Handmaid's Tale files

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November 17, 2018

Donald Trump Has a Sneaky New Way To Help Religious Employers Deny Women Birth Control


White House proposal would refer those women to services meant for low-income families


Now, according to the New York Times, the Trump administration is suggesting that family planning clinics for low-income people could help fill in the gaps. Such clinics receive funding through a federal program called Title X, which they use to serve more than four million people a year. By law, Title X programs have to prioritize members of families at or below the federal poverty line.


Critics are worried that diverting more women to these clinics would put a strain on services that are already in very high demand. The proposal would “hijack Title X programs and use their limited federal funds to subsidize employers’ refusal to comply with the contraceptive coverage requirement,” Clare Coleman, president of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, told the Times.

By weakening the Affordable Care Act’s rules for contraceptive coverage, Trump would be messing with a very popular program.

https://www.motherjones.com/politic...religious-employers-deny-women-birth-control/

 

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"We Don't Talk About That, We Just Read the Headlines"

5 People Were Killed in 3 Separate Shootings Across America on Monday

http://time.com/5459845/shootings-chicago-denver-st-louis/

 

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Malevolent Melania's blood soaked Christmas trees

Orders from Trump-

Quick distract the people from refugee children with head wounds!

Our core supporters have blood lust, and we fed it.

They will be gratified by the aggression of our soldiers.

Immigrants visibly wounded by our troops at the border.

Malevolent Melania's White House Christmas trees.

The Christmas trees are not green.

The blood is so fresh, they are red.

The blood red of a Handmaid's cape.

No fucking kidding.



What Message Is Melania Trump Sending With Her Red Christmas Trees of Death?
By CHRISTINA CAUTERUCCI

NOV 26, 20184

https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/11/melania-trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-2018.html


The sparkly stalks of flaming crimson have been compared to everything from car wash buffers to the pelts of Muppets to a "straight-up murder forest." Some said the trees looked like handmaidens from "The Handmaid's Tale" — and photoshopped the images accordingly — while others said they were getting "Shining" vibes, specifically the scene in which blood gushes down the hallway. 'Tis the season.

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/art...-christmas-decoration-tree-memes-13422987.php

 

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My thoughts exactly. Couldn't be intentional, though, as there's no way she's read the book or even watched the show.

 

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Margaret Atwood has announced a sequel to her bestselling feminist dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, titled The Testaments. It will be published in September 2019.

“Dear Readers,” wrote Atwood in a press release announcing the book on Wednesday. “Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we’ve been living in


The Testaments will be set 15 years after Offred’s final scene in The Handmaid’s Tale and narrated by three female characters. It will not be connected to the television version, which has extended beyond Atwood’s 1985 novel to continue Offred’s story.

The novel ends enigmatically, with Offred being placed in a van that will possibly deliver her to freedom outside Gilead. An epilogue is narrated by an professor delivering a lecture about the authenticity of Offred’s story in the year 2195, based on cassette tapes he discovered in Maine.


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...nces-the-handmaids-tale-sequel-the-testaments



https://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/11/28/atwood-handmaids-tale-sequel/

 

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Seizing the right to dictate what may be communicated, and what may not be communicated.


“The Hatch Act bars public servants from engaging in partisan political activities while on duty but does not prohibit them from speaking out as citizens against illegality or bad policy,” the statement says. “Indeed, the oath to uphold the Constitution requires them to do so. The OSC should retract its recent guidance and replace it with rules that are appropriately nuanced and do not empower retaliation.


gsgs comment- Retaliation is one of the hallmarks of the Trump Reich. Never mind, the amount of hypocrisy, that is a common practice.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/federal-employees-cant-talk-trumps-impeachment-at-work.html

 

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President Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden promoted equality


Sexual Harassment, and sexual assault, are meant to make the field less level.


What is the issue ?

Brett Kavanaugh displayed the reality.
He was something valuable.
He was protected from "worthless" victims.

There are men under Royal Protection, and they are given license to sexually assault people that do not have Royal Protection.

November 30, 2018

The men that have Royal Protection may now sexually assault university students that do not have Royal Protection, with no repercussions (as long as they are not on university property.) Betsy DeVoss has provided this, for Republican men.


