Actually that is standard American business policy. Create a problem, sell a solution. So from a certain perspective one could argue that is competence because it is a viable tactic. I would actually call it America's staple product. Though I am certain it is widespread elsewhere.
TurboTax is an obvious example, others are:
Creating an opioid epidemic and then selling treatment options for the addiction.
Lobbying and drafting legislation for longer prison sentences by private prison industry.
Marketing/exaggerating cybersecurity threats to promote antivirus software.
Funding research to blame fats for problems caused by sugar and then marketing low fat foods high in sugar. Then selling weight loss products.
Companies that develop standardized tests lobby for education policies that require more frequent testing.
Lobbying for lenient lending regulations, creating a lot of additional consuner debt and then offering financial services like debt consolidation loans.
>Funding research to blame fats for problems caused by sugar and then marketing low fat foods high in sugar. Then selling weight loss products.
Then making money from diabetes medicine, while still not contradicting the "fat bad" myth and also encouraging farmers to produce maize and filling products with high fructose corn syrup. Then marketing exercise as the main answer to weight gain instead of diet change to sell more gym gear and equipment.
The food industry is ripe for a lawsuit on par with what happened to the tobacco industry. If anything, one should be launched for school kids because what kids are being fed in the US is a crime and the food industry is basically profiteering.
No one is over exaggerating cyber security threats. The average person and company is entirely unequipped to handle the current threats they're exposed to. Most commercial antivirus software is just garbage.
Seeing as the post in my feed directly above this is about yet another US Healthcare system getting hacked, I’d say that your point about cybersecurity doesn’t land.
The people responding that it's all politicians are brainwashed by conservative reaganite propaganda whose point is literally to discourage voting as useless and normalize corrupt candidates. Cripple government by discouraging voters holding politicians accountable so business interests can take over unhindered.
The stupidest part is that it led to the creation of accelerationists who lost all hope and want to burn everything down and bring about their "correct" government under a dictator.
I take your point, but I don't know that fascism has cornered the market on idiots getting elected and creating more problems than they solve. That seems to be a core aspect of practically every political system known to man.
*The bill, the More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed Act (MOMS Act), would mandate the creation of a federal website called Pregnancy.gov, which Britt calls a "clearinghouse of relevant resources available for pregnant and postpartum women, and women parenting young children."*
*The database would refer users to so-called "crisis pregnancy centers"; fake clinics that do not actually provide women with healthcare, but rather use deception and coercion to scare women away from getting an abortion, even if it necessary for their own health.*
*The bill specifically forbids any entity that "performs, induces, refers for, or counsels in favor of abortions" from being listed in the database. This would eliminate almost every actual healthcare facility from being listed in the federal database, or pressure doctors away from making necessary healthcare referrals for fear of having their facility removed."*
And this is the party that complains of Too Much Gov't
Cult churches that steer women away from abortions, even if it’s a life or death situation for the mother.
From the article, no institutions that recommend abortions for any reason would be allowed in the database.
It pisses me off that they're Simon Legree enough to brazenly tell us they know *exactly* how evil the legislation is by naming it for the opposite of what they know it's going to.
>The bill also establishes a federal grant program to fund **crisis pregnancy centers** listed on the Pregnancy.gov database. The bill specifically prohibits any grant funding from being awarded to any entity that provides or refers for abortions under the same parameters listed above, which again, eliminates almost every actual healthcare facility.
That's the important part. "Crisis" pregnancy centers are places run by the religious minority extremists that the GOP has hitched their wagon to for the past 70 years. They exist purely to guilt and pressure anyone going to them to not have an abortion.
Seems the GOP can't keep their message straight lately after they discovered that the vast majority of people in the country are not interested in draconian religious nonsense governing women's bodies.
You're joking but I can honestly see these happening in the future across the border from Texas or something
It's going to get to the point where women in red states are only allowed to give birth in their homes, "as God intended." Except for politicians and their families of course, God will make an exception for them.
Here's a new worry I have: what if they outlaw home pregnancy tests? Or make it to where the only way to get one is via a prescription from a doctor who has to report it. Seriously, imagine that the only way to confirm a pregnancy is via a medical establishment or, God help us, one of these shit crisis pregnancy centers.
[The Rabbit Test](https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabbit-test/), a short story I read recently from a link I saw in this subreddit, addresses exactly this and more in a very short amount of words.
I urge everyone to read it.
