I testified to the FL Senate Committee today against SB300 (6 week abortion ban) and twice in my testimony I said "pregnancy is too complicated to legislate." I know I didn't change anyone's mind today, but to stare into the eyes of the bill's sponsor and say that felt pretty damn good. Thank you for all your work Jessica!
There’s an excellent article in Apple News, March 27, 2023; it’s from The Guaurdian, March 21, 2023, Re Leah Torres and her clinic and work in Alabama. Everyone who supports choice should read it.
If you ask me, where we really screwed ourselves was ever acknowledging there might be anything legitimate about anti-abortion views.
There's nothing normal or acceptable about shoving your nose into your neighbor's business, especially when it's something so deeply personal.
Gonna try to make it up to Topeka Wednesday - the "Abolitionist" clownshow is planning a big demonstration at the capitol, and the Satanic Grotto folks are going up to counter-protest. Hopefully it won't be too cold. My sister said it was 16 last time she went to Planned Parenthood and she left after a couple of hours because she couldn't feel her toes.
"There's a belief that people will be more open to more and more stringent bans the further away we get from" - this is conservatives' strategy on everything, to just grind and grind away at our social fabric, our freedom, and our ability to pursue happiness in our lives. It's not that 'people will be more open to' their plans for us over time, it's that over time we'll give up resisting as the oppression becomes normal. The intent is if they can't do it all in one swift blow, to slowly choke us to death. Or like boiling a living creature in a pot by slowly increasing the temperature.
Is it just me or when they say common sense they actually mean authoritarian measures based on their belief they know what's best because Colonial patriarchal tribalism unconscious bias? No? Just me or?
I testified to the FL Senate Committee today against SB300 (6 week abortion ban) and twice in my testimony I said "pregnancy is too complicated to legislate." I know I didn't change anyone's mind today, but to stare into the eyes of the bill's sponsor and say that felt pretty damn good. Thank you for all your work Jessica!
Just finished the Traister piece. FANTASTIC.
There’s an excellent article in Apple News, March 27, 2023; it’s from The Guaurdian, March 21, 2023, Re Leah Torres and her clinic and work in Alabama. Everyone who supports choice should read it.
If you ask me, where we really screwed ourselves was ever acknowledging there might be anything legitimate about anti-abortion views.
There's nothing normal or acceptable about shoving your nose into your neighbor's business, especially when it's something so deeply personal.
Gonna try to make it up to Topeka Wednesday - the "Abolitionist" clownshow is planning a big demonstration at the capitol, and the Satanic Grotto folks are going up to counter-protest. Hopefully it won't be too cold. My sister said it was 16 last time she went to Planned Parenthood and she left after a couple of hours because she couldn't feel her toes.
“Republican lawmakers say they do not plan to change the abortion law. Instead, they want to streamline adoptions.”
This is the grossest part about anti-abortion chomping at the bit to capitalize off of selling babies.
"There's a belief that people will be more open to more and more stringent bans the further away we get from" - this is conservatives' strategy on everything, to just grind and grind away at our social fabric, our freedom, and our ability to pursue happiness in our lives. It's not that 'people will be more open to' their plans for us over time, it's that over time we'll give up resisting as the oppression becomes normal. The intent is if they can't do it all in one swift blow, to slowly choke us to death. Or like boiling a living creature in a pot by slowly increasing the temperature.
Is it just me or when they say common sense they actually mean authoritarian measures based on their belief they know what's best because Colonial patriarchal tribalism unconscious bias? No? Just me or?