Refute those 3 facts, in my last post, with other facts and not some whiney shaming language, name calling, or other bitch-made sassy tactics, then maybe i'll listen to you.
U.S. Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe vs. Wade
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Refute those 3 facts, in my last post, with other facts and not some whiney shaming language, name calling, or other bitch-made sassy tactics, then maybe i'll listen to you.
If you believe those are FACTS then I question any institution that issued you a degree of any kind… FR.
And fall back with the “bitch“ shit, I’d son you like a toddler in person lmao.
Blah blah blah, you need a lot more than “shaming language” you bitch nigga, you need a life changing ass kicking lol. You need to learn when it’s your superiors talking… and then you need to act accordingly
I’ll play your retarded game bc I’m not dicking down your moms tonight:
1. I now understand that you’re legitimately retarded and not pretending. Are you aware that multiple Red States are actually legislating access to abortion in the wake of this recent SCOTUS ruling (contraindicating Doctors orders)? Or are you legit some dumb fuck who believes women aren’t fighting for their bodily autonomy in 2022? I see I may have overestimated your intelligence and education level out this bitch lol.
2. Cry more incel! You the type of nigga to yell some dumb shit like this when your grandma asks you to pick up groceries. Weak ass nigga. And fuck American imperialism too before you get on your never served high horse.
3. This is a non point that speaks to my earlier dismissal of your vacuous bullshit. Do better homie!
Goddamn, you suck bro!
Missourian, who says she was denied life-saving care because of anti-choice law, under investigation
Thanks to Republicans, life in the United States—if not on a global scale—feels more and more dystopian every day. If it comes to human rights and equality, there’s (sadly) more than likely at least one angle conservatives are attacking from in order...
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Thanks to Republicans? Nah, thanks to Caucasians and their apologists.Missourian, who says she was denied life-saving care because of anti-choice law, under investigation
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I bet the “pro-choice” was pro-vaxx too. See how confused people are?
Thanks to Republicans? Nah, thanks to Caucasians and their apologists.
I bet the “pro-choice” was pro-vaxx too. See how confused people are?
Boi, go gaslight someone else.
'No great risk of dying from pregnancy,' says Ohio Republican who's never heard of maternal death
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The Birth Dearth: The Sad but True Reason Why What’s Happening in Texas Right Now Shouldn’t Surprise You
It was always going to end this way
Ajah Hales
Sep 17, 2021
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Snitches get riches in Texas nowadays. The Lone Star state’s new anti-reproductive freedom act empowers friends, neighbors and co-workers to sue anyone that “induces…aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion.”
The actual person receiving the abortion can’t be sued. But the doctor who performed it, the would-be baby daddy who paid for it, and your bestie that drove you to the clinic are all fair game. Even a Lyft or Uber driver could find themselves on the wrong end of a civil suit. The law says that if the suit is successful, the court can award no less than $10,000 plus court costs to the plaintiff.
A lot of women (and a few men) are clutching their pearls over this, shocked that it could happen in America. I’m not one of them.
Unlike Game of Thrones, the Texas law is a logical conclusion for the American story we’ve been telling since Roe vs. Wade.
By the 80s, the abortion debate intersected with one of America’s most pressing issues at the time — changing demographics. That’s right, people were losing their shit over the browning of America long before Trump.
In 1987, Ben Wattenberg, former advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson and a heavy hitter within the Democratic Party, published a very popular book called The Birth Dearth. The book purports:
“The major problem confronting the United States today is there aren’t enough white babies being born. If we don’t do something about this and do it now, white people will be in the numerical minority and we will no longer be a white man’s land.”
When critics called him a white supremacist, he instead claimed that he was a cultural chauvinist, and that western European culture just happened to be the best one in existence.
Mr. Wattenberg saw the birth dearth as a solvable problem, and offered three potential solutions. The first was paying American women to have babies. He said this plan was untenable because “we would have to pay women of all colors to have babies.” Darn those pesky citizenship laws!
