This newsletter (roundup? recitation of horrors plus some silver linings?) makes me so proud and the speech you gave at the briefing made me so proud and watching you grow from a young feminist into one of the strongest, clearest, most persistent voices for reproductive FREEDOM (if they wanna redefine things, all can play that game) has made me so proud and we cannot thank you enough for your unceasing (not "tireless," because I'm sure you're PLENTY tired, wading through all this unbelievable garbage every day) advocacy. This is not normal, and I know you'll be great at screening/ignoring hate messages by now, but when you DO hear negative feedback, and on particularly trying days, remember that you truly, truly speak for all of us. Even anti-abortion women (shame on them -- they're anti because it hasn't touched their lives yet). I did not expect 2024 to look like this (truly, how ****ing dystopian), but I am profoundly grateful that you took this project on and continue to be an absolute STEAMROLLER for you, for Layla, for me, and for every other person capable of pregnancy in this *gesticulates wildly and looks for MORE change for the swear jar* country. Thank you, thank you, and Lawd deliver us all from these ppl omg.
A woman's freedom to make all decisions regarding her body is the most important issue in the next elections. White men have always been in control of Congress and Presidency. White REPUBLICAN men are determined to have their way. They intend to FORCE birth so they'll have little workers all lined up. They have become vindictive and quite ugly in strong-arming their bans. ( Fuck these assholes. ) Vote!!!
I am a 43-year-old South African woman. At the start of my career, I worked on the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the country when our 'conservative' government banned the use of ARVs to treat AIDS patients and prevent mother to child transmission. South Africa had the highest HIV infection rates in the world at the time, with an estimated 5.8 million people infected. Those where some of the most heartbreaking and difficult years of my life. My hands were tied as I witnessed HIV positive women giving natural birth to beautiful healthy babies, only to watch those babies die two or three years later from full blown AIDS. At the time 'traditional healers' were dispensing beetroot and garlic at government-sponsored 'care facilities' much like these CPCs. I cannot believe, a decade and more later, I am seeing the same level of depravity from what is supposed to be the cornerstone of western civilization. Millions of men, women and children died during those dark years. I am horrified that a 'civilized' country has fallen victim to the same 'strong men' mentality that has destroyed so many African countries over the past century. It beggars belief! If there is anything that non-USA activits can do to help, please send links and resources!
Thank you so much, Nicole, for your service and your solidarity, and for sharing your experiences, which must have been absolutely devastating. It truly is unfathomable. Fortunately(?), we women are used to hard work in the shadows. "Cornerstone of western civilization" made me chuckle. The U.S. hasn't been that for a LONG time, but you wouldn't know it, to hear our loud, stupid, inhumane, old white male legislators tell it.
Whatever the adequacy of Biden's WH on this issue, I hope people understand that this is too important to throw your vote away on something else. I mean there are all these inside/outside influences revving up Gaza/Israel issue and I hope people don't fall for that. Focus on what is important. In 2000, it was that guy Nader who gave us the nincompoop Bush who found religion in his 40th year to be compassionate (no). In 2008, it was the misguided 'woman but not this woman' crowd that rejected the more experienced and tough candidate (that was her time - she would never have got railroaded by McConnell or Russia). In 2016, it was the crowd that said, if the inexperienced Bush and Obama can do it, why not the entertaining nitwit trump against the more experienced and tough candidate despite SCOTUS hanging in the balance. If 2020 was a wake up call, 2024 has to be a 5 alarm fire. Hope people everywhere understand this. Media will never help us like they never did in all our previous elections and they will play the spoiler again if we let them -- they are still doing anecdotal profiles of trump voter.
Truly. I just saw something on Instagram, yesterday, maybe, that framed the Trump/Biden choice as vote for Biden in 2024 and someone else in 2028, or vote for Trump in 2024 and never vote again, because he will destroy enough of our government that this is the last election. CHILLING.
Re "prosecutable" - it was just a matter of time before it came to this. And it will get worse. If they don't trust women who are losing pregnancies for fetal crises, or when their own health is at risk, why would they give any deference to a woman who has been raped? Oh no... This is going to be a super ugly front in this ideological war. So many of them don't believe rape is an exception anyway. "It's not the baby's fault what the mother and father did..." (Kidwell, NC?)
