tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
In the past the Democrats in states like Alabama were the parry if segregation and the Klan. They were doing the stuff not letting others get away with it.
Misogynist barbarians in Alabama impose forced pregnancy law
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In the past the Democrats in states like Alabama were the parry if segregation and the Klan. They were doing the stuff not letting others get away with it.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
No, just don't expect to get progress from parties like the Democrats.
CRI
Registered Chooser
Not sure which thread this should go on, but this will do.
Most of the time, Justice Thomas just sits saying nothing, but wtf with this>
Justice Thomas launches an utterly bizarre attack on birth control
He goes into one on Margaret Sanger in this 20 page rant. Connecting abortion, birth control, eugenics and genocide of Black Americans is a favourite tactic of white supremacist anti-abortionists, bizarrely assuming Black people are stupid enough to fall for it (to be fair, clearly Clarence Thomas did, but there you go.)
Don't be surprised if there aren't more moves to curtail or ban contraception coming from states in the months to come.
Good piece on Sanger for those interested.
How False Narratives of Margaret Sanger Are Being Used to Shame Black Women
Most of the time, Justice Thomas just sits saying nothing, but wtf with this>
Justice Thomas launches an utterly bizarre attack on birth control
He goes into one on Margaret Sanger in this 20 page rant. Connecting abortion, birth control, eugenics and genocide of Black Americans is a favourite tactic of white supremacist anti-abortionists, bizarrely assuming Black people are stupid enough to fall for it (to be fair, clearly Clarence Thomas did, but there you go.)
Don't be surprised if there aren't more moves to curtail or ban contraception coming from states in the months to come.
Good piece on Sanger for those interested.
How False Narratives of Margaret Sanger Are Being Used to Shame Black Women
8ball
Check your privet hedge
Whenever I think this story has hit 'peak depressing', someone serves up more.
When it started blowing up I was listening to a radio discussion where they were saying there were a couple of bills that were likely to be immediately quashed, and it was just a bit of a right wing tantrum after the mid-terms.
Seems like all sorts of blisters popping up in the wallpaper now, though.
CRI
Registered Chooser
It is depressing, ever more depressing.Whenever I think this story has hit 'peak depressing', someone serves up more.
When it started blowing up I was listening to a radio discussion where they were saying there were a couple of bills that were likely to be immediately quashed, and it was just a bit of a right wing tantrum after the mid-terms.
Seems like all sorts of blisters popping up in the wallpaper now, though.
I've long thought the GOP are playing a "long game," the goal being to create a one party, fundamentalist Christian theocracy. Ending legal abortion and restricting contraception are just two of the many strategies for achieving this (and submission and control of women is important for their vision.) I think it's much more than a tantrum after losing the US House of Representatives and some statehouses. It's a concerted strategy, working on the levers of power in all 3 branches and at all levels from county, through to state and national. The fact that "ordinary" Republicans (have not abandoned Trump and the party's leadership over their extremist policies pretty well tells me that they're just fine with it all, even if they are not the type to take to the streets with red hats on. The US is still in very big trouble. Hard to know if it can ever get out of it.
crossthebreeze
Well-Known Member
This is just completely messed up.
Alabama woman loses unborn child after getting shot, gets arrested; shooter goes free
Alabama woman loses unborn child after getting shot, gets arrested; shooter goes free
Marshae Jones, a 27-year-old Birmingham woman, was indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury on a manslaughter charge. She was taken into custody on Wednesday.
Though Jones didn’t fire the shots that killed her unborn baby girl, authorities say she initiated the dispute that led to the gunfire. Police initially charged 23-year-old Ebony Jemison with manslaughter, but the charge against Jemison was dismissed after the grand jury failed to indict her.
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Jones was taken from Fairfield to UAB Hospital. She was five months pregnant and was shot in the stomach. The unborn baby did not survive the shooting.
“The investigation showed that the only true victim in this was the unborn baby,’’ Pleasant Grove police Lt. Danny Reid said at the time of the shooting. “It was the mother of the child who initiated and continued the fight which resulted in the death of her own unborn baby.”
