Has anyone figured out the tipping point - how many women and girls have to die in order to reverse state bans on abortion? Might provide comfort to the families of people who are sacrificed to Big Fetus.
The right wing does not care. Look at how they turned Covid into a political football, fighting against common sense efforts to limit the spread of the virus, thereby reducing deaths and illnesses. If data from last summer still holds up, 90% of Covid deaths since July 2021 were among the unvaccinated. Many earlier infections could have been prevented by masking and avoiding crowds. So you are looking at hundreds of thousands of deaths and just as many serious illnesses and possibly permanent health problems.
A few thousand women dying every year and hundreds of thousands more women and children forced into poverty with no effort by Republicans to increase aid to women and children will not get them to change their minds. They are on a mission from God and dead bodies will not deter them.
Dude, I LIVE IN THE CENTER OF PA. May I recommend you look up Central School District York PA headlines from last year? NATIONAL headlines, as teenagers led the charge against bookbanning attempts from the school board. Thanks to their efforts, and the activism of community Democrats, the RWers on that school board lost and were replaced with Democrats. Yes, there's still a lot of bigotry, backwardness, ignorance in "Pennsyltucky," but it's not bright red as you imagine. Places like York County (Fetterman originated there, so did Gov Wolf), Lancaster County, Dauphin County, Adams County growing more diverse. Does that incite the whitenationalists there, yeah, but it also means their bigotry met with more resistance. Maybe do something about your own prejudices first, ya think?
Yet almost half the people in my "Pennsyltucky" town vote Democrat, and both John Fetterman and Gov Wolf come from there (York Pennsylvania, the more Republican of the "Rose" cities along the Susquehana River). How can that possibly be?/s Defeatism and snobbery. So helpful.
I'm starting to suspect that for the American right in 2022, dead women are not merely an unfortunate but acceptable side effect, but the actual desired result. Especially if they're poor women of color. Make childbearing for the other tribe as dangerous as possible, and child-rearing as onerous.
Seems like a task for Dem leadership and campaigns. I have no idea what the best place in PA would be. People are paying attention to what Fetterman says already, so maybe he could mention it.
The fracking also poisoned wells in many places and made people's homes worthless.
Yah. There's a good reason it's nicknamed "Pennsyltucky."
Has anyone figured out the tipping point - how many women and girls have to die in order to reverse state bans on abortion? Might provide comfort to the families of people who are sacrificed to Big Fetus.
Sometimes they do when the shit gets real.
The right wing does not care. Look at how they turned Covid into a political football, fighting against common sense efforts to limit the spread of the virus, thereby reducing deaths and illnesses. If data from last summer still holds up, 90% of Covid deaths since July 2021 were among the unvaccinated. Many earlier infections could have been prevented by masking and avoiding crowds. So you are looking at hundreds of thousands of deaths and just as many serious illnesses and possibly permanent health problems.
A few thousand women dying every year and hundreds of thousands more women and children forced into poverty with no effort by Republicans to increase aid to women and children will not get them to change their minds. They are on a mission from God and dead bodies will not deter them.
Dude, I LIVE IN THE CENTER OF PA. May I recommend you look up Central School District York PA headlines from last year? NATIONAL headlines, as teenagers led the charge against bookbanning attempts from the school board. Thanks to their efforts, and the activism of community Democrats, the RWers on that school board lost and were replaced with Democrats. Yes, there's still a lot of bigotry, backwardness, ignorance in "Pennsyltucky," but it's not bright red as you imagine. Places like York County (Fetterman originated there, so did Gov Wolf), Lancaster County, Dauphin County, Adams County growing more diverse. Does that incite the whitenationalists there, yeah, but it also means their bigotry met with more resistance. Maybe do something about your own prejudices first, ya think?
Yet almost half the people in my "Pennsyltucky" town vote Democrat, and both John Fetterman and Gov Wolf come from there (York Pennsylvania, the more Republican of the "Rose" cities along the Susquehana River). How can that possibly be?/s Defeatism and snobbery. So helpful.
Me, too. Lots of the the younger, liberal folk that I know here haven't bothered to vote before, so I'm working on them.
Dallastown, myself
"77% of anti-abortion leaders are men, 100% of whom will never be pregnant." - Planned Parenthood slogan
I'm starting to suspect that for the American right in 2022, dead women are not merely an unfortunate but acceptable side effect, but the actual desired result. Especially if they're poor women of color. Make childbearing for the other tribe as dangerous as possible, and child-rearing as onerous.
Seems like a task for Dem leadership and campaigns. I have no idea what the best place in PA would be. People are paying attention to what Fetterman says already, so maybe he could mention it.
All of them, Katie.
So called liberal media.
Yup.
MASTRIANO IS FUCKING CRAZY. This cannot be emphasized enough.