Time for some senate hearings? Exclusive: Supreme Court justices used personal emails for work and ‘burn bags’ were left open in hallways, sources say
Might be old news, but the plot thickens: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/06/federal-judge-constitutional-right-abortion-dobbs-00081391
My state gives $100 million/yr to “pregnancy clinics” that don’t provide healthcare. https://twitter.com/thetnholler/status/1623419548123684865?s=46&t=MNjEPKKoRt5hUIeropekuQ
Same here. And created a tax law that let you donate some portion of your tax bill to CPC's rather than pay it as taxes...and THIS year wants the state to budget more for the CPCs (which only exist in heavily white areas of the state) to make up the "shortfall" when the tax provision didn't raise as much as they projected. Also? The Speaker of the House won't allow a vote on a provision to expand post-partum Medicaid care from two months to 12, which most legislators support and which would cost less than a third of what he wants to give to the CPCs. Why? Because he thinks it will make them less likely to go back to work after giving birth (as if) I'm old enough to remember when "mothers ought to be home raising their babies" was Republican Dogma but, hey, late-stage capitalism FTW I guess.
When you’re so pro-life, you’re willing to kill people. https://www.wmbfnews.com/2023/02/22...make-abortion-death-penalty-eligible-offense/
TN doc appears to admit that his wife (who is also a doctor) has been performing abortions in TN. That’s a felony. https://twitter.com/phdjesus/status/1629580853536866305?s=46&t=Zu4JtA963-FOu7iSdZDZ7w
Jessa Duggar had an abortion. The article tries to hide it by calling it a D&C, but that's an abortion. And it's illegal in Arkansas.
It’s not the same thing. I’ve had both procedures. Essentially, the same thing is happening, just one is done without a fertilized egg inside the uterus. Not intending to deny that any of those nutcases wouldn’t have had an abortion or insisted a wife/sister/girlfriend have one. Just sayin’, it ain’t the same thing.
there are multiple women walking around this country RIGHT NOW with a dead fetus in their womb that every doctor that they can get to is terrified to remove because the law leaves room for them to be prosecuted for preforming an abortion. At the risk of infection and death. So while we can nitpick that it's not TECHNICALLY the same thing, there's a metric fuckton of reactionary politicians out their rubbing their hands together like a cartoon villain saying "try it. I DARE you."
Follow the thinking here: GOP will tell you they are there to "do the will of the people" and that's what should prevail. YET when the noted will of the people is out of line with their puppet masters in the Christian nationalist lobby, well, fuck the will of the people. Mississippi GOP advances bill to restore ballot initiative process―except for abortion rights (dailykos.com)
Absolutely the same thing, because as Nova points out the laws being pushed in many cases treat these situations as the same thing.
Funny how someone who thinks any laws regarding guns are a slippery slope to fascism but don’t think that laws regarding reproductive health could go the same way. Odd that.
People naturally argue in favor of things that are interesting/important/relevant to them and downplay things that aren’t. I honestly could not care less about guns and anyone’s right to own one. But, any attempt to block women’s rights will have me protesting in the streets and screaming all the way to the voting booth.
Yea, I’ve had this same conversation a thousand times with UA. I doubt I’d ever be able to pull a trigger and decide my life is more important than someone else’s. I’ve no idea what circumstances brought that person to the point that s/he felt the need to physically attack me. My circumstances, on the other hand, have been mostly good all my life. So, no need to kill someone else to make my life better.
I understand that. I generally take the position that if I am put in a position where it's my life or the life of someone who is attacking me, I will protect my life. I will doubly do so if the attacker is threatening the lives of vulnerable people, or other people I care about. It's always a last option, but one that is always on the table. In short, I am against the death penalty, but if, in the heat of an attack, a woman has to shoot her assailant in order to survive, she is justified in doing so.
I’m totally not saying someone wouldn’t have the right to defend themselves with lethal action. Just saying I’m not sure *I* could pull the trigger.
I should clarify: I understand where you're coming from, and I once felt the same way. I'm just saying that from my position, this is what I'd do. I'm agreeing that your course of action is best for you, and mine for me. I would never want you to do anything that goes against your own personal ethics, @Jenee.