Great interview with Marilyn Lands, who had to have an abortion for trisomy years ago and is running in a special election for a seat in the Alabama state legislature. She came closest to flipping this seat in 2022 and the Republican who won has since been convicted of felony voter fraud and had to resign.

And now Trump is talking about a 15 week ban. Which Republicans will claim as so dang reasonable - except that any state can keep their total abortion bans on the book. It's just no state can allow abortions past 15 weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile.... https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/03/u-s-maternal-death-rate-increasing-at-an-alarming-rate/

Also: these moms aren’t dying because they are old.
The young mother’s mortality rate is rising too.

Yes. They GOP has long comforted themselves that maternal death is up because too many of them dang women wait to have kids, but no.

“A commonly held hypothesis is that more pregnancy-related deaths are occurring because more people are having children later in life, so we wanted to investigate this question. However, we found that’s not why we’re seeing a spike in the number of maternal deaths,” said corresponding author Dr. Sadiya Khan, Magerstadt Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and associate professor of cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “Older maternal age is an important risk factor in maternal mortality, but our findings highlight the need to learn what else is causing these rates to accelerate in more recent years, especially in younger adults less than 35 years old. We’re going in the wrong direction.””

Forced politics aren’t about life. They’re about punishing women. They’re about torturing women and making sure that our lives are as difficult and painful as possible.

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile.... https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/03/u-s-maternal-death-rate-increasing-at-an-alarming-rate/

Also: these moms aren’t dying because they are old.
The young mother’s mortality rate is rising too.

Meanwhile.... https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/03/u-s-maternal-death-rate-increasing-at-an-alarming-rate/

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Anonymous wrote:why dont we work on preventing pregnancies instead of focusing on abortion? Everyone should be given birth control for free.

Republicans don’t like that either.

This. Republicans don't want any women to be fully in charge of their bodies.

Why's that? The ultimate real reason please.

Misogyny.

I disagree. I don't believe they dislike, have contempt for, nor are prejudiced against women.

What I do think is the reason is about privilege and control. Republicans and, in particular, Republican white men, want to maintain their privilege and be more special than others. And they want to be in control and want women and minorities to do as they're told and to live by the rules that white men decide, e.g the glory days pre-1960 when that was the status quo.

So they don’t have animosity toward women, they just don’t respect them.
I guess that’s … better.

I respect them and Im not a Democrat, liberal nor progressive. How can you stereotype Republicans this way?

They gleefully voted for a sexual predator who bragged about grabbing beauty queens by the p*ssy. They fought the equal rights amendment tooth and nail.

It’s not a stereotype, it’s the truth - Republicans don’t respect women as fully formed human beings capable of independent thought and worthy of equal protection before the law.

On an individual basis, there are Republicans who are good people, but as a single, collective entity, the Republican Party is a cancer on this country. They’ve shown us who they are. Believe them.

I know you’re trying to be charitable, but you must have a wildly different opinion of what a “good person” is than I do. No one who is a proud Republican in 2024 and votes for Trump and his ilk is a good person. Period.

Absolutely. While I have stayed superficial friends with these people, if they are going to vote for Trump a third time, they are showing me that either they are stupid and easily grifted, or have very low moral standards. As a woman, either way, I am not interested in associating with them or doing business with them any more.

Anonymous wrote:Her Republican colleagues couldn’t even be bothered to stay and listen to the impact of their laws on their colleague. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/19/arizona-lawmaker-abortion-speech/

She is not talking to them. They are a lost cause. She is talking to the voters who actually may still be capable of voting for their intersts and those of their children. Listen to her Arizona voters. This is not some simplistic issues best solved with sledgehammer abortion bans. Vote to keep the govt out of this.

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Anonymous wrote:why dont we work on preventing pregnancies instead of focusing on abortion? Everyone should be given birth control for free.

Republicans don’t like that either.

This. Republicans don't want any women to be fully in charge of their bodies.

Why's that? The ultimate real reason please.

Misogyny.

I disagree. I don't believe they dislike, have contempt for, nor are prejudiced against women.

What I do think is the reason is about privilege and control. Republicans and, in particular, Republican white men, want to maintain their privilege and be more special than others. And they want to be in control and want women and minorities to do as they're told and to live by the rules that white men decide, e.g the glory days pre-1960 when that was the status quo.

So they don’t have animosity toward women, they just don’t respect them.
I guess that’s … better.

