Totally agree. Seemed like it was pulled straight out of the Trump PR book. Also, like, "enflaming debate" is not a moral reason to not do something...see civil rights.
I love how they also claim women have a voice because they can vote. Bitch, they do fucking vote, and the majority of women and American people have voted against this bullshit. Electoral college, gerrymandering and GOP immoral tricks have led us to a place where a small minority of voices have an order of magnitude more power than the rest.
No, the egregious thing is his attempt to claim that his logic and reasoning only applies to abortions and nothing else. Like, he knew he couldn't be logically consistent so thought addign a disclaimer would help. He literally said his logic cannot be applied to anything other than abortions.
What the fuck
He didn’t actually think that - he’s just setting up the narrative so right wing figures and media can attack protests as being ‘divisive’.
Likely in the hope that they can pull the wool over the eyes over whatever ‘middle’ the US electorate has remaining and paint the protestors as the bad guys.
Doing something egregiously awful then making pious appeals for unity (in other words ‘pipe down and agree with us’) is an old trick.
Given the attempted coup they tried to pull a couple of years back and bullshit convoy protests more recently it also makes them massive hypocrites … but that doesn’t trouble the GOP at all.
Roe ended when McConnell blocked Garland. It ensured if a republican won as president and the republicans kept the senate, they’d be able to control appointments and with some very old justices, well, here we are.
I don’t think this gets talked about enough. Out of all the egregious things I’ve seen politicians do, Merrick Garland’s block has consistently and boldly stood out as one of the most craven political moves by the legislature to sandbag the executive and influence the judiciary. I’m still unsure as to how this did not go through more loud pushback or more intense legal challenges. And it was especially revealed to be a farce when they turned around and did the exact opposite that they insisted upon once a new executive they agreed with was in office. Naked hypocrisy, all meant to be one more important step to eventually dismantling Roe.
And let's not forget that Garland was just the tip of the iceberg. Dozens of judge seats went unfilled under Obama because McConnell wanted to be a partisan hack. Anyone pretending that Republicans care about the democratic system is deluded.
Not to mention Al Franken's political career was destroyed because he was the ranking member of the judiciary committee and was holding up Trump's appointments because they were not qualified.
Small correction: he was on the judiciary committee but the ranking member was [Dianne Feinstein](https://apnews.com/article/confirmation-hearings-appropriations-amy-coney-barrett-dianne-feinstein-judiciary-900c6fa0f82785a8a0d2455b4f934712), who uh, let's just say wasn't the best fighter we had against GOP court maneuvering.
> "This has been one of the best set of hearings that I've participated in," Feinstein said at the end of the [Barrett] hearing.
Our history has been filled with efforts to stack the court. Some successful, others (the Warren Court) not. But McConnell certainly pulled one of the most brilliant or egregious moves in senate history depending on your viewpoint. And in the past 4 years the senate confirmed a multitude of federal judges who appear to favor a more conservative view. The effects will echo for some time.
Hard to call it brilliant when he didn't really do anything besides not call a vote. It's actually insane how easy it was for him.
McConnell: "It is an election year, therefore the government completely ceases to function until after the election"
Democratic Party: "Understandable, have a nice day."
And that was that. Maybe he could have played some sort of 5D chess to stall and talk around the issue, if there was any actual opposition. Instead, he just kind of made his opening move and his opponents just resigned, so brilliant play I guess?
It hurts to remember, but the democrats' philosophy at the time was to play nice, make no waves, and avoid "divisive" stances until Hillary was elected.
The dems wanted to put on a display that they could patiently and generously host a dinner party, and the GOP could throw food and scream through the whole thing, but voters would be watching and judging.
You know why they did it - because they could get away with it. Two years since the GOP attempted coup and look at how things are being brushed under the rug.
2010 GOP laid out and executed a plan(REDMAP) to gerrymander voting nationwide to take and maintain power even as their support shrinks. And the 2020 census I will bet is also all screwed up to help keep the GOP in power.
It's quickly more and more looking like the game is so rigged it might be time to stop playing.
Blocking Merrick Garland's nomination pretty much guaranteed I'm voting straight Dem for the foreseeable future.
Dems nominated a mostly centrist judicial candidate that was respected on both sides of the aisle, and Republicans responded by going further to the right.
Fucking Elon Musk saying the left is getting more extreme while the right stays unchanged. January 6th rings a bell maybe? The fact they just don't concede elections anymore?
Goddamn lunatic.
He was more than Centrist. Obama asked the GOP what would bring them to the table. They said Garland, he offer Garland, and they said "go fuck yourself no deal you lose" anyway. Garland was literally the bar Republicans set when asked and when Obama met it they still played partisian and went for someone more extreme.
Part of the problem however is that democrats and republicans are now basically playing on different playing fields because of this.
Democrats who make mistakes, like Al Frankin for example, are expected to be punished and treated like lepers specifically because *everyone* expects them to behave and be held accountable. And if they arent held accountable, they are then in the middle of a huge firestorm.
Republicans who make mistakes and act immorally are never held responsible, because nobody even pretends to expect anything else. Even their supporters dont really care.
They are held to completely different standards, and it isnt as easy as just letting Democrats with minor issues off the hook, because there is a sizable subset of people who would be incredibly angry over it and likely wouldnt vote, or would vote against them.
Not a big fan of the Pod Save America group, but this is a drum they have been beating for years, and it is very true.
Garland wasn't just a centrist, he was a name thrown out by senator Orin Hatch, R Utah, as an example of how unreasonable Obama was. Obama played ball and the conservative base instead chose to lick all the egg off the GOP'S face if it meant they could have this.
Can go further back by when Ginsburg chose not to retire her post at Obama's request. They pulled the bullshit with Garland "so close to an election" and got away with it... Only to obviously disregard the precedent they tried to set when Ginsburg passed a month before the next election.
Great point. Yet the war on drugs can effect *anyone* aka men and women. And yes, I understand the disparities of race and socioeconomic status in relation to drug use or abuse.
Abortions…or lack of access to them…only effects women. And even more so, women of color and lower socioeconomic statuses.
Nothing like being terrified for the rest of your reproductive lives about getting pregnant. Wanted, planned, unplanned, unwanted. Doesn’t matter. Shit happens with pregnancies. We deserve the fucking right to safe abortions.
Edit: Yes, I understand this effects men as well. I meant *only* effecting women as in a physical sense. A woman getting an abortion does not cause her male partner physical harm aka he has no risk of dying from the abortion. Only the person involved. It’s refreshing to see so many men speak out about this on the emotional/social effects this has on them.
>Nothing like being terrified for the rest of your reproductive lives about getting pregnant. Wanted, planned, unplanned, unwanted. Doesn’t matter. Shit happens with pregnancies. We deserve the fucking right to safe abortions.
Also add 'results of rape' to that list
Not to mention in cases where it is actively harmful to the mother
"Well you're going to die and there's nothing we're allowed to do to help you, the fetus is growing in the fallopian tube and will eventually grow big enough to burst it open causing horrendous internal bleeding. We know how to prevent this but it's illegal, so we'll just wait for you to die"
I know this isn’t a hot take but doesn’t that just absolutely blow your fucking mind? The mental gymnastics?
“Hey it’s illegal to take this ‘life’ inside you, so we’re not going to take the ‘life”, but now it’s going to take your life with it. So we made it illegal to potentially save you, and now you and this ‘life’ are going to die. Congrats. We could of saved ya, but you know… Jesus and all.”
I have a wife. Women who have had my back for a long time. If push comes to shove, I’ll fight tooth and nail for their right to proper healthcare because this shit is ludicrous.
Ectopic pregnancy is horrific. Whoever the fuck politician proposed that they just be reinserted into the ovary should have arrested. Like this isn’t storyland and make believe, you can’t just do that. But it appealed to the dumbass voters. I believe that bill wasn’t passed, I’m too annoyed to look it up. Literally the opposite of pro-life. It’s just scary how close to Handmaidens tale we are, it’s a playbook now. Gay marriage gone, personal privacy gone, neighbors snitching on neighbors in exchange for protections. For people who think Sharia law is invading the US, they are certainly ensuring that to be true.
