There's a simple solution, physicians -- leave Texas for a state that allows you to practice medicine. The Texas government obviously wants to switch to viable alternatives, such as hope and prayer, and snake handling, for all of its residents' medical needs.
It's nice that sometimes, just sometimes, Texas is a tiny bit nicer, less cruel, less skin-flinty, a tiny bit more liberal, than other bottom-of-the-barrel southern states whose names I won't mention.
There is a certain type of person who is intensely resentful of anyone with a college degree, and will exploit every bit of power they happen to have over them. Had a friend who was a software engineer at British Telecom with a manager who'd worked his way up from being a lineman and resented the hell out of "poncy college boys". How he'd ended up a manager of a team entirely composed of people with more education than him was something completely unsurprising to anyone who'd dealt with BT.
I find it extremely ironic that the politicians who attack “elites” with college degrees are all republicans like Ted Cruz who went Ivy League schools.
I may be wrong but I think the politicians who write these anti-abortion bills really think women are "lesser creatures" not real people like white, christian men, so that if a few of them die, as long as it prevents an abortion, that is a small price they are willing to pay.
As the abortion bans get worse in red states, we Dems can help by donating money to non-profit abortion access groups. I'm giving $50 per month to Northwest Abortion Access Fund so women and girls in AK, OR, WA, and ID can get free abortion care. The funds pay the clinics directly so patients don't have to worry about scraping the money together for the procedure. They will also pay for groceries, transportation, and housing for before appointment and after recovery, in addition will provide no cost birth control and mifepristone when needed.
I would love to be able to give more because I don't want to hear about women and girls dying painfully and needlessly from being denied a necessary medical procedure, but my husband is currently unemployed so I'm limited on my donations. If my fellow Wonkers can afford it, please look into abortion access non-profits in your area. We are going to need all the help we can get if we want to survive this fucked up future awaiting us all.
Right now I'm trying to help a young woman I know get GYN care and a form of birth control that cannot be denied to her, and I'm a bit rusty on the various forms. She doesn't want to have sex and risk pregnancy, she just doesn't want to be forced to have a baby if a rapist impregnates her. Yes, that is where we are in America.
An extra rant, back in the 1800s and early 1900s, many doctors not only complied with laws against abortion but openly advocated them. What we're seeing now first and foremost is the completely foreseeable outcome of the lack of input and cooperation from the medical profession.
I love the fact that when confronted with 100 doctors saying one thing, these people think its a conspiracy. A conspiracy is much easier to pull off with a small number of people, say like the 1-10 doctors they can find that support their stupid anti science viewpoint.
We knew, and were told many times, that with the repeal of Roe, the utter cruelty of the religious right would show itself. These draconian laws are the proof. The part they didn't expect, and what pisses the christofascists off more than anything, is the CITIZENS of many seemingly "religious" states are enshrining bodily autonomy in their state's constitutions.
But those brave "christian" soldiers will continue march onward to achieve their theocracy.
Helpful to recall that Texas is so ghoulish that until all too recently they posted on the web the last meals requested by death row inmates headed to execution.
Yes. And what's more, when they stopped publishing inmates' last meal requests, they ALSO stopped providing last meals, likely in an effort to provide an excuse for ending the former practice due to international outcry.
When I first learned this recipe, I was strolling thoughtfully through the cloistered tranquility of Death Row, the late autumn sunshine coming through the high barred windows and the general peace of the place giving it an atmosphere of a medieval monastery- albeit with more murderers!
It was here I met a charming man, John, who cherished what he called "the old ways"- still making his own wine in the toilet the way generations had done here before him. We sat down to a simple meal of bread and water and a glass each of his own "pruno" and talked about the food culture here in the prison. I remember thinking as he span yarns about the wonderful recipes and people he'd eaten that I wished my visit here could last forever.
About these abortion bans that are often justified as needed to maintain the population number.
The fertility rate to prevent population decline in countries of the developed, industrialized world is around 2.1-2.3 births/woman. The US is at 1.7. The only developed country where that number is higher than 2 is Israel (2.9), but there are some developing countries with similar rate/s in that region.
GOP claims abortion bans are all about increasing the fertility rate of the country to "maintain" the population. Science and data show that their claim is complete BS.