Requiring rape claims to be “prosecutable” is particularly menacing, given that police can’t be bothered to investigate or have rape kits tested and prosecutors refuse to prosecute cases that aren’t slam dunks. The police are all too likely to reflexively dismiss a victim and threaten her with false report charges. A victim can end up being jailed for reporting her rape and these laws will only make that more likely. It may be behind a paywall, but this 2019 article in the Atlantic lays out just how heavily the system is weighted agains sexual assault victims. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/an-epidemic-of-disbelief/592807/ We have to keep pointing out as Jessica does, exceptions aren’t real.
Biden really needs to understand Catholics have abortions too. Poor people are hurt the most. If his grand daughter had a problematic miscarriage ... in TX or any of those other states, his privilege nor his beliefs would help her. There are way too many men who believe it will never happen to them or their family AND that their $ could buy a plane ticket to DC or a pro-choice state. That is simply not the case any longer. It is much more complicated.
A. why does substack sign me out 4-5 times a day? It's so aggravating as I have probably $100 a month in substacks. B. sadly Biden is too invested in "comity" to go as hard as he needs to go. Fortunately he has Harris to push him so we'll see.
I fear it is his Catholic indoctrination, he got the good parts of the message about being kind, and helping others, but he got the anti-abortion brainwashing too.
I’m not convinced that Biden wholeheartedly endorses women’s healthcare and rights as it’s not part of his root beliefs but it is part of his political agenda and that’s why he is not a good spokesperson for our cause. Kamala is the better spokesperson I agree.
Additionally when I think about why federal rights weren’t enshrined in the 50 years of Roe I realized that the leaders of the Senate and the House were overwhelmingly white men... so why would they even bother to worry about our bodies, our rights, our health? I know this sounds simplified but I’m afraid it’s not that far off from our misogynistic world we live in!
I appreciate Biden because he's not a monster, and is sort of on my side (at least has a good deal of overlap, unlike the orange menace), but I 12/10 do not care what he thinks about my uterus. I want to hear from Kamala on this every time, and from other women in the administration and federal/state/local agencies, but no more old, old white men. He's out of his depth and REALLY needs to realize that this one truly needs to be delegated to someone who understands it on a personal, visceral level. He seems like a decent, compassionate guy, and has no doubt come a long way in his decades and decades in government, but Kamala Kamala Kamala. We want to hear HER. And isn't this literally why she was his choice? We had to have a woman (and rightly so), so let's have her!
And yeah, the majority of legislators (and people in power in general) super definitely do not care about us.
The additional problem is that misogyny isn’t the only issue that affects attention to women and women’s issues. I’m reading Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Journey and it highlights how scientists have ignored female reproductive systems throughout the animal kingdom. They were almost exclusively focused on the penis. This myopic view has shaped everything in society. Many people aren’t interested in females at all and rarely consider them in anything they plan, like disaster relief or architectural design. It’s pervasive.
Architectural design: truly! Comedian and podcaster Ashley Gavin went to Bryn Mawr, IIRC, and she said she loved it for many reasons, including that the campus was specifically designed for women, from things like fixtures to, and this still makes me shudder, stairs that are geometrically easier for women to run on and awkward for men to chase them on. Boggles the mind that this even had to be a consideration, and that so few places are actually designed with any thought for women. Every staircase everywhere should be designed that way, because Lord knows none of us are safe.
There was a time when women were worshiped because humans could not tell how babies were made or understand the male factor. I have this book from Merlin Stone, an anthropological study called 'When God was a Woman' that explains it.
Kamala Harris is a better spokesperson for the Biden administration than Biden would be. He'll always stumble on the Catholic teachings than have formed him, even though he may not endorse them now - whether on the politics or from a deeper conviction that reproductive health choices belong only to the person who must live with their outcome.
Harris is eloquent, articulate and she can use the first person plural - Biden cannot. As a woman of color, from an immigrant family, she has license to talk about freedom as part of an American dream. Not so for Joe.
