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It's lamb cake season in Chicagoland.
My sister found a cast aluminum lamb cake pan while thrifting in Louisville. I was unable to identify the pan but the shape looks exactly like the #Griswold cast iron lamb mold.
I've been experimenting with the pan and managed to turn out one vanilla cake with a broken ear and one perfect chocolate cake. I think I'm ready to try a pound cake recipe. 😉
I'm using the Griswold technique of flipping the pan while baking.
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It's lamb cake season in Chicagoland.
My sister found a cast aluminum lamb cake pan while thrifting in Louisville. I was unable to identify the pan but the shape looks exactly like the #Griswold cast iron lamb mold.
I've been experimenting with the pan and managed to turn out one vanilla cake with a broken ear and one perfect chocolate cake. I think I'm ready to try a pound cake recipe. 😉
I'm using the Griswold technique of flipping the pan while baking.
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Since it was a nice warm day, I took the lights down. Guess I can put away the holiday jersey until next year. #xmas #christmas #HolidayLights #griswold
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Shitter was full.
Im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes eine schöne Bescherung. 🧻 🚽Ich wünsche euch schönen Tag mit einem Lächeln im Gesicht. 💩🎄✨
📷 : 12•2025 F.loKI
#Selbstironie #Griswold #SchöneBescherung #ShitterWasFull #Parodie #Toilettenhumor #Trockenhumor #XMasVibes
#lustig #humor #witzig #comedy #LachenIstGesund #HumorIstWennManTrotzdemLacht #GehNichtZumLachenInDenKeller #NimmDasLebenNichtSoErnstDuKommstEhNichtLebendRaus #Floki_FunnyMoments -
Shitter was full.
Im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes eine schöne Bescherung. 🧻 🚽Ich wünsche euch schönen Tag mit einem Lächeln im Gesicht. 💩🎄✨
📷 : 12•2025 F.loKI
#Selbstironie #Griswold #SchöneBescherung #ShitterWasFull #Parodie #Toilettenhumor #Trockenhumor #XMasVibes
#lustig #humor #witzig #comedy #LachenIstGesund #HumorIstWennManTrotzdemLacht #GehNichtZumLachenInDenKeller #NimmDasLebenNichtSoErnstDuKommstEhNichtLebendRaus #Floki_FunnyMoments -
Shitter was full.
Im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes eine schöne Bescherung. 🧻 🚽Ich wünsche euch schönen Tag mit einem Lächeln im Gesicht. 💩🎄✨
📷 : 12•2025 F.loKI
#Selbstironie #Griswold #SchöneBescherung #ShitterWasFull #Parodie #Toilettenhumor #Trockenhumor #XMasVibes
#lustig #humor #witzig #comedy #LachenIstGesund #HumorIstWennManTrotzdemLacht #GehNichtZumLachenInDenKeller #NimmDasLebenNichtSoErnstDuKommstEhNichtLebendRaus #Floki_FunnyMoments -
Cast Iron Wednesday 08-13-2025 Part 2: Nana Pacitto’s Italian Lasagna https://www.diningandcooking.com/2232707/cast-iron-wednesday-08-13-2025-part-2-nana-pacittos-italian-lasagna/ ##Lodge #BakingDish #birmingham #BSR #CastIron #grandmother #Griswold #ItalianCuisine #ItalianLasagnaRecipe #KitchenHacks #Lasagna #MainCourses #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanDietRecipes #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanFoodRecipes #MediterraneanMainCourses #MediterraneanRecipes #nana #PastaSauce #Wagner
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Cast Iron Wednesday 08-13-2025 Part 2: Nana Pacitto’s Italian Lasagna https://www.diningandcooking.com/2232707/cast-iron-wednesday-08-13-2025-part-2-nana-pacittos-italian-lasagna/ ##Lodge #BakingDish #birmingham #BSR #CastIron #grandmother #Griswold #ItalianCuisine #ItalianLasagnaRecipe #KitchenHacks #Lasagna #MainCourses #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanDietRecipes #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanFoodRecipes #MediterraneanMainCourses #MediterraneanRecipes #nana #PastaSauce #Wagner
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Cast Iron Wednesday 08-13-2025 Part 2: Nana Pacitto’s Italian Lasagna https://www.diningandcooking.com/2232707/cast-iron-wednesday-08-13-2025-part-2-nana-pacittos-italian-lasagna/ ##Lodge #BakingDish #birmingham #BSR #CastIron #grandmother #Griswold #ItalianCuisine #ItalianLasagnaRecipe #KitchenHacks #Lasagna #MainCourses #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanDietRecipes #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanFoodRecipes #MediterraneanMainCourses #MediterraneanRecipes #nana #PastaSauce #Wagner
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As troubling as Trump’s directives are,
it’s certain that they will face considerable barriers to implementation,
first and foremost in the courts.The recent order has received widespread criticism,
including from high-ranking officials and numerous nonprofit leaders and experts.Colorado Secretary of State #Jena #Griswold deemed it
“unlawful” in a statement, as the AP reported.By March 31, three lawsuits against the order had already been launched.
One is a joint effort by "Campaign Legal Center" and the
"State Democracy Defenders Fund"Another was then filed by the
"Democratic National Committee".Diaz explained that his organization is representing three others:
the "League of United Latin American Citizens",
"Secure Families Initiative"
and the "Arizona Students’ Association"
— “all of whom represent constituencies that would be really dramatically affected by the policies in this executive order,”
he told Truthout.While all legal actions are only at their very early stages,
there’s hope that the implementation of the order can be halted quickly,
as has been the case in some other legal contestations of the Trump-Musk agenda.“Our case is really focused on the separation-of-powers issues.
The president simply does not have the authority,
under the Constitution or any federal statute,
to dictate the content of voter registration forms
or to set receipt deadlines for mail ballots.He has completely exceeded any legal authority he has here,” said Diaz.
“And so we’re asking the court to declare those aspects of the executive order unconstitutional,
and to enjoin the Election Assistance Commission,
the Department of Justice
and the Department of Defense
from taking any action to implement the president’s order.”Whether pursued via state violence,
blustering anti-democratic rhetoric,
or the quieter backdoor manipulations of law and policy,
it’s clear that suppression of opponents and the flagrant abuse of power
— sometimes, it seems, pursued for power’s sake alone,
or merely for the evident joy of cruelty
— will be the modus operandi of this presidency.Yet as the Trump administration strains by means legitimate and otherwise
to grotesquely expand its reach,
there is certainly reason for hope in how,
when the administration oversteps,
committed dissenters,
from the courtroom to the streets,
rise without hesitation to meet them. -
Yer damn right I go on the roof. #christmas #griswold
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#Republicans in "The Senate voted Wednesday to block a bill to create a federal #RightToContraception ...