After more than a year of planning, US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has finally unveiled her proposals to overhaul rules governing sexual assault on campus.


the Obama administration had a broader definition of sexual harassment as quote 'unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature'

"...now the new DeVos proposals are narrowing it to mean quote 'unwelcome conduct on the basis of sex that is so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive that it denies a person access to the school's education program or activity.'


https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-a...-samantha-harris-campus-sexual-assault-x5wib/

Rape Culture from Steubenville to the Supreme Court


September 27, 2018 by Anurima Bhargava and Nancy Schwartzman

It was "she said, he said, they said" until the photographic and video evidence was found- They were dragging an unconscious girl around


Efforts to remove community leaders, such as athletic coaches, who have tacitly condoned rape culture have also fallen short. Head coach of the Steubenville High School football team, Reno Saccoccia, will continue to lead the team even after refusing to punish players who posted photos of the incident online and testifying in favor of Mays and Richmond during their trials.

Initially, players who watched and even videotaped the assault were not suspended from the team—they were only suspended after playing for a majority of the regular season games. Saccoccia says he made that choice because the players saw no fault in their decisions.

Another coach, Nate Hubbard, also directly participated in the horrific victim-blaming


http://msmagazine.com/blog/2014/08/15/what-has-and-hasnt-changed-since-the-steubenville-rape/

Universities have become obscenely wealthy.


They are dependent on donors. They take taxpayer's cash, granted by the government.

Securing safety from sexual assault and rape for students, would be costly. Students under Royal Protection have powerful parents, and the university does not want to tangle with such powers.

A rape victim will be forced to continue attending classes with the man or men that raped her, or him. Male, or female, the victims will be endure sneering, mocking, rape threats, insults, degrading comments. Their rapists have powerful protectors, that can hire high powered lawyers to use the legal system to their advantage. The rape victim may have been put through the meat grinder by the rape, but the lawyer's aim is to kill the victim dead.

Betsy DeVos has just given them permission to rip the victims apart.

 

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Wealthy families are more equal, than other families

American Caste system- inequality, reinforced

Reproductive rights in the United States are not only about the right to personal choice. They are also about fairness and equity, because the effects of laws restricting abortion are so unfair and so unequal. In the 21st century, legislators will be limited in how effectively they can block access to some forms of abortion. But when laws from the past meet the technology of the future, existing disparities may be the literal inheritance of generations to come.


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurahercher/supreme-court-roe-v-wade-abortion-access

 

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POLITICO Magazine interviewed more than 50 women for this article, seeking to understand how and why they feel shut out of the high profile and often lucrative business of politics.

But mostly, they are mad as hell.


Mad at losing out on business. Mad at watching younger men surpass them in stature without merit. Mad at having male colleagues talk down to them at every turn. Mad at being relegated to the world of fundraising, the only female-dominated sector of campaign consulting. Mad at the men around them taking credit for their work. Mad at the consulting firms that feign diversity by hiring the wife of one of the company’s male partners rather than filling the spot with a qualified, independently successful woman. Mad at the men on their campaign staffs not taking what they say seriously. Mad at colleagues, consultants, party staffers and candidates of both genders who they believe have reinforced a structural sexism that undermines the collective goal of any campaign: to win and to govern.

“It’s amazing how many times I sit in a room of all men, and the tone-deafness and the stupid shit they say—it makes me want to pull my hair out,” said a Republican consultant from Iowa. “I’m literally the demographic you’re talking to … maybe you should ask my opinion on the matter.”

“Time and time again they don’t see it,” she said. “It’s mind-numbing.”

One prominent female member of Congress told POLITICO that she has gone so far as to make it a habit to keep a man in the room when delivering orders to her political staff. Often, he is a friend; sometimes, a hired hand. He serves a sole purpose: to repeat what she says so that other men—her subordinates—listen and take her points seriously.


https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...ists-consultants-democrats-republicans-222767

 

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December 11, 2018


NYPD reminds us that they would be willing and able to round up "uncooperative" women. The NYPD demonstrated how far they would go, during the OWS protests.


Message broadcasted and received-

Unless, you are wealthy, highly placed, highly influential, and have something of value to offer to the NYPD, you have no rights.

 

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Republicans want to make sex discrimination legal

— and they're moving fast


April 30, 2019

On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing
to analyze the possibility of amending the U.S. Constitution
so that it explicitly bars discrimination based on sex.


The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) simply states that
equal rights cannot be denied "on account of sex."

It was first introduced in 1923, but ratification of it became
a serious issue in the 1970s, when feminist activists began
convincing states to ratify it.


They got famously and tantalizingly close, falling just three
states short of ratification before hitting a 1982 deadline
created by Congress.