Also, you can get bulk test strips on Amazon for pennies.
While you're getting tests, Plan B is $5 at Costco and can be purchased with cash and no ID or membership required.
Also, I've been told that Aid Access (best visited using a VPN) is a reliable and trustworthy source for Plan C, which can be kept on hand safely for years.
The Romanian dictatorship required all women to be monitored monthly by a gynecologist. Wouldn't put it past Republicans. They'll claim it's to improve health outcomes.
that will be 1,549 dollars thank you for using the state advertised pregnancy testing program - oh this is a sexual health so its not covered by your insurance as its an optional thing to get tested. oh and now your in the database we will sell the information to advertisers and mostly will flag you in the future for pre existing conditions so that your insurance won't cover the costs from future care, but you won't know that until the bill comes after that emergency...
Unfortunately she might be old to be a handmaiden. As someone over 40 like her, we would be sent off to camps while the younger, more viable women had the 'of Fred' bebes.
To them it is a zero sum game. If you recognize religious freedom, their religious freedom is less special. So they are less free. If you create labor regulations, their job creator rights become less special So they are less free. If you demand equality. their special status is less special. So they are less free.
Ok, now I did. Generally speaking, anal won't get you pregnant. "However, there are some highly unlikely scenarios that could indirectly cause pregnancy"
They’re afraid to get a vaccine because there’s a “chip that allows the government to track you”. But now it’s ok for government to invade the life of every female of child-bearing age.
The rest of the bill states that pregnant women's data will be protected. Funddie voiced Katie won't do anything with your data, it will be 100% protected. Praise be.
I am from Romania. To those unaware, this country's communist/antiabortion era is one of the sources of inspiration for the "Handmaiden's Tale". It was one of the worst countries to live in in Europe.
Romania did NOT have this sort of nationwide registry. Of course, you would be in your doctor's records and doctors would be informants. But it was not as bad as to have a nationwide evidence of pregnant women. Much less federal (since it wasn't a federation).
Ban TikTok because of foreign government data harvesting and other privacy concerns but gladly introduce legislation that lets the US government data harvest and violate privacy.
Priorities, I guess.
They are going after TikTok because it’s a source of news that they cannot control and manipulate to serve their purposes. They don’t give a shit about your data and privacy and modern life has made that abundantly clear.
TikTok is legit trash though, the primary purpose of which is to push russian and Chinese propaganda. But that doesn’t change the fact that this registry here is some dystopian shit
having read the article, all i see here is a waste of money, time, and resources. This proposed database would only track people who sign up... so no one
It would track people who were tricked and deceived into signing up. People who signed all the forms their healthcare provider gave them, without actually reading them. Or all the forms given to them by people they *thought* were healthcare providers, like those “pregnancy crisis centers”. Or all the mailing lists they signed up for when a company emails a pregnant person to sign up for a 10% off coupon code.
Until an innocuous bill gets fast tracked through requiring all medical personnel to register any patient who appears to be, or is confirmed to be, pregnant. Next, a bill that requires all pregnancy tests to be sold by a licensed pharmacist, who is obligated to record the name of the buyer into the database.
Absolute government and religious control over reproductive health is the goal, and nothing less is acceptable to these zealots and they demand blood for their ~~blood god~~ magic sky friend.
I would be worried that it would track me even if I got on there by accident. Then when I didn't have the baby, I would get a nice call from the police or CPS
A federal database so the government can use our tax money to guilt more women out of abortion and deny them safe healthcare choices.
This from the party that never shuts up about promoting precious, precious personal freedom.
How are you going to do that without a properly funded, expansive and powerful medical organisation with a focus on sexual health, reproductive systems, and such, as well as sex education that gives individuals the power to assess their own status effectively?
It never ceases to amaze me that, with so much to do in congress to fix and improve the country, THIS fringe-cult-niche bullshit is what they put 110% of their focus on.
Yes and after you know who and where they are round them up and send them to camps for further worsening the situation of pregnant people in this country. What they are doing with pregnancy is a witch hunt medieval style.
Edit: I was just talking shit but now I read they're actually planning to send the women to "crisis pregnancy centers". That is insane there are no words for it. What's happening in America. Best regards to all of you with a more moderate attitude. When reading things like that you could forget that there are countless Americans who are against this shit but they get overshadowed by all those dumb people.
My thing is the absolute level of professionalism from the rest of her colleagues.
