"The bill – the Right to Contraception Act – would enshrine into federal law a right for individuals to buy and use contraceptives, as well as for health care providers to provide them. It would apply to birth control pills, the plan B pill, condoms and other forms of contraception."
One GOP member said:
“This is a show vote. It’s not serious,” GOP Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said. “Plus, it’s a huge overreach. It doesn’t make any exceptions for conscience. … It’s a phony vote because contraception, to my knowledge, is not illegal. It’s not unavailable.”
So...you blocked the bill because it's unnecessary, ...and you also blocked it because it doesn't include a carve-out that will let you make contraception unavailable.
That is definitely not at all what someone would do and/or say if their party was planning to restrict access to contraception if they take power in 2025!
(PS: Per that same link, they also want to repeal the prescription drug pricing agreements that Biden negotiated, including the one that caps insulin at $35.)
i think it is bad to say that a group of people, whose schools and places of worship get firebombed in several places around the world, talking about the danger they face is equivalent to “white people whining about reverse racism,” but hey
something can be used for propaganda purposes and it can be a real horrific thing that happened to actual people, and talking about the second doesn’t automatically mean that you’re doing the first.
it isn’t good but it is human to feel more deeply about things that affect your own community. in and of itself that doesn’t mean you value the lives of your own more than others’
I wish more people understood that sexual assault and harassment happen regardless of whether the perpetrator is attracted to the victim. Sexual harassment is frequently a social punishment for being undesirable
I've been quietly trying to work on a Digimon Adventure 25th anniversary art project where I make a piece for each episode depicting a memorable moment.
Episode 10 aired 25 years ago on May 9th, so here's a piece of Mimi and Izzy connecting in the maze ruins. :)
Donald Trump has told a group of wealthy donors that he will crush pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses if he is returned to the White House. [...]
“If you get me re-elected, we’re going to set that movement back 25 or 30 years,” Trump replied, according to the Washington Post, which first reported the event.
Trump also said his administration would expel any foreign students found to be taking part in the protests, which have recently taken the form of tented encampments in colleges across the US.
if you find yourself at the point of saying “they are not humans” about a group of people, any people, including ones who have done Very Bad Things, then you my friend have lost the plot.