Alabama Aiming At Roe

[b.c.]

A lot of people seem to think society is always moving forward and can't regress. That old ideas about women, race or sexuality are truly old ideas and can't exist anymore. These people are at best naive.

There has always been a segment of the population that hates the way society has changed in the last 60 or so years. They desperately want to turn the clock back and now they have their chance.

I'm of the belief that society regresses when people of conscience grow complacent enough to LET it do so.

Sixty years ago, a people took to the streets in peaceful demonstrations, boycotts, and protests, allowing their oppressors to be the aggressors, so that, after the entire world witnessed the persecutions, the attack dogs, the water cannon, the arrests, the murders and hangings, the fire bombings, and more, they'd lost the stomach for it, and change was eventually enacted.

So, instead of stoically sitting back and watching a retrogressive minority have THEIR way, perhaps those OPPOSED to it should do a little "clock turning back" of our OWN.

In Alabama, abortion clinics have all but disappeared. But these advocates are still fighting.

 

[Enid]

Republicans know that such a draconian abortion bill will be instantly challenged in the courts, and that's what they want. Some have come out and explicitly stated that its intended purpose is to make its way to the Supreme Court, so that abortion can be definitively overturned at the federal level.

And this is evil, through and through. This is pure hatred for women.

 

[Enid]

I have no words


Alabama lawmaker scorched for saying fertilized eggs should only be protected if they’re inside women

 

[1626381]

Gets a little truer every day.

 

[1626381]

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[AlteredEgo]

I have no words


Alabama lawmaker scorched for saying fertilized eggs should only be protected if they’re inside women

I want to know what happens to couples, woman and doctors who don't implant all those eggs, too.

Hopefully nothing. Because, while I think IVF is immoral, I'm not looking to legislate other people's reproductive decisions. But if it is about life beginning at conception, and not the oppression of women, this is the same thing, only WORSE, because these eggs are fertilized deliberately. Women and couples seeking abortion have fertilized eggs accidentally.

Why is it okay to discard fertilized eggs at the exact same level of development if it isn't purely about controlling women? And why is it okay that Christians want to exert this control, but when Moslems and Jewish want to control women and their sexuality, and make them cover themselves and hide their hair, it's suddenly barbaric?

 

[chicagosam]

...[...]...And why is it okay that Christians want to exert this control, but when Moslems and Jewish want to control women and their sexuality, and make them cover themselves and hide their hair, it's suddenly barbaric?

They bought themselves a self-serving President by exchanging votes—for legislation and judges—to impose a rigid regressive conservative Evangelical “Christian” agenda on this country. Seeing as the churches have failed to instill their uncompromising “moral” viewpoint among their congregants, they want the government to do it for them in blatant disregard for the First Amendment.

Just like Republican Jesus would do.

The fanatical mindset of the religious right

 

[b.c.]

Two articles from today's HuffingtonPost on the subject:

In Economic Terms, Alabama Was Already A Terrible Place For Women | HuffPost

THE PUNISHERS: AL. ABORTION BANNED BY 25 WHITE GUYS

However, not all proponents/supporters of strict anti-abortion "laws" are necessarily white, nor male, nor Republican:

A major Democratic leader is fundraising for one of the most anti-abortion politicians in America

 

[Betty_Cocker]

I'm speechless.

 

[chicagosam]

It’s Signed:
I Just Screwed Every Woman In Alabama.
Aiming for the entire USA!
Praise Republican Jesus!

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Signs Nation’s Strictest Abortion Bill | HuffPost​

 

[chicagosam]

“And we helped!”

Every Senate Vote For Alabama's Abortion Ban Was From A White Man | HuffPost​

 

[Betty_Cocker]

“And we helped!”
Every Senate Vote For Alabama's Abortion Ban Was From A White Man | HuffPost​

A man who has probably never in his life had to deal with a pregnancy stemming from a traumatic act. For sure never had to carry an unwanted child. Blinders. We are giving away blinders in Alabama.

 

[AlteredEgo]

Controversial though it may be I do not believe that all people are human, and I do not believe that all life is valuable. Right now I can think of 26 fat cats who we probably could have done without. The world might be better off had their mothers swallowed or been to a clinic like the ones they've banned.

 

[Scarletbegonia]

I took this shot a couple miles from my home. It’s Mile High Baptist Church.
I asked my raised Southern Baptist sweetie about kneelers in “his” churches (he will play memorial services and community fundraisers), and he assured me there aren’t kneelers or kneeling in the church.

I sent the pic with the comment, “isn’t on your knees how you avoid being a mother?”
He responded that with the poor sex ed today, many people think you can get pregnant on your knees.

So now, I’m wondering is Alabama an abstinence only education state?


As far as the fat cats go, why couldn’t the moms have said yes to anal? Or did they?

 

[Scarletbegonia]

Seen on Twitter #abortionisawomansright

 

[Mule]

This is definitely not a spontaneous state-driven initiative. It's a nationally coordinated effort by the Republican party. As some have already pointed out, it's intended to force the Supreme Court to re-engage with the issue and potentially overturn Roe.

They know they are losing ground with every year that passes. They are counting on us getting tired.

Don't get tired.

Fight.

 

[chicagosam]

Her Name Was Susan​

 

[Betty_Cocker]

Controversial though it may be I do not believe that all people are human, and I do not believe that all life is valuable. Right now I can think of 26 fat cats who we probably could have done without. The world might be better off had their mothers swallowed or been to a clinic like the ones they've banned.

+1

and don't forget the happy little lady sitting in the governor's seat with her blinders on.

 

[b.c.]

Legislator Pushing Abortion Ban in Alabama Says He’s Not ‘Smart Enough to Be Pregnant’

Tonight's Closer Look with Seth Meyers... that, pertinent to this thread's topic, begins at 3:18:

 

[grandunification]

Women have responded through Twitter #youknowme. Women tell their stories of the abortions they've had.