Thanks for your work Jill..I support this substack financially when I can. There are more good journalists and writers out there than I can support every month :-/.
Great post..The anti-abortion movement is just mind-bogglingly awful. It is stunning what they have pulled off legislatively given how fringe their views are.
As an animal rights supporter who is gloomily aware of how little mainstream support there is for even basic humane issues (such as the banning of the worst factory farming practices), but has never considered gerry rigging stuff rather than democratically (not party so much as the ideal) changing hearts and minds (if you will pardon the hackneyed phrase) I don't get this twisted way of thinking. That if you can rig or game the system in underhanded ways, that is okay..
Pro-life..pffft..Pro- sleaziness is more like it.
Off topic: One minor quibble with your post - you mentioned sobriety as one of the things movements like these would consider a shallow goal women could prioritize over other things. Based on my impression of this movement though, I don't think they consider that sobriety stuff shallow..in fact I think this movement would probably be opposed to harm reduction (the saner approach imho to drink/drug issues over aggressive straight edge/AA stances). It is part of a whole fun package of the kind of convoluted thinking that is incomprehensible to me.
Thanks for your work Jill..I support this substack financially when I can. There are more good journalists and writers out there than I can support every month :-/.
Great post..The anti-abortion movement is just mind-bogglingly awful. It is stunning what they have pulled off legislatively given how fringe their views are.
As an animal rights supporter who is gloomily aware of how little mainstream support there is for even basic humane issues (such as the banning of the worst factory farming practices), but has never considered gerry rigging stuff rather than democratically (not party so much as the ideal) changing hearts and minds (if you will pardon the hackneyed phrase) I don't get this twisted way of thinking. That if you can rig or game the system in underhanded ways, that is okay..
Pro-life..pffft..Pro- sleaziness is more like it.
Off topic: One minor quibble with your post - you mentioned sobriety as one of the things movements like these would consider a shallow goal women could prioritize over other things. Based on my impression of this movement though, I don't think they consider that sobriety stuff shallow..in fact I think this movement would probably be opposed to harm reduction (the saner approach imho to drink/drug issues over aggressive straight edge/AA stances). It is part of a whole fun package of the kind of convoluted thinking that is incomprehensible to me.
If Aladamnbama et al. try someone for chemically damaging a child, will they have to produce the child?