I remember when Gonzales was arrested. I live in Texas and was infuriated. I am so happy the case is moving forward. 👏👏👏. She deserves the 1 million 🥰❤️
(video of a Texas Christian talking about Project 2025)
I think we need to also emphasize that we have to vote for a Democrat for House and Senate and the state legislatures. Without the trifecta, H, S, and WH, at the national level we cannot get abortion rights back.
wow, Tim Walz (love that guy!) on Vance (@ around 4:00). This is how it is done. I was thinking months ago that Biden's campaign should highlight how crazy these people SOUND on their podcasts and other places and Walz is doing that and calling them weird is exactly the way to do it.
Im over here in France where I live and I am scratching my head because the question keeps floating into my consciousness « What the hell do anti abortionists want? Is their goal to create a national hatchery? Make a baby or go to jail sort of thing. How many more babies do they need? Is there some kind of population drop they need to compensate for? I know the notion of a national ban on abortion is interpreted as a gesture against women. But fact is they are shooting themselves in the foot by insisting on more babies being born just for the heck of it. Let’s push for a national ban on masturbation - that’s just as stupid as banning abortion. There is no way to police such a dumb law. Keep women from crossing state lines? 🤣
They want a theocracy, like Gilead from "the Handmaid's tale". They want to force women to birth children they can neither afford, or raise, on the little stipend they might allow the gov't to give them, thus forcing them to give up said children, to the (so-called) 'christian homes' to be slaves to them, and indoctrinated to be just like them. It's some crazy shit. In many states they have been allowed to take over the adoption agencies to control who can adopt any available children, they sometimes get sued by Jewish or same-sex couples for discrimination.
Since you’re in France, you may not have heard. State lawmakers have been proposing making it illegal to cross state lines (or help someone else cross state lines) to obtain an abortion. It’s called abortion trafficking. In Texas there is a law which allows anyone to sue (and receive a minimum $10,000 if successful) a person who helps a pregnant woman get an abortion. If you give a pregnant woman gas money or a bus schedule are you helping her leave the state? Nothing says “compassion is dead” like passing a law that criminalizes a pregnant woman’s support network of family and friends.
And there are two quotes, the second quote, "Nothing is more important than the freedom to decide whether of not to have a family, and then if you do, the ability and freedom to support one, to care for one" is not clearly attributed. Is that from the same article in the Journal of Medicine?
Chubby is too weird and not normal. I wish him well as a private citizen whatever his demons are but he should be no where near #2 for the oval office. Paypal mafia be damned, other billionaires have started to speak out against this alliance of trump/vance, thiel, musk, pootie, xi.
" All the memes about JD Vance really boil down to that he is a deeply traumatized person who has decided to embrace the evil he experienced instead of transcending it.
His first Megyn Kelly interview revealed who he really is."
Lawmakers who passed abortion bans and then heard the women’s stories of suffering and did nothing to fix it have shown us that lawmakers cannot be trusted to protect women.
We trust women to raise children. We must pass laws that trust women to decide when, and if, they have children.
Pro-life abortion bans, in operation, mean let women suffer, risk permanent impair and death. If it didn’t, they would fix the mess caused by their abortion bans. instead of fixing it, they want to make it worse: national abortion bans, prohibit IVF, and deny contraception.
This is why I say: abortion on demand and without apology — it just works.
"Pro-life" is their marketing term they are anti woman/forced birthers.
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.
Here’s what Kamala Harris should say when Trump says she’s extreme and wants abortion on demand and/or late-term abortion and/or “abortion after birth” (whatever that is):
The decision of whether or not to continue a pregnancy is a medical decision. It should be made by the woman in consultation with her health care provider and whatever significant others she chooses to include. Period. It is not a political decision, it is not a legislative decision, it is not a judicial decision. The state has no legitimate role in this decision. Period. Talking about abortion on demand, late term abortion, abortion after birth, which is not a thing, is a distraction from the central point: exam rooms are too small to have politicians in them telling women what to do. They can say it’s about “saving babies” all they want; it’s not. It’s about controlling women.
The decision to have an abortion is not necessarily a medical decision. The mife/miso pill can provide an abortion and no medical decision is necessary. If the pregnancy is advanced enough, then you have to go to a clinic to have it done, this requires medical supervision.
“Medical” does not mean “done by a doctor.” Having worked in an abortion facility and also for Planned Parenthood, I can attest to the fact that all abortions, whether chemical or surgical, are medical, as opposed to judicial, legislative, or political. I cannot escape the conclusion that you misunderstood my point, which is that government has no legitimate role to play here.
