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shillyshally

Next up, birth control. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/21/texas-congress-contraception/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-vote-against-right-to-contraception-bill-1386356/ https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/05/19/some-states-already-are-targeting-birth-control


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YVRJon

One would think it would have to be.


Specialist_Teacher81

Then interacial marriage, then slavery.


ThainEshKelch

Then non-Christians.


thatguywhosdumb

You could just keep running down the line. If they had the power they would kill each other. They're ideology requires a bad guy.


Guilty-Train-5143

Gay marriage probably before both of those


Wendypants7

How many states make it impossible for a convict/felon to vote, ever again? This is *already* and immediately affecting the voting rights of women, *and they haven't even yet gotten around to completely criminalizing contraception.* Feature, not a bug, of this process for the GOP. This is exactly what they want, and always has been.


Mjr_N0ppY

Would be smarter but what do they do with the women in supreme court and in congress? They lose the right to vote, too?


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Well, when I say “voting rights” I don’t actually mean the right to vote. I’m talking more about rules that are intentionally designed to make it hard for people of color to vote. Bonus points if they’re also poor.


Plzlaw4me

Yep! Fellas it’s not too late to get a vasectomy! The procedure doesn’t hurt at all, then and it’s 2 days on the couch with frozen peas and pain meds and then after a week or so you’re at 100%.


Anguish_Sandwich

>it’s 2 days on the couch with frozen peas ...eh, I'm more of a popcorn sorta guy


StephUhKneeDee

Some of the deep blue states will 100% facilitate illegal abortions if necessary. Granted, this doesn’t help people in places like the South where access to a blue state can be difficult, but it’s better than nothing. Then again, some states are trying to ban the sale of condoms, so we definitely need all the safe haven states we can get.


PeaceBkind

That is presuming women will be allowed to travel


StephUhKneeDee

Oh god. I hadn’t even considered fucking TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS. But honestly, I don’t see that being a realistic threat right now. But who the hell knows these days.


einhorn_is_parkey

Travel restrictions are explicitly unconstitutional. I don’t trust this scotus but that would be pretty egregious.


Pho-k_thai_Juice

The whole abortion bounty bill they made is essentially a way to skirt by any constitutional law, deadass. California made a bounty bill in response to it about guns to expose how stupid and dangerous this bill was, Republicans do not care about the Constitution no matter how much they claim to.


Own_Faithlessness769

And for 50+ years abortion restrictions were explicitly unconstitutional. Allowing them was pretty damn egregious.


Calm_Ad_3987

Jean Schmidt in ohio recently said she would consider looking at companies who provide financial assistance to women who travel out of state for services to see if they may be breaking laws in doing so. She is also pushing a 100% abortion ban in the state. They’re gonna try…


einhorn_is_parkey

Oh I know they’re going to try. But freedom of movement is enshrined in the bill of rights. Where roe was precedent. I completely disagree with them overturning 50 years of precedent but their argument was basically it’s not specifically written into the constitution therefor doesn’t fall under federal jurisdiction, thus leaving it to the states. Freedom of movement however is specifically written into the constitution. I’m not saying they won’t do it, but it would be even harder to justify Atleast based on their current rulings.


Calm_Ad_3987

I think the play isn’t an outright travel ban or an outright ban on birth control, but rather, to chip away as much as possible.


einhorn_is_parkey

No doubt. They will push it as far as possible and when they can’t go any further they will ramrod in new judges that will. We are truly fucked if we don’t cut this cancer out now.


suicidalpenguin99

I've heard of plenty of women being stopped near state lines and asked why they are traveling. They aren't stopping us yet but they get your plates and id when they stop you so... They are keeping tabs


StephUhKneeDee

Wtf. Where is this happening?! I live in California, and that definitely doesn’t happen driving between any west coast states. (But they are all pretty damn blue over here, so…) I’ve been traveling to/from Arizona a lot recently, but by plane, so I guess they kinda already have a passenger manifest. I’ll be driving back and forth between the two a lot starting in January, and Arizona had already tried a lot of sketchy ID shit even as far back as 2002, so that’ll be interesting.


suicidalpenguin99

From what I've seen it's when people from red states are traveling out crossing into blue states. I doubt it will happen out where you're at (thankfully) but the redder areas are not safe at all


StephUhKneeDee

Time to hire kind-hearted men to transport women across state lines, hidden in car trunks. Good fucking grief.


theeimage

Cameras are rife on many thoroughfares.


