A woman's rights to her own life, her own body

[KingOrfeo]

Here's another one:

A Georgia woman who told doctors she took medication to self-induce an abortion was arrested and charged with malice murder after she miscarried en route to the hospital.

According to the police report, Kenlissa Jones, a 23-year-old mother to a two-year-old boy, is alleged to have purchased Cytotec from a retailer in Canada. Jones’ brother told local station WALB that she went to the hospital because she “was in a world of hurt” after taking the drug. She miscarried the fetus, estimated at just over five months gestation, while being driven to the hospital.

In addition to the malice murder charge, Jones faces charges for possession of the drug she used to self-induce. Cytotec is the brand name of the drug misoprostol, used in the United States in combination with mifepristone in non-surgical abortion. It is safe to dispense these medications through telemedicine, but the practice has become a target for lawmakers in states hostile to abortion rights.

 

[nakedboater69]

You can't kill puppies but women think they should have the right to kill babies.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Here's another one:

According to the article you cite and others I have seen, the charges have been dropped, as I believe they should have been, because of previous court decisions and the law as it is written.

 

[Boxlicker101]

You can't kill puppies but women think they should have the right to kill babies.

You can kill puppies if you own the bitch. Most people don't, but it is not illegal.

 

[BotanyBoy]

According to the article you cite and others I have seen, the charges have been dropped, as I believe they should have been, because of previous court decisions and the law as it is written.

Doesn't change the fact that a bunch of BAT SHIT huge gubbmint intervention loving republicans tried....and should be ridiculed as such along with the rest of the fucking morons who support their bullshit.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Doesn't change the fact that a bunch of BAT SHIT huge gubbmint intervention loving republicans tried....and should be ridiculed as such along with the rest of the fucking morons who support their bullshit.

Are you sure it was the GOP? Remember, the GA legislature was run by Dems not all that long ago, and they might have been the ones passing the laws under which the woman was arrested.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Are you sure it was the GOP? Remember, the GA legislature was run by Dems not all that long ago, and they might have been the ones passing the laws under which the woman was arrested.

Do you think it was a bunch of pro-choice abortion loving flaming liberal democrats that tried to prosecute this woman for an abortion??

Do you think it was a bunch of pro-choice abortion loving flaming liberal democrats that passed an anti abortion law in a state largely comprised of HIGHLY religious fundamentalist Christian republicans who have fought against abortion for over 50 years up and to the point of firebombing clinics?

REALLY???

I want you to sit here and tell me a blood red bible belt state in the deep south has gone off the deep end with an anti abortion shit storm cluster fuck was because so many pro life democrats started it.

Please.....be that fucking stupid.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Do you think it was a bunch of pro-choice abortion loving flaming liberal democrats that tried to prosecute this woman for an abortion??

Do you think it was a bunch of pro-choice abortion loving flaming liberal democrats that passed an anti abortion law in a state largely comprised of HIGHLY religious fundamentalist Christian republicans who have fought against abortion for over 50 years up and to the point of firebombing clinics?

I doubt there are very many "abortion loving" individuals, either GOP or Dem. Those of us who are pro choice see abortion as sometimes being the least bad of several bad choices, but we don't love abortions.

REALLY???

I want you to sit here and tell me a blood red bible belt state in the deep south has gone off the deep end with an anti abortion shit storm cluster fuck was because so many pro life democrats started it.

Please.....be that fucking stupid.

I don't know exactly what the law said before Roe v. Wade, but I would bet anything there was a law against abortions in GA until then. Before 1973, Dems. controlled the legislature, so they would have been the ones who passed the anti-abortion laws in the first place.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I doubt there are very many "abortion loving" individuals, either GOP or Dem. Those of us who are pro choice see abortion as sometimes being the least bad of several bad choices, but we don't love abortions.

They love access to them......it absolutely makes no sense for them to suddenly start doing everything they can to prosecute women for abortions, that's an insane idea.

This a right wing conservative move....TheoCon bullshit wanting huge gubbmitn all up everyone's ass.

I don't know exactly what the law said before Roe v. Wade, but I would bet anything there was a law against abortions in GA until then. Before 1973, Dems. controlled the legislature, so they would have been the ones who passed the anti-abortion laws in the first place.

