I appreciate the AED glossary on things like how antis twist the language of disability rights, abolition, coercion, etc. to their ends. I’d be happy to help work with you on adding an entry about the history of witches and contraception and abortion. It’s interesting actually how they once again take something with a relationship to historical truth and repackage it in a way designed to justify renewed terror campaigns and violence. Early modern witch terror campaigns were about a lot of things, but Sylvia Federici and others have noted that in the wake of depopulation from the plagues when workers were in higher demand, those who had the knowledge to restrain population growth like skilled midwives were indeed targeted. Federici ties this to the development of capitalism, which depends on women doing the labor of childbearing and child-rearing (“social reproduction” of the workforce) for free, and thus driving down the cost of all labor.
Knowledge of savin, pennyroyal, angelica, and peacock flower shared among people who didn’t even consider pregnancy meaningful until after “quickening” (when we can feel fetal movement) at 18-20 weeks or so is a far cry from whatever the hell this TPUSA speaker is describing. The witch trials were a torture campaign, it’s helpful to remember, so she may be very serious about that bit.
Her speech was so unhinged from reality and the well documented historical record. The verbatum transcripts of the Salem witch trials are held by the Peabodody Essex Museum. Inconvenient women seem to be the common denominator. The attack on midwifery is interesting. Not sure what the angle is there.
Anti-abortion groups are increasingly reframing fatal fetal anomalies and non-viable pregnancies as a disability rights issue. By calling non-viable fetuses “disabled children,” they seek to portray abortion as discrimination rather than healthcare. This strategy obscures medical reality, exploits disability rights language, and ultimately serves the same goal as traditional abortion bans: limiting pregnant people’s ability to make their own medical decisions.
We have to constantly remind people that the women comes first. The living breathing women should always take precedence. When the woman is erased from the statement we must put her back.
It's not Friday, but this woman is a heroine: Melinda French Gates pledged $215 million to women’s health. Specifically, expanding contraceptive access, maternal care, and menopause research globally, pushing her total investment in women’s health past $600 million over the past two years.
Ugh! Today’s New York Times has both a soft focus article about Ballerina Farm and an op-ed calling Democrats extremists on abortion and claiming we need to compromise more. Nowhere in the legacy media do I see any coverage of rising mortality rates or the real life consequences of bans.
Actual reasoning behind the witch trials: Oh right, property! Women who disrupted patriarchal norms. Widows, older women, and those who held independent property were disproportionately targeted because they lived outside the control of husbands or fathers, making their independence highly threatening to the status quo.
I do not understand why people continue to use “X” when communicating anything that deviates from the MAGA agenda. I understand that “X” is huge but it is also privately controlled by a misogynist with unlimited money.
The Constitution of the United States separates church and state. Mr. Talarico is a Presbyterian as am I and my late minister. My minister and I did not recognize “life” being official until a baby was born and could breathe on its own, or with the assistance of a hospital’s medical staff.
These people including the Supreme Court justices who LIED to the Senate to obtain their seats on the court, by claiming they respected “precedent”, will go down in history (and already have), as the deceivers they are, as they impose their religious beliefs on the American population.
This SCOTUS will be immortalized for their crimes against their oaths to the Constitution.
The fight to preserve a woman’s right to bodily autonomy is ongoing and will be won.
The people who are fighting against women’s right to bodily autonomy are weak minded people. They are the ones who are afraid of being in control of their own bodies and lives. Instead, they believe they must be “subject” to another authority.
That is their weakness. That is how to defeat them. Americans do bend the knee to a religious institution or a religious authority. This is a country based on the separation of church and state.
Your desire to bend the knee to a certain religion is NOT “my” concern, it’s your belief. Do not impose your beliefs on me. That is why the First Amendment is protected by the Second Amendment - and NEVER let these people who try to tell women how they must live - forget that.
It’s interesting to note that the father Jesse Ridgeway described his wife’s pregnancy as an “unborn child”. We also should note that Down’s syndrome infants are sustainable and capable of maturing to early adulthood. And so the argument for aborting a Down’s syndrome pregnancy is not really about sustainability immediately after birth. It is strictly a quality of life issue.
