Between this and the Alabama Supreme Court insanity around IVF, several things are clear.

Women: Republicans do not care about you, do not support you, and would sooner hurt you than help you. They can not be trusted. They can not be voted for.

Physicians, nurses, midwives, healthcare workers, medical professionals, scientists and others: Republicans do not care about you, do not respect you, do not believe you, and are shitting on everything you do and everything you stand for. They cannot be trusted. They cannot be voted for.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The above is why I am so damn scared for my girls. Idiots are sleepwalking us into this disaster.

I know people call me crazy for looking towards the exits, but I am terrified of what the future holds if this year goes badly.

Do more, worry less. Find a Democrat in a swing district to support and volunteer or donate. Voting is not enough.

I am doing what I can to support the Dems. I have been a member of my district committee, I have knocked doors, I have written postcards, I have sent money, etc.

Doesn't make me less worries, though.

Ny's swing district just swung to the dem by eight points. Lot's of money and ads and phone calls and postcards, etc. We all need to keep up the work every day.

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Anonymous wrote:The above is why I am so damn scared for my girls. Idiots are sleepwalking us into this disaster.

I know people call me crazy for looking towards the exits, but I am terrified of what the future holds if this year goes badly.

Do more, worry less. Find a Democrat in a swing district to support and volunteer or donate. Voting is not enough.

I am doing what I can to support the Dems. I have been a member of my district committee, I have knocked doors, I have written postcards, I have sent money, etc.

Doesn't make me less worries, though.

They can try to ban contraceptives but I just don't think it can happen. Unless the Supreme Court rules in favor of this and I cannot imagine they have grounds for this.

In the meantime, they can use it as a political rally cry - have not idea why they feel the need - but whatever. Maybe it appeals to MAGA I suppose but I actually don't think any real child bearing people regardless of political denomination would go for this. I know that the traditional right wingers Catholic fanatics would but I don't know that it's the top of their priority list. In any case, whatever they shout about on this topic, I think it is just noise.

It's mortifying for sure but as I said, there are a ton of folks now who believe that women's lives should be only about bearing children. I'm not sure that it's a new concept. There will ALWAYS be crazies like this. There are crazies everywhere these days, we just hear about them more now than ever

Personally, I'm not really that concerned this will ever get off the ground. Roe v Wade is something that's been on the table for many many years - it was always something that was in danger of being reversed depending on the Supreme Court make-up. It was always a potential threat that could happen but banning contraceptives has no precedent.

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Anonymous wrote:“On the federal level, physician and Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and nine other Republican women introduced the Orally Taken Contraception Act of 2023, aiming to require the FDA to advise manufacturers on how to get their contraceptives approved to be sold over-the-counter.
[…]

Some state measures do the same. Arkansas’ trigger ban, for instance, defines life as beginning “at the moment of conception” and defines “unborn child” as an “individual organism of the species Homo sapiens from fertilization until live birth.”

The danger that these laws pose, Ms Fey says, is that “anytime that a particular state official wants to, they could use that to go after IVF or contraception.”” https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/republicans-contraception-abortion-2024-election-b2493130.html

92% of Americans think birth control is morally acceptable, but the GOP is setting up to go after contraception. Contraception. Let’s just let that wash over us: that the GOP wants us to… what? Stay celibate in our marriages if we’re not actively trying to conceive? Just “joyfully submit” and have 8-14 children? Try home brew abortions? What’s their plan here? In case anyone still wants to pretend that the GOP’s extremism is just

BOTHSIDES.

But Gaza....am I right? 👍🏼

I 100% don’t believe anyone who claims that their primary issue is “Genocide Joe” when we have a fast forward erosion of rights here in the US (and because I don’t think most of those people can find Gaza on a map, let alone articulate what Trump would allegedly do better). Meanwhile women are losing the right to bodily autonomy and if the GOP gets in office that will include basic self determination. You think they’ll stop with birth control? You think they won’t highly police which women get to work paid jobs in which fields?

Anonymous wrote:“On the federal level, physician and Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and nine other Republican women introduced the Orally Taken Contraception Act of 2023, aiming to require the FDA to advise manufacturers on how to get their contraceptives approved to be sold over-the-counter.
[…]

Some state measures do the same. Arkansas’ trigger ban, for instance, defines life as beginning “at the moment of conception” and defines “unborn child” as an “individual organism of the species Homo sapiens from fertilization until live birth.”

