"Keep her legs closed!": Republicans are mad one of them said the quiet part out loud
"Keep her legs closed!": Republicans are mad one of them said the quiet part out loud
Republicans definitely want to punish women for having sex but they don't want voters to figure that out
By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 16, 2023 6:00AM (EDT)
(Salon) With just over a year to go until the 2024 elections, Republicans are beginning to realize that the abortion issue won't just go away. The GOP has faced a political quandary ever since Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, opened the door to abortion bans, which red states started to enact immediately. On one hand, abortion bans are wildly unpopular, and have only gotten more so as we hear horror stories about women being seriously injured or forced to carry dying babies to term. On the other hand, Republicans don't want to just give up on their long-standing dream of using forced childbirth to punish women for having sex.
To square this impossible circle, Republicans have relied on their favorite strategy: Relentless dishonesty. Lots of pseudo-compassionate noises about women's pain, while insisting that their sadistic impulses are "pro-life." They pretend to support hypothetical exceptions to abortion bans, which for the most part do not apply in actual reality. They make weak attempts to rebrand their agenda as "pro-baby." They feign support for contraception access while supporting organizations that actively work to demolish viable birth control.
That is, most Republicans most of the time are on board with the lying-through-our-teeth strategy. But not all! Meet New Jersey state Sen. Edward Durr, a truck driver-turned-politician who has a habit of saying the quiet parts out loud.
"A woman does have a choice! Keep her legs closed," Durr wrote in a 2020 Facebook post, in which he also called a pro-choice woman an "idiot." He also "liked" a post that called for "spaying women like dogs."
....(snip)....
Durr's viewpoint may not be uttered in public very often, but it's at the foundation of the entire anti-abortion movement. Former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell admitted as much about his state's abortion ban, which he played a major role in writing. In a 2021 Supreme Court brief defending that law, Mitchell wrote, "Women can 'control their reproductive lives' without access to abortion; they can do so by refraining from sexual intercourse." He condemned pro-choice court decisions for accepting the view that "women (and men) should have the right to freely engage to sexual intercourse." ..............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2023/10/16/keep-her-legs-closed-angry-that-one-of-them-said-the-quiet-part-out-loud/
claudette
(3,567 posts)who comes between those legs has no responsibility to prevent pregnancy. Just another female-hating magat.
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)because they are MISOGYNISTS
soldierant
(6,874 posts).he probably has no experience, or no imagination, or both.
JoseBalow
(2,365 posts)Mr. Mustard 2023
(110 posts)using your same excellent argument.
This needs to be asked to every fake "Christian" and pro birth person:
"What punishment should be done to the man?"
Then don't let up as they whine and lie, avoid the question.
Timeflyer
(1,993 posts)Infuriating, exhausting, never ending struggle for female bodily autonomy.
Diamond_Dog
(31,999 posts)Chainfire
(17,538 posts)Do Republicans even know how babies are made?
JoseBalow
(2,365 posts)The last kid is a young Tucker Carlson
niyad
(113,306 posts)duhneece
(4,112 posts)niyad
(113,306 posts)And how are things down your way, my dear friend?
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)niyad
(113,306 posts)Wednesdays
(17,374 posts)Just so long as the job gets done completely.
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)PatrickforB
(14,574 posts)How do these hate-nuts get elected?
Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)And for this guy in particular, make it painful...
Owl
(3,642 posts)Whatthe_Firetruck
(557 posts)B-movie unserious sci-fi.
Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)Whatthe_Firetruck
(557 posts)Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)Marcuse
(7,482 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)like a steer
Would definitely be a way to stop his bullshit
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)czarjak
(11,277 posts)If rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.
Irish_Dem
(47,058 posts)All women should close their legs to men. Until they wake the hell up and start doing the right thing.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)A comment like that should make anyone in his path close her legs, to HIM!
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)They could try having sex with men. Same sex couples are the least likely to ever have abortions.
getagrip_already
(14,750 posts)Is republicans don't want children in schools learning liberal teachings and they dont want them in liberal homes.
They want babies, but they want dumb, conservatively groomed babies.
If they can't steal them outright, they are fine strilizing woman. It won't be long before there is a permanent one and done shot that will prevent pregnancies (it is just being tested for pets), and you can be sure they will be lining woman up to get the jab. At every immigration detention center, at every protest rally detention center - everywhere unpopular voices are heard.
Before anyone juries me for conspiracy theories, lest I remind you that forced sterilizations have actually happened in ins detention centers and phychiatric hospitals? And those were much more obvious surgical procedures.
LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)mostly they are religious morons who think they are doing God's work in preventing abortion
niyad
(113,306 posts)and hating women.
LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)are doing God's work-- or that is how they rationalize things
Marcuse
(7,482 posts)Still, it took some time for opposition to abortion to take hold among evangelicals. According to Frank Schaeffer who produced a series of anti-abortion films called Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, featuring his father, Francis Schaeffer, and C Everett Koop, who later became Ronald Reagans surgeon general the evangelical response was at best tepid when the films appeared early in 1979.
And when Reagan addressed 20,000 cheering evangelicals in August 1980, he mentioned his support for creationism and criticized the IRS for its supposed vendetta against evangelical schools. He said nothing whatsoever about abortion. Only in the early 1980s did opposition to abortion finally become an evangelical battle cry.
The beauty of the religious rights embrace of abortion as a political issue is that it allowed leaders to camouflage the real origins of their movement: the defense of racial segregation in evangelical institutions.
[link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/08/abortion-us-religious-right-racial-segregation|
LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)"God's orders"
Hekate
(90,686 posts)ShazzieB
(16,399 posts)Plenty of them would like to go after that next, and the current SCOTUS would probably let them get away with it.