I respect them and Im not a Democrat, liberal nor progressive. How can you stereotype Republicans this way?

They gleefully voted for a sexual predator who bragged about grabbing beauty queens by the p*ssy. They fought the equal rights amendment tooth and nail.

It’s not a stereotype, it’s the truth - Republicans don’t respect women as fully formed human beings capable of independent thought and worthy of equal protection before the law.

On an individual basis, there are Republicans who are good people, but as a single, collective entity, the Republican Party is a cancer on this country. They’ve shown us who they are. Believe them.

I know you’re trying to be charitable, but you must have a wildly different opinion of what a “good person” is than I do. No one who is a proud Republican in 2024 and votes for Trump and his ilk is a good person. Period.

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Thank you so much PP who posted this. That was incredibly moving and powerful.

Her Republican colleagues couldn’t even be bothered to stay and listen to the impact of their laws on their colleague. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/19/arizona-lawmaker-abortion-speech/

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Anonymous wrote:why dont we work on preventing pregnancies instead of focusing on abortion? Everyone should be given birth control for free.

Republicans don’t like that either.

This. Republicans don't want any women to be fully in charge of their bodies.

Why's that? The ultimate real reason please.

Misogyny.

I disagree. I don't believe they dislike, have contempt for, nor are prejudiced against women.

What I do think is the reason is about privilege and control. Republicans and, in particular, Republican white men, want to maintain their privilege and be more special than others. And they want to be in control and want women and minorities to do as they're told and to live by the rules that white men decide, e.g the glory days pre-1960 when that was the status quo.

So they don’t have animosity toward women, they just don’t respect them.
I guess that’s … better.

I respect them and Im not a Democrat, liberal nor progressive. How can you stereotype Republicans this way?

They gleefully voted for a sexual predator who bragged about grabbing beauty queens by the p*ssy. They fought the equal rights amendment tooth and nail.

It’s not a stereotype, it’s the truth - Republicans don’t respect women as fully formed human beings capable of independent thought and worthy of equal protection before the law.

On an individual basis, there are Republicans who are good people, but as a single, collective entity, the Republican Party is a cancer on this country. They’ve shown us who they are. Believe them.

I know you’re trying to be charitable, but you must have a wildly different opinion of what a “good person” is than I do. No one who is a proud Republican in 2024 and votes for Trump and his ilk is a good person. Period.

I’ve come to believe this as well. There is no world in which someone votes for pain, oppression, fascism and fraud and can be called a good person. We’ve veered into “there were good Nazis too” territory. They all voted for that terror, people warned them too. Here the GOP wants to ban abortion and birth control nationwide so that women are yanked back a hundred years. I’m a SAHM, but I CHOSE to be one; the government did not compel me to do so.

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Anonymous wrote:why dont we work on preventing pregnancies instead of focusing on abortion? Everyone should be given birth control for free.

Republicans don’t like that either.

This. Republicans don't want any women to be fully in charge of their bodies.

Why's that? The ultimate real reason please.

Misogyny.

I disagree. I don't believe they dislike, have contempt for, nor are prejudiced against women.

What I do think is the reason is about privilege and control. Republicans and, in particular, Republican white men, want to maintain their privilege and be more special than others. And they want to be in control and want women and minorities to do as they're told and to live by the rules that white men decide, e.g the glory days pre-1960 when that was the status quo.

So they don’t have animosity toward women, they just don’t respect them.
I guess that’s … better.

I respect them and Im not a Democrat, liberal nor progressive. How can you stereotype Republicans this way?

They gleefully voted for a sexual predator who bragged about grabbing beauty queens by the p*ssy. They fought the equal rights amendment tooth and nail.

It’s not a stereotype, it’s the truth - Republicans don’t respect women as fully formed human beings capable of independent thought and worthy of equal protection before the law.

On an individual basis, there are Republicans who are good people, but as a single, collective entity, the Republican Party is a cancer on this country. They’ve shown us who they are. Believe them.

I know you’re trying to be charitable, but you must have a wildly different opinion of what a “good person” is than I do. No one who is a proud Republican in 2024 and votes for Trump and his ilk is a good person. Period.

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Ten minutes of measured wisdom, experience and nuance that her dipwad colleagues who needed to listen won’t listen to.

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Great. That must have been difficult but there seems to be so much ignorance about abortion out here and she is helping to change that.