After North Carolina’s approval last week of a 72-hour wait period for abortion, Vocativ compared restrictions on terminating a pregnancy and buying a firearm. We found that more than twice as many states require wait times for abortion than guns. There are only 10 states, plus the District of Columbia, that require gun wait times, which range between 24 hours and 14 days. Those are California, Hawaii, Illinois, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey and Wisconsin.
The rest of ‘em? They let you purchase a gun as fast as the seller can run a background check. When it comes to abortion, there are 26 states that make you wait anywhere from 18 to 72 hours. In short, you have to wait longer to buy a gun than get an abortion, but you’re much more likely to have to wait for the latter.
Does that seem especially fucked up to anybody else?
Especially since I would imagine that women getting abortions spend significantly more time contemplating that decision than people who decide to purchase a firearm.
But hey it's America, where the rights of an unborn zygote seems to always have precedent over the rights of people not wanting to get shot by some mentally ill 2nd Amendment type.
Or perhaps it's just because usually it's men buying guns, and well we all know which gender needs access to abortions. Right?
It's been said at least a thousand times before but let me say it again: if men were the ones who got pregnant there would be no restrictions on abortion at all.
ReplyDeleteThere'd be more clinics than Starbucks with faster service.
DeleteSimple answer: if there was a book called The Well Thumped Bible, it would surely claim that Scripture says Jeebus wants us to have guns and doesn't want us to have abortions. It literally doesn't get any more authoritative than that.
ReplyDeleteYeah, because no one gets pissed off and goes and buys a gun, but an abortion...people get mad and do that in anger all the time. Not! This is ridiculous.
ReplyDeletePro lifers pretend to believe that women who get abortions are empty headed dolts doing it on a whim or for fun. They also pretend that abortion providers do it for pleasure or get paid millions for performing this service.
DeleteWow, that is a startling statistic!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Gryphen, for being such a strong advocate for the rights of women.
ReplyDeleteExcellent analogy.
It boggles the mind on how much they think they have the corner on being "pro-life."
ReplyDeleteIt's all about shaming women for having sex.
ReplyDeleteI detest the bible thumpin' Republicans that permeate the United States Congress, state Legislatures and specifically Alaska Republicans holding seats in the majority of the Alaska Legislature as well as seats they hold in communities throughout the state!
ReplyDeleteIt is way past time to get them the hell out of office during the next election cycle. I'm sick of their religious crap, their holier than thou attitudes (to include women and men!) and their constant effort of controlling women across the country.
Screw them and their ideology!
Sing it Gryphen!!! I've found many men concerned with women's rights because they respect women. It's not just a woman's issue, it effects entire families. I think Abortion should be safe, rare and easily accessible. No woman takes the decision lightly. We need to remove the word "Abortion" from the "Birth Control" column. There are plenty of reasons for a woman to get an abortion, birth control does fail, but no one I know or ever met uses Abortion as THE only means of Family planning. The yahoos don't understand that.
ReplyDeleteI've read there's a "recipe" in the "Bible" that causes a woman to abort a fetus. I'm not schooled nor do I want to be on the Bible, but perhaps one of your commenters knows the chapter and verse.