I do wish that Jessica and Grace could have some time with our Vice President! There's a lot they can offer her.
a 7 pound baby to be aborted moments before birth.
Sure, like that happens. Ever. Embrace logic and science you pieces of crap! Crawl back into the pit that you crawled out of. You're obviously an evolutionary dead end.
For real. No woman would do that and no abortion provider would do it, either. If they're too afraid to do an emergent abortion for a critically-ill woman in an emergency room (as always, thanks, Texas, and secede already, because you've been threatening it basically since you've been a state and put up or shut up), they're sure as **** not handing them out like Costco samples in week 27, let alone week 39/40.
I had a stillbirth, and by that point, the bond is such that you would never and such that "adoption!" is an incredibly facile answer to the problem of people getting pregnant with their rapists'/fathers'/uncles'/classmates' spawn, along with any other spawn that they determine, based on the truest, most intimate knowledge of their own circumstances, would be better not to carry to term.
No cis man has ever died in childbirth, and THAT is the root of the problem. It ISN'T a problem for them, but it IS a way to get more white dude and fundie votes. Reprehensible, and wow, are they in for a shock if there's actually a heaven and St. Peter turns them away for being two bags of trash in a trench coat.
That Andy Harris quote about the anti choice movement having to "paint the picture" of a fetus in "someone's mind" frustrates me so much. I don't care what someone's pregnancy looks like in Harris' mind or anyone elses! I care about the bodily reality of pregnancy and giving women the options to respond to it how they see best for them, not whatever fantasy is floating around in some randos ~imagination~
The fact that they think we don't know what we're contemplating and need them to tell us...tells you all you need to know about their arrogance and their lack of respect for our intelligence/rights/humanity.
For any lawyers here or others smarter than me - > WHY wasn't Comstock repealed years ago?? Like when birth control became legal again finally after Comstock? Or when abortion was legalized 50 years ago? We had momentum 50 years ago. Also, why not have repealed Not to all the other super old state laws.
Huge missed opportunities. We're we lazy back then? Think we'd never be in this spot. We should always repeal old shit! I realize hindsight 20/20.....but we are in bad bad spot.
And they won’t use Comstock solely to prohibit shipping of abortion supplies and information. Comstock is an anti-obscenity law. They will use it to prosecute anything they consider “obscene.” Things like trans medications and supplies, LGBTQ+ materials, books and information they’d ban in a classroom, art featuring images and topics they consider pornographic. (Remember how Michelangelo’s David was banned as porn by a school?) Abortion is the tippy-top of what they will prohibit and prosecute if Comstock is enforced.
I agree with Jessica. Comstock must go. A vote must be had. Rs must be put on the hotspot for their plan, their views & when they vote against repeal. The electorate REALLY needs educated on this because MSNBC is the only station reporting on it with any consistency & the R voters are not informed enough about it. Media needs to step up.
As if their corporate owners/overlords would allow that! When CNN was taken over by the evil Malone, it was immediately obvious, They had a trump town hall with no push-back whatsoever, they fired Brian Stelter, and most of their better truth-telling talking heads, and that ridiculous toady of his Zaslav, was trying to make them "Fox-lite".
"That billionaire is John Malone, a legend in the cable TV business and one who has deep and longstanding ties with David Zaslav, the CEO of WBD. People close to both men insist that Zaslav is remaking CNN because he wants to for both business and editorial reasons, and not because Malone has told him to.
But complicating that narrative is the fact that Malone has repeatedly wished, in public, for CNN to remake itself. And his prescription happens to sync with the new CNN agenda: a plan to steer the channel away from what Malone and others call a liberal bias they say muddles opinion and news. And to shift it toward a supposedly centrist, just-the-facts bent.“I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he said. Then he suggested a model: “Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.”
Malone’s comments didn’t resonate much beyond a couple of places: At Fox News, which responded with glee, and inside CNN, where they sounded alarm bells.
Those bells started ringing again last week when the company pushed CNN media reporter Brian Stelter out of his job. As I’ve reported, some people in and outside CNN believed there was a direct through line between Malone’s perspective on CNN and Stelter’s departure. The theory: Stelter, a frequent critic of Fox News, was let go either at Malone’s direct urging or by managers who wanted to please the investor."
