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What on earth are you going on about? This isn't even a discussion anyone is having. Birth control is readily available. |
And 20 years ago, Roe v Wade was settled law. The alarmists have been right about everything. The right wing women haters are becoming more and more empowered. Stop snoozing on your rights! |
So does VA GOP want to infringe upon RvW (3rd trimester) or not? |
You aren't paying attention. |
Unless your pharmacist is religious. |
Choice has been a constitutional right for all Americans for decades. American daughters are stripped of the rights held by their mothers. |
Oh my sweet summer child. I barely know where to start. Go read or read about Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 USSC case that recognized the right of married couples to freely obtain and use contraception. It's the same reasoning that was used in Roe. I am confident that once Roe is overturned a very conservative state will start legislating who has the right to contraception. The people that have been fighting to overturn Roe for the last 49 years are not just people who have a reasoned and sincerely held belief about when life begins. We've already seen multiple efforts to limit access to contraception based on religious beliefs - Hobby Lobby case anyone? Remember when college student Sandra Fluke testified in Congress about contraception and was called a slut? That was in 2012, barely 10 years ago. Do you think those attitudes are not still prevalent today? I think reproductive rights will be a slow burn issue - might take 15-20 years to really feel the effects and then the pendulum will swing on this again. |
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Violence is wrong. |
+1 My DH laughed at me back in 2016 when I said I was concerned about women’s rights/RvW. He just thought it was settled and couldn’t imagine the GOP going after it. After seeing what the GOP has been doing over the past few years he completely agrees with me now. 2021 had a record # of anti-abortion laws. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/2021-pivotal-year-abortion-laws-america/story?id=81860784 For half a century, American women have had the right to choose to end a pregnancy at any point before a fetus is viable outside the womb. If 2021 saw that freedom start to crumble, 2022 could see it more widely wiped away. A record number of states have enacted more than 100 stringent new restrictions on abortion access in the last year alone A dozen states have so-called trigger laws set to ban all or nearly all abortions the moment the Supreme Court delivers a favorable decision. Ten more have similar laws that could quickly follow suit. |
Boy, exactly. FROM THIS SUMMER: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/fight-over-birth-control-looms-as-missouri-lawmakers-prepare-for-special-session/article_7073a044-a7b7-5bdb-8910-c50156afd22e.html State lawmakers on Wednesday were preparing for an extraordinary legislative session next week that could determine whether low-income Missouri women continue to have access to certain birth control methods through Medicaid. At issue is the renewal of the Federal Reimbursement Allowance, a tax on hospitals and other medical providers seen as critical to the state’s Medicaid program. Conservatives blocked renewal of the tax during the Legislature’s regular session, holding out for restrictions on contraceptives and bans on money flowing to abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood. According to a draft provided Wednesday by staff for Senate appropriations chairman Sen. Dan Hegeman, R-Cosby, it appeared Republicans were moving forward with renewal of the tax — with bans on coverage for certain methods of birth control such as the Plan B pill and intrauterine devices, or IUDs. The draft does not address funding for Planned Parenthoo |
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And more:
https://www.vogue.com/article/anti-birth-control-movement Marty continued, explaining the groundwork Trump laid. “The reason this is no longer undercover is because of the Supreme Court decision in Hobby Lobby.” The Hobby Lobby verdict allowed employers to refuse to pay for birth control coverage for their employees due to religious reasons. The Trump administration, Marty says, “set the groundwork for the idea that doctors or pharmacists can decline to treat people because of religious beliefs. And now we have a Supreme Court that will rubber-stamp both those decisions.” The irony is that thrice-married adulterer Donald J. Trump, the man who used to be pro-choice, created this atmosphere. |
| Who in the world believed Youngkin wasn’t extreme? The press highlighted his anti-abortion comments and how he had to keep them on the down low. We all knew he was going to drop the mask mandate in schools (he said he would). Nobody should be surprised. |
You think people will take away your contraception choices? In each case, you are conflating having other people pay for your contraception with people trying to take away contraceptive rights. Two completely and totally different things. |