His second option was to increase our immigration quotas. This too was flawed, because most of the people coming to America in the 80s were people of color. His third option was the one he thought made the most sense:
The third thing we could do is remember that sixty percent of the fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that sixty percent of life alive, that would solve our birth dearth.”
Wattenberg peddled soft eugenics dressed up as concern for the economy and democracy across the globe. Becoming the world’s most powerful nation was, to Wattenberg, due to the efforts, values and contributions of white men, particularly Western Europeans.
Now the battle for control of white women’s uteri moved from a moralistic argument to a nationalistic one. I say white women because the reproductive organs of Black and other women of color were being policed in a totally different way.
While white women were encouraged to have babies, women of color were being forcibly sterilized and having dangerous forms of birth control pushed on them, sometimes through the use of financial incentives or time off of prison sentences.
America has spent the last four decades trying to reverse the rushing tide of changing demographics, strategically manipulating reproductive rights and immigration policies to keep America white.
I wrote about this at length in my article No Country for Old (White) Men. In that article, I focus mainly on the legislative attack on reproductive freedom throughout the 90s. The Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey poked holes in Roe v. Wade big enough for conservatives to walk through. The state of Pennsylvania introduced a law that said someone seeking an abortion had to:
- Get counseling from their doctor on the dangers of abortion
- Sign an informed consent document confirming they were warned
- Wait 24 hours
- Have parental consent if a minor
- Sign a confirming they had notified their husband, if married.
The ruling said the last requirement regarding married women was the only part of the law that constituted an “undue burden” to the person attempting to get an abortion. Planned Parenthood v. Casey was decided by a 5–4 margin.
Between the Casey ruling and the end of 1993, over 300 abortion-related bills were introduced in 38 states, according to the Guttmacher Foundation. These bills did their jobs, drastically reducing the number of white abortions.
During the nineties, white abortion rates were reduced by 46%. In 1990, there were just under one million white abortions. By the end of that decade, there were only 484,000 white abortions.
Abortion rates in communities of color also fell, but at nowhere near the rate of white women. Black and Latinx women’s abortion rates fell by 25% and 9%, respectively. The nineties was wild, but the 2010’s were worse.
During the Obama presidency, states rights became a central partisan issue for the Republican party. The GOP won big in the 2010 and 2012 elections, seizing control of the U.S. House of Representatives, more than half of the state legislatures, and 31 gubernatorial seats. This positioned them to advance anti-abortion legislation at both the state and federal level.
From 2009 to 2014, states passed 288 new abortion laws, and they didn’t stop there. The 2010s saw a marked increase in Pregnancy Crisis Centers, places that used false or misleading information to discourage women from getting abortions. Even though these places were proven to be unethical, the government continues to turn a blind eye to them. Today, there are twice as many Crisis Pregnancy Centers as Rape Crisis Centers in the United States.
The 2010s ended as poorly as it started for white women. In 2017, U.S. Representative Steve King sponsored the Heartbeat Protection Act. Here’s the bill’s summary, directly from congress.gov:
This bill amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime for a physician to knowingly perform an abortion: (1) without determining whether the fetus has a detectable heartbeat, (2) without informing the mother of the results, or (3) after determining that a fetus has a detectable heartbeat.
It provides an exception for an abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical (but not psychological or emotional) disorder, illness, or condition.
A physician who performs a prohibited abortion is subject to criminal penalties — a fine, up to five years in prison, or both.
A woman who undergoes a prohibited abortion may not be prosecuted for violating or conspiring to violate the provisions of this bill.
Sound familiar? That’s because this failed bill was the template states used to write harsher and more restrictive anti-abortion bills aimed at reversing the Birth Dearth. King minced no words about his motives. In 2018 he said:
“The U.S. subtracts from its population a million of our babies in the form of abortion. We add to our population approximately 1.8 million of ‘somebody else’s babies’ who are raised in another culture before they get to us.”
