The presumption that women are idiots, part seven thousand

South Dakota Abortion Script Goes Into Effect
Place me somewhere around hopping mad. Hopping.
The legislation which goes into effect immediately, since its hold has been overturned, requires doctors to read a script to a woman seeking an abortion no sooner than two hours before the procedure. The script is intended to do nothing less than guilt, shame, and humiliate women who are already, doubtless, in one of the worst places in their lives. It includes passages about the "constitutional rights" and a "constitutional relationship" with the fetus that will be "terminated." Constitutional rights? Like, THE RIGHT TO YOUR OWN BODY? Because yeah, women have that still, despite your best efforts, you fucking bastards.

Defenders of the measure like the script because it provides women with a "broad spectrum of information." Including, you know, the wrong and unhelpful kinds.

Never mind that fewer than 700 abortions a year happen in SD anyway. Never mind that hearing this script after coming to a painful and difficult solution with one's doctor could send harmful mixed messages about what the doctor thinks is best. Never mind the blatant intrusion of the outside world into a privileged space, the doctor's office. Never mind that no woman on the face of this earth is stupid or reckless enough to not "understand" the consequences of an abortion (No baby. Ok, we get it.).

Can you imagine a law like this being passed and upheld if it had anything to do with men's bodies? If they were required to run the gauntlet to get their tubes tied or ask for a Viagra prescription? Absolutely fucking not. Because the assumption, as always, is that women are somehow deficient in knowledge, the ability to make rational decisions, and accountability. This shit is blatantly unethical and makes me physically ill. Excuse me while I skulk to the kitchen to nurse my crippling depression with something greasy.