Because people keep naively thinking that common sense and reason will prevail.
When RBG died, I said to my friend, "There goes Roe." She said "No.... never." And this is an informed person.
People don't think the worse case will happen. But it will. It's all about POWER. They'll use any legal tool to subjugate us, even a law from the Dark Ages.
Democrats didn't envision the full effect of how corrupt the SCOTUS had become. Even many Rs (who are largely never trumpers now) were surprised. They thought the court would not muck around with a 50 year old precedence. They underestimated that fucker Alito and his doppelganger Thomas. We need to use the word 'corruption' when we talk about trump and all his minions including the ones in SCOTUS.
👆🏻 totally agree. I have had male family Rs who said the same thing, followed later by “now they have gone too far.” My response, “so how will you vote?” I will repeat... men must be brought into this topic. (& Biden still needs to grasp this) They must understand they cannot “protect” their wives, their daughters or their granddaughters, and by proxy their sons or their grandsons who love their wives, under R rule. It’s really that simple. Sideways miscarriages are not rare. A gun won’t fix this issue for them and neither will money. And frankly, that could be a political ad that most candidates will not think of.
I consider myself informed but when the SCOTUS "review" of possibly overturning Roe "leaked"......I thought fake news....it would never happen. How fuckin NAIVE of me. Since then no commonsense has prevailed. I see the world much different now. Iran didn't always have the Chastity & Hijab law nor the morality police, before 1979 they were somewhat normal...yep...this is the exact shit that can happen. We are on scary path. Yes...its about power, domination and masculinie Christianity. But there are many dark agendas going on right now when it comes to this topic.... beyond the obvious anti women's movement and class struggle... the Republicans have talked about it behind closed doors; will we have enough humans to fight future wars, will we have enough people paying into Social Security..... and god forbid, who's going to serve them their Big Mac at the McDonald's drive-thru window 40 years from now if we don't keep forcing women to have babies that they can't afford nor do they want, the Republicans want these unwanted born for future labor pool.
Women are tools to them -- baby making machines to be subjugated and used so that, god forbid, colored people come into the country. It's so outrageous!
Musk's quote about demographic decline is just gross. A Trump/Musk ticket is what I'm really scared of.
I had not previously read that Politico article.... Pisses me off...... yep, that's part of the dark agenda, as if Humanity is going to cease to exist if each woman doesn't pop out five kids. And yes..... they want the woman to be the right color..... that's exactly what Anthony Comstock and his friends concerns were in the mid 1800s......like the Hitler breeding program. I disagree with paying women/men to have babies, paying them does not make them want these babies, it doesn't ensure that the babies are loved or fed.... they could be completely abused and neglected..... Fucked up shit.
Damn... now I am too, but I don't think Musk could be Vice President, not being native to the US, he could not assume the reins if the rotted pumpkin kicks off. I believe that is a requirement. I may be mistaken however.
The one that worries me is Matt (I like them young) Gaetz. He's been doing appearances for the Barking yam, so the fans don't see how demented he has become.
I was with my child-bearing age daughter and her husband when we got the news of Bader Ginsburg's death. We started to cry, but her husband thought it was much ado about nothing. It'll be fine, he said, never happen.
This newsletter (roundup? recitation of horrors plus some silver linings?) makes me so proud and the speech you gave at the briefing made me so proud and watching you grow from a young feminist into one of the strongest, clearest, most persistent voices for reproductive FREEDOM (if they wanna redefine things, all can play that game) has made me so proud and we cannot thank you enough for your unceasing (not "tireless," because I'm sure you're PLENTY tired, wading through all this unbelievable garbage every day) advocacy. This is not normal, and I know you'll be great at screening/ignoring hate messages by now, but when you DO hear negative feedback, and on particularly trying days, remember that you truly, truly speak for all of us. Even anti-abortion women (shame on them -- they're anti because it hasn't touched their lives yet). I did not expect 2024 to look like this (truly, how ****ing dystopian), but I am profoundly grateful that you took this project on and continue to be an absolute STEAMROLLER for you, for Layla, for me, and for every other person capable of pregnancy in this *gesticulates wildly and looks for MORE change for the swear jar* country. Thank you, thank you, and Lawd deliver us all from these ppl omg.