In other words, we can’t afford to let white women have access to abortion, because if we do, America won’t be white anymore. And if America isn’t white anymore, it’s no longer America. Steve King added a thin veneer of respectability to White Supremacist leader David Lane’s infamous 14 words: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.”
And that’s how we got to where we are today. The Texas ‘snitches get riches’ law makes perfect sense if you’ve been following along with the American story. By incentivizing snitching, Texas deputizes millions of ordinary citizens with no stake in the pro-life/pro-choice debate to police the reproductive freedom of their neighbors, family and friends.
This law will undoubtedly result in more white babies, just not enough to reverse the Birth Dearth. In thirty years, the United States will be brown (again), and no amount of weaponized legislative action is going to unring that bell. The only thing it will do is restrict access to safe abortions and increase child poverty, since the number one reason women seek abortions is not being able to afford a child.
If you’re a person with a uterus, what’s happening in Texas should upset you. It should disgust and horrify you and motivate you to fight for the reproductive rights of other people with uteri. The one thing it shouldn’t do is surprise you.
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It was always going to end this way
Ajah Hales
Sep 17, 2021
The Birth Dearth: The Sad but True Reason Why What’s Happening in Texas Right Now Shouldn’t…
It was always going to end this way
aninjusticemag.com
Snitches get riches in Texas nowadays. The Lone Star state’s new anti-reproductive freedom act empowers friends, neighbors and co-workers to sue anyone that “induces…aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion.”
The actual person receiving the abortion can’t be sued. But the doctor who performed it, the would-be baby daddy who paid for it, and your bestie that drove you to the clinic are all fair game. Even a Lyft or Uber driver could find themselves on the wrong end of a civil suit. The law says that if the suit is successful, the court can award no less than $10,000 plus court costs to the plaintiff.
A lot of women (and a few men) are clutching their pearls over this, shocked that it could happen in America. I’m not one of them.
Unlike Game of Thrones, the Texas law is a logical conclusion for the American story we’ve been telling since Roe vs. Wade.
By the 80s, the abortion debate intersected with one of America’s most pressing issues at the time — changing demographics. That’s right, people were losing their shit over the browning of America long before Trump.
In 1987, Ben Wattenberg, former advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson and a heavy hitter within the Democratic Party, published a very popular book called The Birth Dearth. The book purports:
“The major problem confronting the United States today is there aren’t enough white babies being born. If we don’t do something about this and do it now, white people will be in the numerical minority and we will no longer be a white man’s land.”
When critics called him a white supremacist, he instead claimed that he was a cultural chauvinist, and that western European culture just happened to be the best one in existence.
Mr. Wattenberg saw the birth dearth as a solvable problem, and offered three potential solutions. The first was paying American women to have babies. He said this plan was untenable because “we would have to pay women of all colors to have babies.” Darn those pesky citizenship laws!
His second option was to increase our immigration quotas. This too was flawed, because most of the people coming to America in the 80s were people of color. His third option was the one he thought made the most sense:
The third thing we could do is remember that sixty percent of the fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that sixty percent of life alive, that would solve our birth dearth.”
Wattenberg peddled soft eugenics dressed up as concern for the economy and democracy across the globe. Becoming the world’s most powerful nation was, to Wattenberg, due to the efforts, values and contributions of white men, particularly Western Europeans.
Now the battle for control of white women’s uteri moved from a moralistic argument to a nationalistic one. I say white women because the reproductive organs of Black and other women of color were being policed in a totally different way.
While white women were encouraged to have babies, women of color were being forcibly sterilized and having dangerous forms of birth control pushed on them, sometimes through the use of financial incentives or time off of prison sentences.
America has spent the last four decades trying to reverse the rushing tide of changing demographics, strategically manipulating reproductive rights and immigration policies to keep America white.
I wrote about this at length in my article No Country for Old (White) Men. In that article, I focus mainly on the legislative attack on reproductive freedom throughout the 90s. The Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey poked holes in Roe v. Wade big enough for conservatives to walk through. The state of Pennsylvania introduced a law that said someone seeking an abortion had to:
- Get counseling from their doctor on the dangers of abortion
- Sign an informed consent document confirming they were warned
- Wait 24 hours
- Have parental consent if a minor
- Sign a confirming they had notified their husband, if married.
