Thank you Grace for this article. I’m behind on reading. I save many on my hard drive. This one for sure. The situation is out of control but I continue to fight forever ♾️
They are all immigrants with no loyalty to the country, that made them rich (and in the case of evil Murdoch, even richerr) who want to destroy our democracy to make themselves even more wealthy.
A recent poll from Axios/Ipsos, for example, that shows that 81% of Americans believe abortion “should be managed between a woman and her doctor, not the government.” And this is huge: 4 in 5 Americans don’t want pregnancy to be legislated. That includes over half of Republicans!
Now we need to convince Congress that reinstating Roe is not adequate and not something we intend to settle for.
Excellent summary of the data so far. Just one thing: can we *please* stop allowing them to name any of this, and start referring to them as anti-choice? The power of naming is incredible and using their language has always been one of our biggest mistakes.
They are "Forced-Birthers" they don't give a damn about helping those kids, once they make them be born. Here is how they used 'prolife" as a shameless marketing term.
"In the months before the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade, the Willkes published How to teach people the pro-life story, a modern-day sales manual on how to effectively market the movement. It was a play-by-play on how the Willkes communicated pro-life arguments so that other speakers might follow their lead. As described in the book, they never showed visuals of embryos less than six weeks old because “the audience may change their minds from their conviction that this is a human life.” They began their lectures with pictures of babies nearing full-term and subsequently moved through the fetal development process in reverse chronological order, asking the audience with each image: is this still a human? Their intention, as explained in the book, was to start with a picture that resembled a human to anchor the audience in the belief that they were looking at a living, breathing person."
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This is so timely! I'm recording a podcast next week with someone in public health about the consequences of abortion bans/ the Dobbs decision. This will add so much to our conversation!
(This is a good time to remind you that AED uncovered that Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins claimed that “sexual assault actually helps prevent a lot of pregnancies itself because of your body’s natural response.”)
What a backhanded way to blame a woman for getting pregnant from rape. I remember seeing her on CNN after Roe was overturned. She was ebullient about it and she claimed “science was on their side”. I don’t think she understands what science is.
He is merely repeating what Republican Congressmen have been saying for years. Remember the quote from the infamous Todd Akin? He said:
" From what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it's a LEGITIMATE rape,, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down."
Yes, back in 2012, they were trying to legislate what a "legitimate" rape was.
The self-hate comes from conditioning, through religion, through culture or through relationships. When I ask these people what is the actual value of the work of pregnancy, they can't answer because they are never taught that it has any actual value. It's a giant blind spot.
The patriarchy has spent six thousand years perfecting vectors of pounding self-hate into our heads.
Speaking of the value of pregnancy and the common shared narrative that it has no value - it's particularly funny to me that men sincerely believe that they can reverse the birth rate bottoming out with *money.* Specifically, it's hilarious to me that men believe there is enough money in the world to be capable of enticing a woman to willingly sacrifice her freedom, her dreams, her goals - her entire life, for the rest of her life, by having a baby.
That they haven't figured out that women aren't having babies expressly because men make it a living hell for women to do so, refuse to listen to us - let alone change - and most importantly, have not really caught on to the fact that they can no longer force us to have babies regardless of having won our express buy-in first.
The National Academies of Sciences Engineering & Medicine is having a webinar Wednesday, July 24, 12-1:15 ET: "Promising Strategies to Address Health Disparities Across the Reproductive Life Cycle,"
Link: Join @theNASEM for a public webinar on July 24 discussing strategies to address and reduce #HealthDisparities in #ReproductiveHealth. Register to attend: https://ow.ly/nKe450SwgN8 #HealthEquity #WomensHealth.
Dave McCormack, Republican challenger to Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, is running an ad that claims that he and Casey are in agreement about abortion in the first two trimesters. Their disagreement is about the third trimester, and really most people agree that it shouldn’t be allowed. He faces the camera straight on, speaking in that “we’re all reasonable” voice. Really? This from a man who celebrated the end of Roe and has adamantly insisted that he is “Pro Life”. When it’s shown on tv, it’s usually run next to a Casey ad quoting his real position.
These bald lies, echoing their party’s nominee, sound like the party is “softening” their position. But as Jessica has clearly noted, that’s crap. We know what Trump will do. If the Senate reverts to Republican control, this country won’t be safe for women of childbearing ages to live.
Saving Democracy? How about Save our Country? And Save the lives and health of Women. Because that’s what’s on the line in November.
I've heard people say that even if the Senate becomes GOP-ruled, the filibuster will stop the most extreme stuff. But my guess is that the GOP will drop that filibuster like a hot potato on day 1.
Thank you Grace for this article. I’m behind on reading. I save many on my hard drive. This one for sure. The situation is out of control but I continue to fight forever ♾️
I want this on a T shirt:
4 in 5 Americans don’t want pregnancy to be legislated.
Great summary, thanks so much!
Murdoch
Musk
Thiel...
What do they have in common?
Maybe they are not for the American experiment. Look around who they are funding and why (hint, hint... the chubby cheeks and the smelly old man).
Attack from within!
#VoteBlue up and down and everywhere.
They are all immigrants with no loyalty to the country, that made them rich (and in the case of evil Murdoch, even richerr) who want to destroy our democracy to make themselves even more wealthy.