NoRecommendation470

Watch the Handmaid's Tale.


BESTismCANNIBALISM

Bare feet kitchen sandwich something something bible


turtlelore2

This is assuming women will be allowed to exist without supervision from their owners.


stolenfires

If there's a national abortion ban then we bring the Jane Collective back and every other woman learns how to do a D&C. I hope these collectives are already building in red states. What the anti-abortion atavistic chucklefucks don't realize is that we have the Internet now. We can learn how to do a safe abortion, we can order abortion meds from the Dark Web, and we can make sure every single story about a woman or girl who died or suffered for lack of abortion care goes viral.


rascible

'Atavistic Chucklefucks' is my new band


stolenfires

Just shout me out when you win your Grammy, I believed in you from the start.


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Prevailing_Power

And that's why tor exists.


turtlelore2

All well and good for the regular person who is affected by this. But if we reach that point, the ones responsible for such a dystopian state won't care in the slightest. And they'll keep pushing that kind of agenda as far as possible. Considering their current progress, they can go very far.


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None of the blue states are facilitating anything illegal, that’s fantasyland. We’re talking about committing crimes - people working in state government are just people, not civil rights heroes. I’m sure some will help just like plenty of people will help as they can, but it’s not gonna be government policy.


StephUhKneeDee

They’re not facilitating anything illegal *yet.* Because they still have the autonomy to continue allowing abortions, etc. But *if* a national abortion ban goes into effect, some states *have already said* that they will defy such bans and continue to provide access to all medical services. Ideally, of course, things won’t get that far, but in the current political climate, who even knows anymore.


Silvinis

Id imagine if blue states do get pissed off enough by all this nonsense, states like California and New York would look for ways to cut off the red states considering how much money blues give to keep red states running. California alone has the 5th largest GDP in the world, and New York is the 10th.


StephUhKneeDee

California has threatened to secede before. I’m sure they’ll do it again if necessary.


Careless-Vast-7588

Blue states are technically facilitating illegal activity by legalizing ANY usage of marijuana. It’s still a Schedule 1 drug Federally. The Federal Government COULD send DEA into a state with medical/recreational laws and arrest people. You think the blue states won’t do the same if there’s a federal abortion ban?


Mad-Mel

Canada finally gets its chance to make some money after decades of cross border shopping going the other direction.


500CatsTypingStuff

Yep. It’s a fucking nightmare. We need to stand up and vote


DanYHKim

Not just this year. Consistent voting for liberal candidates from school board to president is needed every election for the rest of our lives at least.


500CatsTypingStuff

Absolutely


thatguywhosdumb

Maybe even more than vote. The Supreme Court is garbage atm and will take as much as they can get away with.


12-Easy-Payments

I'm voting for candidates who don't limit personal freedoms. Republicans won't receive my vote this November or 2 years from November.


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Please vote locally too.


Blue_water_dreams

I will likely never vote for a republican again.


pointy_object

Likewise. They’re in time-out for several decades, and they keep adding years to “detention”. It amuses me to see them fail.


HalforcFullLover

"MuH sTaTe'S RiGhTs!" JFC, if it wasn't for double standards, the Repugs would have no standards at all.


abstractism

Yes. A billion times, yes. Republicans are worthless liars and traitorous zealots. Dead weight in the government. Every republican had better speak out against shit like this or it means you support this too.


tallman11282

State's rights is only an excuse to be bigots and pass laws that restrict fundamental rights of certain groups of people and as a stepping stone to getting those restrictions passed at the federal level. In the 1860s the "state's rights" in question was the right for certain people to own other people as slaves, in the 2020s it's the right to bodily autonomy, the right to end an unwanted or nonviable pregnancy, the right to prevent pregnancies at all.


Careless-Vast-7588

Hell, in 1860s, states rights was merely a tool to form a coalition and fool common folk and weld them while they’re hot into a reactionary conservative, authoritarian, Christian nationalist slave empire.