👍👏👏👏👏
A woman's freedom to make all decisions regarding her body is the most important issue in the next elections. White men have always been in control of Congress and Presidency. White REPUBLICAN men are determined to have their way. They intend to FORCE birth so they'll have little workers all lined up. They have become vindictive and quite ugly in strong-arming their bans. ( Fuck these assholes. ) Vote!!!
I am a 43-year-old South African woman. At the start of my career, I worked on the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the country when our 'conservative' government banned the use of ARVs to treat AIDS patients and prevent mother to child transmission. South Africa had the highest HIV infection rates in the world at the time, with an estimated 5.8 million people infected. Those where some of the most heartbreaking and difficult years of my life. My hands were tied as I witnessed HIV positive women giving natural birth to beautiful healthy babies, only to watch those babies die two or three years later from full blown AIDS. At the time 'traditional healers' were dispensing beetroot and garlic at government-sponsored 'care facilities' much like these CPCs. I cannot believe, a decade and more later, I am seeing the same level of depravity from what is supposed to be the cornerstone of western civilization. Millions of men, women and children died during those dark years. I am horrified that a 'civilized' country has fallen victim to the same 'strong men' mentality that has destroyed so many African countries over the past century. It beggars belief! If there is anything that non-USA activits can do to help, please send links and resources!
Thank you so much, Nicole, for your service and your solidarity, and for sharing your experiences, which must have been absolutely devastating. It truly is unfathomable. Fortunately(?), we women are used to hard work in the shadows. "Cornerstone of western civilization" made me chuckle. The U.S. hasn't been that for a LONG time, but you wouldn't know it, to hear our loud, stupid, inhumane, old white male legislators tell it.
Whatever the adequacy of Biden's WH on this issue, I hope people understand that this is too important to throw your vote away on something else. I mean there are all these inside/outside influences revving up Gaza/Israel issue and I hope people don't fall for that. Focus on what is important. In 2000, it was that guy Nader who gave us the nincompoop Bush who found religion in his 40th year to be compassionate (no). In 2008, it was the misguided 'woman but not this woman' crowd that rejected the more experienced and tough candidate (that was her time - she would never have got railroaded by McConnell or Russia). In 2016, it was the crowd that said, if the inexperienced Bush and Obama can do it, why not the entertaining nitwit trump against the more experienced and tough candidate despite SCOTUS hanging in the balance. If 2020 was a wake up call, 2024 has to be a 5 alarm fire. Hope people everywhere understand this. Media will never help us like they never did in all our previous elections and they will play the spoiler again if we let them -- they are still doing anecdotal profiles of trump voter.
You speak the truth. I wish more people understood the stakes as clearly as you do.
Truly. I just saw something on Instagram, yesterday, maybe, that framed the Trump/Biden choice as vote for Biden in 2024 and someone else in 2028, or vote for Trump in 2024 and never vote again, because he will destroy enough of our government that this is the last election. CHILLING.
It really is, they are just getting started.
Thank you, Natalie. Rs have always been better organized and realize the power dynamic better than Ds do.
War is easier when you have no soul. Always been Dems' tripping point.
Sadly that is so true, that is a result of the indoctrination, they program them not to question authority so that they all fall in line.
Re "prosecutable" - it was just a matter of time before it came to this. And it will get worse. If they don't trust women who are losing pregnancies for fetal crises, or when their own health is at risk, why would they give any deference to a woman who has been raped? Oh no... This is going to be a super ugly front in this ideological war. So many of them don't believe rape is an exception anyway. "It's not the baby's fault what the mother and father did..." (Kidwell, NC?)
Requiring rape claims to be “prosecutable” is particularly menacing, given that police can’t be bothered to investigate or have rape kits tested and prosecutors refuse to prosecute cases that aren’t slam dunks. The police are all too likely to reflexively dismiss a victim and threaten her with false report charges. A victim can end up being jailed for reporting her rape and these laws will only make that more likely. It may be behind a paywall, but this 2019 article in the Atlantic lays out just how heavily the system is weighted agains sexual assault victims. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/an-epidemic-of-disbelief/592807/ We have to keep pointing out as Jessica does, exceptions aren’t real.