The #Democratic bill... would have prevented states from passing laws that limit access to #contraception, including hormonal #BirthControl and intrauterine devices."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/05/senate-gop-contraception/#Mastodon #thread of articles about #GOP refusing to protect the right to contraception:
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/112567414870343606#Women #WomensRights #Health #Griswold #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News
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#Republicans in "The Senate voted Wednesday to block a bill to create a federal #RightToContraception ...
The #Democratic bill... would have prevented states from passing laws that limit access to #contraception, including hormonal #BirthControl and intrauterine devices."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/05/senate-gop-contraception/#Mastodon #thread of articles about #GOP refusing to protect the right to contraception:
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/112567414870343606#Women #WomensRights #Health #Griswold #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News
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#Republicans in "The Senate voted Wednesday to block a bill to create a federal #RightToContraception ...
The #Democratic bill... would have prevented states from passing laws that limit access to #contraception, including hormonal #BirthControl and intrauterine devices."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/05/senate-gop-contraception/#Mastodon #thread of articles about #GOP refusing to protect the right to contraception:
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/112567414870343606#Women #WomensRights #Health #Griswold #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News
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#Republicans in "The Senate voted Wednesday to block a bill to create a federal #RightToContraception ...
The #Democratic bill... would have prevented states from passing laws that limit access to #contraception, including hormonal #BirthControl and intrauterine devices."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/05/senate-gop-contraception/#Mastodon #thread of articles about #GOP refusing to protect the right to contraception:
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/112567414870343606#Women #WomensRights #Health #Griswold #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News
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#Republicans in "The Senate voted Wednesday to block a bill to create a federal #RightToContraception ...
The #Democratic bill... would have prevented states from passing laws that limit access to #contraception, including hormonal #BirthControl and intrauterine devices."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/05/senate-gop-contraception/#Mastodon #thread of articles about #GOP refusing to protect the right to contraception:
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/112567414870343606#Women #WomensRights #Health #Griswold #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News
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#Republicans in "The Senate voted Wednesday to block a bill to create a federal #RightToContraception ...
The #Democratic bill... would have prevented states from passing laws that limit access to #contraception, including hormonal #BirthControl and intrauterine devices."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/05/senate-gop-contraception/#Mastodon #thread of articles about #GOP refusing to protect the right to #contraception: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/112567414870343606
#Women #WomensRights #Health #Griswold #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News
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#Republicans in "The Senate voted Wednesday to block a bill to create a federal #RightToContraception ...
The #Democratic bill... would have prevented states from passing laws that limit access to #contraception, including hormonal #BirthControl and intrauterine devices."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/05/senate-gop-contraception/#Mastodon #thread of articles about #GOP refusing to protect the right to #contraception: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/112567414870343606
#Women #WomensRights #Health #Griswold #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News
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#Republicans in "The Senate voted Wednesday to block a bill to create a federal #RightToContraception ...
The #Democratic bill... would have prevented states from passing laws that limit access to #contraception, including hormonal #BirthControl and intrauterine devices."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/05/senate-gop-contraception/#Mastodon #thread of articles about #GOP refusing to protect the right to #contraception: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/112567414870343606
#Women #WomensRights #Health #Griswold #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News
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#Republicans in "The Senate voted Wednesday to block a bill to create a federal #RightToContraception ...
The #Democratic bill... would have prevented states from passing laws that limit access to #contraception, including hormonal #BirthControl and intrauterine devices."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/05/senate-gop-contraception/#Mastodon #thread of articles about #GOP refusing to protect the right to #contraception: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/112567414870343606
#Women #WomensRights #Health #Griswold #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News
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#Republicans in "The Senate voted Wednesday to block a bill to create a federal #RightToContraception ...
The #Democratic bill... would have prevented states from passing laws that limit access to #contraception, including hormonal #BirthControl and intrauterine devices."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/05/senate-gop-contraception/#Mastodon #thread of articles about #GOP refusing to protect the right to #contraception: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/112567414870343606
#Women #WomensRights #Health #Griswold #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News
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"One in five #Americans say they believe access to #BirthControl is under threat...
that sentiment stems from #SupremeCourt Justice #ClarenceThomas writing in his concurring opinion overturning #RoeVWade that the court should reconsider decisions relying on the same legal precedent. That includes the court’s 1965 ruling in #Griswold v. Connecticut guaranteeing the right to #contraceptives"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/05/birth-control-access-abortion-ban/#Women #WomensRights #Contraception #Healthcare #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News
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#ClarenceThomas’s concurring opinion begins on page 117. On page 119 Thomas specifically states “in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process #precedents, including #Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell.”
#SCOTUS #Congress #law #privacy #FamilyPlanning #BirthControl #BirthControlRights #ReproductiveRights #BodilyAutonomy #WomensHealth #health #MaleSupremacy #access #VoteBlue
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf -
#ClarenceThomas’s concurring opinion begins on page 117. On page 119 Thomas specifically states “in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process #precedents, including #Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell.”
#SCOTUS #Congress #law #privacy #FamilyPlanning #BirthControl #BirthControlRights #ReproductiveRights #BodilyAutonomy #WomensHealth #health #MaleSupremacy #access #VoteBlue
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf -
#ClarenceThomas’s concurring opinion begins on page 117. On page 119 Thomas specifically states “in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process #precedents, including #Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell.”
#SCOTUS #Congress #law #privacy #FamilyPlanning #BirthControl #BirthControlRights #ReproductiveRights #BodilyAutonomy #WomensHealth #health #MaleSupremacy #access #VoteBlue
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf -
#ClarenceThomas’s concurring opinion begins on page 117. On page 119 Thomas specifically states “in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process #precedents, including #Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell.”
#SCOTUS #Congress #law #privacy #FamilyPlanning #BirthControl #BirthControlRights #ReproductiveRights #BodilyAutonomy #WomensHealth #health #MaleSupremacy #access #VoteBlue
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf -
#ClarenceThomas’s concurring opinion begins on page 117. On page 119 Thomas specifically states “in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process #precedents, including #Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell.”
#SCOTUS #Congress #law #privacy #FamilyPlanning #BirthControl #BirthControlRights #ReproductiveRights #BodilyAutonomy #WomensHealth #health #MaleSupremacy #access #VoteBlue
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf -
We should also listen when #SCOTUS says in the concurring opinion for #Dobbs (which overturned the right to abortion) that they also want to overturn #Griswold (right to privacy/contraception), #Lawrence (right to have sex however you want), and #Obergefell (right to #LGBTQ marriage).
Believe that the #GOP will take away the freedoms that they are threatening once they gain the power to do so.