Recent scientific publications (for example https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105124) that compared numbers before and after total abortion bans in the US show that in states with complete (6 weeks limit) abortion bans, fertility rates only increase by around 2%. Converted, that number becomes approximately 1.8 children / 1000 women. Same exact numbers were obtained in Texas.
Thus, complete abortion bans only increase US fertility rate from 1.7 to about 1.7018 /woman. Practically irrelevant.
The only role of abortion bans is to control women AND instill fear in the entire population. They are irrelevant to population growth.
The only way to increase population in any developed country is via immigration, since families will not have 5-10 kids like they did in the past. This is good for the Earth. Besides, immigrants are not a danger to democracies, the nationalist/fascist regimes promoting hatred against them are.
I'm guessing that eliminating vaccinations for polio, tetanus, RSV, diphtheria, hepatitis, meningitis, flu, etc. is going to do wonders in the long-range goal of producing more future workers that are grown domestically in the United States.
People aren’t having less children because they love abortion so much. They’re having less kids because it’s effing expensive to raise a child in 2024 America. To afford even three children and maintain even the semblance of a middle to upper class life style you’ve got to be earning around 100 grand. Most people aren’t even going to come close to that with their best salary, so that means both parents are working. Aside from being physically exhausting to work a full time job only to come home to the full time job of raising kids, that involves finding child care costs somewhere in there which can be more than a mortgage. If you live somewhere where schools are shit, add in private school tuition. Oh and if you want your children to eventually get a job and move out you’re probably going to be adding college on top as welll.
None of this is going to get better when the rich take even more of the money following the next tax code update
Few things hurt the population number more than the realization that things are too fucked up to bring children into the world in the first place. And that's assuming that you think you will be able to afford them--and that's getting more and more difficult for more people.
A major reason it’s BS is because they’re worried only about white people’s fertility. Monica Hesse, one of the bright spots at the fading WashPost, says that the underpopulation hand-wringers define the problem as economic, one that can be solved only by women saddling up their uteruses.
I called her office. I left Twitter, so couldn't comment there, but I left a very sweet voicemail telling her she's more safe with the one transgendered woman in Congress than she is with an adjudicated rapist she just helped elect.
How many of those 100 OB/GYNs have since left Texas?
There's a simple solution, physicians -- leave Texas for a state that allows you to practice medicine. The Texas government obviously wants to switch to viable alternatives, such as hope and prayer, and snake handling, for all of its residents' medical needs.
Ta, Robyn. The only way this makes any sense is if the Lege wants to see dead women and imprisoned doctors.
Ken Paxton has all but said he can’t wait to prosecute a doctor under this law.
Ken Paxton should suck a scorpion.
His death should not be easy--made possible with votes. Seriously Texas, get on that.
It's nice that sometimes, just sometimes, Texas is a tiny bit nicer, less cruel, less skin-flinty, a tiny bit more liberal, than other bottom-of-the-barrel southern states whose names I won't mention.
There is a certain type of person who is intensely resentful of anyone with a college degree, and will exploit every bit of power they happen to have over them. Had a friend who was a software engineer at British Telecom with a manager who'd worked his way up from being a lineman and resented the hell out of "poncy college boys". How he'd ended up a manager of a team entirely composed of people with more education than him was something completely unsurprising to anyone who'd dealt with BT.
I find it extremely ironic that the politicians who attack “elites” with college degrees are all republicans like Ted Cruz who went Ivy League schools.
Also, fuck Ted Cruz.
They're playing to the crowd.
And always, fuck Ted Cruz.
I may be wrong but I think the politicians who write these anti-abortion bills really think women are "lesser creatures" not real people like white, christian men, so that if a few of them die, as long as it prevents an abortion, that is a small price they are willing to pay.
As the abortion bans get worse in red states, we Dems can help by donating money to non-profit abortion access groups. I'm giving $50 per month to Northwest Abortion Access Fund so women and girls in AK, OR, WA, and ID can get free abortion care. The funds pay the clinics directly so patients don't have to worry about scraping the money together for the procedure. They will also pay for groceries, transportation, and housing for before appointment and after recovery, in addition will provide no cost birth control and mifepristone when needed.
I would love to be able to give more because I don't want to hear about women and girls dying painfully and needlessly from being denied a necessary medical procedure, but my husband is currently unemployed so I'm limited on my donations. If my fellow Wonkers can afford it, please look into abortion access non-profits in your area. We are going to need all the help we can get if we want to survive this fucked up future awaiting us all.
