Baby Priya’s Bill was about dignity for parents who suffered a devastating loss. Far right politicians claimed the bill would reward those who had abortions.
I can't speak for Australia, but in the U.S., the pro-life crowd's concern for life is primarily directed at controlling women by any means necessary. They oppose universal healthcare, strict gun control laws, they are pro-death penalty and never met a war they didn't love. Their concern for the child ends at birth in most cases.
The same crowd that claims to be pro-life in this country doesn't seem to have a single issue with children and adults starving to death because SNAPs been kneecapped.
They are pro-life. They are so pro-life, that they don't mind removing some current life to make room for even more life. You don't get any more pro-life than that. Also life is suffering. Therefore suffering is life. So if you're pro-suffering, you by definition and the transitive property are pro-life.
Goddybitch likes to watch humans suffer, that’s how it gets sexually aroused. The more humanity suffers, the more goddybitch reaches orgasm. This is sadistic and cruel deity that allows others to suffer for its enjoyment, I on the other hand would try to stop the suffering of others. Better to be a good human, than a sadistic and cruel god!
Their stance is that women must have babies and if they can’t give birth to a live baby, then the women should die. This is why the “pro-life” crowd ignored all the warnings of women dying the last few years, and haven’t been up in arms over the massive increases in maternal mortality rates since Roe was overturned, and have been throwing women in jail for having miscarriages. “Give us babies and die.” This is the underlying message of the “pro-life” movement in the USA. Evidenced by the numerous forced birthers who have told me in this very forum (all the way back to Patheos) that every mother should be honored to die for her baby. Or in so many words. It’s the greatest gift a mother can give is to die in childbirth. They do t want us to actually raise the children they beget, they’ll find another sex slave for that.
This IS control of women: it says to pregnant women that if you don't carry a nonviable fetus to term despite the dangers and trauma it entails, the state will withhold a benefit it will give to women who DO carry a nonviable fetus to term.
Heck. They wouldn't mind seeing a black, brown, Asian, or Jewish baby get aborted so that to them they won't have to worry about the Whites getting overrun by blacks, browns, Jews, etc.
How many times have we said it: "The cruelty is the point." The ministers who opposed the Baby Priya's Bill demonstrate a marked dearth of compassion and empathy, and a clear desire to impose their ridiculously narrow point of view on all women, and particularly those of child-bearing age. Their inability to consider what is going on with a woman who has to deal with the emotional tumult of a miscarriage tells me that, as Priya's mother suggested, shouldn't be in parliament.
Indeed, they should count themselves lucky to be recognized in society at all.
What the fuck do these people think women are? Even if the pregnancy was terminated late in pregnancy, the woman has to have some recovery time, there’s so much damage to her body. Would you refuse a man who just had abdominal surgery time off? Then, do you also accuse the man who had abdominal surgery of doing it just to get paid leave?
Jesus Christ on a cracker! Why is this the only medical procedure, or pregnancy the only medical condition we have these disturbing conditions for? That’s rhetorical, I know it’s all about misogyny and control of women. Men have this habit of wanting babies like children want puppies, murmuring about legacy and such, but they only care about the babies when it suits them.
It’s nice to see there are places where sanity still reigns.
“The idea that anyone, much less a lawmaker entrusted with shaping public policy, could look at a grieving mother and see only a loophole to be exploited rather than a human being in need of compassion is grotesque.
These conservative men, and the few women who joined them, chose to weaponize grief for the sake of ideology. Instead of sympathizing with grieving parents, they reflexively treated those parents as if they have ulterior motives.”
Well, yes. And your point is…?
Of course I know the point. Because it’s correct. What I see so much coming from religious conservatives is that every accusing finger they point at others has four pointing back at themselves. Every accusation is a confession. Because their God is all encompassing everywhere and everywhen, everything is about their control of others to please their God, who has always remains impressively silent except in translation from books thousands of years old.
It just isn’t abortion. Look at gay marriage. Gay people can’t get married because if they did, heterosexual people would behave horribly, which they have always done anyway, whether gay people could get married or not. They don’t actually care about heterosexual marriage, they care about control. If they cared about marriage, they would understand the truth of this statement: LET US MARRY EACH OTHER SO THAT WE DON’T MARRY YOU.
They progressed to the next part of their argument: if two men or two women can get married, then why can’t brothers marry sisters and fathers married daughters? I’ve always found it very funny that the worst case counterexamples they present are always heterosexual people behaving badly. And of course, the logic fails here as well: if a man can marry a woman, why can’t the father marry his daughter, and what does that have to do with gay people getting married TO EACH OTHER?