2019

But while conservative activists' efforts have largely flown under the radar,
it's safe to say they have pulled out all the stops in their fight to keep the
ERA out of the Constitution, and in fact to roll back existing protections
against sex discrimination that progressives have already secured.

A number of state legislatures are looking at the possibility of becoming
the 38th (and deciding) state to ratify the ERA, and in every case legislators
are being swarmed by right-wing activists who don't hesitate to use deceit
and hysteria to stop this from happening.

Once again, anti-abortion hysterics played a major role in the fight,
with conservatives falsely accusing Democrats of wanting to legalize
infanticide, all as part of a sexist campaign to demonize any effort
to secure equality for women.

Even during Tuesday's federal congressional hearing,
Republicans were at it again. Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La.,
warned that "the people’s right to protect the unborn would
be eliminated if the ERA was to pass," and argued that
women's equality should not be enshrined in the Constitution
lest it damage the ability of conservatives to meddle in women's
medical care access.

https://www.salon.com/2019/04/30/re...-discrimination-legal-and-theyre-moving-fast/

Whether in the courts or the legislatures, the right is pursuing
an elaborate strategy to attack women's equality and preserve
sex discrimination by coming at the issue sideways.

Instead of flatly admitting to opposing women's legal equality,
conservatives are hiding behind more provocative or
"controversial" issues such as abortion rights or trans rights,
which are less politically popular than the ERA, as a way
of derailing efforts to fight sex discrimination.

 

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Meghan McCain, John McCain's daughter,
is the very definition of toxic femininity

According to McCain, the rise of antisemitism
in America has little to do with white nationalism
and everything to do with (Rep.) Ilhan Omar.

McCain is obsessed with the Muslim congresswoman
and has repeatedly misrepresented Omar’s comments
about the Israel lobby in America.

In an April appearance on This Week With George
Stephanopoulos, McCain even tried to blame Omar
for the horrific Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting
in San Diego.

Seth Meyers noted that Omar has acknowledged that
she needs to be more careful about her language.

Seth Myers to Meghan McCain-
“Don’t you think people who talk about her
need to be a little bit more thoughtful, as well?”
Meyers asked.

“Or do you stand by those comments of tying
her rhetoric to the synagogue shooting?”

(it as not a Muslim terrorist that attacked the temple,
but an American White Supremacist/Nationalist)

When confronted, Meghan threw a tantrum, and threw accusations.

Meghan's husband insulted Seth Myers on twitter.
(Then erased the tweet.)

Performances like the one on Tuesday are not a one-off:
she is constantly flying into a rage or bursting into tears.

Constantly turning herself into a damsel in distress in order
to shut down other women and avoid accountability.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/c...er-is-the-very-definition-of-toxic-femininity

(Did Meghan read the satire based stories on Babylon Bee site, and not read the disclaimer ?)

The Babylon Bee, which advertises itself as “Your Trusted Source for Christian News Satire,”
publishes only satirical content aimed at a conservative Christian readership.

 

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Ben Shapiro throws a temper tantrum on the BBC

The Guardian
Comment is Free
10 May 2019
Arwa Mahdawi

In the same way that Meghan McCain thinks that
she is an expert on antisemitism, Ben Shapiro thinks
he is an authority on abortion.

The rightwing media personality has been busy
mansplaining women’s health on Twitter this week,
in light of Georgia’s terrifying new abortion ban.


On Thursday he also spoke on the BBC about the issue.
Or rather he had a meltdown and accused Andrew Neil,
a notoriously conservative presenter, of being a “leftist”.
Why on earth does anyone take Shapiro seriously?

Ben Shapiro uses the tactics, language, and lies manufactured
by America's anti-choice organizations.

Georgia's six-week abortion ban reveals
the cruelty of the anti-choice movement
Moira Donegan

HB 481, has just been signed by Governor Brian Kemp.
Signed into law this Tuesday and due to take effect in 2020,
the bill effectively bans abortion outright, declares fetuses
to be persons with full legal rights and protections, and
imposes prison sentences for women found guilty of
aborting or attempting to abort their pregnancies.

Now, they are designed to eliminate Roe altogether,
and to throw the question of abortion legality back
to individual states – many of which will immediately
ban it.

Misoprostol can easily be found on the internet, and
it can end a pregnancy on its own; it’s overwhelmingly
effective during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy,
especially for women with an average BMI.
The effect of the medication looks identical to an
accidental miscarriage; if the patient doesn’t tell
anyone she induced, then no one needs to know.