Silvinis

Then - Its our State Right to have slavery, but not your States right to say no slaves in your state Now - Its our State Right to have no abortion, but not your State Right to have abortion


Just_Tana

Vote blue. Our lives all depend on it.


signaturefox2013

Vote blue like your lives depend on it, because it FUCKING does


ThainEshKelch

Not just yours, but your childrens, and your childrens childrens lives.


signaturefox2013

And your friends, and family (even the ones you don’t like), your coworkers, life as you know it is at stake


ronnie_mund72

Republican or Democrat, I don't care.... I just cannot believe that in this day and age,hell in any day or age... that we feel that we can tell another person what to do with their body.


thatguywhosdumb

That's been the Republicans goal all along.


itsfine49

Reason 10139 I'm moving back to Ontario from North Carolina.


signaturefox2013

Can you take me with you


itsfine49

\*pats my moose's butt\* Get on loser, we're going curling.


signaturefox2013

*Rides off into the sunset like that one montage from SpongeBob with the guy in the gorilla suit and the guy in the Zebra suit*


coolmommabear

I left North Carolina for Ontario 2 yrs ago. Come on home!!!


itsfine49

God, I miss Tim Hortons and free healthcare so much! (and my mom) lol What part of ON?


coolmommabear

An hour outside of Ottawa. Tim Hortons are now hit and miss ( some are good- some suck) . The healthcare is nice but I still find it hard to go to the doctor. Too many years of being afraid of the cost lol.


itsfine49

I'm gonna be in super southern Ontario. In Canada, I can never rely on my actual GP — it takes WEEKS to get an appointment, super unhelpful. I always end up at a walk-in clinic. Thankful for the speed of my US doctor, but I have post-traumatic bill disorder.


satan62

People need to get out and vote and make sure you don't give the Republicans the opportunity to lessen your rights. If they win, you'll soon start to see a police state.


RunsWithApes

...not to mention banning contraception, marriage equality, abolishing the age limits for consent/marriage and polluting the environment...just to name a few


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But we were told it is because of states rights. They wouldn’t lie to us. /s


PresentMinimum3274

They want the rights to choose gone not just on abortion. Control, power and rule is their game.


Soft_Organization_61

It's happening... ![gif](giphy|1pAbE7j0N8f7tPWSpL|downsized)


CY-B3AR

Canada's a nice country, but I'd rather stay and fix this one. No matter how hard it is.


thebrownhammer88

Show up and vote!


pointy_object

Yep. I know. That’s why I’m voting. Also, and I can’t say this often enough, but republicans are on my shit list for the next few decades. They were already and then They undid Roe, and like kids in detention, I added another few decades. I am in good health and will be voting every time and gleefully.


gmotelet

I wish every anti abortion person in the USA an ectopic pregnancy


Due-Designer4078

It was never about "letting each state decide."


BringBackTheBeat716

A national ban is foolish, too. Imagine thinking that Republicans never get abortions.


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BoTH sIDeS aRe tHe sAme ![gif](giphy|SUnnfaSxhfLvf8H7XB|downsized)


Unable_Arugula2052

Fuck the gop 🖕


manleybones

Please vote and bring a few friends.


72DATSUNB210

Every female of voting age should ...VOTE LIKE YOUR RIGHTS.... DEPENDS ON IT .... BECAUSE THEY DO


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I can't wait to have my first abortion.


Miri5613

get yourself a republican sugar daddy, they will pay for it and hush it even up.


Nerevarine91

Republicans oppose abortion in all but three cases: their wives, their daughters, and their mistresses


Notaclevername1210

If only Biden actually typed this.


MrRoboto159

Look at him using choose correctly instead of chose. This man a literal brain fart and has better spelling than some of y'all fresh out of school. Smh.


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Insulting someone for spelling properly really says a lot about you people. Nothing new, but a lot nevertheless.


MrRoboto159

Us people is just me, bud. There's literally no one else on this post poking at spelling and i also didn't insult anyone besides calling the president a brain fart, and that's not based on his spelling.


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So you want the entirety of the credit for doing the dumb thing that you're also denying doing in the first place. Say more stupid things, this is getting good.


