"...if Republicans say the word ‘coercion’ enough, outlets will be forced to publish something about it. " This is their playbook about everything: Just repeat it enough and people will believe it as fact. That's how we are in this mess in the first place.
The NY Times didn't allow comments on that Planned Parenthood piece. Gee I wonder why...
I wish to hell that some lawmaker would have the guts to introduce a bill to ban male masturbation. It kills "baby seeds." And RFKjr should look into the effects of taking viagra or cialis. I heard that 4 hour erections are harming some men. (And possibly annoying some women.)
Goddamn those white male republican-politician-far right "christians". The taliban is coming for women. We must fight like hell for our rights. Patriarchy must end!! Women and people who love us must vote blue!!
I listened to an interview of Margaret Atwood at a writers conference. She was asked how she compared today’s events in light of The Handmaid’s Tale. She said it was worse.
She stated in an interview back when she wrote it, that it was based on People of Praise cult and one other cult. POP being of Jesse Coney Barrett's cult. She doesn't mention the POP connection, anymore.
Am I the only one who sees the irony of the party of "parental rights" accusing a mother of "corercing" her daughter to have an abortion. I guess only fathers have "parental rights."
OK, so in Indiana a proposed bill would try a minor who has an abortion as an adult, for murder. The case of the ten-year-old RAPE VICTIM who had to leave the state to get an abortion was horrible by itself. And now they'd want to try that ten-year-old, in adult court, for murder. Murder in the first degree, I assume, since the ten-year-old planned and carried out the "crime" and suborned others to assist her. (I got tired of putting in quote marks.) If Indiana has the death penalty, and that CHILD RAPE VICTIM is convicted, she'd likely spend years on death row in an adult prison and then be executed. What percentage of rapes are ever even reported? What percentage end in conviction, in imprisonment? You see where I'm going with this: "victim-blaming" is a mild phrase. "Get raped, go to prison, get tortured and executed" is closer. The rapist--"eh, boys will be boys, y' know." And let's not forget that extradiction from one state to another is a thing. Get an abortion in California; get yanked off a plane in Alabama, and prosecuted for murder. I hate to say this but this is all the logical conclusion. As you've noted many times, Jessica, this is always where they were going.
Well, I am certainly happy to see that compassion and respect by patriarchs and women has reached a new high. Children, often raped or simply experimenting teens, charged with murder...as adults?!?! Such lovely Christian Taliban sentiments. Good to know that the Gileadists are out in force and doing well. So what responses can we make, as women who are righteously fed up with having our lives and our very selves truncated by these 'people' and watching our daughters lives reduced to whatever the hell Mump and their vile minions want? Leave, if at all possible, red states and move to blue, or to Canada if you can. Without putting ourselves and our children in terrible danger, refuse to comply, obey or give or do a single thing for the monsters. Monsters they are, these terrified bullies who finally see an opportunity to own us all and everything else. We are toys and legit prey for these guys. Believe it when the guys in our lives and the guys in our governments tell us what they think we are. We have to stop making nice and excusing their behaviors, and, most importantly, we have to learn to trust and support each other like never before. We have to stop afraid. There is an old saying, I do not recall who said it, that goes like this - Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. We can't let our fear, often legitimate, allow them to kill our daughters. And we can't let our fears keep us from seeing and naming what is really going on.
There should be an "allegedly" in that christian nationalist paper headline, can they be sued for libel?
"...if Republicans say the word ‘coercion’ enough, outlets will be forced to publish something about it. " This is their playbook about everything: Just repeat it enough and people will believe it as fact. That's how we are in this mess in the first place.
The NY Times didn't allow comments on that Planned Parenthood piece. Gee I wonder why...
I sent multiple scathing letters regarding that article and many others they will probably never read.
Because they suck.
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I wish to hell that some lawmaker would have the guts to introduce a bill to ban male masturbation. It kills "baby seeds." And RFKjr should look into the effects of taking viagra or cialis. I heard that 4 hour erections are harming some men. (And possibly annoying some women.)
If they use Comstock to ban abortion, then it stands to reason that they need to ban all ED meds as "lewd."
Georgia is also trying to pass a fetal personhood bill with punishments for women. See HB 441.
Everyone should take a look at ProPublica's report on Texas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis
I saw that on BlueSky. Frightening.
Goddamn those white male republican-politician-far right "christians". The taliban is coming for women. We must fight like hell for our rights. Patriarchy must end!! Women and people who love us must vote blue!!
I listened to an interview of Margaret Atwood at a writers conference. She was asked how she compared today’s events in light of The Handmaid’s Tale. She said it was worse.
She stated in an interview back when she wrote it, that it was based on People of Praise cult and one other cult. POP being of Jesse Coney Barrett's cult. She doesn't mention the POP connection, anymore.
Am I the only one who sees the irony of the party of "parental rights" accusing a mother of "corercing" her daughter to have an abortion. I guess only fathers have "parental rights."
...rights to molest, or discipline, or so it seems. As long as it is in the name of their warped god Mammon.
OK, so in Indiana a proposed bill would try a minor who has an abortion as an adult, for murder. The case of the ten-year-old RAPE VICTIM who had to leave the state to get an abortion was horrible by itself. And now they'd want to try that ten-year-old, in adult court, for murder. Murder in the first degree, I assume, since the ten-year-old planned and carried out the "crime" and suborned others to assist her. (I got tired of putting in quote marks.) If Indiana has the death penalty, and that CHILD RAPE VICTIM is convicted, she'd likely spend years on death row in an adult prison and then be executed. What percentage of rapes are ever even reported? What percentage end in conviction, in imprisonment? You see where I'm going with this: "victim-blaming" is a mild phrase. "Get raped, go to prison, get tortured and executed" is closer. The rapist--"eh, boys will be boys, y' know." And let's not forget that extradiction from one state to another is a thing. Get an abortion in California; get yanked off a plane in Alabama, and prosecuted for murder. I hate to say this but this is all the logical conclusion. As you've noted many times, Jessica, this is always where they were going.
Well, I am certainly happy to see that compassion and respect by patriarchs and women has reached a new high. Children, often raped or simply experimenting teens, charged with murder...as adults?!?! Such lovely Christian Taliban sentiments. Good to know that the Gileadists are out in force and doing well. So what responses can we make, as women who are righteously fed up with having our lives and our very selves truncated by these 'people' and watching our daughters lives reduced to whatever the hell Mump and their vile minions want? Leave, if at all possible, red states and move to blue, or to Canada if you can. Without putting ourselves and our children in terrible danger, refuse to comply, obey or give or do a single thing for the monsters. Monsters they are, these terrified bullies who finally see an opportunity to own us all and everything else. We are toys and legit prey for these guys. Believe it when the guys in our lives and the guys in our governments tell us what they think we are. We have to stop making nice and excusing their behaviors, and, most importantly, we have to learn to trust and support each other like never before. We have to stop afraid. There is an old saying, I do not recall who said it, that goes like this - Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. We can't let our fear, often legitimate, allow them to kill our daughters. And we can't let our fears keep us from seeing and naming what is really going on.
I meant 'for' between patriarchs and women in the first sentence. Sigh.
You did get in a 'Mump'. Love it...not reading the hell that US Women are going through but the grit and humor.