Sure, medical or not, the law should not oversee a woman's decision to have an abortion. The term "medical" relates to the practice of medicine. Getting an abortion requiring an actual physical invasion of the uterus through the vagina is medical. Using RU486 means taking a pill, no physician or nurse is necessary, not medical.
Thank you Jessica for keeping this issue of reproductive autonomy and freedom of choice alive for all women. Thank you for clarifying the details of the Pro life agenda which is really part of a pro fascist agenda. We need to keep hearing and telling the stories and educating all to build the base to codify reproductive rights.
Was driving on the interstate today in rural west Ga and some people were holding banners saying "abortion is murder" and "unborn lives matter." I gave them the finger as I drove by.
You totally rock, Sister Jessica! You are definitely shaping the narrative...plus, nobody is covering abortion like you are. That in itself is a feminist feat.
Chubby cheeks is afraid Soros will load up women in planes to take from Columbus OH to get an abortion. Yes, that is actually what he said and called it creepy. You know, what is creepy and weird, it is chubby cheeks with an eyeliner talking shit like this.
He also said he called childless cat ladies (with career) miserable because his wife felt pressured to not have children so she can advance in her career. THIS MAN IS WEIRD!
Despite all the uncertainty of the last few weeks, I think Biden’s timing was perfect. Whether it was calculated or just good luck, making his announcement just after the RNC worked out for us. No way Trump picks Vance if he knew Harris would be his opponent.
I was never a Biden fan but how he did these past 3+ years has made me one and how he managed a smooth transition after the 'sabotage' to his candidacy is pure masterful. I think it was all calculated. To her credit, Harris played it well too these past few weeks being loyal and respectful.
He's not weird, he's a typical male supremacist - violently misogynistic, absolutely a menace to society, etc. If you saw him lingering around an elementary school, you'd absolutely call the cops.
I remember when Gonzales was arrested. I live in Texas and was infuriated. I am so happy the case is moving forward. 👏👏👏. She deserves the 1 million 🥰❤️
https://x.com/EastEndJoe/status/1817641169498882502
(video of a Texas Christian talking about Project 2025)
I think we need to also emphasize that we have to vote for a Democrat for House and Senate and the state legislatures. Without the trifecta, H, S, and WH, at the national level we cannot get abortion rights back.
OK, we disagree.
wow, Tim Walz (love that guy!) on Vance (@ around 4:00). This is how it is done. I was thinking months ago that Biden's campaign should highlight how crazy these people SOUND on their podcasts and other places and Walz is doing that and calling them weird is exactly the way to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLqvjlR_hmY
I wrote a reply and Substack must have eaten it. Feel free to contact me directly at chinastro@aol.com.
Please contact me personally at chinastro@aol.com.
Im over here in France where I live and I am scratching my head because the question keeps floating into my consciousness « What the hell do anti abortionists want? Is their goal to create a national hatchery? Make a baby or go to jail sort of thing. How many more babies do they need? Is there some kind of population drop they need to compensate for? I know the notion of a national ban on abortion is interpreted as a gesture against women. But fact is they are shooting themselves in the foot by insisting on more babies being born just for the heck of it. Let’s push for a national ban on masturbation - that’s just as stupid as banning abortion. There is no way to police such a dumb law. Keep women from crossing state lines? 🤣
They want a theocracy, like Gilead from "the Handmaid's tale". They want to force women to birth children they can neither afford, or raise, on the little stipend they might allow the gov't to give them, thus forcing them to give up said children, to the (so-called) 'christian homes' to be slaves to them, and indoctrinated to be just like them. It's some crazy shit. In many states they have been allowed to take over the adoption agencies to control who can adopt any available children, they sometimes get sued by Jewish or same-sex couples for discrimination.
Since you’re in France, you may not have heard. State lawmakers have been proposing making it illegal to cross state lines (or help someone else cross state lines) to obtain an abortion. It’s called abortion trafficking. In Texas there is a law which allows anyone to sue (and receive a minimum $10,000 if successful) a person who helps a pregnant woman get an abortion. If you give a pregnant woman gas money or a bus schedule are you helping her leave the state? Nothing says “compassion is dead” like passing a law that criminalizes a pregnant woman’s support network of family and friends.
I wrote an extensive reply and it didn’t go through. My email is chinastro@aol.com.
The The New England Journal of Medicine link (also the same link, "The Piece") here is behind a paywall. This is the link,
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2405254
And there are two quotes, the second quote, "Nothing is more important than the freedom to decide whether of not to have a family, and then if you do, the ability and freedom to support one, to care for one" is not clearly attributed. Is that from the same article in the Journal of Medicine?