However, under the new law, it’s at least possible t
hat Georgia authorities could start treating every miscarriage
as a potential homicide. Women who are able to self-induce
at home with black market Misopristol might be relatively
more safe than their grandmothers who had to use coat hangers
and knitting needles. But that doesn’t mean that the cops
won’t start asking questions.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ive-abortion-ban-cruelty-anti-choice-movement

 

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I read a few paragraphs of a Right Wing Anti-Choice fanatic.

Their justifications could have come from a true believer of
the subjugation of women in Margaret Atwood's book.

The very real suffering and pain of women, disregarded,
because the War on Non- Compliant Women requires lies,
fantasy, and pretending.

Dr. Frankenstein of Ohio

The men allied with the Extremist Religious Right desire control
over women's bodies, and will fight for it, at the cost of women's
health and lives. At the moment, tRump is killing babies and children
at the border, because many people are willing to lie.
The dead babies and children are considered collateral damage.
Women that die at the hands of tRump's enablers, will be considered
collateral damage. There are many lies spread, to enable the denial
of health care to women.




Which woman suffering from the excruciating pain of an
ectopic pregnancy, will be the first human guinea pig
(human laboratory rat) that Republican doctors will fiddle with ?

This imaginary medical procedure does not exist in reality,
yet it is included in a house bill.

All this insane effort, just to avoid facing a reality, and stating a fact.

There is no way to end an ectopic pregancy,
without killing the embryo. Doctors cannot rip something out,
at that early development stage, by leaving half the living material
imbedded inside the original site, and expect the embryo to survive.

Slice the piece of flesh from the fallopian tube, or the ovary, to detach the fetus ?


The fertilized egg emeshed itself with the original site because it did not reach the appropriate site of the uterine lining.


Republicans in Ohio have lost their minds

House Bill 182, authored by Ohio State Rep. John Becker (R)

The House bill, which was first introduced in April by Ohio state
Rep. John Becker (R), seeks to limit insurance coverage for
abortion procedures where the mother’s life is not endangered.
It would also bar coverage for drugs or devices that prevent the
implantation of a fertilized egg, which experts say could affect
certain kinds of IUDs.

One provision especially worried doctors.

The latest available version of HB 182 has an exception that would allow insurance to cover a treatment that does not exist.

“A procedure for an ectopic pregnancy, that is intended to reimplant the fertilized ovum into the pregnant woman’s uterus."

The treatment laid out in the bill is “science fiction,” according to Daniel Grossman, an OB/GYN and director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California at San Francisco who debunked this passage in a viral Twitter thread on Wednesday.

“We don’t have the technology to do that,” Grossman told The Washington Post on Thursday. He said he had treated many patients with the condition who wanted children. “Nothing can be done to continue that pregnancy.”

Rather, ectopic pregnancies are treated with surgery or medication.

“This is one example of a much larger problem about how these abortion restrictions have nothing to do with the practice of medicine or science,” Grossman said.

HB 182′s flaws represent “a new level of arrogance among legislators to think that they can practice medicine without even going to medical school,” Grossman said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...cies-you-cant/



Grossman said that even including the nonexistent treatment in the bill is problematic because it could create obstacles to someone receiving coverage for approved treatment of an ectopic pregnancy, which the doctor and public health researcher said causes around 4 percent of maternal deaths. “Given that we’re in the middle of the maternal mortality crisis in this country, it’s just crazy to think about putting a barrier between women and the treatment that they need to save their lives,” Grossman said.

https://rewire.news/article/2019/05/...pic-pregnancy/

Ohio Women's Watch
@OhioWomensWatch
Replying to @OhioWomensWatch

Ohio House Bill 182 would prohibit private insurance coverage
for common types of birth control (including "the pill" and IUDs),
legally redefine those birth control methods as "abortion," and
prohibit coverage for treatment of ectopic pregnancies.

9:37 AM - 9 May 2019


Dr. Daniel Grossman Verified Account
@DrDGrossman

After I tweeted this thread, Rep. Becker reached out to me
to discuss his bill. It turns out he’s using a study from 1917
to back up his unscientific belief that you can reimplant an
ectopic pregnancy.

