Women seeking abortions in Arkansas now need permission from men

[Eddie Teach]

Tall fellows, those Bushes.

[Razgovory]

If I'm reading this right, though, the Arkansas law doesn't actually require a woman to get the father to agree to her having an abortion;  rather, she has to get him to agree on how to dispose of the aborted fetus.  No idea how the Federal courts would rule on that;  frankly, I'm not sure I see a federal issue there at all.

In practice, how does this differ from giving the man a veto?

DPS and the author of the article clearly have different readings of the law. I'm sure you can see a practical difference between refusing the woman an abortion vs bagging the remains to send the father afterwards.

I see how the man can say, "I don't agree with any disposal of the remains" thus preventing the abortion all together.

[garbon]

If I'm reading this right, though, the Arkansas law doesn't actually require a woman to get the father to agree to her having an abortion;  rather, she has to get him to agree on how to dispose of the aborted fetus.  No idea how the Federal courts would rule on that;  frankly, I'm not sure I see a federal issue there at all.

In practice, how does this differ from giving the man a veto?

DPS and the author of the article clearly have different readings of the law. I'm sure you can see a practical difference between refusing the woman an abortion vs bagging the remains to send the father afterwards.

I see how the man can say, "I don't agree with any disposal of the remains" thus preventing the abortion all together.

'Okay, then I'm leaving them at your place - unless you consider your home a garbage heap.'

[dps]

If I'm reading this right, though, the Arkansas law doesn't actually require a woman to get the father to agree to her having an abortion;  rather, she has to get him to agree on how to dispose of the aborted fetus.  No idea how the Federal courts would rule on that;  frankly, I'm not sure I see a federal issue there at all.

In practice, how does this differ from giving the man a veto?

DPS and the author of the article clearly have different readings of the law. I'm sure you can see a practical difference between refusing the woman an abortion vs bagging the remains to send the father afterwards.

I see how the man can say, "I don't agree with any disposal of the remains" thus preventing the abortion all together.

'Okay, then I'm leaving them at your place - unless you consider your home a garbage heap.'

Exactly.  It wouldn't prevent the abortion.

On one hand, it does complicate things, and I can't see how it serves any public purpose, so the Federal courts might strike it down;  OTOH, on the face of it, it doesn't actually seem to prevent anyone from getting an abortion, so they might not.

[Razgovory]

If I'm reading this right, though, the Arkansas law doesn't actually require a woman to get the father to agree to her having an abortion;  rather, she has to get him to agree on how to dispose of the aborted fetus.  No idea how the Federal courts would rule on that;  frankly, I'm not sure I see a federal issue there at all.

In practice, how does this differ from giving the man a veto?

DPS and the author of the article clearly have different readings of the law. I'm sure you can see a practical difference between refusing the woman an abortion vs bagging the remains to send the father afterwards.

I see how the man can say, "I don't agree with any disposal of the remains" thus preventing the abortion all together.

'Okay, then I'm leaving them at your place - unless you consider your home a garbage heap.'

I don't get it. 

[The Brain]

It's Arkansas so the men often have several roles in this process. Makes sense that they should have a bigger say.