This is another good time to remember that the most important reason for the right to abortion is that a woman’s pregnancy is not an “unborn child”. It is a part of her body and is of no legal, moral or practical issue as to whether she wants to be pregnant or not. All abortions ought to be elective abortions. If the pregnancy is experiencing defects, she should get an abortion. Nobody should be born into the world suffering from the monstrous and crippling defects we see when the vastly complicated and intricate processes of gestation goes wrong. We are right to make room for those who suffer from such defects, but we also need to protect women from the circumstances that encourage them and encourage terminating the pregnancies when we find them.
TPUSA doesn't care about facts. They just make sh*t up, and frankly the media does a lousy job of fact-checking TPUSA and other rightwing hate factories.
As someone who has a small YouTube channel pushing back on this sort of thing - they are banking on their audience 1.) not asking those questions 2.) being suspicious of those that do. It's... frustrating.
Definitely. I woukd love to have reporters ask these people the following question: Why do you think that you have the right to make medical decisions for women?
I was hoping after Charlie's death and Erika's epic failure's as his replacement that TP USA would fizzle out. I guess I was wrong, and we need to continue to call them on their BS.
Texas Alliance for Life and Abolish Abortion Texas sponsor are at odds thus the Texas GOP are in a conundrum. Awe poor babies no pun intended.
Texas is a piece of work. I’m supporting Talarico and hope we get some movement here.
The only evil witches are the women speaking against their own best interests at that conference and any woman who doesn’t support a person’s right to choose. 😠
If Dems don’t shape up and become clear minded on abortion soon or women’s freedom as I call it, they are going to lose a huge chunk of their most loyal base.
I appreciate the AED glossary on things like how antis twist the language of disability rights, abolition, coercion, etc. to their ends. I’d be happy to help work with you on adding an entry about the history of witches and contraception and abortion. It’s interesting actually how they once again take something with a relationship to historical truth and repackage it in a way designed to justify renewed terror campaigns and violence. Early modern witch terror campaigns were about a lot of things, but Sylvia Federici and others have noted that in the wake of depopulation from the plagues when workers were in higher demand, those who had the knowledge to restrain population growth like skilled midwives were indeed targeted. Federici ties this to the development of capitalism, which depends on women doing the labor of childbearing and child-rearing (“social reproduction” of the workforce) for free, and thus driving down the cost of all labor.
Knowledge of savin, pennyroyal, angelica, and peacock flower shared among people who didn’t even consider pregnancy meaningful until after “quickening” (when we can feel fetal movement) at 18-20 weeks or so is a far cry from whatever the hell this TPUSA speaker is describing. The witch trials were a torture campaign, it’s helpful to remember, so she may be very serious about that bit.
Her speech was so unhinged from reality and the well documented historical record. The verbatum transcripts of the Salem witch trials are held by the Peabodody Essex Museum. Inconvenient women seem to be the common denominator. The attack on midwifery is interesting. Not sure what the angle is there.
Anti-abortion groups are increasingly reframing fatal fetal anomalies and non-viable pregnancies as a disability rights issue. By calling non-viable fetuses “disabled children,” they seek to portray abortion as discrimination rather than healthcare. This strategy obscures medical reality, exploits disability rights language, and ultimately serves the same goal as traditional abortion bans: limiting pregnant people’s ability to make their own medical decisions.
We have to constantly remind people that the women comes first. The living breathing women should always take precedence. When the woman is erased from the statement we must put her back.
it's fairly easy to send https://www.noleensedra.com/ a message if you want. And thank you Jessica for Nick's email and phone 👍🏼
It's not Friday, but this woman is a heroine: Melinda French Gates pledged $215 million to women’s health. Specifically, expanding contraceptive access, maternal care, and menopause research globally, pushing her total investment in women’s health past $600 million over the past two years.
Ugh! Today’s New York Times has both a soft focus article about Ballerina Farm and an op-ed calling Democrats extremists on abortion and claiming we need to compromise more. Nowhere in the legacy media do I see any coverage of rising mortality rates or the real life consequences of bans.
