Frauen sind kein „Gemeinschaftseigentum“, urteilt ein Richter aus Georgia

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That attitude is really going to piss off a lot of Republicans.

>“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.

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.

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.

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.

Thanks judge, I guess. Still nauseous that this needs explaining in 2024.

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.”

“Yet.” -Project 2025

This was a question?? Oh.. Georgia.. Right.. Never mind..

So I’m guessing that MAGA nuts are going to claim this is oppressive against their religion because the bible has several passages which aren’t very subtle about the female’s supposed role in life.

And their local clergy wouldn’t be shy about sharing those passages.