Please remind your readers that the Virginia elections in November are CRITICAL for abortion rights in the South. I’m not seeing enough attention paid to them and it scares me. Republicans in Virginia are two state Senate seats away from being able to pass an abortion ban. If that happens, we lose all abortion rights in the South--not to mention that Glenn Youngkin will then feel empowered to run for president. if anyone has any bandwidth to volunteer or donate to help, I’ve put together a resource document with every opportunity I know of. please sign up to write postcards or send letters or make a donation or do some phonebanking. We must win Virginia. https://tinyurl.com/SOSinVA
This is an amazing resource you put together. Educating people about state legislature elections is so important; people often don’t realize that this is where all the terrible bans are coming from. I’m gonna write some postcards for y’all!
Omg thank you! I actually do a document like this every time there’s a big election. I have a different one for Ohio, and one about the supreme court and… It goes on and on. I like to make resource documents as part of my service to subscribers. 😄
I'm concerned that those "reasonable" Republicans like Russ Andrews will, if elected, change their views suddenly and view pro-life. Hopefully, he serves to weaken boebert and make it easier to turn the seat blue.
If they were trustworthy they wouldn't be running as Republicans. If Colorado didn't have independent redistricting Democrats might have taken another seat or two. Boebert's seat isn't -that- red and she's certainly vulnerable in it. Idk if we can do better the second time around though.
I am so glad, Jessica, that you put your energy toward researching and writing this column nearly every day. Sadly, instead of angering me or motivating me, it just makes me cry. Perhaps I’m crying from anger. I know it’s not easy for you, but please keep it up as long as you’re able to.
I'm skeptical of the reasoning behind Mexico's pro-choice behavior as it is a country with a long history of ignoring women and ignoring murdered women. is there a hidden agenda here? i doubt there is a medical/legal structure to support women's health choices.
It's a growing movement across Latin America. Feminists have been working tirelessly for decades. If anything, this will help with the violence against women because they'll no longer be forced to carry an abuser's child. In turn, this will help with violence in general. It's called the Donohue-Levitt theory proposed in the book Freakonomics.
Women forced to give birth is certainly going to have seriously "inappropriate" consequences. It would be implicit that women who have planned births are going to have substantially better outcomes of health and welfare than ones who do not. I suggest reading The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster if you want to understand more about these disparities in outcomes.
I think the US is an outlier when it comes to the global trend of loosening abortion laws. Particularly in Latin America. The Catholic Church no longer has the hold it once did there.
I would think Latin America would have to be rapidly becoming more secular for real progress to be made though. Is it? Aren't evangelical movements growing strong there? Maybe theirs are different, but the thing is that American money tends to fund all this crap, the same way we always said the Saudis funded all the Islamic fundamentalists. The other huge issue of course is machismo in Spanish American cultures. All that said it's great to see that the two main presidential candidates in Mexico are both women, which its northern neighbor could learn from.
We all know what's coming in Florida, as despicable and dehumanizing as it will be. So, with that said, I want the decision to come down as close to the 2024 election as is possible. Let those with really short memories be reminded AGAIN about what the Republicans are doing.
"Muniz also called Roe v Wade “an abomination” and said to White, “you’re asking us to essentially take a whole class of human beings and put them outside of the protection of the law.”"
That stood out to me too. Blastocysts and embryos= a class of human beings who deserve protection of the law. The female half of the population= not a class of human beings who deserve protection of the law.
What's even more messed up is they don't seem to give a crap when fetuses are lost to miscarriages, stillbirths or neonatal deaths from lack of maternity care or when their mothers are murdered during pregnancy which is the #1 cause of death in pregnancy. The sole right they have is to the occupancy of pregnant bodies. Whatever happens to those pregnant bodies is no concern to the state.
But you know, Republicans care so much about impartial judges when they live in oh, say, Wisconsin and were elected by popular vote. But they can be as partisan as they like when it suits their fascist goals. *sarcasm font*
Absolutely right. They use terms like "legislate from the bench" to criticize judges they oppose but then make up laws whenever they get the chance. #Alito
"Justice" Samuel Alito Jr. shares his father's first name. He is therefore most properly known as Son of Sam. (I never get tired of that one, although I don't know how old one has to be to get the reference).
Please remind your readers that the Virginia elections in November are CRITICAL for abortion rights in the South. I’m not seeing enough attention paid to them and it scares me. Republicans in Virginia are two state Senate seats away from being able to pass an abortion ban. If that happens, we lose all abortion rights in the South--not to mention that Glenn Youngkin will then feel empowered to run for president. if anyone has any bandwidth to volunteer or donate to help, I’ve put together a resource document with every opportunity I know of. please sign up to write postcards or send letters or make a donation or do some phonebanking. We must win Virginia. https://tinyurl.com/SOSinVA
This is an amazing resource you put together. Educating people about state legislature elections is so important; people often don’t realize that this is where all the terrible bans are coming from. I’m gonna write some postcards for y’all!