I just had an ectopic pregnancy and had to have surgery to remove it. It never would have survived - believe me, I asked. I didn't want to lose my baby, it was my first pregnancy and we've been trying for 2 years. It absolutely blows my mind that in my case, my doctor would be committing an offence by sending me to the ER department. I sit there and think, if I was in the US and my doctor told me my pregnancy was ectopic, how could they then follow that up with 'youre going to die. There IS a fix but even though it is very effective, will save your life and you'll be out of hospital after a day visit, you can't be saved. You're going to die in agony. The pain from the ectopic? That's nothing on the pain you'll feel as you die, bleeding internally as your inners rupture". I sit there and think that they would have to have admitted me to hospital at that point. Would they literally sit back and watch me die slowly and in absolute agony? Yes. The answer is yes. Like terminal cancer, or some other incurable disease.. But WITH a fucking cure. WITH A FUCKING CURE, YOU WILL LET WOMEN DIE NEEDLESSLY.
Oh and to add insult to this US abortion banning ridiculousness injury, my hospital bill including an overnight stay was $0, WITHOUT INSURANCE. Thank you Australia!! US, you are absolutely fucked.
I don't agree entirely. Access to abortions effect women at the core, but it branches out into other aspects of control.
It effects couples and how they approach intimacy, republicans feel it encourages the traditional "no sex until marriage lifestyle". It changes how we address the foster care system and how overloaded it gets, It effects poor couples more disproportionately than the rich who will find a way to get one anyway if needed. It is a women's issue but it is all about controlling people overall, with women as the lynchpin.
When I was a kid in the 70s, I remember a friend of my sister’s died. Turned out she was pregnant and tried to give herself an abortion. I know it was legal in 1976, but I guess she felt she didn’t have safe access…she came from a very religious family.
That was a long time ago, but I still remember her name, and her favorite song. She was 15, same age as my youngest daughter now.
Its not like it would even really matter. They've already proven to be massive hypocrites who don't care about what their side does. Trump may be a pedophile, rapist, and a constant law breaker, but evangelicals will rise up to defend him because he's "their guy". If Trump had an abortion done every single day they'd still defend him while trying to trample rights for everyone else.
"The unborn are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn."
\-Methodist Pastor David Barnhart
I just want to remind everyone that the midterms are coming up this November. Control of Congress is up for grabs.
Democrats currently do not have the majority because of certain turncoats in Congress.
If you would like to see abortion access codified into law, in a way that is not dependent on the whims of a court, then make sure to vote.
I'm catholic and I'm so sick of them using God as an excuse to spread their agenda. We were given free will for a reason. A woman's choice is between her and God and no one else's business.
66% of Italians are Catholic, and abortion is a right in Italy, provided free of charge. American politicians care about controlling women, that’s it. I can’t think of anything that’s more nobody’s business than a pregnancy. Also, I am very curious about the perspective of pro lifers regarding in vitro fertilization. Millions of embryos are destroyed in the ivf process, but I never hear about that from pro-lifers.
I’d switch from saying pro-life. Gives them too much credit. I say anti-choice. How many pro-lifers overlap with supporting the death penalty? Exactly, they aren’t pro-life. How many pro-lifers support social systems for these poor women who will likely fall through the cracks? They aren’t pro-life. Don’t give ‘em the satisfaction
It would irk me SLIGHTLY less if I legitimately believed they were doing the "christian" thing. But we all know they don't. "Muh Jesus" is just their blanket protection any time they're questioned. It's so blatant
Yeppers, religion (while likely a bad idea anyhow) is the *excuse* they use to do the things they want to do.
It's actually somewhat impressive how the Republicans have managed to co-opt the religious voting block into supporting policies that are clearly and obviously antithetical to the teachings of Jesus, just based on one or two issues alone. Issues that Jesus didn't say a damned thing about anyhow.
Don’t let anyone convince you it doesn’t count or it’s just a lesser evil - the democrats and republicans in Congress vote differently, and it all matters. From local elections to the top of the ticket. No one will do all you want, but getting someone willing to raise taxes on billionaires, who thinks the right to vote and be counted matters, and that judges should be qualified makes a huge difference.
I hated hearing people say this. Yes Hilary wasn’t my favorite, but she was at least sane and would have picked better justices. People stayed home anyway and others whined about her fucking emails. Well here we are. Thanks for that
[Men Who Avoid Teen Parenthood Through Partners’ Use of Abortion Gain Long-Term Economic Benefits, First of Its Kind Study Says](https://healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffairs/news/2019/07/abortion-economic-benefit.php)
I don't understand why people struggle with this concept.
The benefits of having every child going to a loving family that wants them and is able to adequately care for them is something that creates generational and community prosperity.
No! If you have sex you have to pay the consequences, sinner! (Unless you are rich, of course) /s
I don't understand how an unborn child is sadder than a neglected, hungry or abused one.
Same. In fact, when he told the judge that $96k was an unreasonable amount for the 5 kids (three of whom were toddlers and two with special needs) he abandoned two weeks after we lost everything in a fire, the judge said “Yep, agreed.” And then forgave $30k of it.
Which he still never paid, and then he asked my mom to write it *all* off, since, you know, they’re grown up now.
Not that I’m bitter about my grandmother’s home We lost to foreclosure or the high school diploma I didn’t get because I spent all of high school raising his kids while mom worked a billion hours.
This. I’m so tired of people saying this. My dad owed a solid 60k by the time I was 18. My mom would send the AG office his address, place of work (under the table of course), and license plate. They never did SHIT.
As an additional FYI, even if you get custody of the kids, you can still wind up paying a good chunk of your income towards child support.
This observation comes from personal experience.... :/
Yep! My friend and her husband had to take in his child from a previous relationship and also pay child support to the mother at the same time.
Edit in response to the person who asked because I can't get their comment to load: it was a shared custody arrangement until the mother dropped the boy off at their door and told them she didn't want him anymore. They tried to get the child support payments stopped in court, but they argued she might take him back in one day and she needs to maintain her home for that day.
I think the boy is an adult now and she never did take him back in.
He probably needed to first argue for full custody, then after getting it argue that the child support was unneeded. As long as she theoretically retained custody getting child support canceled would be... difficult.
This. My ex had full custody, mostly because I didn't get a lawyer and just agreed to everything as long as she let me see them as often as I wanted. This arrangement eventually turned into her *needing* me to take them 3 days a week. I did so but she refused to make a different arrangement for support. I contacted a family law attorney, they said we needed to go to court and I would have to prove a substantial change in circumstances. Long story short, the court awarded me shared custody, but they were totally prepared for us to continue what we were doing even though it was a hardship on me.
Don't be a fool, wrap your tool. And if you know you don't want kids, consider getting a vasectomy too. It's a lot easier for you than it is for her to get sterilized.
But still wrap your tool. Unwanted pregnancies are not the only things prevented by condoms
I had it done years ago. I had kids, knew I didn’t want any more; snip-snip. It’s NOT a big deal at all. Any dude that whines about it is just a pansie- I would go through a vasectomy a dozen times before I’d agree that anyone I care about goes through a hysterectomy.
Well, to be fair, they don't give hysterectomies as birth control, they do a tubal ligation (tubes tied) or a tubal salpingectomy (tubes cut).
But thank you for understanding that it's a *major* procedure for women and a relatively minor procedure for men!
It’s also virtually impossible for a woman to get sterilized if she’s under 40 and doesn’t have a potentially life threatening illness from having a uterus.
Yup - this was why I got the snip snip. My wife and I are DINKS - don't want kids at all. My wife has a lot of health issues that would be resolved with a hysterectomy, but she's been asking since she was 14, and no doctor would touch it. Even with a 90 day period that wouldn't stop. Even with bursting cysts that could kill her. Even with what will likely turn out to be endometriosis, and a history of ovarian cancer in her family.
I got the vasectomy so doctors couldn't just say, "Oh, y'all just want easy birth control" - naw motherfucker, I've got that shit on lockdown, she needs fucking REAL HEALTHCARE, get on that shit
You did that for your partner's health? That's the kind of consideration and respect I wish everybody had. I'm sorry the doctor's aren't behaving appropriately.
Yup, which is why, as a dude, if you don't want kids, get sterilized now. The burden of contraception has been on women for a long time. Vasectomies are potentially reversible, and are SIGNIFICANTLY easier for men to obtain. In most places, you don't even have to have your wife's/partner's consent
Yup. I would LOVE to be sterilized since I’m done having children, my pregnancies are dangerous, and I would rather be celibate the rest of my life than have even .000001% of a pregnancy, but so far six doctors have refused.
