Making women shut up

[boston bean]

There are systems in place that take away a womens voice. Preventing them from speaking truths based upon a majority vote. No discussion must be had. A truth must be buried.

Sound familiar. Why are systems like this abided by?

Think about it folks. What do people really stand for? A system in place allowing our history to be re-written. An arbitrary rule. Keeping women in their place. Damn the truth. The history.

To protect what? Certainly not women. It is in place to shut us the hell up.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. I cannot understand

the women who are in favor of this, I just can’t. My own sibling is one of them. I’m sure she is perfectly giddy this morning.

[samplegirl]

3. John Birtch

strikes again.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. Catholic.

[Brainstormy]

7. not even Catholics

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/

[Diamond_Dog]

11. That may be true for some

But there are still Catholics who are going to be giddy over this.

My late cousin used to stand across the street from Womens’ clinics and hold horrible signs while he and his group prayed the rosary in loud voices. This was maybe 5 years ago.

[Scrivener7]

20. Yes. But in my experience of 16 years of Catholic school, they are the

ones who are quickest to get their Catholic daughters or their Catholic selves an abortion for an unwanted pregnancy.

[Rebl2]

28. Yep

Had a catholic friend who in her early twenties (many years ago now) thought she was pregnant and contemplated abortion. Ends up she wasn’t pregnant. As we have gotten older, she is strictly anti-abortion.

[KS Toronado]

26. After reading the pewresearch article........

this country is being run/lead by a minority in so many areas, never by the majority.
Time to kill the filibuster and allow the majority to lead.

[Rebl2]

29. Exactly!

[Scrivener7]

31. NOW.

[Evolve Dammit]

5. Indeed. This will permanently fracture families and friendships. Further division.

[yankeepants]

13. Yup. Mine too. I just wrote a check to PP.

I wanted to put the donation in her name but will wait until next time when I calm down a bit.

[SallyHemmings]

2. What makes it worse

are the women not only giving the boys cover, but in too many cases leading the charge.

[IronLionZion]

6. American Taliban

[Magoo48]

8. Perhaps it's time for a million women and their supporters to encircle the halls of the Gilead

Supreme Court and not leave until things change.

[bdamomma]

24. This will happen we need to mobilize

we will not go back, and they will keep taking rights away from ALL OF US. November's election is going to determine whether we live in free democratic society or GILEAD.

[onetexan]

9. I'm furious!! Abbott & the RW lot in TX are already saying If Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade,

Texas will completely ban abortion: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-abortion-law-roe-wade/269-d011d84e-9995-471d-a741-7c64c2248ba3?ref=exit-recirc



We need to fight like hell and get rid of the filibuster rule to get legislation passed for women's health.

[BlueJac]

10. The Federalist Society hand picks all Supreme court nominees for the Republican party!

[Texin]

12. All I can say to this is that in 2022, we now have DNA testing.

A woman can (and now MUST) save any evidence of a man's DNA in order to establish paternity. And I'm sure most women with collect and preserve evidence following sex (and I hope a girl's mother or guardian will do the same), to prove paternity and make a man or boy's family, as the case may be, able to be brought in a lawsuit to establish paternity and financial responsibility for their spawn.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. That ruling is a Hate Crime against women

Alito don't know jack about women's bodies or minds.

[2naSalit]

15. But they don't care.

Serfdom is what they want.

[Rebl2]

30. Wonder

how many republican men (I am including politicians) have paid to have their girlfriends or mistresses get an abortion?

[MontanaMama]

33. These people have no problem

with hypocrisy.

[Rebl2]

34. So very true

[niyad]

18. Exactly.

[Ford_Prefect]

19. Did we fight a 20 year war against this kind of religious absolutism in Afghanistan?

The opinion is clearly based neither in science nor in law.

The next target will probably be access to birth control, for anyone.

