Caitlin Flanagan's prose is the pure maple syrup of essays. I wish Twitter offered one of those little heart-emojis like Facebook uses. Forensic analyses don't come better than this.
I oppose impeaching the president because his VP would be even worse. This snapshot offers a glimpse why.
As governor, @VP Pence put women in jail for miscarriages and forced women who had abortions to hold funeral services for the fetus.
Abortions to be punished with up to 99 years in prison under new Alabama law
proposal https://t.co/S4fpaY9mwt— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) April 4, 2019
The dissolution of a marriage is no cause for celebration but if it must happen this is as good as it gets.
— MacKenzie Bezos (@mackenziebezos) April 4, 2019
~~~
~~~
Why do I think ALEC has had their oily fingers in the education-loans/banking industrial complex?(Just guessing about the American Legislative Exchange Counsel but I bet I'm right. Look it up)
~~~
This story is bitter medicine for many, but like it or not binary gender categories are a relic of the past.
 |
| This morning is rich with stories that remind me of ALEC. It's never mentioned but plays in the background like the sinister music of some dark mystery. Here's another NPR link about charter schools that has ALEC fingerprints all over it. |
Didn't know this...
(Smithsonian link is two years old.)
Hey did y’all know 1 in 4 cowboys was black. https://t.co/0m0e86O1to pic.twitter.com/QvzlWFiuLH— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) April 5, 2019
~~~
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...
~~~
This via Slate is important and worth remembering.
Debate moderator: Do you think abortion should be legal up until the moment of birth?Politician: First of all, no one is performing abortions up until the moment of birth. There is no such medical procedure—it’s a fiction dreamed up by right-wing extremists who want to take control of women’s bodies.
If a healthy woman with a healthy, full-term pregnancy asks a doctor to terminate that pregnancy—which, by the way, there is no evidence to suggest any woman is doing—the doctor would simply refuse.
In reality, less than 1 percent of abortions take place in the third trimester. Opponents of legal abortion would have you believe that these patients are hopelessly fickle women who simply change their minds about giving birth after eight months of pregnancy. That’s not only untrue—it’s offensive. These are women who are forced to make unimaginably painful decisions. They are women with preeclampsia, who are risking severe injury or death if they continue with what is in many cases a deeply wanted pregnancy. They are parents who discover in the third trimester that their fetus has grown its organs on the outside of its body or failed to develop a brain. Usually, if the fetus can survive outside the womb but a pregnancy will put the woman’s health is at risk, doctors will strive for a safe delivery, not abortion. But the choices women must make for their bodies, their families, and their health are complicated enough, and hard enough, without the cruel judgment and interference of politicians—mostly men—who have no knowledge of the personal and medical concerns that govern these patients’ lives. There can be no one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to pregnancy and maternal health.
That’s why, as elected leaders, we should be fighting to increase access to quality health care, not trying to take it away—especially not by writing legislation based on imaginary scenarios that ignore the women’s lives that hang in the balance. Abortion care is essential health care, and the ability to choose whether and when to have children is an essential human right.
~~~
xxxxx
No comments:
Post a Comment