Actual reasoning behind the witch trials: Oh right, property! Women who disrupted patriarchal norms. Widows, older women, and those who held independent property were disproportionately targeted because they lived outside the control of husbands or fathers, making their independence highly threatening to the status quo.
Complete trash opinion article in the NYT (surprise):
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/opinion/democrats-abotion-compromise.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
They are insane.
I do not understand why people continue to use “X” when communicating anything that deviates from the MAGA agenda. I understand that “X” is huge but it is also privately controlled by a misogynist with unlimited money.
The Constitution of the United States separates church and state. Mr. Talarico is a Presbyterian as am I and my late minister. My minister and I did not recognize “life” being official until a baby was born and could breathe on its own, or with the assistance of a hospital’s medical staff.
These people including the Supreme Court justices who LIED to the Senate to obtain their seats on the court, by claiming they respected “precedent”, will go down in history (and already have), as the deceivers they are, as they impose their religious beliefs on the American population.
This SCOTUS will be immortalized for their crimes against their oaths to the Constitution.
The fight to preserve a woman’s right to bodily autonomy is ongoing and will be won.
The people who are fighting against women’s right to bodily autonomy are weak minded people. They are the ones who are afraid of being in control of their own bodies and lives. Instead, they believe they must be “subject” to another authority.
That is their weakness. That is how to defeat them. Americans do bend the knee to a religious institution or a religious authority. This is a country based on the separation of church and state.
Your desire to bend the knee to a certain religion is NOT “my” concern, it’s your belief. Do not impose your beliefs on me. That is why the First Amendment is protected by the Second Amendment - and NEVER let these people who try to tell women how they must live - forget that.
It’s interesting to note that the father Jesse Ridgeway described his wife’s pregnancy as an “unborn child”. We also should note that Down’s syndrome infants are sustainable and capable of maturing to early adulthood. And so the argument for aborting a Down’s syndrome pregnancy is not really about sustainability immediately after birth. It is strictly a quality of life issue.
This is another good time to remember that the most important reason for the right to abortion is that a woman’s pregnancy is not an “unborn child”. It is a part of her body and is of no legal, moral or practical issue as to whether she wants to be pregnant or not. All abortions ought to be elective abortions. If the pregnancy is experiencing defects, she should get an abortion. Nobody should be born into the world suffering from the monstrous and crippling defects we see when the vastly complicated and intricate processes of gestation goes wrong. We are right to make room for those who suffer from such defects, but we also need to protect women from the circumstances that encourage them and encourage terminating the pregnancies when we find them.
It is particularly mind-boggling that a man drugged his girlfriend, and wasn't charged for it!?!? I mean, wtf?
WTF, indeed.
I would love Noleen's source for her claim that the witch trials were about abortion.
TPUSA doesn't care about facts. They just make sh*t up, and frankly the media does a lousy job of fact-checking TPUSA and other rightwing hate factories.
As someone who has a small YouTube channel pushing back on this sort of thing - they are banking on their audience 1.) not asking those questions 2.) being suspicious of those that do. It's... frustrating.
Definitely. I woukd love to have reporters ask these people the following question: Why do you think that you have the right to make medical decisions for women?
Yessss. Instead of just uncritically nodding along like, "oh, of course".
I was hoping after Charlie's death and Erika's epic failure's as his replacement that TP USA would fizzle out. I guess I was wrong, and we need to continue to call them on their BS.
TPUSA ought to be classified as a hate group. Aside from white Christian nationalists, is there any other group they like?
Texas Alliance for Life and Abolish Abortion Texas sponsor are at odds thus the Texas GOP are in a conundrum. Awe poor babies no pun intended.
Texas is a piece of work. I’m supporting Talarico and hope we get some movement here.
The only evil witches are the women speaking against their own best interests at that conference and any woman who doesn’t support a person’s right to choose. 😠
I wish Democrats would lean HARD into abortion rights. It's a winning strategy.
If Dems don’t shape up and become clear minded on abortion soon or women’s freedom as I call it, they are going to lose a huge chunk of their most loyal base.