Hillary Clinton is warning about the legality of birth control in the wake of a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that found frozen embryos created through fertility treatments are children und…
Hillary Clinton is warning about the legality of birth control in the wake of a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that found frozen embryos created through fertility treatments are children under state law.
“They came for abortion first. Now it’s [in vitro fertilization], and next it’ll be birth control,” the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of State said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“The extreme right won’t stop trying to exert government control over our most sacred personal decisions until we codify reproductive freedom as a human right,” Clinton added.
It only makes sense that the club that's been pushing abstinence only sex ed for however many years would move to ban birth control. After all, birth control is for sinners.
The same folks bemoaning birth control have endorsed state sterilization and euthanasia policies in the very recent past.
So much of this shit is just White Replacement hysterics with a legislative knife. The fixation on skin tone as a defining moral indicator has been the poison pill gagging this country since it was founded.
It only makes sense that the club that's been pushing abstinence only sex ed for however many years would move to ban birth control. After all, birth control is for sinners.
There is also a contingent among conservatives who have been taught that birth control is tantamount to abortion. They think that since if an egg WERE to become fertilized it might not implant because of the birth control, that’s an abortion. (Even though as I understand it this secondary mechanism isn’t proven in hormonal BC.)
(As I got older and experienced the world I became far less conservative. My sister became more conservative. So I get to learn some of the crazy firsthand.)
The extreme right won’t stop trying to exert government control over our most sacred personal decisions
It's not the extreme right, this is mainstream for conservatives. The extreme right is the one calling for eg. the extermination of gender / sexual minorities or non-whites (and the extremists aren't nearly as rare as people generally like to think)
It's not the extreme right, this is mainstream for conservatives.
You're both right and wrong: the Republican mainstream has become extreme. Fascism, anarcho-capitalism and bizarre combinations of the two contradictory ideologies are extreme no matter how common they become.
The extreme right is the one calling for eg. the extermination of gender / sexual minorities
That's already a pretty mainstream view/goal in the GOP. Most of them are just using coded language rather than outright saying it yet.
It’s not the extreme right, this is mainstream for conservatives.
Nonsense. Mainstream conservatism is the Democratic Party and they've taken a firm position of "We'll say whatever we think makes the current audience we're facing happy then hope this whole thing blows over".
Among Republicans and independents who lean toward the Republican Party who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, a large majority (78%) identify as conservative
This should be extra concerning to Democrats and good news to Republicans because in recent elections when the electoral college has been close, Democrats were ahead in the popular vote.
I mean, can you fault someone for thinking Trump was unelectable?
While Hillary/Democratic party are at fault how they treated democrats during that election cycle, I think the US at large was at fault for its overall outcome.
And after birth control women are going to be fined for having their periods, because each period is supposed to be a god blessed baby for Christ's sake. THINK OF THE CHILDREN YOU HEATHENS!
Teaching them a lesson for leaving the kitchen. Seriously though, woman (and men) fought hard for their rights to their body. Now, they have less freedom. If they aren't careful they could lose much more of it like in Afghanistan.
The more this develops the more I think it's actually "replacement theory" bullshit. Religion is the only "acceptable" avenue to push this from as they know the majority of the population has no patience whatsoever for any disgusting discussion about "too many dark skinned people." so they stick to "what God intended."
I think they believe that white people get abortions and use contraception more than minorities so if they outlaw that then white people can't become the minority population as they're forced to carry to birth every fertilized egg.
I was on the BC pill for years before I was ever sexually active - my periods were so heavy that I became severely anemic and sick.
Literally the pill and some prescription iron tablets for a time were all I needed, none of the other shit I was given for months before 1 woman doctor thought to prick my finger and see if the drop of blood sunk in the solution or not.
It pretty much stayed towards the top.
I had to drop 2 classes that semester as a result. I was so pissed.
“That’s why I’m pushing for an actual democratic primary and supporting progressive populist candidates and their broadly approved policies such as minimum wage increases and universal health care,” Ms Clinton did not add to her remarks.
Lol nah they're using the tried and true strategy of...checks notes using actual fascists to bully people into voting for slightly less fascist candidates. Bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it pays off twice.
She didn't need to mention anything about a primary because the push to criminalize abortion is coming at the state and local levels. Vote for progressive local representation and that will do lot more than Biden ever could
Did you see the part where I talked about progressive populist candidates? That’s not about a presidential race. The Democratic Party has made a habit of sabotaging popular progressive candidates at all levels, and Hillary could actually do something about that. And if we had a real majority in congress, we might see things like nationwide abortion protections passed.
Bernie didn't win the 2020 primaries, get over it. Like him or not , Biden was the one who defeated Trump, and he's in a decent position to do so again.
Sanders would've beat Trump in 2016, could've done it in 2020 and could do it now.
He's the most liked politician in America, respected across the aisle, and gets standing ovation from Fox News Town Halls, because even if they disagree with his ideas, even your rank and file Republican can see he means well and is genuine.
2016 Bernie got sandbagged. Elites thought Status Quo would stem off populist rage, never looking at any cause of why there's so much populism on all sides. It must be the candidates right? Its definitely not that 80% of the country still hasn't bounced back from 2008, the news lies to us everyday and half the populace wants to fix it (left, which is in reality, center right) and the other half are a mix of accelerationists whive lost faith in change (justifiably) and want it to all burn down and opportunists (neo-nazi's, fascists, and authoritarian theocrats - one big group that collectively, to the shame of their mothers, needs to learn to mind their own fucking business and stop trying to tell people what to do). 2020 was performance for Bidens cabinet from the start, it was suuuuuper obvious by the media's handling he came pre coronated. I say this as someone who likes Biden. He's been a stand-up family man his whole life and he's pivoted away from corporate interests towards the people's, not as much as I'd like, and it's about 40 years late, but I like that it's happening.
