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You are a mother? And you model the behavior of advocating for abortion on demand for your daughter? Let me rephrase that—you advocate for other women to have such a low regard for innocent and defenseless human beings—their own children in fact—that you will take to the streets to show your support for babies being forcibly birthed, then executed and you are so insidiously vicious and shallow you will self righteously portray the brutal execution of babies that can live without their mother’s support as a “Right”. It simply means you are so dim and full of yourself that you think you have the “right” to murder innocent and defenseless people. That is worse than Eichmann and he was a complete imbecile. Apparently you don’t grasp the implications of Evolutionary Theory. An inclination towards filicide is THE WORST signal of evolutionary fitness in a mate—wait—-it might be overshadowed by a few catastrophic genetic disorders that produce severe deformity or morbid obesity or mental illnesses like schizophrenia or coprophilia but you are a mother and you don’t see the problem with *promoting* as a “societal good” other women having their offspring dismembered in their bellies? Could it be more obvious why men are avoiding women? Coprophilia is LESS repulsive than the mental illness reflected by abortionism. THERE ARE TWELVE FORMS OF BIRTH CONTROL, EXCEPT FOR CASES OF SA, IF YOU GET PREGNANT IT IS BECAUSE YOU WERE NOT BRIGHT ENOUGH OR COMPASSIONATE ENOUGH TO BE BOTHERED TO TAKE THE SIMPLE STEPS NECESSARY TO NOT GET PREGNANT. Do you not perceive that the nature of what you are “fighting for” is *obvious* to anyone observing your behavior? You can already control when you get pregnant or not so you don’t need to advocate for the absolute atrocity of late term abortions on a whim. It is hard to explain how repugnant and tragic it is to see a ‘mother’ so deeply beset by psychosis that she does not see the horrors of what she is proposing. WAKE UP, the only difference between post-birth filicide and PRE birth filicide is that it is well known that *murdering born babies is murder* and is only perpetrated by people so mentally ill or criminal or both that they don’t have the capacity to NOT MURDER BABIES— PRE birth filicide is more insane and brutal than conventional murder by an order of magnitude because YOU ARE EMPLOYING THIRD PARTIES TO PERPETRATE AN ACT OF ATROCITY AGAINST YOUR OWN CHILD IN YOUR OWN BELLY—AT LEAST SERIAL KILLERS KILL STRANGERS— AND THE ASSASSINS YOU EMPLOY WILL PROFIT. 🤷🏾 I am not religious in the slightest, I don’t believe in supernatural creatures, I believe that every human life is precious no matter what color or sexual preference, or level of ability or disability a person has— everyone has the right to be alive and be free. But if you hate yourself and your family and your species and the world so much it is better you don’t have offspring— ultimately your insipid brutality will go extinct and we will be left with kind and loving mothers. Abortion is an Engine of atrocity.

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And we have a similar--and popular--ballot provision here in Colorado.

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Question: would a federal ban supercede this state law?

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Everyone needs a laugh now and again; brought to you by Brittany Ross:

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Good luck win big for all of us, please!

Here in Florida, we were sure our state constitution protected our rights. Until the forced birthers appointed to the state supreme court by DeathSantis, decided it didn't.

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Sep 6·edited Sep 6

Sasha-- It's good to see a familiar name guest posting today. We worked together briefly on the tail-end of Hilary's 2016 race, piloting voter-to-voter texting. I'm so heartened to see enthusiastic campaigns like this (rather than complacency) in blue cities and states. I'm hopeful that my purple state's ballot initiative will be successful as well, but the knowledge that campaigns like this are securing our freedoms permanently in some parts of the country helps me sleep better at night. Best of luck!

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What is ONE PERCENT OF A MILLION? When you say, “I’m so heartened to see enthusiastic campaigns like this..” What do you know about “heart”? Filicide is filicide. Everyone knows killing BORN babies is a consequence of catastrophic mental illness or criminality—but you folks don’t understand how much more horrific it is for you to hire an assassin to do it to your own child IN YOUR BELLY. 🤷🏾 This is a “campaign” of brutal hard heartedness so foul and insane you *advocate* for late term abortion on a whim. The reason you think “others” — people who don’t want babies forcibly birthed then executed and then have their remains sold— OOPS! SORRY DID I USE THE WORD “SOLD? I meant “DONATED” IN EXCHANGE FOR HUGE CONTRIBUTIONS BY COMPANIES THAT WILL PROFIT FROM COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION OF THEIR REMAINS— the reason you think “they” are so “evil” is because you think infanticide is a “societal good”. One thing is certain, a tendency towards filicide is a clarion call of evolutionary unfitness (for men and women)and no man should waste time or resources on any woman (and vice versa) lacking the requisite intelligence—except in cases of SA— to not only NOT get pregnant with TWELVE AVAILABLE OPTIONS but then to not understand that her own offspring are human beings worthy of dignity and compassion. Get real.