Yup. Now TPTB have to find you credible. Can't wait until one of these cases lands in front of "Justice" Kavanaugh.
Happy Tuesday, friends! Long live the vulva!
Biden really needs to understand Catholics have abortions too. Poor people are hurt the most. If his grand daughter had a problematic miscarriage ... in TX or any of those other states, his privilege nor his beliefs would help her. There are way too many men who believe it will never happen to them or their family AND that their $ could buy a plane ticket to DC or a pro-choice state. That is simply not the case any longer. It is much more complicated.
A. why does substack sign me out 4-5 times a day? It's so aggravating as I have probably $100 a month in substacks. B. sadly Biden is too invested in "comity" to go as hard as he needs to go. Fortunately he has Harris to push him so we'll see.
I fear it is his Catholic indoctrination, he got the good parts of the message about being kind, and helping others, but he got the anti-abortion brainwashing too.
I’m not convinced that Biden wholeheartedly endorses women’s healthcare and rights as it’s not part of his root beliefs but it is part of his political agenda and that’s why he is not a good spokesperson for our cause. Kamala is the better spokesperson I agree.
Additionally when I think about why federal rights weren’t enshrined in the 50 years of Roe I realized that the leaders of the Senate and the House were overwhelmingly white men... so why would they even bother to worry about our bodies, our rights, our health? I know this sounds simplified but I’m afraid it’s not that far off from our misogynistic world we live in!
I appreciate Biden because he's not a monster, and is sort of on my side (at least has a good deal of overlap, unlike the orange menace), but I 12/10 do not care what he thinks about my uterus. I want to hear from Kamala on this every time, and from other women in the administration and federal/state/local agencies, but no more old, old white men. He's out of his depth and REALLY needs to realize that this one truly needs to be delegated to someone who understands it on a personal, visceral level. He seems like a decent, compassionate guy, and has no doubt come a long way in his decades and decades in government, but Kamala Kamala Kamala. We want to hear HER. And isn't this literally why she was his choice? We had to have a woman (and rightly so), so let's have her!
And yeah, the majority of legislators (and people in power in general) super definitely do not care about us.
The additional problem is that misogyny isn’t the only issue that affects attention to women and women’s issues. I’m reading Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Journey and it highlights how scientists have ignored female reproductive systems throughout the animal kingdom. They were almost exclusively focused on the penis. This myopic view has shaped everything in society. Many people aren’t interested in females at all and rarely consider them in anything they plan, like disaster relief or architectural design. It’s pervasive.
Architectural design: truly! Comedian and podcaster Ashley Gavin went to Bryn Mawr, IIRC, and she said she loved it for many reasons, including that the campus was specifically designed for women, from things like fixtures to, and this still makes me shudder, stairs that are geometrically easier for women to run on and awkward for men to chase them on. Boggles the mind that this even had to be a consideration, and that so few places are actually designed with any thought for women. Every staircase everywhere should be designed that way, because Lord knows none of us are safe.
There was a time when women were worshiped because humans could not tell how babies were made or understand the male factor. I have this book from Merlin Stone, an anthropological study called 'When God was a Woman' that explains it.
Yes! I have it, too! Fascinating read!
In Jewish teaching, there is the concept of shekhinah. The female aspect of God.
Yes, Leonard Nimoy did a good interview describing the feminine aspect of God.
& because the majority of them had the means to “take care of it.”
Yes, and they did.
Kamala Harris is a better spokesperson for the Biden administration than Biden would be. He'll always stumble on the Catholic teachings than have formed him, even though he may not endorse them now - whether on the politics or from a deeper conviction that reproductive health choices belong only to the person who must live with their outcome.
Harris is eloquent, articulate and she can use the first person plural - Biden cannot. As a woman of color, from an immigrant family, she has license to talk about freedom as part of an American dream. Not so for Joe.
I do wish that Jessica and Grace could have some time with our Vice President! There's a lot they can offer her.
