Republicans want national pregnancy registry

[angrychair]

Alabama Senator Katie Britt, best known for delivering a bizarre, melodramatic televised response to President Biden's 2024 State of the Union address, has introduced a bill to create a federal website to collect data on pregnant people.

I'll be honest, read this and it kind of made my stomach sink. This is about as dystopian a development in a world that just seems to be getting worse. Feels like things are getting worse.I am genuinely afraid my niece and all women, will grow up in a world in which she has no rights and I feel powerless to stop it. Voting is NOT going to make these people just go away. If only it were that simple. It's not that simple. They are not going to stop until they have a totalitarian theocracy. I truly believe that and all the evidence supports that belief.

Reference: https://meidasnews.com/news/sen-katie-britt-introduces-bill-to-create-federal-database-of-pregnant-people

[Mossfern]

1. How far is this from being tagged

or forced to wear identifying patches or bracelets with your fertility status. Will there be penalties for not disclosing it?

Dystopian indeed.
Even the consideration of such a thing is horrifying.

[lostnfound]

13. Consideration by the designated RNC response person for the SOTU.. not a marginal kook

She may be a kook but not marginal for the GOP

[erronis]

22. As long as they also have a registry of sperm-producing humans.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218938770#post54

[Captain Zero]

56. Register the sperm producer of the pregnancy

At the same time.

Require the pregnancy submitter to register the spermDad of the pregnancy.

[BonnieJW]

45. And then comes the question

What happens to those who are not fertile? What happens to women in menopause? What happens to men who are sterile? What happens to men who have a vasectomy? Can a woman have her tubes tied?

[bucolic_frolic]

2. NOTHING screams HIPAA like a federal database of pregnant people!!

This is just so, SO Reaganesque Get the Government Off Our Backs!!

[Model35mech]

17. I think that database would become a record of patient medical information

(probably as well as information on DOXing the patient in and out of her home state).

Seems that database could arguably be protected under HIPAA, especially if the database is going to be shared outside the patient's medical team, as in shared with law enforcement and prosecutors from states banning abortion.

[Captain Zero]

51. You left out VIOLATION after HIPAA

It's ok, there's not Not enough room in these title lines.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. No more OTC home pregnancy tests

[hlthe2b]

20. Black Market on the way...

[lindysalsagal]

4. Ok. I want public lists of mens ed, and cialus use.

Let's put men on registries.

[TSExile]

6. I wish.

REGULATE THE PATRIARCHY!!!!!

[Irish_Dem]

8. Men would not tolerate it.

[bdamomma]

26. Yes exactly

they keep on showing that commercial (I can't recall the name ) regarding Cialis/Viagra a combination of both drugs. So misogynistic.

[Otto_Harper]

5. As a male septuagenarian

I will make it my business to register myself onto that list early and often. The more noise, the less effective it will be.

Whadda they gonna do, prevent me from getting an abortion?

[TSExile]

7. Hopefully men like you would send a message.

After all, men are the only ones who count, according to the Grand Old Patriarchy.

[Otto_Harper]

10. Believe me, the message I would like to convey

to these cretins would be a lecture, in a quiet room, just me and my teaching stick.

[TSExile]

14. My hat is off to you, good sir.

Thanks.

[bdamomma]

30. ....................

That is what I think.

They are afraid of the stronger sex, us women!!! Some men feel threatened by strong and independent women.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Make sure you get the story about your periods correct.

I think reporting monthly cramps would be a nice touch.

[GiqueCee]

24. I'm one of those 70-something critters, too...

... and I think that's a great idea. Flood the Zone until the goddam thing crashes.

[Captain Zero]

53. Yes men need to jam the list

Also bogus entries
Could probably even create a script with AI to flood it.

[Biophilic]

11. Yeah, that's just wrong.

So glad that Katie Britt continues to distinguish herself with being a really vile person. On the other hand this may persuade a few more people to vote straight democratic. Fear is a powerful motivator and this certainly scares me.

[Diamond_Dog]

12. And once you log in, they have your contact information.

This is absolutely APPALLING! And for a woman to come up with something like this??

[musette_sf]

16. Serena Waterford

[Volaris]

44. You win the thread.

[Permanut]

15. Great idea..

and numbers tattooed on their arms. Oh, and maybe a little patch on the sleeves of their coats.

[Jilly_in_VA]

18. Oh HELL no!

As the mother of three granddaughters and two great-granddaughters I will fight this kind of thing until I'm dead and my daughter will too. This is ridiculous intrusion.