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Hassan Ali Kanu's "Anti-Abortion Activists Pushed Amarillo to Help Save the Mifepristone Case," The American Prospect https://prospect.org/justice/2024-09-06/anti-abortion-amarillo-mifepristone-case/ discussed the November 5 ballot measure in Amarillo, Texas "to enact what abortion opponents call an 'abortion trafficking ban'," which would make it illegal to use roads, including Interstate 40, to leave Texas to get an abortion. Interstate 40 goes to New Mexico (the closest state with legal abortion).

The Amarillo City Council twice voted to reject this proposal.

The article discusses the roles of radical anti-abortion activists Mark Lee Dickson and Jonathan Mitchell (a former Texas solicitor general). They are trying to ban medication abortion throughout the US and impose criminal penalties for offering any aid to a person seeking an abortion (even a legal abortion). Dickson and Mitchell wanted Amarillo to enact the ordinance so it could intervene in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA. Mitchell thought that, with Amarillo as intervenor, the case would have survived standing analysis. But, as the article points out, it's not clear what the FDA's approval of mifepristone does to harm a city with a ban on "abortion trafficking." American Studies professor Carrie Baker (Smith College) said "A local city doesn't get to weigh in on what the FDA does nationally." Baker, who is also a lawyer, said while Amarillo doesn't have an actual injury resulting from the FDA's approval of mifepristone, judges have applied "abortion exceptionalism" to distort the requirements for standing to sue.

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Especially since "abortion trafficking" (forget actual trafficking victims they DGAF about those) is term they pulled out of their ass. Even if there was such a thing, what woman would want to be tied to such a man?

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What woman would want to be “tied to a man” who is horrified by the idea of women so brutally heartless and psychotic they think it is their “right” to have her babies dismembered in her belly BY A THIRD PARTY WHO PROFITS FROM THE ATROCITY because she thinks they aren’t even human? The real question is why would ANY man waste a nano second even speaking to a woman who is such a catastrophically unfit mate? A tendency towards filicide is an announcement that a woman (or a man) is an unfit mate and no man should contribute ANY resources or time or effort or even the slightest HINT of concern her direction. You are on your own.

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Well, considering I am a retired surgical assistant and am highly educated and trained in the subject, know you have no clue of which you speak, there really is no point in engaging with you, because you aren’t living in reality. Please get professional help. I’m serious. You really are spouting propaganda .

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But women face the double-whammy of economic inequality and constant propaganda that they MUST have a man, and then MUST have children with him. In an awful situation, people do the best they can with the lousy options open to them.

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No doubt they do, it doesn’t help that contraceptives are difficult to obtain, if you are poor, and in a rural area. Those women are set up to fail.

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I think a lot more could be done now that contraceptive pills are available OTC. It's a lot easier to meet the challenge of "getting $50 to everybody who wants contraceptives but doesn't have $50" than the challenge of "getting $1,500 to everyone who wants an abortion but doesn't have $1,500". As a movement, the reproductive justice movement has to figure out more ways to meet the demands for both services and money.

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I live in New York, and this is the first I’ve heard about this proposal. Wow. I immediately posted about it to the beloved 🫤 Facebook app. This is hugely important. I don’t have a tv and stopped my subscription to the local paper. While I keep up on national news, I probably don’t do as good a job with state and local news. So maybe people other than me are more likely to know. I hope so.

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The awareness about this proposal is really low in New York state. My friend and I canvassed this weekend at a farmers market and out of the 100 people we spoke to about 4 had heard about this. The New York Democratic Party is terrible and they are not doing ANYTHING to bring awareness of the issue - so if you are in New York TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS. Have them tell THEIR FRIENDS. People just need to be made aware. I usually work the polls and most people have no idea what the initiatives on the ballot even mean - so the more informed they are before they vote the better. Seriously - we need to get the word out across the board!!

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