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Related: About this forumNice little smirk from Pence after he breaks the tie vote on defunding Planned Parenthood
Warpy
(111,437 posts)Now he knows he's gonna kill a whole bunch of women he's never met and never wants to and their corpses will pave his way to heaven.
turbinetree
(24,745 posts)and when I saw that smirk this morning from this ass**** casting the deciding foregone conclusion vote it was just disgusting.
It was like he was saying under that tin foil hat white hair,yeah, I finally get to be the head death panel ass**** and infringing on human beings right to pap smears, cervical cancer treatment, medical check-ups etc..............oh boy, oh boy
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)I am so effing mad at these assholes I just might need therapy...
CrispyQ
(36,557 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)these people that have insurance and a good income are always the ones to take everything away from those that don't.
The fascist "Christian" sector of the government don't give a damn about the people that they serve. I know obvious statement, we can't these fuckers out of office fast enough. It's time to hit the streets again.
When was the announcement about this sick fucking vote? Why haven't we heard a peep from any one in the media? Because all they are focusing on is Russia's moles in the WH. I don't need a 15 minute lead in for a relevant piece of information. I want to hear about everything these assholes are doing to rip our country to shreds.
CousinIT
(9,269 posts)We dont commonly recognize that American slaveholders supported closing the trans-Atlantic slave trade; that they did so to protect the domestic market, boosting their own nascent breeding operation. Women were the primary focus: their bodies, their stock, their reproductive capacity, their issue. Planters advertised for them in the same way as they did for breeding cows or mares, in farm magazines and catalogs. They shared tips with one another on how to get maximum value out of their breeders. They sold or lent enslaved men as studs and were known to lock teenage boys and girls together to mate in a kind of bullpen.They propagated new slaves themselves, and allowed their sons to, and had their physicians exploit female anatomy while working to suppress African midwives practice in areas of fertility, contraception and abortion.Reproduction and its control became the planters prerogative and profit source. Women could try to escape, ingest toxins or jump out a windowabortion by suicide, except it was hardly a sure thing.
This business was not hidden at the time, as Pamela details expansively. And, indeed, there it was, this open secret, embedded in a line from Uncle Toms Cabin that my eyes fell upon while we were preparing to arrange books on her new shelves: If we could get a breed of gals that didnt care, now, for their young uns would be bout the greatest modrn improvement I knows on, says one slave hunter to another after Eliza makes her dramatic escape, carrying her child over the ice flows.
The foregoing is the merest scaffolding of one of the building blocks of Bridgewaters argument, which continues thus. If we integrate the lost chapter of slave breeding into those two traditional but separate stories, if we reconcile female slave resistance to coerced breeding as, in part, a struggle for emancipation and, in part, a struggle for reproductive freedom, the two tales become one: a comprehensive narrative that fuses the pursuit of reproductive freedom into the pursuit of civil freedom.
Constitutionally, the fundamental civil freedom is enshrined in the Thirteenth Amendment. The amendments language is unadorned, so it was left to the political system to sort out what the abolition of slavery meant in all particulars. In a series of successive legal cases, the courts ruled that in prohibiting slavery the amendment also prohibits what the judiciary called its badges and incidents, and recognized Congresss power to pass all laws necessary and proper for abolishing all [of those] in the United States.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/reproductive-rights-and-long-hand-slave-breeding/
BigmanPigman
(51,651 posts)that his mother had chosen to abort him. The world would be a better place if she had.
panfluteman
(2,075 posts)Two birth control pills f---ed, and out came you!