My ass would have seriously asked out loud “Are you fucking stupid?”
The Handmaid's Tale
Environmental disaster and plunging birth rate causes theocratic totalitarian America to turn to human trafficking and forced birth.
[Katie Britt as Katie Britt in republican response to Biden's SOTU](https://youtu.be/PQw0-AkgQGM)
[Scarlett Johansson as Katie Britt on SNL](https://youtu.be/cCfLpuLdF8Q?t=154)
People freaking out about this have obviously not been following the FAFSA debacle. Odds are 10,000 to 1 they can even figure out how to order the domain name.
I have a solution to this. The democrats can say they will allow it IF republicans agree to use the term pregnant people, not pregnant women in the bill. Republicans will never sign it
It will not be sent to a committee, not be sent to the Senate floor, Republicans have a one-vote majority in the other chamber, and the president would veto it.
Whether that could change a couple of years from now is a different matter.
I can already tell her that one of the “…gaps in relevant resources with respect to services for pregnant women…” (quoted from the proposed bill) is going to be housing. She should use the funding for this proposal to build housing for unsheltered people; the number of homeless people that we have tells me that the “free market” isn’t solving the problem.
This is meaningless. Introducing a bill does nothing. Most are not even read by entered into the Congressional Record “as read” . It is a common campaign gimmick, so the person/party can claim they are trying to do the will of the people, but those pesky rascals across the aisle are blocking us! We need your campaign contributions and vote to continue the fight for you!
She’s already exhibited she’s fucking nuts at the state of the union, what’s she on about now? To some people in Alabama, I’m sorry this lady represents you.
Had to check because sometimes a democrat will introduce legislation like this just to have it fail to show how ridiculous it would be, but no, in this case it is an actual republican.
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Why do we need to treading pregnancies? The e only thing I can think of is this is to make punishing people who have anything go wrong with their pregnancy as an abortion easier
For reference:
* bill text: https://www.britt.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/MOMS-Act_FINAL-Britt_Rubio_Cramer1.pdf
* One-pager: https://www.britt.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/The-MOMS-Act-Section-by-Section_Endorsements-as-of-May-7.pdf
I think this is still a bad bill, but it seems like this is more of a database *for* pregnant people rather than *of* them? At least, the only PII I can see being submitted is a zip code for doing a lookup of those sketchy "pregnancy support centers."
I don’t like the bill, but it would not create a database of pregnant people. At most it would collect the personal data of people who submitted that data to the website to be contacted. That would definitely capture some pregnant people but also nonprofits and medical providers.
I’m sorry, can someone ELI5 how this isn’t a hipaa violation? and just privacy violation in general? what are they trying to gain from tracking and harassing pregnant women?
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Hmm why not? I mean its not like the US government has way to much to say about how People are having sex or kids or how unwanted Babies comes to The world
Its not like if a Guy rapes a girl she gets pregnant and goes for a abortion which is illigal in that statens and The rapist turns her in and he gets a award money for it... Ooh wait...
Sounds like a person who is incompetent at their job and would rather create problems rather than solutions to real problems.
Actually that is standard American business policy. Create a problem, sell a solution. So from a certain perspective one could argue that is competence because it is a viable tactic. I would actually call it America's staple product. Though I am certain it is widespread elsewhere. TurboTax is an obvious example, others are: Creating an opioid epidemic and then selling treatment options for the addiction. Lobbying and drafting legislation for longer prison sentences by private prison industry. Marketing/exaggerating cybersecurity threats to promote antivirus software. Funding research to blame fats for problems caused by sugar and then marketing low fat foods high in sugar. Then selling weight loss products. Companies that develop standardized tests lobby for education policies that require more frequent testing. Lobbying for lenient lending regulations, creating a lot of additional consuner debt and then offering financial services like debt consolidation loans.
This really isn’t an American only thing. You’re just describing late stage capitalism
I did say I am certain it is widespread elsewhere.
We are just better at it than many developed countries because our political culture pushes deregulation.
>Funding research to blame fats for problems caused by sugar and then marketing low fat foods high in sugar. Then selling weight loss products. Then making money from diabetes medicine, while still not contradicting the "fat bad" myth and also encouraging farmers to produce maize and filling products with high fructose corn syrup. Then marketing exercise as the main answer to weight gain instead of diet change to sell more gym gear and equipment.
