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  1. Thomas Rhett, Lauren Akins Welcome Fifth Baby

    misryoum.com/us/entertainment/

    Thomas Rhett is going through life changes. Indeed, the country music star welcomed his fifth baby—a little boy named Brave Elijah Akins—with wife Lauren Akins, the couple confirmed. “Welcome to the world Brave,” they wrote in a joint Feb. 27...

    #Thomas #Rhett #Lauren #Akins #Welcome #Fifth #Baby #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  2. Thomas Rhett, Lauren Akins Welcome Fifth Baby

    misryoum.com/us/entertainment/

    Thomas Rhett is going through life changes. Indeed, the country music star welcomed his fifth baby—a little boy named Brave Elijah Akins—with wife Lauren Akins, the couple confirmed. “Welcome to the world Brave,” they wrote in a joint Feb. 27...

    #Thomas #Rhett #Lauren #Akins #Welcome #Fifth #Baby #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  3. Colorado MAGA Representative
    #Lauren #Boebert is claiming that Donald Trump
    ❌killed a massive clean water project in her district
    as punishment for her voting to release the Epstein files,
    even after Trump pressed her not to. 

    The Arkansas Valley Conduit was a project decades in the making that was supposed to grant safe drinking water to
    39 communities across the region,
    and received bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress.

    Trump ended all of that on Tuesday. 

    “My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies,”
    he said in a statement justifying his veto of the bill.

    “Ending the massive cost of taxpayer handouts and restoring fiscal sanity is vital to economic growth and the fiscal health of the Nation.”

    Boebert was incensed. 

    “President Trump decided to veto a completely non-controversial, bipartisan bill that passed both the House and Senate unanimously.

    Why?
    Because nothing says ‘America First’ like denying clean drinking water to 50,000 people in Southeast Colorado,
    many of whom enthusiastically voted for him in all three elections,”
    she wrote in a statement.

    "I thought the campaign was about lowering costs and cutting red tape.

    But hey,
    if this administration wants to make its legacy blocking projects that deliver water to rural Americans;
    that’s on them.”

    “And I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation for calling out corruption and demanding accountability.

    Americans deserve leadership that puts people over politics,” she continued. 

    Boebert is clearly alluding to Trump’s aforementioned phone call to demand that she remove her name from the petition to release the Epstein files.  

    Boebert also argued that the veto would have been reasonable if it targeted more liberal voters in Colorado,
    -- but not people in her region who
    “overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump in the last three elections.” 

    “These are not the people that should be attacked,” she said in a video message. 

    newrepublic.com/post/204832/la

  4. 🔥Tenet Media is no more.
    The conservative media network folded Thursday night, just one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing it of being 💥funded by Russian state-controlled media, accordingto Tenet Media field reporter Tayler Hansen.

    ⚠️The indictment accused Tenet and its founders of receiving nearly $10 million from employees of Russia Today as part of ❌“a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.

    The company’s founders, Canadian #Lauren #Chen and her husband, #Liam #Donovon, have not yet commented publicly on the scandal.

    The fallout from the alleged propaganda scheme lost Chen her broadcasting gig with another far-right media group, #Blaze #Media, which has already wiped episodes of her podcast from Spotify and deleted her contributor page from its website.

    Blaze Media CEO #Tyler #Cardon told Semafor that the conservative anchor had been “terminated.”
    🆘The Russian funds paid for videos by popular far-right personalities, including podcaster Tim Pool and Lauren Southern. Pool has since described himself as a “victim” in the Tenet scandal.
    “I have been contacted by the FBI as a potential victim of a crime,” Pool postedon X on Thursday. “The FBI believes I have information relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation and have requested a voluntary interview. I will be offering my assistance in this matter.”
    ⭐️YouTube also wiped Tenet Media’s content from its platform “after careful review” following the indictment, telling NBC Newsthat its decision to erase the channel and its affiliates was part of “ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations.”

    Tenet is just the latest flavor of #Russian-#backed #misinformation campaign that has plagued American politics,
    but it is a sign of just how sizable the foreign country’s budget is in 2024 for influencing the November election.
    newrepublic.com/post/185686/do

  5. 🔥Tenet Media is no more.
    The conservative media network folded Thursday night, just one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing it of being 💥funded by Russian state-controlled media, accordingto Tenet Media field reporter Tayler Hansen.

    ⚠️The indictment accused Tenet and its founders of receiving nearly $10 million from employees of Russia Today as part of ❌“a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.

    The company’s founders, Canadian #Lauren #Chen and her husband, #Liam #Donovon, have not yet commented publicly on the scandal.

