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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProposed Georgia Law Would Let Employers Fire Women Who Get An Abortion..
It gets crazier by the day with the anti abortion crowd. Based on an Alternet article woman arrested for protesting the proposed law. Why stop there. Fire women who use birth control or have sex outside of marriage or who cheat on their spouse. The psychopathic nut cases are making things up faster than one can respond to them.
Burning at the stake is probably next. Stoning, drawing and quartering et al. How long will it before people get in the face of the bastards and shout them down.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)This is already legal in Georgia, and many other states -- if the spouse is also a woman. No cheating required.
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)Seems a gross invasion of privacy, but what do I know.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)to be processed and paid.
At least that's how I remember it was explained a while back when a similar topic was discussed.
LiberalFighter
(52,210 posts)They still have to comply with HIPAA which limits how they can use the information when they have the required access.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)stuffed into a time machine and sent back to Salem, where they can burn witches to their heart's content.
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)How can that be legal as well?
Romeo.lima333
(1,127 posts)Romeo.lima333
(1,127 posts)the voters are to blame for letting animals into the government. sucks for the people stuck there
cali
(114,904 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,802 posts)shenmue
(38,513 posts)Warpy
(111,899 posts)I don't know whether it's a phony Christian solidarity or whether it's superstition against shouting down a self appointed man of gawd or whether it's just fear. I imagine it might be a combination of all three.
Those fuckers want to push us back to the twelfth century just like ISIS does and with most of the same laws.
If we don't manage to figure out how to fight them, they will.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Since the SCOTUS ruled medical records are private, how would the employer prove it? A woman being fired could just take them to court for wrongful termination even if the law is passed, right? Then the employer couldn't offer a defense without the medical records.
Utterly bizarre law that stands zero chance of success. Only backwards fuckwads could concoct something like this
Trillo
(9,154 posts)The purpose is harassment, fear, and lack of privacy.
Runningdawg
(4,533 posts)employers here don't need to give any reason for firing someone, so nothing needs to be proven in court. There is NO such thing as wrongful termination. The boss is always right.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)Or polyamory, where everyone knows and agrees --- also cheating. Neither of those instances has anything to do with adultery or deception, but it's bad bad bad.
It seems they want to interject themselves into every other persons' friend/relationships no matter what. I really don't get it, unless it's just a couple of twisted minds leading and a great mass of very stupid or a smaller mass of stupid and vocal people following.
lpbk2713
(42,863 posts)How the hell do these ignoramuses get elected without knowing
the basic fundamantals of ninth grade Civics Class?
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)There is NO Republican war on women. Can't imagine why that idea keeps getting traction with you libruls. The Georgia lege is just trying to protect the job creators from getting icky abortion cooties.
Several years ago, a woman wrote to Dear Abby or Ann Landers about her ladyparts health. She had had a miscarriage early in a pregnancy. She experienced pain and cramping for a while afterwards, and went in to see her doctor, who determined that her miscarriage hadn't been complete. He did a dilation and curettage procedure so she wouldn't be in pain, and might get pregnant again. Later on, she was in for a gynecological exam, and another doctor reviewing her chart noticed the D&C, and remarked, "Oh, I see you had an abortion." The woman was horribly upset that her procedure was, medically speaking, an abortion, and wanted to know if she could get her medical record changed to reflect her very strong views against abortion.
As I recall Dear Abby-or-Ann sympathized with the woman, and advised her to ask her doctor about re-classifying her procedure so that it wouldn't be an abortion. In my opinion, Dear Abby-or-Ann should have taken the opportunity to say, "Honey, this is why abortion rights are so important for every woman, even the ones who don't think they'd ever have one. Would you prefer to live in terrible pain the rest of your life, never able to have a child?"
This is your democracy, Georgia. Cherish it.