what happens to the body.
Under the new provision, embryonic or fetal tissue from an abortion would be considered a “deceased” family member. As such, the woman and father of the fetus have equal say over its disposal. A teenage girl seeking an abortion would have no say because, legally, she would have to be at least 18 to exercise final disposition rights over the tissue. If the girl and her sexual partner are minors, their parents would make the decision. If he is 18 and she is a minor, he has final say.
“What’s most detrimental about this is that they just tied it into an existing Arkansas law that talks about disposing of human remains of any person who is deceased. And that law gets very specific on who has the right to consent,” says Lori Williams, Clinic Director of Little Rock Family Planning Services, one of three abortion providers in the state. “Many of the patients do not wish to involve their partner in the decision to terminate a pregnancy.”
Continue to msn.com article: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-arkansas-rape-survivors-will-be-forced-to-notify-their-attacker-if-they-get-an-abortion/ar-BBE9KQp?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
