Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. The hypocrisy of the "pro-life" but actually anti-woman right needs to be the center of the critique of their assault on choice.

Let's begin. Even as they attack women's autonomy, they are doing everything in their power to harm babies. Trump and GOP AG's are in court....

2...fighting to have the following policies declared unconstitutional: an increase in the tax credit for adoption, requirements for providing insurance to cover prenatal care, money to states for pregnancy counseling, home visits by nurses for women with problem pregnancies...

3...notice what all those are? They are ATTACKS on people who want to bring a fetus to term, who want to raise a child. They are ATTACKS on kids health and will increase infant mortality. Why?

Why else? Money. If there is anything that GOP loves more than fetuses, it's money...

4...in fact, MOST POLICIES designed to aid people who want to care for children, who want to have healthy pregnancies, but that cost money are under assault by Republicans. ALL they want is to force women to give birth. It doesn't matter if the baby is ill, dying, and that....

5...the parents cannot afford it. All they want is birth. Then, they resume their "screw that taker! I'm not giving up MY money." Notice, their entire agenda is "Screw You! You do what *I* want" - and then once they succeed, they walk away, taking no responsibility for their...

6...policies.

So let's talk about the other policies they oppose showing that they care more for money than for their supposed love for clumps of tissue - I'm sorry, as they call it, babies. The single largest cause of abortion is poverty. The statistics are irrefutable.....

7...from 2000 through 2008, abortion rates fell by 8 percent. However, the underlying numbers show reality: The rates for women with high incomes fell 24%, for poor women, they climbed 18%. Why?

The answer is always the same: Cant afford birth control, can't afford the child..

8...In fact, 42% - FORTY TWO FRIGGING PERCENT - of the women who terminate a pregnancy have less than $10,800 a year in household income, which puts them below the federal poverty line. 70% of the women who have abortions earn less than $22,000....

9...which leads to the "Why do you wait to have an abortion?" BS from "pro-life until money is involved" thugs. Women in the category of highest number of abortions do not have the money available FOR an abortion. So they have to save up, over many weeks, nd often go past the...

10...weeks limits imposed by the "no abortions but don't take my money" crowd. Now, think about that for a second: THESE women, who have to save for 20 or more weeks for an abortion, are supposed to buy food, diapers, pay rent, medical care and on and on and on for a baby?...

11....and let's not forget about schools. While the thugs want to force women to have babies, they don't say "and then we need to increase support for public schools." Nope - those are kids, not tissue. "Dont take my money!" is their response. Cut, cut, cut school budgets....

12...so our country can have a greater population of hungry, uneducated people who are unable to get medical care or afford decent housing.

So, what will change about abortion with these rules? Abso-frigging-nothing. It is these reasons why the statistics show that the only....

13...thing that changes when abortion is made illegal is the safety of abortions. People still don't want to starve uneducated, sickly children. People still don't want their other kids to be forced to sleep 12 to a bed. So the answers from the people who ACTUALLY want....

14...abortions to decrease is always the same. But of course, every one of them means money, and although they are so "oh, boo-hoo abortion is murder" the thugs dont want to pay a dime to ACTUALLY decrease abortions among women who are forced by circumstance into them...

15...but just in case there are thugs out there who actually want to decrease the number of abortions - and not just monitor women's sex habits - here is what the studies show needs to be done:

a. Pay for birth control. Duh. If women are getting pregnant because they dont have..

16....the money for birth control, and are just rolling the dice, then they need to get help. The thugs just say "don't have sex" - they're actual goal - which is an answer they apply both to single AND married couples. Yes, they believe that having sex should be allowed only...

17...if you can afford it.

b. Increase the minimum wage. This one is obvious too. If someone cannot afford to have a child, or if they are already working 2-3 jobs to care for the kids they already have, the way to stop abortions caused by circumstance is to make it that they...

18...have the ability to afford a child.

c. Government funded day-care. Think about it - where are these kids supposed to go when parents are at work? Again, this is considered in abortion decisions by the poor.

d. Free pre-natal care. Unfortunately, the thugs are fighting...

19...not only that, but even subsidized prenatal care. Because "dont take my money" is the TRUE proof that even THEY don't believe this "murdered babies" nonsense.

e. A government financed national network of couples who want to adopt and women who are pregnant. And if there...

20...are two sides that agree, the adopting couple has to pay for the pregnant woman's medical care and prenatal care.

f. Increase the fines and consequences on employers who discriminate against pregnant employees. Have notices posted in every workplace with contact info...

21...so women know who to call, and employers know someone might be called.

g. Finance public schools. Make it that the kids can get books, can be less than 2,000 per classroom. Make it that parents might think a child has a chance.

Doing this would address the VAST majority...

22...of abortions compelled by circumstance. Again, these are far and away the largest numbers of abortions and data shows that doing these things decreases abortion. Women then have a choice, abortion numbers drop, and fewer women get pregnant accidentally...

23...but again, all of this costs money. And sacrifice is something that Republicans know very little about. So...fight back. Hit them with these facts. Demand they explain why they are trying to cripple care for pregnant women. Demand why they won't do the only....

24...things that have been shown to decrease abortion - things that are dramatically more effective than laws against the medical procedure.

And then when they make excuses, tell them "Go to hell, you hypocritical liar."