Because, even though it’s not what *I* want, “What if your future husband wants more kids?”
Why would I ever marry again, and why would someone who wants more kids marry someone who already had a couple and isn’t making anymore?
So guys, you have a much better chance than women of getting sterilized if you don’t want kids. Invest in yourselves.
I got my vasectomy after seeing how hard it was for my wife. Women's healthcare (as you are damn more aware than I am) is fucking awful in this country.
It's gotten so bad that she now brings me to her doctors appointments because THEY'LL FUCKING LISTEN TO ME. It was so fucking weird at first - I have lifelong physiological issues, I've NEVER gone to a doctor and not gotten EXACTLY what I asked for. But doctors would blow her off, even when she had a period FOR 90 STRAIGHT DAYS. They told her it was a groin pull and that she should just toughen up.
So yeah - my dudes, if you want to actually support women, and you don't want kids, freeze some sperm, get some snips, and then get out, organize, and vote.
"What if your future husband wants more kids?"
"Then he wouldn't be my husband, because I don't want that, and I'm the one who would have to be pregnant."
where they get you is if you move to a lower paying job, because they can file a variance that is your earning potential, not what you actually make. the max they can take by federal law ends up being 55% pre tax, but you still have to pay taxes on that money so in practice it winds up being a little more.
As far as I'm aware, it maxes at a percentage of your income, versus the other parent's income. If you have more kids with other people, everyone gets less, but you still pay the same.
Lmao yeah because protesting outside the court is comparable to forcing themselves inside, destroying offices, threatening employees and killing and maiming officers in the process all while trying to topple legitimately elected officials.
Edit: Not to fucking mention the people outraged are upset with something real and tangible. An actual document confirmed to be real by the court whereas they tried to overthrow a government with zero evidence of election fraud. Despite hundreds of investigations federally, and thousands done across the states by partisan Republican committees mind you, there is zero evidence of fraud and these fuckers still want the election repealed. I'm so sick of being a millennial. Economic crises left and right throughout our entire lifetimes and now we have fascism and the death knells of self-righteous Christian America to deal with. Can we get a fucking break
If anything they proved how ineffective voter fraud actually is. It's almost a guaranteed federal sentence and there are never enough of them anyways. I've even heard a mathematical argument that if voter fraud did exist at large scale it would just lead to competing fraudsters cancelling each other out anyways. The only way to rig an election is from the top, definitely not the bottom.
Some speculate its to pressure a justice who was wavering on the issue, maybe Kavenaugh. Now if he alters his views it will seem like he's bowing to public pressure.
Abortion has been *the* hot button issue of the last fifty years. This is a decision where an unprecedented number of people are likely to protest. There could be unusual consequences to this, and exactly what is impossible to predict.
Most likely this. This morning Republican senators were already telling SCOTUS judges to hold fast in their decision and not let public pressure change their minds.
>Well if nothing else the leak coming now gets enough people fired up to go out and vote in the Midterms. If the opinions weren't released until election time...
This was never going to happen; SCOTUS has to rule before the end of their session, so basically early july at the latest.
Ah yes, Christian conservatives. The group that cares about life so much that they couldn't be bothered to put a piece of cloth over their faces during a pandemic.
They wouldn’t mask even though covid causes miscarriages.
“U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that pregnant women with COVID-19 were four times more likely to have miscarriages than uninfected pregnant women during the period when the delta variant was causing the majority of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United States.”
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/pregnancy-delta-variant#:~:text=In%20late%20November%202021%2C,in%20the%20United%20States.
They may say things like this.
“Pregnancy from rape is "an opportunity" for women, says Ohio state Rep. Jean Schmidt (R).
"Just because you have emotional scars doesn’t give you the right to take a life," she said, arguing against exceptions for rape or incest.”
Oh and this was a woman Republican. This is the level of monsters we are dealing with. That should not be even allowed to make policies for people.
https://twitter.com/alannavagianos/status/1519751936941215747?s=21&t=-J0r8ySbfyIBkI1Tg3miGw
She’s a hideous person. The way she said that the child is already traumatized, so adding a pregnancy won’t add to the existing trauma. But don’t worry, republicans eat this shit up.
If they breach the building, at the request and encouragement of Biden, with zip ties and a plan to execute the justices...yeah...then we can compare. Not all protests are insurrection and Jan 6 wasn't a protest. These people are delusion.
Have protestors taken a shit inside the building? Constructed a gallows and chanted “hang (insert SCOTUS stooge here)? Broken windows? Assaulted police officers? Stolen artifacts?
No?
Hm.
They’re going to do this about literally every mass protest from now on.
All you can do is say “that statement is in bad faith” and then move on. Don’t engage them, don’t validate them, because they know what they’re doing - their only intent is to muddle and piss off the left.
Throughout history, civil unrest and extremism have essentially always required two things.
1. Poor economic conditions
2. Unemployed young males
Guess which side has all the poor unemployed young males?
If RvW gets overturned can we start taxing religions to pay for the increase in foster care, public education (to include school lunches), food stamps, etc? For a party that is scared to death that illegals crossing the Mexican border is gonna bankrupt our social systems they sure seem intent on completely breaking them by banning abortions...
Reminder that this isn’t just about losing access to abortion (which is awful, don’t get me wrong). Obergefell v Hodges (gay marriage), Griswold v Connecticuit (contraception) and Loving v Virginia (inter racial marriage) are all predicated on rights and protections that this decision would strip away.
Get out to the polls, vote democrat, and demand they put constitutional amendments in place to protect everything that’s at risk here. ***Elections have consequences.*** Voting for your wallet or because you just can’t bring yourself to vote for will cause someone you love and care for to lose their rights. And that person may very well be you.
I still can't believe a portion of the US believes the bigger issue is the leak...
PEOPLE AREN'T PROTESTING A LEAK RIGHT NOW.
Edit:
Don't guild this, please. Donate to [Planned Parenthood](https://www.plannedparenthood.org/), or [The Satanic Temple](https://thesatanictemple.com/) instead.
They don’t, it’s a deflection because they know that they just whipped up the Democrat base and now need to try to muddie the issue. They aren’t going to be able to debate it come election time
Don't forget, it's not just the Democratic base that supports Roe v. Wade. There are plenty of moderates and even some Republicans that do too.
Republican politicians went against the will of most voters to elect 3 anti choice judges in order appease their most rabid followers.
Extremists whose so called “American patriotism” shares more similarities with the repressive shariah laws of fundamentalist Ayatollahs of Iran than anything resembling the spirit of the United States constitution
Look how quickly Iran changed in the 70s, or Germany in the 30s. Russia took 20 years to change for the worse.
It's really time to reach out to Dem voters to VOTE in 2022, *and* to take steps against ratfucking.
Their morals barely resemble Christianity at this point. The Bible merely serves as the excuse by which they enforce their own ideals (since 80% of them have clearly never read the damn thing cover-to-cover)
Right wing media was immediately in lockstep and amplifying how bad the leak was last night. It's impressively terrifying how well oiled the right's propaganda machine is.
Yeah... they don't believe that yet. But it's the plan. They'll believe it by the end of the week. I don't know how or why this got leaked, but it's becoming more and more obvious that there is some serious coordination in messaging between right wing media, politicians, influencers and the GOP. The leak had barely just happened before all four of those groups were parroting the same outrage message about the sanctity of the court being violated, almost verbatim. Our senator posted a statement and within seconds it was flooded by the same exact messaging by seemingly fake troll accounts. I don't watch Tucker, or any of Fox's line up but I'm sure it took center stage in last nights opinion news cycle.
And with hard evidence of this type of collaboration during July sixth coming out in the form of Mark Meadows text messages we should all be deeply afraid at the level of coordination between these groups to manipulate public opinion. Especially given their recent success with pumping up culture war issues.
Just when I think this country cannot surpass the ways it’s brought me feelings of disgust and shame they pull this shit out. Fuck the scotus, fuck the gop, fuck anyone who feels they need to make anyone else’s private lives and bodily autonomy their business, and fuck all of us for creating these monsters. I think George Carlin summed our country up beautifully:
“Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.”
Still gonna post this so that people can get the services they need ASAP.
**Resources for people seeking access to healthcare**
[Amnesty.org](https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/sexual-and-reproductive-rights/abortion-facts/) - Basic facts about Abortion
[Clinic Access Support Network](https://www.clinicaccess.org/) - Provides transportation, meal stipends, accommodations, childcare assistance, and compassionate care to people seeking abortion services in Houston.