#US #Politics #Abortion #Contraception #BirthControl #USA #Freedom
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“Fetal personhood” activists struggle to maintain the fiction they are neutral on birth control
When asked about their intentions to restrict or protect access to birth control, Republican lawmakers and leaders of the anti-abortion movement will typically point out the fact that there’s no bill currently under consideration explicitly aimed at banning #contraception.
As journalist Jessica Valenti noted in her "Abortion, Every Day" newsletter, the president of Ohio Right to Life mocked a state Democrat who warned of the risk to birth control by saying,
“she can’t cite a piece of legislation that bans contraception … it’s fear-mongering.”Susan B. Anthony #Pro-#Life #America’s website calls it a “MYTH” that Republicans want to stop people from getting birth control.
“FACT: No state anywhere has banned birth control,” it says.
And yet taking one big swing to restrict access has never been the strategy of the anti-contraception playbook.
Rather, activists either maintain neutrality on birth control or say nothing while actively working to conflate abortion with birth control and pass laws that redefine life as beginning at conception.
As journalist Christina Cauterucci pointed out at Slate, the anti-abortion group #Americans #United #for #Life claims on its website that it takes “no stance on the underlying issue of contraceptive use,”
but elsewhere it insists that people who use emergency contraception
“take the lives of their unborn children.”When Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler attended the annual conference of the anti-abortion group #Heartbeat #International in 2022, she found restriction of birth control to be a major theme, with several sessions dedicated to the topic.
The push to redefine the start of #personhood as the point of #conception holds real implications for fertility treatments and the wide range of available birth control methods.
Many lawmakers in states with such “fetal personhood” laws on the books have not fully grappled with the practical consequences of how enforcing those laws in the post-Roe era might work.
In the near future, most Republicans will likely continue to dismiss the idea that there’s any threat to birth control at all, and leaders of anti-abortion organizations will surely do their best to change the subject.
But ♦️pay attention to how fights over expanding access to birth control
— including nonhormonal methods like condoms
— play out.♦️Pay attention to proposals to gut funding for #TitleX, a federal program that provides birth control to millions of low-income people in the United States.
♦️Pay attention to efforts in Congress to restrict access to contraception in foreign aid spending bills.
♦️And pay attention to how courts and lawmakers aim to expand the definition of abortion.
(4/4)
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Human #Life #International #IUDs #Students #for #Life #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene #PlanB #Lauren #Boebert #Matt #Rosendale #Pulse #Life #Advocates #Tea #Party #Catholic #Church #Hobby #Lobby #Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
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“Fetal personhood” activists struggle to maintain the fiction they are neutral on birth control
When asked about their intentions to restrict or protect access to birth control, Republican lawmakers and leaders of the anti-abortion movement will typically point out the fact that there’s no bill currently under consideration explicitly aimed at banning #contraception.
As journalist Jessica Valenti noted in her "Abortion, Every Day" newsletter, the president of Ohio Right to Life mocked a state Democrat who warned of the risk to birth control by saying,
“she can’t cite a piece of legislation that bans contraception … it’s fear-mongering.”Susan B. Anthony #Pro-#Life #America’s website calls it a “MYTH” that Republicans want to stop people from getting birth control.
“FACT: No state anywhere has banned birth control,” it says.
And yet taking one big swing to restrict access has never been the strategy of the anti-contraception playbook.
Rather, activists either maintain neutrality on birth control or say nothing while actively working to conflate abortion with birth control and pass laws that redefine life as beginning at conception.
As journalist Christina Cauterucci pointed out at Slate, the anti-abortion group #Americans #United #for #Life claims on its website that it takes “no stance on the underlying issue of contraceptive use,”
but elsewhere it insists that people who use emergency contraception
“take the lives of their unborn children.”When Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler attended the annual conference of the anti-abortion group #Heartbeat #International in 2022, she found restriction of birth control to be a major theme, with several sessions dedicated to the topic.
The push to redefine the start of #personhood as the point of #conception holds real implications for fertility treatments and the wide range of available birth control methods.
Many lawmakers in states with such “fetal personhood” laws on the books have not fully grappled with the practical consequences of how enforcing those laws in the post-Roe era might work.
In the near future, most Republicans will likely continue to dismiss the idea that there’s any threat to birth control at all, and leaders of anti-abortion organizations will surely do their best to change the subject.
But ♦️pay attention to how fights over expanding access to birth control
— including nonhormonal methods like condoms
— play out.♦️Pay attention to proposals to gut funding for #TitleX, a federal program that provides birth control to millions of low-income people in the United States.
♦️Pay attention to efforts in Congress to restrict access to contraception in foreign aid spending bills.
♦️And pay attention to how courts and lawmakers aim to expand the definition of abortion.
(4/4)
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Human #Life #International #IUDs #Students #for #Life #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene #PlanB #Lauren #Boebert #Matt #Rosendale #Pulse #Life #Advocates #Tea #Party #Catholic #Church #Hobby #Lobby #Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
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“Fetal personhood” activists struggle to maintain the fiction they are neutral on birth control
When asked about their intentions to restrict or protect access to birth control, Republican lawmakers and leaders of the anti-abortion movement will typically point out the fact that there’s no bill currently under consideration explicitly aimed at banning #contraception.
As journalist Jessica Valenti noted in her "Abortion, Every Day" newsletter, the president of Ohio Right to Life mocked a state Democrat who warned of the risk to birth control by saying,
“she can’t cite a piece of legislation that bans contraception … it’s fear-mongering.”Susan B. Anthony #Pro-#Life #America’s website calls it a “MYTH” that Republicans want to stop people from getting birth control.
“FACT: No state anywhere has banned birth control,” it says.
And yet taking one big swing to restrict access has never been the strategy of the anti-contraception playbook.
Rather, activists either maintain neutrality on birth control or say nothing while actively working to conflate abortion with birth control and pass laws that redefine life as beginning at conception.
As journalist Christina Cauterucci pointed out at Slate, the anti-abortion group #Americans #United #for #Life claims on its website that it takes “no stance on the underlying issue of contraceptive use,”
but elsewhere it insists that people who use emergency contraception
“take the lives of their unborn children.”When Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler attended the annual conference of the anti-abortion group #Heartbeat #International in 2022, she found restriction of birth control to be a major theme, with several sessions dedicated to the topic.
The push to redefine the start of #personhood as the point of #conception holds real implications for fertility treatments and the wide range of available birth control methods.
Many lawmakers in states with such “fetal personhood” laws on the books have not fully grappled with the practical consequences of how enforcing those laws in the post-Roe era might work.
In the near future, most Republicans will likely continue to dismiss the idea that there’s any threat to birth control at all, and leaders of anti-abortion organizations will surely do their best to change the subject.
