Mississippi AG: Curtailing reproductive rights will empower women

[ShazzieB]

Yes, you read that right. No, I did not make that up.

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Mississippi AG: Curtailing reproductive rights will empower women

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch believes women will be empowered if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Reality tells a different story.

Sept. 29, 2021, 9:26 AM EDT
By Steve Benen

In just a couple of months, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case that will test the constitutionality of Mississippi's latest abortion ban. It's the first key showdown on reproductive rights since conservatives gained a dominant, six-member majority on the high court.
It's also, of course, a case that puts the future of the Roe v. Wade precedent in great jeopardy.

As The Mississippi Free Press reported this week, Mississippi's Republican attorney general is already imagining the societal landscape in the event the justices scrap the nation's existing reproductive rights.

Ending most legalized abortions will "empower" more women to pursue careers while also raising children, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch told a Catholic television host late last week. She is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that guarantees women the right to abortion before fetal viability, when the state defends its 15-week abortion ban in December.

"Think about this: the lives that will be touched, the babies that will be saved, the mothers that will get the chance to really redirect their lives," Fitch said last week. "And they have all these opportunities that they didn't have 50 years ago. Fifty years ago, professional women, they really wanted you to make a choice. Now you don't have to. Now you have the opportunity to be whatever you want to be. You have the option in life to really achieve your dream and goals, and you can have those beautiful children as well."

The Mississippi attorney general added, "Just think about the uplifting, the changing of course for women that have for these new babies, these women. And everyone knows it's all right, it's acceptable. You can have these beautiful children and you can have your careers. And so this really gets into, how do we empower women? How do we prepare for that next step? And we have to look at it with this whole vision and strategy. And I just think God has given us this opportunity to be here."

In other words, women will have amazing choices just as soon as the government forces them to remain pregnant against their will. The key to "empowering" women, the argument goes, is to curtail their reproductive rights.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/mississippi-ag-curtailing-reproductive-rights-will-empower-women-n1280328

The whole article is well worth reading, imo. (And there's no psywall!)

Posting this without comment, because the whole thing makes my brain feel like 🤯.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. A Woman said this?

[ShazzieB]

5. Sadly, yes. 😠

I double checked, because I've seen Lynn (infrequently) used as a man's name.

[Hortensis]

2. And the "empowered" women serving long prison terms?

The 30-year prison term for one young woman, supported by Governor Mike Pence, was mercifully overturned -- after a couple of years -- by the courts. But it's a dreadful inidcator.

How about those who are executed, which is a real possibility? Many archconservative legislators believe abortion is murder and must be tried as murder.

[haele]

3. Well, she's imagining budding carers in Wet Nursing for the lower classes -

While well-to-do professional women have their babies, then hand them over to the nurse/cleaning lady/nanny with her own kids to also raise. On minimum wage with few benefits other than guest house lodging for nurse and her family.
Nurse just has to ensure that her babies don't play with mistress's.

Haele

[Bettie]

7. Maybe she owns stock in a for-profit

adoption service.

There are a lot of people out there who think poor women with unintended pregnancies should be incubators for childless rich couples.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. I'd like to "empower" her

back to the 19th century where she belongs with a swift kick to her hindermost area!

[Bettie]

6. You know, I had a whole response ready to go

but all I can really say is fuck this person.

[walkingman]

11. It is not really worth the effort. I grew up in Mississippi - left when I finished HS -

you are not going to change the minds of these folks. They live in a vacuum that is supported by most of the people around them and have been for generations.

[OilemFirchen]

8. Wait, wut?

The AG is telling a Catholic television host that eliminating Roe v. Wade will result in more women in the workforce?

That's fucking weird. Perhaps with this new empowerment these women can become priests?

[hurple]

9. It will empower women...

To vote the asshats that took away their rights straight out of office.

[Deuxcents]

10. ☝️

[Solly Mack]

12. These people live in a make-believe world that doesn't exist and never will.