I'm so mad cause I had a comment all typed out and I was trying to edit it and I did something that erased it.. but basically I was saying we all have our own ideas on abortion but the religious people only have the churches ideas on that. But I also have to say I'm pretty much right wing and I'm an atheist. There's not a set group of rules or ideas you have to live by to be republican. They would rather not have so much involvement in our lives . They are all for less government and following the constitution as it was written. And not stepping on our rights. The ultra religious ideals on abortion is probably the wives or the church talking. I know that overturning roe v wade wasn't about the subject matter of the law it was how the law came to be a law if that makes sense. But I think the push for full term abortions was what sparked the push for anti abortion ideals. I can half understand it but not completely because up until labor is kinda redundant I think. I mean that far the damage has been done but it's way easier to find an adoption attorney than an abortion place in most cities. And the family that adopts the baby pays for the legal fees and most of the time the medical bills if you haven't already gotten assistance for the medical part. But on the same note even if they didn't do what they were supposed to do by allowing us to vote for it on the next ballot there is still that. But yeah I think democrat politicians are way more controlling than republicans. Democrat politicians just have more cunning ways to get people to comply with giving up freedoms so it's difficult to see the underlying fuckery in their intentions. But I won't get into that. But republicans like rand Paul work for us while trying to preserve our freedoms and democrats do what's best for them at the moment. They think they know what's best for everyone and don't think we are smart enough to know what's best. Lol
Great Quote: “One thing about the righteous: they are ‘right’. It’s in the name. As a righteous person, your interpretation of right/wrong is, definitionally, the correct interpretation. No matter if your POV has no basis in law, medicine, or science. No matter that your POV runs contrary to the wishes of a majority of your fellow citizens. Nothing matters except your certitude regarding your own beliefs.”
The plain cruelty of the extreme anti-abortion movement is crazy righteous. Biased judges and statehouses feel completely free to pass inhumane laws based on extreme Christian, bible-informed beliefs. I think it’s horrible that a law from 1864 is back in force, but what about all the 2000+ years-old biblical laws? There are an awful lot of bible verses about women suffering and divine duties.
Here’s a couple of choice ones:
“I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you” Gen. 3:16 (Translate: too bad if it hurts, or your body is too young, or your life at risk; God intended you to suffer.)
“A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.” John 16:21 (Translate: Babies are divinely intended, even if you are 14 and completely broke. Be happy.)
Each time I'm gobsmacked by forced-birth cruelty, I remember the beliefs: God intended us to suffer for the sins of Eve. Men are dominant and we are merely vessels for them (and for their offspring). Our individuality, agency, independence and free will are of no consequence. How dare we expect to avoid the suffering God intended?
I hope to see more sunlight on the unconstitutional connection of inflexible religious beliefs and the law. Where is the Establishment Clause in all of this? Oh yeah, our secular rights must not impinge on their religious beliefs, or something like that.
I really like the comments of Wendy Wetzel. "Men still trying to control our bodies". If you can't get bans lifted, try your best to live in a state where abortion is protected. If you cannot do that, at least take all your vacations in blue states. And personally I like hearing about people who choose sterilization. I don't have children and I have a great life. One doesn't have to have children to be fulfilled. It's great that the Opill is available over the counter. And birth control pills are very reliable. Be safe out there, where republican politicians, especially cristo-fascist white men are determined to hurt women and girls.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has published a study reporting that over-the-counter birth control pills are safe and effective: Practice Advisory, "First Over-the-Counter Daily Contraceptive Pill Released," https//www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/practice-advisory/articles/2024/03/first-over-the-counter-daily-contraceptive-pill-released. I found out about it from the Society of Family Planning April 11 weekly update.
I think that as a movement, reproductive justice needs to work on many fronts. The more people who don't want to be pregnant don't GET pregnant, the better, so a lot more contraceptive information needs to be out there. Young women need to realize that if they are going to be having potentially-impregnating kinds of sex, consistently using effective contraception makes them sensible, it doesn't make them "sluts." And as a movement, we need to amplify the amazing work abortion access funds are doing by finding additional ways to make financing available for contraception and other kinds of health care in addition to abortion.
