Showing posts with label hb4085. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hb4085. Show all posts

Friday, March 23, 2012

Illinois State Rep Joseph M. Lyons is super-mad his Rape Wand Bill isn't being fast tracked

Joe Lyons who proposed Illinois HB 4085 is demanding 5 Illinois Representatives withdraw their amendments and co-sponsor his Rape Wand Bill.

The Bill made it through the Illinois Agricultural Committee 11-2, but since then it has been saddled with 5 Amendments. Joe Lyons addressed the Illinois House and said of the amendments, “That’s what you call, ladies and gentlemen, a hostile amendment to kill a bill.” Lyons asked the lawmakers to withdraw their amendments and simply debate the bill in the full House.

Lyons' bill is euphemistically called the UltraSound Opportunity Act, which gives Doctors the glorius "Opportunity" to shove a transvaginal probe all up inside the dirty, dirty, ladyparts of sluts, errr abortion seekers.

Lyons, is a Democrat but he's also a devout Catholic, having attended DePaul University for his Bachleror's and Master's Degrees. However, the co-sponsors of his bill included 13 Republicans and only 4 Democrats and of the 19 only 3 are women.

This just goes beyond disgusting. Republicans joined by these zealous Democratic religious fanatics are imposing the power of Government onto Americans. Sadly, it appears the Doctors are going to have to bear the burden of resisting unjust laws because if there's one truism of conservatives it's that they love the power of Big Government when that power is used to oppress people and violate Americans' civil rights.

Fortunately, there very well may be a resistance by Physicans into being made the Tools of Right-Wing Oppressors. From the blog Whatever by John Scalzi comes this guest post by an Anonymous Doctor;
Fellow physicians, once again we are being used as tools to screw people over. This time, it’s the politicians who want to use us to implement their morally reprehensible legislation. They want to use our ultrasound machines to invade women’s bodies, and they want our hands to be at the controls. Coerced and invaded women, you have a problem with that? Blame us evil doctors. We are such deliciously silent scapegoats.

It is our responsibility, as always, to protect our patients from things that would harm them. Therefore, as physicians, it is our duty to refuse to perform a medical procedure that is not medically indicated. Any medical procedure. Whatever the pseudo-justification.
It’s time for a little old-fashioned civil disobedience.
This brave Doctor may be willing to do what the pseudo-Oathkeepers only claimed to aspire to, which is resist an unjust law which seeks to humiliate, shame, degrade, punish and reduce women to the status of second-class citizens devoid even of the basic right to control their own bodies.

Related:
Illinois Representatives think Women are Farm Animals [Disaffected and it Feels So Good]

Friday, February 24, 2012

Illinois Representatives think Women are Farm Animals

"Illinois Nazis..."
"I hate Illinois Nazis." ~ The Blues Brothers.
The gross Republican Party and Repressive Right-Wingers continue their Nationwide assault on Women.

Conservatives, as a whole, view Government as evil and oppressive. This is because when Right-Wingers get into office the only thing they try to do is Oppress People.

Illinois, now joins the growing list of States in which legislation to shame, degrade and humiliate women by Raping them is being forced through.

Conservatives are pro-rape. They are also crafty, evil and devious. There are two politically motivated bills designed to limit women’s access to abortion. Illinois HB 4117 encompasses the tactic of changing certain building requirements mandating the size of the hallways, spaces between each electrical outlet and other minutiae plus making all Illinois abortion clinics full ambulatory surgical care centers in an effort to make current clinics "out of code" and thus forcing their closure.

But, Illinois HB 4085, is titled Ultrasound Opportunity Act It provides women the opportunity to submit themselves to a Transvaginal Ultrasound.

The bill was heard before the Illinois House Agriculture Committee. A Bill requiring women submit to a a vaginal Rape Wand being conducted in a committee that deals with livestock and farming. As Illinois Rep. Deborah Mell, a Chicago Democrat, asked, "We're not talking about abortions for cows and pigs, right? We're talking about women?" So forget second-class citizens! Could Right-Wingers be anymore blatant that they consider women little more than chattel?

After being told to submit themselves to Rape, the rape victim would be forced to decline in writing by filling out numerous forms and paperwork.

The bill was filed by State Rep. Joseph M. Lyons, D-Chicago. Joseph's bio indicates he got his higher education, both bachelors and masters at DePaul University. So, clearly this again falls under the Catholic Church and a religious freak trying to impose his religious views upon women. Looking at the Bill's co-sponsors Lyons is joined by 5 Democratic men and 10 Republican men and 3 Republican women. So, of the 19 sponsors 3 are women. Here's you Patriarchy strong at work in Springfield.

Government is not the problem. Right-Wingers in Government are the problem.