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tomorrowusa · 13 days

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Smack down anybody talking about RFK Jr. as a serious politician. He's a longtime anti-vaxxer who plays footsie with the fringe right. He's currently trying to attract low information voters who know his name but who are unaware of his record.

As for that Kennedy name, he has been politically disowned by the rest of the extended Kennedy family. I'm unaware of any blood relative of his who is supporting him. Most of his siblings and cousins have endorsed Joe Biden and some have appeared in ads for Biden.

RFK Jr.'s position on abortion is dubious.

An abortion-rights group is attacking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as extreme and unfit to serve over abortion rights, as the health issue takes focus in the presidential election. Reproductive Freedom for All Freedom Fund put out an ad Monday in Michigan and Wisconsin — two battleground states — looking to portray the independent candidate as indecisive and potentially threatening to a woman’s right to choose. The ad, which is targeting young voters, is set to run in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Madison, Wis., cities in two important swing states where Kennedy is angling to compete against President Biden and former President Trump. Both cities are home to major public universities, as well. “He doesn’t know whether he’d support a national abortion ban, and he’s picked a vice president who won’t even protect IVF from MAGA attacks,” the ad says. The spot also criticizes Kennedy’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, who has been outwardly skeptical of IVF.

Only one candidate is campaigning to restore Roe.

Biden Blames Trump for Florida's 'Nightmare' Abortion Law

#rfk jr.#anti-vaxxers #abortion #the kennedy family #low information voters #reproductive freedom #roe v. wade #restore roe #a woman's right to choose #ivf #reproductive freedom for all #joe biden #florida #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

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theremina · 1 year

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gretirude

#public cervix announcement #total hysterectomy #genderqueer #reproductive freedom for all #YEET #bye rapist

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studiohromi · 8 months

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Reproductive Freedom stickers are finally back in stock!!! Available for direct ordering here, and check out the rest of my offerings at studiohromi.com/shop.

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thoughtportal · 1 year

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#tweet #tweets #twitter #defunding #defund the police #defund the military #defund #public health #public transportation #public schools #reproductive justice #reproductive freedom #reproductive rights #reproductive choice #reproductive health #college #social security #medicare for all #medicaid

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thehappymushroom2 · 26 days

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#abortion #abortion rights #abortion is healthcare #abortion for all #women’s rights #reproductive freedom #my body my choice #abortion art #leftist art #breaker of chains #american traditional #planned parenthood

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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A bipartisan group of senators reintroduced a bill to codify abortion protections on Thursday following President Biden’s call on Congress to pass legislation ensuring abortion access in his State of the Union address.

Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) reintroduced the Reproductive Freedom for All Act, which would block states from enacting laws that would impose an “undue burden” on previability abortions and protect access to contraception.

The Senators previously introduced the bill in August, with Kaine calling it a “bipartisan compromise” to ensure reproductive freedom.

Throughout 2022, Democratic attempts to advance legislation that would enshrine access to abortions into federal law failed to advance in the evenly split Senate. Republicans in support of abortion access objected to what they felt were over-encompassing bills, while moderate Democrats Sinema, who recently changed her party affiliation, and Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) opposed abolishing the filibuster in order to pass the proposed laws.

During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Biden urged Congress to “restore the right that was taken away in [the overturning of] Roe v. Wade.” He also made it clear that he would veto any federal abortion bans that reached his desk.

The House passed two bills last year aimed at protecting abortion access, the Women’s Health Protection Act and the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act. No Republicans voted for the Women’s Health Protection Act, but a handful of GOP lawmakers joined with Democrats to vote for the latter bill, which protected the ability to travel out-of-state to obtain abortion services.

While Democrats have more votes in the Senate this time around, the bill is unlikely to pass the House, where Republicans control a 222-212 majority.

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northern-spies · 2 months

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Any Americans who don't think the threats to ban contraception are legitimate need to learn about Decree 770, which banned abortion and contraception in Romania in nearly all circumstances between 1967 and 1989. The Ceaușescu episodes of Behind the Bastards touch on it for a start.

#if overturning roe was a red alert #then the ivf ban in alabama is defcon 1 #all reproductive freedom is in danger #90% of the mutual aid donations i make are to abortion funds for folks in states with bans #but even in a state where abortion is protected i have advance provision meds in a secure place plus a passport #and at my physical in april im asking about a bilateral salpingectomy #i struggle to talk about this without sounding paranoid but the thing is im a civil rights lawyer i know how this goes #im calm about it actually even if im scared and doing seemingly irrational things like making my niece get a passport #and encouraging a trans masc friend contemplating a hysto to go for it sooner than later

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benadrylpls · 1 year

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Plan B should be a chewable (preferably fruit flavored) gummy shaped like a baby

How funny would that be like eat a baby to prevent pregnancy

#plan b #birth control #babies #fruit gummy #reproductive freedom #nutrition #abortion #pregnancy #reproductive rights #fruit snacks #all pill birth control should be like this actually.