Right now I'm trying to help a young woman I know get GYN care and a form of birth control that cannot be denied to her, and I'm a bit rusty on the various forms. She doesn't want to have sex and risk pregnancy, she just doesn't want to be forced to have a baby if a rapist impregnates her. Yes, that is where we are in America.
We’re just a few years away from a new Underground Railroad to transport pregnant women out of red states for abortion care.
Pssst. It's already happening. No one wants to betray the cause.
At least Until Donny deems those non-profits terrorist organizations.
Then I'll go to prison as an accessory. I'm not going down without a fight.
An extra rant, back in the 1800s and early 1900s, many doctors not only complied with laws against abortion but openly advocated them. What we're seeing now first and foremost is the completely foreseeable outcome of the lack of input and cooperation from the medical profession.
Good advice.
"Get your vaccines, appliances, electronics w chips, while you can. Support PP. The Village 11-20-24"
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/20/2287173/-Get-your-vaccines-appliances-electronics-w-chips-while-you-can-Support-PP-The-Village-11-20-24?
1. Get vaxxed before BrainWorm boy makes them illegal
2. Buy these before January, if you need them, ahead of TariffBoy: Major appliances like: Stoves,
Refrigerators, Washers, Dryers, Counter top ones over $100; Electronics w chips like:Laptops, Cell phones, Vehicles
3. Get the medications you need and maybe some you think others you love may need. Get birth control (pills, IUDs, etc)
4. Do Not Acquiesce or Obey in Advance. Support for Planned Parenthood . Support your local Women’s Shelters.
We’re planning getting a new washer/dryer for Christmas.
Yeah I got my new fridge installed on Monday. Trying to see if I can afford a new phone too before the tariffs ruin the economy
I love the fact that when confronted with 100 doctors saying one thing, these people think its a conspiracy. A conspiracy is much easier to pull off with a small number of people, say like the 1-10 doctors they can find that support their stupid anti science viewpoint.
So like that group of “doctors” someone of whom were actually dentists who filed the lawsuit in Amarillo to ban the abortion pill.
Four out of five dentists surveyed recommend...
I recommend abortions for my patients who chew gum. Fuck that Trident sugarless gum shit!
We knew, and were told many times, that with the repeal of Roe, the utter cruelty of the religious right would show itself. These draconian laws are the proof. The part they didn't expect, and what pisses the christofascists off more than anything, is the CITIZENS of many seemingly "religious" states are enshrining bodily autonomy in their state's constitutions.
But those brave "christian" soldiers will continue march onward to achieve their theocracy.
Sorry, OT but... I mean... gross, obviously
Nikki McCann Ramírez
@nikkimcr.bsky.social
ABC News has obtained Venmo records showing that Matt Gaetz paid over $10,000 to the two women who testified before the House Ethics Committee
https://bsky.app/profile/nikkimcr.bsky.social/post/3lbf723hhrs2q
This is obviously entirely above board and not something about which any questions need be asked before he's approved to be Attorney General.
Susan Collins raised one eyebrow then settled in for a nap
I'm not sure Susan Collins can even be woken from a nap.
So a less crazy Laura Loomer or a less needy Nancy Mace.
Helpful to recall that Texas is so ghoulish that until all too recently they posted on the web the last meals requested by death row inmates headed to execution.
The fuck?
Yes. And what's more, when they stopped publishing inmates' last meal requests, they ALSO stopped providing last meals, likely in an effort to provide an excuse for ending the former practice due to international outcry.
I. Just. Can't.
When I first learned this recipe, I was strolling thoughtfully through the cloistered tranquility of Death Row, the late autumn sunshine coming through the high barred windows and the general peace of the place giving it an atmosphere of a medieval monastery- albeit with more murderers!
It was here I met a charming man, John, who cherished what he called "the old ways"- still making his own wine in the toilet the way generations had done here before him. We sat down to a simple meal of bread and water and a glass each of his own "pruno" and talked about the food culture here in the prison. I remember thinking as he span yarns about the wonderful recipes and people he'd eaten that I wished my visit here could last forever.
To make this recipe you will need
NPR is that you?
About these abortion bans that are often justified as needed to maintain the population number.
