Tennessee Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Allow Fathers To Veto Abortions

[sarchasm]

A bill introduced in the Tennessee General Assembly this week would allow a man who gets a woman pregnant to request an injunction barring her from having an abortion.

The legislation, SB0494 in the Senate and HB1079 in the House, would require a court hearing to be held within 14 days of a petition being filed by the individual seeking an injunction.

At the hearing, if the man can prove that he is the biological father and that there is a “reasonable probability” that the woman would obtain an abortion, the court shall issue an injunction prohibiting her from terminating the pregnancy. Proof of parenthood requires only that the petitioner acknowledges paternity. A DNA test is not required.

If the woman violates the injunction by obtaining an abortion, the court may hold her in civil or criminal contempt. There are no exceptions for rape or incest.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tennessee-lawmakers-introduce-bill-allow-fathers-veto-abortions_n_6025ae58c5b6f88289fa797a

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. No words...

[SheltieLover]

2. If men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!

[Irish_Dem]

9. And you could get one at every bar.

[SheltieLover]

15. Or pharmacy or...

[Irish_Dem]

16. Or tattoo parlor

Hi Sheltie!
You should call me MaltieLover, since my dog is a little Maltese!

[SheltieLover]

17. Awwwww I'll bet your Malti is a doll!

[Irish_Dem]

18. He is a doll baby, but a 6 lb boss of the world.

Very vocal and connected to people.
A large personality in a small package.

[Walleye]

3. The rapist protection law

[Laelth]

4. Oh, for Heaven's sake.

The TN legislature is WAY out of step with the majority of the people who live in the state. I am certain that TN isn’t even close to being this backwards.



-Laelth

[CrispyQ]

5. I can hardly read this article through the anger I'm feeling.

When are the pro-choice groups going to wake up & start adding the Thirteenth Amendment to our arsenal in this fight for women's autonomy?

2010
Forced Labor, Revisited: The Thirteenth Amendment and Abortion
Andrew Koppelman
Northwestern University School of Law, [e-mail]

https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1031&context=facultyworkingpapers

snip...

I. The basic argument The Thirteenth Amendment reads as follows:

1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

My claim is that the amendment is violated by laws that prohibit abortion. When women are compelled to carry and bear children, they are subjected to "involuntary servitude" in violation of the amendment. Abortion prohibitions violate the Amendment's guarantee of personal liberty, because forced pregnancy and childbirth, by compelling the woman to serve the fetus, creates "that control by which the personal service of one man [sic] is disposed of or coerced for another's benefit which is the essence of involuntary servitude."6

Such laws violate the amendment's guarantee of equality, because forcing women to be mothers makes them into a servant caste, a group which, by virtue of a status of birth, is held subject to a special duty to serve others and not themselves.

Parents can't be forced to donate their organs to their child, even to save the child's life. Why does a fetus have more claim on a woman's body than her child who has been born?

THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION A WOMAN CAN MAKE ISN'T YOURS.

[niyad]

10. I am with you. It seems an obvious argument. Except that the gestational slavers do not see

women as actual people, but rather as brood mares, chattel.

[NoMoreRepugs]

6. RePutinican legislators are abhorrent people.

[niyad]

7. The WAR ON WOMEN continues apace. Thank you so much for posting this disturbing and

important piece.

[Ilsa]

8. Any man filing request for an injunction should be required to post

a $5million CD for the medical costs and other costs of raising that child. We know

TN trying to tie victims and their children to rapists forever.

If I was of childbearing age, I'd move out of TN if I lived there.

[empedocles]

11. Have to wonder if Tenn. legislative geniuses are still pushing the periodic

Scopes-Monkey, Creationism, stuff?

[mopinko]

12. well, at least they have cut to the chase.

this is what it has always been about.

but why they waste tax dollars on this nonsense is a mystery to me. not.

[GopherGal]

13. And no man can get a prescription for Viagra

without his wife's written approval, right?

[Srkdqltr]

14. Can they do dna match to a father before the childs birth?

Just asking.