Great article with clear facts, I also read Jessica Valenti's "abortion every day" who covers all the foolery, to expose the game plan behind it all, as you did here. Arkansas also tried to get a referendum, but the Republican leaders, used a technicality claiming problems with the signatures (which were more than adequate) they have gone so far as to tell people it was to steal your identity, if you signed the abortion rights petition. They also have posed as officials and called and bullied people to remove their signatures, so delaying until the deadline was their only course and it worked.
Florida, my state, the only other state to fail in passing a ban turn-over only failed because the Gov. took out ads against the abortion, and recreational marijuana propositions, funneled through his wife's "Hope" charity (stolen from tax-payer money) and after we voted to re-enfranchise felons voting rights, after they got released, they raised the voting threshold to 60% to pass. We said yes by 57%.
The anti abortion movement was born out of evangelical fanaticism appealing to the fantasy of motherhood instead of the realities and about sexual mores in flux. It has always been an abolition movement. They will not stop.
Very well put: "The goal was to make reproductive autonomy unstable. To make abortion access geographically fragmented, medically precarious, legally confusing, and politically reversible."
This is the current strategy of all anti-feminist backlash actions, I feel. To hide their direct agenda behind more or less transparent smoke and mirrors and just exhaust us.
And I love that you used the quote from Handmaid's tale - don't let the bastards grind you down. :)
I was so pissed off by the Missouri legislature’s reaction to many ballot initiatives - they have done their best to avoid implementation and agreed to try to make new initiatives that are confusing enough to hopefully trick voters into surrendering rights they voted for.
Lila Rose (founder of anti-abortion org Live Action) let slip the play a few years ago - just keep changing the language, eventually you'll get people voting the way you want them to.
Which is why we have to keep litigating the same issues over and over.
Yesterday, I was talking to a mom who is working at the local art store. Her little one is two. She’s just recently returned to work. Daycare cost: $95/day. She said she’s lucky; the average daycare cost is $120/day. Who can afford to have kids?
Great article with clear facts, I also read Jessica Valenti's "abortion every day" who covers all the foolery, to expose the game plan behind it all, as you did here. Arkansas also tried to get a referendum, but the Republican leaders, used a technicality claiming problems with the signatures (which were more than adequate) they have gone so far as to tell people it was to steal your identity, if you signed the abortion rights petition. They also have posed as officials and called and bullied people to remove their signatures, so delaying until the deadline was their only course and it worked.
Florida, my state, the only other state to fail in passing a ban turn-over only failed because the Gov. took out ads against the abortion, and recreational marijuana propositions, funneled through his wife's "Hope" charity (stolen from tax-payer money) and after we voted to re-enfranchise felons voting rights, after they got released, they raised the voting threshold to 60% to pass. We said yes by 57%.
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/05/florida-election-results-abortion-amendment/75992929007/
I love Jessica Valenti!
The anti abortion movement was born out of evangelical fanaticism appealing to the fantasy of motherhood instead of the realities and about sexual mores in flux. It has always been an abolition movement. They will not stop.
Very well put: "The goal was to make reproductive autonomy unstable. To make abortion access geographically fragmented, medically precarious, legally confusing, and politically reversible."
This is the current strategy of all anti-feminist backlash actions, I feel. To hide their direct agenda behind more or less transparent smoke and mirrors and just exhaust us.
And I love that you used the quote from Handmaid's tale - don't let the bastards grind you down. :)
I was so pissed off by the Missouri legislature’s reaction to many ballot initiatives - they have done their best to avoid implementation and agreed to try to make new initiatives that are confusing enough to hopefully trick voters into surrendering rights they voted for.
Lila Rose (founder of anti-abortion org Live Action) let slip the play a few years ago - just keep changing the language, eventually you'll get people voting the way you want them to.
Which is why we have to keep litigating the same issues over and over.
I love you omg!!! Keep posting please, you really make my brain switch on in the mornings 💗
Yesterday, I was talking to a mom who is working at the local art store. Her little one is two. She’s just recently returned to work. Daycare cost: $95/day. She said she’s lucky; the average daycare cost is $120/day. Who can afford to have kids?