The MAGA Male Speaks:
The Attack on Divorce is Well Underway:
The Brutal Campaign to Force Women to Have Their Rapist’s Baby Continues:
The Criminalization of Miscarriage is Coming:
The increasing risk of criminal charges for women who experience a miscarriage (PBS)
An Ohio woman faces criminal charges after she had a miscarriage. Brittney Watts was 22 weeks pregnant, and her pregnancy had been deemed non-viable just days earlier, when she miscarried in the bathroom of her home. Two weeks later, she was arrested on charges of felony abuse of a corpse for how she handled the remains…
(Mary Ziegler):
I think Brittany Watts' case is remarkable in a couple of ways. There's a history, as the group Pregnancy Justice has documented, of laws criminalizing the actions of pregnant patients, particularly usually actions that were taken by low-income people, people of color, particularly substance abuse, sometimes of illegal drugs, sometimes of legal drugs like alcohol.
You almost never, or, to my knowledge, never see a prosecution of someone like Brittany Watts. Everyone has conceded that this pregnancy was already nonviable when the actions she took that have led to charges began. So this is, I think, both a continuation of a trend, but also an acceleration of a trend. This is something we haven't seen much before.
The Fight Against Birth Control Is Already Here (Slate)
Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, progressive commentators have worried about whether the right to contraception will be in jeopardy next. Republicans largely dismiss these arguments as political fearmongering: There is no mass movement against contraception equivalent to the anti-abortion movement, they argue, and Republicans in some states have actually pushed expanded access to contraception.
But the concerns about birth control’s fate don’t seem so far-fetched anymore. Last week, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals handed a major victory to Jonathan Mitchell, the former Texas solicitor general who has masterminded many of the key post-Dobbs anti-abortion strategies, in a case on birth control that offers a chilling sign of things to come. As I write with Naomi Cahn and Maxine Eichner in an article forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review, conservatives have used arguments about parental rights to attack actions pertaining to school programs on race, sexuality, and gender identity—and to limit travel for abortion. Now, Mitchell is hoping to use a similar strategy to start undermining access to contraception.
From The Bulwark:
Did a U.S. senator—Alabama’s Britt, one of the coauthors of the suffrage monument op-ed—really impersonate a 1950s housewife in her kitchen at the highest profile moment of her career?
Was an 1873 “chastity law” a serious part of a recent abortion-pill discussion at the U.S. Supreme Court?
Are red-state legislators and jurists really so eager to extend legal “personhood” protections to frozen embryos that they are willing to see IVF effectively outlawed?
Are conditions so dire that women in politics and government—in Arizona, Alabama, Iowa, and beyond—feel compelled to talk about their own experiences with abortions and IVF?
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
Here are the “highlights”:
Assault on Reproductive Rights
Healthcare Hostilities
Widening the Gender Pay Gap
Backwards Sexual Health Education
Economic Policies That Crush Working Women
Defending the Indefensible
The dismissal of credible sexual assault allegations against political allies, including the former president, and the vilification of survivors embody a disturbing tolerance for misogyny and sexual violence, normalizing a culture of disbelief and victim-blaming.
Worsening the Maternal Healthcare Crisis
Child Care and Paid Leave Neglect
Read the whole list. It’s deeply disturbing.
And since scumbag Pro-Putin J. D. Vance is being considered for the Orange Shitgibbon’s VP pick, let’s remember what he has to say about abusive marriages:
JD Vance said people need to be more willing to stay in unhappy marriages for the sake of their kids—and seemed to suggest that in some cases, “even violent” marriages should continue…
“This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace, which is the idea that like, ‘well, OK, these marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term,’” Vance said.
WOMEN OF AMERICA, KEEP RISING UP! MEN WHO ARE ALLIES OF WOMEN, LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD!
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List of AFL-CIO Unions Endorsing President Biden
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And finally, as always: