Handmaid's Tale files

[YDB95]

What does the state have to do with anything?

BoBo believes the states have the right to pass oppressive or discriminatory laws and anyone who doesn't like it should move to another state (which, you know, is incredibly easy for a high school student to do at the drop of a hat). He thinks it's in the Constitution, or at least the version of that Ronald Reagan received from Jesus (R-Jerusalem) at the top of Mount Rushmore after climbing up there dressed in a Confederate flag.

 

[CornusKousa]

What does the state have to do with anything?

You do understand states have legal authority and can regulate right???

Texas likes regulating abortion, this girl opposes those regulations, she is living in the wrong state.

She needs to move to pro abortion state or if she's wanting to be an activist at least one where there is a battle to be had.

She's like the pot prohibitionist conservatives in California.....wasting time in the WRONG state.

 

[CornusKousa]

BoBo believes the states have the right to pass oppressive or discriminatory laws and anyone who doesn't like it should move to another state .

Tell us more about California, New York City and New Jersey gun laws....LOL

Are you really shocked red states are regulating abortions the same way you guys regulate guns....like total control freak assholes??

 

[pecksniff]

You do understand states have legal authority and can regulate right???

Texas likes regulating abortion, this girl opposes those regulations, she is living in the wrong state.

She needs to move to pro abortion state . . .

No, she needs to change Texas, which is exactly what she is trying to do, as we all should.

 

[bodysong]

The building blocks for Roe were placed with the court’s protections
for the right to privacy established in Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965,
when the court struck down a state law that barred married couples
from obtaining contraception, a protection extended to unmarried
couples in 1972.

The Constitution protects federalism and the autonomy of states, sure. But at its heart,
the Constitution elevates the freedom — the liberty — of individuals, not majorities.

(...)

If there were a moment, before Roe, that the country could have come together, state
by state, to hash out reasonable abortion restrictions, it has long passed.

The issue is too divisive, the antiabortion forces too activated, to settle for
half measures if total victory is achievable.

Returning the decision to the states would usher in an even more dangerous
patchwork of some states that allow abortion, some that severely restrict it,
others that impose outright or close to total bans. And this patchwork would
operate to the particular detriment of poor women.

- Ruth Marcus

June 4, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...abortion-states-makes-them-agents-oppression/

Surprise!
Funding meant for struggling Americans was hijacked and given to anti-abortion traps
pretending to be reproductive health clinics. Offices full of unqualified volunteers that
have been brainwashed by Evangelical Christians. No tactic is off limits- false promises
forcing the victim to see bloody, (fake) pictures, against their will. It's an emotional,
psychological, psychic rape. Bullying, telling lies, physically restraining, blocking a
woman from leaving. The purpose is to trick the victim, unti lit is too late to have get
an abortion. Looks just like a normal medical building from the outside,
purposely located near a real medical office.

At this point in time, fake clinics outnumber real abortion clinics.
Formerly-Republicans killed off nearly all reproductive health clinics
that do not provide abortions, in many Red states. Taking no chances
that information about getting an abortion might be provided.

Is that in the Constitution ? Oh, yeah, all men are created equal!
(Even that is a lie, because that only counts if you have white skin, right ?)

Nineteen states are getting ready to torment women into submission.

These Red states love the fetus so much, they rape pregnant with plastic vaginal
ultrasound wands, to detect the thrum of a fiber inside a speck of zygote flesh.
Once it is an embryo, you are not equal to a fetus, in MAGA country. You are
less-than-human - a fetus tank.

 

[CornusKousa]

No, she needs to change Texas,

She's not going to, fhe people of Texas overwhelmingly feel different as they just democratically passed a bunch of restrictions on abortion.


Much like anti-pot and anti-abortions conservative activist in California, she's pissing up a flag pole.

If activism and effective change are what she is after she should go to a moderate state where there is a potential battleground.

Not a state where she is firmly in the minority.

which is exactly what she is trying to do, as we all should.

Why??? Not everyone wants to live in San Franshithole.....not everyone wants to destroy their state and degrade their communities (D)eegen style.

Why can't you people let Texans decide how Texas lives and manages it's own affairs???

OHHHH authoritarian control freaks can't live and let live, you have to pull the guns out and force your views on everyone....like the jackbooted assholes you lot are.

 

[pecksniff]

Why can't you people let Texans decide how Texas lives and manages it's own affairs???

Because that doesn't make much more sense now than it did in 1860. Or 1960, for that matter. "States' rights" is a concept with a very ugly history in this country, and never something you should seriously invoke.

