Originally published at: University of Idaho sent email to staff advising against abortion talk and birth control access – or else! | Boing Boing
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The inevitable First Amendment lawsuit should provide some well-deserved excitement for this public land grant university’s Nat-C administrators, their craven enablers, and the school’s lawyers.
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So, how does that work in a medical school? Or a nursing school? Remove whole chunks from the curriculum?
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This will require a tenured faculty member to do something like posting a sign on their door that reads “Need to Terminate a Pregnancy? Come Talk to Me For Options.” Then see what happens.
In my experience, staffers at American universities generally live in fear of getting fired for all sorts of petty reasons. I don’t see them risking their state jobs over something like this. They don’t make much to begin with, and state benefits and retirement are the motivation for the job.
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Exactly. I’m really not sure how the school’s administrators thought this could end any other way than with one or more tenured profs immediately challenging them.
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This ban on discussing birth control offers a clear answer to the old conundrum, “Do they ban abortion because they find the killing of a fetus morally repugnant, or because they want to shame and control women?”
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Because nothing helps a college student get through their coursework more than getting pregnant or becoming a parent. Teaches multitasking!!!
/extreme /s
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Ah, but wait for the Supreme Court’s next term, which is probably on track to declare all this legal because LOLOL fuck you we do what we want.
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This, my dear children, is what censorship looks like.
Facebook taking down your posts, Twitter deactivating your account - these are not examples of censorship.
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Lawsuit city; here they come.
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I think that this is the real fear. Not that it has to go all the way to the Supreme Court, a lower court may do their dirty work for them.
I wouldn’t count on things like tenure or the First Amendment these days.
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Does the ban also include bumper stickers?
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what happens if we buy some front page ads in the student newspaper?
plenty of books worth pointing to
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It’s not my car, Dean. My partner owns it - I just drive it.
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They are threatening them with a felony. What felony exactly?
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In short, absolutely yes, I think that’s a totally possible albeit terrifying outcome…
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I’m taking the view that this is a simultaneous attack on women AND higher ed in the same fell swoop. Destroying education is part of the christofascist agenda.
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Even old-fashioned condoms will not be offered as a form of birth control, but they will offered “for the purpose of helping prevent the spread of STDs,”
Pregnancy is an STD.
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In a nutshell, yes. The amount of ignorance they want to impose on us is absolutely barbaric, with all apologies to actual barbarians, who tended to be much more enlightened that these asshats.
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