It only makes sense that the club that's been pushing abstinence only sex ed for however many years would move to ban birth control. After all, birth control is for sinners.
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The same folks bemoaning birth control have endorsed state sterilization and euthanasia policies in the very recent past.
So much of this shit is just White Replacement hysterics with a legislative knife. The fixation on skin tone as a defining moral indicator has been the poison pill gagging this country since it was founded.
It only makes sense that the club that's been pushing abstinence only sex ed for however many years would move to ban birth control. After all, birth control is for sinners.
There is also a contingent among conservatives who have been taught that birth control is tantamount to abortion. They think that since if an egg WERE to become fertilized it might not implant because of the birth control, that’s an abortion. (Even though as I understand it this secondary mechanism isn’t proven in hormonal BC.)
(As I got older and experienced the world I became far less conservative. My sister became more conservative. So I get to learn some of the crazy firsthand.)
The extreme right won’t stop trying to exert government control over our most sacred personal decisions
It's not the extreme right, this is mainstream for conservatives. The extreme right is the one calling for eg. the extermination of gender / sexual minorities or non-whites (and the extremists aren't nearly as rare as people generally like to think)
It's not the extreme right, this is mainstream for conservatives.
You're both right and wrong: the Republican mainstream has become extreme. Fascism, anarcho-capitalism and bizarre combinations of the two contradictory ideologies are extreme no matter how common they become.
The extreme right is the one calling for eg. the extermination of gender / sexual minorities
That's already a pretty mainstream view/goal in the GOP. Most of them are just using coded language rather than outright saying it yet.
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Next women will have to marry their rapist.
Remember the anti abortion bullshit is from the same book, that mandates women marry their rapist!
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And after birth control women are going to be fined for having their periods, because each period is supposed to be a god blessed baby for Christ's sake. THINK OF THE CHILDREN YOU HEATHENS!
Teaching them a lesson for leaving the kitchen. Seriously though, woman (and men) fought hard for their rights to their body. Now, they have less freedom. If they aren't careful they could lose much more of it like in Afghanistan.
The more this develops the more I think it's actually "replacement theory" bullshit. Religion is the only "acceptable" avenue to push this from as they know the majority of the population has no patience whatsoever for any disgusting discussion about "too many dark skinned people." so they stick to "what God intended."
I think they believe that white people get abortions and use contraception more than minorities so if they outlaw that then white people can't become the minority population as they're forced to carry to birth every fertilized egg.
I was on the BC pill for years before I was ever sexually active - my periods were so heavy that I became severely anemic and sick.
Literally the pill and some prescription iron tablets for a time were all I needed, none of the other shit I was given for months before 1 woman doctor thought to prick my finger and see if the drop of blood sunk in the solution or not.
It pretty much stayed towards the top.
I had to drop 2 classes that semester as a result. I was so pissed.
“That’s why I’m pushing for an actual democratic primary and supporting progressive populist candidates and their broadly approved policies such as minimum wage increases and universal health care,” Ms Clinton did not add to her remarks.
Lol nah they're using the tried and true strategy of...checks notes using actual fascists to bully people into voting for slightly less fascist candidates. Bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it pays off twice.
What's the better play? Voting for third party candidates tends to split the vote and empower the farther right candidates, no?
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She didn't need to mention anything about a primary because the push to criminalize abortion is coming at the state and local levels. Vote for progressive local representation and that will do lot more than Biden ever could
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At least she wasn't completely useless for this and actually said the word abortion. I haven't heard much from democrats suggesting or pushing any policy or solutions to this crisis. They seem to just leave the field open to let the republicans dominate the discussion.
They treat it the same as Republicans did, a talking point to rally around. That is, until the Republicans actually did something and stacked the Supreme Court. They could have codified roe when Obama was president, but I don't think they even tried or considered the possibility that roe would be overturned.
Now that roe has been killed, women have shifted significantly blue. Why the hell would they actually fix the issue when they can campaign on it for the next decade at least?
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No kidding. IIRC, Trollito and Coke-can Clarence both signaled they hate that right as well as a few others...so tired of these creepy weirdos having so much undue influence over this country. They don't represent any kind of majority.
That's why John Oliver's offer to that aforementioned coke-cantard makes a lot of sense.
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Soon jacking off will be a crime
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.
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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.”
Ahh yeah. Nothing has helped my relationship with my son like cold distant surveillance.
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These people won't stop till its literally illegal to be naked by yourself without some homely chapped-ass chaperone
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Blessed be the fruit
May the Lord open
She is 100% correct.
But she is not helping. She can’t help. She is not liked. At all.
Same problem with Al Gore warning against climate change. He was right, but because of who he was he was instantly dismissed but all conservatives and even some liberals.
Sometimes, it's better to have enough self awareness to let someone else speak for you.
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Condoms used to only be legal for married couples.
Get ready. As long as conservatives have any power at all, they will use it to oppress the normal people. They always have.
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Don't really need her to say it when the Supreme Court justices said it themselves.
What is next after they ban birth control? Forcing women to get pregnancy tests every month in order to detect miscarriage or abortion later on?
Probably prison (or the death penalty ) for women who miscarry, I remember reading some states Alabama tried passing legislation so when a women has a miscarriage the authorities investigate her for murder.
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