I'd love to see them educate Biden, they have a way of cutting through the effluent.
The Iowa rape limit is just unbelievably cruel and gross. These people truly don't see women as human.
a 7 pound baby to be aborted moments before birth.
Sure, like that happens. Ever. Embrace logic and science you pieces of crap! Crawl back into the pit that you crawled out of. You're obviously an evolutionary dead end.
For real. No woman would do that and no abortion provider would do it, either. If they're too afraid to do an emergent abortion for a critically-ill woman in an emergency room (as always, thanks, Texas, and secede already, because you've been threatening it basically since you've been a state and put up or shut up), they're sure as **** not handing them out like Costco samples in week 27, let alone week 39/40.
I had a stillbirth, and by that point, the bond is such that you would never and such that "adoption!" is an incredibly facile answer to the problem of people getting pregnant with their rapists'/fathers'/uncles'/classmates' spawn, along with any other spawn that they determine, based on the truest, most intimate knowledge of their own circumstances, would be better not to carry to term.
No cis man has ever died in childbirth, and THAT is the root of the problem. It ISN'T a problem for them, but it IS a way to get more white dude and fundie votes. Reprehensible, and wow, are they in for a shock if there's actually a heaven and St. Peter turns them away for being two bags of trash in a trench coat.
👍You nailed it!
Could someone officially coin the term “anti choice harassment” please? It’s got potential.
That Andy Harris quote about the anti choice movement having to "paint the picture" of a fetus in "someone's mind" frustrates me so much. I don't care what someone's pregnancy looks like in Harris' mind or anyone elses! I care about the bodily reality of pregnancy and giving women the options to respond to it how they see best for them, not whatever fantasy is floating around in some randos ~imagination~
The fact that they think we don't know what we're contemplating and need them to tell us...tells you all you need to know about their arrogance and their lack of respect for our intelligence/rights/humanity.
For any lawyers here or others smarter than me - > WHY wasn't Comstock repealed years ago?? Like when birth control became legal again finally after Comstock? Or when abortion was legalized 50 years ago? We had momentum 50 years ago. Also, why not have repealed Not to all the other super old state laws.
Huge missed opportunities. We're we lazy back then? Think we'd never be in this spot. We should always repeal old shit! I realize hindsight 20/20.....but we are in bad bad spot.
And they won’t use Comstock solely to prohibit shipping of abortion supplies and information. Comstock is an anti-obscenity law. They will use it to prosecute anything they consider “obscene.” Things like trans medications and supplies, LGBTQ+ materials, books and information they’d ban in a classroom, art featuring images and topics they consider pornographic. (Remember how Michelangelo’s David was banned as porn by a school?) Abortion is the tippy-top of what they will prohibit and prosecute if Comstock is enforced.
I agree with Jessica. Comstock must go. A vote must be had. Rs must be put on the hotspot for their plan, their views & when they vote against repeal. The electorate REALLY needs educated on this because MSNBC is the only station reporting on it with any consistency & the R voters are not informed enough about it. Media needs to step up.
As if their corporate owners/overlords would allow that! When CNN was taken over by the evil Malone, it was immediately obvious, They had a trump town hall with no push-back whatsoever, they fired Brian Stelter, and most of their better truth-telling talking heads, and that ridiculous toady of his Zaslav, was trying to make them "Fox-lite".
"That billionaire is John Malone, a legend in the cable TV business and one who has deep and longstanding ties with David Zaslav, the CEO of WBD. People close to both men insist that Zaslav is remaking CNN because he wants to for both business and editorial reasons, and not because Malone has told him to.
But complicating that narrative is the fact that Malone has repeatedly wished, in public, for CNN to remake itself. And his prescription happens to sync with the new CNN agenda: a plan to steer the channel away from what Malone and others call a liberal bias they say muddles opinion and news. And to shift it toward a supposedly centrist, just-the-facts bent.“I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he said. Then he suggested a model: “Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.”
Malone’s comments didn’t resonate much beyond a couple of places: At Fox News, which responded with glee, and inside CNN, where they sounded alarm bells.