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coochiequeens · 11 months

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We are moving forward to a better future where every student—whether Black, brown, or white, Native or newcomer, LGBTQ+ or differently abled—has the #freedomtolearn.“ 🤔 Which group is missing? It’s women.

WASHINGTON—The nation’s largest union, the National Education Association, will lead a national day-long crusade against right-wing censorship, book-banning, pressure on schools and librarians, and even an occasional book burning, on a “Freedom to Learn and Teach Truth” day of action on June 10.

And it won’t be just rallies. Indeed, in the epicenter of censorship and book bans—Florida, where else?—“Teaching Truth” features a timeline of the long history of the civil rights struggle there, with historical vignettes about everything, positive and negative.

That timeline includes “the nation’s first-ever statewide teachers strike,” when 27,000 members of the Florida Education Association, protesting segregated schools and worse, handed in resignation letters on Feb. 19, 1968—and walked out. But that strike’s not in Sunshine State history books.

“All students benefit when we are empowered to teach the truth, share diverse stories and build inclusive, supportive schools,” declared NEA President Becky Pringle in announcing the events.

“Join us on June 10, 2023, to ensure our public schools meet the needs of all students—no exceptions,” Pringle, a Philadelphia science teacher, tweeted.

All the day of action events are on the Zinn Education Foundation’s website: www.zinnedproject.org.

The events occur against a backdrop of rising censorship of books by right-wingers, “parents” egged on by talk radio screamers, and pressure from white nationalists, and their political puppets. Their targets are any books and school and college courses that don’t agree with their White ethnocentric prejudices.

Tactics include book bans, threats against teachers and librarians who dare discuss “taboo” topics, and even an occasional book bonfire in the South, reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

“Some politicians are trying to censor the lessons taught in our classrooms, ban books, and exclude certain kids based on what they look like or where they live,” event sponsors, led by the NEA and the progressive Zinn Foundation, said.

“They’re trying to divide and distract us from their failures to provide all of our kids everything they need to learn, grow, and thrive. But together we can make our voices loud and clear to protect the freedom to learn and teach truth.

“We are moving forward to a better future where every student—whether Black, brown, or white, Native or newcomer, LGBTQ+ or differently abled—has the #freedomtolearn.”

NEA, other teachers, librarians, and their allies must contend with zealotry producing a lengthening list of banned books, just as zealotry led to anti-Communist hysteria in the 1950s.

Now, books about LGBT people are thrown away. Teaching Black history is forbidden, especially in Florida. Even the biography of the late, great baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente, a Hispanic-American icon in Puerto Rico for his talent and humanitarianism, is pulled from the shelves.

So the NEA, the Zinn Educational Foundation, and their allies are fighting back, with the national events.

They have widespread popular support and mean to show it, defying censorious bluenoses.

All but two of the events below are on June 10. Times and sites vary. Besides the long historic timeline just in Florida, others included:

The U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute, the Chicago Teachers Union (AFT), and the NEA will join city civil rights and civic leaders for a 9 am program and speeches at the National Museum of Mexican Art at 1852 West 19th in the Pilsen neighborhood.

The 1977 Bookstore, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the American Civil Liberties Union will host a “banned book” giveaway in Montgomery, Ala. They’re adding a discussion on “redlining,” the common banking practice—North and South—that prevented Blacks from buying homes in white neighborhoods.

Este Inc., and the Fight Back Collective plan a rally in Los Angeles at the Ruben F. Salazar Park, the site of the historic 1970 Chicano Moratorium against the Indochina War, which saw 20,000 people march. Speakers will discuss the movement.

The Possible Futures Bookstore and the Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective in New Haven, Conn., plan a story time reading of And Tango Makes Three, a children’s book “celebrating queer parents and caregivers.” Attendees get free copies.

C. hosts two events. The first features speakers and pledges by teachers to uphold the freedom to read and learn and a banned books display, all at the African-American Civil War Memorial. A “Songs of the Living Community Sing” at the All Souls Unitarian Church will occur in the evening. It’s one of the few events where reservations are required.

Floridians will defy their censorious and homophobic right-wing Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, with four events. Two support LGBT people. The first will be at Fort Lauderdale’s Stonewall National Museum, named after New York City’s gay nightclub, the Stonewall Inn. The second will be a twilight march in Miami sponsored by PRISM.

