Do you own your body?

[Lucy_Lastic]

Thank you for posting. It's good to see perspectives from other countries.

If I may ask, how is your trust level in men for leadership?

In the UK we've had a succession of incompetents, one of which was a woman.

You guys had Trump.

In theory women would make better leaders. In theory women would champion women's rights. But it seems (with a few exceptions) women in power try to grow balls and be men, shitting on women in the process.

Women can be women's worst enemy. Like, when Depp and Amber Heard were in court; it seemed pretty obvious to me that it was a fucking toxic relationship but the ones screaming loudest At Amber faking stuff were women.

Where's the fucking sisterhood?

 

[adrina]

In the UK we've had a succession of incompetents, one of which was a woman.

You guys had Trump.

In theory women would make better leaders. In theory women would champion women's rights. But it seems (with a few exceptions) women in power try to grow balls and be men, shitting on women in the process.

Women can be women's worst enemy. Like, when Depp and Amber Heard were in court; it seemed pretty obvious to me that it was a fucking toxic relationship but the ones screaming loudest At Amber faking stuff were women.

Where's the fucking sisterhood?

You just said a mouthful there. It isn't just necessarily men, it's the male competitive aggressive model that is problematic - this current paradigm sucks balls. Heh, pun intended.

 

[RandyRebecca]

In the UK we've had a succession of incompetents, one of which was a woman.

You guys had Trump.

In theory women would make better leaders. In theory women would champion women's rights. But it seems (with a few exceptions) women in power try to grow balls and be men, shitting on women in the process.

Women can be women's worst enemy. Like, when Depp and Amber Heard were in court; it seemed pretty obvious to me that it was a fucking toxic relationship but the ones screaming loudest At Amber faking stuff were women.

Where's the fucking sisterhood?

Liberal women support the elitist mega-rich or the upper middle class, in basically wanting a greater share in the wealth of rich men. They don't care about working class women or lower middle class women. Hillary Clinton is a case in point. Class is the real division, not gender. And the sad fact is, in America, it's the Democrats that most represent those elitist liberal types who represent the "enlightened" very rich in the big cities.

The British had Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, one of the worst leaders imaginable, worse than all the men before her. Some feminists would say "Oh, but she was a woman". She's an enemy!

 

[Lucy_Lastic]

it's the Democrats that most represent those elitist liberal types who represent the "enlightened" very rich in the big cities.

Sorry that negates everything else.

We get people parroting the 'liberal elite' shit here. It's always spouted by right wing arseholes.

There's nothing elitist about being liberal.

 

[adrina]

Iowa supreme court upholds ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy

Iowa is set to become the latest state to tightly restrict accessto abortion after the state's supreme court upheld a law banning abortions at six weeks of pregnancy.

That will replace the current ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. It sets a short timeline for getting the procedure, with many women not aware of their pregnancy for the first several weeks.

It's unclear when the law will take effect, with some saying it won't be for at least three weeksas other court procedures still play out.

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/27/nx-s1-5021942/abortion-six-week-ban-iowa-dobbs

 

[jaF0]

Nevada verifies enough signatures to put constitutional amendment for abortion rights on ballot​

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/abcnews.go.com.icoABC|14 hours ago
A ballot question to enshrine Nevada's abortion rights in the state constitution has met all of the requirements to appear in front of voters in November, the Nevada Secretary of State's office announ ...

 

[RandyRebecca]

Sorry that negates everything else.

We get people parroting the 'liberal elite' shit here. It's always spouted by right wing arseholes.

There's nothing elitist about being liberal.

The real left, i.e. socialists, also hate liberals. We wanted Bernie Sanders as the Democratic candidate for president in 2016 and 2020, and he'd have beaten Trump too. But no, the DNC force Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden instead, one of whom lost to Trump and the other who has been so disastrous as president that it looks like Trump will become the first president to serve two non-consecutive terms since the late 19th century. The lessons from this is that the liberals prefer Trump as president to Sanders as president, because Trump doesn't threaten big business capitalism.

Liberals represent big business capitalism and the warmongering military industrial complex. They are totally against the interests of working class and lower middle class people.

Over in Britain, Keir Starmer is "Labour Party" leader, while he supports the genocide in Gaza, arming Ukraine and NATO. He is as "Labor" as Reagan and Thatcher, i.e. not at all. His incoming government will be hated by the British people very quickly.

 

[adrina]

If only Bernie supporters had shown up to vote. They didn't. Less than 15%. And by ignoring the primaries, cuz ya know, it's all rigged blah blah, they not only absolutely guaranteed Bernie did not get the nomination but they left the down ballot candidates without support as well. That's why Bernie didn't win the nomination - not because of the establishment but because his voters didn't vote.