@doctorjenn & I talked with @Rewire_News about it:

(link)


10:51 AM - 17 May 2019

The Century-Old ‘Science Fiction’ Behind Ohio Rep’s Bill
Allowing Doctors to ‘Re-Implant’ Ectopic Pregnancy

Doctors “would never base our medical practice on this,”
said OB-GYN and public health researcher Dr. Dan Grossman,
who received a copy from the legislator after criticizing the bill
in a viral Twitter thread.

Rewire.News Rewire.News @Rewire_News

https://rewire.news/article/2019/05/...pic-pregnancy/

 

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Abortion law 'harsher in Northern Ireland than in Alabama'

Campaigners say women can face jail sentences
up to life in UK owing to 1861 legislation

15 May 2019

Alabama’s near total ban on abortion mirrors the situation
in one corner of the UK: Northern Ireland.

Offences Against the Persons Act 1861
Under this piece of Victorian legislation,
anyone procuring an abortion – medical staff
or pregnant women – can face life imprisonment.

The UK’s Abortion Act 1967, which now allows for
lawful abortions across Great Britain up to 24 weeks
into pregnancy and beyond that in certain circumstances,
was never applied in Northern Ireland.

The real abortion pills, and birth control pills will be out of reach
in American states that seek to kill abortion access.

“It’s worth remembering that a mother remains under threat
of imprisonment here for getting safe abortion pills for her
15-year-old daughter.
- Goretti Horgan

Shirley-Anne McMillan
@shirleyannemcm

A woman was threatened with jail for helping her
15yr old child get an abortion. A 19yr old woman's
housemates shopped her to the police when they
found out she'd had an abortion.

This is NI, now. If you are in the UK and horrified
by Trump's America, pls lend us a hand.

12:36 PM - 15 May 2019

In a letter to the women and girls of Alabama,
a pro-choice organisation in Northern Ireland
warned them to be vigilant for informers
who may report them for taking abortion pills.

In Northern Ireland, our hearts break for Alabama:

we know about abortion bans

The criminalisation of women held to ransom by political deal-making

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/17/northern-ireland-alabama-abortion-bans


Lady Clairol the PM is another Lady Against Women

Theresa May’s government, which relies on DUP support
at Westminster to remain in power, has resisted moves in
the Commons to impose abortion reform on the region.

Continual War Against Women

17 May 2019

The same people attacking abortion rights are also blocking
access to comprehensive sex education and contraception –
in the UK, it is the same people who removed Northern Ireland
from the domestic violence bill making its way through Westminster.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/17/northern-ireland-alabama-abortion-bans

Guttmacher Institute Verified Account
@Guttmacher

Great to hear this! Iceland’s new law will make abortion care
more accessible & help to ensure that people can make their
own reproductive health decisions.

(link)
7:02 AM - 18 May 2019

IPPF Global
@ippf

Some good news coming out of Iceland!

A new abortion bill means women are no longer required
to seek approval from a committee to end their pregnancy
after 16 weeks.

#AbortionIsAWomansRight

1:24 PM - 16 May 2019

 

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Lawmakers are preparing to defend Alabama’s draconian abortion ban

What is their argument ?

Old white Republican men know what is good for women that are pregnant.
Old white Republican men care about what happens to women.

Truth- Old white Republican men are using a fertilized egg, to deny women their constitutional rights. Republicans do not really care about fertilized eggs.

Truth- Old white Republican men allow millions of people to die, because they do not give a fuck about what happens to them.

Truth- A man does not give birth to a baby. Men cannot force a man to give birth to a baby. A baby will grow never grow inside him, and threaten his life.

Truth- Women do not die of legal, safe, medical abortion. Many women are dying this year, of childbirth.

Truth- Forcing a woman to give birth to a baby of a rapist, or a man that commits incest, is harmful to her psychological well being.

Truth- Forcing a woman to give birth to a child of a man that commits domestic violence, is tragedy waiting to happen.

What are old white men offering to back up their argument ? Lies.

"Leaked GOP talking points: Forced birth better than abortion for rape, incest victims"

May 25, 2019

National Republican talking points leaked to Vice News show that lawmakers are preparing to defend Alabama’s draconian abortion ban by arguing that it is better “physically” and “psychologically” to deny abortions to victims of rape and incest.

https://www.salon.com/2019/05/25/le...better-than-abortion-for-rape-incest-victims/

 

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May 24, 2019

GOP majority added a direct assault on basic women's health care, taking their crusade against Planned Parenthood to the extreme of forbidding cities from supporting its health care clinics, like the one on East Seventh Street. The logic is undeniable: Somebody, somewhere, might be getting an abortion, so we need to prevent as many women as possible from getting cancer screenings and contraception.

