'Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property' [View all]

[Jrose]

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Some key quotes from the order in which Judge Robert McBurney struck down Georgia’s extremely restrictive abortion ban:

"Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote.

…..the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. 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.

…liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices."

(Reported by Chris Stein, The Guardian)