Anti-Abortion Groups Are Coming for Birth ControlJust as Reproductive Rights Activists Warned
https://msmagazine.com/2023/08/17/anti-abortion-pro-life-over-the-counter-birth-control-women/
dchill
(38,493 posts)...to know how stupid their representatives are. That's gonna take a whole lotta dumbing. They're obviously past the testing phase.
LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)2naSalit
(86,612 posts)Women are supposed to be like dogs, obedient and unquestioning, eager to please. Those fuckers don't want women to choose to have OR enjoy sex, that's only for the menfolk who seem to have a penchant for forcing themselves on women and children by raping them.
Part of this is to return the world to a place where men could have their way with women and children with no recourse. And whether or not to have sex is entirely up to them, the sperm receptacles have no choice in the matter, that's how they like it. Total control over others. Only those with penises can have choice and freedoms regarding sex and reproduction.
That's where this is headed, folks. If you don't believe it, you will find that it will be one of the ugliest fafo events you've ever seen.
EYESORE 9001
(25,938 posts)Them sluts need to be taught a lesson
SouthBayDem
(32,025 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,988 posts)for an abortion after her tests showed a severely deformed fetus that would not survive birth. Even though her health was endangered, she could not get an abortion in Tennessee, so now shes running for election to the state legislature against a Republican (Burkhart) who had no opposition in the last election. She decided to run after Burkhart told her that he thought pregnancy complications only occurred with first pregnancies. That ignorant Republicans are allowed to make medical decisions for women is a travesty. I hope more women run for elections and get these troglodytes out of office.
Burkhart also appeared to believe that pregnancy complications, such as miscarriages, didnt happen to women who had already had children. He was like, Well, I mean, Im just a guy, but I had always watched and heard that the bad things only happened in the first pregnancy. Im like, What? Who told you that?, Phillips recounted.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/16/tennessee-abortion-ban-lawsuit-allie-phillips-representative
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)aren't they (Durr) worried about the birth rate going down?
And (Mitchell), what about women who are raped?
ShazzieB
(16,399 posts)They want to ban birth control next.
Anti-Abortion Groups Are Coming for Birth ControlJust as Reproductive Rights Activists Warned
https://msmagazine.com/2023/08/17/anti-abortion-pro-life-over-the-counter-birth-control-women/
hadEnuf
(2,190 posts)how these complete assholes who came out from under rocks get elected in the first place?
Then again, the Republicans are always accusing Democrats of rigging elections, so it goes to say that's how this MAGAT got in.
azureblue
(2,146 posts)they are such FINE Christian men...
Oh, Bullshit.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)if those who make these derogatory remarks towards women hated their own mothers. How did they treat their own mothers????
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)Blaming the woman is the GOP mantra.
Women who continue to make it a habit to vote AGAINST their better Economic and Social interests, are voting to GIVE up CONTROL over their bodies and destinies. THEY are a big part as to why Republicans keep winning.
The focus for Democrats is to alter the thinking of Republican women.
TygrBright
(20,760 posts)Deb
(3,742 posts)Women haters used to say that before birth control pills were readily available. Old things die, let's speed up the process and bury that shit with votes.
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)What about the men? They play no role?
Aristus
(66,369 posts)that a woman holds between her knees.
Every right-wing fucknozzle in the country gleefully repeated that for months. I mean, we know these howler monkeys are incapable of thinking for themselves, but do they have to be so fucking obvious about it?
OMGWTF
(3,955 posts)Maybe all men should be forced to have a vasectomy when they turn 18, and reverse it when theyre ready to be a responsible parent.
I fking loathe Republicans.
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)ShazzieB
(16,399 posts)Fortunately, his political career went down in flames after he said that.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Akin
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)azureblue
(2,146 posts)One religion imposing its crap on everybody else. All the GOP does is try to dodge that basic fact.
badhair77
(4,218 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,170 posts)Unless they are raped and then they should enjoy it and birth their abuser's fetus.
There is absolutely no scientific, valid evidence that abortion is wrong, bad or more dangerous than birth. It's all based on a magical, mystery, imaginary god. Christian values forced on every American by a paid off supreme court.
Martin68
(22,801 posts)Bayard
(22,073 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,928 posts)And how many got pregnant and wasn't held responsible?
DENVERPOPS
(8,820 posts)A perfect Stepford Wife or Hand Maiden..........
And the spawn of those two, BREED EVEN MORE of the same ilk........
I am saddened to see that most of the MAGGATS I see are so stupid/ignorant to even begin to see that their hero(s) are out to dominate/control/obliterate them as well as all of us.........They don't have a glimmer that they have been "trained" how to think, and don't recognize that it is as if they have been, quite literally, "programmed", and that they are least "FREE" people on the planet......
Rush Limbaugh was a pro at the programming of this sheep. He would start out his daily program telling his audience about something that had happened politically the day before. His next words would be: "Okay, let me tell you how you should think about that"........
Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)Because you can't get an abortion if you are not pregnant. Start asking these GQPer why they aren't really trying to stop abortion? After all the woman can just fly to another state or country.
If you are pro-life you should be stopping pregnancy before it happens. Otherwise it looks like you just want to have control over women.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)And she ends of pregnant ? Is it her fault?
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)raising2moredems
(638 posts)With verbiage that this includes christian marriages. Every person who can bear a child should require their partner to fill in a mail in ballot in front of them. Sign it and they take it to the mailbox. And to think durr found someone with whom to pro-create. Ugh.