But ♦️pay attention to how fights over expanding access to birth control
— including nonhormonal methods like condoms
— play out.♦️Pay attention to proposals to gut funding for #TitleX, a federal program that provides birth control to millions of low-income people in the United States.
♦️Pay attention to efforts in Congress to restrict access to contraception in foreign aid spending bills.
♦️And pay attention to how courts and lawmakers aim to expand the definition of abortion.
(4/4)
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Human #Life #International #IUDs #Students #for #Life #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene #PlanB #Lauren #Boebert #Matt #Rosendale #Pulse #Life #Advocates #Tea #Party #Catholic #Church #Hobby #Lobby #Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
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“Fetal personhood” activists struggle to maintain the fiction they are neutral on birth control
When asked about their intentions to restrict or protect access to birth control, Republican lawmakers and leaders of the anti-abortion movement will typically point out the fact that there’s no bill currently under consideration explicitly aimed at banning #contraception.
As journalist Jessica Valenti noted in her "Abortion, Every Day" newsletter, the president of Ohio Right to Life mocked a state Democrat who warned of the risk to birth control by saying,
“she can’t cite a piece of legislation that bans contraception … it’s fear-mongering.”Susan B. Anthony #Pro-#Life #America’s website calls it a “MYTH” that Republicans want to stop people from getting birth control.
“FACT: No state anywhere has banned birth control,” it says.
And yet taking one big swing to restrict access has never been the strategy of the anti-contraception playbook.
Rather, activists either maintain neutrality on birth control or say nothing while actively working to conflate abortion with birth control and pass laws that redefine life as beginning at conception.
As journalist Christina Cauterucci pointed out at Slate, the anti-abortion group #Americans #United #for #Life claims on its website that it takes “no stance on the underlying issue of contraceptive use,”
but elsewhere it insists that people who use emergency contraception
“take the lives of their unborn children.”When Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler attended the annual conference of the anti-abortion group #Heartbeat #International in 2022, she found restriction of birth control to be a major theme, with several sessions dedicated to the topic.
The push to redefine the start of #personhood as the point of #conception holds real implications for fertility treatments and the wide range of available birth control methods.
Many lawmakers in states with such “fetal personhood” laws on the books have not fully grappled with the practical consequences of how enforcing those laws in the post-Roe era might work.
In the near future, most Republicans will likely continue to dismiss the idea that there’s any threat to birth control at all, and leaders of anti-abortion organizations will surely do their best to change the subject.
But ♦️pay attention to how fights over expanding access to birth control
— including nonhormonal methods like condoms
— play out.♦️Pay attention to proposals to gut funding for #TitleX, a federal program that provides birth control to millions of low-income people in the United States.
♦️Pay attention to efforts in Congress to restrict access to contraception in foreign aid spending bills.
♦️And pay attention to how courts and lawmakers aim to expand the definition of abortion.
(4/4)
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Human #Life #International #IUDs #Students #for #Life #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene #PlanB #Lauren #Boebert #Matt #Rosendale #Pulse #Life #Advocates #Tea #Party #Catholic #Church #Hobby #Lobby #Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
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“Fetal personhood” activists struggle to maintain the fiction they are neutral on birth control
When asked about their intentions to restrict or protect access to birth control, Republican lawmakers and leaders of the anti-abortion movement will typically point out the fact that there’s no bill currently under consideration explicitly aimed at banning #contraception.
As journalist Jessica Valenti noted in her "Abortion, Every Day" newsletter, the president of Ohio Right to Life mocked a state Democrat who warned of the risk to birth control by saying,
“she can’t cite a piece of legislation that bans contraception … it’s fear-mongering.”Susan B. Anthony #Pro-#Life #America’s website calls it a “MYTH” that Republicans want to stop people from getting birth control.
“FACT: No state anywhere has banned birth control,” it says.
And yet taking one big swing to restrict access has never been the strategy of the anti-contraception playbook.
Rather, activists either maintain neutrality on birth control or say nothing while actively working to conflate abortion with birth control and pass laws that redefine life as beginning at conception.
As journalist Christina Cauterucci pointed out at Slate, the anti-abortion group #Americans #United #for #Life claims on its website that it takes “no stance on the underlying issue of contraceptive use,”
but elsewhere it insists that people who use emergency contraception
“take the lives of their unborn children.”When Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler attended the annual conference of the anti-abortion group #Heartbeat #International in 2022, she found restriction of birth control to be a major theme, with several sessions dedicated to the topic.
The push to redefine the start of #personhood as the point of #conception holds real implications for fertility treatments and the wide range of available birth control methods.
Many lawmakers in states with such “fetal personhood” laws on the books have not fully grappled with the practical consequences of how enforcing those laws in the post-Roe era might work.
In the near future, most Republicans will likely continue to dismiss the idea that there’s any threat to birth control at all, and leaders of anti-abortion organizations will surely do their best to change the subject.
But ♦️pay attention to how fights over expanding access to birth control
— including nonhormonal methods like condoms
— play out.♦️Pay attention to proposals to gut funding for #TitleX, a federal program that provides birth control to millions of low-income people in the United States.
♦️Pay attention to efforts in Congress to restrict access to contraception in foreign aid spending bills.
♦️And pay attention to how courts and lawmakers aim to expand the definition of abortion.
(4/4)
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Human #Life #International #IUDs #Students #for #Life #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene #PlanB #Lauren #Boebert #Matt #Rosendale #Pulse #Life #Advocates #Tea #Party #Catholic #Church #Hobby #Lobby #Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
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In rationalizing the idea that 😨birth control can somehow abort a pregnancy before a pregnancy begins😨, activists make a number of claims.
#Human #Life #International, a global Catholic group, maintains that anything that prevents implantation is an abortion-inducing agent.
#IUDs, they insist, cause “early abortions.”
#Students #for #Life of America likewise claims all forms of hormonal birth control, including IUDs and the Pill, are abortifacients.
Georgia Republican Rep. #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene went so far as to proclaim that #PlanB emergency contraception “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant” even though studies have shown the drug interferes with ovulation but does not inhibit implantation.
Greene isn’t the only Republican lawmaker blurring the lines.
Colorado Rep. #Lauren #Boebert tried to block funds for “abortifacient contraceptive drugs,” while Montana Rep. #Matt #Rosendale tried adding emergency contraception to a bill barring use of the federal funding for abortion.
In 2022, in perhaps one of the most glaring examples, Missouri Republicans pushed unsuccessfully to restrict public funding for IUDs and emergency contraception, with one of the state senators who led it proclaiming that “life begins at conception,” and “anything that destroys that life is abortion, it’s not birth control.”
