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    Women are not ‘community property,’ a Georgia judge rules


    Women are not ‘community property,’ a Georgia judge rules

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/01/abortion-georgia-six-week-judge/

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    5. sugarlessdeathbear on

      >“It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could — or should — force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another,” McBurney wrote. “… When someone other than the pregnant woman is able to sustain the fetus, then — and only then — should those other voices have a say in the discussion about the decisions the pregnant woman makes concerning her body and what is growing within it.”

      The best part.

    7. Boxofmagnets on

      This:

      “It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could — or should — force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another,” McBurney wrote. “…

      It is worse than that. A man can’t be forced to give his newborn child a drop of his blood because such a requirement would be an affront to his personal autonomy.

    8. Apprehensive-Care20z on

      the Supreme Court of the United States of America will overturn that ruling.

    9. SpringEleanor on

      I don’t want any more women to suffer and die like Amber Thurman and Candi Miller and any other women we don’t know about. The state has no right to tell women what to do with their bodies.

      Thank you, Judge McBurney.

    10. SpringEleanor on

      That quote from Kemp makes my blood boil. “The will of Georgians has been overturned” fuck right off. I don’t remember voting for this barbaric shit. The lack of any sort of ballot initiative access for the actual citizens of the state is so frustrating.

      Vote your GOP state rep out of office if you can.

    11. Necessary_Row_1261 on

      Looks like a very unusual for a Republican appointed judge to write and do. I hope more have the courage to do the right thing and come out of this religious BS.

    15. mintyfollower on

      A Georgia judge’s ruling striking down the state’s six-week abortion ban isn’t likely to last. The case is headed to the Georgia Supreme Court, where eight of nine justices were appointed by a Republican governor, and which has reinstated the abortion law once before, when the same judge struck it down.

      But the opinion, by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, is worth paying attention to even if it is destined to be overturned. It offers one of the most compelling and straightforward defenses of the right to abortion that I have encountered in decades of writing about this issue.

      Judicial writing about abortion tends to be fuzzy about the law and apologetic about the procedure, as in this famous passage from the now-overruled Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.”