Those bells started ringing again last week when the company pushed CNN media reporter Brian Stelter out of his job. As I’ve reported, some people in and outside CNN believed there was a direct through line between Malone’s perspective on CNN and Stelter’s departure. The theory: Stelter, a frequent critic of Fox News, was let go either at Malone’s direct urging or by managers who wanted to please the investor."
https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column
Because people keep naively thinking that common sense and reason will prevail.
When RBG died, I said to my friend, "There goes Roe." She said "No.... never." And this is an informed person.
People don't think the worse case will happen. But it will. It's all about POWER. They'll use any legal tool to subjugate us, even a law from the Dark Ages.
Democrats didn't envision the full effect of how corrupt the SCOTUS had become. Even many Rs (who are largely never trumpers now) were surprised. They thought the court would not muck around with a 50 year old precedence. They underestimated that fucker Alito and his doppelganger Thomas. We need to use the word 'corruption' when we talk about trump and all his minions including the ones in SCOTUS.
👆🏻 totally agree. I have had male family Rs who said the same thing, followed later by “now they have gone too far.” My response, “so how will you vote?” I will repeat... men must be brought into this topic. (& Biden still needs to grasp this) They must understand they cannot “protect” their wives, their daughters or their granddaughters, and by proxy their sons or their grandsons who love their wives, under R rule. It’s really that simple. Sideways miscarriages are not rare. A gun won’t fix this issue for them and neither will money. And frankly, that could be a political ad that most candidates will not think of.
“👆🏻I totally agree” was for ARS’s comment. I need an edit function.
I consider myself informed but when the SCOTUS "review" of possibly overturning Roe "leaked"......I thought fake news....it would never happen. How fuckin NAIVE of me. Since then no commonsense has prevailed. I see the world much different now. Iran didn't always have the Chastity & Hijab law nor the morality police, before 1979 they were somewhat normal...yep...this is the exact shit that can happen. We are on scary path. Yes...its about power, domination and masculinie Christianity. But there are many dark agendas going on right now when it comes to this topic.... beyond the obvious anti women's movement and class struggle... the Republicans have talked about it behind closed doors; will we have enough humans to fight future wars, will we have enough people paying into Social Security..... and god forbid, who's going to serve them their Big Mac at the McDonald's drive-thru window 40 years from now if we don't keep forcing women to have babies that they can't afford nor do they want, the Republicans want these unwanted born for future labor pool.
Not to mention more consumers to buy their useless crap.
Oh yes. They also don't want immigrants to fill the birth rate declines... It's disgusting.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-populist-right-want-you-make-more-babies-viktor-orban/
Women are tools to them -- baby making machines to be subjugated and used so that, god forbid, colored people come into the country. It's so outrageous!
Musk's quote about demographic decline is just gross. A Trump/Musk ticket is what I'm really scared of.
I had not previously read that Politico article.... Pisses me off...... yep, that's part of the dark agenda, as if Humanity is going to cease to exist if each woman doesn't pop out five kids. And yes..... they want the woman to be the right color..... that's exactly what Anthony Comstock and his friends concerns were in the mid 1800s......like the Hitler breeding program. I disagree with paying women/men to have babies, paying them does not make them want these babies, it doesn't ensure that the babies are loved or fed.... they could be completely abused and neglected..... Fucked up shit.
It pretty much assures they will simply be a meal ticket, which is gross and very Lebensborn of them.
Damn... now I am too, but I don't think Musk could be Vice President, not being native to the US, he could not assume the reins if the rotted pumpkin kicks off. I believe that is a requirement. I may be mistaken however.
Oh.... yes.... You are correct. You made my day ! Tomorrow I'll start to worry about Tucker Carlson as the VP mate.... ;-)
Alex Jones said he was interested... that should give you a lot to worry about tomorrow, LOL
The one that worries me is Matt (I like them young) Gaetz. He's been doing appearances for the Barking yam, so the fans don't see how demented he has become.
The leader of the Idaho State Senate sad this openly a few weeks ago. Sen Chuck Winder.
I was with my child-bearing age daughter and her husband when we got the news of Bader Ginsburg's death. We started to cry, but her husband thought it was much ado about nothing. It'll be fine, he said, never happen.