Yea 50+ years ago they used to control the entire south....welcome to 2015 they have all been calling themselves Republicans for quite some time now.

The deep south (that includes GA) has NEVER even been a shade of lefty liberal progressives regardless of the ever changing titles as conservatives try to run from their embarrassment. Same huge gubbmint all up in private affairs especially and above all others the bedroom/doctors office theoCons they have ALWAYS been.

 

[phrodeau]

They love access to them......it absolutely makes no sense for them to suddenly start doing everything they can to prosecute women for abortions, that's an insane idea.

This a right wing conservative move....TheoCon bullshit wanting huge gubbmitn all up everyone's ass.



Yea 50+ years ago they used to control the entire south....welcome to 2015 they have all been calling themselves Republicans for quite some time now.

The deep south (that includes GA) has NEVER even been a shade of lefty liberal progressives regardless of the ever changing titles as conservatives try to run from their embarrassment. Same huge gubbmint all up in private affairs especially and above all others the bedroom/doctors office theoCons they have ALWAYS been.

Abortions were probably legal for slaveholders, though. If you own the bitch, you can kill the puppies.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Abortions were probably legal for slaveholders, though. If you own the bitch, you can kill the puppies.

Exactly......

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"

By all men we mean white, property owning good Christian men.....because fuck everyone else, bunch of godless fuckin' savages!!

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"If he impregnates the female, he owns her body, her life, her children, and her future."

Is this the future, for women in the United States ?

It is clear, that the Far Right Religious Fundamentals want to outlaw birth control and abortion rights.

Giving a rapist the right to stop a woman from getting an abortion, is a very direct message.

They have been shouting "Right to Life," for a very long time.

The Sanctity of a Fertilized Egg VS Human Rights for Women

The power and might of Sperm compels you?

 

[Boxlicker101]

They love access to them......it absolutely makes no sense for them to suddenly start doing everything they can to prosecute women for abortions, that's an insane idea.

This a right wing conservative move....TheoCon bullshit wanting huge gubbmitn all up everyone's ass.



Yea 50+ years ago they used to control the entire south....welcome to 2015 they have all been calling themselves Republicans for quite some time now.

The deep south (that includes GA) has NEVER even been a shade of lefty liberal progressives regardless of the ever changing titles as conservatives try to run from their embarrassment. Same huge gubbmint all up in private affairs especially and above all others the bedroom/doctors office theoCons they have ALWAYS been.

The laws against abortion were a lot more than 50 years ago, and all those in the Deep South were put in place by Democrats.

All politicians like to tell people what to do; it's one of the reasons they became politicians. Libs are probably worse than Cons, especially in telling people what they can eat or drink or read or think, but not by much.

 

[BotanyBoy]

The laws against abortion were a lot more than 50 years ago, and all those in the Deep South were put in place by Super religious southern 'conservative' Democrats.....aka neoCon's better known as todays GOP or Republicans.

FYP.

All politicians like to tell people what to do; it's one of the reasons they became politicians.

So why all the denial from the RW? Why all the talk of "limited Government!!" and "States rights!!" lmao bunch of fuckin LIARS. They god damn LOVE HUGE GOVERNMENT and they want it all up in everyone's shit as deep as they can get it.

Libs are probably worse than Cons,

Based upon what?

especially in telling people what they can eat or drink or read or think, but not by much.

Liberals tell people what to think? LOL name one law.....or is this more of your "Freedom of speech means freedom of criticism of my political views!!" bullshit?

Oh how about laws that tell people who and how they are allowed to fuck?? Oh nope that's republicans....

What about laws that tell people what they can and cannot consume for recreational reasons? Nope that's republicans again...

How about what music they can listen to....who bans Marilyn Manson concerts? That's right...Republicans.

You see I can keep flipping this shit on you all day long....your whole "not by much." bit? Is a load of shit....the RW/GOP/Republicans of today are every bit the power hungry control freaks the DNC/LW/Democrats are, put the Kool-Aid down.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

“In no way, shape or form is a 20-week fetus viable. There’s no evidence of a 20-week fetus surviving, even with intensive medical care.”