Omg thank you! I actually do a document like this every time there’s a big election. I have a different one for Ohio, and one about the supreme court and… It goes on and on. I like to make resource documents as part of my service to subscribers. 😄
That's awesome. Thanks for your hard work 💕
So far, 10 out of 11 former slave states are now anti-abortion. Virginia would be the last. I don't think that's a coincidence.
That is exactly right.
I'm concerned that those "reasonable" Republicans like Russ Andrews will, if elected, change their views suddenly and view pro-life. Hopefully, he serves to weaken boebert and make it easier to turn the seat blue.
There's a great Democrat running against her! He lost last time by only 500 votes!
If they were trustworthy they wouldn't be running as Republicans. If Colorado didn't have independent redistricting Democrats might have taken another seat or two. Boebert's seat isn't -that- red and she's certainly vulnerable in it. Idk if we can do better the second time around though.
I am so glad, Jessica, that you put your energy toward researching and writing this column nearly every day. Sadly, instead of angering me or motivating me, it just makes me cry. Perhaps I’m crying from anger. I know it’s not easy for you, but please keep it up as long as you’re able to.
Understandable to be sad about how our nation has devolved but remember that our determination will knock these crazies into a permanent minority.
"The latest in this tactic comes from NBC News, which reports that Republican strategists are trying to find a new term to replace ‘pro-life’. . ."
How about pro-forced birth, pro-misogyny, or just plain anti-woman.
I'm skeptical of the reasoning behind Mexico's pro-choice behavior as it is a country with a long history of ignoring women and ignoring murdered women. is there a hidden agenda here? i doubt there is a medical/legal structure to support women's health choices.
how will this play out?
It's a growing movement across Latin America. Feminists have been working tirelessly for decades. If anything, this will help with the violence against women because they'll no longer be forced to carry an abuser's child. In turn, this will help with violence in general. It's called the Donohue-Levitt theory proposed in the book Freakonomics.
https://youtu.be/zk6gOeggViw?si=Vxw0oNjCKPcuW35r
thanks, laura, but the theory doesn't deal with women's health or welfare but certainly places criminality firmly in the lap of
in-appropriate women giving birth.
Women forced to give birth is certainly going to have seriously "inappropriate" consequences. It would be implicit that women who have planned births are going to have substantially better outcomes of health and welfare than ones who do not. I suggest reading The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster if you want to understand more about these disparities in outcomes.
laura, i'm surely not arguing with abortion access being to women's health advantage, and, thank you, for The Turnaway Study info.
my point is that I suspect Mexico's pro-abortion stance may have another agenda.
I think the US is an outlier when it comes to the global trend of loosening abortion laws. Particularly in Latin America. The Catholic Church no longer has the hold it once did there.
I would think Latin America would have to be rapidly becoming more secular for real progress to be made though. Is it? Aren't evangelical movements growing strong there? Maybe theirs are different, but the thing is that American money tends to fund all this crap, the same way we always said the Saudis funded all the Islamic fundamentalists. The other huge issue of course is machismo in Spanish American cultures. All that said it's great to see that the two main presidential candidates in Mexico are both women, which its northern neighbor could learn from.
We all know what's coming in Florida, as despicable and dehumanizing as it will be. So, with that said, I want the decision to come down as close to the 2024 election as is possible. Let those with really short memories be reminded AGAIN about what the Republicans are doing.
"Muniz also called Roe v Wade “an abomination” and said to White, “you’re asking us to essentially take a whole class of human beings and put them outside of the protection of the law.”"
What extraordinary hypocrisy.
If they ever see the irony they certainly don't let on.
That stood out to me too. Blastocysts and embryos= a class of human beings who deserve protection of the law. The female half of the population= not a class of human beings who deserve protection of the law.
What's even more messed up is they don't seem to give a crap when fetuses are lost to miscarriages, stillbirths or neonatal deaths from lack of maternity care or when their mothers are murdered during pregnancy which is the #1 cause of death in pregnancy. The sole right they have is to the occupancy of pregnant bodies. Whatever happens to those pregnant bodies is no concern to the state.
I do think they will give a crap about miscarriages if they can in any way be blamed on the pregnant person.
Certainly already plenty of women in prison because of that. Michelle Goodwin wrote a book about it called Policing the Womb.
Thanks, Laura. I have ordered the audiobook. I like Michelle Goodman but wasn’t aware of the spark.
It should be so easy to put in an ad-length message.
But you know, Republicans care so much about impartial judges when they live in oh, say, Wisconsin and were elected by popular vote. But they can be as partisan as they like when it suits their fascist goals. *sarcasm font*
Absolutely right. They use terms like "legislate from the bench" to criticize judges they oppose but then make up laws whenever they get the chance. #Alito
"Justice" Samuel Alito Jr. shares his father's first name. He is therefore most properly known as Son of Sam. (I never get tired of that one, although I don't know how old one has to be to get the reference).
I love this!