25 Tweets That Perfectly Explain How The Alabama Government Doesn’t Care About Women... At All
Old white men making decisions about women's bodies is not right.
Recently Alabama has been pushing to pass a bill known as the "Alabama Human Life Protection Act." This bill has made people all over the country furious. This new bill is a straight-up abortion ban. It doesn't even give exceptions to cases of rape or incest and it even classifies birth control as abortion. If a woman from the state goes to another state to get an abortion, she will be charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Abortion is a constitutional right. Men in governmental positions should have no right to decide what a woman's body must go through. This is a gross attempt at trying to repeal Roe vs. Wade and hopefully, it won't work.
Here are some tweets that show the pro-choice Twitter community's thoughts on this bill and it's effects on the lives of women.
1. The fetus’ future is more important than the woman’s future
"what if the baby you abort grows up and cures cancer?" what if the 16 year old girl you denying abortion grows up… https://t.co/0gGz3kR0YP— Zara Larsson (@Zara Larsson) 1557716867.0
2. Birth control being counted as abortion
birth control..... is being counted as abortion.... why the fuck are men in charge of being able to make these laws… https://t.co/8XROaf41V4— kai (@kai) 1557509456.0
3. Men are not held to the same sexual standards as per usual
4. They’re simply anti-women
If you care so much about “babies being murdered” then provide better birth control options or force men to get vas… https://t.co/R039cCXxpJ— harrison (@harrison) 1557438912.0
5. They don’t focus on other important issues
Imagine if lawmakers went after the rape and sexual assault crisis in America with the same energy they have for wo… https://t.co/a5YDVwiSNG— Madie Fletcher (@Madie Fletcher) 1557434340.0
6. They are making women’s bodies property of the state
Just a reminder that a woman cannot go to another state and have an abortion. She will come back to the heartbeat… https://t.co/zZdJXyJpnV— Valerie Complex♓️♎️♋️ (@Valerie Complex♓️♎️♋️) 1557594999.0
7. Their solution to everything is a ban...well except for guns
Conservatives on abortion: We want a ban! Conservatives on gay marriage: We want a ban! Conservatives on immigrat… https://t.co/b97ZxRVoaq— Adam Best (@Adam Best) 1557434136.0
8. They are trying to make rules about something that might not even apply to them
You can be anti abortion for yourself and pro choice for anyone who isn’t you because you realize you shouldn’t get… https://t.co/qMUvWMGdEe— The Lemon Pepper Sunflower (@The Lemon Pepper Sunflower) 1557264423.0
9. They don’t care about the fetus once it’s born
If a fetus is a person at 6 weeks pregnant, is that when the child support starts? Is that also when you can’t depo… https://t.co/DMGHf98eLd— Carliss Chatman (@Carliss Chatman) 1557399558.0
10. They don’t understand that birth control has purposes for things other than not getting pregnant
Rant time: birth control is shit and the fact that girls have to pick between kids, depression or less enjoyable se… https://t.co/F28Mq7MKsC— maya murphy✌🏼 (@maya murphy✌🏼) 1556362736.0
11. Men are free to leave their children when born, but women aren’t
It takes two to create a baby. If the law forces the woman to have the baby then the man should be forced to support him or her as well.
12. They don’t put in as much effort into the things that matter more
Hey Alabama. 👋🏻 Hi. Yes. So. 👏🏻 How will you be lowering the cost of adoption? How will you provide health AND me… https://t.co/KQmYpZFLdF— Andie Polk (@Andie Polk) 1557942070.0
13. Vaccinations aren’t mandatory because they’re a violation of a person’s body yet a woman being forced to have a baby is somehow not?
if abortion is murder, then letting your child die of a preventable disease because you refused to vaccinate them is murder— angie (@angie) 1557584379.0
So you can’t tell parents what to do with their children’s bodies but you can tell women what to do with theirs? Makes sense.
