Damn you are sweet! And you can always get another kiss from me.
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Thank the goddesses, because right now I stink to high heaven!
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Democratic politicians mention this nearly every time the subject comes up, and the folks at Planned Parenthood, NARAL, etc. put something along these lines in every pro-choice ad campaign I’ve ever seen.
I get your point, but that position doesn’t do anything productive in the political debate about this. One of the major features of the policy debate about abortion access in the US is that the anti-abortion side has historically had a totalizing position (NO abortions), while the pro-choice side does not have a totalizing position. “Pro-Choice” has never meant “unlimited choice with zero restrictions”; it has instead been a position of “there should be some room for choice, but we’re willing to accept reasonable restrictions.” The result of this asymmetry is that all compromises become a ratchet toward further restrictions. Have you ever seen a single “compromise” bill on abortion that reduced restrictions? I certainly haven’t.
Adoption exists, is legal, and is not under attack. What’s the utility in tying adoption and abortion access together when the ratchet only goes one way? Talking about adoption only signals a willingness to further compromise on abortion access, and compromise means more restrictions.
Another reason you don’t see people tying adoption and abortion together this way is that it is abundantly clear that the right wing traditionalists who are pushing an anti-abortion stance don’t actually give a shit about abortion per se. If they did, they would support the myriad interventions shown to reduce the abortion rate: extremely cheap, easily accessible contraception; the morning-after pill; comprehensive sex ed in public schools; better funding for public schools; programs to close the gender wage gap; universal health insurance; etc. And where do they land on nearly all of these issues? They don’t support them. All the stuff shown repeatedly to reduce the abortion rate, they don’t support. Why? Because reducing abortion isn’t the goal and it isn’t the driving motivation. It’s a convenient cover. Tena put it succinctly:
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@dommyluc, I’m still at work!!
You shouldn’t make me laugh out loud like that!
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My recollection is that dilation and extraction (D&E) abortions–which were/are only performed in later stages of pregnancy–provided the safest method of terminating the pregnancy AND protecting the woman’s future fertility.
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And plus, they’re just plain ignorant of those icky lady bits and “how they work.” So there’s endless opportunity for them to look really stupid on camera saying things that make no sense about things that any woman knows directly from experience. Just so long as we can get the media to ask the questions (or at least report on people who are publicly asking them).
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Who says he has a Twinkee?
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Alito–not commonly in the limelight–has hit the big-time.
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Quite a few Republicans are convincing me that maybe term limits are ok.
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Qanon Ron Johnson: “If they want an abortion they can just use Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine”.
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But for every Ron John, is it worth losing a Nancy Pelosi or Sherrod Brown?
It would be good if we could have a more effective pipeline where up-and-comers could be properly, erm, “groomed” while not losing the institutional knowledge of the previous generation, without letting things stagnate with incumbents that clog up that pipeline and don’t let new blood shine through.
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There’s no such thing as “partial birth abortion.” That’s just a bunch of words mashed together to rile up the base. The correct term is “dilation and extraction.”
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Asshole. That’s ten times the amount of commentary this lying sack of shit deserves.
Renaming things is part of the microtargeting. The religious right has a cartoonish vocabulary, which hits the sweet spot of their fanatical and unthinking base.
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“People are just out there to have a good time, but like anything else, when you have a huge concentration of dimwitted MAGA morons like this and you have alcohol involved, you do have some incidents,” Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood told the news outlet.
FIFY
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Florida has Miles and miles of beaches. Yet those stuck inland, have to settle for a river.
And any type of river party, annual or not, will most likely always break out into a brawl. Its who the people are that go to river parties.
(Doubt its crack anymore, probably meth)
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They’re called “elections.”
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Has crack made a comeback or something?
Who the bleep is this Krazy Kit Kat bitty? Dems in disarray alright.
Giving away Crack pipes? To who?
Plus serious crackheads know any empty soda can with few holes punched in will get the job done without a pipe.
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That was my go to weed pipe in a pinch and they work great.
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Unanimity!
See, Republicans. It is possible. Agreement!
I distance from RonJon’s policies too. Me 'n RonJon are tight. So, let’s vote that Johnson guy out.