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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Louisiana could become the first state in the country to categorize mifepristone and misoprostol — the drugs used to induce an abortion — as controlled dangerous substances, threatening incarceration and fines if an individual possesses the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice.

Legislators in Baton Rouge added the provision as a last-minute amendment to a Senate bill that would criminalize an abortion if someone gives a pregnant woman the pills without her consent, a scenario of “coerced criminal abortion” that nearly occurred with one senator’s sister.

A pregnant woman obtaining the two drugs “for her own consumption” would not be at risk of prosecution. But, with the exception of a health-care practitioner, a person helping her get the pills would be.

Louisiana already bans both medication and surgical abortions except to save a patient’s life or because a pregnancy is “medically futile.” Lawmakers just rejected adding exceptions for teenagers under 17 who become pregnant through rape or incest.[/quote]

What makes them hate women (and girls) so much? 
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I write it on here a lot, but it applies, and it’s not hyperbole. Women aren’t people in the GOP. We’re made of clay and Adam’s rib. We are non entities. We are there to serve men and our children. We are not, under any circumstances, to have our own inner life or plans, especially not for our bodies. [/quote]

This exactly. Women are seen as replaceable helpmates by most evangelicals. If one dies in childbirth, you can just find another who might even be better at serving you than the first.

We aren't whole people in their eyes, and I'm saying this as a non-evangelical, progressive Christian. These evangelicals and conservatives are not people you want deciding your daughters' fates. [/quote]
I don’t understand how evangelical women can share these beliefs. I understand that they do, I just don’t understand why.[/quote]
Imagine being told from birth that you are not a full person, that your worth lies not inherent to yourself but in your ability to serve others and to bear children.

Imagine your church, the heart of most of your experiences, driving home the point with selective (and cagily interpreted) Bible verses telling you that God thinks the same way, that women cannot know God like a man can, that you are a lesser being in all respects, that women are inherently slutty and only worthwhile so long as you don’t have intercourse outside marriage.

Imagine belonging to one of the churches that makes female victims of sexual assault apologize to the person who violated their body and soul, for “tempting” him.

Imagine literally every aspect of your life telling you you’re less. It gets internalized. I’m not saying that the culture that we all swim in is hunky dory, but it doesn’t totally erase us as people.

So that’s what a lot of conservative women are dealing with and how they approach multiple issues: that women are less and worthy of less.[/quote]
Me again.

And right on time some right wing extremist gave a commencement address at a Catholic college. This is how he spoke to the female graduates (it’s a TikTok video on Reddit), telling them they shouldn’t be working but having babies and being in the home, that it’s a “diabolical lie” that they think they’re entitled to have a life outside the house: https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1cs5zrr/we_all_know_women_just_want_to_be_homemakers/

If you are one of the women who thinks the GOP won’t go after women’s rights entirely, time to shake the sand out of your eyes and ears. [/quote]
I felt so sorry for the young women sitting in that audience. Imagine attending four years of college to have this a sshat tell you it was all for nothing. Imagine being the parents that paid for four years of tuition![/quote]

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