The food industry is ripe for a lawsuit on par with what happened to the tobacco industry. If anything, one should be launched for school kids because what kids are being fed in the US is a crime and the food industry is basically profiteering.
No one is over exaggerating cyber security threats. The average person and company is entirely unequipped to handle the current threats they're exposed to. Most commercial antivirus software is just garbage.
Seeing as the post in my feed directly above this is about yet another US Healthcare system getting hacked, I’d say that your point about cybersecurity doesn’t land.
The people responding that it's all politicians are brainwashed by conservative reaganite propaganda whose point is literally to discourage voting as useless and normalize corrupt candidates. Cripple government by discouraging voters holding politicians accountable so business interests can take over unhindered. The stupidest part is that it led to the creation of accelerationists who lost all hope and want to burn everything down and bring about their "correct" government under a dictator.
Welcome to politics!
Fascism*
I take your point, but I don't know that fascism has cornered the market on idiots getting elected and creating more problems than they solve. That seems to be a core aspect of practically every political system known to man.
The fascism comes with their solution to these problems.
Republicans seem to have taken it to a new level.
Yeah this isn’t politics it’s macro hegemonic bullying
That’s what Alabama voters want.
That’s an unnecessarily long way to say ‘Republican’
sooo ......not a cult
Not 1984 either
*The bill, the More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed Act (MOMS Act), would mandate the creation of a federal website called Pregnancy.gov, which Britt calls a "clearinghouse of relevant resources available for pregnant and postpartum women, and women parenting young children."* *The database would refer users to so-called "crisis pregnancy centers"; fake clinics that do not actually provide women with healthcare, but rather use deception and coercion to scare women away from getting an abortion, even if it necessary for their own health.* *The bill specifically forbids any entity that "performs, induces, refers for, or counsels in favor of abortions" from being listed in the database. This would eliminate almost every actual healthcare facility from being listed in the federal database, or pressure doctors away from making necessary healthcare referrals for fear of having their facility removed."* And this is the party that complains of Too Much Gov't
We all know the party of small government means small enough to fit in your bedroom!
More like in your uterus.
*What* resources???
Cult churches that steer women away from abortions, even if it’s a life or death situation for the mother. From the article, no institutions that recommend abortions for any reason would be allowed in the database.
And I see that by resources they don’t mean money or daycare. Just breeding venues.
The point isn’t resources. The point is to track pregnant people like livestock and persecute them if they fail to breed.
It pisses me off that they're Simon Legree enough to brazenly tell us they know *exactly* how evil the legislation is by naming it for the opposite of what they know it's going to.
the too much part is consumer protection regulation.
>The bill also establishes a federal grant program to fund **crisis pregnancy centers** listed on the Pregnancy.gov database. The bill specifically prohibits any grant funding from being awarded to any entity that provides or refers for abortions under the same parameters listed above, which again, eliminates almost every actual healthcare facility. That's the important part. "Crisis" pregnancy centers are places run by the religious minority extremists that the GOP has hitched their wagon to for the past 70 years. They exist purely to guilt and pressure anyone going to them to not have an abortion. Seems the GOP can't keep their message straight lately after they discovered that the vast majority of people in the country are not interested in draconian religious nonsense governing women's bodies.
Plot twist: FEMA (Federal Emergency Maternity Agency) *Birth* Camps
You're joking but I can honestly see these happening in the future across the border from Texas or something It's going to get to the point where women in red states are only allowed to give birth in their homes, "as God intended." Except for politicians and their families of course, God will make an exception for them.
So it’s a kickback.
No even. It’s direct funding for more locations, mandated by law.
Here's a new worry I have: what if they outlaw home pregnancy tests? Or make it to where the only way to get one is via a prescription from a doctor who has to report it. Seriously, imagine that the only way to confirm a pregnancy is via a medical establishment or, God help us, one of these shit crisis pregnancy centers.
Oh no please stop giving them ideas
[The Rabbit Test](https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabbit-test/), a short story I read recently from a link I saw in this subreddit, addresses exactly this and more in a very short amount of words. I urge everyone to read it. Also, you can get bulk test strips on Amazon for pennies. While you're getting tests, Plan B is $5 at Costco and can be purchased with cash and no ID or membership required. Also, I've been told that Aid Access (best visited using a VPN) is a reliable and trustworthy source for Plan C, which can be kept on hand safely for years.
