24-the pregnant woman “owes” the state her progeny because they will be taxpayers someday-WTAF

The truth comes with a complaint in TX before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Court (of course). This is yet another attack on mifepristone by mail. Reminder, of the varying bans that politicians and states have placed on women’s bodies and their access to healthcare. Okay, it is really the abortion bans that have been ramrodded through state legislatures. And 63% of all abortions in the US are self-administered through medication such as mifepristone and misoprostol. Even before the Dobbs decision, the rule from the FDA allowed these medications to be distributed by mail.

Some people don’t appreciate that and they are throwing anything and everything at the rule and the FDA to stop it.

We have been living this for 2 years. They utilized much of the same constant approaches against Roe v Wade and we all know that sometimes shit sticks.

This last filing is a doozy and apparently pregnant teenagers are the “property of the state”. This is from the state of Texas. And the state of Missouri, as a second complainant, thinks it is the duty of a pregnant woman in Missouri to have the baby. You know, to make more taxpayers.

As I’ve been writing about it is about money and control.

But from the complaint itself being able to obtain abortion drugs “has caused abortions for women in the Plaintiff Stats and decreased births in Plaintiff States. This is a sovereign injury to the state itself… a loss of potential population causes further injuries as well: the States’ subsequent “diminishment of political representation” and “loss of federal funds” such as potentially “losing a seat in Congress or qualifying for less federal funding if their populations are” reduced or their increase diminished.”

What the actual fuck!

They’ve tipped their hand.

This is it; the entire reason for this bullshit. For the stripping of bodily rights from the women.

Men see women as nothing more than possessions. This includes the output of our uteruses. To their mind, they OWN us and any output our uteri might supply. And how dare we have a sense of our own and thoughts and aspirations of our own! To think that we are people.

After all, the ENTIRE reason for being a woman is to make a man’s job/life easier.

Or, so they think.

I saw this mentioned in an Esquire article and confirmed it with a CNN article and I am appalled. And disgusted. And unsurprised

Everyone needs to know about this.

Women need to know about this.

As a reminder, Missouri has a state constitutional amendment about the Right to Reproductive Freedom on the ballot in 15 days.

Just saying.

Tuesday top of mind 6/24/24- TWO years post Roe

Two years have passed since the fall of Roe v Wade.

Well, this isn’t a dispatch I ever thought I’d write. And I wouldn’t be writing it now if some people, cough, cough, hadn’t lied at their job interview to the Senate.

Am I still mad as hell?

You bet your sweet bottom dollar that I am.

However, this isn’t about me.

It is about the women who are raped and no longer have access to safe reproductive care, including abortions, and have to now carry their rapist’s child to term.

It is about the doomed children who are not meant to live in this world but the safest exit is not allowed anymore.

It is about the women who are carrying the doomed children who can no longer access safe reproductive care and risk their fertility and their lives waiting for some government asshole to decide that they can have the care they desperately need. And be denied by the hospital administration who are scared of their own shadow and the lawsuits that will happen if word got out that an abortion was allowed on a dead clump of cells.

It is about the same-sex couples who can see the writing on the wall and know that their number is coming up next in this unholy war against progress.

It is about the girls who are watching this play out and knowing that they have less freedom than their mothers did at their age.

It is about the increase in infant deaths in some of these states (cough, cough, Texas) where there is no “miracle” at birth. These infants know only pain in their short lives.

It is about the whole-cloth womb slavery of all women from puberty to menopause.

It is about the women who have been told they no longer are in control of their bodily autonomy.

It is about the old white men deciding that THEY know better what I as a woman need and can do with my body.

It is about the taxpayers that are being “killed” during abortions before they can add to others’ profits.

It is about and has always been about, control.

It is about control of women.

Because if it was about control of everyone, men would have to be sterilized when they hit puberty. Or lock up the penis up in a fancy cage until they are deemed old enough to use it.

Tuesday Top of Mind 1/23/24-light a candle for Roe

Yesterday marked 51 years since Roe versus Wade. The ruling protected a woman’s constitutional right to choose their own path, including the right to choose an abortion.

Well, thought men everywhere, we’ll see about that.

After all, if a woman as the right to her own body just think of what else she will decide to have the rights for.

She may decide that she has the right to end a terrible marriage. Not terrible because of abuse, or because of infidelity, but because they just don’t suit after all. There has been a rumbling, deep in the men’s groups, about the downfall of society was the no-fault divorce. This means that the woman (or man) can just decide that they don’t want to be married anymore.

Gasp, the audacity!

Yes, this is heavy on the sarcasm. The no-fault divorce will be the focus soon enough. And is what will be the focus of some groups next as I’ve heard the rumblings.

However, the Roe v Wade decision guaranteed a woman’s privacy in health care matters, including abortion.

Apparently we women don’t know our own mind.

But we do; and that scares people to death.

As I’ve written before, it is not about the child. If it was there would be affordable daycare, rent, healthcare. You know, the things that are required to raise the infant to adulthood. Where they can be a tax paying entity.

Money and power and control.

I’ve written about it many times because it is heavy on the mind. Especially 51 years after Roe v Wade was decided by the Supreme Court 7-2.

The Dobbs decision was June 24, 2022. Notwithstanding the outright lies to get three of the justices on the court during their confirmation hearings, this kicked back the decision to the states.

According to the Guttmacher Institute and their work on reproductive health, the state laws run the gamut of total ban, without exclusions for rape or incest or health of woman, to 6 weeks (the so-called heartbeat bills), 8 weeks after last menstrual period (essentially a 6 week ban), 12 weeks (end of first trimester, and also before the anatomy scans for sex of the baby are even done), 15 weeks after last menstrual period (essentially a 12 week ban), viability (which is nebulous and being pushed by medical science all the time), 24 weeks after last menstrual period, and one 3rd trimester. A couple of states don’t have any abortion ban laws at all. Confusing, right?

Raise a glass to the Roe v Wade decision, light a candle, not matter what you feel you have to do to mourn the rights that were stripped from ALL women in this country in June 2022.

Because some men said so. Okay, there was a woman too.

How dare they?

Taking away the power and the control and the patriarchical overtones, it is, and always has been, about cold hard cash. Taxes, I mean. The taxes that the baby could have paid as an adult. Or, in some states, as child laborers.

Not to mention to torturing of unborn babies who are incompatible with life, or the women who die because their state said no. Even though the pregnancy is killing them.

Mourn them too.

Then put the steel in your spine and fight to get our rights back.