Girls Just Wanna Have.. Fundamental Rights?

I consider myself to be an informed person; staying up on current events, reading the paper, making informed decisions when voting, etc. So that is why I am so surprised that I hadn't heard about Personhood being voted on again in CO & ND until I was scrolling through twitter yesterday. In case you are as clueless as me, Personhood is an amendment in ND and CO that would give unborn fetus' the same human rights as, well, humans.

The proposed law reads so that if, for example, a mother and her unborn baby are killed - there would be two murder charges. This is great. This isn't the only impact that this proposed amendment will have.

Women would not have access to birth control; morning after, daily pills, IUDs, etc. No access to abortions (under any circumstances). Women would have to potentially travel out-of-state to receive fertility treatments. Why? Because according to some 'children are begotten, not made' and 'in IVF, children are created in a glass dish and not through the act of love'. This is where I get a little heated. Some politician is going to tell thousands and thousands of women (and men)(and me) that when going through fertility treatments there isn't love? That might be the biggest load of crap I've ever heard. Why on earth would anyone subject themselves to the pokes, prods, pricks and agony - the only reason I can come up with is love.

It blows my mind that time and time again it feels like we're taking steps backwards. Taking rights away from people (women) instead of granting new rights and being a progressive nation.

If this amendment passes tomorrow - it would be a huge blow to women's rights.

Below are a few links that I read and were pretty informative. Also, there's a Fresh Air (NPR) from 2013 debating this same issue. Enjoy.

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Fresh Air