Pretty good thread even though I hate Twitter threads. Just write a blog post.
This is a thread on Republican messaging. The press doesnât want to have a direct conversation with you about this. So as a former Republican who is now a consistent Democratic voter, I will. Thread.
Pretty good thread even though I hate Twitter threads. Just write a blog post.
This is a thread on Republican messaging. The press doesnât want to have a direct conversation with you about this. So as a former Republican who is now a consistent Democratic voter, I will. Thread.
Rand Paul has explained why he voted against the Bill.
It is full of unrelated bullshit that should not get passed. The direct aid, yes, but the other stuff kills the deal and I agree.
Can you give a few examples of said bullshit?
I've heard his concern is that the spending of the money won't be monitored by the inspector general and that it could be misspent. You make it sound like the funding includes specific items. I hadn't heard about those...so please share.
I propose that we create vigilante groups of medical professionals that, if we see someone smoking cigarettes, we grab it out of their mouth put them in jail. Because we value life and they're just killing themselves. They shouldn't be allowed!
I propose that we create vigilante groups of medical professionals that, if we see someone smoking cigarettes, we grab it out of their mouth put them in jail. Because we value life and they're just killing themselves. They shouldn't be allowed!
Go ahead and advocate your beliefs if you like but leave the decision to the woman involved.
I propose that we create vigilante groups of medical professionals that, if we see someone smoking cigarettes, we grab it out of their mouth put them in jail. Because we value life and they're just killing themselves. They shouldn't be allowed!
Grandstanding "Christian" politicians can stay the fuck in their lane; let them define their church's doctrine or something.
Right-wing Christians tend to be absolutists and that's a problem for them when dealing with things like conception and growth of a fetus into something that would be viable outside a woman's body. Even birth is an issue - is palliative care for a severely deformed baby instead of trying to somehow treat it considered murder? So once they decide that the line at birth is not the start of human life, then there is a messy continuum that leads to the only thing they think of as absolute, which is fertilisation. Sure there are other development markers like implantation or the start of regular electrical pulses that they falsely call fetal heartbeat. But those pesky gray area events were really just invoked as a bait and switch to get to the current position.
So yeah, they should butt out. Go ahead and advocate your beliefs if you like but leave the decision to the woman involved.
"The majority of abortions in 2019 took place early in gestation: 92.7% of abortions were performed at â¤13 weeksâ gestation; a smaller number of abortions (6.2%) were performed at 14â20 weeksâ gestation, and even fewer (<1.0%) were performed at â¥21 weeksâ gestation."
There's also strong evidence that women obtaining second-trimester abortions are younger, less educated, poorer, and less able to schedule medical services.
"According to "Who Has Second-Trimester Abortions in the United States?," by Rachel K. Jones and Lawrence B. Finer of the Guttmacher Institute, certain groups of women are overrepresented among second-trimester abortion patients. These groups include women with lower educational levels, black women and women who have experienced multiple disruptive events in the last year, such as unemployment or separating from a partner."