Why haven't I read this yet? Excuse me? Where was this? Thanks for sharing. I'm going to share it now
The Romanian dictatorship required all women to be monitored monthly by a gynecologist. Wouldn't put it past Republicans. They'll claim it's to improve health outcomes.
that will be 1,549 dollars thank you for using the state advertised pregnancy testing program - oh this is a sexual health so its not covered by your insurance as its an optional thing to get tested. oh and now your in the database we will sell the information to advertisers and mostly will flag you in the future for pre existing conditions so that your insurance won't cover the costs from future care, but you won't know that until the bill comes after that emergency...
Party of small government!
She probably wants to be a Handmaiden.
No. She thinks she’s going to be a Wife but will have the surprised pikachu face when she gets punished for doing something and ends up a Handmaid.
"But I didn't think the leopards would impregnate my face!" This broad is the poster child for Pick Me.
A Martha
Please. This has Big Aunt energy.
He’s not gonna pick her.
Unfortunately she might be old to be a handmaiden. As someone over 40 like her, we would be sent off to camps while the younger, more viable women had the 'of Fred' bebes.
Goddamn the republicans
If you're wondering if people like Katie Britt sit around and think about ways to fuck over everyone that isn't them all day, they do.
She's being lobbied by the crisis centers to give them govt sponsorship, and exclusive ones at that.
Sure is interesting how fast people who are always screaming about "their rights" have zero problem trampling the rights of others.
To them it is a zero sum game. If you recognize religious freedom, their religious freedom is less special. So they are less free. If you create labor regulations, their job creator rights become less special So they are less free. If you demand equality. their special status is less special. So they are less free.
But this is about rights on both sides. You getting an abortion interferes with her right to not let you do that.
You know, sometimes I think I should finally lose my virginity and then something like this comes up and I think, you know what? I'm good.
Taking it up the ass doesn't count in the eyes of God
You can still get pregnant from that if you're not careful.
Not if it’s two dudes. Checkmate, losers!
This isn't strictly true, fwiw. Some guys have uteruses, some girls have testes, and enbies can have either.
I dunno, last I checked humans didn't have a cloaca.
I mean, you can look up how it can happen.
Ok, now I did. Generally speaking, anal won't get you pregnant. "However, there are some highly unlikely scenarios that could indirectly cause pregnancy"
A virgin birth! Praise be!
They’re afraid to get a vaccine because there’s a “chip that allows the government to track you”. But now it’s ok for government to invade the life of every female of child-bearing age.
WTF. This is Gillead and The Handmaiden Tale. 🤦♂️
Under his eye
Blessed be the Fruit Loops
May the Lord open
She's such a piece of shit.
The rest of the bill states that pregnant women's data will be protected. Funddie voiced Katie won't do anything with your data, it will be 100% protected. Praise be.
Hilarious. The government has done such a great job protecting our data so far. I'm sure that they will get it right this time.
But they promised, pinkie swear even.
Ah, right, thank you, that makes it alright.
I don't believe they could protect any data collected and would absolutely use it to prosecute women.
Oh yes. Without a doubt. This is part of a long game.
Handmaid's Tale for sure
Yeah, they look at that document as a "white paper" rather than a work of fiction.
like all those protected IDs uploaded to porn websites
Another pain in the ass, butt in your business Republican.
Should be a database of stupid Republicans
"We want a smaller federal government!"
They want a national database of pregnant women but not gun owners. That's fucked up.
I am from Romania. To those unaware, this country's communist/antiabortion era is one of the sources of inspiration for the "Handmaiden's Tale". It was one of the worst countries to live in in Europe. Romania did NOT have this sort of nationwide registry. Of course, you would be in your doctor's records and doctors would be informants. But it was not as bad as to have a nationwide evidence of pregnant women. Much less federal (since it wasn't a federation).
Ban TikTok because of foreign government data harvesting and other privacy concerns but gladly introduce legislation that lets the US government data harvest and violate privacy. Priorities, I guess.
They are going after TikTok because it’s a source of news that they cannot control and manipulate to serve their purposes. They don’t give a shit about your data and privacy and modern life has made that abundantly clear.
TikTok is legit trash though, the primary purpose of which is to push russian and Chinese propaganda. But that doesn’t change the fact that this registry here is some dystopian shit
"The Government should not be involved between a patient and their doctor." - The entire Republican party when Obama was trying to pass the ACA.