[Srkdqltr]

19. Pregnant people??

why are they saying pregnant people.? the only people pregnant are women. Men don't.
Its Pregnant Women.

[hlthe2b]

21. However rare, there are some trans men who retain a uterus and ovaries...and at least one

highly publicized pregnancy that made this man a bit of a celebrity for a while. I'm sure there may have been others, but numbers would logically remain very small.

And yes, pregnancies ARE and remain overwhelmingly an issue for women. But because of the former and the potential for others, there has been a push to use the more inclusive term--and HHS under the current administration has adopted it. -- Just stating the factual issues behind the change sans any projected personal opinion whatsoever.

[Mad_Machine76]

52. And non-binary people too.

[littlemissmartypants]

28. No it's definitely people and it's the appropriate DEI wording because...

Transgender pregnancy is the gestation of one or more embryos or fetuses by transgender people. As of 2023, the possibility is restricted to those born with female reproductive systems. However, transition-related treatments may impact fertility. Transgender men and nonbinary people who are or wish to become pregnant face social, medical, legal, and psychological concerns.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_pregnancy

[bdamomma]

23. We are not

powerless, we all need to VOTE. Do not give up. We are majority of people, not the minority.

Do not play into their sick dystopian ideas. They want fear to be instilled in everyone.

[riversedge]

25. Britt: Introduced a bill to create a federal database of pregnant women. Britt: Opposes federal database of gun owners

Katie Britt: Introduced a bill to create a federal database of pregnant women.

Also Katie Britt: Opposes federal database of gun ownere

Link to tweet

gun owners.

[ShazzieB]

46. I wish I could slap that smarmy fake smile off her disgusting Stepford face! 😡

I have never hit anyone in my life, but I'd be willing to start with her!

[slightlv]

48. This is where it gets especially dystopian!

Register women and pregnancies/abortions. Don't register people with guns. Tells you all you really need to know about a country, doesn't it? (sigh)

I am so opposed to this, but I can see where it's not going to stop there. After taking away our contraception, they'll be coming for our voting rights next. After that, they'll again try to classify jobs or work environments back to either "male" or "female" suitable. We'll also have our financial rights stripped about this same time.

One female rep (can't remember who) recently made the comment she looked forward to where there was accountability for each sex act; pregnancy being that accountability. She also made the comment that people should not engage in recreational sex; that sex should ONLY be for procreation. Now, that's one sour woman, if you ask me.

[DemocraticPatriot]

50. We need a federal registry of forced-birth advocates, and another one

for election deniers.... and their registration should be mandated by law, just as if they were sex offenders
(and many of them probably ARE, although they may as yet be un-indicted...)

[orwell]

27. Where is his holiness Heston...

...and a good "smiting" when you need one.

Let us "prey"...

[kysrsoze]

29. Under His Eye

It’s coming if they get their way.

[bdamomma]

35. They

won't get "their way" if we vote in record numbers. We women, are not going back.

[Stinky The Clown]

31. What could possibly go wrong?

[Johonny]

32. Remember when the Clintons want a national health registry

So we could have a modern health care industry like every other industrial nation? You know who hated that idea, Republicans. But tracking just pregnancy, that they like. 👍

[rambler_american]

33. Margaret Atwood

was an optimist.

[oldmanlynn]

34. Religion is the cause. Period

I dont care what any religious person says. Religion started this mess and no other religions spoke out against the crazy going on.

[jayschool2013]

41. It's all right there

in the Constitution of the United States of America, First Amendment:

"Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion ..."

[littlemissmartypants]

37. Have to report a miscarriage and suddenly you're on another "special" database.

Yeah...no.

[Warpy]

38. Enough of Republican BIG GOVERNMENT!

Vote them out, every last, rotten one of them.

Then keep them out. Every last rotten one of them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

40. Yes, and they complain about "Big Government" all the time. Such hypocrites. . . . nt

[jayschool2013]

39. Wait a sec, now!

That's some literal nanny-state shit right there.

Fugging hypocrites.

[Sessuch]

42. Not until we have a National gun registry

[Tree Lady]

43. I was just going to post the same thing

What we actually need is a gun registry with everyone trained, licensed, and have insurance.

[Mad_Machine76]

54. Not even then

[Takket]

47. this is total government pork and waste. planned parenthood already exists and is the go to resource for pregnancy info

[DemocraticPatriot]

49. Maybe we should start a federal registry of 'election deniers', and force them to register

like sex offenders....

[Eko]

55. Millions of males should register on it that they are pregnant.

I would.