Very happy to have data now and especially this:
A recent poll from Axios/Ipsos, for example, that shows that 81% of Americans believe abortion “should be managed between a woman and her doctor, not the government.” And this is huge: 4 in 5 Americans don’t want pregnancy to be legislated. That includes over half of Republicans!
Now we need to convince Congress that reinstating Roe is not adequate and not something we intend to settle for.
Excellent summary of the data so far. Just one thing: can we *please* stop allowing them to name any of this, and start referring to them as anti-choice? The power of naming is incredible and using their language has always been one of our biggest mistakes.
They are "Forced-Birthers" they don't give a damn about helping those kids, once they make them be born. Here is how they used 'prolife" as a shameless marketing term.
https://www.printmag.com/political-design/the-semiotics-of-a-movement-how-pro-life-became-a-marketing-campaign/
"In the months before the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade, the Willkes published How to teach people the pro-life story, a modern-day sales manual on how to effectively market the movement. It was a play-by-play on how the Willkes communicated pro-life arguments so that other speakers might follow their lead. As described in the book, they never showed visuals of embryos less than six weeks old because “the audience may change their minds from their conviction that this is a human life.” They began their lectures with pictures of babies nearing full-term and subsequently moved through the fetal development process in reverse chronological order, asking the audience with each image: is this still a human? Their intention, as explained in the book, was to start with a picture that resembled a human to anchor the audience in the belief that they were looking at a living, breathing person."
Thank you Grace!
Trying to hide what you're up with abortion bans in Project 2025? Follow the "Republican ABORTION BAN Playbook for Project 2025": Now available as an app and audio form in both English and Spanish!
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/07/15/republican-project-2025-abortion-ban-playbook-english-and-spanish/
This is so timely! I'm recording a podcast next week with someone in public health about the consequences of abortion bans/ the Dobbs decision. This will add so much to our conversation!
(This is a good time to remind you that AED uncovered that Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins claimed that “sexual assault actually helps prevent a lot of pregnancies itself because of your body’s natural response.”)
What a backhanded way to blame a woman for getting pregnant from rape. I remember seeing her on CNN after Roe was overturned. She was ebullient about it and she claimed “science was on their side”. I don’t think she understands what science is.
She's a clueless bint who the Washington Post quotes on damn near every article about abortion.
He is merely repeating what Republican Congressmen have been saying for years. Remember the quote from the infamous Todd Akin? He said:
" From what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it's a LEGITIMATE rape,, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down."
Yes, back in 2012, they were trying to legislate what a "legitimate" rape was.
She's a whackjob extremist. A henchwoman. Deep down she must know she is lying. She gladly does it anyway. All propaganda.
I do not understand how Hawkins can take the positions that she takes.
Easy, they pay her to be a useful idiot.
Any time I see a woman in a position like Hawkins, I assume somewhere there's a man beating her into it.
Statistically, I'm more likely to be right about this than she just opted in out of ignorance and self-hate.
The self-hate comes from conditioning, through religion, through culture or through relationships. When I ask these people what is the actual value of the work of pregnancy, they can't answer because they are never taught that it has any actual value. It's a giant blind spot.
The patriarchy has spent six thousand years perfecting vectors of pounding self-hate into our heads.
Speaking of the value of pregnancy and the common shared narrative that it has no value - it's particularly funny to me that men sincerely believe that they can reverse the birth rate bottoming out with *money.* Specifically, it's hilarious to me that men believe there is enough money in the world to be capable of enticing a woman to willingly sacrifice her freedom, her dreams, her goals - her entire life, for the rest of her life, by having a baby.
That they haven't figured out that women aren't having babies expressly because men make it a living hell for women to do so, refuse to listen to us - let alone change - and most importantly, have not really caught on to the fact that they can no longer force us to have babies regardless of having won our express buy-in first.
And that is what the religious right-wing fundamentalists want to reverse, along with all other progress since the enlightenment.
The National Academies of Sciences Engineering & Medicine is having a webinar Wednesday, July 24, 12-1:15 ET: "Promising Strategies to Address Health Disparities Across the Reproductive Life Cycle,"
Link: Join @theNASEM for a public webinar on July 24 discussing strategies to address and reduce #HealthDisparities in #ReproductiveHealth. Register to attend: https://ow.ly/nKe450SwgN8 #HealthEquity #WomensHealth.
Dave McCormack, Republican challenger to Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, is running an ad that claims that he and Casey are in agreement about abortion in the first two trimesters. Their disagreement is about the third trimester, and really most people agree that it shouldn’t be allowed. He faces the camera straight on, speaking in that “we’re all reasonable” voice. Really? This from a man who celebrated the end of Roe and has adamantly insisted that he is “Pro Life”. When it’s shown on tv, it’s usually run next to a Casey ad quoting his real position.
These bald lies, echoing their party’s nominee, sound like the party is “softening” their position. But as Jessica has clearly noted, that’s crap. We know what Trump will do. If the Senate reverts to Republican control, this country won’t be safe for women of childbearing ages to live.
Saving Democracy? How about Save our Country? And Save the lives and health of Women. Because that’s what’s on the line in November.
I've heard people say that even if the Senate becomes GOP-ruled, the filibuster will stop the most extreme stuff. But my guess is that the GOP will drop that filibuster like a hot potato on day 1.
Yep