Do you own your body?

[adrina]

Louisiana poised to make abortion pills controlled substances​

The bill categorizes them as Schedule IV, meaning possession would be illegal for anyone who doesn’t have a prescription or is a licensed provider.

Violators would be subject to up to five years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines. It would exempt from prosecution pregnant women who possess the pills “for her own consumption,” but anyone who helps women get the pills would be at risk.

What’s next: The state Senate passed the bill by a 29-7 vote Thursday, days after it passed the state House. It now heads to the desk of Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, who is expected to sign it.

https://thehill.com/newsletters/hea...to-make-abortion-pills-controlled-substances/

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

https://apnews.com/article/us-intelligence-gen-ai-takeaways-8ae7d4768c8e64429061c8ba3b272d19

 

[RandyRebecca]

https://apnews.com/article/us-intelligence-gen-ai-takeaways-8ae7d4768c8e64429061c8ba3b272d19

If capitalism and AI continues, AI is going to mean either a Terminator scenario (i.e. AI going rogue and breaking free of authority control, and concluding that humans are of no value compared to machines), or more likely a Cybermen (from Doctor Who) scenario. The latter would mean humans needing to "upgrade" their body parts as they are slowly turned into walking machines and computers. Very grim, either way.

It's easy to envisage all the right-wing idiots calling on us to "get with the times" (Democrats especially) by replacing what makes us human with mechanical parts, all in the name of "progress", "efficiency" and "patriotic duty".

 

[jaF0]

Pro-Life?

Texas GOP Proposes Potential Death Penalty For Women Who Get Abortions​

A proposed plank in GOP platform calls for legislation to secure "equal protection of the laws to all preborn children from the moment of fertilization."



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[adrina]

In Texas. No. Women do not own their body. The state does. As decreed by men. Who will never be in the position to need or want an abortion.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/31/politics/texas-supreme-court-abortion-ban/index.html

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

If capitalism and AI continues, AI is going to mean either a Terminator scenario (i.e. AI going rogue and breaking free of authority control, and concluding that humans are of no value compared to machines), or more likely a Cybermen (from Doctor Who) scenario. The latter would mean humans needing to "upgrade" their body parts as they are slowly turned into walking machines and computers. Very grim, either way.

It's easy to envisage all the right-wing idiots calling on us to "get with the times" (Democrats especially) by replacing what makes us human with mechanical parts, all in the name of "progress", "efficiency" and "patriotic duty".

Damn. I sure as hell hope we get the terminator scenario, though I'm more inclined to expect the cyberman scenario.

The Democrats will justify it the same way they justify vaccine mandates. The Repubs will justify it the same way they justify selective service and "right to work."

 

[jaF0]

Professors Sue Biden Admin Over Abortion Rule: 'Pregnancy Is Not a Disease'​

"Pregnancy is not a disease, and elective abortions are not 'health care' or 'medical treatment' of any sort," they argued.



Wait, so health care is only for diseases? Not for routine checkups, or maternity, or fertility, or aging, or ......

 

[IrezumiKiss]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1798458824011227213

 

[jaF0]

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U.S. News // 3 hours ago
Senate Republicans block proposed Right to Contraception Act
Opposition from Senate Republican lawmakers Wednesday defeated the proposed Right to Contraception Act.​

 

[RobDownSouth]

U.S. News // 3 hours ago

Senate Republicans block proposed Right to Contraception Act

Opposition from Senate Republican lawmakers Wednesday defeated the proposed Right to Contraception Act.​

Interesting that Alabama senator Katie "Kitchen Mom" Britt missed that vote.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

If capitalism and AI continues, AI is going to mean either a Terminator scenario (i.e. AI going rogue and breaking free of authority control, and concluding that humans are of no value compared to machines), or more likely a Cybermen (from Doctor Who) scenario. The latter would mean humans needing to "upgrade" their body parts as they are slowly turned into walking machines and computers. Very grim, either way.