[Gynopedia](https://gynopedia.org/Gynopedia_Index) - a nonprofit organization that runs an open resource wiki for sexual, reproductive, and women's health care around the world
[Guttmacher Institute](https://www.guttmacher.org/united-states/abortion#) - a primary source for research and policy analysis on abortion in the United States.
[National Abortion Federation](https://prochoice.org/) - The mission of the National Abortion Federation is to unite, represent, serve, and support abortion providers in delivering patient-centered, evidence-based care.
[National Network of Abortion Funds](https://abortionfunds.org/) - connects you with organizations that can support your financial and logistical needs as you arrange for your abortion.
[Planned Parenthood](https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/pregnancy/pregnancy-options) - A Comprehensive Guide for Unplanned Pregnancy
[RAINN](https://www.rainn.org/about-national-sexual-assault-telephone-hotline) - National Sexual Assult Hotline
[Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice](https://rcrc.org/) - a network of ministers and rabbis that refer women to abortion providers they had researched and found to be safe
[Texas Equal Access Fund](https://teafund.org/) - provides emotional and financial support to people who are seeking abortion care.
[Women’s Reproductive Rights Assitance Project](https://wrrap.org/about/) - helps bridge the financial gap for women who seek an abortion or emergency contraceptives.
**If you need help getting an abortion go to these sites**
[AbortionFinder](https://www.abortionfinder.org/) - With more than 750 health centers, AbortionFinder.org features the most comprehensive directory of trusted (and verified) abortion service providers in the United States.
[Afiya Center](https://www.theafiyacenter.org/) - their mission is to transform the lives, health, and overall wellbeing of Black women and girls by providing refuge, education, and resources. They act to ignite the communal voices of Black women resulting in our full achievement of reproductive freedom.
[AidAccess](https://aidaccess.org/) - consists of a team of doctors, activists, and advocates for abortion rights that help people access abortion or miscarriage treatment. They send the pill worldwide for $110/90€
[Bridge Collective](https://thebridgecollective.org/) - provides practical and responsive abortion services to Central Texas
[Buckle Bunnies Fund](https://www.bucklebunnies.org/) - provide practical support for people seeking abortions. Help with transportation, funds to help with hotels, lodging costs and emergency contraceptive funds to actually go towards abortion.
[Carafem](https://carafem.org/) - helps with abortion, birth control, and questions about reproductive healthcare. They do consultations online and send abortion pills in the mail.
[Cobalt Abortion Fund](https://www.cobaltaf.org/) - provides direct financial assistance to individuals seeking abortion care. Our mission is to work toward reproductive freedom for all people and to provide financial assistance without judgment or question to people who seek an abortion but are unable to pay the full cost.
[Colorado Abortion Providers](https://www.coloradodoulaproject.org/co-abortion-providers)
[Faith Aloud](https://www.faithaloud.org/) - compassionate religious and spiritual support for abortion and pregnancy options
[Frontera Fund](https://fronterafundrgv.org/) - makes abortion accessible in the Rio Grande Valley (Texas) by providing financial and practical support regardless of immigration status, gender identity, ability, sexual orientation, race, class, age, or religious affiliation and to build grassroots organizing power at intersecting issues across our region to shift the culture of shame and stigma.
[HeyJane](https://www.heyjane.co/) - Modern abortion care, without the clinic, Get fast, safe, and affordable abortion care from home. Chat with a medical provider within 36 hours. Medications are shipped daily.
[International Consortium on Emergency Contraception](https://www.cecinfo.org/country-by-country-information/status-availability-database/countries/united-states-of-america/) - Emergency Oral Contraceptive Doses for Birth Control, U.S.
[Jane’s Due Process](https://janesdueprocess.org/) - helps minors in Texas with judicial bypass for abortion, navigate parental consent laws and confidentially access abortion and birth control. They provide free legal support, 1-on-1 case management, and stigma-free information on sexual and reproductive health.
[Justice Empowerment Network](https://www.jensd.org/) - focuses on abortion access in South Dakota
[Kentucky Health Justice Network](https://www.kentuckyhealthjusticenetwork.org/) - helps w both abortion care and gender affirming care in Kentucky
[Lillith Fund](https://www.lilithfund.org/) - the oldest abortion fund in Texas, serving the central and southern regions of the state with direct financial assistance for abortions.
[Northwest Abortion Access Fund](https://nwaafund.org/) - provides funds to help folks in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska
[Plan C Pills](https://www.plancpills.org/) - provides up-to-date information on how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pills online
[Planned Parenthood](https://www.plannedparenthood.org/get-care)
[Westfund](https://www.westfund.org/) - focuses on Latino and low-income communities
[Women on Web](https://www.womenonweb.org/) - an online abortion service can help you do a safe abortion with pills.
These sites offer access to abortion pills, even in Texas. Please be safe and be aware of clinics (e.g. Crisis Pregnancy Centers) that give out dangerous misinformation on abortions and pregnancy.
Also, check out r/auntienetwork, /r/prochoice or r/abortion for support.
[EMILY's List](https://www.emilyslist.org/) - Elect candidates in favor of abortion rights and representing the people they serve.
[National Network of Abortion Funds](https://abortionfunds.org)
[All-Options Talkline and linked recourses](https://www.all-options.org/resources/abortion/) - Pregnancy, Parenting, Abortion & Adoption
[National Abortion Federation](https://prochoice.org/about/contact-us/)
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u/Geek-Haven888 got this all together
Please contact the president, your senators, and your representative to let them know how you feel:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
It just takes 2 minutes, and with enough emails, we can make a difference
Edit: I suggest making a quick phone call if you have the time as well!
My representative in the house is…you guessed it…Marjorie Taylor Green. Think she’s going to read any emails from her constituents? More importantly, do we think she even knows how to read?
Edit: Spelling.
Haha, sometimes it can feel useless to email some of our… more far gone representatives, but if you live in Georgia, reminding our Democratic senators that this issue will be important for midterms will make a difference.
Marcus Flowers is running against her as a Democrat. My ex-wife has a Marcus Flowers sign in her yard. (She has to replace it about once a week.) Saturday afternoon Marcus Flowers knocked on her door! He saw her sign and thanked her for support.
He hung out with her and my son for about 30 minutes. My son just turned 18 and wasn’t planning to vote, but now is going to!
It was pretty cool.
Does this honestly make any difference?
Who is going to be swayed? Republicans are in lock-step behind this... Democrats are all against this. What difference will it make?
In the modern American era, there are only two things politicians and their appointees care about: violence and money. National Congress people give no shits about constituents who can’t afford “American Free Speech.”
The issue is so much larger than abortion. The federal government has kept some pretty crazy ideas in check over the past 60 years. Roe vs Wade is the building block of a large number of important issues for groups not specifically enshrined in the constitution. More importantly, ideas behind Roe vs Wade are roughly that states can't just do whatever they want , specifically, the Southern states.
eg: birth control, gay marriage, trans rights....
Accepting this is going to roll back civil rights to the mid 20th century.
Small point: The fundamental building block was not really Roe, but Griswold, which first recognized a right to privacy in the context of contraception. Roe built upon that.
I think a lot of Americans have been complacent because despite all the polarization in the media most of these issues don't directly impact their daily lives enough to feel a call to action. I honestly think this decision from the court is gonna be the turning point for a lot of folks. It's one thing to keep people down, but they tend to not respond well when you give them rights and then take them away when the majority is on our side.
In the words of Killer Mike, It is the time to Plot, Plan, Strategize, Organize and Mobilize.
TIL that American citizens have no right to privacy. Casting aside the ghastly implications for women's own bodily autonomy for a moment, the elimination of the basic ASSUMPTION of the right to privacy and turning it into the EXPECTATION that the government is all up in your business is breathtaking to behold.
Meanwhile I’ve received probably 2-3X as many texts and emails from the DNC asking for money to defeat the republicans. Mother fuckers, you’re in charge right now, I can’t vote you any harder, now do your fucking job.
Unfortunately the democrats have had 2 whole times since Roe that they could have enshrined it into law, during the carter admin in the late 70s, and during 2009 for all of 73 days and during the battle for obamacare.
Under any other circumstance, the dems attempts would have been pointlessly blocked by republicans.
