Real-life consequences, because of you, asshat.
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Lauren Perl, a 19-year-old college sophomore who serves as the federal advocacy director for Generation Ratify, posted a video on the group’s Instagram account about their lobbying efforts to lawmakers: “We are here to tell them that the Equal Rights Amendment is the key to ensuring reproductive autonomy.”
The messaging is a contrast to that of older ERA supporters. While conservatives warned against the ratification of the ERA, saying it could block any restrictions on abortion, supporters of the amendment would say that wasn’t its goal. But now, some are reassessing their approach.
Generation Ratify wants to emphasize their belief, one shared by some legal experts, that the amendment would protect abortion access. It’s a pressing message after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that abortion rights were no longer guaranteed nationwide and at least one justice suggested that other civil rights protections, including marriage equality, should be revisited. The group also argues that the ERA would enforce LGBTQ+ rights and Title IX protections.
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“After Kansas, the idea that a pro-life white male senator has emerged as the face of the Democratic response by pushing legislation that falls far short of codifying Roe and still has no chance of passing is just impossible to justify,” said one Democratic operative. “It would be one thing if he were actually able to move legislation, but everyone knows he can’t, and it’s an extreme example of how inept Democrats are at offense.”
Highlighting the key part. If his involvement could push this over the line, then hoo-rah and move along. It is going to go down regardless. Might as well go down fighting, instead of whimpering.
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Will cross-post in Good Stuff as well:
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Googlers demand abortion searches ‘never be saved or treated as a crime’
Hundreds of Googlers this week demanded CEO Sundar Pichai do a better job protecting people seeking abortions by refusing to hand over to law enforcement any customer data that could be used to build a criminal case, and extending the health benefits full-time employees enjoy to contract workers.
On Monday, the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) sent a petition signed by more than 650 Alphabet workers to Pichai and five other executives calling on the tech giant to “immediately” implement several reproductive health care benefits and protections to “align with Google’s core values.”
As of Thursday, none of the Alphabet bosses had responded to the workers, according to a union spokesperson. The corporation, which employs about 160,000 people total, also did not respond to The Register’s request for comment.
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I wish Jim Bob the best of luck attempting to boycott Walmart
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naww… walmart is hedging here because it believes abortion will become illegal throughout the country, so…
nothing to see here. nothing to pay out.
assholes!
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This bullshit talking point that has emerged in the last couple week, “the rapists baby will help you heal” is dead wrong, completely disgusting, and shows their cards. Yes, the endgame here is to declare all women to be property of their fathers, their husbands or their eldest brother, to remove women from the workforce (because that wouldn’t completely collapse the US economy or anything) and remove us from public life. Just like the Taliban have done in Afghanistan.
They show us who they are every day. Believe their words and their deeds. (Also never forget that every accusation is a confession.)
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So back to the bad old days of coverture, in other words… 
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LUBBOCK, Texas – A federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the federal government from enforcing a legal interpretation that would require hospitals in the state to provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk.
Just emphasizing. “Let them die” seems to be the rallying cry. BTW, if mom dies, isn’t that effectively an abortion as well? Yeah, this is not about “pro-life” at all.
But wait, Idaho is worse!
But the Idaho law has a few key differences: It starts after cardiac activity is detected, it includes ectopic pregnancies, and it has no exception for conditions that could seriously damage the mother’s health.
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Women are supposed to suffer and be forced to acquiesce, you see:
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It’s amazing that Coney Barrett even went to college and law school, given that she was raised within the group’s anti-women stance.
Reimers’ book critiquing the group, called Not Reliable Guides, states that men in People of Praise “were quietly taught by their heads and leaders not to change or rinse out diapers” and that women’s emotions were “distrusted”. Pastoral problems were often addressed by asking a woman where she was in her menstrual cycle.
Women, Reimers wrote, played a “decidedly secondary role to men” and a married woman was “expected always to reflect the fact that she is under her husband’s authority” and under his pastoral care.
According to the People of Praise dogma, she shouldn’t even be a member of SCOTUS because she is abdicating her motherly and wifely duties. So essentially, they believe that women are subservient whenever it’s convenient.
Fucking hypocrites.
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I think that was a purposeful action on the part of the group. They wanted her to be a counter-example to counter the truth of just how misogynistic the group is. By having a woman who got a degree and eventually worked her way up through the ranks (to SCOTUS now), they can point to her and say that they “let” their women work. Since their ultimate goal is a complete and total take over of american society (along with with other Christian dominionist groups), they can allow some women in public roles like that, so they can recruit more and “defeat” their enemies… Then of course, she will have to get off the court…
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