 

[TastySuckToy]

Iowa supreme court upholds ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy




https://www.npr.org/2024/06/27/nx-s1-5021942/abortion-six-week-ban-iowa-dobbs

Should have a talk with all the women voters supporting it.

Women are the majority voting block, and if only a small percentage of men go along with the majority of women voters, then they would dominate the issue and voting on it.

 

[RachelWalsh]

Pnly until the reposses it if you stop paying taxes on it.

 

[adrina]

 

[adrina]

 

[ll74]

I love this guy. Such objective thought on things.

 

[jaF0]

Kansas' top court rejects 2 anti-abortion laws, bolstering a state right to abortion access​

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/abcnews.go.com.icoABC|7 hours ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care providers and banning a common second-trimester procedure ...

 

[butters]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...&cvid=b6209c3ff4a04593cf4cef9de0f255f5&ei=442

texan dad speaks out about horrific experience his wife had during a miscarriage due to the law in his state regarding abortion as health care

 

[butters]

at 23 weeks, young woman found dearly wanted pregnancy would be incompatible with life and would be unable to breathe on its own once born more than a few hours if at all, but was forced to carry the pregnancy to term despite the fetus suffering in her womb with multiple daily seizures and more.

she didn't want her baby suffering and was denied the choice to terminate; this resulted in a live birth but the baby was doomed to die after only 44 hours.

both baby and mother should have been saved from such pointless, cruel trauma.

 

[adrina]

 

[MajorRewrite]

Support for legal abortion has risen since Supreme Court eliminated protections, AP-NORC poll finds

Politically perilous, particularly in states where it’s on the ballot I’d think.

A solid majority of Americans oppose a federal abortion ban as a rising number support access to abortions for any reason, a new poll finds, highlighting a politically perilous situation for candidates who oppose abortion rights as the November election draws closer.

Around 6 in 10 Americans think their state should generally allow a person to obtain a legal abortion if they don’t want to be pregnant for any reason, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That’s an increase from June 2021, a year before the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to the procedure, when about half of Americans thought legal abortion should be possible under these circumstances.

Seven in 10 Americans think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, a slight increase from last year, while about 3 in 10 think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.

 

[MajorRewrite]

An interesting article about the abortion access amendment that will be on the ballot in deep red South Dakota, the Gravel Pit Puppy State.

South Dakota Abortion Ballot Measure Would Reverse Draconian Ban

In a May poll conducted by South Dakota News Watch and the Chiesman Center for Democracy at the University of South Dakota, 53.4 percent of respondents supported the amendment; 35.4 percent were opposed.

In fact, the “Freedom Amendment,” as Dakotans for Health has labeled it, appeals to many Republican voters—Weiland calls them “cowboy conservatives”—who don’t want government intrusions into their lives. Despite the state’s Republican trifecta, the South Dakota electorate is “not all-or-nothing polarized, even on this question,” says Hellwege.

Looks like an example of the fact that western Republicans aren’t necessarily religious fundamentalists like the Baptists in the southeast.

 

[Lazaran]

This “Roe-vember”, EVERY man and woman who believes in “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness needs to vote straight ticket Democratic Party to take back America from the fascist Theocrats and simultaneously foil their fascist “Project 2025” plan.

 

[adrina]

 

[adrina]

 

[RobDownSouth]

Senate Republicans successfully filibuster two-page legislation to codify Roe v. Wade into Federal law.

More evidence that the archaic filibuster needs to be removed from the US Senate.

 

[Pad_Foot]

Fuck the Filibuster or any rule that lets any size minority kill a bill. Delay? As long as they can stand on their feet? Sure! Go for it. Earn your 15 minutes of fame

 

[adrina]

National abortion ban "hidden in plain sight" in revised RNC agenda, legal experts say​

Anti-abortion advocates are still trying to ban abortion, using the 14th Amendment to grant fetal personhood

Earlier this week, the Republican Party released its 16-page “Make America Great Again” policy platform ahead of its national convention. As many news outlets pointed out, it did not explicitly call for a national abortion ban. Instead, it said that the party supports states establishing fetal personhood through the constitution’s 14th Amendment.

“We believe that the 14th Amendment to the constitution of the United States guarantees that no person can be denied life or liberty without due process, and that the states are, therefore, free to pass laws protecting those rights,” the agenda read. Some media outlets reported this as if the GOP had “softened” its stance on abortion or that it “backed away” from an abortion ban.

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/13/na...ight-in-revised-rnc-agenda-legal-experts-say/