Civil Liberties

She has introduced a bill to create a federal database of pregnant women, supposedly to provide information but their personal details go in the database, which would be available to unspecified users. Women who register would be directed only to crisis pregnancy centers in their local areas. As we all know, the goal of crisis pregnancy centers is to lie to women and prevent them from having an abortion. They are not medical providers and they give women dangerous misinformation. The site would not direct women to real medical facilities or to organizations like Planned Parenthood that provide actual medical care.

Now imagine who the unspecified users of such data might be. Perhaps Attorneys General of red states that want to prosecute women and anyone who helps them for obtaining an out-of-state abortion? Staffers at crisis pregnancy centers who call and harass pregnant women to keep them from having abortions?

Red states are well on the way to a police state for women of reproductive age. Republicans just haven’t quite figured out to to position it as a safety measure for women.