Chubby is too weird and not normal. I wish him well as a private citizen whatever his demons are but he should be no where near #2 for the oval office. Paypal mafia be damned, other billionaires have started to speak out against this alliance of trump/vance, thiel, musk, pootie, xi.
https://x.com/mattsheffield/status/1816900473540214863
" All the memes about JD Vance really boil down to that he is a deeply traumatized person who has decided to embrace the evil he experienced instead of transcending it.
His first Megyn Kelly interview revealed who he really is."
👏👏👏❤️
Lawmakers who passed abortion bans and then heard the women’s stories of suffering and did nothing to fix it have shown us that lawmakers cannot be trusted to protect women.
We trust women to raise children. We must pass laws that trust women to decide when, and if, they have children.
Pro-life abortion bans, in operation, mean let women suffer, risk permanent impair and death. If it didn’t, they would fix the mess caused by their abortion bans. instead of fixing it, they want to make it worse: national abortion bans, prohibit IVF, and deny contraception.
This is why I say: abortion on demand and without apology — it just works.
"Pro-life" is their marketing term they are anti woman/forced birthers.
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.
https://www.printmag.com/political-design/the-semiotics-of-a-movement-how-pro-life-became-a-marketing-campaign/
Here’s what Kamala Harris should say when Trump says she’s extreme and wants abortion on demand and/or late-term abortion and/or “abortion after birth” (whatever that is):
The decision of whether or not to continue a pregnancy is a medical decision. It should be made by the woman in consultation with her health care provider and whatever significant others she chooses to include. Period. It is not a political decision, it is not a legislative decision, it is not a judicial decision. The state has no legitimate role in this decision. Period. Talking about abortion on demand, late term abortion, abortion after birth, which is not a thing, is a distraction from the central point: exam rooms are too small to have politicians in them telling women what to do. They can say it’s about “saving babies” all they want; it’s not. It’s about controlling women.
I have confidence that Harris knows exactly what to say. I did send the excerpt from Jessica’s article to her office. ☺️
The decision to have an abortion is not necessarily a medical decision. The mife/miso pill can provide an abortion and no medical decision is necessary. If the pregnancy is advanced enough, then you have to go to a clinic to have it done, this requires medical supervision.
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/abortion/the-abortion-pill
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/abortion/in-clinic-abortion-procedures
“Medical” does not mean “done by a doctor.” Having worked in an abortion facility and also for Planned Parenthood, I can attest to the fact that all abortions, whether chemical or surgical, are medical, as opposed to judicial, legislative, or political. I cannot escape the conclusion that you misunderstood my point, which is that government has no legitimate role to play here.
Sure, medical or not, the law should not oversee a woman's decision to have an abortion. The term "medical" relates to the practice of medicine. Getting an abortion requiring an actual physical invasion of the uterus through the vagina is medical. Using RU486 means taking a pill, no physician or nurse is necessary, not medical.
Thank you Jessica for keeping this issue of reproductive autonomy and freedom of choice alive for all women. Thank you for clarifying the details of the Pro life agenda which is really part of a pro fascist agenda. We need to keep hearing and telling the stories and educating all to build the base to codify reproductive rights.
I want every man’s need for viagra or cialis made public.
Comstock ostensibly would be supposed to apply to these prescriptions. But we all know it wouldn't.
Was driving on the interstate today in rural west Ga and some people were holding banners saying "abortion is murder" and "unborn lives matter." I gave them the finger as I drove by.
You totally rock, Sister Jessica! You are definitely shaping the narrative...plus, nobody is covering abortion like you are. That in itself is a feminist feat.
I have shared this newsletter with everyone I know! Jessica is making a huge impact with her work.
Chubby cheeks is afraid Soros will load up women in planes to take from Columbus OH to get an abortion. Yes, that is actually what he said and called it creepy. You know, what is creepy and weird, it is chubby cheeks with an eyeliner talking shit like this.
He also said he called childless cat ladies (with career) miserable because his wife felt pressured to not have children so she can advance in her career. THIS MAN IS WEIRD!
Yes, it is since childless women consistently rate high on the "happiness"scale.
Despite all the uncertainty of the last few weeks, I think Biden’s timing was perfect. Whether it was calculated or just good luck, making his announcement just after the RNC worked out for us. No way Trump picks Vance if he knew Harris would be his opponent.
I was never a Biden fan but how he did these past 3+ years has made me one and how he managed a smooth transition after the 'sabotage' to his candidacy is pure masterful. I think it was all calculated. To her credit, Harris played it well too these past few weeks being loyal and respectful.
He's not weird, he's a typical male supremacist - violently misogynistic, absolutely a menace to society, etc. If you saw him lingering around an elementary school, you'd absolutely call the cops.
saying 'weird' reaches more people.
Under that beard of his is a double chin.