In 2022, the voters of Vermont approved a constitutional amendment meant to enshrine abortion as a natural protected right. The text didn’t say that, but everyone involved knows better. The goal was to make sure no one could prevent abortions. The problem, which I explored in numerous posts like this one, is that the language talks about reproductive freedom, which has to include the right to have a baby.
Vermont immediately trampled all over this Constitutional right the next year when it passed a bill signed into law (by Republican Governor Phil Scott) restricting pregnancy care centers (a viewpoint discrimination lawsuit is making its way through the courts). Vermont placed restrictions on care centers that made it impossible for them to advertise or operate.
Despite S 37 coming under Judicial Scrutiny in “National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Clark,” the 2025 Vermont Legisalture has a new bill (S 28) that would further infringe on pregnancy care centers.
“This bill proposes to expand the prohibition on untrue or misleading advertising by a limited-services pregnancy center under the Consumer Protection Act to apply to any untrue or misleading advertising about health care services,” it states.
Politicians who fund and are funded by the abortion lobby (taxpayer dollars to campaign coffer money laundering) are writing laws to further knee-cap any private competition. To do this the same people who lied out every orifice about everything during the “pandemic” are insisting that,
“Advertising strategies and educational information about health care options that lack transparency, use misleading or ambiguous terminology, misrepresent or obfuscate services provided, or provide factually inaccurate information are a form of manipulation that disrespects individuals, undermines trust, broadens health disparity, and can result in patient harm,” it states.
I’ll wait while you get the coffee out of your nose.
The offenses against Sec. 2 Article 22 of the Vermont Constitution (that’s the Right to reproductive freedom) are not limited to bad laws and new bad laws. Vermont’s Department for Children and Families (DCF),
Acting on hearsay about A.V.’s mental health, … initiated an investigation into her capacity as a future mother—despite having no jurisdiction over unborn children. Without her knowledge or consent, her medical records were pried open, and her labor became a state-monitored event. Hospital staff fed live updates on her cervix dilation to DCF officials, who—relying on falsehoods—secured custody of her fetus. The mother’s delivery culminated not in joy, but in separation: her newborn daughter was seized before she could hold her.
The allegations that prompted this grotesque intervention were not based on any medical diagnosis, criminal act, or history of abuse. The director of a shelter for battered women expressed her belief that the pregnant woman should not have the baby and encouraged her to seek an abortion. When the woman refused, the director escalated the matter by initiating contact with state authorities to intervene and take custody of the child upon birth. These speculative and prejudiced actions snowballed into an Orwellian surveillance operation. Unverified accusations became the pretext for a cascade of violations: breaches of medical privacy, the undermining of reproductive autonomy, and the illegal seizure of a child.
Reproductive freedom and the right to self-defense share a common enemy. Red flag laws. But in this case, the ACLU (believe it or not) is outraged.
According to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Vermont and Pregnancy Justice, DCF maintains a clandestine “high-risk pregnancy docket” to track expectant mothers it deems unfit. This sinister ledger includes women flagged for reasons as discriminatory as homelessness, disability, or choosing a natural birth over medical intervention. Rather than championing bodily autonomy, Vermont weaponizes pregnancy as a tool for control, turning the womb into a battleground for bureaucratic intrusion.
Such practices underscore a chilling trend: the redefinition of pregnancy as a condition requiring state oversight. This is the same Vermont that touts itself as a bastion of reproductive freedom, having enshrined the right to abortion in its constitution. Yet when a mother chooses life, the state’s zeal for autonomy evaporates, replaced by an insatiable appetite for control.
It seems like a suitable time for some adult language. These assholes are all bunch of fucking hypocrites for violating Sec. 2 Article 22 of the Vermont Constitution.
Sec. 2. Article 22. [Personal reproductive liberty] That an individual’s right to personal reproductive autonomy is central to the liberty and dignity to determine one’s own life course and shall not be denied or infringed unless justified by a compelling State interest achieved by the least restrictive means.
And none of that is surprising. The same government that ignores the right to self-defense, free speech and association, the right to travel, bodily autonomy, and just about every other right isn’t going to honor the right to reproductive freedom. Nor, do I suspect, will they find relief in the courts of Vermont. Same people, same problem.
They are primarily partisans on the taxpayer’s payroll protecting big abortion and big government, and the new amendment was window dressing. Reproductive freedom has nothing to do with reproduction, but it could.