The Alabama cop city protesters' bail fund organizers are facing RICO charges. If they're convicted, I guarantee you we'll see identical prosecution of abortion funds and donators once the precedent is set. We'll probably see it even if the charges aren't upheld, because the American right never met a law they wouldn't weaponize for their own ends. In-group that the law protects but doesn't bind, out-group that the law binds but doesn't protect, etc., etc.
I'm so angry about conservatives claiming that doctors who deny clearly-necessary abortions are misinterpreting the law, while also claiming that it's too burdensome for the state or lawmakers to clarify the circumstances that should warrant an exception. If these fucking hypocrites didn't have double standards they'd have no goddamn standards at all. The inconsistency infuriates me on a whole different level.
Viability seems like a reasonable break point until you realize that anyone asking for an abortion post-viability has a good reason. Messaging has to include education bc people don’t know how bodies work.
I've been saying for years that Democrats need to get out from under the corner the "pro-life" movement put them in. The defensive adoption of "pro-choice" kept Dems from going on the offensive, grabbing the moral high ground. If they can't understand this now, we're doomed. Shame on Dems who think it's enough to declare that they're pro-choice. And unless they are listening to activists and advocates who have their ears to the ground, shame on them! That's still throwing women and girls under the bus.
Abortion, Every Day (9.12.23)
The Alabama cop city protesters' bail fund organizers are facing RICO charges. If they're convicted, I guarantee you we'll see identical prosecution of abortion funds and donators once the precedent is set. We'll probably see it even if the charges aren't upheld, because the American right never met a law they wouldn't weaponize for their own ends. In-group that the law protects but doesn't bind, out-group that the law binds but doesn't protect, etc., etc.
I'm so angry about conservatives claiming that doctors who deny clearly-necessary abortions are misinterpreting the law, while also claiming that it's too burdensome for the state or lawmakers to clarify the circumstances that should warrant an exception. If these fucking hypocrites didn't have double standards they'd have no goddamn standards at all. The inconsistency infuriates me on a whole different level.
Viability seems like a reasonable break point until you realize that anyone asking for an abortion post-viability has a good reason. Messaging has to include education bc people don’t know how bodies work.
I've been saying for years that Democrats need to get out from under the corner the "pro-life" movement put them in. The defensive adoption of "pro-choice" kept Dems from going on the offensive, grabbing the moral high ground. If they can't understand this now, we're doomed. Shame on Dems who think it's enough to declare that they're pro-choice. And unless they are listening to activists and advocates who have their ears to the ground, shame on them! That's still throwing women and girls under the bus.