We find this kind of obtuseness everywhere conservative religion operates, especially when it comes to matter matters of sex. As I pointed out many times, for decades, the Boy Scouts did not allow gay scout masters. For decades, they had an sexual abuse problem, which they tried to cover up just like the Catholic Church did. They claimed it was about protecting boys from predatory adults. But this was the same kind of “loophole” hemant mentions. Gay people weren’t allowed to be members. So who was doing the molesting? Men who would be considered by their wives, families, colleagues, communities, churches, and above all, THEMSELVES to be heterosexual. It had nothing to do with actual gay people, only with what religious conservatives were projecting onto gay people, which turns out to be…
You're making this about abortion? Seriously? Tell me, what is your opposition to abortion based on? It can't be the bible. That book doesn't contain a single condemnation of abortion. I have a suggestion for you: Stay the hell out of the private matters of others.
Hell, the bible gives step-by-step instructions to perform an abortion! Numbers 5:11-31 spells it out completely. Any dumb ass who wants to say that the bible is pro-life is talking out of their sphincter!
They should also read Hosea 13:16 where the biblical cloud faerie sent an army into Samaria to punish it for rebellion. That punishment included dashing infants to death and driving their swords into the bellies of pregnant women, killing both the woman and the fetus within.
They only focus on Bible verses in Psalms and Jeremiah that says, and I paraphrase, "I knew you before you were born." and "You created me in my mother's womb." while ignoring the verses about King Menaham ripping open bellies of all the pregnant women.
Not to mention getting their wives and their secret lovers to abort their unwanted babies to keep the affairs quiet and not have to deal with more mouths to feed.
Yep. Both “I knew you before you were born” (laughably ludicrous and impossible) and “You created me in my mother’s womb’ (I do belive that a human male would’ve helped to create a viable fetus and not some figment of the imagination) have absolutely nothing to do with abortion.
In fact, Judaism, the religion to whom the “Old Testament” actually belongs, prioritizes the life of the mother. Abortion bans violate Jews’ religious freedom.
I think it's fair to say it's based on Christian theology, even if the bible itself doesn't mention it negatively. Early theologians and later popes added new cannon alongside biblical beliefs the whole time Christianity was being formed. Some priests and religious texts were opposing abortion before the Romans even recognized Catholicism as an official thing (313AD), so the whole 'it has a soul so you can't kill it' idea is not at all new.
What's new starting in the 20th century is that Christians now lie about it. The soul idea would be taken serisouly by courts in earlier centuries, but now they know it'll get thrown out by any court in a secular state. So now they make up fake bullflop reasons to whitewash their clearly sectarian ensoullation objection to it.
As an American mother, I hope all Americans read this and start asking for the bare minimum of paid maternity leave that our country, solely among many others, refuses.
And I hope all Australians research the US think tanks that are coming for your country, too. They are fueled by billionaires and investors sunk deep into the cult of continued growth—and they are looking for new markets, helped along by tech bros who set their social media algorithms to support authoritarianism. Please pay the fuck attention!
Sarah Australia has had a positive and effective history of Unionism & collective organised labour to the extent that award wages were introduced, so too health & safety & workers compensation, equal pay for women, child care, free tertiary education, aged pensions,
not to mention also a national health care system to for ALL Australian citizens not just union members.
All of this and more were opposed by conservative politicians who have in one way or another even to this day endeavoured to undermine at the behest of big money. Globalisation has worked overtime to add to this and the last thing collective big money wants is organised labour for workers.
Notice the irony in the US and elsewhere, big money has their own "unions" in the form of federations, councils, etc, while also having power over politics, yet oppose any voice and advocacy for workers with women making of up the vast majority of employees throughout the world today.
Don't get me going about corporate welfare and socialism for businesses & privatisation of essential services at the expense of the poor, low paid, and those at the bottom of the economic caste system. 😢
Look, if God wanted us to be compassionate towards women he would have said so. He could have easily squeezed it in between the chapter on how men should not play women's sports and the chapter explaining how a reduced capital gains tax rate actually benefits the whole society.... Wait just a second, *** flips through the Bible. ***. Holy shit he actually doesn't say that, well there goes that premise. I guess there is nothing left to do but sell my daughter.
