1) That's stupid 2) This has nothing to do with Barrett being an "accomplished woman" and everything to do with venerating a particular brand of femininity (ie pretty white mothers who read as docile)
Like no one was worried about coming across as a bully when questioning Cecile Richards or Hillary Clinton
To a certain extent, this is what made Christine Blasey Ford difficult for the GOP - she read as quiet and docile. That's why they didn't attack her as a liar, but instead kept saying she was "mistaken."
And obviously this was a while ago - but this was never a worry with Anita Hill. So...
Anyway, there's a reason the GOP keeps mentioning all of Barrett's kids: They think her status as ultimate mother makes her untouchable and if Dems fall for it, they're making a huge mistake
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Full story tonight in the newsletter, but I had to share this now:
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, arguably the most powerful anti-abortion group in the country, is launching a half million dollar ad campaign blaming pro-choicers for the deaths of two women in Georgia.
That’s right, the group that passed the laws that killed Candi Miller and Amber Nicole Thurman are co-opting their deaths to try to stave off voter fury.
It's truly the most grotesque display I've seen in the over 20 years I've been doing this work sbaprolife.org/newsroom/press…
The final line of the ad made me feel physically ill: “Candi and Amber should be alive. The Left’s scare tactics are deadly.”
How fucking dare they.
SBA-PLA also makes very clear in the language they use that they don't want abortion to be legal to save women's lives.
Let's be really clear here: When conservatives say that states allow 'post birth abortion' what they're actually talking about is palliative care for fatally ill newborns.
When a baby is born too early to survive or has a fatal condition, parents will sometimes choose to forgo invasive, painful *and futile* medical interventions so they can say goodbye peacefully, without wires or breathing machines.
That's who they're calling "executioners."
Here's a Montana woman talking about why she opposes 'born alive' legislation. Republicans are willing to literally torture grieving families going through the worst moment of their lives - all in service of creating this horrific talking point npr.org/2022/10/26/113…
Ron DeSantis is *sending cops* to the homes of people who signed a petition to get abortion on the Florida ballot.
This comes the same week that the Florida department of state requested information on 36,000 voters who signed the Amendment 4 petition
h/t @AnnaForFlorida
Republicans claim they're looking for fraud, using the same dept of “Election Crimes and Security" that DeSantis used to target Black voters in 2022.
They don't care that voters want abortion rights restored—and if they need to dismantle democracy to keep it banned, so be it
Btw, if you haven't subscribed to Abortion, Every Day yet, consider that I predicted this would happen *six months ago* after two petitioners were arrested for allegedly collecting fraudulent signatures
If you want to know what dystopia looks like, it's this YouTube video from the South Dakota Health Department telling doctors when they're allowed to save pregnant women's lives
I wish I was exaggerating: This is a government video instructing doctors are what conditions are sufficiently life-threatening enough to end women's pregnancies
And btw, I say "end women's pregnancies" and not 'abortion' because the video doesn't recommend abortion for life-threatening pregnancies. Instead, it says doctors can perform 'maternal fetal separations' - that's a fake term anti-abortion activists made up
There have been a ton of headlines over the last few days about JD Vance promising that Trump won’t support national abortion ban.
But what reporters haven’t picked up on is that Vance used the word ‘ban’ in a very particular way to lie in plain sight.
If you read my newsletter, you know I’ve been tracking conservatives’ efforts to redefine ‘ban’ for over a year. Interviews like this are *exactly* why I’m so obsessive about language. So let’s get into it…
Anti-abortion activists and politicians know that abortion bans are extremely unpopular, so they no longer use that word. At all.
That’s why you’ll hear Republicans say that they support a ‘restriction’ or a ‘national minimum standard’ even tho they just mean ‘ban.’
It doesn't just call for every abortion to be reported to the federal government, but also every miscarriage, stillbirth, and "incidental" pregnancy loss from medical treatments like chemo
Project 2025 also calls for a Trump presidency to redefine emergency contraception as an 'abortifacient' (they call it the “week after” pill), use the FDA to repeal approval of abortion medication, and use Comstock to ban the shipping of abortion pills & supplies
But Project 2025 doesn't just want to criminalize the mailing of abortion medication - it calls for a ban on the “interstate carriage of abortion drugs.”
That means anyone who drives pills a few miles across a border will be labeled as a drug trafficker.