The fertility rate to prevent population decline in countries of the developed, industrialized world is around 2.1-2.3 births/woman. The US is at 1.7. The only developed country where that number is higher than 2 is Israel (2.9), but there are some developing countries with similar rate/s in that region.
GOP claims abortion bans are all about increasing the fertility rate of the country to "maintain" the population. Science and data show that their claim is complete BS.
Recent scientific publications (for example https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105124) that compared numbers before and after total abortion bans in the US show that in states with complete (6 weeks limit) abortion bans, fertility rates only increase by around 2%. Converted, that number becomes approximately 1.8 children / 1000 women. Same exact numbers were obtained in Texas.
Thus, complete abortion bans only increase US fertility rate from 1.7 to about 1.7018 /woman. Practically irrelevant.
The only role of abortion bans is to control women AND instill fear in the entire population. They are irrelevant to population growth.
The only way to increase population in any developed country is via immigration, since families will not have 5-10 kids like they did in the past. This is good for the Earth. Besides, immigrants are not a danger to democracies, the nationalist/fascist regimes promoting hatred against them are.
I'm guessing that eliminating vaccinations for polio, tetanus, RSV, diphtheria, hepatitis, meningitis, flu, etc. is going to do wonders in the long-range goal of producing more future workers that are grown domestically in the United States.
People aren’t having less children because they love abortion so much. They’re having less kids because it’s effing expensive to raise a child in 2024 America. To afford even three children and maintain even the semblance of a middle to upper class life style you’ve got to be earning around 100 grand. Most people aren’t even going to come close to that with their best salary, so that means both parents are working. Aside from being physically exhausting to work a full time job only to come home to the full time job of raising kids, that involves finding child care costs somewhere in there which can be more than a mortgage. If you live somewhere where schools are shit, add in private school tuition. Oh and if you want your children to eventually get a job and move out you’re probably going to be adding college on top as welll.
None of this is going to get better when the rich take even more of the money following the next tax code update
Increasing the population by adding a bunch of unwanted children sounds like a grrrrreat idea.
Few things hurt the population number more than the realization that things are too fucked up to bring children into the world in the first place. And that's assuming that you think you will be able to afford them--and that's getting more and more difficult for more people.
But, hey, carry on, you fucking chuds.
No, no, no, Hammy. "It's 'cause dem bitches won't date us!"
A major reason it’s BS is because they’re worried only about white people’s fertility. Monica Hesse, one of the bright spots at the fading WashPost, says that the underpopulation hand-wringers define the problem as economic, one that can be solved only by women saddling up their uteruses.
OT but not completely because also women's rights:
Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Nancy Mace has now posted 262 times on X in the last 36 hours about the bathroom.
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3lbfpf7imns2v
She desperately wants attention.
Nancy Mace's goal is to remain at the white-hot center of attention, like Dark Phoenix plunging into the heart of a star.
How does she have time to legislate? Oh wait…
Doesn't this constitute stalking?
Scroll down below Mace's bathroom posts count. That filthy fat fascist fuck is now schilling electric guitars. He has NEVER played a damned guitar!
I am simply SEETHING.
If Nancy Mace loves bathrooms so much somebody should do her a favor and flush her down a toilet.
You'd have to flush 10, maybe 12 times to get her down. Totally worth it.
I called her office. I left Twitter, so couldn't comment there, but I left a very sweet voicemail telling her she's more safe with the one transgendered woman in Congress than she is with an adjudicated rapist she just helped elect.
Looking at the headstock, it doesn't look like a Gibson- probably a Chibson.
She got her way.
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/20/mike-johnson-trans-women-capitol-bathrooms
Damn. I was hoping we’d get to see Sarah McBride beat the shit out of MTG when the latter attacked her.
Johnson can say whatever he wants, but it requires a vote on a rule change. Not just an edict from his office.
Mike Johnson doesn't control the building. Maybe you should have a confessional in the back of the House chambers, Mikey.
Just think how different things might be right now if Mike Johnson had remembered to enable the "Fascism Detection" feature on his Covenant Eyes.
Of course she did. So one House rep is going to have to walk a little further to get to bathrooms that aren't technically in the House.
Performative asshole bullshit.
I would like to see ill staff and House members go out of their way to vomit on Fancy Nancy Mace, especially her shoes.