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It’s not that they were friends that surprises me, it’s the way Lindsey Graham has to loudly mention it every time he pulls out a knife. The guy just won’t take the hint that the relationship is over.
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So this ad calls out the supposed hypocrisy of a Jewish guy carrying around a Bible? What does this so-called Christian think the “Old Testament” is anyway?
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Besides the staggering Bible ignorance, it didn’t take long for that “Judeo-Christian values” facade to crumble, did it?
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NYT reprint on Yahoo
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Fact check: Viral video purporting to show vaccinated woman’s plane tantrum is fake
The two-minute explainer video at the linked article is good, and it contains clips from the faked video. Wish I knew how to embed it here.
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Sounds like Prince Ea needs to be kicked off several social media platforms. He’s a propagandist.
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Remember when Kanye West was running for president he talked about his pro life stance that he thought that expectant mothers should be given a ton of cash to help raise those kids? Well it seems that some pro life Texans are starting to feel the same but I have the feeling that the rest of them will call those people socialists for wanting to address that issue
(^yahoo reprint)
Tere Haring worked the math. Already, the antiabortion nonprofit she runs had given away a record number of baby items during the pandemic. She’d helped five women a day in 2020, and she’d handed out 71 car seats, 45,569 diapers, and $71,000 in rent assistance. Then, in September, a state law banning abortions after six weeks went into effect. By late October, Haring was seeing seven or eight clients a day. The phone rang, then rang again.
That uptick was just the beginning, Haring figured. The number of abortions had fallen by half during the ban’s first month, from 5,377 statewide in August to 2,164 in September. For most antiabortion activists, that drop was a victory, proof that the restriction had saved more than 3,000 babies.
But stopping women from having abortions was the easy part, Haring often told people. What came next would be much harder. Those 3,000 babies were going to need diapers and formula and any number of more expensive items, too. The women Haring called “abortion-minded” tended to be in untenable situations. Many couldn’t afford a playpen, let alone a month’s rent.
“I always said abortion is the lack of an option,” Haring said. “They feel like they have nowhere to go, that there’s nobody for them. It’s about the help. It’s about being there for them.”
Haring believed it was her Catholic duty to help women who didn’t get abortions. The only problem was: Her coffers had dwindled as the need had risen. Donors who used to send $5,000 to Allied Women’s Center cut their gifts back to $2,500 during the pandemic. Others stopped mailing checks altogether.
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This doesn’t surprise me. The Catholic pro-life stance at least tends to be consistent and good works are baked into the program. It’s the White Evangelical prosperity doctrine type who don’t want to help women and who want to execute as many Black men who end up in jail as possible.
She’s still wrong, tho. But at least she’s putting her money where her mouth is and trying to do what she thinks is helping these women. I prefer she keep her nose out of their medical business…
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This. I had to clap back at a neighbor (Catholic) who thinks that the Democrats are being unreasonable by making abortion rights part of their platform. I really like him, but I told him that I refuse to discuss something with someone who has zero skin in the game.
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I would argue that where she is wrong is in wanting her religious views to be the law of the land for everyone.
She is not wrong in that many women choose abortion because they can’t afford to raise the child. In fact, a significant percentage of babies given up for adoption these days are relinquished by married women who already have children. Financial help – socialism! – really would mean that at least some women would happily choose to continue their pregnancies.
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That’s the thing that gets me… if these people really cared about reducing abortions, what they would do is make sure everyone has access to health care, comprehensive sex ed, birth control, and whatever they need to the right decisions for them and their families (jobs that pay living wages, schools from Pre-K, social welfare that works, etc)…
I know that some aspects of the adoption industry (like those dealing with foreign adoptions, and those run by religious agencies) can be deeply problematic… almost to the point of trafficking children from poorer people to wealthier white Christians. So, it’s the other side of their “building an army for Christ” bullshit.
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Take all the money (including public money!) spent on fake clinics and give it to people with programs like hers.
Fake clinics outnumber abortion clinics in Texas by a 10-to-1 margin, with more than 50 fake clinics getting state funding through the Alternatives to Abortion program, created by the Republican-held state legislature. State documents reviewed by Rewire.News revealed taxpayer-funded fake clinics have no measurable goals or oversight.
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Or… this is kind of radical, so hear me out… we tax the rich and use it to fund universal healthcare and paid family leave… It’s out there I know!
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It’s not out there, it’s over here. 
(We have to work harder on taxing our rich. Too many caravans of “libertarian” have crossed the border.)
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Sorry! So us, then, should do that! You got that shit sorted!
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Could it be said they were “crisis actors?”
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