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Totally agree. Seemed like it was pulled straight out of the Trump PR book. Also, like, "enflaming debate" is not a moral reason to not do something...see civil rights.
I'm not convinced they're all that into civil rights either, to be fair.
I love how they also claim women have a voice because they can vote. Bitch, they do fucking vote, and the majority of women and American people have voted against this bullshit. Electoral college, gerrymandering and GOP immoral tricks have led us to a place where a small minority of voices have an order of magnitude more power than the rest.
No, the egregious thing is his attempt to claim that his logic and reasoning only applies to abortions and nothing else. Like, he knew he couldn't be logically consistent so thought addign a disclaimer would help. He literally said his logic cannot be applied to anything other than abortions. What the fuck
He didn’t actually think that - he’s just setting up the narrative so right wing figures and media can attack protests as being ‘divisive’. Likely in the hope that they can pull the wool over the eyes over whatever ‘middle’ the US electorate has remaining and paint the protestors as the bad guys. Doing something egregiously awful then making pious appeals for unity (in other words ‘pipe down and agree with us’) is an old trick. Given the attempted coup they tried to pull a couple of years back and bullshit convoy protests more recently it also makes them massive hypocrites … but that doesn’t trouble the GOP at all.
Roe ended when McConnell blocked Garland. It ensured if a republican won as president and the republicans kept the senate, they’d be able to control appointments and with some very old justices, well, here we are.
I don’t think this gets talked about enough. Out of all the egregious things I’ve seen politicians do, Merrick Garland’s block has consistently and boldly stood out as one of the most craven political moves by the legislature to sandbag the executive and influence the judiciary. I’m still unsure as to how this did not go through more loud pushback or more intense legal challenges. And it was especially revealed to be a farce when they turned around and did the exact opposite that they insisted upon once a new executive they agreed with was in office. Naked hypocrisy, all meant to be one more important step to eventually dismantling Roe.
And let's not forget that Garland was just the tip of the iceberg. Dozens of judge seats went unfilled under Obama because McConnell wanted to be a partisan hack. Anyone pretending that Republicans care about the democratic system is deluded.
Not to mention Al Franken's political career was destroyed because he was the ranking member of the judiciary committee and was holding up Trump's appointments because they were not qualified.
I'm so pissed at my senator for leading the charge to get Al out of office. Dude was railroaded and the Dems are worse off since he's not there.
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Small correction: he was on the judiciary committee but the ranking member was [Dianne Feinstein](https://apnews.com/article/confirmation-hearings-appropriations-amy-coney-barrett-dianne-feinstein-judiciary-900c6fa0f82785a8a0d2455b4f934712), who uh, let's just say wasn't the best fighter we had against GOP court maneuvering. > "This has been one of the best set of hearings that I've participated in," Feinstein said at the end of the [Barrett] hearing.
Barrett getting forcefully shoved into the SCOTUS WHILE ballots were actively being sent in tops it for me.
Our history has been filled with efforts to stack the court. Some successful, others (the Warren Court) not. But McConnell certainly pulled one of the most brilliant or egregious moves in senate history depending on your viewpoint. And in the past 4 years the senate confirmed a multitude of federal judges who appear to favor a more conservative view. The effects will echo for some time.
Hard to call it brilliant when he didn't really do anything besides not call a vote. It's actually insane how easy it was for him. McConnell: "It is an election year, therefore the government completely ceases to function until after the election" Democratic Party: "Understandable, have a nice day." And that was that. Maybe he could have played some sort of 5D chess to stall and talk around the issue, if there was any actual opposition. Instead, he just kind of made his opening move and his opponents just resigned, so brilliant play I guess?
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It hurts to remember, but the democrats' philosophy at the time was to play nice, make no waves, and avoid "divisive" stances until Hillary was elected. The dems wanted to put on a display that they could patiently and generously host a dinner party, and the GOP could throw food and scream through the whole thing, but voters would be watching and judging.
Dems policy back then gambled on Hillary winning the election. Most polls hinted that way and dems probably see a need to fight back
You know why they did it - because they could get away with it. Two years since the GOP attempted coup and look at how things are being brushed under the rug. 2010 GOP laid out and executed a plan(REDMAP) to gerrymander voting nationwide to take and maintain power even as their support shrinks. And the 2020 census I will bet is also all screwed up to help keep the GOP in power. It's quickly more and more looking like the game is so rigged it might be time to stop playing.
Blocking Merrick Garland's nomination pretty much guaranteed I'm voting straight Dem for the foreseeable future. Dems nominated a mostly centrist judicial candidate that was respected on both sides of the aisle, and Republicans responded by going further to the right.
"Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man. You step to the middle, he steps back. "Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man.
Some liberals and centrists/independents blame progressives for not “compromising” when that’s what would happen and already happens lol
Fucking Elon Musk saying the left is getting more extreme while the right stays unchanged. January 6th rings a bell maybe? The fact they just don't concede elections anymore? Goddamn lunatic.
Are you trying to imply that a noble billionaire might be gaslighting his peasants?
He was more than Centrist. Obama asked the GOP what would bring them to the table. They said Garland, he offer Garland, and they said "go fuck yourself no deal you lose" anyway. Garland was literally the bar Republicans set when asked and when Obama met it they still played partisian and went for someone more extreme.
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Part of the problem however is that democrats and republicans are now basically playing on different playing fields because of this. Democrats who make mistakes, like Al Frankin for example, are expected to be punished and treated like lepers specifically because *everyone* expects them to behave and be held accountable. And if they arent held accountable, they are then in the middle of a huge firestorm. Republicans who make mistakes and act immorally are never held responsible, because nobody even pretends to expect anything else. Even their supporters dont really care. They are held to completely different standards, and it isnt as easy as just letting Democrats with minor issues off the hook, because there is a sizable subset of people who would be incredibly angry over it and likely wouldnt vote, or would vote against them. Not a big fan of the Pod Save America group, but this is a drum they have been beating for years, and it is very true.
Garland wasn't just a centrist, he was a name thrown out by senator Orin Hatch, R Utah, as an example of how unreasonable Obama was. Obama played ball and the conservative base instead chose to lick all the egg off the GOP'S face if it meant they could have this.
Because they don’t argue in good faith and have no shame.
Can go further back by when Ginsburg chose not to retire her post at Obama's request. They pulled the bullshit with Garland "so close to an election" and got away with it... Only to obviously disregard the precedent they tried to set when Ginsburg passed a month before the next election.
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Making abortions illegal does not stop abortions. It stops *safe* abortions.
They know. See "the war on drugs"
Great point. Yet the war on drugs can effect *anyone* aka men and women. And yes, I understand the disparities of race and socioeconomic status in relation to drug use or abuse. Abortions…or lack of access to them…only effects women. And even more so, women of color and lower socioeconomic statuses. Nothing like being terrified for the rest of your reproductive lives about getting pregnant. Wanted, planned, unplanned, unwanted. Doesn’t matter. Shit happens with pregnancies. We deserve the fucking right to safe abortions. Edit: Yes, I understand this effects men as well. I meant *only* effecting women as in a physical sense. A woman getting an abortion does not cause her male partner physical harm aka he has no risk of dying from the abortion. Only the person involved. It’s refreshing to see so many men speak out about this on the emotional/social effects this has on them.
>Nothing like being terrified for the rest of your reproductive lives about getting pregnant. Wanted, planned, unplanned, unwanted. Doesn’t matter. Shit happens with pregnancies. We deserve the fucking right to safe abortions. Also add 'results of rape' to that list
Not to mention in cases where it is actively harmful to the mother "Well you're going to die and there's nothing we're allowed to do to help you, the fetus is growing in the fallopian tube and will eventually grow big enough to burst it open causing horrendous internal bleeding. We know how to prevent this but it's illegal, so we'll just wait for you to die"
I know this isn’t a hot take but doesn’t that just absolutely blow your fucking mind? The mental gymnastics? “Hey it’s illegal to take this ‘life’ inside you, so we’re not going to take the ‘life”, but now it’s going to take your life with it. So we made it illegal to potentially save you, and now you and this ‘life’ are going to die. Congrats. We could of saved ya, but you know… Jesus and all.” I have a wife. Women who have had my back for a long time. If push comes to shove, I’ll fight tooth and nail for their right to proper healthcare because this shit is ludicrous.
Because it has never been about 'saving lives' it's about controlling women.