The ruling said the last requirement regarding married women was the only part of the law that constituted an “undue burden” to the person attempting to get an abortion. Planned Parenthood v. Casey was decided by a 5–4 margin.
Between the Casey ruling and the end of 1993, over 300 abortion-related bills were introduced in 38 states, according to the Guttmacher Foundation. These bills did their jobs, drastically reducing the number of white abortions.
During the nineties, white abortion rates were reduced by 46%. In 1990, there were just under one million white abortions. By the end of that decade, there were only 484,000 white abortions.
Abortion rates in communities of color also fell, but at nowhere near the rate of white women. Black and Latinx women’s abortion rates fell by 25% and 9%, respectively. The nineties was wild, but the 2010’s were worse.
During the Obama presidency, states rights became a central partisan issue for the Republican party. The GOP won big in the 2010 and 2012 elections, seizing control of the U.S. House of Representatives, more than half of the state legislatures, and 31 gubernatorial seats. This positioned them to advance anti-abortion legislation at both the state and federal level.
From 2009 to 2014, states passed 288 new abortion laws, and they didn’t stop there. The 2010s saw a marked increase in Pregnancy Crisis Centers, places that used false or misleading information to discourage women from getting abortions. Even though these places were proven to be unethical, the government continues to turn a blind eye to them. Today, there are twice as many Crisis Pregnancy Centers as Rape Crisis Centers in the United States.
The 2010s ended as poorly as it started for white women. In 2017, U.S. Representative Steve King sponsored the Heartbeat Protection Act. Here’s the bill’s summary, directly from congress.gov:
This bill amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime for a physician to knowingly perform an abortion: (1) without determining whether the fetus has a detectable heartbeat, (2) without informing the mother of the results, or (3) after determining that a fetus has a detectable heartbeat.
It provides an exception for an abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical (but not psychological or emotional) disorder, illness, or condition.
A physician who performs a prohibited abortion is subject to criminal penalties — a fine, up to five years in prison, or both.
A woman who undergoes a prohibited abortion may not be prosecuted for violating or conspiring to violate the provisions of this bill.
Sound familiar? That’s because this failed bill was the template states used to write harsher and more restrictive anti-abortion bills aimed at reversing the Birth Dearth. King minced no words about his motives. In 2018 he said:
“The U.S. subtracts from its population a million of our babies in the form of abortion. We add to our population approximately 1.8 million of ‘somebody else’s babies’ who are raised in another culture before they get to us.”
In other words, we can’t afford to let white women have access to abortion, because if we do, America won’t be white anymore. And if America isn’t white anymore, it’s no longer America. Steve King added a thin veneer of respectability to White Supremacist leader David Lane’s infamous 14 words: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.”
And that’s how we got to where we are today. The Texas ‘snitches get riches’ law makes perfect sense if you’ve been following along with the American story. By incentivizing snitching, Texas deputizes millions of ordinary citizens with no stake in the pro-life/pro-choice debate to police the reproductive freedom of their neighbors, family and friends.
This law will undoubtedly result in more white babies, just not enough to reverse the Birth Dearth. In thirty years, the United States will be brown (again), and no amount of weaponized legislative action is going to unring that bell. The only thing it will do is restrict access to safe abortions and increase child poverty, since the number one reason women seek abortions is not being able to afford a child.
If you’re a person with a uterus, what’s happening in Texas should upset you. It should disgust and horrify you and motivate you to fight for the reproductive rights of other people with uteri. The one thing it shouldn’t do is surprise you.
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Kentucky voters reject amendment that would have eliminated abortion rights
WLKY Digital Team
Updated: 10:08 AM EST Nov 9, 2022
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Amendment 2, a measure to change Kentucky's constitution in regard to abortion, was rejected by voters on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.
