Proposed Georgia Law Would Let Employers Fire Women Who Get An Abortion..

[TheMastersNemesis]

It gets crazier by the day with the anti abortion crowd. Based on an Alternet article woman arrested for protesting the proposed law. Why stop there. Fire women who use birth control or have sex outside of marriage or who cheat on their spouse. The psychopathic nut cases are making things up faster than one can respond to them.

Burning at the stake is probably next. Stoning, drawing and quartering et al. How long will it before people get in the face of the bastards and shout them down.

[RKP5637]

1. The voters need to tell them to fuck off, but sadly many voters are brainwashed! n/t

[KamaAina]

2. "or who cheat on their spouse"

This is already legal in Georgia, and many other states -- if the spouse is also a woman. No cheating required.

[LiberalAndProud]

3. How will this work? How well will it integrate with HIPAA constraints?

Seems a gross invasion of privacy, but what do I know.

[HereSince1628]

15. Many companies self-insure...so claims for paymentr health services actually go to the company

to be processed and paid.

At least that's how I remember it was explained a while back when a similar topic was discussed.

[LiberalFighter]

19. A third party or the company can handle the administration.

They still have to comply with HIPAA which limits how they can use the information when they have the required access.

[Hoyt]

4. Ignorant/punitive law, but I bet yahoo employers could - and did - fire them before.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. Why did we fight to keep these states in the Union?

[hifiguy]

6. These pig-ignorant duck-fuckers need to be

stuffed into a time machine and sent back to Salem, where they can burn witches to their heart's content.

[sadoldgirl]

7. Since abortion is legal in the US,

How can that be legal as well?

[Romeo.lima333]

10. how? georgia is an employment at will state

[Romeo.lima333]

8. georgia is an "at will" state with regards to employment

the voters are to blame for letting animals into the government. sucks for the people stuck there

[cali]

9. Here's a link to the article

http://www.alternet.org/gender/georgia-women-arrested-protesting-bill-would-let-employers-fire-women-whove-had-abortion

[CurtEastPoint]

11. Sponsored by the same igno-fucker that did the 'religious freedom' bill bullshit.

http://www.alternet.org/gender/georgia-women-arrested-protesting-bill-would-let-employers-fire-women-whove-had-abortion

[shenmue]

12. This is crazy

[Warpy]

13. I have no idea why reasonable people don't shout the fanatics down

I don't know whether it's a phony Christian solidarity or whether it's superstition against shouting down a self appointed man of gawd or whether it's just fear. I imagine it might be a combination of all three.

Those fuckers want to push us back to the twelfth century just like ISIS does and with most of the same laws.

If we don't manage to figure out how to fight them, they will.

[LittleBlue]

14. How could the employer prove it?

Since the SCOTUS ruled medical records are private, how would the employer prove it? A woman being fired could just take them to court for wrongful termination even if the law is passed, right? Then the employer couldn't offer a defense without the medical records.

Utterly bizarre law that stands zero chance of success. Only backwards fuckwads could concoct something like this

[Trillo]

17. Why would they need to prove anything?

The purpose is harassment, fear, and lack of privacy.

[Runningdawg]

23. OK is a right to work state

employers here don't need to give any reason for firing someone, so nothing needs to be proven in court. There is NO such thing as wrongful termination. The boss is always right.

[Trillo]

16. A lot of those people think having an open marriage is cheating too.

Or polyamory, where everyone knows and agrees --- also cheating. Neither of those instances has anything to do with adultery or deception, but it's bad bad bad.

It seems they want to interject themselves into every other persons' friend/relationships no matter what. I really don't get it, unless it's just a couple of twisted minds leading and a great mass of very stupid or a smaller mass of stupid and vocal people following.

[lpbk2713]

18. "Shoot boy. Let's just make it a law. The heck with the Constitution."

How the hell do these ignoramuses get elected without knowing
the basic fundamantals of ninth grade Civics Class?

[bettyellen]

20. Kick!

[gratuitous]

21. Now, now; say it again:

There is NO Republican war on women. Can't imagine why that idea keeps getting traction with you libruls. The Georgia lege is just trying to protect the job creators from getting icky abortion cooties.

Several years ago, a woman wrote to Dear Abby or Ann Landers about her ladyparts health. She had had a miscarriage early in a pregnancy. She experienced pain and cramping for a while afterwards, and went in to see her doctor, who determined that her miscarriage hadn't been complete. He did a dilation and curettage procedure so she wouldn't be in pain, and might get pregnant again. Later on, she was in for a gynecological exam, and another doctor reviewing her chart noticed the D&C, and remarked, "Oh, I see you had an abortion." The woman was horribly upset that her procedure was, medically speaking, an abortion, and wanted to know if she could get her medical record changed to reflect her very strong views against abortion.

As I recall Dear Abby-or-Ann sympathized with the woman, and advised her to ask her doctor about re-classifying her procedure so that it wouldn't be an abortion. In my opinion, Dear Abby-or-Ann should have taken the opportunity to say, "Honey, this is why abortion rights are so important for every woman, even the ones who don't think they'd ever have one. Would you prefer to live in terrible pain the rest of your life, never able to have a child?"

This is your democracy, Georgia. Cherish it.

[mountain grammy]

22. Sharia law....