Category: Misogyny

Let’s talk about GOP language and a veto in VA….

They’re Coming for Contraception Next

After Alabama’s recent IVF ban and the ongoing debate over abortion and mifepristone, the conversation has shifted. Conservatives aren’t just going for abortion. They won’t stop until all our rights under the 14th amendment (marriage equality, contraception, and more) are gone, too.

Louisiana moves to make abortion pills ‘controlled dangerous substances

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/13/abortion-pills-louisiana-controlled-substance/

You can not give into to these fundamentalist people.   They see any attempt to compromise with them as a chance to take even more rights away.  They are driven to return the country to a distant past where women had little to no rights.  A time when women were not even allowed a credit card in their own name, they had to have their husband or father’s permission or co-sign major purchases.  Doctors would talk to the husband about the wife’s medical problems instead of the woman.  They crave a return to when it was legal for a man to rape his wife, forcer her to please him sexually against her will.  The really see women as only house keepers, child birthing, child raising, and sex objects to please men.  Women are not people to them, women do not equal men in their world.   Sad.   But also these states no have the idea that because the president is a democrat their state doesn’t have to follow the laws and rules the administation makes.  Nope they have decided that red states are superior and above the federal government.   Never mind the constitution claims otherwise, these are republicans who claim to love the constitution yet violate it at will.   Hugs.  Scottie 

Someone possessing the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice could be prosecuted and sentenced to prison.

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May 13, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Mifepristone is one of the two drugs prescribed for medication abortions. Louisiana lawmakers are moving to put it, along with misoprostol, in the same category of drugs as opioids and depressants. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty images
 

Louisiana could become the first state in the country to categorize mifepristone and misoprostol — the drugs used to induce an abortion — as controlled dangerous substances, threatening incarceration and fines if an individual possesses the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice.

 
 

Legislators in Baton Rouge added the provision as a last-minute amendment to a Senate bill that would criminalize an abortion if someone gives a pregnant woman the pills without her consent, a scenario of “coerced criminal abortion” that nearly occurred with one senator’s sister.

A pregnant woman obtaining the two drugs “for her own consumption” would not be at risk of prosecution. But, with the exception of a health-care practitioner, a person helping her get the pills would be.

 

Louisiana already bans both medication and surgical abortions except to save a patient’s life or because a pregnancy is “medically futile.” Lawmakers just rejected adding exceptions for teenagers under 17 who become pregnant through rape or incest.

 

The amendment would list mifepristone and misoprostol under the state’s Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law, which regulates depressants, opioids and other drugs that can be highly addictive. It elicited a strong reaction from more than 240 Louisiana doctors, who called it “not scientifically based.”

“Adding a safe, medically indicated drug for miscarriage management … creates the false perception that these are dangerous drugs that require additional regulation,” they wrote in a letter sent last week to the bill’s sponsor, Republican Sen. Thomas Pressly. They noted misoprostol’s other critical uses, including to prevent gastrointestinal ulcers and to aid in labor and delivery.

 

“Given its historically poor maternal health outcomes, Louisiana should prioritize safe and evidence-based care for pregnant women,” they urged.

 

The amendment, written with guidance from Louisiana Right to Life, was added after the Senate unanimously passed S.B. 276 in mid-April. The measure is awaiting a final vote in the House before the session ends June 3, with little opposition expected.

“As Senator Pressly has stated, the medical community regularly uses controlled substances in a myriad of medical situations, including emergencies,” said Sarah Zagorski, communications director for the antiabortion organization. “The use of these drugs for legitimate health-care needs will still be available, just like all other controlled substances are still available for legitimate uses.”

 

The pending language appears to open yet another front in the country’s bitter battle over if and how women can obtain an abortion. Attempts to curtail medication abortions — which now constitute more than half of all abortions in the United States — are part of legislative agendas not just in deep-red Louisiana but in many Republican-controlled statehouses. And in March, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case brought against the Food and Drug Administration by a group of antiabortion doctors seeking to limit access to mifepristone.

 

Pressly did not respond to repeated requests for comment, but in a statement released by his office, he explained that he was seeking to “control the rampant illegal distribution of abortion-inducing drugs” in Louisiana. He said abortion medication “is frequently abused and is a risk to the health of citizens.” By including the drugs on the controlled-substances list, he added, “we will assist law enforcement in protecting vulnerable women and unborn babies.”

His connection to the issue is in part personal. During public testimony in April before the Senate Judiciary Committee, his sister recounted how her then-husband surreptitiously gave her an abortion drug in 2022 when he brought her breakfast for St. Patrick’s Day. They were separated, but Catherine Pressly Herringsaid she had learned she was pregnant with their third child and he had agreed to marriage counseling.