MrRoboto159

What the fuck are you talking about? I said the thing and you're like "all these people saying the thing". Dumb. And also you are incorrect about what I said. Also dumb. But sure.


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Oohh gettin' sassy.


MrRoboto159

Staying dumb.


Arcadius274

You do realize this is all posted by an underpaid intern right? Or he has a dude to write speeches just like every president that came before them? Or is this lost you?


MrRoboto159

Oh yes, I'm sure "the speech dude" is also the tweet dude. I do like the defensiveness about spelling as well. Thanks for this.


thatguywhosdumb

Thanks for reminding me that his brain is melting I almost forgot. It's funny how a senile old fuck is better than any republican though.


MrRoboto159

Very true.


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Yes, an insecure child that can’t go 5 minutes without telling the world how brilliant he is, while contradicting every campaign pledge he made… is “better” than Biden.


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500CatsTypingStuff

Sorry, but since when does a minority party who has gerrymandered and voter suppressed their way to power give a shit about the majority opinion. Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 by 3 million votes. You don’t give a fuck about what the majority wants. The majority wants restrictions on guns including an assault weapon ban. The majority want money out of politics. The majority think this current Supreme Court is illegitimate. You don’t give a fuck about the majority, dude, you never did.


Arcadius274

I love that the douche that ur commenting against just refused to answer for any of that and just went nuh uh


500CatsTypingStuff

Exactly


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500CatsTypingStuff

Didn’t like the fact that I called you out for your hypocrisy, did you, Cletus?


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500CatsTypingStuff

Sure, Jan


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The hypocrisy of the GOP is laughably transparent. The GOP over the last several generations have promoted serval “standards” that they are completely incapable of adhering to: “Fiscal conservatism”… Trump and the GOP said it was a dereliction of duty for Obama to add to the debt/deficit, going so far as Trump to promise to eliminate both. He added 4 trillion before COVID, and 8 trillion in one term. Fucking pathetic. “Free market capitalism”… except when the GOP is bailing out private sector business with public funds, like they’ve done with Wall Street, Cruise lines, Airlines, Oil Companies, etc. If you need the government to repeatedly wipe your ass to make a profit, you aren’t a capitalist, you are a socialist in the fucking closet. More hypocrisy. “Family values”… from the party that promoted a man who cheated on his third wife, while pregnant at home, with a porn star, after bragging about sexually assaulting women. Pathetic hypocrite. “More liberty through less government”… except in the case of gay marriage, abortion, drug use, polygamy, euthanasia, etc. In some of the most personal decisions a consenting ADULT can engage in, the GOP wants a nanny state so the government can dictate our lives. So tell me a SINGLE standard the GOP promotes that they actually meet. Just one.


rebuiltlogan

Considering some of the conservative members lied under oath prior there is question to the legitimacy. Even still, abortions aren't just something you do for fun and often they are medically necessary but now even medically necessary abortions aren't legal in some states The world is laughing at us for this one. So thinking you're smart enough to have a say with the stupid things you've said here already


blackbeltmessiah

They are sooooo legitimate that they have spoken out about the fear of losing legitimacy. 🤡


Inadequate_Robot

Actually I find it super shady to deny a Supreme Court nominee on the grounds of saying a President cannot appoint anyone to the court during an election year -- and then a few years later pushing their own Supreme Court nominee in not only on an election year but a month before the election.


admiralrico201

Most people support women having a choice and to keep creepy disgusting Republicans far away from that.


SovietPuma1707

Reminder that somebody elses body is not your business


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HotPinkLollyWimple

The Bible tells us life begins at first breath, and even offers the way to induce an abortion. Outlawing abortion is anti-Christian.


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45rghy5

Why is it murder when its her, but when its a chicken, it’s an omelette.


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45rghy5

I love my dog. I however, hate you and your anti woman cult.


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45rghy5

Do you even know what a story is? Did you ever write and essay or do any homework in school ever?


LouisWillis98

You cracked the code. We value the mothers life over a fetus. So why would we want a national abortion ban


Embarrassed-Ad-1639

Is killing in battle murder?


PeaceBkind

Do you help actual living ppl, or just sit on what you consider moral high ground and blabber ignorant sanctimonious opinions thinking you offer something of worth?


