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Hillary Clinton is warning about the legality of birth control in the wake of a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that found frozen embryos created through fertility treatments are children under state law.

“They came for abortion first. Now it’s [in vitro fertilization], and next it’ll be birth control,” the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of State said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

“The extreme right won’t stop trying to exert government control over our most sacred personal decisions until we codify reproductive freedom as a human right,” Clinton added.

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[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 21 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Soon jacking off will be a crime

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I mean they are literally passing laws which require attaching your real name to your porn habits. So yeah, I'd say it is 100% the goal to leak this stuff and eventually, openly persecute people for it.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Probably just to blackmail, at least at first.

[–] davetapley@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson:

It scans all the activity on your phone, or your devices, your laptop, what have you; we do all of it,” Johnson told the panel about the app

It sends a report to your accountability partner. My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17. So he and I get a report about all the things that are on our phones, all of our devices, once a week. If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-son-monitor-porn-intake-covenant-eyes-1234870634/

[–] Zink@programming.dev 9 points 8 months ago

Ahh yeah. Nothing has helped my relationship with my son like cold distant surveillance.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17

Ah yes, I'm sure a 17 year old teenager has found absolutely no way to watch porn other than his (now infected) phone. Nope. No siree.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

That, and if this dumbazz thinks his son is not yanking it because he infected his phone, he's about as deluded as it gets.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 2 points 8 months ago

So Jack no Jack off?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

These people won't stop till its literally illegal to be naked by yourself without some homely chapped-ass chaperone

[–] Shadywack@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Amusing as it is, nah. You've all got the conservatives pegged wrong. They don't want abortions, they just want people abandoned for sake of their twisted virtue signaling. It's perfectly acceptable to have a baby then abandon it in a dumpster. They also like their porn and booze. Most preachers are guilty of a hentai fetish or some weird shit. Jacking off will be a crime if it's to gay porn only.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago

You've all got the conservatives pegged wrong.

I'm pretty sure they're against that too, at least until you get them alone.

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Or maybe being single will be a crime? A fantasy dreamed up the utterly deranged.

[–] IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I'm sure there's a relevant bible verse that can be used to justify that.

There's that one where "and Jesus spoke unto his flock, 'maketh my words weapons, and ye shall have the word of God to force women to have sex with you for all eternity' and everybody clapped"

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Uh oh, the incels won't be happy with that at all. Same with the MGOTW bunch (who are probably also just incels, too, if we are being honest).