You might think the most seismic fake conversion of all time was Donald Trump pretending to be a pro-life Christian conservative. (If you sprinkled holy water on him once a fortnight, the resulting chemical reaction could likely provide cheap, renewable energy for a mid-sized American city.) Well, according to a new FX documentary, Trump’s Constantine-like…
Category: Abortion
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 162)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. Justice Sotomayor warned that, thanks in part to Trump's appointees, the Supreme court was…
GOP lawmaker admits he didn't research ectopic pregnancy before writing backwards bill about it
Wait, a Republican legislator talked to a single lobbyist — instead of doctors or scientists — when writing legislation about a complex and emotionally fraught subject? That can’t be. According to the AP, Ohio state Rep. John Becker worked with a conservative anti-choice lobbyist while writing a bill that would allow insurance companies to cover the reimplantation of…
Report: Trump to accelerate his anti-choice push
Late-term abortions are extremely rare and are never used for frivolous reasons. They’re often necessary to save the life of the mother or end a nonviable and/or dangerous pregnancy. This is only common sense, but if you listen to the propaganda of anti-choicers you might think that pregnant women wait until just minutes before delivery to decide,…
Robert Jeffress is Donald Trump’s minister of hate
By now, Americans have grown accustomed to incendiary rhetoric from the raging right. Nevertheless, the past week witnessed some truly explosive eruptions from some of the leading lights of the conservative movement. Last Sunday, Donald Trump warned that his impeachment and removal from office could trigger a second civil war. Three days later, frequent Fox News…
Health clinic closures put women’s lives at risk
What happens when clinics providing healthcare services to women close? Among other things, American women will needlessly die. That’s the horrifying conclusion from a recent study published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology. Designed to gauge the impact of the closures of 100 women’s health clinics nationwide between 2010 and 2013, Dr. Amar Srivastava…
California Passes Bill to Make the Abortion Pill Available at all Public Universities
The California legislature has passed and sent to Gov. Newsom SB24, which will require all public universities in the state to offer the “abortion pill” at their health clinics as part of standard health care: Because abortion by medication techniques is both a recognized treatment for the medical condition of pregnancy and a health service…
Hey! Even Kentuckians Want Abortion To Be Legal! Try Telling That to Matt Bevin.
Planned Parenthood paid fora poll of Kentuckians to find out their views on abortion rights, and I was surprised by the results: Asked whether it’s important for women in Kentucky to have “access to all of the reproductive health care options available, including abortion,” 65% said yes, according to the poll. Also, 65% said they…
The most important issue for Democrats in 2020? The courts
As the 2020 election season heats up, voters’ priorities are coming into sharper focus. As in years past, there is a great divergence in what each party ranks as its top issues. Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center found that Republicans identify terrorism, the economy, Social Security, immigration, and the military as their five greatest…
60 percent of Americans now support abortion rights — highest in nearly 25 years
It’s amazing what staring down the barrel of a Handmaid’s Tale-style dystopia can do. In the wake of some particularly draconian abortion laws recently passed by several mostly Southern states, Americans now strongly support a woman’s right to choose in all or most cases. The Hill: Sixty percent of adults say abortion should be legal in…
CO-Sen: Alice Madden (D) Pushes The Call To Repeal The Hyde Amendment
Received this e-mail today from former Colorado House Majority Leader, Alice Madden’s (D. CO) U.S. Senate campaign: It’s clear: All women should have the right to make their own health care decisions. That’s why I believe it’s time to repeal the divisive Hyde Amendment. By barring federal funds for abortion services, the Hyde Amendment prevents women from…
Republicans peddle grotesque abortion-slavery comparison
In the great and proud history of the United States, no failing, no appalling ideology, no perverse institution—no national tragedy—compares to the American sin of chattel slavery. Codified in the nation’s founding documents in a grotesque mockery of the Declaration’s self-evident truth that “all men are created equal,” the 250-year bondage of black Americans was…
IA-Sen: NowThis & Rose McGowan Team Up For A Brutal Takedown Of Sen. Joni Ernst (R)
Since I’m playing catch up with my election diaries, I wanted to make sure you all had a chance to see this episode of the NowThis series, Who Is?, where Rose McGowan narrates this brutal episode that exposes the real U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R. IA): x YouTube Video By the way, we now have a…
God 'told' FL Rep to follow AL with no exemptions for rape, trafficking, mother's life. But NOT IVF!
The Florida GOP literally refers to pregnant Florida women as “host bodies.” Now, we are expected to get an abortion ban that is in every way as bad as Alabama’s—and may even be worse. Our state is purple (we have more Democrats here than Republicans), and yet our state legislature resembles Alabama or Oklahoma. This is…
Missouri House Minority Leader accurately describes how horrible anti-abortion legislation is
Missouri State Rep. Crystal Quade (D-Springfield), who is the Minority Leader of the Missouri House of Representatives, issued this brutally accurate statement in response to Gov. Mike Parson (R-MO) signing Missouri’s draconian anti-abortion bill into law: x My statement on #HB126 pic.twitter.com/aTsGnSdpIh— Crystal Quade (@crystal_quade) May 24, 2019 What Crystal said is a completely accurate…
CBS poll: An overwhelming majority of Americans favor keeping Roe v. Wade
Just more evidence that we’re ruled by a tyrannical minority who have gerrymandered, suppressed, obstructed, and otherwise cheated their way to their current political hegemony. CBS News: Two-thirds of Americans want Roe v. Wade left in place, and most who hold that view would be disappointed or angry if the ruling were to be overturned…
The anti-abortion movement isn't about abortion.
(Yes, I know I’m still on vacation — the photo is from Mestia, capital of the Svaneti region of the High Caucasus — but once again the news won’t let me be. I originally posted this on Facebook after the Alabama monstrosity was signed into “law” and thought it deserved a hearing here. I’ll check…
Susan Collins on new abortion laws: 'I’m not sure exactly why we're seeing this happen'
“Obtuse” is not a strong enough word for Susan Collins. We need to come up with a more forceful term, like, I don’t know, “fucking obtuse” or “obtuse as shit” or “Jesus Christ, this woman is a fucking idiot.” In a recent interview with WGME-TV in Portland, Maine, Collins, who (in)famously voted to confirm Supreme…
Proof that 'life' was never what this was about…
You may not recall that Brett Kavanaugh was actually an unpopular choice among conservatives when he was announced. They feared he was too wishy-washy. All of that changed when they discovered the sexual misconduct allegations. Overnight, they went from milquetoast support to backing his nomination more fiercely than any that came prior. Why was that? Let’s be…