 

[bodysong]

Test case pitched to SCOTUS, for denial of any birth control coverage
in any health insurance plan for poors.

Let me guess- a conference of old white men, that just happen to be
formerly-Republicans, love Trump, and are Evangelicals.

Here we go, again.

Claire McCaskill ✓
Twitter › clairecmc

Update: crazy Republicans in MO are getting ready to have a special session
to outlaw birth control. You seriously can’t make this stuff up.

10 hours ago

Missouri GOP likely to include ban on birth control coverage in Medicaid tax
compromise.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article252159208.html

 

[bodysong]

How much of a bet, is the possibility that Catholics took on the role
of attackers of the Capitol, because of encouragement from their churches ?

I have a feeling that the Vatican is talking out of both sides of its very
large mouth, and has privarely advised Catholic priests to give the attackers
of the Capitol forgiveness, for their violence and murder-
Fuck Knows that the Vatican gave forgiveness to those that agreed to
take on the mission to murder Queen Elizabeth I. Losing Trump meant
losing a sure agent, in overturning Abortion Rights, and denying women
any control over their bodies.

The Vatican always chooses an ancient elderly priest to front their
corporation. He is on way out of this Earthly life, and his minions
and underlings may be doing what they can to maintain influence
in America. The symbol for the Vatican is a Cardinal and Bishop
running over the body of a pregnant woman with a baby carriage,
that carries a Catholic cross made of pure gold- The Vatican bank,
the Vatican city in Rome, the property it owns all around the world,
the priceless artifacts and objects that are their property. The cash
that they collect from all church members.

It is a possibility that religious fanatics from both the Evangelicals and Catholics
took part in January 6th.

The Vatican has weighed in on the anti-abortion issue, and there might have
been Catholic men playing para-military games at the January 6th attack -
The Vatican has walked back the idea of mercy for a dying woman, and
decided that anyone that disobeys Vatican orders, anyone that Abortion Rights,
is to be refused a chance to be part of the Catholic ritual of eating a symbolic wafer.

Cartoonist Ed Hall makes it plain that American bishops are splitting the members
of churches -a priests asks a woman if she is Liberal or Conservative.

Cartoonist Ann Telnaes portrays a Catholic Bishop, as wearing the Capitol Dome as a hat

June 22, 2021 The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops inserted itself into the politics
of abortion on Friday by backing a measure that could lead to the denial of Communion
to pro-choice Catholic politicians.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ics-communion/

The Vatican has turned on one of their own - Grandpa Joe Biden is a Catholic

Catholic Bishops Move Towards Denying Biden Communion

05/10/2021

The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office is warning U.S. bishops to deliberate
carefully and minimize divisions before proceeding with a possible plan to rebuke
Roman Catholic politicians such as President Joe Biden for receiving Communion
even though they support abortion rights.

Among the leaders of the campaign to rebuke Biden is Archbishop Salvatore
Cordileone of San Francisco, who recently issued a pastoral letter arguing that
Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should not receive Communion.
A few days later, Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego published an essay saying
such an initiative “will bring tremendously destructive consequences.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/10/vatican-biden-catholic-486791

 

[CornusKousa]

Because that doesn't make much more sense now than it did in 1860. Or 1960, for that matter. "States' rights" is a concept with a very ugly history in this country, and never something you should seriously invoke.

You not only hate the founding principles and ideals of the country but you also hate the very structure of it the USA, got it.

 

[bodysong]

NBC news veteran still fears for democracy -- here's why

(via story at Salon)

This Country - Chris Matthews on Jan. 6, the danger to democracy and what
he learned from #MeToo

"Biden won." Say it loud. Say it every morning when you go to the House.
You want to be speaker, act like the speaker. Say, "We have a constitutional system."

If you're Michael Flynn, remember your oath to the Constitution and remember
what you owe, loyalty to this country and its Constitution. It's what you sign up for
when you become an officer.

And he was a flag officer.

I have talked to these guys.
They're normal people.
They're Americans.
They're one of us.
They should be able to say, "Here's where I draw the line."

Back in the old days, when the Republican Party was joined by the John Birch Society
and the antisemitic stuff, people like William F. Buckley said, "No, you're not here."
"You don't belong here if you have those attitudes. Go away."

The John Birch Society was a real bad shadow of the Republican party.
They should clean it up today and hope they can win some elections
positively.

