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6 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
That's a completely different conversation and misses the point. It may be true for births; I'm not talking about birth. I am specifically talking about in utero - before the child is born.
Right now, pregnant women get deported. Yet, Republicans are trying to have it both ways by trying to claim equal protection rights for fetuses and trying to deny expectant mothers abortions while in custody to force them to eventually give birth...
...and while still deporting those expectant mothers. But if equal rights under the 14th amendment really apply as they say, then based on republicans' own logic, fetuses have ALL rights not just some when it's convenient, including citizenship BEFORE THEY'RE BORN.
That then calls into question deportation for pregnant women. Some expectant mother will call their bluff on that to block deportation BEFORE the baby is born. It's not an anchor baby issue.
Of course, live-borns are citizens. It's about the citizenship status of the fetus itself. That's the point.

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What's the point of institutions if they don't save and protect their own system?

I believe most rational people would agree that there are three things at stake:

1. governing and meeting the people's needs particularly in times of crisis,
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3. saving democracy.

Does that sound about right?

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It can't go unchallenged:

If a woman gets pregnant and is forced to carry to full term with lost work time, potential sickness, high pregnancy risks, bills and expenses, possible disruptions to already existing family life, and an infinite list of other factors...
...there's no way that's comparable to putting a child up for adoption. Even the suggestion that that it's an alternative for women in crisis is so flip and dismissive that it reduces the status of women from sentient beings with agency to the rough equivalent of breeding cattle.
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A Christmas Wish: Industrialized Nations, stop being ASSHOLES. There are a million reasons they should stop being that way (like global warming), but need to help poor ones with #COVID19 is critical. Vaccines exist for prevention, and treatments exist for those who get infected.
Rich nations have the capacity to help, but instead horde vaccines and treatments to themselves. Yet as long as there's one nation not being helped, the potential for variants and continued disease spread persists for the rest the world including rich countries.
And the variants become more virulent. That's just stupid. So, the rich nations need to get over themselves and do the right thing for once - even if they do it for completely selfish reasons.

Who knows, doing the right thing could just become a habit?
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The thing we mustn't overlook about the Arbery trial, specifically the racist defense attempted by the lawyers, lack of police reform, as well as the current full-on drive to implement voter nullification, and the concocted fear of CRT is that the root cause for all is identical.
Even the miscarriage of justice in the Rittenhouse Trial falls under the same rubric.

As we fight to preserve democracy, we can't be lulled into believing that we're fighting multiple issues on multiple fronts or that some liberals have different issues or agendas from others.
That's what democracy haters would have us believe. That's gaslighting predicated on lies. It's really all one issue that's a cancer on our society and democracy. We can't and mustn't allow our attentions to be diverted, and our efforts - thus our focus and strength - be split.
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