Reid said the fight stemmed over the unborn baby’s father. The investigation showed, he said, that it was Jones who initiated and pressed the fight, which ultimately caused Jemison to defend herself and unfortunately caused the death of the baby.
"Let’s not lose sight that the unborn baby is the victim here,’’ Reid said. “She had no choice in being brought unnecessarily into a fight where she was relying on her mother for protection."
The 5-month fetus was "dependent on its mother to try to keep it from harm, and she shouldn’t seek out unnecessary physical altercations,” Reid added.
Though Jones didn’t fire the shots that killed her unborn baby girl, authorities say she initiated the dispute that led to the gunfire. Police initially charged 23-year-old Ebony Jemison with manslaughter, but the charge against Jemison was dismissed after the grand jury failed to indict her.
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Jones was taken from Fairfield to UAB Hospital. She was five months pregnant and was shot in the stomach. The unborn baby did not survive the shooting.
“The investigation showed that the only true victim in this was the unborn baby,’’ Pleasant Grove police Lt. Danny Reid said at the time of the shooting. “It was the mother of the child who initiated and continued the fight which resulted in the death of her own unborn baby.”
Reid said the fight stemmed over the unborn baby’s father. The investigation showed, he said, that it was Jones who initiated and pressed the fight, which ultimately caused Jemison to defend herself and unfortunately caused the death of the baby.
"Let’s not lose sight that the unborn baby is the victim here,’’ Reid said. “She had no choice in being brought unnecessarily into a fight where she was relying on her mother for protection."
The 5-month fetus was "dependent on its mother to try to keep it from harm, and she shouldn’t seek out unnecessary physical altercations,” Reid added.
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
Thats beyond wtf
The worse thing is Mississpi is really going to up its game to beat this the two states are in constant competition to be the most stupid,evil and racist
And sexist.
I'd dig up a link but it's Alabama...
Apparently there's a mega church in Alabamy that's getting the right to have it's own private police force
Apparently there's a mega church in Alabamy that's getting the right to have it's own private police force
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Religious police, eh? What could possibly go wrong?
8ball
Check your privet hedge
Church: Alabama governor signs private police force law
Legislation was signed a week ago.
Having private security for schools associated to the church is one thing, but giving them police powers...
A similar proposal was quashed a while back because this technically means giving governmental powers to a religious institution (separation of church and state yada yada...).
Legislation was signed a week ago.
Having private security for schools associated to the church is one thing, but giving them police powers...
A similar proposal was quashed a while back because this technically means giving governmental powers to a religious institution (separation of church and state yada yada...).
Great, armed Sharia law it is then!
8ball
Check your privet hedge
I think their use of powers would be confined to the church school and the seminary - it's worrying in itself, but it's the precedent that I find more worrying.
Of course, and doubtless they wil try and apply their standards only within their in-group. Problem is legally they will have to allow other faith groups the same privilege, because these people are fucking stupid
8ball
Check your privet hedge
From what I saw, it wasn't terribly clear why they wanted police powers rather than just private security. I can see how it means you don't need to hassle the real police all the time when people need carting off, but I don't expect that's the whole story.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
8ball
Check your privet hedge
How many schools does it have?
Fuck's going on?
I believe it’s the church, one school and a seminary (priest school).
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
abortion law in six counties breaches uk's human rights commitmentsJust a wee reminder, that there are draconian abortion laws in the UK as well, in Northern Ireland. In Gibralter, abortion carries a life sentence.
NI abortion law 'breaches human rights'
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
The bill is a proposed bill by nutters - not law. That reporting is beyond shit.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
And yet they laugh at the "backwardness" of Islam...You couldn't have made that up.
It kills. It's impossible. It's never been done.
FFS.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
It's not going to pass.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Its probably to get people who think they can get rid of Roe vs Wade to give them money, in much the same way as THEY ARE COMING FOR YOUR GUNS works in the aftermath of almost every mass shooting does.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
These people are so rich already it's untrue. I think it's more of a knocking every legal door until they find a gap project. They make my skin crawl even having to think about them.
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