Hi everyone, I hope you’re all well. So, there has been a bit of..unusual activity
on feminist Twitter over the past week, driven by, of course, uber feminist and noted victicrat
Alyssa Milano. On the 10th of May, dear Alyssa tweeted this image, accompanied by a characteristically
histrionic caption.
Our reproductive rights are being erased.
Until women have legal control over our own bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy.
JOIN ME by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back.
I’m calling for a #SexStrike. Pass it on.”
This would seem a bit of an odd thing for a third or fourth wave feminist to tweet.
After all, modern feminism tends to be what you’d call sex positive; throwing off the
shackles of women’s previous sexual repression, fighting against shaming women for their activity
between the sheets, and claiming autonomy over their bodies when doing the horizontal
tango. A sex strike just seems so…second wave.
So why has she called for this? Well, before I tell you, make sure you hit that subscribe
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So! Back to Alyssa and her sex strike. What she is protesting with this threat of voluntary
celibacy is Georgia’s new and rather stringent termination of pregnancy law.
Georgia governor Brian Kemp has signed into law something called a “heartbeat bill”,
which bans abortion any time after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is usually
at 5 or 6 weeks of pregnancy. It will come into effect in January next year, and is what
you’d call some of the most comprehensive reproductive legislation you can initiate.
Needless to say, the pro-choice extremists are all up in arms about this, and have been
for some time. In fact, this isn’t the first time Hollywood has made its opinions known
about this issue.
In March, Alyssa Milano organised a letter from Hollywood professionals threatening to
boycott the state of Georgia when it came to filming, unless they ceased progress on
this heartbeat bill. Among those who signed it, aside for Alyssa, were Alec Baldwin, Christina
Applegate, Ben Stiller, and of course, Amy Schumer.
Now, if you’re going to protest anything, this isn’t a bad way to do it. Hitting someone
in the wallet is a good way to get their attention, it’s totally no violent, and has probably
more of an effect because it’s harder to dismiss than a noisy protest. Nevertheless,
the bill went ahead.
I have to comment though the arrogance of those actors, I mean did they really think
they were so important that their threating to boycott would stop a change in the law?
I’m not sure how many films are filmed in Georgia, but evidently, it’s not enough
to stay the Governor’s hand.
Now the bill has been signed, Hollywood peeps have largely abandoned this strategy, thankfully,
because all it would do would be to hurt people in the film industry already working in Georgia.
So, instead, the Sex Strike has been formed.
Now, there are a couple of things that have emerged from this. First is obviously the
Sex Strike, and the second is the abject hysteria with which a lot of the media has greeted
this Georgia heartbeat bill. Much fake news has unashamedly been spread, which I will
absolutely clarify soon. But first, I want to really point out the irony of a radically
pro-choice feminist calling for abstinence to protest abortion.
That’s what pro-life advocates have been suggesting forever. That is, in order to stop
abortion, people should stop having sex, at least, unless you want to get pregnant!
Yet here is Alyssa Milano, one of the queens of the pro-choice movement…suggesting women
stop having sex to stop abortion, well, at least abortions happening illegally under
the new laws. It’s like one giant troll, as a number of pro-life people pointed out
“Thanks for supporting abstinence @Alyssa_Milano, the number one way to prevent unintended pregnancy.
👏 #sexstrike”
I fully support this pro-life cause.
First time I’ve ever seen a pro-choicer advocate for personal responsibility. Kudos!
If y’all have a rally LMK I’ll be there
Pro-life here. Wholeheartedly in support of this.
It’s also, dare I say it, really quite sexist to both men and women. It perpetuates the
societal stigma that woman are vaguely frigid in the fact they are able to cope with long
periods of time without sex, and also the stigma that men are inherently sexually veracious,
are brought to their knees by lack of sex, and can be manipulated by women either granting
them sex or denying it to them. Which Twitter users have also pointed out
“Please stop feeding the narrative that women are providers and men are consumers
of sex. Bribing men for equal rights with access to our bodies is not how feminism works.”
This exactly. 1. Men are not the only ones who enjoy sex. 2. “Sex strikes” reinforce
the idea that our only value as women is our ability to provide gratification to men.
This makes it seem like sex is something women do as a favor to men; it also furthers the
misogynist theory that women should be shamed for liking sex at all. Sorry, @Alyssa_Milano,
but I hate this.
It is all just so funny.
Aside from that; poor Alyssa, who tries so so hard to do the right thing by every single
intersectional group, is again in trouble with the gender identarian squad.
