Kareem Abdul-Jabbar responds to PRRI's latest poll, which finds that a majority of Americans across almost all faith lines and in almosst all states support legal access to abortion. But white Christian nationalists strongly oppose this:
"As Tears for Fears warned, 'Everybody wants to rule the world.' That’s why we have to be so vigilant in monitoring every group’s motivations."
#metoo likely revival as women and the men who love them, react to the badgering of #stormydaniels and the overall treatment of women by Republicans and denial of #abortion and #bodyautonomy to women. #vote like #democracy is on the line. It is.
By compelling women through legal process to provide information under oath about how they obtained their #abortion, and then using that information to sue the out-of-state #abortionProvider. This serves the dual purpose of harassing and humiliating the person who chose to get an abortion, while threatening abortion providers in states where it’s legal.
In other words, it’s a perfect example of the rank #misogyny at the heart of the #forcedBirth movement.
Tragic and predictable consequence of #abortion restrictions. Pregnancy is an established risk factor for homicide and intimate partner violence.
Reminder for health care workers - it is especially important to screen pregnant and postpartum people for intimate partner violence (ideally screen ALL people regardless gender/sex)
As Greg Olear notes, many of us may look at the blastocyst in the test tube and have trouble seeing the baby in the test tube — looking at you, Alabama Supremes. But that does not stop Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society and Robert P. George, a hard-right Catholic closely aligned with Leo, from their determination to impose on all of us by force of law the assertion that a blastocyst is a person.
"Donald Trump’s new 'let the states decide' position on abortion rights is a ploy. The real plan being cooked up by the Leonard Leo crew is to have the Supreme Court rule 'that a fetus qualifies as a "person" under the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment,' which would make federal law the rightwing fairy tale that any abortion is equivalent to murder."