Look Holy, what do you expect conservatives to do - treat others as they wish to be treated? Treat the least of these in the way they will be treated by God? Ridiculous leftist socialism. Thank goodness it doesn't appear in the bible.
That was the public face of it. These far right Christian ghouls were using their opposition to women being able to control what happens to their own bodies to claim that women would be getting pregnant willy-nilly and aborting just to get an extra vacation.
What they really wanted was control. They wanted to still be able to force grieving mothers back to work so they could continue profiting off of their labor. It fucks up the optics if they were to say that out loud.
And notice it's always men who stand in opposition of abortion. The ones who will never find themselves at risk from an unwanted or potentially fatal pregnancy.
Hemant mentions three women legislators who supported it too. Because yep there are fundamentalist women. And like the men, they are no doubt hypocrites who make up "but this is different" excuses when it happens in their family, because this is as much a class war thing seeking to deny a procedure they can access through wealth, power, and connections from being accessed by poor people, as it is a sexist thing seeking to deny women the rights powerful men would insist on having.
As a general rule though, you're more right than wrong.
Priya's mother should have publicly shamed her company. They would have fired her, but there would be plenty of other companies out there willing to give her work as a show of support. Companies do this shit because they think the public won't care about the plight of a singular employee. They need to be called out for it.
Can we start defining anti abortion organizations as hate groups yet? It’s past due. These deeply misogynistic folks want an uneducated public to believe “late term abortion” is women snuffing out their own babies shortly after delivery just because they are evil and felt like it. It’s absurd and it needs to end. Even if they don’t buy into that nonsense, they still want to maximize suffering and inflict punishment onto women who have stillbirths or their premature baby happens to die. Cruel and sick.
The same RWNJ don’t seem to notice that flood that goddybitch sent; killed millions of fetus. Nor the fact that goddybitch told his followers to kill everyone in Jericho, including fetus (pregnant women). So why are the same RWNJ not upset about that? Christian=hypocrite is the byword now.
"It’s never a winning strategy when politicians from other countries try to mimic American Republicans and white evangelicals pastors."
Even marine la peine was smart enough to finally support the Constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights. When she is known for her pro death position like coining or parroting "avortement de confort" (cosy abortions).
Some time back, Cleveland journalist Connie Schultz wrote an op-ed piece entitled, "Trust Women." I thought it was a brilliant piece of work, and it may still be available online.
What a shame so few people could be bothered to listen to her.
Part and parcel of the conservative mindset is that 'Patriarchy' is the normal order of things' and that 'women and children are chattel'. It is just a dead baby. Move along - nothing to see here!
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) quizzed AG Pam Bondi about public reports of photos of Trump with half-naked young girls. He asked if the FBI found such photos in their search of Epstein's premises.
She refused to answer...which is all the answer we need.
I can't speak for Australia, but in the U.S., the pro-life crowd's concern for life is primarily directed at controlling women by any means necessary. They oppose universal healthcare, strict gun control laws, they are pro-death penalty and never met a war they didn't love. Their concern for the child ends at birth in most cases.
The same crowd that claims to be pro-life in this country doesn't seem to have a single issue with children and adults starving to death because SNAPs been kneecapped.
Vance says they wil NOT pay SNAP
They are pro-life. They are so pro-life, that they don't mind removing some current life to make room for even more life. You don't get any more pro-life than that. Also life is suffering. Therefore suffering is life. So if you're pro-suffering, you by definition and the transitive property are pro-life.
There's that bible math again.
They never suffer. They always make others suffer
Goddybitch likes to watch humans suffer, that’s how it gets sexually aroused. The more humanity suffers, the more goddybitch reaches orgasm. This is sadistic and cruel deity that allows others to suffer for its enjoyment, I on the other hand would try to stop the suffering of others. Better to be a good human, than a sadistic and cruel god!
the christian god is a vindictive bastard
Their stance is that women must have babies and if they can’t give birth to a live baby, then the women should die. This is why the “pro-life” crowd ignored all the warnings of women dying the last few years, and haven’t been up in arms over the massive increases in maternal mortality rates since Roe was overturned, and have been throwing women in jail for having miscarriages. “Give us babies and die.” This is the underlying message of the “pro-life” movement in the USA. Evidenced by the numerous forced birthers who have told me in this very forum (all the way back to Patheos) that every mother should be honored to die for her baby. Or in so many words. It’s the greatest gift a mother can give is to die in childbirth. They do t want us to actually raise the children they beget, they’ll find another sex slave for that.