    The fallout from the alleged propaganda scheme lost Chen her broadcasting gig with another far-right media group, #Blaze #Media, which has already wiped episodes of her podcast from Spotify and deleted her contributor page from its website.

    Blaze Media CEO #Tyler #Cardon told Semafor that the conservative anchor had been “terminated.”
    🆘The Russian funds paid for videos by popular far-right personalities, including podcaster Tim Pool and Lauren Southern. Pool has since described himself as a “victim” in the Tenet scandal.
    “I have been contacted by the FBI as a potential victim of a crime,” Pool postedon X on Thursday. “The FBI believes I have information relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation and have requested a voluntary interview. I will be offering my assistance in this matter.”
    ⭐️YouTube also wiped Tenet Media’s content from its platform “after careful review” following the indictment, telling NBC Newsthat its decision to erase the channel and its affiliates was part of “ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations.”

    Tenet is just the latest flavor of #Russian-#backed #misinformation campaign that has plagued American politics,
    but it is a sign of just how sizable the foreign country’s budget is in 2024 for influencing the November election.
    newrepublic.com/post/185686/do

  6. 🔥Tenet Media is no more.
    The conservative media network folded Thursday night, just one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing it of being 💥funded by Russian state-controlled media, accordingto Tenet Media field reporter Tayler Hansen.

    ⚠️The indictment accused Tenet and its founders of receiving nearly $10 million from employees of Russia Today as part of ❌“a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.

    The company’s founders, Canadian #Lauren #Chen and her husband, #Liam #Donovon, have not yet commented publicly on the scandal.

    The fallout from the alleged propaganda scheme lost Chen her broadcasting gig with another far-right media group, #Blaze #Media, which has already wiped episodes of her podcast from Spotify and deleted her contributor page from its website.

    Blaze Media CEO #Tyler #Cardon told Semafor that the conservative anchor had been “terminated.”
    🆘The Russian funds paid for videos by popular far-right personalities, including podcaster Tim Pool and Lauren Southern. Pool has since described himself as a “victim” in the Tenet scandal.
    “I have been contacted by the FBI as a potential victim of a crime,” Pool postedon X on Thursday. “The FBI believes I have information relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation and have requested a voluntary interview. I will be offering my assistance in this matter.”
    ⭐️YouTube also wiped Tenet Media’s content from its platform “after careful review” following the indictment, telling NBC Newsthat its decision to erase the channel and its affiliates was part of “ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations.”

    Tenet is just the latest flavor of #Russian-#backed #misinformation campaign that has plagued American politics,
    but it is a sign of just how sizable the foreign country’s budget is in 2024 for influencing the November election.
    newrepublic.com/post/185686/do

  7. 🔥Tenet Media is no more.
    The conservative media network folded Thursday night, just one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing it of being 💥funded by Russian state-controlled media, accordingto Tenet Media field reporter Tayler Hansen.

    ⚠️The indictment accused Tenet and its founders of receiving nearly $10 million from employees of Russia Today as part of ❌“a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.

    The company’s founders, Canadian #Lauren #Chen and her husband, #Liam #Donovon, have not yet commented publicly on the scandal.

    The fallout from the alleged propaganda scheme lost Chen her broadcasting gig with another far-right media group, #Blaze #Media, which has already wiped episodes of her podcast from Spotify and deleted her contributor page from its website.

    Blaze Media CEO #Tyler #Cardon told Semafor that the conservative anchor had been “terminated.”
    🆘The Russian funds paid for videos by popular far-right personalities, including podcaster Tim Pool and Lauren Southern. Pool has since described himself as a “victim” in the Tenet scandal.
    “I have been contacted by the FBI as a potential victim of a crime,” Pool postedon X on Thursday. “The FBI believes I have information relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation and have requested a voluntary interview. I will be offering my assistance in this matter.”
    ⭐️YouTube also wiped Tenet Media’s content from its platform “after careful review” following the indictment, telling NBC Newsthat its decision to erase the channel and its affiliates was part of “ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations.”

    Tenet is just the latest flavor of #Russian-#backed #misinformation campaign that has plagued American politics,
    but it is a sign of just how sizable the foreign country’s budget is in 2024 for influencing the November election.
    newrepublic.com/post/185686/do

  8. 🔥Tenet Media is no more.
    The conservative media network folded Thursday night, just one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing it of being 💥funded by Russian state-controlled media, accordingto Tenet Media field reporter Tayler Hansen.

