This is important to me, not only because I'm a woman, but because we're all human and we all have the right to equality.
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Women's reproductive healthcare has become a political football, with Congress and States acting in concert to remove funding for Planned Parenthood, and to establish numerous and capricious restrictions on legal procedures, and with presidential candidates, Congressmen, and pundits who don't even believe a woman has a right to contraception.
These positions are inconsistent with women's equality and liberty. If women and other people with uteri are full and free citizens of this nation, then they must have the right to make decisions about their own bodies from a full spectrum of choice. As that is currently being denied, women et al. evidently need a Personhood Amendment to guarantee agency over their own bodies. If we can get 1000 people to agree and sign this petition, we will deliver it to potential supporter Senators Patty Murray, Al Franken, and Kristen Gillibrand and ask them to introduce it to Congress:
"A person identifying as a woman and/or having a uterus shall retain all of the full, basic, and fundamental rights of a US citizen as promised by the Declaration of Independence—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Congress and the States shall make no law that infringes upon a person's life, including but not limited to access to life-saving or life-improving healthcare, and/or medicines and procedures deemed necessary or beneficial by a medical professional and/or by the person having the uterus, procurement of which shall not be denied in and of itself by the presence of a uterus. Congress and the States shall make no law that infringes upon a person's liberty, including but not limited to autonomy over hir own body and the ability to make decisions regarding hir own healthcare. Congress and the States shall make no law that interferes with a person's pursuit of happiness, including but not limited to access to a full spectrum of reproductive options, freedom from forcible reproduction, and the ability to make decisions regarding family planning and family resources."
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Senators Patty Murray, Al Franken, and Kristen Gillibrand
Senators Patty Murray, Al Franken, and Kristen Gillibrand
Dear Senators Patty Murray, Al Franken, and Kristen Gillibrand:
The below signatories are seeking your support for the introduction of a Personhood Amendment that would officially recognize women and other people with uteri as autonomous individuals who have the right of self-determination to make decisions about their own bodies and reproductive needs. Yes, it's cheeky. Yes, it's turning the...
The below signatories are seeking your support for the introduction of a Personhood Amendment that would officially recognize women and other people with uteri as autonomous individuals who have the right of self-determination to make decisions about their own bodies and reproductive needs. Yes, it's cheeky. Yes, it's turning the...
Dear Senators Patty Murray, Al Franken, and Kristen Gillibrand:
The below signatories are seeking your support for the introduction of a Personhood Amendment that would officially recognize women and other people with uteri as autonomous individuals who have the right of self-determination to make decisions about their own bodies and reproductive needs. Yes, it's cheeky. Yes, it's turning the anti-choice brigade's "personhood amendments" for fetuses on its head. And yes, we believe that you are just the people to champion this irreverent but profoundly important statement of personhood on behalf of the nation's women.
Personhood Amendment: "A person identifying as a woman and/or having a uterus shall retain all of the full, basic, and fundamental rights of a US citizen as promised by the Declaration of Independence—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Congress and the States shall make no law that infringes upon a person's life, including but not limited to access to life-saving or life-improving healthcare, and/or medicines and procedures deemed necessary or beneficial by a medical professional and/or by the person having the uterus, procurement of which shall not be denied in and of itself by the presence of a uterus. Congress and the States shall make no law that infringes upon a person's liberty, including but not limited to autonomy over hir own body and the ability to make decisions regarding hir own healthcare. Congress and the States shall make no law that interferes with a person's pursuit of happiness, including but not limited to access to a full spectrum of reproductive options, freedom from forcible reproduction, and the ability to make decisions regarding family planning and family resources."
Please support women and other people with uteri in our bid for equality and autonomy by introducing the Personhood Amendment and put an end to the capricious restrictions on a legal medical procedure and on access to contraception.
Thank you.
The below signatories are seeking your support for the introduction of a Personhood Amendment that would officially recognize women and other people with uteri as autonomous individuals who have the right of self-determination to make decisions about their own bodies and reproductive needs. Yes, it's cheeky. Yes, it's turning the anti-choice brigade's "personhood amendments" for fetuses on its head. And yes, we believe that you are just the people to champion this irreverent but profoundly important statement of personhood on behalf of the nation's women.
Personhood Amendment: "A person identifying as a woman and/or having a uterus shall retain all of the full, basic, and fundamental rights of a US citizen as promised by the Declaration of Independence—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Congress and the States shall make no law that infringes upon a person's life, including but not limited to access to life-saving or life-improving healthcare, and/or medicines and procedures deemed necessary or beneficial by a medical professional and/or by the person having the uterus, procurement of which shall not be denied in and of itself by the presence of a uterus. Congress and the States shall make no law that infringes upon a person's liberty, including but not limited to autonomy over hir own body and the ability to make decisions regarding hir own healthcare. Congress and the States shall make no law that interferes with a person's pursuit of happiness, including but not limited to access to a full spectrum of reproductive options, freedom from forcible reproduction, and the ability to make decisions regarding family planning and family resources."
Please support women and other people with uteri in our bid for equality and autonomy by introducing the Personhood Amendment and put an end to the capricious restrictions on a legal medical procedure and on access to contraception.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
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Kristina Werdenberg SAN DIEGO, CA
- about 2 years ago
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Georgina Capetillo BOSTON, MA
- about 2 years ago
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ALL people should ne treated with humanity. The majority of the united states are the forgeiners; they raped and pilaged the native americans only to decide who is to live on their land? not fair
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Amy Norton MARSHFIELD, MA
- about 2 years ago
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Birth control is for more than just preventing pregnancy, but acne, poly-cystic ovarian syndrome, moods, cramps, etc. Pro-life or not, birth control needs to be OK no matter what.
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Emma Robertson CHELTENHAM, UNITED KINGDOM
- about 2 years ago
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The religious right and all anti-abortionists need to understand that as long as a zygote or fetus is part of somebody else's body it is that person's property and theirs to dispose of as they see fit! If they're going to call it a person and give it rights then it should be liable as a person - unlawful entry, trespass, actual and or grievous bodily harm and theft spring to mind!
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Marilyn Fitterman EAST HAMPTON, NY
- about 2 years ago
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Isn't it obvious
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I am signing because I am a person and I am flabbergasted and horrified that I have to sign a petition to my government to say what should be self-evident. My body is mine at all times, all parts or it, every organ no matter what state it happens to be in or how I've chosen to use it recently.
When even the Democratic President is willing to use women's reproductive rights as a bargaining chip, when his Declaration for International Women's Day fails to mention the war on reproductive rights here at home and focuses solely on other countries, when Democrats in Congress regularly fight against a woman's right to choose, it becomes obvious that strong action is needed. I fully support the idea of an amendment stating once and for all that American citizens with uteri are full human beings, with the right to decide for themselves what happens in those uteri!
Because women's rights are human rights and I'm sick to death of being considered a sub-human by the country/culture that I live in.
I am a woman and this matters to me. I have rights that get lost in the conversation about contraception and abortion. I have rights as a person to my bodily autonomy and I have the right to make those decisions without being forced into unnecessary medical procedures. I am a woman and these are my rights. That is why I'm signing.
Signing to protect myself and my daughter and our family. We have a right to autonomy over our reproductive health, and we need an amendment that ensures the federal & state governments cannot infringe on those rights. Women's rights are human rights.