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The most aggressive abortion ban bills are spreading throughout our country. These #abortionbans hurt women, ignore the First Amendment, and willfully erase the line between church-state separation. #stopthebans #NWHW
In the wake of these extreme #abortionbans, we’re joining @ACLU @PPFA @NARAL & others to fight back. Today is the day to show up & speak out against these draconian policies. Abortion is a church-state separation issue. Take action to #Stopthebans #NWHW bit.ly/2ElLNbR
@ACLU @PPFA @NARAL Just this year alone, nearly 30 bans on abortion have been introduced, passed, or signed into law in statehouses around the country. Abortion is a church-state separation issue.Take action today! #stopthebans #NWHW bit.ly/2ElLNbR
Our laws are broken. #AlabamaAbortionBan chooseoneshop.com/what-if-they-g…
The best that our best legal minds keep giving us are 5-4 decisions. 5-4 might be a majority, but it it’s not a victory. It’s a goddamn stalemate! It means you have to go back to the drawing board not the champagne celebration.
It means half the country is at best confused, at worst, enraged. We must learn to rule by consensus for things that count. Otherwise, a group of white guys will get to determine the fate of women. Does a woman have a right to determine what she does with her own body or not?
I would take the #AlabamaAbortionBan seriously, philosophically speaking, if it involved punishment for the woman seeking the abortion (it does not). Instead, it demonizes doctors, who could face life in prison for providing abortion services.
If abortion is, indeed, murder, then why would the woman not be punished? This would be like arresting the hit man, while letting the man who hired him off scot-free. Are women not conscious actors, willfully making decisions?
Are doctors not simply following the hippocratic oath (“do no harm”) by providing abortion services? A determined woman will terminate a pregnancy by whatever means. A doctor providing an abortion allows her to accomplish this in the safest, most humane environment possible.
1. Besides sending us Dems into a tizzy, the #AlabamaAbortionBill may do one thing almost for certain: Reelect @DougJones to the Senate. This time to a six-year term. IMO the Dems' only seat in 2020 danger Alabama bill is simply a PR stunt we can make backfire.
2. It's in @theDemocrats' best interest to let GOP electorate think Roberts Court will uphold the ban. It'll depress GOP turnout. I remain convinced Trump's impenetrable 37% is 25% pro-life Catholics who sell their souls to enable Trump's bigotry for pro-life cause. Trump needs
3. to continually energize that part of his base. Alabama leg and gov did their part and now the liberal media is doing the rest by amplifying it. Best to focus response.
Nothing in state legislatures or cable news folks can do will impact how #SCOTUS eventually rules.
Nothing in state legislatures or cable news folks can do will impact how #SCOTUS eventually rules.
Most Americans roughly agree on abortion if allowed to express a nuanced, intermediate position. The question becomes intractable due to political gamesmanship in which the fringes jointly stigmatize the center out of existence. #ExcludedMiddle #AlabamaAbortionBan
You can see the process in these two replies. They each have a valid point, of course, but each is taken to an extreme that leaves no room for a reasonable person to disagree. 
if you ever wonder why i got politically 'radicalized' it's because i grew up in alabama as an athiest child of two biochemistry professors; at 17 i graduated and moved away forever. reminder: Alabama came within 1.7% of sending a known pedo to the senate~
any '13th dimensional chess' tweets about how the AL leg composed this abortion ban to provoke a court fight has never met an actual neoconfederate
this is what they want 100%, it's a white supremacist aristo fertility cult and all the moves make sense when understood that way
this is what they want 100%, it's a white supremacist aristo fertility cult and all the moves make sense when understood that way
source: i have been to an unironic country club debutante ball in dear old mountain brook and folks have no idea how much intergenerational wealth transfer has carried over from the days of slavery in that society's upper class
I'm gonna take flack for this and that is ok. You are free to disagree. I am #ProLife. I think abortion is murder. I also think #AlabamaAbortionBan is a mistake for the long game. /1
I know from my own children and their friends we are winning the culture war on late-term abortion. I think if they had banned late-term we might even win that at the supreme court level. /2
I think leaving out an exemption for rape or incest is also a plank that the liberals will beat us over the head with. Rape/Incest is less than 1% of all abortion and technically it could be considered health fo the mother issue. / 3
Ladies-
Just like women have done for millennia-we HAVE to learn the basics of our reproductive health.
1. Learn to do a cervical exam w/an exam kit here womenshealthinwomenshands.com/your-health-in… and here womenshealthspecialists.org/self-help/self…
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Just like women have done for millennia-we HAVE to learn the basics of our reproductive health.
1. Learn to do a cervical exam w/an exam kit here womenshealthinwomenshands.com/your-health-in… and here womenshealthspecialists.org/self-help/self…
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2. Learn a pelvic exam and menstrual extraction (allows you to remove the uterine lining & have your period over in 20mins) in a group setting. This takes practice. Learn more here womenshealthspecialists.org/self-help/mens…
And here chewbooks.com/product/a-woma…
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And here chewbooks.com/product/a-woma…
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3.Know there are legitimate online sources for abortion pills if you are < 12wks in any state.Find tested/reviewed sources here plancpills.org
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4. Be safe out there.Rapists are being emboldened by these laws &the night is dark/full of terrors✌️
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Finally
4. Be safe out there.Rapists are being emboldened by these laws &the night is dark/full of terrors✌️
#AlabamaAbortionBan
I've seen loads of people discussing the #Alabama #AbortionRights issue this morning, shocked that this could happen. As an anthropologist and (former) six-year resident of "lower Alabama" (FL panhandle), let me give you a bit of history.
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I lived in Pensacola, FL, for six years, as a tenure-track (and then tenured) professor at the University of West Florida. I got a job offer there in summer of 2012.
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As I started looking into the place that would be the new home for me, my husband, and our then-3-year-old daughter, this was the top news item:
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Alabama Senate passes nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which makes no exceptions for victims of rape and incest. Brett ""I LIKE BEER" Kavanaugh is on SCOTUS so why not?!
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Governor signs Alabama abortion ban, which has galvanized support on both sides, setting up a lengthy fight
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What is with the #AlabamaSenate and their support of rape and incest? Bc that's what this is. If you want to have a baby with a woman in #Alabama you can just rape her and be out of jail in a few years (if that) and enjoy joint custody of the child. Its disgusting #BoycottAlabama