 

After she noticed him serving her “cloudy water,” she said she started having “intense cramping.” Doctors were able to stop the process so that the pregnancy could continue. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail. Under Pressly’s bill, a perpetrator would face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $75,000 fine.

 

“Through our knowledge of other stories, and from the testimony of local centers in Louisiana caring for women in these situations, the abuse of abortion pills is not isolated to Herring’s situation,” Zagorski said Saturday. “It is very simple for a man to pose as a woman to order these pills online without a prescription, even for a minor, and then to pressure a woman to take the pills.”

While doctors say Herring’s experience is deeply troubling, they remain concerned that her brother’s proposed solution would make mifepristone and misoprostol even harder for Louisianans to get for reasons having nothing to do with abortion. Misoprostol is prescribed for treatment after a miscarriage, for example, and to help stop postpartum hemorrhage, one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in the state.

 

“To OB/GYNs, this is very worrisome,” said Neelima Sukhavasi, an OB/GYN in Baton Rouge and a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health. “There’s no one that would endorse what happened to his sister. But this is a safe medication that has many important lifesaving uses. It’s not addictive.”

 

Misoprostol is also taken to soften the cervix during labor, biopsies for cancer and placement of IUDs. Sukhavasi said she is concerned that Pressly wrote the amendment without consulting physicians or enforcement agencies.

Nimra Chowdhry, senior state legislative counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, echoed those concerns but in harsher terms. She accused abortion opponents in Louisiana of misrepresenting the safety and efficacy of the two drugs — a manipulation “in pursuit of blocking people from care.”
 

This ultimately “turns back the clock on modern medicine,” she said.

Abby Ledoux, vice president of communications at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, is worried about the “far-reaching” consequences because of the drugs’ other uses.

There are “real questions,” she said, “about what it would mean in practice to open the controlled-substances list like this, including what aspects of state law legislators think manufacturers would follow, even locally.”

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Emily Wax-Thibodeaux is a National staff writer who covers national news, with a focus on gender issues and social movements for the America desk. She is an award-winning former foreign correspondent who covered Africa and India for nearly a decade. Twitter

Kind of rapey

Kind of rapey
Thank you to Ten Bears for the link. Hugs. Scottie

This is a short-written article that shows how tRump’s sexual assault of Stormy was not consensual.  She was abused and abused, just as most of tRump’s victims are. This was not just hush money for election in that it was husmaony to show how this was a payment to advoid showing that this was a rape. This was to prevent a much worse sexual abuse criminal charge.  She was a sexual abuse victim.  Hugs.  Scottie.    

On a scale of zero to ten, with zero being definitely consensual, and ten being definitely not consensual, this is like a six or a seven. Call me old-fashioned, but I consider kind of rapey to be disqualifying all by itself for a presidential candidate, although I realize of course that it’s practically certain Trump has gotten to ten many many times (a jury has already found as much in one case, and there are no doubt countless more), and also realize this is just one of literally dozens of reasons why Trump is utterly unfit to be president.

Trump Aide Promises Ban on Pornography in 2nd Trump Term

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-aide-promises-ban-on-pornography-in-2nd-trump-term

Why oh why are these people so scared of sex?  Did they fail to get any as teenagers?  Still failing to get some?  Sad.  Then somewhere I read it was all about increasing the white baby count while stopping any brown people from coming into the country.   See I guess the plan is banning abortion, ban contraception, ban porn to keep males super horny with pent up need … causes early marriage and kids.  Doubt it, see Utah.  But it gets worse.  These guys want to deny women the right to vote and ban divorce making them dependent on men again.  Hugs.  Scottie

Project 2025 operative John McEntee also supports abolishing the 19th Amendment

Former Trump aide John McEntee promised a ban on pornography was coming in the United States in a recent interview with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles. McEntee had a senior position in the Trump White House and is a key contributor to the infamous Project 2025, a collection of policy proposals

to transition the United States to Christian nationalist authoritarianism in the first 180 days of Trump’s second term. 

“You bring up the elephant in the room,” McEntee told Knowles, “which is a stain on not only society but the entire dating culture as well, which is pornography. Whenever America bans that, which will be happening at some point, everyone will be much better off.”

The Project 2025 plan specifically lists a ban on pornography stating, “[Pornography] is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned.”

“The minute that goes away, this country will flourish,” McEntee told Knowles.

McEntee was Donald Trump’s former personal aide but was fired from the White House over a gambling debt issue that prevented him access to a security clearance. Trump hired McEntee back in 2020 and made him director of the White House Personnel Office.