I wouldn't mind Shawn Fein for 2028, especially if he pulls off a general strike on mayday, mid campaign. He'd be a fucking LEGEND then.
The DNC, liberals, have got to look around and realize that the status quo is a tough pull to swallow. Both sides of the aisle HATE corporations, those in the center work for them and politicains on both sides are bought and paid for by them. The dip shits who make up the WEF, who think we'll all be happy not owning anything, from the outside, seem to want to incite a real life purge. I don't think they actually mean too, I think they're too far removed from normality, that they think they're better and smarter than us rubes, and that if violence broke out, they'd survive it.....in a country with more bullets than IVs, and full of veterans who watched their friends die for rich greed. I think the rich are preeeeetty fucking detached from how precarious their situation is. Jamie Dixon and Larry Fink have both been squawking, on record, that profits before people isn't working and the business class needs to pivot, but it doesn't seem like many are listening.
Biden had our help in the 2020 general because some of us believed he was willing to compromise with leftists and progressives. Four years later we know he isn't. I won't be voting for Biden again. I will be voting 3rd party or a write in.
Y'all know it's the end of February right? The time for whinging about no better candidate was a year ago. As usual you've waited too late. You better build up candidates years in advance to have a chance at running them. Which unfortunately no one really wants to do on the left. Every single leftist candidate will be cannibalized by the left itself. That's why we almost get never get them.
At least she wasn't completely useless for this and actually said the word abortion. I haven't heard much from democrats suggesting or pushing any policy or solutions to this crisis. They seem to just leave the field open to let the republicans dominate the discussion.
They treat it the same as Republicans did, a talking point to rally around. That is, until the Republicans actually did something and stacked the Supreme Court. They could have codified roe when Obama was president, but I don't think they even tried or considered the possibility that roe would be overturned.
Now that roe has been killed, women have shifted significantly blue. Why the hell would they actually fix the issue when they can campaign on it for the next decade at least?
They could have codified roe when Obama was president
Or when Clinton was President in '92 or when Biden was President in '21. Multiple opportunities, but they all meant staking a position as a party and not being 300 little local independent influencers, trying to soak up as much campaign cash as they can before the next wave year tosses them out.
No kidding. IIRC, Trollito and Coke-can Clarence both signaled they hate that right as well as a few others...so tired of these creepy weirdos having so much undue influence over this country. They don't represent any kind of majority.
I don't know. There are a lot of dumbasses that will vote for the likes of donnie and will never vote for a Democrat because they just cannot imagine doing so (no matter how much sense it makes).
Then there are the ones that I'm sure pop a chubby at the notion of emulating the Saudis and telling the womenfolk here they can't even drive a car, nevermind imagine that they control their own bodies. Those freaks will probably always be a certain part of the population.
I mean they are literally passing laws which require attaching your real name to your porn habits. So yeah, I'd say it is 100% the goal to leak this stuff and eventually, openly persecute people for it.
It scans all the activity on your phone, or your devices, your laptop, what have you; we do all of it,” Johnson told the panel about the app
It sends a report to your accountability partner. My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17. So he and I get a report about all the things that are on our phones, all of our devices, once a week. If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.”
Amusing as it is, nah. You've all got the conservatives pegged wrong. They don't want abortions, they just want people abandoned for sake of their twisted virtue signaling. It's perfectly acceptable to have a baby then abandon it in a dumpster. They also like their porn and booze. Most preachers are guilty of a hentai fetish or some weird shit. Jacking off will be a crime if it's to gay porn only.
I'm sure there's a relevant bible verse that can be used to justify that.
There's that one where "and Jesus spoke unto his flock, 'maketh my words weapons, and ye shall have the word of God to force women to have sex with you for all eternity' and everybody clapped"
Same problem with Al Gore warning against climate change. He was right, but because of who he was he was instantly dismissed but all conservatives and even some liberals.
Sometimes, it's better to have enough self awareness to let someone else speak for you.
She could help by disappearing from public view and donating some of her ill-gotten gains to key races. But no, she prefers to keep flapping her jaw in public.
Yep. Call them what they truly are: creeps, weirdos, perverts and freaks.
It is not normal to want to police others to the extent these freaks want to be able to do. Something is deeply wrong with them. It's on us to point this out at every turn. They are so creepy.
Probably prison (or the death penalty ) for women who miscarry, I remember reading some states Alabama tried passing legislation so when a women has a miscarriage the authorities investigate her for murder.
Wow they really just declared themselves a religiously affiliated state. I can't imagine this doesn't make it to the US supreme court. The scary question is will those goons back Alabama's play to become a Christofascist state? If so it would definitely be my breaking point to leave.
Hillary Clinton is warning about the legality of birth control in the wake of a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that found frozen embryos created through fertility treatments are children under state law.
Now it’s [in vitro fertilization], and next it’ll be birth control,” the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of State said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“The extreme right won’t stop trying to exert government control over our most sacred personal decisions until we codify reproductive freedom as a human right,” Clinton added.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra decried the court’s decision in a post on X, saying it will have “heart-wrenching consequences for women & their families.”
“I’ve long made clear that overturning Roe was just the beginning of the attacks on women’s health, privacy, & autonomy — and that’s exactly what we continue to see,” Becerra said.
Following the decision, GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she agreed that an embryo is an unborn baby but added in an interview that “we need to treat these issues with the utmost respect.”
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Yeah. Correct message, awful messenger that most people think should have faded out of politics when she was the main non-Russian reason for Trump being inflicted on the nation.
Her being involved just fuels the GOP hate machine. If she stays quiet it's better for the Dems. Don't give Trump or his ignorant voters any more fuel.