Even as Republicans continue to systematically eliminate access to abortion, their efforts are being thwarted by a network of providers who mail abortion pills to ALL 50 states. Pregnant people need to know that pills are safe, accessible, low cost, and sometimes free—and they can get all the information they need through Plan C.
The Plan C website not only connects people to suppliers--it also provides social media toolkits and stickers.
If you live in a red state (or will be visiting one), please consider ordering stickers from Plan C and pasting them everywhere. (They also have a DIY version you can download and print at home here.) Public bathrooms, airports, bus stops, on phone poles outside clubs and coffee shops, in music venues, in schools, in Target dressing rooms. Use your imagination. Give them to teenagers and have them distribute them wherever they go. Include men’s bathrooms.
If you live in a blue state, have stickers delivered to supportive friends or relatives who live in red states. And, of course, their usefulness isn’t limited to red states. Abortions can be hard to come by in blue states, too.
First, props to the protesters! Being online is ok as a form of pushback but ASSSEMBLY is the form of free speech that freaks these arrogant politicians out!
Second, we all must read this! It’s a peek behind the curtain where the GOP “wizards” make up marketing slogans to get them into your doctor’s office. As an example, marketing a 14 week ban as a 15 week ban because it applies on day 1 of the 15th week. Deceive voters, steal rights, oppress women …. There is no “great and powerful Oz”, people! Click your heels like the people of Kansas and protect yourselves!!
It’s curious that one Florida poll showed only 42% support. That abortion rights would have less support in Florida than in Ohio and Kansas seems odd to me. What did the polling look like in these states?
I'm so mad cause I had a comment all typed out and I was trying to edit it and I did something that erased it.. but basically I was saying we all have our own ideas on abortion but the religious people only have the churches ideas on that. But I also have to say I'm pretty much right wing and I'm an atheist. There's not a set group of rules or ideas you have to live by to be republican. They would rather not have so much involvement in our lives . They are all for less government and following the constitution as it was written. And not stepping on our rights. The ultra religious ideals on abortion is probably the wives or the church talking. I know that overturning roe v wade wasn't about the subject matter of the law it was how the law came to be a law if that makes sense. But I think the push for full term abortions was what sparked the push for anti abortion ideals. I can half understand it but not completely because up until labor is kinda redundant I think. I mean that far the damage has been done but it's way easier to find an adoption attorney than an abortion place in most cities. And the family that adopts the baby pays for the legal fees and most of the time the medical bills if you haven't already gotten assistance for the medical part. But on the same note even if they didn't do what they were supposed to do by allowing us to vote for it on the next ballot there is still that. But yeah I think democrat politicians are way more controlling than republicans. Democrat politicians just have more cunning ways to get people to comply with giving up freedoms so it's difficult to see the underlying fuckery in their intentions. But I won't get into that. But republicans like rand Paul work for us while trying to preserve our freedoms and democrats do what's best for them at the moment. They think they know what's best for everyone and don't think we are smart enough to know what's best. Lol
Thanks for the links!
I recommend this recent commentary in the Daily Beast (3/27, Michael Ian Black): https://tinyurl.com/c9jbt8y3
Great Quote: “One thing about the righteous: they are ‘right’. It’s in the name. As a righteous person, your interpretation of right/wrong is, definitionally, the correct interpretation. No matter if your POV has no basis in law, medicine, or science. No matter that your POV runs contrary to the wishes of a majority of your fellow citizens. Nothing matters except your certitude regarding your own beliefs.”
The plain cruelty of the extreme anti-abortion movement is crazy righteous. Biased judges and statehouses feel completely free to pass inhumane laws based on extreme Christian, bible-informed beliefs. I think it’s horrible that a law from 1864 is back in force, but what about all the 2000+ years-old biblical laws? There are an awful lot of bible verses about women suffering and divine duties.