Just this past week in Iowa, House Republicans attempted to amend a bipartisan bill to legalize over-the-counter birth control by adding new language that would require pharmacists to provide misleading and inaccurate information implying contraceptives are dangerous and a form of abortion.
#Pulse #Life #Advocates, an Iowa group opposing the contraception bill, claims on its website that birth control “kills babies.”
Many of these objections will sound familiar to anyone who followed the fight around the Affordable Care Act 15 years ago.
The political groundwork was laid in 2010 when the #Tea #Party movement came into power and fought alongside the #Catholic #Church against requirements that employer health insurance plans cover birth control.
And in 2014, the retail chain #Hobby #Lobby won its case before the US Supreme Court in which it argued it shouldn’t have to provide employees with IUDs or emergency contraception since its ownership viewed such things as abortion.
(3/n)
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
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In rationalizing the idea that 😨birth control can somehow abort a pregnancy before a pregnancy begins😨, activists make a number of claims.
#Human #Life #International, a global Catholic group, maintains that anything that prevents implantation is an abortion-inducing agent.
#IUDs, they insist, cause “early abortions.”
#Students #for #Life of America likewise claims all forms of hormonal birth control, including IUDs and the Pill, are abortifacients.
Georgia Republican Rep. #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene went so far as to proclaim that #PlanB emergency contraception “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant” even though studies have shown the drug interferes with ovulation but does not inhibit implantation.
Greene isn’t the only Republican lawmaker blurring the lines.
Colorado Rep. #Lauren #Boebert tried to block funds for “abortifacient contraceptive drugs,” while Montana Rep. #Matt #Rosendale tried adding emergency contraception to a bill barring use of the federal funding for abortion.
In 2022, in perhaps one of the most glaring examples, Missouri Republicans pushed unsuccessfully to restrict public funding for IUDs and emergency contraception, with one of the state senators who led it proclaiming that “life begins at conception,” and “anything that destroys that life is abortion, it’s not birth control.”
Just this past week in Iowa, House Republicans attempted to amend a bipartisan bill to legalize over-the-counter birth control by adding new language that would require pharmacists to provide misleading and inaccurate information implying contraceptives are dangerous and a form of abortion.
#Pulse #Life #Advocates, an Iowa group opposing the contraception bill, claims on its website that birth control “kills babies.”
Many of these objections will sound familiar to anyone who followed the fight around the Affordable Care Act 15 years ago.
The political groundwork was laid in 2010 when the #Tea #Party movement came into power and fought alongside the #Catholic #Church against requirements that employer health insurance plans cover birth control.
And in 2014, the retail chain #Hobby #Lobby won its case before the US Supreme Court in which it argued it shouldn’t have to provide employees with IUDs or emergency contraception since its ownership viewed such things as abortion.
(3/n)
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
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In rationalizing the idea that 😨birth control can somehow abort a pregnancy before a pregnancy begins😨, activists make a number of claims.
#Human #Life #International, a global Catholic group, maintains that anything that prevents implantation is an abortion-inducing agent.
#IUDs, they insist, cause “early abortions.”
#Students #for #Life of America likewise claims all forms of hormonal birth control, including IUDs and the Pill, are abortifacients.
Georgia Republican Rep. #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene went so far as to proclaim that #PlanB emergency contraception “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant” even though studies have shown the drug interferes with ovulation but does not inhibit implantation.
Greene isn’t the only Republican lawmaker blurring the lines.
Colorado Rep. #Lauren #Boebert tried to block funds for “abortifacient contraceptive drugs,” while Montana Rep. #Matt #Rosendale tried adding emergency contraception to a bill barring use of the federal funding for abortion.
In 2022, in perhaps one of the most glaring examples, Missouri Republicans pushed unsuccessfully to restrict public funding for IUDs and emergency contraception, with one of the state senators who led it proclaiming that “life begins at conception,” and “anything that destroys that life is abortion, it’s not birth control.”
Just this past week in Iowa, House Republicans attempted to amend a bipartisan bill to legalize over-the-counter birth control by adding new language that would require pharmacists to provide misleading and inaccurate information implying contraceptives are dangerous and a form of abortion.
#Pulse #Life #Advocates, an Iowa group opposing the contraception bill, claims on its website that birth control “kills babies.”
Many of these objections will sound familiar to anyone who followed the fight around the Affordable Care Act 15 years ago.
The political groundwork was laid in 2010 when the #Tea #Party movement came into power and fought alongside the #Catholic #Church against requirements that employer health insurance plans cover birth control.
And in 2014, the retail chain #Hobby #Lobby won its case before the US Supreme Court in which it argued it shouldn’t have to provide employees with IUDs or emergency contraception since its ownership viewed such things as abortion.
(3/n)
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
-
In rationalizing the idea that 😨birth control can somehow abort a pregnancy before a pregnancy begins😨, activists make a number of claims.
#Human #Life #International, a global Catholic group, maintains that anything that prevents implantation is an abortion-inducing agent.
#IUDs, they insist, cause “early abortions.”
#Students #for #Life of America likewise claims all forms of hormonal birth control, including IUDs and the Pill, are abortifacients.
Georgia Republican Rep. #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene went so far as to proclaim that #PlanB emergency contraception “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant” even though studies have shown the drug interferes with ovulation but does not inhibit implantation.
Greene isn’t the only Republican lawmaker blurring the lines.
Colorado Rep. #Lauren #Boebert tried to block funds for “abortifacient contraceptive drugs,” while Montana Rep. #Matt #Rosendale tried adding emergency contraception to a bill barring use of the federal funding for abortion.
In 2022, in perhaps one of the most glaring examples, Missouri Republicans pushed unsuccessfully to restrict public funding for IUDs and emergency contraception, with one of the state senators who led it proclaiming that “life begins at conception,” and “anything that destroys that life is abortion, it’s not birth control.”
Just this past week in Iowa, House Republicans attempted to amend a bipartisan bill to legalize over-the-counter birth control by adding new language that would require pharmacists to provide misleading and inaccurate information implying contraceptives are dangerous and a form of abortion.
#Pulse #Life #Advocates, an Iowa group opposing the contraception bill, claims on its website that birth control “kills babies.”
Many of these objections will sound familiar to anyone who followed the fight around the Affordable Care Act 15 years ago.
The political groundwork was laid in 2010 when the #Tea #Party movement came into power and fought alongside the #Catholic #Church against requirements that employer health insurance plans cover birth control.
And in 2014, the retail chain #Hobby #Lobby won its case before the US Supreme Court in which it argued it shouldn’t have to provide employees with IUDs or emergency contraception since its ownership viewed such things as abortion.