Never underestimate the potential cruelty of public sanctimony. Pending the governor's signature, thousands of Austinites and other Texans served by Planned Parenthood clinics will now find it even more difficult to access basic care. On the other hand, thousands of reactionary Republican primary voters can mark the occasion by basking in their moral superiority until 2020, at least.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2019-05-24/point-austin-on-the-road-to-sine-die/

May 13, 2019

Senate Passes Severe Fetal Disability Abortion Ban


The Texas Senate is just fine with forcing women to carry a fetus – likely to die shortly after birth – through a pregnancy, regardless of what a woman chooses for herself.

SB 1033 by Sen. Kelly Hancock, R-North Richland Hills, would do away with an exception in the state’s 20-week abortion ban that currently allows pregnant women facing severe fetal disease or disability – an already traumatic event – to undergo abortion. In an attempt to show concern for women’s mental health, Hancock’s bill would also require women to be informed of “perinatal palliative care” programs.

“Your intention is, in fact, to force the woman to carry a fetus that has no chance of survival,” said state Sen. Jose Rodriguez, D-El Paso, pointing to irreversible, fatal, or terminal conditions, including lack of brain growth and organs growing outside body cavities. “It is sheer cruelty to deny this woman her constitutional choice.”

“Your intention is, in fact, to force the woman to carry a fetus that has no chance of survival,” said state Sen. Jose Rodriguez, D-El Paso, pointing to irreversible, fatal, or terminal conditions, including lack of brain growth and organs growing outside body cavities. “It is sheer cruelty to deny this woman her constitutional choice.”

SB 1033 would also bar “discriminatory” abortions based on the race, sex, or disability of a fetus. It penalizes physicians who participate in such discrimination with revocation of their medical license and up to one year in jail.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/dai...-passes-severe-fetal-disability-abortion-ban/

 

[Dumpington]

The ABORTION industry's take-over of the Democratic Party is complete!

There was a time when the Democratic Party was all about protecting union workers, pushing for racial equality, cleaning-up the environment, assisting the poor & elderly, and helping illegals to sneak into America. But those days are OVER! Today, above all else, the Democrats are the party of ABORTION - and they first & foremost do the bidding of the ABORTION LOBBY!

Just last week the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that it was canceling a fundraiser for Rep. Dan Lipinski of Illinois - a Democrat - but WHY? Well, Lipinski is the LAST of the pro-life Democrats in congress, and Planned Parenthood wants him GONE! The abortion lobby (Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Emily’s List) are now playing the tune, and every Democrat must dance - OR ELSE!

Democratic Party politicians nationwide are calling for boycotts of Alabama after that state passed legislation outlawing most abortions there. These boycotts aren't just something that abortion advocates have requested - they're something that they've LITERALLY SCRIPTED for that party to perform like a trained dancing bear. Colorado’s Democratic Party secretary of state actually ran her release past Planned Parenthood for approval before making it public!.

None of this is new - back in the 2011, when Democrats & Republicans were battling over the budget, the Dems gave in on demands for spending cuts & federally funded school vouchers - with the ONLY thing they insisted on in return being continued subsidies for Planned Parenthood.

It’s nationwide. Not a single Democratic presidential candidate has thus far criticized New York state's new law legalizing late-term abortions right up to the moment of birth (also known as INFANTICIDE!) No Democrats could bring themselves to criticize the words of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, defending "POST-BIRTH ABORTIONS," that is, the killing of babies after they have been delivered. The party unanimously opposed a bill requiring medical care for those babies surviving abortions.

Democrats will say pretty much ANYTHING to get elected - that's not new - but today, it's all about ONE ISSUE, and that one issue is ABORTION. It's one of the reasons why they hate President Trump so much - BOTH of his U.S. Supreme Court appointees are pro-life, and when Ruth Bader-Ginsberg leaves (which will happen sooner than you think), he'll appoint a THIRD pro-life justice! They REALLY hate that!

The modern Democratic Party has become the political arm of the abortion industry. They are no longer the party of the little guy!

 

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Christian Overlords Over Woman's Bodies and Lives

"WE do not have to tell you anything.'"

