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I love "Fox News!" hahahha extremists get attention. Remember that in every aspect of the news.

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Gotta embrace the news when it's good!

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The two extreme positions on abortion are when a government compels it as China did and when a government restricts it like some of our states are doing. The government should have nothing to do with it other than licensing doctors and making sure medicines are safe.

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FYI Isreal. The United Nations envoy on sex crimes during conflict presented a report at the UN indicating that rape and gang rape likely occurred during the October 7 Hamas invasion.

The 24-page report, based on more than two weeks of meetings on the ground, states that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Hamas committed rape and sexual abuse during its murderous rampage on October 7, and that there is an even higher standard of evidence to indicate that hostages kidnapped by Hamas that day were subject to rape in captivity.

Moran Stela Yanai, a former hostage in Gaza who was freed in late November, hinted at having been subject to sexual abuse during her time in captivity in Gaza in a new interview, saying that she is not yet ready to talk about it.

“There are a lot of things that you [block] out. There’s no time to cope with them. The goal was to survive,” she told Channel 12’s “Uvda” investigative program, which aired Thursday evening, adding that she will be ready to address them more fully at some point in the future.

“There was this constant fear of being raped at any moment. And then a day passes, and another one passes. So you prepare yourself — you neglect yourself,” she said. “I’m not especially beautiful, I don’t smell very good at all. You know, so you repel them. I’m old, I’m 40, I’m ‘hatiar,'” she said, using an Arab slang term that means old person.

Freed hostage Amit Soussana told The New York Times in an interview published Tuesday that she was sexually assaulted by her Hamas guard during her captivity in Gaza.

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Again. Extremists understand politics. David Brooks opinion piece on Israel was spot on. Hamas is the reason people are dying. They alone hold the responsibility. Shameful what the entire world is doing to Palestinians. We Jews just want to not be extinct. But extremism is what gets attention. Read the fine print: Death to Jews, Death to Israel, Death to America. I will not side with Hitler on this one. I will also not defend a culture that systematically oppresses women. Iran, Hamas, etc. You know who you are. Why the far left is defending these groups is something I will never understand. Stop victim blaming, at least that's what they say. Yet they are blaming the victim - the Jews. We will all be dead if this continues.

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Duh.

In South Carolina house bill 5725 was introduced in the state's House of Representatives on March 19 by Democratic Representative Jermaine Johnson. The bill text stipulates that any insurer that offers individual or group life insurance policies to extend the policy to unborn embryos. While still in the legislative process, if enacted the bill would give unborn embryos the same individual rights as born children who are no longer in the womb or other state prior to birth.  Johnson also said that embryos should be given a Social Security number as well.

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Democrats all across the country should be introducing bills like these. Hit 'em where it hurts--in the pocketbook!

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Regarding the “poll last year showed…. that 78% of Americans believe the decision whether to have an abortion should be left to a woman and her doctor”: I understand why this is important (and great), but a part of me gets angry when I read this. Why should it matter whether Americans are in favor of supporting my human rights or not? Looking at it another way, how would we feel if polls showed that 78% of Americans felt that Black people shouldn’t be slaves? Personally, I find it insulting that this issue is even considered worthy of being asked.

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Had a Humans Rights Watch staff member in my home interviewing myself and spouse as part of a report on medical care for those with painful conditions, disabled. US did not do well. This applies re reproductive rights also, I agree. It shouldn’t even be up for discussion.

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Congress is dominated by members who don't think they work for their constituents--they work for their billionaire donors. It is also dominated by people who do not think that the federal government can have any worthwhile functions, so they do their best to prevent government from happening at all. A significant portion of Congress consists of people who are actively trying to end human life on Earth, because they think the sooner the End Times come, the better--so there's no point in advancing the cause of peace, or preventing environmental destruction. Of course that also serves the interests of donors from the military-industrial complex and the fossil fuel industries.

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I often block this out of conscious but yep.

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Mar 29·edited Mar 29

Good news, but I gotta say, it really chaps me that this decision is "between a woman and** her doctor**". The GREAT thing about SMA is that it is de-medicalized. I don't need a doctor to tell me it's OK to take mife/miso up to 10 weeks (FDA); 12 weeks (WHO); 16 weeks (international community networks); 22 weeks (Doctors Without Borders). In fact, if I'm in my 2nd trimester, the international networks have way more experience with SMA than many (most?)[US] doctors do.

And IMO the male medical community is why we are in this mess in the first place. They took it out of midwives' and women's hands with the "professionalization" of gynecology services in the 19th century, and then threw us under the bus by not providing abortion as a regular, ordinary procedure in the office (OBs, Gyns, Family Practice, Internist). Thanks, I feel better now for venting.

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Having heard your vent (we’re all venting these days), in my male doctor practice and community, abortion including third trimester was available before Dobbs and will be again. Most docs don’t like having ignorant legislators and judges telling us how to practice. We are a resource for everyone who needs medical care whenever one can’t handle it on their own and I hope in the future that will be true everywhere.

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I wish it was just the men in medicine. My Southern community is full of serious anti-choice citizens including physicians, especially women physicians. I don’t want to have another Hillary moment. Somehow we also need to address the culture of medicine-all patients need to be treated objectively; no picking and choosing who gets care and what kind based on personal character judgements. I see increasing judgement in medicine, stigma, labeling of real physical problems as psychological, refusal to treat, refusal to treat effectively, across the board. It’s terrifying.

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Good points.

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Any Democrat can win anywhere even in blood ruby red districts as long as the Democrat hammers on Dobbs hard. Prevaricate or try to straddle and lose lose lose.

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Jessica, thanks for bringing this enlightening news forward. I'm always enervated (50 cent word for the day) to have real data to support my position. Keep doing what you're doing sister!

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As someone who was born, raised and has spent my entire life in the South, culturally right-leaning people are MY people. I've known and loved them forever - we shop together, send our kids to the same schools, go to church together, etc.... For most of my life, when these folks found out I only voted for Democrats, in part, because of the nutbag stance that had been in the Republican Party platform since Reagan, they'd look at me like I was a simpleton : "Honey, we've got Roe and no way they're overturning Roe because that would be suicide. They just say that pro-life bullshit as boob bait for the bubbas." Clearly, I was an unsophisticated political thinker.

All of that is just a long way of saying that those numbers don't surprise me one single bit, but they sure do delight me!

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I am just the opposite. New York born and bred. Plenty of conservatives here, and they would say the same thing: “Our party will never overturn Roe.” They’d laugh when I said, “Don’t be so sure “ I was a reporter and did a lot of stories in the 90s on the Evangelical churches pushing to overturn Roe.

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I am so here for the phrase “boob bait for the bubbas”. Thank you for this. Love.

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Now that it's happened, those are the kind of people, whether in the South or elsewhere, who now have to decide what to do about it and how to vote.

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Agreed, as someone who lived in the south for most of my life, southerners really don't like people messing with their rights - look what happened in AL this week! What a week!!!

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shhhh….don’t tell ‘em! Let’s give them the biggest surprise ever in November, OK???

Deal.

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When anti-choice groups stop giving these politicians billions...and the politicians stop taking it.... maybe then we can have our autonomy back! 🫠

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I think these numbers are reflected in Marilyn Lands' 25-point victory in the Alabama special election on Tuesday. Marilyn ran expressly on a reproductive freedom platform and ran a digital ad in which she spoke movingly about her own abortion. More Democrats should run on this issue.

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What!? Women have rights that can't be abridged by government!?!?!

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founding

Okay, I stand corrected! THIS is my one good thing!

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There's so much news lately, I forgot about that. I'm switching too.🙂

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