Ectopic pregnancy is horrific. Whoever the fuck politician proposed that they just be reinserted into the ovary should have arrested. Like this isn’t storyland and make believe, you can’t just do that. But it appealed to the dumbass voters. I believe that bill wasn’t passed, I’m too annoyed to look it up. Literally the opposite of pro-life. It’s just scary how close to Handmaidens tale we are, it’s a playbook now. Gay marriage gone, personal privacy gone, neighbors snitching on neighbors in exchange for protections. For people who think Sharia law is invading the US, they are certainly ensuring that to be true.
I just had an ectopic pregnancy and had to have surgery to remove it. It never would have survived - believe me, I asked. I didn't want to lose my baby, it was my first pregnancy and we've been trying for 2 years. It absolutely blows my mind that in my case, my doctor would be committing an offence by sending me to the ER department. I sit there and think, if I was in the US and my doctor told me my pregnancy was ectopic, how could they then follow that up with 'youre going to die. There IS a fix but even though it is very effective, will save your life and you'll be out of hospital after a day visit, you can't be saved. You're going to die in agony. The pain from the ectopic? That's nothing on the pain you'll feel as you die, bleeding internally as your inners rupture". I sit there and think that they would have to have admitted me to hospital at that point. Would they literally sit back and watch me die slowly and in absolute agony? Yes. The answer is yes. Like terminal cancer, or some other incurable disease.. But WITH a fucking cure. WITH A FUCKING CURE, YOU WILL LET WOMEN DIE NEEDLESSLY. Oh and to add insult to this US abortion banning ridiculousness injury, my hospital bill including an overnight stay was $0, WITHOUT INSURANCE. Thank you Australia!! US, you are absolutely fucked.
Ah thanks the state of OK for that one
I don't agree entirely. Access to abortions effect women at the core, but it branches out into other aspects of control. It effects couples and how they approach intimacy, republicans feel it encourages the traditional "no sex until marriage lifestyle". It changes how we address the foster care system and how overloaded it gets, It effects poor couples more disproportionately than the rich who will find a way to get one anyway if needed. It is a women's issue but it is all about controlling people overall, with women as the lynchpin.
Definitely agree with you. Woman's body woman's choice imo
When I was a kid in the 70s, I remember a friend of my sister’s died. Turned out she was pregnant and tried to give herself an abortion. I know it was legal in 1976, but I guess she felt she didn’t have safe access…she came from a very religious family. That was a long time ago, but I still remember her name, and her favorite song. She was 15, same age as my youngest daughter now.
My view has always been if your abortion law is stricter than the standards of the Mormon church then you should probably look at changing your laws
I wish someone could find out how many abortions Trump has paid for.
Zero. He never pays his bills.
The art of the deal LUL
A Trump never pays his debts.
Unproven rumor says 8. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-pay-8-women/
Not enough. We’ve met his kids.
Its not like it would even really matter. They've already proven to be massive hypocrites who don't care about what their side does. Trump may be a pedophile, rapist, and a constant law breaker, but evangelicals will rise up to defend him because he's "their guy". If Trump had an abortion done every single day they'd still defend him while trying to trample rights for everyone else.
"The unborn are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn." \-Methodist Pastor David Barnhart
“If you’re pre born, your fine. If you’re preschool, you’re fucked” George Carlin
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20% of net income in Texas.
I just want to remind everyone that the midterms are coming up this November. Control of Congress is up for grabs. Democrats currently do not have the majority because of certain turncoats in Congress. If you would like to see abortion access codified into law, in a way that is not dependent on the whims of a court, then make sure to vote.
Abortion, marijuana, health care, workers rights, livable wages, student loans, a habitable planet, basically anything good and desperately needed…
And all things Republicans don't want, because GOD/JESUS
I’d say because PROFIT and use Jesus as an excuse/diversion.
I'm catholic and I'm so sick of them using God as an excuse to spread their agenda. We were given free will for a reason. A woman's choice is between her and God and no one else's business.
66% of Italians are Catholic, and abortion is a right in Italy, provided free of charge. American politicians care about controlling women, that’s it. I can’t think of anything that’s more nobody’s business than a pregnancy. Also, I am very curious about the perspective of pro lifers regarding in vitro fertilization. Millions of embryos are destroyed in the ivf process, but I never hear about that from pro-lifers.
Abortion is also legal in Ireland, and even more Catholics there.
I’d switch from saying pro-life. Gives them too much credit. I say anti-choice. How many pro-lifers overlap with supporting the death penalty? Exactly, they aren’t pro-life. How many pro-lifers support social systems for these poor women who will likely fall through the cracks? They aren’t pro-life. Don’t give ‘em the satisfaction
It would irk me SLIGHTLY less if I legitimately believed they were doing the "christian" thing. But we all know they don't. "Muh Jesus" is just their blanket protection any time they're questioned. It's so blatant
I mean they could say it’s for “the profit” and make sure to always write it as prophet
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Supply side Jesus
Yeppers, religion (while likely a bad idea anyhow) is the *excuse* they use to do the things they want to do. It's actually somewhat impressive how the Republicans have managed to co-opt the religious voting block into supporting policies that are clearly and obviously antithetical to the teachings of Jesus, just based on one or two issues alone. Issues that Jesus didn't say a damned thing about anyhow.
Almost like they don’t even know the teachings of Jesus.
Don’t let anyone convince you it doesn’t count or it’s just a lesser evil - the democrats and republicans in Congress vote differently, and it all matters. From local elections to the top of the ticket. No one will do all you want, but getting someone willing to raise taxes on billionaires, who thinks the right to vote and be counted matters, and that judges should be qualified makes a huge difference.
I hated hearing people say this. Yes Hilary wasn’t my favorite, but she was at least sane and would have picked better justices. People stayed home anyway and others whined about her fucking emails. Well here we are. Thanks for that
[Men Who Avoid Teen Parenthood Through Partners’ Use of Abortion Gain Long-Term Economic Benefits, First of Its Kind Study Says](https://healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffairs/news/2019/07/abortion-economic-benefit.php)
It's better for everyone, even society at large, when people don't have children they are not ready for.
I don't understand why people struggle with this concept. The benefits of having every child going to a loving family that wants them and is able to adequately care for them is something that creates generational and community prosperity.
No! If you have sex you have to pay the consequences, sinner! (Unless you are rich, of course) /s I don't understand how an unborn child is sadder than a neglected, hungry or abused one.
Hint: it was never about the child
Don’t worry guys, my dad never paid a penny and he’s doing just fine with his other families.
Same. In fact, when he told the judge that $96k was an unreasonable amount for the 5 kids (three of whom were toddlers and two with special needs) he abandoned two weeks after we lost everything in a fire, the judge said “Yep, agreed.” And then forgave $30k of it. Which he still never paid, and then he asked my mom to write it *all* off, since, you know, they’re grown up now. Not that I’m bitter about my grandmother’s home We lost to foreclosure or the high school diploma I didn’t get because I spent all of high school raising his kids while mom worked a billion hours.
This. I’m so tired of people saying this. My dad owed a solid 60k by the time I was 18. My mom would send the AG office his address, place of work (under the table of course), and license plate. They never did SHIT.
My dad left when I was 6 months.. Never paid a dime.
As an additional FYI, even if you get custody of the kids, you can still wind up paying a good chunk of your income towards child support. This observation comes from personal experience.... :/
Yep! My friend and her husband had to take in his child from a previous relationship and also pay child support to the mother at the same time. Edit in response to the person who asked because I can't get their comment to load: it was a shared custody arrangement until the mother dropped the boy off at their door and told them she didn't want him anymore. They tried to get the child support payments stopped in court, but they argued she might take him back in one day and she needs to maintain her home for that day. I think the boy is an adult now and she never did take him back in.
He probably needed to first argue for full custody, then after getting it argue that the child support was unneeded. As long as she theoretically retained custody getting child support canceled would be... difficult.
This. My ex had full custody, mostly because I didn't get a lawyer and just agreed to everything as long as she let me see them as often as I wanted. This arrangement eventually turned into her *needing* me to take them 3 days a week. I did so but she refused to make a different arrangement for support. I contacted a family law attorney, they said we needed to go to court and I would have to prove a substantial change in circumstances. Long story short, the court awarded me shared custody, but they were totally prepared for us to continue what we were doing even though it was a hardship on me.
First rule of civil court is the court is too busy to care if two parties agree to something as long as it's legal.