- Missouri Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS)


Missouri Is About to Lose Its Only Abortion Provider
— Unless the Courts Intervene

Dr. Leana Wen, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America

According to Wen, the denial of license renewal revolves around the state's
demand to interview seven physicians at the St. Louis clinic, a process she
blasted as a "inappropriate and suspicious interrogation" designed to
"intimidate" the clinic's doctors and medical trainees.

Helene Krasnoff, vice president of public policy litigation with Planned
Parenthood, said that state officials have refused to disclose the scope of
their investigation, which she described as "boundless."

During the conference call, Krasnoff said that when Planned Parenthood
asked state officials about whether "the interviews could result in a
criminal referral or affect medical licenses," the officials responded,
"'That's not off the table; we do not have to tell you anything.'"

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/new...ampaign=hpfeatures&utm_content=HomeTopFeature

 

[bodysong]

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

First Amendment

Why is the government allowing the religious beliefs of one group to be imposed on all women ?

Missouri's New Anti-Abortion Law Violates Women’s Religious Liberty

May 22, 2019


Missouri's new eight-week standard (abortion restriction)

This legislation is governing embryos, not fetuses, much less babies.

According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,
the developing organism in a woman's body is officially known as an
embryo through the first eight weeks of pregnancy.

Only in the ninth week is it labeled a fetus.

The Extremist Right Religious decides to lie, and say that a
six week old embryo has a heart beat.

It is not a heartbeat! There is no such thing as a fetal heart.
It is a phrase invented to promote something that does not exist.


Extremist Right Religious have invented the phrase "un-born baby."
Does it have an un-born heart ? A baby cannot be un-born.
Time does not reverse, and the egg does not return to the ovary
to be re-cycled. I have read that Christians consider themselves
re-born. If a fetus emerges from a surgical cut, is repaired and re-inserted,
is that considered re-birth, when it emerges as a baby ?

There is no such thing as an unborn!

A baby is born when it emerges from the birth canal, and into the world.
Medical science now allows women to survive a malfuntion, and the baby
sometimes enters the world through a cut made by a surgeon.

The fetus is either in the process of getting out,
or it is still growing. Some fetuses are prematurely born,
or are prematurely rescued from the womb by a surgeon.
Pre-mature and newly born into the world. Not fully formed,
but surviving with medical help.

Preborn ? Previously born ? It is not universal,
and it is religious language that does not belong
in a government document.

There are Preborns if you count re-incarnation.
That is a religious belief.


Rather, at six weeks of pregnancy, an ultrasound can detect "a little flutter in
the area that will become the future heart of the baby," said Dr. Saima Aftab,
medical director of the Fetal Care Center at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in
Miami. This flutter happens because the group of cells that will become the
future "pacemaker" of the heart gain the capacity to fire electrical signals,
she said. [Are You Pregnant? 12 Early Signs of Pregnancy]

But the heart is far from fully formed at this stage, and the "beat" isn't audible;
if doctors put a stethoscope up to a woman's belly this early on in her pregnancy,
they would not hear a heartbeat, Aftab told Live Science.

(What's more, it isn't until the eighth week of pregnancy that the baby is called
a fetus; prior to that, it's still considered an embryo, according to the Cleveland Clinic.)

https://www.livescience.com/65501-fetal-heartbeat-at-6-weeks-explained.html

A women's decision to abort a zygote, forbidden by
the Christian Extremist Religious Right's belief that a
life begins after the egg has been fertilized.

The spread of a Republican Religious Extremist Right lie,
and another phrase invented to promote propaganda about rape


“Let’s just say someone goes out and they’re raped or they’re sexually
assaulted one night after a college party — because most of my rapes
were not the gentleman jumping out of the bushes that nobody had
ever met,” Hovis said. “That was one or two times out of a hundred.
Most of them were date rapes or consensual rapes, which were all
terrible.”

-Rep. Barry Hovis
Jackson, Southeastern Missouri

“There is no such thing, no such thing as consensual rape."

“There is no such thing, no such thing as consensual rape."

- Rep. Raychel Proudie

Rep. Barry Hovis’s remarks recalled a controversial comment made
in 2012 by Todd Akin, a former Missouri congressman, that
“legitimate rape” rarely causes pregnancy. After losing a 2012 race
for the U.S. Senate, Akin tried to clarify his words, saying he should
have said “legitimate case of rape.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...e-during-abortion-debate-he-says-he-misspoke/

WTF ? Why are these men trying to define a date rape, as a rape that is not "legitmate" rape ?