(3/n)
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
-
In rationalizing the idea that 😨birth control can somehow abort a pregnancy before a pregnancy begins😨, activists make a number of claims.
#Human #Life #International, a global Catholic group, maintains that anything that prevents implantation is an abortion-inducing agent.
#IUDs, they insist, cause “early abortions.”
#Students #for #Life of America likewise claims all forms of hormonal birth control, including IUDs and the Pill, are abortifacients.
Georgia Republican Rep. #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene went so far as to proclaim that #PlanB emergency contraception “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant” even though studies have shown the drug interferes with ovulation but does not inhibit implantation.
Greene isn’t the only Republican lawmaker blurring the lines.
Colorado Rep. #Lauren #Boebert tried to block funds for “abortifacient contraceptive drugs,” while Montana Rep. #Matt #Rosendale tried adding emergency contraception to a bill barring use of the federal funding for abortion.
In 2022, in perhaps one of the most glaring examples, Missouri Republicans pushed unsuccessfully to restrict public funding for IUDs and emergency contraception, with one of the state senators who led it proclaiming that “life begins at conception,” and “anything that destroys that life is abortion, it’s not birth control.”
Just this past week in Iowa, House Republicans attempted to amend a bipartisan bill to legalize over-the-counter birth control by adding new language that would require pharmacists to provide misleading and inaccurate information implying contraceptives are dangerous and a form of abortion.
#Pulse #Life #Advocates, an Iowa group opposing the contraception bill, claims on its website that birth control “kills babies.”
Many of these objections will sound familiar to anyone who followed the fight around the Affordable Care Act 15 years ago.
The political groundwork was laid in 2010 when the #Tea #Party movement came into power and fought alongside the #Catholic #Church against requirements that employer health insurance plans cover birth control.
And in 2014, the retail chain #Hobby #Lobby won its case before the US Supreme Court in which it argued it shouldn’t have to provide employees with IUDs or emergency contraception since its ownership viewed such things as abortion.
(3/n)
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
-
The political playbook for attacking birth control shares some similarities with the playbook for attacking abortion
— a slow and steady chipping away of rights and access.Both efforts rely on measures like slashing funding for low-income patients, enacting parental consent laws to restrict minors’ use, and empowering ideologically supportive lawmakers and judges who push friendly legal frameworks.
But the major difference between pushing to restrict abortion access and pushing to restrict birth control is that leaders are typically much quieter about their goals for the latter, aware that open discussion will prompt fierce backlash.
They typically try to paint those who suggest they’d take aim at contraception as alarmists and conspiracists.
When Democrats in Congress introduced a bill to codify access to birth control following the overturn of #Roe, for example, they were met with emphatic performances of exasperation.
“This bill is completely unnecessary. In no way, shape, or form is access to contraception limited or at risk of being limited,” declared Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack during debate on the House floor.
“The liberal majority is clearly trying to stoke fears and mislead the American people.”
Still, a growing number of Republican lawmakers
— including Sens. #Marsha #Blackburn and #Mike #Braun
— have recently declared that ♦️Griswold v. Connecticut♦️, the 1965 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right to birth control, was wrongly decided.#Griswold relies on the same legal right to privacy that underpinned #Roe, and in his concurring #Dobbs v. Jackson opinion in 2022, Justice #Clarence #Thomas encouraged the Supreme Court to “reconsider” Griswold and other privacy-related decisions.
Former Arizona Senate candidate #Blake #Masters went so far as to pledge to “vote only for federal judges who understand that Roe and Griswold” should be overturned.
Leaders more than occasionally reveal their underlying beliefs.
Recent statements, as well as recent actions from reproductive rights opponents, have sent clear reminders about how some influential activists really think about contraception:
that it’s just another form of abortion.Activists aim to blur the line between birth control and abortion
Anti-abortion leaders tend to take advantage of one basic fact about the American people:
There is great confusion about how pregnancy works, how abortion pills end it, and how birth control and emergency contraception (such as Plan B) prevent it.For example, one recent poll found that a stunning 73 percent of Americans think emergency contraception can end a pregnancy.
But among most medical experts, including those at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
— there is no confusion.#Birth #control, including emergency contraception, prevents ovulation (when an egg is released) and fertilization (when egg and sperm meet).
#Pregnancy begins when a fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the uterine wall, a process called #implantation.
Many fertilized eggs never implant.
Yet for a highly motivated wing of the anti-abortion movement, pregnancy starts not at #implantation but at #conception,
and human personhood begins then too, not at #birth.
👉These “fetal personhood” activists want to endow fetuses, embryos, and fertilized eggs with full rights and legal protections and thus frame any effort to prevent implantation
— be it through discarding embryos from IVF or taking a daily birth control pill
— as a form of killing unborn children.It’s a stretch of scientific consensus, but certain Christian activists have long clung to this idea and have slowly been codifying it in state law through bills that claim "human life begins at conception".
More than a third of states currently have such laws on the books.
To blur the line between abortion and contraception, many of these activists call birth control methods “abortifacients”
— agents that induce abortion.♦️But this is misleading because there’s no pregnancy to abort. ♦️
Real abortifacients are the medications that end pregnancies, namely misoprostol and mifepristone.
(2/n)
#IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
-
The political playbook for attacking birth control shares some similarities with the playbook for attacking abortion
— a slow and steady chipping away of rights and access.Both efforts rely on measures like slashing funding for low-income patients, enacting parental consent laws to restrict minors’ use, and empowering ideologically supportive lawmakers and judges who push friendly legal frameworks.
But the major difference between pushing to restrict abortion access and pushing to restrict birth control is that leaders are typically much quieter about their goals for the latter, aware that open discussion will prompt fierce backlash.
They typically try to paint those who suggest they’d take aim at contraception as alarmists and conspiracists.
When Democrats in Congress introduced a bill to codify access to birth control following the overturn of #Roe, for example, they were met with emphatic performances of exasperation.
“This bill is completely unnecessary. In no way, shape, or form is access to contraception limited or at risk of being limited,” declared Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack during debate on the House floor.
“The liberal majority is clearly trying to stoke fears and mislead the American people.”
Still, a growing number of Republican lawmakers
— including Sens. #Marsha #Blackburn and #Mike #Braun
— have recently declared that ♦️Griswold v. Connecticut♦️, the 1965 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right to birth control, was wrongly decided.#Griswold relies on the same legal right to privacy that underpinned #Roe, and in his concurring #Dobbs v. Jackson opinion in 2022, Justice #Clarence #Thomas encouraged the Supreme Court to “reconsider” Griswold and other privacy-related decisions.
Former Arizona Senate candidate #Blake #Masters went so far as to pledge to “vote only for federal judges who understand that Roe and Griswold” should be overturned.