Floridians also will honor the historic Black community in Rosewood, massacred on Jan. 1, 1923. St. Augustine residents plan a talk and historical walk honoring participants in the 1964 St. Augustine movement of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Georgia will host a public reading of the children’s book That Flag about two girls, one Black, one white, who live across the street from each other and how they deal with the issue of the Confederate flag, which until 2013 was part of the state flag. The reading will be in Stone Mountain Park, near the massive monument—think Mount Rushmore—to Confederate leaders.

In Kansas City’s Quindaro Park, “local educators will speak on the importance for young people of learning to think critically and to get a full understanding of U.S. history.” The event includes fundraising for historic Quindaro and “sharing books by Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American authors, including books by LGBTQ authors or on LGBTQ themes.”

New York City hosts five events, with four more in Princeton, Morristown, Newark, and Red Bank, N.J. “Banned books” will be given away at the city Board of Education offices in the Bronx and a “banned book nook” and poetry readings is planned at the Hattie Carthan Playground in Brooklyn. The Stonewall Inn in Manhattan hosts an afternoon teach-in on LGBT rights. Other events were on June 9 and June 12.

Philadelphians added an extra cause to their event, at the President’s House on Independence Mall. A wide range of groups will sponsor readings, discussions, art, and more. And organizers are urging “participants to also attend the Chinatown Rally earlier in the day to protest the proposed stadium” for basketball which would decimate the city’s Chinese community.

#June 10 #Freedom to Learn and Teach Truth #National Education Association #Zinn Education Foundation #Interesting that they forgot about all the challenged books that dealt with menstruation and information about reproduction

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themundanemudperson · 10 months

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TIL that palmetto state is an actual place

i discovered this information by seeing @sweatermuppet's post about palmetto state's abortion fund (link to post here)

anyways that was new info. like i knew nora based palmetto off of a real place but damn i did not think of this

#aftg #all for the game #palmetto state #palmetto state foxes #palmetto state university #the foxes #the foxhole court #exy #Palmetto State Abortion Fund #abortion funds #pro abortion #pro choice #reproductive freedom #reproductive rights

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asyourshadowfalls · 1 year

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Hey prolifers!

If you don't support a UBI, updated gun restrictions, free quality education, free healthcare, fully inclusive medically accurate sex ed for children who are capable of being pregnant or impregnating, mandatory child support paid from conception on; then you're not actually prolife, you're just hellbent on forcing babies and mothers to suffer :)

#prolife #abortion #reproductive rights #prochoice #anti abortion #healthcare #leftist #prolifers are scum but if you check yes on all that then atleast you've got some brain function that can be worked with #but you realize all of that should be in place first before you go on your anti abortion crusade. right?#also for the christian aligned:#did you shed a tear for all those babies killed when you were told the story of the flood?#what about all the children murdered by god when he destroyed sodom and gomorrah?#or exodus 7-12; deuteronomy 2:31-37; numbers 31; joshua 6:17; 1 samuel 15:3; 2 samuel 12:17-18?#if god can kill his own creations why can't mothers?#what if the mother's choice to abort is god's word coming to her?#christian #catholic #forced birthers #choices make life sweeter #pro choice #bodily autonomy #abortion rights #reproductive freedom #perhaps you did cry but you still support the being who did all that #why can't you support a mother making the same choices god did?#///i use mother to make a point towards those who are too idiotic to accept not all pregnant people want to use mother as a label

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thatwaywardgirl · 1 year

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We are living in a world that is so backwards and messed up. I just watching the handmaids tale and it feels so real, like this is where we are headed to present day. With all the hate and disdain that leads this country, that drives our people. We are allowing religion and the Bible run a country that was created to be free from religious oppression and not be under persecution of it. Religion has no part in our democratic society. We are heading down a harsh road- for women, minorities, LGBTQ+ folks still haven't caught a break. It's curious to me, why are people's life styles an issue? Why is how a family is created a problem? Is it so ludicrous that we have many different avenues to having families? Some adopt, some never have kids. Who cares? Is it so much to ask that we get to live our lives that we did not ask to be born into, and can't live the way we want? Why should women be forced into pregnancies they didn't want? Why can't someone get gender affirming care? It's all so frustrating and makes me feel unsafe going anywhere. There's so much violence, corruption in police departments, in the government. Our children are under constant threat just by going to school, a park, the ice cream shop. It feels as though no one is safe right now. And i'm terrified.