The danger that these laws pose, Ms Fey says, is that “anytime that a particular state official wants to, they could use that to go after IVF or contraception.”” https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/republicans-contraception-abortion-2024-election-b2493130.html

92% of Americans think birth control is morally acceptable, but the GOP is setting up to go after contraception. Contraception. Let’s just let that wash over us: that the GOP wants us to… what? Stay celibate in our marriages if we’re not actively trying to conceive? Just “joyfully submit” and have 8-14 children? Try home brew abortions? What’s their plan here? In case anyone still wants to pretend that the GOP’s extremism is just

BOTHSIDES.

But Gaza....am I right? 👍🏼

Anonymous wrote:The above is why I am so damn scared for my girls. Idiots are sleepwalking us into this disaster.

I know people call me crazy for looking towards the exits, but I am terrified of what the future holds if this year goes badly.

Do more, worry less. Find a Democrat in a swing district to support and volunteer or donate. Voting is not enough.

Anonymous wrote:I'll take anyone who will protect my rights over a Trump christofacist semi- dictatorship.

These Republican women are going to be shocked when no abortions (even for their health), no birth control, and no IVF are going to apply to them as well. Good luck ladies, it's your fault we are even having to deal with this at all.

+1

Go ahead and keep as much internalized misogyny as you like for yourself, but don’t push it on other women.

I'll take anyone who will protect my rights over a Trump christofacist semi- dictatorship.

These Republican women are going to be shocked when no abortions (even for their health), no birth control, and no IVF are going to apply to them as well. Good luck ladies, it's your fault we are even having to deal with this at all.

The above is why I am so damn scared for my girls. Idiots are sleepwalking us into this disaster.

I know people call me crazy for looking towards the exits, but I am terrified of what the future holds if this year goes badly.

Anonymous wrote:“On the federal level, physician and Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and nine other Republican women introduced the Orally Taken Contraception Act of 2023, aiming to require the FDA to advise manufacturers on how to get their contraceptives approved to be sold over-the-counter.
[…]

Some state measures do the same. Arkansas’ trigger ban, for instance, defines life as beginning “at the moment of conception” and defines “unborn child” as an “individual organism of the species Homo sapiens from fertilization until live birth.”

The danger that these laws pose, Ms Fey says, is that “anytime that a particular state official wants to, they could use that to go after IVF or contraception.”” https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/republicans-contraception-abortion-2024-election-b2493130.html

92% of Americans think birth control is morally acceptable, but the GOP is setting up to go after contraception. Contraception. Let’s just let that wash over us: that the GOP wants us to… what? Stay celibate in our marriages if we’re not actively trying to conceive? Just “joyfully submit” and have 8-14 children? Try home brew abortions? What’s their plan here? In case anyone still wants to pretend that the GOP’s extremism is just BOTHSIDES.

Yes, the bolded is what the GOP is going for. People who thought Roe would never be overturned or that the abortion issue would “just go back to the states” wake up.

“On the federal level, physician and Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and nine other Republican women introduced the Orally Taken Contraception Act of 2023, aiming to require the FDA to advise manufacturers on how to get their contraceptives approved to be sold over-the-counter.
[…]

Some state measures do the same. Arkansas’ trigger ban, for instance, defines life as beginning “at the moment of conception” and defines “unborn child” as an “individual organism of the species Homo sapiens from fertilization until live birth.”

The danger that these laws pose, Ms Fey says, is that “anytime that a particular state official wants to, they could use that to go after IVF or contraception.”” https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/republicans-contraception-abortion-2024-election-b2493130.html

92% of Americans think birth control is morally acceptable, but the GOP is setting up to go after contraception. Contraception. Let’s just let that wash over us: that the GOP wants us to… what? Stay celibate in our marriages if we’re not actively trying to conceive? Just “joyfully submit” and have 8-14 children? Try home brew abortions? What’s their plan here? In case anyone still wants to pretend that the GOP’s extremism is just BOTHSIDES.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the ultimate tell. If the pro life movement truly believed that a fetus was a valuable human life worthy of protection, then they would be doing everything possible to prevent unwanted pregnancies. If protecting unborn babies were the real goal, they’d be working hard to ensure easy access to every type of birth control. But no… of course that’s not actually the goal…

Remember when Colorado pioneered that study for IUD use in teens and teen pregnancy cratered? And you’d think that if avoiding abortion were soooo important they’d have supported that project going nationwide? Yeah, that’s not how that went.