[meow2u3]

21. Abortion bans amount to reproductive coercion, a crime against humanity, per the UN

I'm personally opposed to abortion, but I also oppose abortion bans and criminalization. I also believe the best way to reduce abortions is to make it unnecessary by strengthing the safety net, including prenatal care for poor women, health care, and public assistance for at least until the child is 2 years old, so the mom can get on her feet and not be a slave to destitution and shame.

The way Republicans go about ending abortion is literally a crime against humanity, i.e., state-mandated reproductive coercion and/or state-sponsored violence against women.

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/crimes-against-humanity.shtml

Definition
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Article 7
Crimes Against Humanity

For the purpose of this Statute, ‘crime against humanity’ means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
Murder;
Extermination;
Enslavement;
Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
Torture;
Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;*
Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
Enforced disappearance of persons;
The crime of apartheid;
Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
For the purpose of paragraph 1:
‘Attack directed against any civilian population’ means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack;

* bold type is mine.

[XacerbatedDem]

35. Geez, sounds like we're about to become a third world nation.

How hypocritical of us to expect the rest of the world to follow humane treatment toward women, when we can't even do that ourselves. If there is any justice in the world, then we should be called out for it.

[bdamomma]

22. not only

making women silent, but all of us, voter suppression is being practiced now in certain states. It's in our faces right now. November is going to very critical for all of us who believe in the rule of law.

This is pure fascism we are seeing. Plus misinformation and disinformation is being drilled into peoples' heads daily.

[msfiddlestix]

23. I'm an old lady fighting this bullshit for over 50 years.. these days, I want certain women to STFU

The list keeps growing.

MTG and her side kick

Marsha Blackburn

Susan Collins

All those stupid TRump humpers with tshirts printed arrow to her pelvis saying "he can grab my pussy"

Women on Fox --Laura Ingrahm et all

Ann Coulter

Oh hell, must I go on?

[SergeStorms]

25. Their fall-back position.....

is always their gawd. Abortion rights - along with humane euthanasia rights - are to make sure no one takes a life but their gawd.

It's the only reason evangelical christians held their noses and pretended Donald Trump was a pious man.

Is this the only reason they want to overturn Roe v Wade? Of course not. The patriarchal republican party would love to put the "little ladies" back in their place, which they believe is in the home, baking bread, tending their "quiver full" of white christian children, and being subservient to men.

Christianity teaches that women are the " lesser vessel" though, and should always defer to their husbands in any decision making regarding the family.

Republicans want a return to what they ridiculously view as the halcyon days of post-WWII United States. Ozzie and Harriet. Leave it to Beaver. The Honeymooners. An imagined homogenous era where everyone was the same, and god, mom, and apple pie was the order of the day.

They also want a return to an America where minorities knew their place, and were only "tolerated" to serve the white man. This included the occasional sexual advances (rape) of minority women when "the misses had her flow" and the man's sexual desires could never be denied.

Their actions now cover up so many of white men's failings and small mindedness, but make no mistake, this is completely about men's (and their patriarchal gawd's) control of women of every color.

I'm ashamed to be a white man, and for what it's worth I humbly apologize to every woman of every color for the white man's failings. 😔

[BadgerMom]

27. Many, many points are making me steam today.

Some of those are things we could do something about if we had the same will the Republicans-a minority party!-has in abundance.

Make DC a state

Create a means to impose the will of the majority. Then expand the SC and pass the ERA.

I’m sick to death of reading that ooh! we’re bound to lose in November. We can’t do this. We can’t do that. McConnell blocked an SC nominee! We can accomplish things if we stop acting as though everything works as it did in the 80s, as if the GOP were honorable opponents who just have a different view of how to help Americans. They are terrorists. Start treating them and their mouthpieces that way.

[malthaussen]

32. One wonders why there is Critical Race Theory...

... but no Critical Gender Theory. It is quite obvious to anyone who looks even briefly at the matter that the same sort of institutional discrimination applied to non-white races has been applied to women.

I hope Ron De Santis doesn't figure this out, or he'll propose a "don't say woman" law.

-- Mal

[LizBeth]

36. Yes. Protect the man. Women, sit down and shut up and if pissed? Ah well. Still shut up.

Or be deleted.