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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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Sep 12
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy:
nytimes.com/2025/09/11/hea…Image
I've been warning for years that this was how Republicans would ban birth control - by twisting language and redefining certain types of contraception as 'abortifacients'

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I'll have more on this in the newsletter tonight, but it's a truly dark sign of the times that this isn't a front page story: the Trump administration has officially said it believes birth control is abortion!
Read 4 tweets
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Mar 29
Is this just our new normal? Women being arrested if a cop doesn’t like how they miscarried, and lawmakers debating whether to put us to death before breaking for fucking lunch? Has everyone lost their minds? Image
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Truly: The same week I wrote about a Georgia woman arrested for her miscarriage, lawmakers in the state considered a bill that would charge abortion patients as murderers - allowing cops to investigate any pregnancy loss as potentially suspect
That's not an exaggeration - investigating pregnancy losses is very much the goal. The same kind of 'equal protection' bill in Georgia has been intro'd in 11 states. In Idaho, the sponsor said *outright* that it would allow cops to look into miscarriages
Read 5 tweets
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Feb 18
I'm on vacation so I'll write about this more when I'm back, but I had to say something:

I truly cannot believe that the NYT published this investigation into Planned Parenthood as it is, using the kind of shocking anti-abortion rhetoric I'd expect to see in the Daily Caller Image
Not only does the Times call a fetus a "baby" in a "womb," the piece also uses the term 'botched abortion,' one of the most inflammatory anti-choice phrases there is.

In fact, 'botched'—which is not a medical term—shows up several times in the piece and in the headline Image
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You know how many times the word ‘Dobbs’ appears? ZERO. Roe? Once—and just to say that Planned Parenthood "enjoyed a fund-raising boom" when Roe ended.
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Jan 17
Republicans claim they don't want to punish women for abortion, yet there are *four states* considering bills that would prosecute abortion patients as murderers: Oklahoma, South Carolina, Indiana & North Dakota.

Three of those states have the death penalty.
A fifth state is on the way:

The extremist group that lobbies lawmakers and drafts this kind of legislation announced this week that they have a dozen Republicans ready to author a bill in Texas
It's nuts that this isn't getting massive media coverage! And it doesn't matter that the bills are unlikely to pass - the point is that they're normalizing extremist legislation by reintroducing it again and again. They're slowly acclimating Americans
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Dec 16, 2024
A few important things about the Texas lawsuit against a New York abortion provider:

1) Ken Paxton appears to be lying about the patient suffering "serious complications" that "required medical intervention."

2) We need to talk about how Paxton found out about this abortion
On the abortion 'complication' claim: Paxton says in his press release that abortion pills "caused serious harm to this patient."

This appears to be a lie—one that is being repeated by mainstream outlets
If you read the brief, you'll see that the patient went to the hospital because she was worried about how much she was bleeding. That's not unusual with abortion pills - a lot of folks don't realize how much they'll bleed.

But the brief says nothing about her being treated
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Nov 1, 2024
I’m still thinking about this woman in Georgia—miscarrying and hemorrhaging ‘dinner plate-sized clots’—who, even after qualifying for an abortion, couldn’t skip the state’s 24-hour waiting period because she wasn’t close enough to dying.

This is torture

usatoday.com/story/news/hea…
And this is the thing the anti-abortion movement wants to normalize: our suffering. To them, what happened to this woman is a 'success story' - proof their laws work because at least she's still alive. Who cares how much she had to unnecessarily suffer?
This is something I've been tracking at the newsletter - anti-abortion activists are trying very hard to normalize the idea that suffering for your pregnancy is to be expected. That it's all part of motherhood and if you were a 'good' mother you wouldn't complain
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