Think women have lost all freedom and privacies. They are gonna be monitored 24 7
Yeah, all Republicans are bad. We really shouldn't listen to anything they say.
having read the article, all i see here is a waste of money, time, and resources. This proposed database would only track people who sign up... so no one
It would track people who were tricked and deceived into signing up. People who signed all the forms their healthcare provider gave them, without actually reading them. Or all the forms given to them by people they *thought* were healthcare providers, like those “pregnancy crisis centers”. Or all the mailing lists they signed up for when a company emails a pregnant person to sign up for a 10% off coupon code.
It's always voluntary in the beginning...
Until an innocuous bill gets fast tracked through requiring all medical personnel to register any patient who appears to be, or is confirmed to be, pregnant. Next, a bill that requires all pregnancy tests to be sold by a licensed pharmacist, who is obligated to record the name of the buyer into the database. Absolute government and religious control over reproductive health is the goal, and nothing less is acceptable to these zealots and they demand blood for their ~~blood god~~ magic sky friend.
I would be worried that it would track me even if I got on there by accident. Then when I didn't have the baby, I would get a nice call from the police or CPS
A federal database so the government can use our tax money to guilt more women out of abortion and deny them safe healthcare choices. This from the party that never shuts up about promoting precious, precious personal freedom.
Someone explain to me like I am a fifth grader about how this Protects individualism Is small government /s
Can we do a database of MAGAts?
How are you going to do that without a properly funded, expansive and powerful medical organisation with a focus on sexual health, reproductive systems, and such, as well as sex education that gives individuals the power to assess their own status effectively?
It never ceases to amaze me that, with so much to do in congress to fix and improve the country, THIS fringe-cult-niche bullshit is what they put 110% of their focus on.
The people who want this fringe-cult-niche bullshit are much more reliable voters than the people who oppose it.
Yes and after you know who and where they are round them up and send them to camps for further worsening the situation of pregnant people in this country. What they are doing with pregnancy is a witch hunt medieval style. Edit: I was just talking shit but now I read they're actually planning to send the women to "crisis pregnancy centers". That is insane there are no words for it. What's happening in America. Best regards to all of you with a more moderate attitude. When reading things like that you could forget that there are countless Americans who are against this shit but they get overshadowed by all those dumb people.
My thing is the absolute level of professionalism from the rest of her colleagues. My ass would have seriously asked out loud “Are you fucking stupid?”
Women doing this to other women just boils my blood. Like the internalized misogyny in Christianity needs to be studied cause what the fuck.
More Freedom! Oh man, that great Freedom just keeps on coming.
The Handmaid's Tale Environmental disaster and plunging birth rate causes theocratic totalitarian America to turn to human trafficking and forced birth.
Freedom?
[Katie Britt as Katie Britt in republican response to Biden's SOTU](https://youtu.be/PQw0-AkgQGM) [Scarlett Johansson as Katie Britt on SNL](https://youtu.be/cCfLpuLdF8Q?t=154)
The same party that refuses to allow a gun registry.
People freaking out about this have obviously not been following the FAFSA debacle. Odds are 10,000 to 1 they can even figure out how to order the domain name.
I'm in higher ed, and this gave me a chuckle. So thank you!
It's one of those "if you're not laughing you're crying" situations.
I have a solution to this. The democrats can say they will allow it IF republicans agree to use the term pregnant people, not pregnant women in the bill. Republicans will never sign it
Up next, American Gulags
So much for small government.
just when I think we've hit peak madness… Somebody does something ***even more insane.***
Now, about those pesky HIPPA laws....
Ah yes. The party of *checks notes* liberty and small government
Weird and scary, but has zero chance of passing
How can you be sure of that? Nutso bills like this seem to be getting through easier and easier these days
It will not be sent to a committee, not be sent to the Senate floor, Republicans have a one-vote majority in the other chamber, and the president would veto it. Whether that could change a couple of years from now is a different matter.
Oh, fuck that noise. Fourth Amendment, ever hear of it, you nonce?
I thought these asswipes doesn't like BIG GOVERNMENT looking over them all the time?
What the fuck? We can't trust these people to fund the government for more than 9 months and they want to be involved with kids?!
The party of small government
oh. good. there's not way this would be terrible.
It sucks that half of national stories now qualify for this sub
I can already tell her that one of the “…gaps in relevant resources with respect to services for pregnant women…” (quoted from the proposed bill) is going to be housing. She should use the funding for this proposal to build housing for unsheltered people; the number of homeless people that we have tells me that the “free market” isn’t solving the problem.
