Vance was one of only eight GOP senators to sign onto support of menstrual surveillance by LE agencies

[Dennis Donovan]

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Democratic Coalition
FACT: JD Vance was one of only eight Republican senators to sign onto a letter in support of menstrual surveillance by state law enforcement agencies.

The other 20 signatories are members of the House and a quick review of the names shows they are mostly hardcore Freedom Caucus wackos.

But think about it: Even in the House GOP caucus, they could only get 20 people to sign this thing.

That’s how extreme it is.

But JD Vance signed.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/4fxgvP0

#GOPWarOnWomen

JD Vance, Menstrual Surveillance Hawk

This spring, HHS finalized new regulations under HIPAA to limit law enforcement access to medical records tied to reproductive health. The rule was first proposed in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision as a way to limit the ability of state and local law enforcement agencies to access medical records to stymie or criminalize access to legal reproductive health services, most specifically abortions, but not only abortions. It also applies to contraception and the full range of other endangered reproductive care.

So for instance, consider the ability of a woman from an abortion-ban state to travel to another state to get a legal abortion, or her ability to receive legal abortion drugs through the mail. The news has been filled with proposed or actual laws which would attempt to restrict travel to receive abortions in other states, charge those who travel or criminalize those who might facilitate such travel or facilitate the legal shipment of prescribed abortion drugs through the mail. Of course, local police agencies might simply take it upon themselves to pull records to see who had unexplained disruptions to their menstrual cycles.

Your local sheriff might just want to know.

And so does JD Vance, it turns out.

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[Tadpole Raisin]

1. Now you know that! Is going to come up at a debate!

Explain that to the population of the country.

Disgusting…

[Blue Owl]

2. The creepiest weirdness yet

Get this fuck away from me!

[CanonRay]

3. Do they at all see the irony in the "Freedom Caucus"

supporting menstrual surveillance by law enforcement? Nah, nevermind.

[underpants]

14. They don't even believe in freedom for some of there members

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Caucus

You know, the female ones.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. "Honey! The police are here for a vagina check!"

Americans need to start thinking DAMN QUICK!

[calguy]

5. Would it be too wierd?

If a campaign commercial was made about this? Hmm...?
At least add it to the content of Tim Walz's stump speech material?
Too gross maybe?

[enough]

9. No not to weird. What's weird is them trying to do this.

[edisdead]

31. people need to know about this

They are banking that dems will think it is too out there to talk about it.

If it can be fact checked it needs to be discussed.

[ms liberty]

6. K&R. This falls under the mind your own damn business clause

I think Walz should bring it up at the debate. Women think it's creepy and weird that someone would want the government to track their periods. Who do these people think they are to interfere in our private lives?

[canuckledragger]

25. They think they're god of course.

That why they pretend to be it's spokesperson. They get off on controlling others and telling them what to do...just like the slavery days.

[BattleRow]

44. Question for debate

Mr. Vance,

Have you stopped monitoring your wife's menstrual cycle?

When did you begin to monitor your wife's monthly cycles?

[LearnedHand]

7. Or just FedEx used menstrual products to him monthly?

Absolute proof; no federal law required.

Just 🤮. I can't believe how creepy this guy is.

[completely_bushed]

8. A Tweak to the Messaging for Tim Walz

would be instead of

"the Government in your doctor's exam room"

use

"Donald Trump and JD Vance in your doctor's exam room"

More personal and.....WEIRDER !!!

[edisdead]

33. It depends on who you are targeting.

If you are targeting right leaning independents or repubs that don’t want to vote for Trump you say Government.

They have an irrational fear if anything with the word government

[CrispyQ]

41. Yes, like Harris started calling them Trump's anti-abortion laws & Trump's abortions restrictions.

Nail this to them. Make it stick.

[Lovie777]

10. That's scary................................

GQP want to monitor my daughter's menstrual cycle besides other personal aspect of females.

[Coexist]

11. How do these creeps have over 40% of the vote - if Trump wins, he's not well and we'd likely end up with Vance as POTUS

do they not THINK about that?

[Charging Triceratops]

16. Their supporters live in a bubble

protected by the Fox terrorist channel and other incompetent media.

[Dave Bowman]

21. Thinking is not their cup of tea.

[Dulcinea]

32. They don't think for themselves.

A shocking number of people seem to be authoritarian personalities who WANT to be told what to think & what to do by someone they perceive to be a strong leader. Or maybe they're too dumb or lazy to think for themselves. I don't get that & never will.

[CrispyQ]

42. I don't think Vance was the oligarchs first or even second pick

but he's shown he has ZERO convictions of his own & is a total tool. They'll love him. If Trump gets back in the WH, they'll give him a few months & then 25th him & Vance will be so in over his head he'll be happy to do what TPTB want.

[completely_bushed]

12. JD Vance: Menstrual Stalker

"Like stalking Kamala on the tarmac, he want's to stalk your daughters into their doctor's exam room"

[Dave Bowman]

22. It would be a good tittle for a horror movie.

[magicarpet]

13. Vance says,...

Excuse me,... I am from the Freedom and Liberty Party,...

I don't mean to be intrusive. But could I inspect your menstrual pad, take samples for the lab, and record the info in our data base ?