That would haven't fly with my great grandmother, but the plates and other stuff would have.
And White Christian Nationalism has absolutely been making inroads in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK!
This IS control of women: it says to pregnant women that if you don't carry a nonviable fetus to term despite the dangers and trauma it entails, the state will withhold a benefit it will give to women who DO carry a nonviable fetus to term.
Heck. They wouldn't mind seeing a black, brown, Asian, or Jewish baby get aborted so that to them they won't have to worry about the Whites getting overrun by blacks, browns, Jews, etc.
"but in the U.S., the pro-life crowd's"
Except they aren't "pro-life", they are pro-forced birth.
I speak Australian. Crikey, mate.
How ya goin'?
How many times have we said it: "The cruelty is the point." The ministers who opposed the Baby Priya's Bill demonstrate a marked dearth of compassion and empathy, and a clear desire to impose their ridiculously narrow point of view on all women, and particularly those of child-bearing age. Their inability to consider what is going on with a woman who has to deal with the emotional tumult of a miscarriage tells me that, as Priya's mother suggested, shouldn't be in parliament.
Indeed, they should count themselves lucky to be recognized in society at all.
They view all women of child-bearing age as breeding stock, not as people. It's disgusting.
Actually RWNJ views everyone not like them as less than human not worthy of basic Human Rights and Civil Liberties.
I’m not entirely sure. I think that control of women is the point. The cruelty is just a lucky by-product.
Either way it’s shitty behaviour by (almost always) men.
What the fuck do these people think women are? Even if the pregnancy was terminated late in pregnancy, the woman has to have some recovery time, there’s so much damage to her body. Would you refuse a man who just had abdominal surgery time off? Then, do you also accuse the man who had abdominal surgery of doing it just to get paid leave?
Jesus Christ on a cracker! Why is this the only medical procedure, or pregnancy the only medical condition we have these disturbing conditions for? That’s rhetorical, I know it’s all about misogyny and control of women. Men have this habit of wanting babies like children want puppies, murmuring about legacy and such, but they only care about the babies when it suits them.
It’s nice to see there are places where sanity still reigns.
The utter disregard these men have for women is positively staggering.
They learn it from religion. Religion is peer pressure from dead people.
Actually, religion is peer pressure from nonexistent people! Tradition is peer pressure from dead people.
Minor difference there! 😁
“The idea that anyone, much less a lawmaker entrusted with shaping public policy, could look at a grieving mother and see only a loophole to be exploited rather than a human being in need of compassion is grotesque.
These conservative men, and the few women who joined them, chose to weaponize grief for the sake of ideology. Instead of sympathizing with grieving parents, they reflexively treated those parents as if they have ulterior motives.”
Well, yes. And your point is…?
Of course I know the point. Because it’s correct. What I see so much coming from religious conservatives is that every accusing finger they point at others has four pointing back at themselves. Every accusation is a confession. Because their God is all encompassing everywhere and everywhen, everything is about their control of others to please their God, who has always remains impressively silent except in translation from books thousands of years old.
It just isn’t abortion. Look at gay marriage. Gay people can’t get married because if they did, heterosexual people would behave horribly, which they have always done anyway, whether gay people could get married or not. They don’t actually care about heterosexual marriage, they care about control. If they cared about marriage, they would understand the truth of this statement: LET US MARRY EACH OTHER SO THAT WE DON’T MARRY YOU.
They progressed to the next part of their argument: if two men or two women can get married, then why can’t brothers marry sisters and fathers married daughters? I’ve always found it very funny that the worst case counterexamples they present are always heterosexual people behaving badly. And of course, the logic fails here as well: if a man can marry a woman, why can’t the father marry his daughter, and what does that have to do with gay people getting married TO EACH OTHER?
We find this kind of obtuseness everywhere conservative religion operates, especially when it comes to matter matters of sex. As I pointed out many times, for decades, the Boy Scouts did not allow gay scout masters. For decades, they had an sexual abuse problem, which they tried to cover up just like the Catholic Church did. They claimed it was about protecting boys from predatory adults. But this was the same kind of “loophole” hemant mentions. Gay people weren’t allowed to be members. So who was doing the molesting? Men who would be considered by their wives, families, colleagues, communities, churches, and above all, THEMSELVES to be heterosexual. It had nothing to do with actual gay people, only with what religious conservatives were projecting onto gay people, which turns out to be…
…wait for it…
THEMSELVES.