 

[bodysong]

May 22, 2019

A fundraiser for the anti-abortion Democrat Rep. Daniel Lipinski has been
cancelled by Rep. Cheri Bustos, who heads the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee (DCCC)


The DCCC recently formalized a policy that penalizes vendors and consultants
who work for insurgent candidates taking on incumbent Democrats.
A consultant who signs on to work for Newman’s campaign can expect
to be blocked from working for the DCCC — a significant disincentive.
Last month Politico reported that Newman’s campaign had already lost
four consultants as a result of the blacklist. But Monday’s endorsements
could tip the odds back in Newman’s favor. Planned Parenthood and
NARAL Pro-Choice America are major allies for the Democratic Party,
and their support may well embolden consultants to defy the blacklist.

Lipinski strayed from Democratic loyalty on issues other than abortion:
He opposed, for example, the Affordable Care Act and wouldn’t
support Barack Obama’s reelection.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...ser-for-anti-abortion-candidate-lipinski.html

Lipinski is one of the last congressional Democrats to oppose abortion rights.

 

[bodysong]

Discussion of a new ban and the laws already in action have "made Louisiana an extremely hostile place” for women trying to obtain abortions, and for doctors trying to provide them, said Michelle Erenberg, the executive director of Lift Louisiana, which advocates for women’s health and abortion access.

The state’s three remaining abortion providers have already begun receiving calls from women asking whether abortion is still legal, she said.

“Things have become incrementally worse, and then suddenly catastrophic,” said Katie Caldwell, the clinic coordinator at Women’s Health Care Center in New Orleans.

The Louisiana branch of the American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement that “Louisiana politicians have now sunk to a new low.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...cratic-governor-plans-defy-his-party-sign-it/

Planned Parenthood Action Verified Account
@PPact

BREAKING: Louisiana just passed an extreme ban on abortion —
a ban before most people even know they’re pregnant.
These bans have nothing to do with people’s health care
and everything to do with controlling our bodies.
Shameful. #StopTheBans

3:24 PM - 29 May 2019



Louisiana Moves to Ban Abortions After a Heartbeat Is Detected

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/us/louisiana-abortion-heartbeat-bill.html

New Orleans Abortion Fund
@NolaAbortionFnd

On May 15th, ten activists took a stand at the Louisiana State Capitol.
That day, they were charged with disturbing the peace and criminal
destruction of property.

Help protect our right to protest, by donating
to their legal defense fund today!

1:13 PM - 27 May 2019

New Orleans DSA
@NewOrleansDSA

Reproductive rights are under attack all over the South,
and Louisiana is no exception. We'd like to encourage y'all
to join @NolaAbortionFnd and @WWAVinc as they take
to the streets and fight back against the "heartbeat" bill
on Wednesday!

1:23 PM - 19 May 2019

 

[Dumpington]

bodysong writes: "Discussion of a new ban and the laws already in action have "made Louisiana an extremely hostile place” for women trying to obtain abortions, and for doctors trying to provide them, said Michelle Erenberg, the executive director of Lift Louisiana, which advocates for women’s health and abortion access."

It's BIPARTISAN legislation, bodysong! Louisiana's Republican-controlled state legislature passed this tough new "heartbeat abortion bill" by a lop-sided 79-23 margin, and Louisiana's DEMOCRATIC PARTY governor, John Bel Edwards, immediately agreed to SIGN it into law!

“I know there are many who feel just as strongly as I do on abortion and disagree with me—and I respect their opinions,” Edwards said in a statement following Wednesday’s vote. “As I prepare to sign this bill, I call on the overwhelming bipartisan majority of legislators who voted for it to join me in continuing to build a better Louisiana that cares for the least among us and provides more opportunity for everyone.”

There is no word yet as to whether or not Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano will respond to this bill by launching another SEX-STRIKE, such as happened after the Georgia abortion bill was passed!

http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-cont.../alyssa-milano-nude-embrace-of-vampire-05.jpg - (Alyssa Milano with older actress Charlotte Lewis in 1995's "Embrace of the Vampire")

 

[bodysong]

Louisiana's Democratic governor has signed a highly restrictive new abortion law
that bans the procedure after a foetal heartbeat is detected.

The fetus does not have a heartbeat.

How could the BBC publish this propaganda ?

They let the Far Right Republican Religious Extremists get away with it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48468962

Louisiana’s governor signed one of the country’s strictest abortion bans on Thursday

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...cratic-governor-plans-defy-his-party-sign-it/