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Jessica Valenti Profile picture
@JessicaValenti
Dec 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
This is the baby aisle at my local Rite Aid.

We're a country that wants to force women into childbirth and then lock up diapers. Image
It really is such a perfect encapsulation of American motherhood.
On a more practical level: How about you just let people steal the fucking diapers if they need them? I would hope that ensuring babies don't sit in their own filth is a universal value
Law enforcement (esp in NYC) would like us to believe that there are roving gangs of shoplifters who are interested in diapers for reasons beyond keeping babies clean. It's disgusting.
I'd be curious to know if diapers are locked up in other parts of NYC. I don't think it's a coincidence that my local Rite Aid happens to be the closest one to a public housing development

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Jul 25
In the newsletter right now: Georgia cops are investigating a miscarriage, and it's following all of the traditional markers of pregnancy criminalization

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It's so important that people understand the way criminalization operates - and the way it humiliates and punishes pregnant people
When people are turned in to law enforcement for their pregnancy outcomes, for example, it's most often healthcare providers who make that call. That was the case here.

@ifwhenhow has an important study that gets into this ifwhenhow.org/resources/self…
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Jul 17
Since I'm on a roll with bitching about mainstream coverage of abortion rights:

Remember how many headlines claimed Republicans removed a national ban from their platform? I pointed out that wasn't true because of language on the 14th amendment *and* so-called 'late' abortion
Essentially, anti-abortion lawmakers have been redefining 'late' abortion as anything after the 1st trimester. (It's is not a real medical term, so they define however they want) It's rhetorical cover for their national ban -they say they're just limiting 'extreme late' abortion
This is what I wrote about the platform. Just remember this quote for a minute: Image
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Jul 16
The @nytimes is has *deceptively edited a JD Vance quote* to make it appear that he opposes a national ban. Here's the 2022 quote they use:

“Ohio is going to want to have a different abortion policy from California, from New York, and I think that’s reasonable."
Here's the full quote, where Vance clearly calls for a national ban. This is journalistic malpractice. Image
This is not just a matter of taking a politician's word for it. They reference the quote and then lie about it
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Jul 10
In Montana, the Secretary of State’s office has been removing the names of registered voters from a pro-choice petition - the latest in a long line of anti-abortion attacks on democracy across the country

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In Missouri, voters got text messages warning them not to sign a pro-choice petition because the folks collecting signatures were trying to steal their identities
South Dakota voters who signed a pro-choice petition got phone calls from anti-abortion activists pretending to be from the Secretary of State’s office, pressuring them to remove their names.

The group behind that effort was formed by a Republican state legislator.
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Jul 9
The fact that the @nytimes still has this 100% false headline up is malpractice. Just admit you were duped and issue a correction! Image
Bc this is not a small fuck up - it's a big one! And it's an error that is handing the Trump campaign exactly what they wanted: a narrative about him pushing the GOP to be more 'moderate' on abortion rights, and an inroad to Republican women voters
Two of the guys who wrote this platform are anti-abortion extremists: one helped write Project 2025, and the other—who supports arresting abortion patients—promised in a podcast interview that “the platform will respect life in every moment.”
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Jun 5
Republicans claim they don't support the Right to Contraception Act because there's "no threat" to birth control and Democrats are "fear-mongering."

Why, then, did Sen. Jodi Ernst say she introduced her own birth control bill to stop any protection of emergency contraception? Image
It's almost as if there's a VERY REAL THREAT to contraception!

I'll have more in the newsletter tonight, but that's a big deal. Republicans are admitting they think the morning after pill is an abortifacient
This comes just a day after Republicans' star witness in the Senate committee hearing on abortion admitted she thinks IUDs and emergency contraception are abortions
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