Here’s a couple of choice ones:
“I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you” Gen. 3:16 (Translate: too bad if it hurts, or your body is too young, or your life at risk; God intended you to suffer.)
“A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.” John 16:21 (Translate: Babies are divinely intended, even if you are 14 and completely broke. Be happy.)
Each time I'm gobsmacked by forced-birth cruelty, I remember the beliefs: God intended us to suffer for the sins of Eve. Men are dominant and we are merely vessels for them (and for their offspring). Our individuality, agency, independence and free will are of no consequence. How dare we expect to avoid the suffering God intended?
I hope to see more sunlight on the unconstitutional connection of inflexible religious beliefs and the law. Where is the Establishment Clause in all of this? Oh yeah, our secular rights must not impinge on their religious beliefs, or something like that.
I really like the comments of Wendy Wetzel. "Men still trying to control our bodies". If you can't get bans lifted, try your best to live in a state where abortion is protected. If you cannot do that, at least take all your vacations in blue states. And personally I like hearing about people who choose sterilization. I don't have children and I have a great life. One doesn't have to have children to be fulfilled. It's great that the Opill is available over the counter. And birth control pills are very reliable. Be safe out there, where republican politicians, especially cristo-fascist white men are determined to hurt women and girls.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has published a study reporting that over-the-counter birth control pills are safe and effective: Practice Advisory, "First Over-the-Counter Daily Contraceptive Pill Released," https//www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/practice-advisory/articles/2024/03/first-over-the-counter-daily-contraceptive-pill-released. I found out about it from the Society of Family Planning April 11 weekly update.
I think that as a movement, reproductive justice needs to work on many fronts. The more people who don't want to be pregnant don't GET pregnant, the better, so a lot more contraceptive information needs to be out there. Young women need to realize that if they are going to be having potentially-impregnating kinds of sex, consistently using effective contraception makes them sensible, it doesn't make them "sluts." And as a movement, we need to amplify the amazing work abortion access funds are doing by finding additional ways to make financing available for contraception and other kinds of health care in addition to abortion.
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Even as Republicans continue to systematically eliminate access to abortion, their efforts are being thwarted by a network of providers who mail abortion pills to ALL 50 states. Pregnant people need to know that pills are safe, accessible, low cost, and sometimes free—and they can get all the information they need through Plan C.
The Plan C website not only connects people to suppliers--it also provides social media toolkits and stickers.
If you live in a red state (or will be visiting one), please consider ordering stickers from Plan C and pasting them everywhere. (They also have a DIY version you can download and print at home here.) Public bathrooms, airports, bus stops, on phone poles outside clubs and coffee shops, in music venues, in schools, in Target dressing rooms. Use your imagination. Give them to teenagers and have them distribute them wherever they go. Include men’s bathrooms.
If you live in a blue state, have stickers delivered to supportive friends or relatives who live in red states. And, of course, their usefulness isn’t limited to red states. Abortions can be hard to come by in blue states, too.
First, props to the protesters! Being online is ok as a form of pushback but ASSSEMBLY is the form of free speech that freaks these arrogant politicians out!
Second, we all must read this! It’s a peek behind the curtain where the GOP “wizards” make up marketing slogans to get them into your doctor’s office. As an example, marketing a 14 week ban as a 15 week ban because it applies on day 1 of the 15th week. Deceive voters, steal rights, oppress women …. There is no “great and powerful Oz”, people! Click your heels like the people of Kansas and protect yourselves!!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-gop-strategy-document-implores-235424592.html
AP et al are not going to change. It's up to the DNC to mount a massive paid advertising campaign.
The “protestor/asshole” line made me lol for real! Keep giving them hell, Jessica! 👏👏👏
It’s curious that one Florida poll showed only 42% support. That abortion rights would have less support in Florida than in Ohio and Kansas seems odd to me. What did the polling look like in these states?
The Birth Justice article is excellent. They are very comprehensive with the services and protections they want for pregnant people.
Protester/asshole James Baird is just great line. I can't nail him down on Google. Does anybody know about him?