–American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Executive Vice President Hal Lawrence, quoted in a news article, May 13, 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...measuring-fetal-age-and-the-20-week-abortion/

Despite medical advances (state of the art) that now help more preemies survive, the rates of serious disabilities afflicting these babies have remain unchanged. If a very premature baby can survive for a few weeks or a few months before passing away, for instance, does that still count as “viable”?


http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/05/07/3656209/new-study-viability/

There was a stench released when the secret about the Susan G. Komen Foundation
was broken open. So much money was made available to prop up Republican candidates and Republican political activity. Pinkwashing started to look ugly when the truth came to light.

Republicans assisted the demise of women's health clinics, because they could source tax payers money and fund fake women's health clinics.

Republicans formed an alliance with manufacturers of ultrasound equipment, medical office equipment, and medical supplies. Plenty of people who support the anti-choice movement are eager to send money to an alternative to Planned Parenthood.

There are plenty of doctors willing to prop up the Republican party and the plan to protect every fertilized egg. What a wonderful new market, for all those newly minted surgeons specializing in fetal surgery. Jobs for doctors working toward advances in rescuing barely viable fetuses.

Somewhere, someone is dreaming about monetizing fetuses.

The private prisons are rewarding their investors and stock holders, well. Plenty of jobs created for prison guards and the businesses that supply the prison system. The profits will skyrocket once women can be jailed for a miscarriage of a fertilized egg.

June 10, 2015

The murder charge against a Georgia woman who ended her pregnancy by taking abortion pills has been dropped, Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards said Wednesday.

Kenlissia Jones, 23, gave birth in a car on the way to the hospital after taking the drugs. The child died 30 minutes later, a family member said. She had been jailed and charged with murder in its death.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...o-get-an-abortion-the-legal-way-brother-says/

MARCH 6, 2013

Arkansas Adopts a Ban on Abortions After 12 weeks


MAY 27, 2015

Federal Appeals Court Blocks Arkansas Ban On Abortion After 12 Weeks

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has blocked an Arkansas law that bans abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The case was filed by two doctors on their own and their patients' behalf.

The court's ruling notes:

"By banning abortions after 12 weeks' gestation, the Act prohibits women from making the ultimate decision to terminate a pregnancy at a point before viability. Because the State made no attempt to refute the plaintiffs' assertions of fact, the district court's summary judgment order must be affirmed."


In recent weeks, Arkansas lawmakers have approved a bill banning most abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy as well as a bill that doubles the period a woman must wait before undergoing an abortion, to two days.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...t-blocks-arkansas-ban-on-abortion-at-12-weeks

 

[LadyVer]

The GOP is good for one thing. Shutting that whole thing down.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Tell me, again, how all the rights that women had, were handed to them by kind and powerful men.


Saturday 13 June 2015

A granddaughter of an original suffragette was welcomed into a Kingston school this month.

Eleanor Redshaw spoke to history students about her relative Eleanor Beatrice Higginson at Canbury School last Friday.

She brought along suffragette items to show year 9 students, who were given the chance to look at the 100-year-old artefacts up close.

Many of them got to try on the bloodied Votes for Women sash – with stains which supposedly came from a suffragette standing beside Mrs Higginson who had teeth knocked out by police at the time.

Headteacher Louise Clancy said: “Stories of chaining themselves to railings, being beaten by the police, force fed by prison wardens, trampled on by horses and dying as well as being snubbed by the King of England – what a lesson. Our students loved it.”


http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/1...istory_talk_to_students_at_a_Kingston_school/

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

A woman's worst nightmare? That's pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, "They are afraid women will laugh at them." When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, "We're afraid of being killed."

http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/articles/nightmare.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

06/13/15

Iowa

Authorities released the name of the woman who was killed in a shooting at Coral Ridge Mall Friday night.

She was shot in the back three times.

The incident took place about 7:30 p.m. Friday near the food court area of the mall.

A cousin told the Press-Citizen the 22 year old security guard at the mall had been harassing the young woman for at least six weeks. She reportedly had complained to his superiors with mall security about unwanted advances he had made toward her.