14. Hi, uh, yeah, can I get a separation of church and state please?
Today, I signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act. To the bill’s many supporters, this legislation sta… https://t.co/iGzfUDMGRk— Governor Kay Ivey (@Governor Kay Ivey) 1557957411.0
“Every life is a precious gift from God.” Except the lives of women who will deteriorate if they are forced to have a baby, except for the thousands of children in foster care, except for the children who lack a good education, except for the people dying from not being able to afford health care, and so on.
15. A rapist would spend less time in prison than a woman who aborted her rapist's baby
99 year sentence for a woman who gets an abortion, yet it’s only a 10 year sentence for a man who committed rape, t… https://t.co/zdUqsMcj7B— T (@T) 1557605908.0
Stop punishing women for men’s actions.
16. These are the men making decisions about women's bodies
take a look. these are the idiots making decisions for WOMEN in America. Governor Kay Ivey...SHAME ON YOU!!!! https://t.co/WuAjSVv6TH— Rihanna (@Rihanna) 1558019578.0
No, just no.
17. Also??????
Women: can we have access to affordable birth control? Men: NO Women: can we have access to safe abortions? Me… https://t.co/72RVAkNLz7— marge (@marge) 1557966290.0
We LOVE the hypocrisy.
18. Women shouldn't be the only ones carrying the responsibility of getting pregnant
Bros Mad https://t.co/mE7e37A4zP— EARTHGANG WEST SIDE ATLANTA #MIRRORLAND OUT NOW! (@EARTHGANG WEST SIDE ATLANTA #MIRRORLAND OUT NOW!) 1557978536.0
Yes the woman is the one who gets pregnant, but it takes two people to make a baby.
19. Their priorities are clearly in the wrong place
Alabama is ranked: - 46th in health care - 50th in education - 45th in economy - 45th in opportunity - 45th in cri… https://t.co/hpfPhmdU3b— Denizcan James (@Denizcan James) 1557940971.0
Abortion does not seem to be the biggest problem that needs “fixing” in Alabama.
20. “Pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion”
Pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion. Pro-choice means that, no matter what my personal feelings/beliefs about a… https://t.co/G0VSapEKuZ— Courtney🌻 (@Courtney🌻) 1557949977.0
You can never want an abortion for yourself and still be Pro-Choice.
21. Some women are partially to blame as well
A white woman wrote the law. A white woman governor will sign it. 62% of non-college educated white women voted Rep… https://t.co/l0hegYhlAw— Alice Anderson (@Alice Anderson) 1557957222.0
We need to support each other instead of allowing our fellow women to be stripped of their rights.
22. Where are the couples hoping to adopt children who need a loving home?
@LiveAction https://t.co/VMB5xLfXVm— Alex Rivera (@Alex Rivera) 1558028514.0
There are approximately 402,000 children in foster care in the US and over 80 million families living in the US. If 0.5% of families in the US adopted children, there would be no more children in foster care.
23. “Thoughts and prayers” don’t stop abortions, yet are used to try and stop school shootings? Ok
Why don’t conservative states just use “thoughts and prayers” to stop abortions? After all, that’s what they use wh… https://t.co/YSGC1uYdDk— Snoggy 👑😈🐝🦆 (@Snoggy 👑😈🐝🦆) 1557942029.0
Apparently “thoughts and prayers" only work for school shootings. Apparently, bans work for everything except school shootings. Women are being attacked for their choices, meanwhile, the NRA gets to comfortably sit on their heap of cash.
24. The government doesn’t care about women after their baby is born — they only care when women are pregnant
If rape victims can’t get abortions, what’s going to happen to the rapist? Is he required to pay her medical bills… https://t.co/AUtLATrGtw— BE THE CHANGE (@BE THE CHANGE) 1558028592.0
25. “Pro-life” is more “anti-abortion” than actually pro-life
Only in American can you be: Pro-Death Penalty Pro-Unrestricted Gun Rights Pro-War Pro-Preemptive Strikes Pro-… https://t.co/txOZcLgLjr— Bishop Talbert Swan (@Bishop Talbert Swan) 1558006647.0
What the government in Alabama is doing is straight up awful and a complete violation of women's rights.
