Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions: Men are using abortion bans to control and abuse women in their lives for “consensual sexual intercourse”

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1. This is just so fucked up:

   >”Pregnancy is not a disease, and elective abortions are not ‘health care,'” University of Texas at Austin professor Daniel Bonevac sneers in a federal court filing with professor John Hatfield. Instead, Bonevac writes, because pregnancy is the result of “voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse,” students should not be allowed time off to get abortions. If the students disobey and miss class for abortion care, the filing continues, the professors should be allowed to flunk students. Additionally, Bonevac asserts that he has a right to refuse to employ a teaching assistant who has had an abortion, calling such women “criminals.”

2. Who could’ve predicted this would happen?? Oh.. Democrats en masse said rescinding Rowe would allow red states to do exactly this.. oh.. look what they’re doing after pretending they wouldn’t. Oh..

   Stop voting Republican.

3. Texans keep voting GoP. What do I care about people digging their own graves?

4. For those who think the Salon writers are being overly dramatic in their article title choices

   > It takes very little to draw Kacsmaryk’s sexualized condemnation. Premarital sex, for instance, makes one a “sexual revolutionary.” Using contraception within marriage also makes one an irredeemable pervert. In his legal writings, Kacsmaryk is very clear that sex is only for procreation within marriage, and anything outside of that should draw legal sanction

5. >philosophy professor

   Oh, boy I know what he likes, Rand and Nietzsche.

6. This is the party of small government?

7. That’s….um…..messed up. A lot. Their classes are going to be all men next year, then they’ll probably sue for discrimination.

8. I am SHOCKED that even more men in positions of power feel entitled to punish women for their abortions. Slippery slopes and all that.

   > Pregnancy is not a disease, and elective abortions are not ‘health care,'” University of Texas at Austin professor Daniel Bonevac sneers in a federal court filing with professor John Hatfield.

   Abortions ARE healthcare, the ICD10 is **O03.9.** ….then again, wtf would a philosophy and finance professor even know this? Stay in your own lane!

   > Even though Bonevac and Hatfield work in Austin, Texas, they filed their lawsuit 486 miles away in Amarillo, Texas. The reason for this is not mysterious: Donald Trump-appointed judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. The right-wing judge has a long and frankly unhinged history of screeching at top volume about the evils of “sexual revolutionaries.”

   I don’t know what to do. I’m in NY and besides donating I don’t know how to help.

9. “Texas has swiftly turned into a case study in how abortion bans aren’t really about “life” at all, but about giving abusive misogynists a whole new set of tools to use in controlling women.”

10. Wanna bet he paid for the abortion of one of his students?

11. What. The. Fuck. This is reprehensible. UT needs to fire them, immediately.

12. They’re getting what they really wanted all along. Conservatives want to reverse Women’s suffrage

13. Women’s sex-strike for Biden!

    No-Biden, no coochie.

14. I hope young people and especially young women are paying attention.

15. The disturbing part is that the trend of using the free exercise clause to justify discrimination under the guise of religious freedom is a winning argument at the supreme court.

    I’m also curious how they think they would know if a student had to miss class due to getting an abortion. Unless they just presume that anytime a woman misses class it’s because they’re out getting an abortion, which I suspect is totally an option for them.

16. As a parent of two soon to be college daughters, you can bet your bottom dollar my money won’t be going to any states like this.