Florida Republicans are going after contraceptives

[Nevilledog]

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Timothy Burke
@bubbaprog
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Feb 21, 2022
In case you aren't following along, Florida Republicans — having pushed through a ban on rape & incest victims getting abortions — are now coming after birth control:


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Rep. Anna V. Eskamani 🔨
@AnnaForFlorida
OMG now anti-abortion extremists are saying that access to birth control does not reduce abortion rates?!! What twilight zone are we living in!!!?!!?

Timothy Burke
@bubbaprog
And yes, the guy speaking here is the former assistant attorney general of Michigan, who was fired after it was discovered he was running a homophobic blog dedicated solely to attacking a gay University of Michigan student:
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12:12 PM · Feb 21, 2022

[vlyons]

1. I have suspected for a while that they would go after birth control

Because in their view, a woman's purpose in life is to birth babies and wait on men.

What's next? outlaw all positions except missionary? Clitorectomy?

Yikes!!!

[crickets]

6. Going after birth control was always part of the long term plan.

I'm hoping this is the overreach that causes the backlash this nonsense deserves. Women will not go back to the "barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen" days ever again.

[ananda]

2. They'll go as far as passive people let them....

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. WHAT Medical School did this asshole attend?

How fucking ridiculous. IGNORANCE is strong in this one.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. Kicked for visibility

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Texas Abortion Ban Architect Now Looking To Recriminalize Gay Sex And Overturn Gay Marriage

This is the asshole who drafted the Texas abortion law. This asshole wants to strike down the implied right of privacy by getting Roe overruled which would/could lead to striking down the right to same sex marriage and other rights

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https://www.comicsands.com/jonathan-mitchell-overturn-gay-marriage-2655065691.html

Though Mitchell's brief, also signed by his co-counsel Adam Mortara, dedicates much of its time to the Texas abortion law's defense, it also questions "lawless" pieces of legislation, namely the Lawrence v. Texas ruling, which decriminalized gay sex nationwide, and the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which legalized same-sex marriage.

Though the brief does not say reversing Roe v. Wade would threaten the same-sex marriage ruling, it does say that

""the news is not as good for those who hope to preserve the court-invented rights to homosexual behavior and same-sex marriage …
"These 'rights,' like the right to abortion from Roe, are judicial concoctions, and there is no other source of law that can be invoked to salvage their existence."

It goes on to add that while the Supreme Court should not necessarily overturn Lawrence and Obergefell, it should consider these two rulings as "lawless" as Roe v. Wade and, by extension, Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

"This is not to say that the Court should announce the overruling of Lawrence and Obergefell if it decides to overrule Roe and Casey in this case."
"But neither should the Court hesitate to write an opinion that leaves those decisions hanging by a thread. Lawrence and Obergefell, while far less hazardous to human life, are as lawless as Roe."

The brief drew the attention of Melissa Murray, who teaches at New York University's School of Law.

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[Midnight Writer]

7. I predicted this to one of my RW friends and he told me I was full of shit.

I also told him they would go after Social Security, starting with Social Security Disability, and also Medicare and Medicaid.

He didn't believe that, either.

[kskiska]

8. Try THAT in Florida,

especially in The Villages area where a good portion of the retirees live.