This guy is a one-man war on women. Alabama state Sen. Larry Stutts (R) is a physician, and back in 1998 was Rose Church's doctor when Church gave birth to a healthy baby. She was released 36 hours after the birth, but had to return soon after for a blood transfusion because of internal bleeding. She was discharged again after the transfusion and died a day and a half later. Church's husband sued Sutts, a case that was settled out of court, and began a campaign for a minimum-stay requirement giving women the legal right to remain in the hospital for up to 48 hours in a normal birth and 96 hours after a complicated one. The law was passed unanimously in 1999. Now, after winning a senate seat in 2014, Stutts is trying to destroy that law. He
blames Obamacare.
Stutts said in a post on his Facebook page that he's trying to get the legislature out of the doctor-patient relationship.
"I am proud to say that I am hard at work removing one-size-fits-all Obamacare-style laws from the books in Alabama," Stutts said. "Let me be clear: My goal is to make sure our Legislature stays in Montgomery where it belongs and out of the exam room."
Oh, but that's not all. Stutts' bill also repeals a state law requiring that doctors inform their patients in writing if a mammogram shows they have dense breast tissue, a potential early sign of breast cancer that also can mask tumors. That law was introduced by Democratic Sen. Roger Bedford after a mammogram failed to detect his wife's breast cancer, which was masked by dense tissue. Bedford was the senator Stutts defeated in 2014.
So how much of a misogynistic asshole do you have to be to run for office to overturn lifesaving women's health care? Enough of a misogynistic asshole to say that there's "no reason" for these laws and other "emotional legislation," because "do you think there should be a law for how long you stay in the hospital after knee surgery?" Yes, because they are exactly the same.