GOP Sen. Tim Scott claims that if Republicans don't win back the Senate in November, Democrats will "grant abortions up to 52 weeks, and Republicans will never win again." https://t.co/r73TTrDEiL via @HuffPostPol
— Suburban Guerrilla đź’™ (@SusieMadrak) August 8, 2022
Category: Full Frontal Feminism
The life of the mother
I’ll just mention here that Annie Lowrey is one of my favorite journalists, not least because she actually covers poverty issues — and she does it thoughtfully. This piece about her own pregnancies is a tour de force and you should read it. No matter what you think you already know, this adds endless layers to your knowledge.
On the podcast, I've talked around this experience, and how it changed the way I see pregnancy and reproductive choice. But I've tried not to say too much, because it was @annielowrey's story to tell.
Now she's told it, at least some of it. https://t.co/y7NQUJIK3M
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) August 1, 2022
Election night
Kansas. Yes, these midterms are going to kick ass:
PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS: Voters in Kansas have rejected an amendment to the state’s constitution that would have removed the right to an abortion. Turnout has been described as “monumental” for a primary. ABC’s Ike Ejiochi has more. pic.twitter.com/aZUhCI0mNP
— ABC World News Now (@abcWNN) August 3, 2022
In Kansas, a resounding vote in favor of protecting abortion rights will be closely parsed nationally.https://t.co/KiLuPumOZN
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) August 3, 2022
We’re not outnumbered, they are
Incoming medical students walk out at University of Michigan’s white coat ceremony as the keynote speaker is openly anti-abortion pic.twitter.com/Is7KmVV811
— Scorpiio (@Bscorpiio) July 24, 2022
Sex is for politicians who cheat on their wives, not you peons
Holy shit, they totally do. #SexControl https://t.co/NP7x0KYuuZ
— George Hahn (@georgehahn) July 21, 2022
This happens all the time
oh my god. woman's long-time stalker is banging on her door, screaming, then breaks in. neighbors call the police 6+ times, say "he's going to kill her." cops don't show up for hours, then leave without going inside. 12 hours later she's dead. https://t.co/tMnLxoSr19
— josie duffy rice (@jduffyrice) July 19, 2022
Oh darn!
It doesn’t matter what they “cede.” What matters is what Clarence Thomas said in his opinion.
We got a copy of a memo from SBA Pro-Life America sent to GOP lawmakers last week with a plea not to cede abortion rights to the states. They want Rs to rally around one piece of federal legislation and stop introducing competing & extreme bills @axios https://t.co/w2LzVFanPn
— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) July 17, 2022
Let them try
5 weeks. Republicans are talking about banning abortion nationally after just 5 weeks of pregnancy. pic.twitter.com/QfuHJ3br4o
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 14, 2022
We will wrap it around their necks in the midterms.
“Pro life agenda”
BREAKING: 20 major corporations have donated and RSVP’d to the Republican Attorney General Association's luxurious 5-star resort retreat this weekend.
They’re contributing up to $250,000 to “help combat the Democrats’ pro-abortion agenda.”https://t.co/BlQ0gQapI3
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) July 14, 2022
Ripples
My father always approvingly quoted my grandmother as saying, “I’d rather have another one on my knee than on my conscience.” But they had 13 kids, and after my grandfather died, desperately poor. (My father used to steal coal from the coal trains to heat their house.) So maybe not such a great philosophy.
John Turturro on his mother’s tragic life after her own mother died trying to prevent the arrival of a seventh child she could not feed. A loss that rippled through generations.
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) July 9, 2022