“What if I don’t have sex with cisgender men? Does that make me a scab? I’m confused.”
“1. Erasing LGBTQIA folks from the discussion of abortion and centering solutions (if you
can call this a solution) around cis/heterosexual sex is counterproductive.”
As we can see, the proposed Sex Strike did not anywhere near have the universally positive
effect I’m sure Alyssa expected, or at least hoped for. My theory is she’s got all over
excited because of how prolific her #metoo was and is trying desperately to recreated
it. Girl, quit while you’re ahead! The internet waits for no one!
So, about this bill. What is it exactly? Well, before I tell you, let me make it clear that
I am not giving my opinion on the bill, or on pregnancy termination, or anything to do
with the emotional or ideological issues surrounding it. I have made videos on that topic already;
if you want my opinion on it feel free to look it up. This video is about the reaction
to the bill, and the extraordinary amount of fake news that has been spread about it.
In summary; the law not only prohibits abortion when the baby has a “detectable human heartbeat”
it declares the scientific, philosophical, and theological truth that an unborn child
is a “natural person” under state law.
In other words, it gives the child personhood, which is the exact opposite of what the New
York legislation did, which was to take personhood away from an unborn child. There are exceptions
to the law, which include the usual like sexual assault, incest, endangerment to the mother’s
life or a terrible risk to her physical functions, and a potential foetal anomaly or problem.
Now, this is tight legislation, so of course it was going to draw the ire of pro-choice
extremists. However, they have really outdone themselves this time. They are claiming that
the new legislation means that a woman can be prosecuted and gaoled and even get the
death penalty for having not just an abortion, but performing her own abortion and even miscarrying.
I mean, just look at these headlines.
This hysteria comes from the “personhood” factor in the bill. Naturally, these leftie
outlets took this to the extreme, and neglected to look up the facts surrounding this issue.
Because if they had, they would have very quickly realised that none pf this is the
case. On the subject of a woman allegedly going to gaol for performing her own abortion
or having a miscarriage, there are codes within the legislation that prevent this from happening.
There is a specific code section that applies to unlawful abortions. Georgia Code Section
16-12-140 states:
(a) A person commits the offense of criminal abortion when, in violation of Code Section
16-12-141 , which is the code that specifies the exemptions like sexual assault, incest,
etc, he or she administers any medicine, drugs, or other substance whatever to any woman or
when he or she uses any instrument or other means whatever upon any woman with intent
to produce a miscarriage or abortion.
(b) A person convicted of the offense of criminal abortion shall be punished by imprisonment
for not less than one nor more than ten years.
Two things on this. Clearly it does not specify life imprisonment; it states a prison sentence
of one to ten years. Secondly, it can’t be used to prosecute a woman for performing
her own abortion, or having a miscarriage because, to put it simply, it’s written
in the third person, and there’s case law to support this.
In Hillman v. State, the Court of Appeals of Georgia rejected the prosecution’s attempts
to imprison a woman who shot herself in the stomach to kill her unborn child. Interpreting
Section 16-12-140, it said, “This statute is written in the third person, clearly indicating
that at least two actors must be involved.” Accordingly, it “does not criminalize a
pregnant woman’s actions in securing an abortion, regardless of the means utilized.”
So…no dice on the fear mongering by the pro-choice extremists on this one. Furthermore,
the new legislation actually gives women some rights. If somebody tries to prosecute a woman
for an abortion, there are a number of defences she may mount. For example:
(e)(1) No abortion is authorized or shall be performed after the first trimester unless
the
147 abortion is performed in a licensed hospital, in a licensed ambulatory surgical center,
or
148 in a health facility licensed as an abortion facility by the Department of Community
149 Health. And it also has to be performed by a properly liscenced physician.
If an abortion is performed in violation of this code,
(g) Any woman upon whom an abortion is performed in violation of this Code section may
156 recover in a civil action from the person who engaged in such violation all damages
available to her under Georgia law for any torts.
In addition to that, it shall be an affirmative defence to prosecution under this article
if a licensed physician, registered nurse, or anyone else authorised to perform an abortion
provides medical treatment to a pregnant woman which results in the accidental or unintentional
injury to or death of an unborn child. Plus, if she reasonably believed that an abortion
was he only way to prevent a medical emergency, she can also use that as a defence.
So, while Georgia’s new laws are indeed, pretty tight, the fear mongering being spread
on the internet and in the media about it is simply fake news. So if you see anything
else about the whole thing online, be sure to bear that in mind.