A memorial service for Farrington is scheduled for 9:30 Sunday morning at the Children’s Museum. The mall has been closed since the shooting but Johnson County Attorney Janet Lyness says mall officials plan to reopen on Sunday.


http://www.1630kcjj.com/Officials-Release-Name-of-Victim-in-Coral-Ridge-Ma/21632324


Part of the young woman's responsibilities included staffing the Children's Museum's kiosk near the carousel at the mall's north entrance. It's a job that requires being friendly and informative as mall patrons ask questions about the museum, the mall or the region in general, Dunkhase said.

http://www.press-citizen.com/story/...-harassed-victim-family-member-says/71184502/

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

He ended her life. He killed her. He shot her body to death.

The man being held for the murder of a woman at the Coral Ridge Mall on Friday has ties to Northeast Iowa.

According to his father-in-law, suspected shooter Alexander M. Kozak of North Liberty “spent some time here,” and met his daughter, Kellie, in this area. He said Kozak changed his name when he married his daughter.

“I am not really sure why” he was in Mitchell County, said Ken Kozak of Stacyville. He could not confirm Alex Kozak attended school in the area and said he was originally from Texas. He said Alex Kozak changed his name becuase he had an unhappy relationship with his father.

Many, however, believe Kozak, 22, is the former Alexander Winn, a 2011 Osage High School graduate. His Facebook page does not list any schools or a past address in Osage, but does list several Osage friends. A Mitchell County Press-News graduation section had Alex Winn featured as one of the graduates in 2011.

Jordan Durbin, 22, of Manly, also a graduate of the class of 2011, told the Globe Gazette she remembered Kozak as a quiet classmate who moved to Osage in middle school and kept to a small group of friends.

“We just had a couple of classes together. We didn’t talk to each other that much,” said Durbin.

Ken Kozak said he had little information about the case and that his wife, Deb, was with their daughter at North Liberty.

Several witness on the scene identified Kozak as the shooter and reported that he had fled the scene in a blue Kia Optima bearing Texas license plates. The car was stopped on Interstate 80 by an Iowa state trooper and Scott County Sheriff's officer about 8:30 p.m., and Kozak was taken into custody, according to the statement.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

He had constitutional rights, but she did not have any rights ?

Alex Kozak — who is currently being held on $10 million bail — is married to Kellie Kozak, who recently posted pictures on her Facebook page of a visit to Costco where her husband can be seen carrying a sidearm. According to his father-in-law, Kozak didn’t always carry a weapon, saying, “If circumstances were that it’d be best not to have a weapon present, he didn’t have a problem with that.”

Police say that the 22-year-old Kozak left the mall and went to his home and retrieved a 9mm Glock handgun before retuning and shooting Farrington late Friday night.


A selection of postings from Kozak’s Facebook page — many pulled from Right Wing News

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/iow...led-sexual-harassment-complaints-against-him/


In a Facebook post, Alex's wife Kellie described a trip to Costco during which employees saw her husband open carrying and first asked him to conceal his weapon, then told him weapons were not allowed. "Though they technically have no legal right, NO SIGN, AND neither the desk girl, welcomer, nor anyone else we saw on our way through said anything, we comply, because we're nice people," she said.

https://m.facebook.com/ParentsAgainstGunViolence?refsrc=http://www.google.com/url&_err

"I will never be returning, and the Costco Cult better hope there's never real trouble, because they won't have anyone to defend them."

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"...said her cousin had complained to her about Kozak — saying several times that he had engaged in disturbing behavior toward her for at least the past six weeks.

Dayton said her cousin told her Kozak would stare at her while she was working, leave notes on her car and "just be scary and weird."

"She was scared that he knew so much about her," Dayton said.


http://www.press-citizen.com/story/...-harassed-victim-family-member-says/71184502/

Kozak had been a security guard at the mall but was fired earlier in the day due to complaints of sexual harassment of store employees. It’s believed he targeted the woman, who reportedly worked at the Iowa Children’s Museum, because her complaint was the last in a series and led to his firing.

 

[LadyVer]

I hope he gets the death penalty.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I hope he gets the death penalty.

great way to waste money

 

[LadyVer]

I was thinking it would be cheaper in the long run. He's 22. Execution would save the taxpayers more. It will be interesting to see how the lawsuit by the family evolves.