Leaders more than occasionally reveal their underlying beliefs.
Recent statements, as well as recent actions from reproductive rights opponents, have sent clear reminders about how some influential activists really think about contraception:
that it’s just another form of abortion.Activists aim to blur the line between birth control and abortion
Anti-abortion leaders tend to take advantage of one basic fact about the American people:
There is great confusion about how pregnancy works, how abortion pills end it, and how birth control and emergency contraception (such as Plan B) prevent it.For example, one recent poll found that a stunning 73 percent of Americans think emergency contraception can end a pregnancy.
But among most medical experts, including those at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
— there is no confusion.#Birth #control, including emergency contraception, prevents ovulation (when an egg is released) and fertilization (when egg and sperm meet).
#Pregnancy begins when a fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the uterine wall, a process called #implantation.
Many fertilized eggs never implant.
Yet for a highly motivated wing of the anti-abortion movement, pregnancy starts not at #implantation but at #conception,
and human personhood begins then too, not at #birth.
👉These “fetal personhood” activists want to endow fetuses, embryos, and fertilized eggs with full rights and legal protections and thus frame any effort to prevent implantation
— be it through discarding embryos from IVF or taking a daily birth control pill
— as a form of killing unborn children.It’s a stretch of scientific consensus, but certain Christian activists have long clung to this idea and have slowly been codifying it in state law through bills that claim "human life begins at conception".
More than a third of states currently have such laws on the books.
To blur the line between abortion and contraception, many of these activists call birth control methods “abortifacients”
— agents that induce abortion.♦️But this is misleading because there’s no pregnancy to abort. ♦️
Real abortifacients are the medications that end pregnancies, namely misoprostol and mifepristone.
(2/n)
#IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
-
The political playbook for attacking birth control shares some similarities with the playbook for attacking abortion
— a slow and steady chipping away of rights and access.Both efforts rely on measures like slashing funding for low-income patients, enacting parental consent laws to restrict minors’ use, and empowering ideologically supportive lawmakers and judges who push friendly legal frameworks.
But the major difference between pushing to restrict abortion access and pushing to restrict birth control is that leaders are typically much quieter about their goals for the latter, aware that open discussion will prompt fierce backlash.
They typically try to paint those who suggest they’d take aim at contraception as alarmists and conspiracists.
When Democrats in Congress introduced a bill to codify access to birth control following the overturn of #Roe, for example, they were met with emphatic performances of exasperation.
“This bill is completely unnecessary. In no way, shape, or form is access to contraception limited or at risk of being limited,” declared Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack during debate on the House floor.
“The liberal majority is clearly trying to stoke fears and mislead the American people.”
Still, a growing number of Republican lawmakers
— including Sens. #Marsha #Blackburn and #Mike #Braun
— have recently declared that ♦️Griswold v. Connecticut♦️, the 1965 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right to birth control, was wrongly decided.#Griswold relies on the same legal right to privacy that underpinned #Roe, and in his concurring #Dobbs v. Jackson opinion in 2022, Justice #Clarence #Thomas encouraged the Supreme Court to “reconsider” Griswold and other privacy-related decisions.
Former Arizona Senate candidate #Blake #Masters went so far as to pledge to “vote only for federal judges who understand that Roe and Griswold” should be overturned.
Leaders more than occasionally reveal their underlying beliefs.
Recent statements, as well as recent actions from reproductive rights opponents, have sent clear reminders about how some influential activists really think about contraception:
that it’s just another form of abortion.Activists aim to blur the line between birth control and abortion
Anti-abortion leaders tend to take advantage of one basic fact about the American people:
There is great confusion about how pregnancy works, how abortion pills end it, and how birth control and emergency contraception (such as Plan B) prevent it.For example, one recent poll found that a stunning 73 percent of Americans think emergency contraception can end a pregnancy.
But among most medical experts, including those at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
— there is no confusion.#Birth #control, including emergency contraception, prevents ovulation (when an egg is released) and fertilization (when egg and sperm meet).
#Pregnancy begins when a fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the uterine wall, a process called #implantation.
Many fertilized eggs never implant.
Yet for a highly motivated wing of the anti-abortion movement, pregnancy starts not at #implantation but at #conception,
and human personhood begins then too, not at #birth.
👉These “fetal personhood” activists want to endow fetuses, embryos, and fertilized eggs with full rights and legal protections and thus frame any effort to prevent implantation
— be it through discarding embryos from IVF or taking a daily birth control pill
— as a form of killing unborn children.It’s a stretch of scientific consensus, but certain Christian activists have long clung to this idea and have slowly been codifying it in state law through bills that claim "human life begins at conception".
More than a third of states currently have such laws on the books.
To blur the line between abortion and contraception, many of these activists call birth control methods “abortifacients”
— agents that induce abortion.♦️But this is misleading because there’s no pregnancy to abort. ♦️
Real abortifacients are the medications that end pregnancies, namely misoprostol and mifepristone.
(2/n)
#IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
-
The political playbook for attacking birth control shares some similarities with the playbook for attacking abortion
— a slow and steady chipping away of rights and access.Both efforts rely on measures like slashing funding for low-income patients, enacting parental consent laws to restrict minors’ use, and empowering ideologically supportive lawmakers and judges who push friendly legal frameworks.
But the major difference between pushing to restrict abortion access and pushing to restrict birth control is that leaders are typically much quieter about their goals for the latter, aware that open discussion will prompt fierce backlash.
They typically try to paint those who suggest they’d take aim at contraception as alarmists and conspiracists.
When Democrats in Congress introduced a bill to codify access to birth control following the overturn of #Roe, for example, they were met with emphatic performances of exasperation.
“This bill is completely unnecessary. In no way, shape, or form is access to contraception limited or at risk of being limited,” declared Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack during debate on the House floor.
“The liberal majority is clearly trying to stoke fears and mislead the American people.”
Still, a growing number of Republican lawmakers
— including Sens. #Marsha #Blackburn and #Mike #Braun
— have recently declared that ♦️Griswold v. Connecticut♦️, the 1965 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right to birth control, was wrongly decided.#Griswold relies on the same legal right to privacy that underpinned #Roe, and in his concurring #Dobbs v. Jackson opinion in 2022, Justice #Clarence #Thomas encouraged the Supreme Court to “reconsider” Griswold and other privacy-related decisions.
Former Arizona Senate candidate #Blake #Masters went so far as to pledge to “vote only for federal judges who understand that Roe and Griswold” should be overturned.
Leaders more than occasionally reveal their underlying beliefs.
