“When it comes to women, they don’t get rights. They get restrictions…. I have five daughters and eight granddaughters, and the one thing I worry about more than anything else is their health. I like to see their happy faces. I like to see them feeling good… So I want them to have doctors making decisions, not some employer who has a self-righteous moral view that he wants to impose on my daughter, my granddaughter, my wife. Nuh uh. On our side of the aisle, we believe that women are capable of making their own healthcare decisions.”
- Frank Lautenberg (New Jersey State Senator (D) from 1982 to 2001)
These ads in my news feed are killing me...no Tumblr I don't fucking want to see ads for fucking Viagra for "him" when my very existence and privacy as a woman are now on the fucking GOP gerrymandered religious extremist SCOTUS chopping block! And why did you start posting them right now FFS!
Furthermore stop putting those manscaping ads in my feed when I keep asking you to hide them! I don't want to hear about "balls" every damn time I come on this hellsite!
And please fix the damn code at the bottom of your ads, its bigger than everything else in my news feed and it looks stupid! Don't you ever look at this stuff or check your work?!
I'm so sorry, not sorry. I'm so fucking triggered by this crap now. if they overturn Roe vs. Wade they are coming for everything else too. There will be blood.
Greene Vows GOP Will Repeal Law Protecting Women From Violence at Clinics
Greene Vows GOP Will Repeal Law Protecting Women From Violence at Clinics (msn.com)
The FACE Act was enacted to prevent people who protest outside abortion clinics and women's health centers from threatening, intimidating or blocking the entrances to patients. It specifically prohibits the following three things:
1. Using physical force, the threat of force, or physical obstruction or intimidation, or injuring or attempting in injure any person attempting to enter or leave a clinic.
2. The use of physical force, threat of force, or physical obstruction in an attempt to injure or interfere with any person trying to exercise their First Amendment rights at a religious service.
3. Intentional destruction or damaging a clinic.
Right-wing politicians and activists have complained about this Act in recent years, claiming that people who were prosecuted and arrested for violations had a First Amendment right to intimidate and harass patients. Most, however, have simply complained about the application of the act, not the repeal of it
disgusting!. and don't forget she stalked a student that survived a school massacre!.
Republicans have shown no ability to restrain their most militant antiabortion voices. In state after state, they have passed a slew of draconian forced-birth laws that have resulted in near-deaths, trauma and hardship for women. Republicans thereby have locked themselves into a stance that simultaneously generates extreme opposition while producing nonstop stories demonstrating the cruel and dangerous results of their policies. In doing so, they’ve made their unpopular stance a critical issue in every state.
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Conventional wisdom suggests that Trump poses the biggest threat to Republicans’ 2024 prospects. Certainly, nominating a candidate who 60 percent of the country thinks has committed serious crimes might spell doom for the top of the ticket and therefore every down-ticket Republican. However, Republicans might eventually shed their attachment to Trump, recognizing the political implications of lining up behind someone facing criminal prosecution in multiple jurisdictions. But shedding their attachment to the most extreme and most unpopular abortion position might prove far more difficult.
Democrats, who smartly leaned into the abortion issue in the midterms, understand all too well the Republicans’ self-inflicted wound. If they can push swing states such as Wisconsin even a few points (let alone 10) in their direction, the 2024 election could mark the beginning of a permanent sea change in American politics. If so, Republicans will have only themselves to blame.
Jennifer Rubin writing in the Washington Post about Republicans' greatest electoral vulnerability.
No Democratic candidate should give a campaign speech through November of 2024 without mentioning the extremist Republican position on abortion.
The GOP position must be characterized as "forced birth", "anti-freedom", and "policing vaginas" – and in other negative ways.
Last year in Kansas an anti-abortion voter initiative went down in flames. If Republicans wish to tie themselves closely to a highly unpopular position, we should help them publicize their attachment to that position.
We Burn Our Women and Children on the Altar of Madness
We Burn Our Women and Children on the Altar of Madness
Over the last few months in the USA — and across the world ashore — it appears we now prefer to burn our women and children on the altar of a consecrated, conservative, authoritarian, religioso, madness! It’s Leda and the Swan now embedded forever in The Marble Palace — and there’s no clear way out of separating alarming myth from tragic reality. Now the majority women don’t control their bodies…
Wild enough of a story that it might actually be true.
And if it is true—this part is important—absolutely no one should be shaming her for sex work or for having abortions! Feel hella free to call out the obvious hypocrisy, though.
It’s deeply hypocritical and that hypocrisy is very much on-brand for Republicans, but abortion and sex workers aren’t the “bad” parts. The bad part is that the GOP and Boebart are trying to take the freedom to make those same choices away from other women.