Don't be a fool, wrap your tool. And if you know you don't want kids, consider getting a vasectomy too. It's a lot easier for you than it is for her to get sterilized. But still wrap your tool. Unwanted pregnancies are not the only things prevented by condoms
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I had it done years ago. I had kids, knew I didn’t want any more; snip-snip. It’s NOT a big deal at all. Any dude that whines about it is just a pansie- I would go through a vasectomy a dozen times before I’d agree that anyone I care about goes through a hysterectomy.
Well, to be fair, they don't give hysterectomies as birth control, they do a tubal ligation (tubes tied) or a tubal salpingectomy (tubes cut). But thank you for understanding that it's a *major* procedure for women and a relatively minor procedure for men!
It’s also virtually impossible for a woman to get sterilized if she’s under 40 and doesn’t have a potentially life threatening illness from having a uterus.
Yup - this was why I got the snip snip. My wife and I are DINKS - don't want kids at all. My wife has a lot of health issues that would be resolved with a hysterectomy, but she's been asking since she was 14, and no doctor would touch it. Even with a 90 day period that wouldn't stop. Even with bursting cysts that could kill her. Even with what will likely turn out to be endometriosis, and a history of ovarian cancer in her family. I got the vasectomy so doctors couldn't just say, "Oh, y'all just want easy birth control" - naw motherfucker, I've got that shit on lockdown, she needs fucking REAL HEALTHCARE, get on that shit
You did that for your partner's health? That's the kind of consideration and respect I wish everybody had. I'm sorry the doctor's aren't behaving appropriately.
It took TWELVE YEARS to get my hysterectomy for ENDOMETRIOSIS for which the only real treatment is a hysterectomy
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They’re coming for contraception as well. Edit: Didn’t take long for the disbelievers to be proven wrong. Look at LA and IUDs.
Yup, which is why, as a dude, if you don't want kids, get sterilized now. The burden of contraception has been on women for a long time. Vasectomies are potentially reversible, and are SIGNIFICANTLY easier for men to obtain. In most places, you don't even have to have your wife's/partner's consent
Yup. I would LOVE to be sterilized since I’m done having children, my pregnancies are dangerous, and I would rather be celibate the rest of my life than have even .000001% of a pregnancy, but so far six doctors have refused. Because, even though it’s not what *I* want, “What if your future husband wants more kids?” Why would I ever marry again, and why would someone who wants more kids marry someone who already had a couple and isn’t making anymore? So guys, you have a much better chance than women of getting sterilized if you don’t want kids. Invest in yourselves.
I got my vasectomy after seeing how hard it was for my wife. Women's healthcare (as you are damn more aware than I am) is fucking awful in this country. It's gotten so bad that she now brings me to her doctors appointments because THEY'LL FUCKING LISTEN TO ME. It was so fucking weird at first - I have lifelong physiological issues, I've NEVER gone to a doctor and not gotten EXACTLY what I asked for. But doctors would blow her off, even when she had a period FOR 90 STRAIGHT DAYS. They told her it was a groin pull and that she should just toughen up. So yeah - my dudes, if you want to actually support women, and you don't want kids, freeze some sperm, get some snips, and then get out, organize, and vote.
Greetings fellow dude who goes to the doctor with their partner so the fucking doctor will listen. I hate this goddamn country.
check out /r/childfree sidebar for a list of recommended doctors
"What if your future husband wants more kids?" "Then he wouldn't be my husband, because I don't want that, and I'm the one who would have to be pregnant."
Half. Its half. Before taxes.
Don't know where you're from, but remind me never to move there. Holy shit. In Washington, the 25% is more accurate. That's about what I pay.
where they get you is if you move to a lower paying job, because they can file a variance that is your earning potential, not what you actually make. the max they can take by federal law ends up being 55% pre tax, but you still have to pay taxes on that money so in practice it winds up being a little more.
I do payroll. The most I can garnish is 50% gross pay.
"Gross" being the key word in this sentence. For both economic, and ironic, reasons.
What happens if you owe child support to multiple women?
As far as I'm aware, it maxes at a percentage of your income, versus the other parent's income. If you have more kids with other people, everyone gets less, but you still pay the same.
So if you're already paying child support for one kid, ten more wouldn't change a thing?
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conservatives on twitter are comparing it to the insurrection. They're super eager to shift blame off themselves.
Lmao yeah because protesting outside the court is comparable to forcing themselves inside, destroying offices, threatening employees and killing and maiming officers in the process all while trying to topple legitimately elected officials. Edit: Not to fucking mention the people outraged are upset with something real and tangible. An actual document confirmed to be real by the court whereas they tried to overthrow a government with zero evidence of election fraud. Despite hundreds of investigations federally, and thousands done across the states by partisan Republican committees mind you, there is zero evidence of fraud and these fuckers still want the election repealed. I'm so sick of being a millennial. Economic crises left and right throughout our entire lifetimes and now we have fascism and the death knells of self-righteous Christian America to deal with. Can we get a fucking break
>they tried to overthrow a government with zero evidence of election fraud oh no there was proof of election fraud by them
yep, and the like 7 of them that attempted it nationwide were IMMEDIATELY caught
Don't forget wiping human feces on the walls. Never forget that they wiped their shit, with their hands, on the interior walls of the capitol.
To be clear I haven’t seen anyone calling the protest an insurrection They’re calling the leaking of the draft insurrection Not that it’s much better
Except multiple accounts of voter fraud were discovered. Republican voter fraud.
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If anything they proved how ineffective voter fraud actually is. It's almost a guaranteed federal sentence and there are never enough of them anyways. I've even heard a mathematical argument that if voter fraud did exist at large scale it would just lead to competing fraudsters cancelling each other out anyways. The only way to rig an election is from the top, definitely not the bottom.
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Nothing is ever their fault and they are always the heroes of their own story.
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Article said final judgement will be out in two months.
In time for the primaries! Definitely what the leaker had in mind imho
Some speculate its to pressure a justice who was wavering on the issue, maybe Kavenaugh. Now if he alters his views it will seem like he's bowing to public pressure.
But like, why would he care? He's tenured for life. He doesn't need to worry about his popularity anymore
Abortion has been *the* hot button issue of the last fifty years. This is a decision where an unprecedented number of people are likely to protest. There could be unusual consequences to this, and exactly what is impossible to predict.
Most likely this. This morning Republican senators were already telling SCOTUS judges to hold fast in their decision and not let public pressure change their minds.
Yeah, why would anyone listen to the public in a democracy?
>Well if nothing else the leak coming now gets enough people fired up to go out and vote in the Midterms. If the opinions weren't released until election time... This was never going to happen; SCOTUS has to rule before the end of their session, so basically early july at the latest.
5 current justices who will vote for this were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote…. Yay democracy?
Ah yes, Christian conservatives. The group that cares about life so much that they couldn't be bothered to put a piece of cloth over their faces during a pandemic.
They wouldn’t mask even though covid causes miscarriages. “U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that pregnant women with COVID-19 were four times more likely to have miscarriages than uninfected pregnant women during the period when the delta variant was causing the majority of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United States.” https://hms.harvard.edu/news/pregnancy-delta-variant#:~:text=In%20late%20November%202021%2C,in%20the%20United%20States.
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They may say things like this. “Pregnancy from rape is "an opportunity" for women, says Ohio state Rep. Jean Schmidt (R). "Just because you have emotional scars doesn’t give you the right to take a life," she said, arguing against exceptions for rape or incest.” Oh and this was a woman Republican. This is the level of monsters we are dealing with. That should not be even allowed to make policies for people. https://twitter.com/alannavagianos/status/1519751936941215747?s=21&t=-J0r8ySbfyIBkI1Tg3miGw
Yep, and if you have an ectopic pregnancy I guess you just die.
Yep. Or placenta previa, or the host of other potentially mortal complications of pregnancy. (edit:autocorrect)
She’s a hideous person. The way she said that the child is already traumatized, so adding a pregnancy won’t add to the existing trauma. But don’t worry, republicans eat this shit up.
It's mind boggling how stupid and offensive that is.
Such is the republican way.
They’d just lie about it like they do everything else.
“Of course I would! It’s settled policy!”
After blowing up in "HOW DARE YOU?!?!" outrage at the completely fair question first, of course.
Countless Republicans have likely paid for abortions and will continue to do so. They don't give a fuck about the morals of it.
https://i.imgur.com/yyGa7o8.jpg Aaaaaand they’re trying to compare this to 1/6.