It's easy to envisage all the right-wing idiots calling on us to "get with the times" (Democrats especially) by replacing what makes us human with mechanical parts, all in the name of "progress", "efficiency" and "patriotic duty".

AI is a tech-bro scam like self-driving cars, NFTs and Hyperloop. Hand-wringing over apocalyptic scenarios involving AI is viral marketing.

The only thing that's going to happen with AI is a bunch of creative workers are going to get fired because their clueless managers bought into the hype.

When the AI bubble pops, the biz guys will shrug their shoulders and move on to the next scam.

 

[Chernosoth]

If it happens, this change would take at least a few more years, maybe an entire generation. Requirements to get shots and requirements to give birth may eventually be acknowledged as the same violation of civil rights. Or the long term reduced fertility may override civil rights and make breeding the top priority.

 

[TastySuckToy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1798458824011227213

I'm not seeing any ban on obtaining or buying contraception, looks like its simply a bill that doesn't force businesses/employers to cover the costs of contraception for employees.

 

[RobDownSouth]

AI is a tech-bro scam like self-driving cars, NFTs and Hyperloop. Hand-wringing over apocalyptic scenarios involving AI is viral marketing.

The only thing that's going to happen with AI is a bunch of creative workers are going to get fired because their clueless managers bought into the hype.

When the AI bubble pops, the biz guys will shrug their shoulders and move on to the next scam.

It's a bit scary, Wall Street has pumped enormous amounts of cash into companies best positioned to profit from AI. Every quarter we see no real tangible results. We're seeing a bubble yet again in the stock market. At some point, Wall Street as a whole will say "enough...".

 

[adrina]

 

[adrina]

 

[RandyRebecca]

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It's working class and middle class people that the capitalist authorities exploit, including heterosexual men. The Democrats and Republicans, with their identity politics, want people fighting each other over culture war nonsense rather than focusing on opposing the super rich capitalist warmongers.

Class is the root division, not gender, not race, not nationality, not religion.

 

[Chernosoth]

The Democrats and Republicans, with their identity politics, want people fighting each other over culture war nonsense rather than focusing on opposing the super rich capitalist warmongers.

Opposing capitalism is unnecessary, since it is self destructing. The culture war nonsense is a distraction from the destruction, so billionaires, consumers, peasants, etc. can continue pretending for a while they're not seeing the end of a way of life.

 

[adrina]

 

[MajorRewrite]

Insane level of hate and ignorance …

 

[jaF0]

GOP women who helped defeat a near-total abortion ban are losing reelection in South Carolina​

 

[jaF0]

U.S. News // 55 minutes ago
Senate GOP blocks Democrats' efforts to protect IVF rights
June 13 (UPI) -- Senate Republicans Thursday blocked a series of Democratic-lead bills to protect in vitro fertilization, or IVF, following the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that says embryos should be considered children.​

 

[MajorRewrite]

‘They want us to be scared’: Protesters target organizers for abortion ballot measure in Arkansas

Right wing nuts in Arkansas harass people gathering signatures to put abortion on the ballot. The nuts know they’ll lose if the people get to vote.

Organizers and volunteer signature-gatherers regularly deal with harassment and intimidation in the field. In Arkansas, the risks of this work were underscored this month after a conservative group posted online the names of nearly 80 paid signature gatherers that it obtained through a public records request. Advocates leading the petition drive described the incident as a form of doxxing, the release of a person’s personal information with malicious intent.

“The reactions have become more heated, from just a polite decline to, ‘I’m going to find you and kill you,’” said Gennie Diaz, communications director for Arkansans for Limited Government, the group heading the effort to add an abortion rights ballot initiative this November. “It’s escalated in probably the last four to six weeks.”

There are many specific examples in the article of men trying to intimidate and scare women gathering signatures.

 

[adrina]

 

[Rotadom]

It's a shame that this that exists.