    ⚠️The indictment accused Tenet and its founders of receiving nearly $10 million from employees of Russia Today as part of ❌“a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.

    The company’s founders, Canadian #Lauren #Chen and her husband, #Liam #Donovon, have not yet commented publicly on the scandal.

    The fallout from the alleged propaganda scheme lost Chen her broadcasting gig with another far-right media group, #Blaze #Media, which has already wiped episodes of her podcast from Spotify and deleted her contributor page from its website.

    Blaze Media CEO #Tyler #Cardon told Semafor that the conservative anchor had been “terminated.”
    🆘The Russian funds paid for videos by popular far-right personalities, including podcaster Tim Pool and Lauren Southern. Pool has since described himself as a “victim” in the Tenet scandal.
    “I have been contacted by the FBI as a potential victim of a crime,” Pool postedon X on Thursday. “The FBI believes I have information relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation and have requested a voluntary interview. I will be offering my assistance in this matter.”
    ⭐️YouTube also wiped Tenet Media’s content from its platform “after careful review” following the indictment, telling NBC Newsthat its decision to erase the channel and its affiliates was part of “ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations.”

    Tenet is just the latest flavor of #Russian-#backed #misinformation campaign that has plagued American politics,
    but it is a sign of just how sizable the foreign country’s budget is in 2024 for influencing the November election.
    newrepublic.com/post/185686/do

  9. Hey there, it's #Mark #Hamill.
    Yes, it's really me.

    In a moment, I'm going to ask you to make a donation to
    #Trisha #Calvarese,
    the official Democratic nominee running
    against #Lauren #Boebert in Colorado.

    But before I do, let me explain why right-wing extremists like Boebert scare me.

    Lauren Boebert isn't just a national embarrassment
    - she has an actual vote in Congress.

    Boebert is ready to pass a #national #abortion #ban,
    gut Medicare and Social Security,
    and throw our veterans under the bus if she's reelected again.

    And don't even get me started on #Project2025...

    The Force is strong with Trisha.

    That's why I am so excited about Trisha's campaign:
    🔥New polling shows that Trisha can win and defeat Lauren Boebert! 🔥

    But Trisha can only flip this seat blue if she is able to raise enough money and fully fund her campaign.

    🔸I'm ready to help Trisha Calvarese take on Lauren Boebert and finally kick her out of Congress, and I am asking you to join me today:

    🔸Please, will you make a weekly donation right now to Trisha Calvarese's campaign to help her defeat Lauren Boebert this November?

    Winning this seat and turning it blue not only means getting rid of Boebert, but it will also get us
    ♦️one step closer to taking back the House for Democrats. ♦️

    go.trisha4co.com/8082

    This election is about #integrity and #decency. Trisha and I are counting on people like you to chip in now and ensure the right side wins in November.

    Thank you,

    Mark Hamill
    Actor and Activist

  10. Mike Johnson’s groveling meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday:

    It was a deeply weird affair. With Trump hovering watchfully over Johnson, the House Speaker said that in campaigning, he’s discovered that people across the country just happen to be thoroughly obsessed with precisely the same thing that preoccupies Trump.

    “Everywhere we go, one of the first questions that people ask about is this issue of #election #integrity,” Johnson said.

    The GOP remains as committed as ever to their disturbing post-insurrection denial path.

    At least a dozen Republican incumbents or prominent candidates in competitive races are tainted with #election #denialism, some of it extremely serious or even #deranged.

    These include representatives like #Scott #Perry of Pennsylvania, who was extensively involved in Trump’s coup, #Anna #Paulina #Luna of Florida, who co-wrote a children’s book falsely depicting the 2020 election as stolen, and #Derrick #Van #Orden of Wisconsin, who attended the Capitol rally on January 6.

    Meanwhile, GOP Representatives #Mike #Garcia and #Ken #Calvert of California, and #David #Schweikert of Arizona, all voted not to certify Biden’s electors.

    Representative #Jen #Kiggans of Virginia repeatedly fed doubts about the 2020 outcome.

    Democrats view all these as key targets.

    Then there are election-denying GOP candidates in other top-tier races, such as #Scott #Baugh in California, who refused to acknowledge Biden’s victory, #Joe #Kent in Washington State, who called for the rioters to be pardoned, and #Mayra #Flores in Texas, who spread crackpot January 6th conspiracy theories. That’s only a partial list.

    Could this factor help tip the balance of the House? It’s not all that far-fetched a possibility.