- Chris Matthews

https://www.rawstory.com/former-nbc-news-veteran-still-fears-for-democracy-here-s-why/

Liz Cheney took the gig, performed her tasks, took part in the Potemkin performance -
and fulfilled the requirement that she play the part. Trumpland and MAGA could now
proclaim that they had power to punish disloyalty, and take rebellion against Trump
down. They did nothing of the kind. Liz Cheney is home free, her contract is over.

The GOP party no longer has a need to present sane people to American voters.
Rep. Elsie Stefanik became the next House Republican Conference Chair,
because she has convinced suspicious New Yorkers that she is not insane,
but is willing to follow the MAGA script in public, and win over the Looney
Lunacy party and get more votes. NYC may be a Democrat city, but it
has a large population of obscenely wealthy people that are clutching their
wealth with a death grip. The formerly-Republicans may have been protecting
their own personal interests, but the wealthy shared the benefits.

Liz Cheney's Unlikely Journey From G.O.P. Royalty to Republican Outcast

June 20, 2021

- NY Times US Politics

Next to be replaced - Republican Speaker of the House

Biden and Senators Reach Compromise Infrastructure Bill That Excludes Climate
and Jobs Programs

Top Democrats, including President Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
say they won’t support a compromise infrastructure bill unless senators first pass
reconciliation bill containing Democratic priorities.

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/6/25/headlines

After House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said early on Thursday
her chamber would not vote on the first infrastructure package unless the second
reconciliation bill passed the Senate, Biden publicly seconded the idea.

Some Republicans in Congress, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
have objected to linking the two bills together, and accused Biden of bad-faith
negotiations.

Republicans later said they felt blindsided by Biden's comment that he would not sign
the bipartisan legislation alone and that the measure would have to move in tandem
with reconciliation.

_ _ _ Republicans are pretending to be very, very angry about President Biden’s
newly-announced plans to pursue infrastructure and jobs proposals on two tracks —
one bipartisan, the other via a simple majority “reconciliation” vote.

But behind this display of fake histrionics lies a very real trap,
one designed to bait Democrats into turning on one another.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/25/gop-outrage-biden-plans-reconciliation/

Potemkin Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin did not look very happy in the photo-ops.

 

[bodysong]

Catholic Bishops in America get slapped down

bodysong comment-

American women worked hard to have birth control
accepted, and to have compassion for women that
chose abortion as an option to suffering and death.

Greedy American Catholic bishops may have sided with formerly-Republicans
to get access to the ocean of money splashing around the Evangelicals, but they
did not count on the American people in their churches raising their angry voices.
/end bodysong comment

June 28, 2021

Conservative U.S. bishops are learning that it is perilous to pose
as being “more Catholic than the Pope.”

Defying public and private warnings from the Vatican, and ignoring sentiment
in the pews, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops last week authorized the
preparation of a doctrinal statement on the Eucharist that was widely understood
as being aimed at denying access to communion by pro-choice Catholic public
officials, notably the President of the United States.

Now some of the bishops are hastily trying to downplay their intentions with
“nothing to see here” disclaimers, as the National Catholic Reporter noted:

“Rather, in light of the decline in belief and participation in the Eucharist,
the bishops voted to permit their Committee on Doctrine to begin drafting
a pastoral document on the Eucharist.”

“It is not disciplinary in nature, nor is it targeted at any one person or class
of persons,” Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore added.

...comically, hard-core conservatives in and beyond the conference of bishops keep
giving away the game, as the Reporter’s Michael Sean Winters sarcastically observes:

Why all the fuss? Could it be that during the spring meeting several bishops, including
a committee chair, Archbishop Joseph Naumann, specifically referenced politicians and
Biden during their interventions?

- Intelligencer, at New York magaine

 

[bodysong]

Trump, the Degenerate, Corrupt King of MAGA issues orders - "Rape Democracy."

MAGA fails to rape Democracy, despite help from on the inside, and failure of the
defenders of Democracy to step up, because of peculiar restrictions.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy - "Blame the victim, for their own, violent, attempted rape."

(Democracy was not thoroughly raped, because the humblest servants of Democracy
stepped up to a task- Keep the Electoral College ballots away from MAGA.)

Shades of the horrible creature, The Beast of Poltergeist (1982) emerging from
Democracy's womb, and into the world, as a result of that rape. (Trump said he
wanted it to happen. But, when viewed on TV, the rape did not look as "classy,"
as Trump's expectations.)

Instead, we have MAGA claiming that they were imitating SCOTUS Justice Brett
Kavanaugh's drunken attempt at rape. Just a prank, ha ha. To scare Democracy.

formerly- Republicans have sunk so low.