In that role, McEntee was instrumental in drawing up the policy proposal for Trump’s immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan right after Biden won the 2020 election in order to throw the early days of Biden’s term into chaos. McEntee’s plan was not implemented, and Biden withdrew troops from Afghanistan in August of 2021.

After leaving the White House, McEntee received seed money from billionaire tech investor, and Trump supporter, Peter Thiel to create a dating app for conservatives called “The Right Stuff.” McEntee subsequently gained a large following on social media promoting the dating app with short videos reciting pithy MAGA talking points while out at restaurants.

In the interview with Knowles, McEntee, now the CEO of a dating app, also said he was “rethinking the 19th Amendment,” which gave women the right to vote, after being shown a TikTok video about feminism. 

Aida Shakarami: Iran morality police arrests dead protester’s sister, mother says

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68849736

Roger and I were talking about the fundamentalist trying desperately to change the US into a theocracy like in Iran or Saudi Arabia.  The way they are demanding their interpretation of a book written over time 2,500 years ago.  They don’t care that the majority wants a democracy and that a large portion of the public including other Christians don’t support their view of what god wants.   They don’t want rights for women, they don’t want rights for the LGBTQ+, they do not want to accept anything that shows the weaknesses of their holy book including medical science.   The article below Roger sent me.   This is what the fundamentlist Christians want to create in the US.  Hugs.  Scottie 

By David Gritten,BBC News
 
Social media Undated photo showing Nika Shakarami (L), who was killed during protests in Iran in September 2022, and her sister Aida Shakarami (R)Social media
Aida Shakarami (R) is the sister of Nika Shakarami (L), who became a symbol of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests
 

The elder sister of Nika Shakarami, a 16-year-old girl who was killed during the 2022 anti-government protests in Iran, has been arrested for allegedly not covering her hair, her family says.

Aida Shakarami, 22, was accused of “not adhering to compulsory hijab” by morality police in Tehran on Wednesday, her mother Nasrin wrote on Instagram.

“She remains in custody,” she added.

The police have not commented, but it comes after they launched a crackdown on breaches of the Islamic dress code.

Tehran’s police chief said on Saturday the new initiative would “confront social taboo-breaking over hijab and chastity and those who seek to expressly contravene hijab rules” – a reference to the many women and girls who have defiantly stopped covering their hair in public.

 

In another development on Thursday, video posted on social media appeared to show a young Iranian woman having a seizure after she was confronted by morality police in Tehran.

An eyewitness told BBC Persian that officers violently confiscated the woman’s mobile phone and purse because she was not wearing a headscarf.

Nika Shakarami became a symbol of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protest movement that shook the Islamic Republic two years ago.

The protests erupted in response to the death in custody on 16 September 2022 of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by morality police in the capital for allegedly wearing her hijab “improperly”.

 

Authorities denied that Mahsa Amini was mistreated, but the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said in a report last month that she “was subjected to physical violence that led to her death”.

On 20 September 2022, Nika was filmed at a protest in Tehran setting fire to her headscarf, while other protesters chanted “death to the dictator” – a reference to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

She disappeared that evening after telling a friend that she was being chased by police. Her family eventually found her body at a mortuary 10 days later.

They alleged that she died from blows to the head and rejected claims from officials that she had killed herself.

Twitter A video posted on social media shows Nika Shakarami burning a headscarf at a protest in Tehran, Iran, on 20 September 2022Twitter
Nika Shakarami disappeared after she was filmed burning a headscarf at a protest in Tehran on 20 September 2022
 

Authorities portrayed the protests as foreign-backed “riots” and tried to suppress them with force.

They have not released an official death toll, but the UN’s fact-finding mission said credible figures suggested that as many as 551 protesters were killed by security forces, most of them by gunfire. The government says 75 security personnel were killed.

More than 20,000 other protesters were reportedly detained, including many journalists and celebrities.

Nine young men have been executed in connection with the protests following what UN investigators found were summary proceedings that relied on confessions extracted under torture and ill-treatment. Dozens more have reportedly been sentenced to death or charged with capital offenses.

The protests have now largely subsided, but there is still widespread discontent at the clerical establishment and, in particular, the hijab laws.

 

In September, Iran’s parliament passed a controversial “Hijab and Chastity” bill that would impose severe punishments on women and girls for violations of the dress code, including up to 10 years in prison and flogging. It must still be approved by the Guardian Council before it becomes law.

The UN’s fact-finding mission said the “violent repression of peaceful protests and pervasive institutional discrimination against women and girls” had led to serious human rights violations that amounted to crimes against humanity.

True Facts: Elephants

Exactly what is needed to be heard and what the republicans are terrified of.