    Dave Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst at Cook Political Report, suggests keeping an eye on the GOP primary underway in the district of Representative #Lauren #Boebert (who is running in another district).
    That pits wild-eyed election denier #Ron #Hanks against a saner opponent.
    If Hanks wins, Democrats have a “very good chance” of winning Boebert’s seat, Wasserman says.

    The upshot? As Wasserman notes, election denialism might end up mattering in only a limited number of races.

    But, he adds, “the margin in the House is so close right now that even things like that could affect the outcome.”

    newrepublic.com/article/180690

  11. Mike Johnson’s groveling meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday:

    It was a deeply weird affair. With Trump hovering watchfully over Johnson, the House Speaker said that in campaigning, he’s discovered that people across the country just happen to be thoroughly obsessed with precisely the same thing that preoccupies Trump.

    “Everywhere we go, one of the first questions that people ask about is this issue of #election #integrity,” Johnson said.

    The GOP remains as committed as ever to their disturbing post-insurrection denial path.

    At least a dozen Republican incumbents or prominent candidates in competitive races are tainted with #election #denialism, some of it extremely serious or even #deranged.

    These include representatives like #Scott #Perry of Pennsylvania, who was extensively involved in Trump’s coup, #Anna #Paulina #Luna of Florida, who co-wrote a children’s book falsely depicting the 2020 election as stolen, and #Derrick #Van #Orden of Wisconsin, who attended the Capitol rally on January 6.

    Meanwhile, GOP Representatives #Mike #Garcia and #Ken #Calvert of California, and #David #Schweikert of Arizona, all voted not to certify Biden’s electors.

    Representative #Jen #Kiggans of Virginia repeatedly fed doubts about the 2020 outcome.

    Democrats view all these as key targets.

    Then there are election-denying GOP candidates in other top-tier races, such as #Scott #Baugh in California, who refused to acknowledge Biden’s victory, #Joe #Kent in Washington State, who called for the rioters to be pardoned, and #Mayra #Flores in Texas, who spread crackpot January 6th conspiracy theories. That’s only a partial list.

    Could this factor help tip the balance of the House? It’s not all that far-fetched a possibility.

    Dave Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst at Cook Political Report, suggests keeping an eye on the GOP primary underway in the district of Representative #Lauren #Boebert (who is running in another district).
    That pits wild-eyed election denier #Ron #Hanks against a saner opponent.
    If Hanks wins, Democrats have a “very good chance” of winning Boebert’s seat, Wasserman says.

    The upshot? As Wasserman notes, election denialism might end up mattering in only a limited number of races.

    But, he adds, “the margin in the House is so close right now that even things like that could affect the outcome.”

    newrepublic.com/article/180690

  12. Mike Johnson’s groveling meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday:

    It was a deeply weird affair. With Trump hovering watchfully over Johnson, the House Speaker said that in campaigning, he’s discovered that people across the country just happen to be thoroughly obsessed with precisely the same thing that preoccupies Trump.

    “Everywhere we go, one of the first questions that people ask about is this issue of #election #integrity,” Johnson said.

    The GOP remains as committed as ever to their disturbing post-insurrection denial path.

    At least a dozen Republican incumbents or prominent candidates in competitive races are tainted with #election #denialism, some of it extremely serious or even #deranged.

    These include representatives like #Scott #Perry of Pennsylvania, who was extensively involved in Trump’s coup, #Anna #Paulina #Luna of Florida, who co-wrote a children’s book falsely depicting the 2020 election as stolen, and #Derrick #Van #Orden of Wisconsin, who attended the Capitol rally on January 6.

    Meanwhile, GOP Representatives #Mike #Garcia and #Ken #Calvert of California, and #David #Schweikert of Arizona, all voted not to certify Biden’s electors.

    Representative #Jen #Kiggans of Virginia repeatedly fed doubts about the 2020 outcome.

    Democrats view all these as key targets.

    Then there are election-denying GOP candidates in other top-tier races, such as #Scott #Baugh in California, who refused to acknowledge Biden’s victory, #Joe #Kent in Washington State, who called for the rioters to be pardoned, and #Mayra #Flores in Texas, who spread crackpot January 6th conspiracy theories. That’s only a partial list.

    Could this factor help tip the balance of the House? It’s not all that far-fetched a possibility.

    Dave Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst at Cook Political Report, suggests keeping an eye on the GOP primary underway in the district of Representative #Lauren #Boebert (who is running in another district).
    That pits wild-eyed election denier #Ron #Hanks against a saner opponent.
    If Hanks wins, Democrats have a “very good chance” of winning Boebert’s seat, Wasserman says.

    The upshot? As Wasserman notes, election denialism might end up mattering in only a limited number of races.