The civilian citizens that remain Republicans, must be turning their heads away in disgust

 

[bodysong]

bodysong comment -

There is no line that formerly-Republicans or FOX TV, will not step over.

Too far, is never enough for them.

FOX TV requires attention, and formerly-Republicans have their agendas.

Many can only guess the reason for it, but formerly-Republicans are determined
to convince Republicans to not cooperate with efforts to provide everyone with
vaccination injections to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

If they are able to convince Republicans to become Anti-Vaxxers, they can convince
them of almost anything.

This week, Tucker Carlson took yet another on the gig, from Rupert Murdoch.
Someone at FOX TV came up with the idea to use the story of the abuse of
women in Handmaid's Tale, to reinforce the Anti-Vaxx propaganda of formerly-
Republicans.

source - Raw Story

On Fox News, Carlson, (...)
tells viewers requiring vaccines "is exactly what they told us [that] right wingers,
once they took over the government in 'The Handmaid's Tale,' were going to do,
to the country, they would force you to put things in your body that you didn't
want they had full control of your body, you no longer had dominion over your
body."

https://www.rawstory.com/vaccine-handmaid/

That did not push the boundaries enough, so formerly-Republicans have dragged
South African Apartheid into it. This is after they insisted that being questioned
about accepting the need to wear masks, getting jabbed, and taking precautions,
was somehow related to the Holocaust.

Anything that might offend and disturb a reasonably informed person, is something
that FOX TV and formerly-Republicans will latch onto.

Trump has drummed home the idea that our nation needed His Wall at the border -
what he and his operatives, servants, and enablers have done, is build walls inside
American minds.

Something happens, when cracks appear in that interior wall - the light of reason
comes in, and much more follows.

Ever hear what an ex-White Supremacist, or ex-KKK member had to say ?

 

[bodysong]

To supplement information supplied by online media outlets and blogs,
legitimate and vetted major media outlets have joined in on the discussion
about Evangelical influence on America's government and politics.

Are formerly Republicans counting on rabid fanatic Evangelicals to facilitate
a political takeover of America's Democracy and government ?

The politically brainwashed stormed the Capitol, attacked it, invaded it, desecrated it, defaced it.

What will the religiously brainwashed do ?

 

[bodysong]

July 13, 2021

A coalition of abortion providers and advocates filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday
challenging a Texas law that would allow private citizens to sue anyone for helping
a woman get an abortion.

In addition to asking the U.S. district court in Austin to overturn the law,
the plaintiffs asked for an injunction that would stop it from taking effect
in September.

The law would ban abortion in the nation’s second-biggest state after six weeks
of pregnancy, which is before many women even know they are pregnant, and
ask private citizens to enforce the ban by suing doctors or anyone who helps a
woman get an abortion.

Under the law, anyone who successfully sues another person would be entitled
to at least $10,000.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...b64e7a-e418-11eb-88c5-4fd6382c47cb_story.html

 

[bodysong]

Texas marches towards Gilead, and tries to drag the rest of the country
along with it

Unlike the hundreds of anti-choice laws passed by Republican state legislatures
in this country up until this year, the Texas “fetal heartbeat” law which criminalizes
any abortion performed after six weeks, or when a supposed “fetal heartbeat” may be
detected, does not rely on the state for its enforcement.

Rather, the Texas law provides a mechanism allowing private citizens opposed
to abortion to take matters into their own hands against women they deem unworthy
of bodily integrity, by specifically targeting those who assist such women
in terminating their unwanted pregnancies.

- Daily Kos

July 19, 2021

S.B. 8 authorizes “any person” other than the government to sue someone who
provides an abortion after six weeks, helps someone obtain an abortion after six
weeks or “intends” to do these things. (Abortion patients themselves cannot be sued.)

This means that any antiabortion activist, ex-boyfriend, disapproving neighbor
or random stranger can sue. And, to incentivize a flood of lawsuits, S.B. 8 offers up
a bounty of at least $10,000 per violation proven, payable by the abortion provider
or assister to the person who sued them.

Once abortion providers and supporters are dragged into state courts, S.B. 8 then
changes the courthouse rules to make these lawsuits as costly and burdensome as
possible.

The law also allows abortion providers to be sued multiple times over a single abortion,
while prohibiting them from defending on the ground that another court already found
in their favor.

Abortion providers will be forced either to stop providing care after six weeks —
when approximately 85 percent of Texas abortions occur today —
or else risk ruinous penalties.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/07/19/texas-sb8-abortion-lawsuits/

What do reproductive health care clinics for women, have to do with taxes in Texas ?