“that every accusing finger they point at others has four pointing back at themselves”
Because they are all AI generated with weird hands?
Why pick on the digitally enhanced?
Sometimes they are dehanced.
Or de-hand-ced?
Da hands is de-hands-ed?
ALL RIGHT!!!!!
Three.
Grumble.
Three is the number thou shall count...
...and the number of the counting shall be three.
Four shalt thou not count; neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.
Five is right out.
That's a circonvoluted way to say "And Tango makes three" 🤔
I wondered about that.
People do not matter to kkkons. Their only love is money. This is just more proof of that fact.
You’re not being fair here, and I have to remind you of that. They also love power over others and being God’s BFFF.
To the RWNJ in Australia...
You're making this about abortion? Seriously? Tell me, what is your opposition to abortion based on? It can't be the bible. That book doesn't contain a single condemnation of abortion. I have a suggestion for you: Stay the hell out of the private matters of others.
Few people disgust me more than those who claim their religion entitles them to a say in other people's personal choices.
Hell, the bible gives step-by-step instructions to perform an abortion! Numbers 5:11-31 spells it out completely. Any dumb ass who wants to say that the bible is pro-life is talking out of their sphincter!
They should also read Hosea 13:16 where the biblical cloud faerie sent an army into Samaria to punish it for rebellion. That punishment included dashing infants to death and driving their swords into the bellies of pregnant women, killing both the woman and the fetus within.
That Hosea verse should put any caring human being off the bible, if not religion altogether.
It did for me.
The bible is only pro life for men who properly obey the mad blood god. Everyone else doesn't count.
They only focus on Bible verses in Psalms and Jeremiah that says, and I paraphrase, "I knew you before you were born." and "You created me in my mother's womb." while ignoring the verses about King Menaham ripping open bellies of all the pregnant women.
Not to mention getting their wives and their secret lovers to abort their unwanted babies to keep the affairs quiet and not have to deal with more mouths to feed.
Yep. Both “I knew you before you were born” (laughably ludicrous and impossible) and “You created me in my mother’s womb’ (I do belive that a human male would’ve helped to create a viable fetus and not some figment of the imagination) have absolutely nothing to do with abortion.
In fact, Judaism, the religion to whom the “Old Testament” actually belongs, prioritizes the life of the mother. Abortion bans violate Jews’ religious freedom.
I think it's fair to say it's based on Christian theology, even if the bible itself doesn't mention it negatively. Early theologians and later popes added new cannon alongside biblical beliefs the whole time Christianity was being formed. Some priests and religious texts were opposing abortion before the Romans even recognized Catholicism as an official thing (313AD), so the whole 'it has a soul so you can't kill it' idea is not at all new.
What's new starting in the 20th century is that Christians now lie about it. The soul idea would be taken serisouly by courts in earlier centuries, but now they know it'll get thrown out by any court in a secular state. So now they make up fake bullflop reasons to whitewash their clearly sectarian ensoullation objection to it.
As an American mother, I hope all Americans read this and start asking for the bare minimum of paid maternity leave that our country, solely among many others, refuses.
And I hope all Australians research the US think tanks that are coming for your country, too. They are fueled by billionaires and investors sunk deep into the cult of continued growth—and they are looking for new markets, helped along by tech bros who set their social media algorithms to support authoritarianism. Please pay the fuck attention!
Sarah Australia has had a positive and effective history of Unionism & collective organised labour to the extent that award wages were introduced, so too health & safety & workers compensation, equal pay for women, child care, free tertiary education, aged pensions,
not to mention also a national health care system to for ALL Australian citizens not just union members.
All of this and more were opposed by conservative politicians who have in one way or another even to this day endeavoured to undermine at the behest of big money. Globalisation has worked overtime to add to this and the last thing collective big money wants is organised labour for workers.
Notice the irony in the US and elsewhere, big money has their own "unions" in the form of federations, councils, etc, while also having power over politics, yet oppose any voice and advocacy for workers with women making of up the vast majority of employees throughout the world today.
Don't get me going about corporate welfare and socialism for businesses & privatisation of essential services at the expense of the poor, low paid, and those at the bottom of the economic caste system. 😢
Look, if God wanted us to be compassionate towards women he would have said so. He could have easily squeezed it in between the chapter on how men should not play women's sports and the chapter explaining how a reduced capital gains tax rate actually benefits the whole society.... Wait just a second, *** flips through the Bible. ***. Holy shit he actually doesn't say that, well there goes that premise. I guess there is nothing left to do but sell my daughter.