    But, he adds, “the margin in the House is so close right now that even things like that could affect the outcome.”

    newrepublic.com/article/180690

  13. Mike Johnson’s groveling meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday:

    It was a deeply weird affair. With Trump hovering watchfully over Johnson, the House Speaker said that in campaigning, he’s discovered that people across the country just happen to be thoroughly obsessed with precisely the same thing that preoccupies Trump.

    “Everywhere we go, one of the first questions that people ask about is this issue of #election #integrity,” Johnson said.

    The GOP remains as committed as ever to their disturbing post-insurrection denial path.

    At least a dozen Republican incumbents or prominent candidates in competitive races are tainted with #election #denialism, some of it extremely serious or even #deranged.

    These include representatives like #Scott #Perry of Pennsylvania, who was extensively involved in Trump’s coup, #Anna #Paulina #Luna of Florida, who co-wrote a children’s book falsely depicting the 2020 election as stolen, and #Derrick #Van #Orden of Wisconsin, who attended the Capitol rally on January 6.

    Meanwhile, GOP Representatives #Mike #Garcia and #Ken #Calvert of California, and #David #Schweikert of Arizona, all voted not to certify Biden’s electors.

    Representative #Jen #Kiggans of Virginia repeatedly fed doubts about the 2020 outcome.

    Democrats view all these as key targets.

    Then there are election-denying GOP candidates in other top-tier races, such as #Scott #Baugh in California, who refused to acknowledge Biden’s victory, #Joe #Kent in Washington State, who called for the rioters to be pardoned, and #Mayra #Flores in Texas, who spread crackpot January 6th conspiracy theories. That’s only a partial list.

    Could this factor help tip the balance of the House? It’s not all that far-fetched a possibility.

    Dave Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst at Cook Political Report, suggests keeping an eye on the GOP primary underway in the district of Representative #Lauren #Boebert (who is running in another district).
    That pits wild-eyed election denier #Ron #Hanks against a saner opponent.
    If Hanks wins, Democrats have a “very good chance” of winning Boebert’s seat, Wasserman says.

    The upshot? As Wasserman notes, election denialism might end up mattering in only a limited number of races.

    But, he adds, “the margin in the House is so close right now that even things like that could affect the outcome.”

    newrepublic.com/article/180690

  14. Mike Johnson’s groveling meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday:

    It was a deeply weird affair. With Trump hovering watchfully over Johnson, the House Speaker said that in campaigning, he’s discovered that people across the country just happen to be thoroughly obsessed with precisely the same thing that preoccupies Trump.

    “Everywhere we go, one of the first questions that people ask about is this issue of #election #integrity,” Johnson said.

    The GOP remains as committed as ever to their disturbing post-insurrection denial path.

    At least a dozen Republican incumbents or prominent candidates in competitive races are tainted with #election #denialism, some of it extremely serious or even #deranged.

    These include representatives like #Scott #Perry of Pennsylvania, who was extensively involved in Trump’s coup, #Anna #Paulina #Luna of Florida, who co-wrote a children’s book falsely depicting the 2020 election as stolen, and #Derrick #Van #Orden of Wisconsin, who attended the Capitol rally on January 6.

    Meanwhile, GOP Representatives #Mike #Garcia and #Ken #Calvert of California, and #David #Schweikert of Arizona, all voted not to certify Biden’s electors.

    Representative #Jen #Kiggans of Virginia repeatedly fed doubts about the 2020 outcome.

    Democrats view all these as key targets.

    Then there are election-denying GOP candidates in other top-tier races, such as #Scott #Baugh in California, who refused to acknowledge Biden’s victory, #Joe #Kent in Washington State, who called for the rioters to be pardoned, and #Mayra #Flores in Texas, who spread crackpot January 6th conspiracy theories. That’s only a partial list.

    Could this factor help tip the balance of the House? It’s not all that far-fetched a possibility.

    Dave Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst at Cook Political Report, suggests keeping an eye on the GOP primary underway in the district of Representative #Lauren #Boebert (who is running in another district).
    That pits wild-eyed election denier #Ron #Hanks against a saner opponent.
    If Hanks wins, Democrats have a “very good chance” of winning Boebert’s seat, Wasserman says.

    The upshot? As Wasserman notes, election denialism might end up mattering in only a limited number of races.

    But, he adds, “the margin in the House is so close right now that even things like that could affect the outcome.”

    newrepublic.com/article/180690

  15. “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)

    vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion

    #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

  16. “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)

    vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion

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  17. “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.

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