In the handmaids tale, im sure everyone has seen it by now but they live in this dystopia, where fertile women were rounded up and given to couples who have fertility issues. And sex/pregnancy is forced upon these women. If they refuse, they will suffer consequences, some worse than death. Sterilization surgeries, plucking of an eye, or being sent to the colonies, where women go to die. Handmaidens cannot read, walk alone, or go anywhere without a supervisor- even on the homes property. They are slaves to the families they "serve". With some states moving towards the execution of women for having an abortion or even "patterned miscarriages" we are heading towards this dystopia faster than we realize.

I've never been pregnant. As the child of an abusive mother I have chosen over the last few years to remain child free. As someone with mental health issues, emotional dysregulation and autism I am not able to be a mother. With how the world is going now, why would I want to selfishly bring a child into this world that they didn't ask to come into to, a world that is literally falling apart and constantly under threat.

When I was 21 i was sexually assaulted at a party. I believe I was drugged, something slipped into my drink. I passed out and woke up to this man I had just met having sex with me. I was so out of it that I just passed out again. I woke up 2 or 3 more times in short spurts and he was still having sex with me. I woke up early the next morning and got in my car to go home. It didn't occur to me that I had just been assaulted. At the time, me being the naive young women I was, I thought that was a one night stand and oh well. I told my best friend at the time and she said I had been assaulted. I couldn't believe it, I didn't believe it. I went and got myself tested that week, for a whole panel of diseases, then again 3-6 months later. Luckily all clear. It took me a few years to come to terms with the fact that this "man" assaulted me. Why did he feel the need to assault me? If he drugged me, why? This is truly the danger in the world, men and some women thinking they have a right to just take what they think "belongs" to them. Women and their bodies do not belong to anyone but that women. Forcing sex, pregnancy, birth and motherhood on women and young girls is wrong. If we aren't careful, we will be living in the Handmaids Tale dystopia.

#dystopia #the handmaid's tale #fearful #sad but true #womens rights #reproductive freedom #reproductive autonomy #bodily autonomy #lgbtq #lgbtq positivity #lgbtqplus #support for all #stop fascism

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kirkmanatelier · 1 year

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Made in the wake of Roe vs. Wade overturning.

https://www.instagram.com/r.kirkman00/?hl=en

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lookninjas · 2 years

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The Reproductive Freedom for All campaign and its coalition, volunteers and supporters collected 753,759 signatures from every county in the state to qualify for the November ballot, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan announced Monday morning.

More than 2,000 volunteers helped gather signatures far exceeding the 425,059 required. The coalition says it garnered more signees than any previous ballot initiative in state history and submitted its petition July 11 to the Michigan Secretary of State. The proposal, assuming signatures are verified and declared sufficient by the Board of State Canvassers, would appear on the Nov. 8 ballot.

#reproductive freedom for all michigan #reproductive rights #abortion #michigan #now we just have to #VOTE MOTHERFUCKER VOTE #@jx-river #@gr-river #@aa-river #impact #@fl-river

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youjustgotlawyered · 2 years

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Listening to Chemerinsky speak about abortion post-Dobbs:

#lawblr #the real lawblr #roe versus wade #roe vs. wade #casey vs planned parenthood #abortion rights #abortion #reproductive rights #reproductive freedom #this is the worst #I knew all this but still not great hearing it from him #constitutional law #stare decisis #the office

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queridachristina · 2 years

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A poem I wrote about the overturn of Roe v. Wade:

I'm pregnant she says,

I'm scared,I'm too young.

This baby won't have a home,

Her cry goes unsung.

What will I do, these men won't help?

They tell me what to do with my body,

I kick, scream, and yelp.

So many women, like me they have to stand,

All the unfair justices,

Let's make a list of the idiotic band.

Clarence, Samuel, Brett, and Neil,

I can't believe even Amy, a woman, joined in on the repeal.

What has this country come to?

I thought America was the land of the free,

The only thing free to roam is the unheard cries of women at the bully tree.

The young woman travels a long distance away,

To find a way to save her life before it's too late.

She feels a sharp pain, she looks down at her legs,

They've been painted with blood, mahogany stains pouring from the floodgate.

This can't be, she frantically yells,

There's no one to help me, are those the heavenly bells?

I feel my heartbeat begin to slow down,

I guess my time has come, the final countdown.

This was always going to happen, because in my Texas hometown,

Thanks to the justices, abortions have been shutdown.

So here I lay, in my blood, sweat, and tears

They say Pro-Life, trust in God, say no to the shears!

Well, here's to the life you so much wanted to save,

But you lost a young girl, in the desert, with no tombstone to mark her grave.

Written by QueridaChristina

#poetry #original poem #roe v wade #reality #america #my body my choice #thoughts #in all seriousness #politics #pro choice #any thoughts?#reproductive rights #reproductive health #freedom #reproductive freedom

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