How did it go?

Thank you for asking. The GOP shut it down on the flimsiest of pretexts. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/06/colorado-contraception-family-planning-republicans Regretfully at this point the media, even the Guardian, was still unwilling to name the GOP’s misogyny for what it was.

Republicans in the Colorado senate considered the IUD AN ABORTION.
The article just barely acknowledges the harm inflicted by Republicans. I’m so sick of the media giving them a pass.

It was 2015 and the world still wanted to pretend like far right Republicans were just another party. We know better now and the Guardian probably wouldn’t write the same article nowadays (the New York Times would need to get the takes of a dozen Trump voters who left reproductive age in the rear view a while back, but would call them “moderates” or “undecideds”).

And the GOP considers every kind of birth control to be abortion. Why? Because they hate women and want to control us. Birth control would likely remain legal if prescribed to a man in order to give to his sex partner.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the ultimate tell. If the pro life movement truly believed that a fetus was a valuable human life worthy of protection, then they would be doing everything possible to prevent unwanted pregnancies. If protecting unborn babies were the real goal, they’d be working hard to ensure easy access to every type of birth control. But no… of course that’s not actually the goal…

Remember when Colorado pioneered that study for IUD use in teens and teen pregnancy cratered? And you’d think that if avoiding abortion were soooo important they’d have supported that project going nationwide? Yeah, that’s not how that went.

How did it go?

Thank you for asking. The GOP shut it down on the flimsiest of pretexts. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/06/colorado-contraception-family-planning-republicans Regretfully at this point the media, even the Guardian, was still unwilling to name the GOP’s misogyny for what it was.

Republicans in the Colorado senate considered the IUD AN ABORTION.
The article just barely acknowledges the harm inflicted by Republicans. I’m so sick of the media giving them a pass.

+1 IUDs are some of the most effective forms of birth control and considered abortifacients by the crazies on the right. They’re first on the birth control chopping block if they’re in charge. This Oklahoma bill was written by the zealots at Alliance Defending Freedom, where Speaker Mike Johnson worked before he was elected to Congress. It passed out of committee and restricts IUDs in addition to a bunch of other dumb stuff.
https://www.fox23.com/news/new-abortion-bill-would-also-restrict-contraceptives-iuds-and-create-an-abortion-database/article_16657b96-cba7-11ee-99fd-032cd643a12c.html

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the ultimate tell. If the pro life movement truly believed that a fetus was a valuable human life worthy of protection, then they would be doing everything possible to prevent unwanted pregnancies. If protecting unborn babies were the real goal, they’d be working hard to ensure easy access to every type of birth control. But no… of course that’s not actually the goal…

Remember when Colorado pioneered that study for IUD use in teens and teen pregnancy cratered? And you’d think that if avoiding abortion were soooo important they’d have supported that project going nationwide? Yeah, that’s not how that went.

How did it go?

Thank you for asking. The GOP shut it down on the flimsiest of pretexts. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/06/colorado-contraception-family-planning-republicans Regretfully at this point the media, even the Guardian, was still unwilling to name the GOP’s misogyny for what it was.

Republicans in the Colorado senate considered the IUD AN ABORTION.
The article just barely acknowledges the harm inflicted by Republicans. I’m so sick of the media giving them a pass.

+1 IUDs are some of the most effective forms of birth control and considered abortifacients by the crazies on the right. They’re first on the birth control chopping block if they’re in charge. This Oklahoma bill was written by the zealots at Alliance Defending Freedom, where Speaker Mike Johnson worked before he was elected to Congress. It passed out of committee and restricts IUDs in addition to a bunch of other dumb stuff.
https://www.fox23.com/news/new-abortion-bill-would-also-restrict-contraceptives-iuds-and-create-an-abortion-database/article_16657b96-cba7-11ee-99fd-032cd643a12c.html