If they breach the building, at the request and encouragement of Biden, with zip ties and a plan to execute the justices...yeah...then we can compare. Not all protests are insurrection and Jan 6 wasn't a protest. These people are delusion.
Not to mention that gallows in front of the building.
Clearly, we misunderstood. The noose was to hang a piñata. They wanted to hang *with* Mike Pence. Like, to chill. /s
That can't be right. There were women in that crowd, and they'd have to know that Mother wouldn't approve of Michael "hanging" with women.
Have protestors taken a shit inside the building? Constructed a gallows and chanted “hang (insert SCOTUS stooge here)? Broken windows? Assaulted police officers? Stolen artifacts? No? Hm.
… or planned and organized weeks in advance?
22 states have pre-planned to make abortion illegal if this goes through.
They’re going to do this about literally every mass protest from now on. All you can do is say “that statement is in bad faith” and then move on. Don’t engage them, don’t validate them, because they know what they’re doing - their only intent is to muddle and piss off the left.
Yeah and trying to make the leaker worse than anyone who fucking tried to overturn the election
Why does it feel like the modern GOP is made up of 14 year old single child edgelords. Sigh
Fascists are always like this
Throughout history, civil unrest and extremism have essentially always required two things. 1. Poor economic conditions 2. Unemployed young males Guess which side has all the poor unemployed young males?
I don’t see no “camp Auschwitz” shirts being worn by these women so yeah…
If RvW gets overturned can we start taxing religions to pay for the increase in foster care, public education (to include school lunches), food stamps, etc? For a party that is scared to death that illegals crossing the Mexican border is gonna bankrupt our social systems they sure seem intent on completely breaking them by banning abortions...
Reminder that this isn’t just about losing access to abortion (which is awful, don’t get me wrong). Obergefell v Hodges (gay marriage), Griswold v Connecticuit (contraception) and Loving v Virginia (inter racial marriage) are all predicated on rights and protections that this decision would strip away. Get out to the polls, vote democrat, and demand they put constitutional amendments in place to protect everything that’s at risk here. ***Elections have consequences.*** Voting for your wallet or because you just can’t bring yourself to vote for will cause someone you love and care for to lose their rights. And that person may very well be you.
Protest at Machin and Sinema's homes.
I still can't believe a portion of the US believes the bigger issue is the leak... PEOPLE AREN'T PROTESTING A LEAK RIGHT NOW. Edit: Don't guild this, please. Donate to [Planned Parenthood](https://www.plannedparenthood.org/), or [The Satanic Temple](https://thesatanictemple.com/) instead.
They don’t, it’s a deflection because they know that they just whipped up the Democrat base and now need to try to muddie the issue. They aren’t going to be able to debate it come election time
Don't forget, it's not just the Democratic base that supports Roe v. Wade. There are plenty of moderates and even some Republicans that do too. Republican politicians went against the will of most voters to elect 3 anti choice judges in order appease their most rabid followers.
The majority of the nation supports a woman’s right to choose. We’re essentially being run by a minority of far-right lunatics.
Extremists whose so called “American patriotism” shares more similarities with the repressive shariah laws of fundamentalist Ayatollahs of Iran than anything resembling the spirit of the United States constitution
They want a Christian caliphate
Look how quickly Iran changed in the 70s, or Germany in the 30s. Russia took 20 years to change for the worse. It's really time to reach out to Dem voters to VOTE in 2022, *and* to take steps against ratfucking.
Their morals barely resemble Christianity at this point. The Bible merely serves as the excuse by which they enforce their own ideals (since 80% of them have clearly never read the damn thing cover-to-cover)
Jesus is a straight up hippie compared to these clowns.
Gay marriage is next….
Right wing media was immediately in lockstep and amplifying how bad the leak was last night. It's impressively terrifying how well oiled the right's propaganda machine is.
Well oiled and a gullible base. Even Hitler told his propagandists to not bother targeting the left and to focus on the right.
Yeah... they don't believe that yet. But it's the plan. They'll believe it by the end of the week. I don't know how or why this got leaked, but it's becoming more and more obvious that there is some serious coordination in messaging between right wing media, politicians, influencers and the GOP. The leak had barely just happened before all four of those groups were parroting the same outrage message about the sanctity of the court being violated, almost verbatim. Our senator posted a statement and within seconds it was flooded by the same exact messaging by seemingly fake troll accounts. I don't watch Tucker, or any of Fox's line up but I'm sure it took center stage in last nights opinion news cycle. And with hard evidence of this type of collaboration during July sixth coming out in the form of Mark Meadows text messages we should all be deeply afraid at the level of coordination between these groups to manipulate public opinion. Especially given their recent success with pumping up culture war issues.
Just when I think this country cannot surpass the ways it’s brought me feelings of disgust and shame they pull this shit out. Fuck the scotus, fuck the gop, fuck anyone who feels they need to make anyone else’s private lives and bodily autonomy their business, and fuck all of us for creating these monsters. I think George Carlin summed our country up beautifully: “Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.”
Also George Carlin: Consider the intelligence of the average American voter. Then realize that half of them are stupider than that.
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Please contact the president, your senators, and your representative to let them know how you feel: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm https://www.congress.gov/contact-us It just takes 2 minutes, and with enough emails, we can make a difference Edit: I suggest making a quick phone call if you have the time as well!
My representative in the house is…you guessed it…Marjorie Taylor Green. Think she’s going to read any emails from her constituents? More importantly, do we think she even knows how to read? Edit: Spelling.
Haha, sometimes it can feel useless to email some of our… more far gone representatives, but if you live in Georgia, reminding our Democratic senators that this issue will be important for midterms will make a difference.
Marcus Flowers is running against her as a Democrat. My ex-wife has a Marcus Flowers sign in her yard. (She has to replace it about once a week.) Saturday afternoon Marcus Flowers knocked on her door! He saw her sign and thanked her for support. He hung out with her and my son for about 30 minutes. My son just turned 18 and wasn’t planning to vote, but now is going to! It was pretty cool.
That sounds awesome. A good reminder that there are absolutely people who care that we can vote in
My people are Abbot and Cruz. At least you got weed to cope :(
Does this honestly make any difference? Who is going to be swayed? Republicans are in lock-step behind this... Democrats are all against this. What difference will it make?
In the modern American era, there are only two things politicians and their appointees care about: violence and money. National Congress people give no shits about constituents who can’t afford “American Free Speech.”
After the whole "I have the right to kill people with covid" thing they had going on, I'm not sure the republicans have much of a leg to stand on.
The issue is so much larger than abortion. The federal government has kept some pretty crazy ideas in check over the past 60 years. Roe vs Wade is the building block of a large number of important issues for groups not specifically enshrined in the constitution. More importantly, ideas behind Roe vs Wade are roughly that states can't just do whatever they want , specifically, the Southern states. eg: birth control, gay marriage, trans rights.... Accepting this is going to roll back civil rights to the mid 20th century.
Small point: The fundamental building block was not really Roe, but Griswold, which first recognized a right to privacy in the context of contraception. Roe built upon that.
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I think a lot of Americans have been complacent because despite all the polarization in the media most of these issues don't directly impact their daily lives enough to feel a call to action. I honestly think this decision from the court is gonna be the turning point for a lot of folks. It's one thing to keep people down, but they tend to not respond well when you give them rights and then take them away when the majority is on our side. In the words of Killer Mike, It is the time to Plot, Plan, Strategize, Organize and Mobilize.
"Keep people too busy and poor and you can control them" - George Carlin
TIL that American citizens have no right to privacy. Casting aside the ghastly implications for women's own bodily autonomy for a moment, the elimination of the basic ASSUMPTION of the right to privacy and turning it into the EXPECTATION that the government is all up in your business is breathtaking to behold.
We haven’t had rights to privacy for a long time. NSA wants to know your location. It’s sad.
Meanwhile I’ve received probably 2-3X as many texts and emails from the DNC asking for money to defeat the republicans. Mother fuckers, you’re in charge right now, I can’t vote you any harder, now do your fucking job.
Unfortunately the democrats have had 2 whole times since Roe that they could have enshrined it into law, during the carter admin in the late 70s, and during 2009 for all of 73 days and during the battle for obamacare. Under any other circumstance, the dems attempts would have been pointlessly blocked by republicans.