Look Holy, what do you expect conservatives to do - treat others as they wish to be treated? Treat the least of these in the way they will be treated by God? Ridiculous leftist socialism. Thank goodness it doesn't appear in the bible.
How much? Asking for a friend.
Just don't pull a Jephthah.
I pulled my Jephthah once, couldn't walk for a week.
How much, and what's your return policy?
I am not sure about the return policy. The last man to try was returned to his maker in series of very small envelopes.
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If I deleted my comments for irrelevancy. I'd have no comments at all.
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
That was the public face of it. These far right Christian ghouls were using their opposition to women being able to control what happens to their own bodies to claim that women would be getting pregnant willy-nilly and aborting just to get an extra vacation.
What they really wanted was control. They wanted to still be able to force grieving mothers back to work so they could continue profiting off of their labor. It fucks up the optics if they were to say that out loud.
And notice it's always men who stand in opposition of abortion. The ones who will never find themselves at risk from an unwanted or potentially fatal pregnancy.
Hemant mentions three women legislators who supported it too. Because yep there are fundamentalist women. And like the men, they are no doubt hypocrites who make up "but this is different" excuses when it happens in their family, because this is as much a class war thing seeking to deny a procedure they can access through wealth, power, and connections from being accessed by poor people, as it is a sexist thing seeking to deny women the rights powerful men would insist on having.
As a general rule though, you're more right than wrong.
Yup. But notice I said “always” and not “exclusively” men. Bit of a difference.
Priya's mother should have publicly shamed her company. They would have fired her, but there would be plenty of other companies out there willing to give her work as a show of support. Companies do this shit because they think the public won't care about the plight of a singular employee. They need to be called out for it.
Can we start defining anti abortion organizations as hate groups yet? It’s past due. These deeply misogynistic folks want an uneducated public to believe “late term abortion” is women snuffing out their own babies shortly after delivery just because they are evil and felt like it. It’s absurd and it needs to end. Even if they don’t buy into that nonsense, they still want to maximize suffering and inflict punishment onto women who have stillbirths or their premature baby happens to die. Cruel and sick.
It’s a glimpse into their psyche, if they could do it or gotten away with it, they would do what they’re accusing women of doing.
Frightening and true
They want to claim that they're protecting fetuses, yet once the child is born, they can't be bothered to notice or care.
The same RWNJ don’t seem to notice that flood that goddybitch sent; killed millions of fetus. Nor the fact that goddybitch told his followers to kill everyone in Jericho, including fetus (pregnant women). So why are the same RWNJ not upset about that? Christian=hypocrite is the byword now.
Life-hating and life-denying in every sense. Extreme weather. Floods, fires, famine - all just fine in their book.
"If you're pre-born, you're fine. If you're preschool, you're fucked." George Carlin
Ordures, the employers included.
"It’s never a winning strategy when politicians from other countries try to mimic American Republicans and white evangelicals pastors."
Even marine la peine was smart enough to finally support the Constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights. When she is known for her pro death position like coining or parroting "avortement de confort" (cosy abortions).
Some time back, Cleveland journalist Connie Schultz wrote an op-ed piece entitled, "Trust Women." I thought it was a brilliant piece of work, and it may still be available online.
What a shame so few people could be bothered to listen to her.
I'm sure they have plenty of examples of women having late term abortions just for the money. /s
But they won't tell who to protect their privacy.
About as many as could be counted on the fingers of Manuel O'Kelly Davis's left hand!
Is it as real as my toes ?
Quite so. Manny lost his left forearm in an ice-mining accident. That's when he took to computer maintenance and met a dinkum thinkum named Mike!
Number 2 or number 6?
I forgotten which one of Manny's arms was humaniform.
Me too.
And for the record, I just so enjoy The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. Among my very favorite Heinlein novels!
Once again we have proof that conservative is the antonym of compassionate.
The cruelty is the point. Interesting how that transcends national boundaries.
Part and parcel of the conservative mindset is that 'Patriarchy' is the normal order of things' and that 'women and children are chattel'. It is just a dead baby. Move along - nothing to see here!
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) quizzed AG Pam Bondi about public reports of photos of Trump with half-naked young girls. He asked if the FBI found such photos in their search of Epstein's premises.
She refused to answer...which is all the answer we need.