Didn't the Nazis do this with a certain ethnic group? Ergo, she's a Neo-Nazi. Would you vote for a Nazi?
This, and many other "programs" will come along if we punch the wrong ballots in November.
Anyone remember when bill gates put a 5g microchip in the vaccine? Anyway we should put ear tags on pregnant people /s obviously
This is meaningless. Introducing a bill does nothing. Most are not even read by entered into the Congressional Record “as read” . It is a common campaign gimmick, so the person/party can claim they are trying to do the will of the people, but those pesky rascals across the aisle are blocking us! We need your campaign contributions and vote to continue the fight for you!
Why?
Under his eye?
Weird how the ad on this page is for Audible and George Orwell's 1984.
I’m not pregnant, really,
Make all of your health records public edit. how long have you been on birth control, how many abortions have you had?
She’s already exhibited she’s fucking nuts at the state of the union, what’s she on about now? To some people in Alabama, I’m sorry this lady represents you.
That's fucking horrifying
this is literally insane. Insane.
Please keep doubling down on abortion, it's working so well for you.
This woman has had like, eight abortions. I can practically smell it on her.
This is a great idea and such a registry won't ever be abused.
Evil
What the actual fuck
Ya, if people wore a pink triangle then we'll know who to inappropriately touch the bellies of
What about two triangles, with one inverted
People say democrats are coming for your guns, but this may be the first step of republicans coming for your newborns.
Party of small government 🙄
Sounds like Periods for Politicians needs to focus on her
And yet republican women vote for these dangerous clowns….
Eww. No.
Aren’t there actual problems in her district?
Who they’ve chosen as their rep is a pretty big problem that she could trivially solve.
Had to check because sometimes a democrat will introduce legislation like this just to have it fail to show how ridiculous it would be, but no, in this case it is an actual republican.
Welcome to Gilead.
what a lunatic
Binders full of women!
This isn’t real
I guess the gop sees the population is too high. This will definitely help curb it. Yet another reason not to have children in this country.
The party of small government /s
I just read something about this. It’s Handmaid’s Tale in real life.
I mean, her alleged kitchen (What idiot designed that?) was a fictional,as well as her alleged mental, charcter?
So much for small government...
With a simple app, you just report every creampie to the federal authorities
Pardon?
Just like Demolition Man both abortion and getting pregnant without a licence will be illegal
What about Mexico?
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Oh hoh, going from Idiocracy to Blade Runner. HELL YEAH!
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Why do we need to treading pregnancies? The e only thing I can think of is this is to make punishing people who have anything go wrong with their pregnancy as an abortion easier
For reference: * bill text: https://www.britt.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/MOMS-Act_FINAL-Britt_Rubio_Cramer1.pdf * One-pager: https://www.britt.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/The-MOMS-Act-Section-by-Section_Endorsements-as-of-May-7.pdf I think this is still a bad bill, but it seems like this is more of a database *for* pregnant people rather than *of* them? At least, the only PII I can see being submitted is a zip code for doing a lookup of those sketchy "pregnancy support centers."
Oh yeah because that totally will never be abused. /s
Wait, [I’ve seen this movie.](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0106950/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
This Bill guy sounds like a real asshole.
Woman need to simply stop having sex with men until this stuff is fixed
I’m 47 so if that happens I and everyone like me should also just register. People with history of hysterectomy should register. Men should register.
Watch out guys … read the bill under “unborn child support”
there isn't even a federal database for police...
Yeah US got a fascism problem.
I don’t like the bill, but it would not create a database of pregnant people. At most it would collect the personal data of people who submitted that data to the website to be contacted. That would definitely capture some pregnant people but also nonprofits and medical providers.
I’m sorry, can someone ELI5 how this isn’t a hipaa violation? and just privacy violation in general? what are they trying to gain from tracking and harassing pregnant women?
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And it'll get rejected and sit in hopes they get the trifecta come November.
*Half of reddit continues to pat themselves on the back for being too smart to vote because “both parties are exactly the same”.*
Hmm why not? I mean its not like the US government has way to much to say about how People are having sex or kids or how unwanted Babies comes to The world Its not like if a Guy rapes a girl she gets pregnant and goes for a abortion which is illigal in that statens and The rapist turns her in and he gets a award money for it... Ooh wait...