Alaskan Representative Alan Dick (what a coincidence!) thinks women need to have legal documentation of consent from the men who got them pregnant in order to get an abortion.
I don't think I need to tell you how enormously stupid that is, but
Mouthrot does a good job of it.
But if you can't read all of that, here's a quick lowdown of why:
-- Rapists.
-- Spiteful or abusive or unfaithful partners. In fact, asking from these sorts of partners could invite further abuse.
-- Absent partners or not knowing who is the father.
-- Forced servitude; "You don't want her to leave? Get her pregnant and deny her an abortion."
-- "It's not her pregnancy."
-- What if she wants to keep it, but he doesn't? His desires trump hers, after all.
-- What if she'll die, or another health condition comes up? Does she need permission to live, now?
-- A woman needing permission from a man about her body. "What's next? His permission to spit or swallow? His permission to use contraception? His permission to get myself sterilized?"
-- Men making decisions for what they think is best for women; Women are not capable of making mature decisions.
-- Women aren't allowed to have sex unless they want to have children.
Here's a petition to make him shut up. You should include a personalized message mentioning the above, or more, so he gets the point of just how phenomenally horrible he is.
Alan Dick Says Women Need Permission for Abortionby #Gender-and-Sex