Recent statements, as well as recent actions from reproductive rights opponents, have sent clear reminders about how some influential activists really think about contraception:
that it’s just another form of abortion.Activists aim to blur the line between birth control and abortion
Anti-abortion leaders tend to take advantage of one basic fact about the American people:
There is great confusion about how pregnancy works, how abortion pills end it, and how birth control and emergency contraception (such as Plan B) prevent it.For example, one recent poll found that a stunning 73 percent of Americans think emergency contraception can end a pregnancy.
But among most medical experts, including those at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
— there is no confusion.#Birth #control, including emergency contraception, prevents ovulation (when an egg is released) and fertilization (when egg and sperm meet).
#Pregnancy begins when a fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the uterine wall, a process called #implantation.
Many fertilized eggs never implant.
Yet for a highly motivated wing of the anti-abortion movement, pregnancy starts not at #implantation but at #conception,
and human personhood begins then too, not at #birth.
👉These “fetal personhood” activists want to endow fetuses, embryos, and fertilized eggs with full rights and legal protections and thus frame any effort to prevent implantation
— be it through discarding embryos from IVF or taking a daily birth control pill
— as a form of killing unborn children.It’s a stretch of scientific consensus, but certain Christian activists have long clung to this idea and have slowly been codifying it in state law through bills that claim "human life begins at conception".
More than a third of states currently have such laws on the books.
To blur the line between abortion and contraception, many of these activists call birth control methods “abortifacients”
— agents that induce abortion.♦️But this is misleading because there’s no pregnancy to abort. ♦️
Real abortifacients are the medications that end pregnancies, namely misoprostol and mifepristone.
(2/n)
#IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
-
The political playbook for attacking birth control shares some similarities with the playbook for attacking abortion
— a slow and steady chipping away of rights and access.Both efforts rely on measures like slashing funding for low-income patients, enacting parental consent laws to restrict minors’ use, and empowering ideologically supportive lawmakers and judges who push friendly legal frameworks.
But the major difference between pushing to restrict abortion access and pushing to restrict birth control is that leaders are typically much quieter about their goals for the latter, aware that open discussion will prompt fierce backlash.
They typically try to paint those who suggest they’d take aim at contraception as alarmists and conspiracists.
When Democrats in Congress introduced a bill to codify access to birth control following the overturn of #Roe, for example, they were met with emphatic performances of exasperation.
“This bill is completely unnecessary. In no way, shape, or form is access to contraception limited or at risk of being limited,” declared Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack during debate on the House floor.
“The liberal majority is clearly trying to stoke fears and mislead the American people.”
Still, a growing number of Republican lawmakers
— including Sens. #Marsha #Blackburn and #Mike #Braun
— have recently declared that ♦️Griswold v. Connecticut♦️, the 1965 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right to birth control, was wrongly decided.#Griswold relies on the same legal right to privacy that underpinned #Roe, and in his concurring #Dobbs v. Jackson opinion in 2022, Justice #Clarence #Thomas encouraged the Supreme Court to “reconsider” Griswold and other privacy-related decisions.
Former Arizona Senate candidate #Blake #Masters went so far as to pledge to “vote only for federal judges who understand that Roe and Griswold” should be overturned.
Leaders more than occasionally reveal their underlying beliefs.
Recent statements, as well as recent actions from reproductive rights opponents, have sent clear reminders about how some influential activists really think about contraception:
that it’s just another form of abortion.Activists aim to blur the line between birth control and abortion
Anti-abortion leaders tend to take advantage of one basic fact about the American people:
There is great confusion about how pregnancy works, how abortion pills end it, and how birth control and emergency contraception (such as Plan B) prevent it.For example, one recent poll found that a stunning 73 percent of Americans think emergency contraception can end a pregnancy.
But among most medical experts, including those at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
— there is no confusion.#Birth #control, including emergency contraception, prevents ovulation (when an egg is released) and fertilization (when egg and sperm meet).
#Pregnancy begins when a fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the uterine wall, a process called #implantation.
Many fertilized eggs never implant.
Yet for a highly motivated wing of the anti-abortion movement, pregnancy starts not at #implantation but at #conception,
and human personhood begins then too, not at #birth.
👉These “fetal personhood” activists want to endow fetuses, embryos, and fertilized eggs with full rights and legal protections and thus frame any effort to prevent implantation
— be it through discarding embryos from IVF or taking a daily birth control pill
— as a form of killing unborn children.It’s a stretch of scientific consensus, but certain Christian activists have long clung to this idea and have slowly been codifying it in state law through bills that claim "human life begins at conception".
More than a third of states currently have such laws on the books.
To blur the line between abortion and contraception, many of these activists call birth control methods “abortifacients”
— agents that induce abortion.♦️But this is misleading because there’s no pregnancy to abort. ♦️
Real abortifacients are the medications that end pregnancies, namely misoprostol and mifepristone.
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#IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
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If it isn't obvious, I'm in full-on #Griswold #Halloween mode now...
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Still working my way back down to floor 9, gradually, just hangin out a little, grabbing up good gear. Got a better bow.
Every time I come back to town to sell stuff, I feel Griswold eyeing my badass backup axe, the unique and indestructible Wicked Axe, (that I'm keeping to thrash those jerks up close that instantly surround you on floor 9).
Not gonna happen, man. 🤣
#Diablo #PS1 #PSX #PS1Mini #PSXMini #Tristram #Griswold #uniques #axes #RetroGaming
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Still working my way back down to floor 9, gradually, just hangin out a little, grabbing up good gear. Got a better bow.
Every time I come back to town to sell stuff, I feel Griswold eyeing my badass backup axe, the unique and indestructible Wicked Axe, (that I'm keeping to thrash those jerks up close that instantly surround you on floor 9).
Not gonna happen, man. 🤣
#Diablo #PS1 #PSX #PS1Mini #PSXMini #Tristram #Griswold #uniques #axes #RetroGaming
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Still working my way back down to floor 9, gradually, just hangin out a little, grabbing up good gear. Got a better bow.
Every time I come back to town to sell stuff, I feel Griswold eyeing my badass backup axe, the unique and indestructible Wicked Axe, (that I'm keeping to thrash those jerks up close that instantly surround you on floor 9).
Not gonna happen, man. 🤣
#Diablo #PS1 #PSX #PS1Mini #PSXMini #Tristram #Griswold #uniques #axes #RetroGaming
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Still working my way back down to floor 9, gradually, just hangin out a little, grabbing up good gear. Got a better bow.
Every time I come back to town to sell stuff, I feel Griswold eyeing my badass backup axe, the unique and indestructible Wicked Axe, (that I'm keeping to thrash those jerks up close that instantly surround you on floor 9).
Not gonna happen, man. 🤣
#Diablo #PS1 #PSX #PS1Mini #PSXMini #Tristram #Griswold #uniques #axes #RetroGaming
