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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJessica Valenti - Say What They Are: Don't let anti-choice groups pretend to care about women
https://jessica.substack.com/p/say-what-they-areThe Supreme Court heard arguments today in the most important abortion case since DobbsFDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine will determine whether or not abortion medication is severely restricted across the country.
The case has nuances galore, from judge-shopping and dubious studies, to the resurrection of the Comstock Act. But as I listened to anti-abortion attorney Erin Hawley claim that mifepristone hurts women and that doctors suffer moral harm as a result of the drug, there was one thought that kept running through my mind: When are we going to drop the act?
We all know that these people are full of shit. Their science is nonsense, their arguments are bad-faith, and the only things powering this case are religious extremism, misogyny, and a whole lot of money. Yet American politics and media continue to treat anti-abortion groups seriouslycan we stop the absurdity already?
Obviously, the graveness of the case requires thorough and serious coverage and conversation. Conservatives are using the legal attack on mifepristone to do more than restrict abortion medication; the goal is to enact a backdoor ban on all abortion, nationwide, and to pave the way for a ban on birth control, too.
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Jessica Valenti - Say What They Are: Don't let anti-choice groups pretend to care about women (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 26
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Oligarchs cynically use extreme religion to impose a white male supremacy plutocracy.
Hermit-The-Prog
Mar 27
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Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)1. K&R
lindysalsagal
(20,686 posts)2. They don't care about life, either. Food? Daycare? Education? Housing?
These same people love gunz, a huge needless cause of optional death. They also don't want vaccines or limits to public schools when children are sick.
This is only false-morality trying to put half if the population into 2nd-class status.
TSExile
(2,446 posts)4. Yup, it's all about controlling and punishing women and girls.
Those horrible men have been blaming us for everything since Eve.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)5. Oligarchs cynically use extreme religion to impose a white male supremacy plutocracy.