Weeks before the session wrapped up, Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 8,
a six-week abortion ban, into law.

Not only does the bill attempt to ban abortions as early as six weeks of pregnancy,
it also would allow anyone to sue a physician or anyone else who helped somone
attain an abortion after six weeks.

https://progresstexas.org/blog/4-ways-you-can-continue-support-abortion-access-texas

 

[bodysong]

Next up, state sponsored lobotomies for women that have read too much.
Baby farms, toddler mills, and fetus vessels. A manservant can be hired
to take over, after the "ball and chain" has been rendered docile and modest.
(Just kidding, Victorian methods have no made a nationwide return.)

Mississippi asks Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in upcoming case

July 22, 2021

Mississippi is asking the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade in order to uphold
the state’s restrictions on abortion access, and to renounce the court’s landmark holding
a half-century ago that the Constitution protects a woman’s right to obtain an abortion.

Mississippi seeks to persuade the court it should approve a law that would ban
most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The state also has a court-blocked law restricting abortions after six weeks, and a
so-called trigger provision that would prohibit abortion should Roe be overturned

“If Roe falls, half the states in the country are poised to ban abortion entirely."

- Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights

“Women of child-bearing age in the U.S. have never known a world in which they don’t have this basic right."

"We will keep fighting to make sure they never will (know a world in which they don’t have this basic right)."

The Supreme Court is likely to hear arguments in November or December.
A decision next year would come amid midterm congressional elections.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...30cb8a-eb23-11eb-97a0-a09d10181e36_story.html

 

[bodysong]

Republican idea that links childbearing to the requirements to vote -

"J.D. Vance recently suggested that parents should get one extra vote for each of their kids"
(Is he from Ohio ? He is seeking office in the Senate.)

Ohio GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance is taking aim at the "childless left"
for their lack of "physical commitment to the future of this country."

The Trump Alliance is not longer operating out of the White House, but this year's 2021
mutated version of the G.O.P. is still rolling forward with the usual ambitions in mind.

In the 1990's, university students communicated their concerns about overpopulation.
Christian cult groups began to encourage people to contribute to overpopulation.
It was the decade of Christian deadly violence against women that chose not to give birth.

2021 Rebellion against Christian domination roots in the LGBT community-
Young males and young women are refusing to conform, and contribute to
overwhelming numbers of White Supremacist supporters by childbearing.
Their parents choose their children's well being above the GOP's requirements.

Trump ordered politicians and state official to "find more votes" for him.

The requirement that only parents may vote, certainly would limit university students
and young adults that do not have unlimited means.

 

[pecksniff]

You not only hate the founding principles and ideals of the country but you also hate the very structure of it the USA, got it.

No nation has founding principles. A government might, but that's a very different thing.

 

[bodysong]

Another formerly-Republican womam enters the competition for the
Serena Joy award

Rep. Priscilla Gidding (R-Idaho) blames the victim

August 2, 2021

- Rebecca Boone

In her opening statement, Giddings said the ethics investigation was little more
than an unfair attack by political opponents and said she was exercising her
constitutionally protected right to free speech by sharing the link that revealed
the vitim's identity.

When Giddings entered the ethics hearing on Monday, she was met with applause,
shouts of support and a standing ovation by some supporters in the audience —
which included some militia members and others with far-right political activist
groups.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...bd3670-f3af-11eb-a636-18cac59a98dc_story.html

Idaho Rep. Priscilla Giddings blames ethics hearing on ‘woke cancel culture movement’

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/article253119068.html

May 5, 2021

The harassment began soon after a report by a 19-year-old intern, who alleged an
Idaho lawmaker raped her, became public.

One state representative sought a copy of the police report and made inquiries
into how the young woman herself could be referred for criminal charges for
reporting the alleged rape.

Another shared links to a far-right blog post that included the intern’s name, photo
and personal details about her life with thousands of people in a newsletter and on
social media.

And members of a far-right, anti-government activist group tried to follow and harass
the young woman after she was called to testify in a legislative public ethics hearing.

- Boise, Idaho

 

[bodysong]

Have doctors stop using women as pratice corpses ?

Medical rubber and plastic dummies have been in production for years. Some are robotic.

It came to the attention of patients that are women, that doctors took the opportunity
to give their students more"hands on" experience in internal female reproductive
organs by using an unconscious patient, under anesthesia.

Some states have not passed laws against it, yet.

Bill Requires Consent Before Unconscious Pelvic Exams

Health care workers must obtain consent before examining female patients under anesthesia

Jul 30th, 2021

"...the prevalence of unauthorized pelvic examinations was unearthed by a 2018 article
in the scientific journal Bioethics."

“No one gave me any indication that my vagina would be involved in the surgery at all,”
she told lawmakers.

Wisconsin section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
filed an official statement -
noting it supports “current patient-centered informed consent practices” and that the
group “has not recommended separate, procedure-specific, written consent.”
That group, along with the Medical College of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Medical
Society, registered in opposition to last session’s bill.

(bodysong comment - Patients must sign consent forms- there is no notice that
students may open you up with a speculum, and fish around inside your vagina,
while you are under sedation and unconscious, for a completely different surgery.)

Renewed Proposal Would Require Consent For Pelvic Exams On Unconscious Patients
In Wisconsin was originally published by Wisconsin Public Radio.

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2021/07/30/bill-requires-consent-before-unconscious-pelvic-exams/

(Most women were shocked, that any woman may have had a student push two fingers
inside their sexual reproduction system, when the story broke.)

Why she might have felt bruised and sore, after her surgery-

"If they have five medical students on an OB-GYN rotation, they aren't going to let
one do it and not the other four," Greger said. "I never heard of anyone out of some
kind of respect for the patient just limiting it to a few."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...c-exams/4e9185c4-4b4c-4d6a-a132-b21b8471da58/

 

[pecksniff]

It came to the attention of patients that are women, that doctors took the opportunity
to give their students more"hands on" experience in internal female reproductive
organs by using an unconscious patient, under anesthesia.

This shouldn't be giving me a hardon, should it?

 

[bodysong]

SCOTUS asked to block Texas abortion law deputizing citizens to enforce six-week ban

Monday, August 30, 2021

The Supreme Court Has Just Two Days to Decide the Fate of Roe v. Wade

Abortion providers go to U.S. Supreme Court to stop new Texas law

Texas law bans abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

Texas Abortion Law — One Of Strictest In U.S. — Goes Into Effect Wednesday

August 30, 2021

Restrictions include a provision that allows private citizens to sue anyone who aids
and abets a woman getting an abortion.

The Texas law banning abortion after about six weeks is set to take effect Wednesday

Ms. Magazine ✓
Twitter › MsMagazine

In response to coordinated attacks on abortion in Texas
(and in the worst legislative year ever for abortion rights),
youth activists are fighting back.

(link)

one hour ago

There are 11 remaining Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas, out of the 40 that existed.
They are turning away patients, ahead of the new restrictions.

 

[bodysong]

from a 2019 report

27 March 2019

2008 - 2017

American religious groups pour 51 million dollars into Europe to influence choices made

US Christian right ‘fundamentalists’ linked to the Trump administration and
Steve Bannonare among a dozen American groups that have poured at least
$50 million of ‘dark money’into Europe over the last decade, openDemocracy
can reveal today.

Between them, these groups have backed ‘armies’ of ultra-conservative lawyers
and political activists, as well as ‘family values’ campaigns against LGBT rights,
sex education and abortion – and a number appear to have increasing links with
Europe’s far right.

World Congress of Families (WCF)

Five of the conservative groups have previously been listed as partners
of the World Congress of Families (WCF) network

The WCF itself has been described as an “anti-LGBT hate group”
by the Southern/ Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

The WCF is a project of the International Organization for the Family
and the Illinois-based Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society

A number of other US Christian conservative groups appear to be spending money
in Europe, but do not disclose this on their US filings – including the Howard Center
for Family, Religion and Society, which has coordinated the WCF network.

“It took the Christian right 30 years to get to where they are now in the White House,” he said.

“We knew a similar effort was happening in Europe, but this should be a wake-up call
that this is happening even faster and on a grander scale than many experts could have
ever imagined.”

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/50...ark-money-into-europe-boosting-the-far-right/

2017 WCF meeting in Budapest was opened by Hungarian prime minister Victor Orbán.

FOX TV's Tucker Carlson Drops In On Viktor Orban

Aug 10, 2021

NY Times

Carlson’s visit to Hungary coincides with his scheduled appearance on Saturday
at MCC Feszt, a conference run by an educational institution that has received
substantial financial support from Orban’s government.

The institution, Mathias Corvinus Collegium, “has audacious plans to train
a conservative future elite” in the country, according to a New York Times
investigation in June.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/08/03/tucker-carlson-hungary/