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Texas Woman In Legal Peril For Out-Of-State Abortion

Texas Woman In Legal Peril For Out-Of-State Abortion

A bunch of fundamentalist theocracy states have started having police and even private citizens patrolling to spot pregnant women on roads connected to the border.  They take the information of the car or woman, and check when she comes back if she is still visibly pregnant.  If not, an investigation can be initiated.  Right now this is not getting a lot of publicity and the theocratic states want to keep it that way.  Let the public know that these people see the Handmaids Tale as a how to guide book.   Hugs.  Scottie

May 3, 2024 Politics, Republicans

 

The Washington Post reports:

As soon as Collin Davis found out his ex-partner was planning to travel to Colorado to have an abortion in late February, the Texas man retained a high-powered antiabortion attorney — who court records show immediately issued a legal threat.

Now, Davis has disclosed his former partner’s abortion to a state district court in Texas, asking for the power to investigate what his lawyer characterizes as potentially illegal activity in a state where almost all abortions are banned.

Davis’s petition was filed under Texas’s Rule 202 by Jonathan Mitchell, a prominent antiabortion attorney known for devising new and aggressive legal strategies to crack down on abortion.

Read the full article.

Mitchell appeared here in 2022 for his lawsuit seeking to block insurance coverage for PrEP medications because they “encourage homosexual behavior.”

Also in 2022, Mitchell filed six separate lawsuits seeking to dismantle LGBTQ rights, including the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling.

 

TexasBoy 20 hours ago

Headline should be “Abusive, Controlling Man Upset Woman Doesn’t Want His Baby.”

moisturize me  TexasBoy20 hours ago edited

Aborting my baby
What lovely way of saying how much she hates me
She’s aborting my baby
what a lovely way of showing what she’s thinking of me
I can see it, your face is scowlin’
I can see it in your eyes, I’m happy you hate it🎶

Nic Peterson  TexasBoy20 hours ago

The words devout and christian should be placed between controlling and man. That makes it god’s honest truth.

Lizard  TexasBoy19 hours ago

We overturned the Runaway Slave Act quite a while ago.

(((GC))) – End the filibuster!  Lizard 19 hours ago

And now we’ve become a nation of slave states and free states.

That’s not an exaggeration.

Forcing a person to use her body against her will (even in pregnancy, even to sustain a life) is slavery.

TexasBoy  Lizard19 hours ago

And the GOP is still disgruntled about it.

another_steve 20 hours ago

I don’t know much, but I know this: Any woman who votes Republican in November for any candidate running for any position is out of her fuckin’ mind.

Randy503  another_steve18 hours ago

True. My crazy religious sister is voting R consistently because Jesus and god. She is 100% anti-abortion, and that’s one of the reasons why god chose Trump as president, you see.
She is 65 and “pure”, which means she has never stained herself with sexual relations in her entire life, so getting pregnant isn’t going to happen. Pregnancy is only for nice married women, and if you aren’t a nice married woman, you are a damned whore who gets exactly what she deserves.
Yes, she is out of her mind, which is exactly why she votes republican.

glimsong 20 hours ago

Not to mention it violates the constitution. Texas cannot criminalize behavior in a state where that behavior is legal. It has no jurisdiction in Colorado.

Houndentenor  glimsong20 hours ago

Until SCOTUS says that they do.

Niblet58  Houndentenor20 hours ago

That is exactly why this investigation is being done. To get this case before the SCROTUS and have them rule TX or any other state banning abortions can prosecute their citizens for getting an abortion legally elsewhere.

ASFT  glimsong20 hours ago edited

Their novel characterization, from what I’ve said in other cases, is that the “crime” occurs in Texas when they procure the plane ticket or bus ticket or make plans, etc.

I don’t believe any texas court has signed on to that shit yet – but that’s their argument AFA

Uncle Mark’s Stormy Mood  ASFT 20 hours ago

Missouri tried to do something similar, but in a different context: “That fetus is a Missouri citizen and we are protecting the life of that citizen from being taken outside of the state to be killed.” SMDH

Bluestocking  Uncle Mark’s Stormy Mood 19 hours ago

If they’re going to claim that a fetus counts as a citizen of Missouri, then they logically need to stop issuing birth certificates and start issuing conception certificates. At least historically — especially since a child was not guaranteed to survive birth — a baby was only considered a citizen once it was born.

Claiming that a fetus somehow counts as a citizen poses an additional legal problem in the sense that it potentially opens the door to a pregnant woman potentially being charged with manslaughter for miscarrying even though her miscarriage wouldn’t necessarily have anything to do.with what she did or failed to do.

craigkg  ASFT16 hours ago

Prevailing precedent on the right to interstate travel would, in normal times, make such a notion laughable…but with this SCOTUS, these are not normal times.