[RazorbackExpat]

15. That is creepy

This Vance character sounds like a real wacko

[central scrutinizer]

17. That's restraining order level of weirdness

Get the fuck away from me!

[ismnotwasm]

18. Vance is so gross.

That meme is devastatingly accurate

[gab13by13]

19. Weird isn't a strong enough word.

[BattleRow]

56. I was thinking that

diabolical might be good fit..

[Dave Bowman]

20. That prick is really obsessed.

[completely_bushed]

23. As a follow up to "Mind Your Own Damn Business"

"Mentrual-Monitor you own damn family, not mine"

[NickB79]

24. So Tim Walz giving out free tampons to young women is too liberal

But JD Vance literally tracking when women get their periods, and potentially sending police to investigate missed periods, is A-OK in their book.

I'll take Tampon Tim any day

[colorado_ufo]

26. I remember how shy I was as a 12-year-old girl.

Anything like this type of surveillance would have pushed me over the edge. Can you imagine what it would be like in a dysfunctional home? And I had a really good family! In my mind, along with unbelievable invasion of privacy, this amounts in many cases to child abuse.

[Lifeafter70]

55. Gym classes in public schools did track our menstral cycle

In 1960 when my sister stopped menstruating her gym teacher accused her of being pregnant. She shamed her in front of her class. The teacher had my mom come in for a conference regarding it. My sister passed six months later from acute lukemia.

We are not going back.

[colorado_ufo]

60. My heart is breaking for all of you!

I am so sorry that you and your family suffered this, and especially your dear sister. May God bless all of you and give you peace.

[Jean Genie]

27. Obviously!

Pig is adorable, Walz is marvelous.
Vance is neither!

[dalton99a]

28. Stupid pervert

[TheKentuckian]

29. This crap isn't just weird, it is deep into perverted territory.

At some point normal is so small in the rearview that it can no longer be made out much less claimed as anywhere near the current location.

Fucking perverts!

[agingdem]

30. Vance is as creepy as Mike Johnson...

Johnson monitors porn...Vance monitors periods...sick weird!!

[completely_bushed]

34. GOP: Party of Perverts, Pedophiles, and Period-Pests!

This is deeply offensive. He needs to be asked about it in every interview and debate.

[StarryNite]

35. Is weirdo Vance in favor of monitoring male masturbation?

Just think of all those sperm that never had a chance! His couch can bear witness!

[BattleRow]

43. Perhaps a new moniker

Divan Diver?

[3catwoman3]

61. That is speaker of the house Mike Johnson's...

...area of expertise.

[grumpyduck]

36. Fine, so the Democrats can propose a bill

to keep tabs on when boys begin to develop sexually.

Let's see how that goes over.

[StarryNite]

40. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

[TheKentuckian]

50. It isn't good for the goose and should not be reinforced even out of spite

[StarryNite]

59. No double standards.

And of course it shouldn't happen at all but some men are apparently proposing this invasive monitoring of women and girls. They need to mind their own damn business.

[BattleRow]

46. I can think of a couple of names for

those police...

[Mysterian]

37. I'm sure the corporate media will be all over this

as soon as they help republicans smear an honorable veteran.

[BattleRow]

38. It occurred to me that

this obsession with female reproductive rights and their bodily functions may be vagina envy.

[lindysalsagal]

39. Just put them in red hooded gowns and line them up in Aunt Lydia's detention camp.

They really are inhuman.

[ecstatic]

45. This should be on the top of every newspaper tomorrow

A 78-year-old's VP pick thinks the government should be monitoring the periods of women and young girls.

But why?

I think that criminals like jd want to know when women and young girls have their periods so that they can rape and/or have sex outside their marriage without consequences.

[BattleRow]

47. This is bigger than cat ladies

Although cat ladies could be doubly offended..

Wonder if this applies to females in the military?

Is THIS democracy,folks?

[Aristus]

48. I'm puzzled as to how this makes for smaller, less intrusive government.

You know, what Republicans are always claiming that they want.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

49. Do not forget that Vance is far from alone in this weird and creepy obsession.

The whole Republican party needs to be purged.

[BoRaGard]

51. Mind our own damn business, republicons

the GOP wants government to have it's administrative nose up our skirts, and soon enough trousers.

Get our big stinking GOP-government nose out of private matters.

[yellowdogintexas]

52. Who else remembers Periods For Pence?? nt

[lame54]

53. Aunt Flow and Uncle Know

[liberalmuse]

54. This is worse than all the couch memes put together.

So the mythical, “couch humper” is in reality a “tampon sniffer”. I can’t wrap my head around a bunch of men wanting to surveillance women’s and girl’s menstrual cycles. Uber creepy and weird!

[BattleRow]

57. Where's the regulations to monitor

Viagara?

[3catwoman3]

58. When I was in high school in 1965-69, we had to shower after gym class.

There was a large tiled room with multiple shower heads, and 4 private stalls with curtains that could be closed. Girls who had their periods were allowed to use the private stalls. The gym teachers kept a notebook, and if you had your period, you had to tell them and the would mark a little "M" by your name for that day's class. The explanation for them keeping track was allegedly to make sure no one was constantly claiming the privilege of the private shower.

It didn't occur to me until decades later that they were probably also looking to see who stopped asking to use the private showers because they were in the early weeks of pregnancy and no longer menstruating.