I found out today about Alaska Rep. Alan Dick (R-Dick): "Women Need Paternal Permission for An Abortion". You know, because us "bitches be crazy" (thank you Amy Poehler) ladies can't possibly function unless a man is telling us what to do. And the aptly named Rep. DICK is paving the way for the wayward ladies.
I have been to his Facebook page several times and already had my comments magically "scrubbed out". Hmmm. Please feel free to go to his Facebook page and add your own thoughts. I mean, he is a busy and important man and hearing from you will only aid him in his quest to do for women what they cannot do for themselves. Mainly, regulate their own bodies. Women would rather go shopping, right?
From: angryblacklady.com:
"State Representative Alan Dick (the jokes write themselves) doesn’t think that a woman’s pregnancy is really “her pregnancy” and would have “a little more peace” about this nasty abortion business if the impregnator was required to consent to the impregnatee’s decision to terminate the pregnancy.
[I]f you’re not fully convinced yet that Alaska is the next front in the GOP’s war on women, you just have to listen to State Rep. Alan Dick. He said that he doesn’t believe that when a woman is pregnant, it’s really “her pregnancy.” As a matter of fact, he would advocate for criminalizing women who have an abortion without the permission via written signature from the man who impregnated her. He stated, “If I thought that the man’s signature was required… required, in order for a woman to have an abortion, I’d have a little more peace about it…”
No word on exactly how much more peace Dick would have about it. My guess is not much.
Also, no word on what women who become pregnant as a result of rape are supposed to do in Dick’s perfect world. Maybe women should carry waiver forms on them at all times. You know — just in case."
And from cognitivedissonance.tumblr.com:
Dear Rep. Dick,
As a woman cursed with the unfortunate condition of having a female brain and a reproductive system, I am apparently unable to comprehend your lofty logic. So I have a question for you. I know this is incredibly insolent of me to question your male authority, but here goes:
If I am in Alaska, attend a social function with alcohol unaccompanied by a man, get my drink spiked, am brutally gang-raped, and become pregnant as a result, would I need to get the signatures of ALL rapists before choosing to abort? Or could I get just one? Would getting a DNA test help? Or should I just choose to throw myself down the stairs a few times in hopes of inducing miscarriage like women in my grandmother’s generation did?
I KNOW this is unlikely to happen, BUT I wish to make sure all my bases are covered, regardless of which state I choose to visit or make my home. Thank you for clearing up this issue, and thank you for thinking for me and taking control of women’s bodies. IT’S JUST SO HARD, Y’KNOW? Thinking gives me the vapors!
Now, I must get back in the kitchen and make my husband a sandwich. Hope he doesn’t get me pregnant, since I’m currently barefoot! That’s how babies are made, right? I’m not sure since legislators like you took sex ed away when I was in high school.
And yes, I’m being sarcastic.
Cheers,
Meg Lanker-Simons