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad  glimsong 20 hours ago edited

This!!!

Hey Texas, you know how you discriminated against a trans cheerleader from a blue state that has laws against it? Well that blue state will sue you.

You’re totally cool with it, right?

Posthumously  glimsong18 hours ago

I’m pretty sure the US Supreme Court already gave its blessing to the Texas law.

ASFT  Posthumously16 hours ago

Not this one, as far as I know. You may be thinking of the “bounty” law – but I’m willing to admit if I’m wrong.

Rebecca Gardner 20 hours ago
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Hank: NO MORE WoW!!!  Rebecca Gardner19 hours ago

My version is on a T-shirt, but I like YOUR version better!!!

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Ole Miss Students Taunt Protester With Racist Abuse

Ole Miss Students Taunt Protester With Racist Abuse

If you go to the link as I did, you can see just how over the top old school 1950s / 1960s racist these people are.   I can not understand younger people in this day and age being so stupid as the use the slurs and name calling of fellow humans because of skin color.  Even worse the governor was supportive saying he was proud of the racists.  Republican Governor of Mississippi Tate Reeves also posted on X that the group of counter-protestors “warms my heart.”  Users on X reacted to the video of the students and Governor Tate Reeves’s proclamation of support for the counter-protestors:      This is the world that tRump inspired and help flourish in the US.  Hugs.  Scottie                    

May 3, 2024 Racism, Trump cultists

 

Los Angeles Magazine reports:

A video was posted on X Thursday of a group of counter-protestors at the University of Mississippi — or Ole Miss — shouting and making monkey noises towards a Black woman who was part of a group protesting the war in Gaza.

Another bystander at the university uploaded a video of the students shouting “Lizzo! Lizzo! — in reference to the pop/hip-hop singer — and “f**k you fatass, f**k you bitch” to the same woman.

Republican Governor of Mississippi Tate Reeves posted on X that the group of counter-protestors “warms my heart.” The shocking video earned praise from Republican legislator Rep. Mike Collins, who posted the video and wrote “Ole Miss taking care of business.”

Read the full article.

Ashton Pittman adds on Threads: “Hundreds of frat boys showed up to counter protest a small group of ~50 pro-Palestine protestors on the UM campus, with some frat boys throwing food, drinks and bottles at them. Others waved Trump flags and flipped the protestors off.”

Lazycrockett17 hours ago edited

I am old enough to remember when the republicans were all upset about wearing the American flag cause it was disrespectful

liondon#traitortrash  Lazycrockett15 hours ago

The hand wringing about the children….. while the children are forced to practice active shooter drills.

JoeMyGod Mod17 hours ago
 

coram nobis  JoeMyGod16 hours ago

If that’s from 1962, JFK had to deploy 31,000 troops — federalized National Guard and airborne units — to contain it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Dark Qiviut16 hours ago

Jemele Hill: 1) What fraternity does he represent? That fraternity’s national leadership needs to be contacted immediately and that frat should be barred from campus.

2) We have recently seen endless conversations and action items created about antisemitism, but I’m guessing that same energy won’t be there to protect this open hostility directed at Black students.

Nic Peterson16 hours ago

That protestor has bigger balls than all of us combined. She will go on to do great things, things that require fearlessness

Pizza Rat King17 hours ago

Why do angry men grab their dicks? So primal. Talk about apes.

Elagabalus  Pizza Rat King16 hours ago

Because beneath all the bravura they’re just a bunch of insecure boys checking to make sure their dicks are still there.

Todd20036  Pizza Rat King16 hours ago

Because it’s frowned upon when I grab someone else’s in public

vermont quebec border lizard17 hours ago

Monkey sounds to a black women… the South will always be full of hate and racism. I find it amusing how ‘proud’ the south is of their heritage. Any southerner reading this, never again ask why we think you are so stupid. You just are. And racism is alive and well. Disgusting corner of America.

AyJayDee2  vermont quebec border lizard16 hours ago

There’s racism and bigotry everywhere. The Pacific Northwest, where I grew up, is a hotbed of white supremacist crap. Oregon was even established as a whites-only state, and to this day Portland is the whitest major city in the country. Even Vermont, with it’s reputation for crunchy hippie culture, has antisemites.

vermont quebec border lizard  AyJayDee2 15 hours ago

It’s the concentration of hate and racism bread into the South. It may exist all over, but do not compare the slave states to the north. It’s not even close. Idaho may as well be part of the south, that state is notorious for idiocy.