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someguyfromcanada  ·  2867 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Arkansas passes law allowing rapists to sue victims who want an abortion

Toot. Toot. One of the highlights of my life/career was being cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in Tremblay v Daigle, which confirmed that a fetus has no legal status as a person and that men, while claiming to be protecting fetal rights, cannot acquire injunctions to stop their partners from obtaining abortions.

The fetus is not considered to be an independent entity but as a part of the mother until born as a viable, independent human. Which would prevent bullshit like this.

Oddly enough, I knew the Plaintiff, kinda, from when I was a kid. Both adults were profoundly deaf, not exactly the brightest bulbs on the porch, apparently could not live independently and my impression was that he was simply being used as a shill for his church/the "movement". Ugh. Thank God that shit is completely and forever off the table in Canada.

He has also been convicted of assaulting 14 people; all women who he had been in "relationships" with.