The amendment would have added language in the state constitution making it clear that neither abortion nor government funding for the procedure would be a right.
Currently, there is a near total ban on abortion in Kentucky, as the state's "trigger laws" went into effect after the federal right to an abortion was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in June. That’s when Roe v. Wade was overturned.
The Kentucky ban has no exemptions for rape or incest.
The amendment’s defeat will have no practical impact on the right to an abortion if a sweeping ban on the procedure approved by lawmakers survives a legal challenge presently before the state Supreme Court.
The state's two abortion providers, Planned Parenthood and EMW Women's Surgical Center, both in Louisville, filed lawsuits earlier this year.
The Kentucky Supreme Court is set to hear the case on Nov. 15.
Still, the amendment’s rejection leaves open the possibility that abortion could be declared a state right by the court.
The Kentucky Right to Life group, a pro-life nonprofit, sent this statement, in part, after the race was called:
"Today, we are disappointed. But tomorrow, we will be motivated. This work is too important to quit, and we look forward to the next phase of prolife advocacy in Kentucky."
This story may be updated.
Kentucky GOP US Senators McConnell and Paul
WLKY Digital Team
Updated: 10:08 AM EST Nov 9, 2022
Kentucky voters reject amendment that would have eliminated abortion rights
Controversial Amendment 2, a measure to change Kentucky's constitution in regard to abortion, remains in limbo Tuesday night.
www.wlky.com
Amendment 2, a measure to change Kentucky's constitution in regard to abortion, was rejected by voters on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.
The amendment would have added language in the state constitution making it clear that neither abortion nor government funding for the procedure would be a right.
Currently, there is a near total ban on abortion in Kentucky, as the state's "trigger laws" went into effect after the federal right to an abortion was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in June. That’s when Roe v. Wade was overturned.
The Kentucky ban has no exemptions for rape or incest.
The amendment’s defeat will have no practical impact on the right to an abortion if a sweeping ban on the procedure approved by lawmakers survives a legal challenge presently before the state Supreme Court.
The state's two abortion providers, Planned Parenthood and EMW Women's Surgical Center, both in Louisville, filed lawsuits earlier this year.
The Kentucky Supreme Court is set to hear the case on Nov. 15.
Still, the amendment’s rejection leaves open the possibility that abortion could be declared a state right by the court.
The Kentucky Right to Life group, a pro-life nonprofit, sent this statement, in part, after the race was called:
"Today, we are disappointed. But tomorrow, we will be motivated. This work is too important to quit, and we look forward to the next phase of prolife advocacy in Kentucky."
This story may be updated.
Kentucky GOP US Senators McConnell and Paul
Just as I told you moving away from Trump and towards Desantis.
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Senate Votes To Add New Protections For Pregnant Workers
Lawmakers also voted to expand protections for pumping breast milk at work to millions of women.
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If you want to make a difference, here’s how you can:
1) Donate, volunteer, or get the word out about Aaron Rouse, who has a special election on January 10th that will effectively decide control of the Virginia Senate. I took our entire campaign team to knock doors for him in early December, knowing how much power he will have to keep the above scenario from becoming a reality.
2) Stand up to support local organizations, particularly in rural Virginia- like the Blue Ridge Abortion Fund- doing the critical work to protect access to reproductive healthcare options as Virginia becomes a safe haven for access to care.
3) Stand behind clinicians with the first-hand knowledge to stand on the floor of the General Assembly building and ream these Republicans a new one- because even if they don’t care about being hypocritical and have no desire to follow evidence-based research, we can take their seats and then relentlessly embarrass them and make them a national laughingstock, showing legislators in other state capitols what’s in store for them.
We have to succeed. The consequence of our failure is too big to contemplate.
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The walk towards abolitioning the 13,14,and 15th amendment continues. And don’t forget the 19th.
Supreme Court says it is unable to identify the person who leaked draft of abortion ruling
The court was rocked by a highly unusual leak of a draft opinion that previewed its ruling in June rolling back abortion rights.
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