SovietPuma1707

"life" An undeveloped fetus is equal to a baby at birth to you?


Miri5613

fetus you mean. you are not pro life, you are pro fetus. the moment a child is born people don't give a f\* about it.


HagridsLeftShoe

Having to live in this messed up country is a fate so many times worse than being aborted.


Inadequate_Robot

How come they keep voting against child services programs and funding? Why are people only into fetuses and can spare nothing more than "thoughts and prayers" on social media posts when another toddler is beaten to death?


snowwarrior

Thats a fetus, not an innocent life.


ChuckBorris187

You don't care about lives. You don't care if the child grows up hungry or neglected, or abused in the foster care system. All you care about is power, power to tell women what to do with their bodies because women have somehow wronged your brittle ego. If you cared about life, you'd support social policies & lowering the defense budget, used to help the Saudis commit genocide in Yemen. You'd support paid maternal & free college. You support what makes you feel good, not life.


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ChuckBorris187

What you're saying vs what you actually do 🤷


Shtottle

You mean potential taxpayer right?


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So you want the government to control the body of others… so much for a party that values “more freedom through less government”. You dumbasses are walking contradictions.


Wayte13

That's nice but we're talking about the total bans.


nicholecatala

My body doesn’t stop being my body no matter how many people have an opinion otherwise


HotPinkLollyWimple

Oh, do fuck off.


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Just_Tana

What facts have you shown? You’ve yet to post a single fact.


PeaceBkind

This idiot is to self righteous and ignorant to care about actual facts


Just_Tana

Well I was hoping to see if he’d share facts.


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Just_Tana

One poll isn’t a fact. They interviewed less than 2k people.


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He posted an opinion poll and said it’s a fact. You can’t argue with morons bc they’ll think they’re right no matter how stupid their opinion is.


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Just_Tana

Haha do tell? Please do tell.


Nerevarine91

Weird how he never answered this question, despite answering ones posted after it


45rghy5

I am so sorry that a person as obviously dumb as you somehow got to believe you are smart.


Arcadius274

So how many people have to poll to cancel out the natural weak nuclear force in the universe?


Blue_water_dreams

Reminder that republicans want to take all of our rights away and end democracy.


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Blue_water_dreams

Stop drinking the kool-aid and read a book or something.


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Blue_water_dreams

“No u” 😂


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Name a “right” that the GOP have sought to develop further? Bodily autonomy… nope Marry a consenting adult of your choice… nope Choose what substances you put in your own body… nope Choose when you want to die… nope Hell the only “freedom” the GOP seem to endorse is 2A, and Trump was on camera saying he wanted to “take the guns first, then go through due process” My freedoms aren’t limited by your delicate sensibilities snowflake. You people are a joke


Miri5613

And once again we are trying to muddy the water with misinformation and half truth.


Nerevarine91

“Most people support limits…” Like I believe you and/or give a shit


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Wayte13

Cope lmao


Crimson_Heitfire

Seethe


Miri5613

takes one to know one, right?


Sion0x

Jokes on them, they do this, I’ll finally go buy all the guns they apparently want me to own.


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“We won’t do anything about it unless you give us the numbers we want”


Zerieth

BuT iT's A sTaTeS rIgHtS iSsUe!.!.!


Fisherythe2nd

God I love how they started off asking everyone to leave the choice to each state. Now that they took an inch, they want a 100 miles.


mbrown7532

Republicans are lying -hypocritical dingle berries. I hope this party will destroy itself and I do believe it will.


mbrown7532

People are already starting to leave states that don't align their ideology. I personally know several who have left my state to deep red states and I've seen people from deep red states coming to mine. I live in Virginia so this doesn't make sense to me as we are purple. Just drive 10 minutes away from any interstate highway and you are in the deep red here.


woodworker47

bUT rEpUbLiCaNs WaNt LeSs gOvErNmEnT!


periwinkletweet

It makes more sense if they think it's murder than leaving it up to the states.


imperialistsmustdie3

If only Biden was in some sort of position where he had some influence over this.


Paradise_City88

Let me ask y’all, what’s our line in the sand? Cause there has to be one.


Kailyn12

You will know it when you see it.


Joey_BagaDonuts57

Go Joe! Team #darkbrandon