If the woman who miscarried wishes to “commemorate” what could have been; fine. But at absolute minimum that should be her choice; not government-mandated.
If the woman who miscarried wishes to “commemorate” what could have been; fine. But at absolute minimum that should be her choice; not government-mandated.
Louisiana: Proud to spend both money and time on totally meaningless wall art for weirdos while our state sinks into the ocean.
“begin issuing a “commemorative certificate of miscarried child” as a vital record collected by the state.”
Yes and Saved!
Yup, the system is so merciful to addicted mothers who seek “help and assistance”. Can’t imagine why they wouldn’t take advantage of it.
Who owns pregnant people's bodies? Republicans. If you don't know that by now, you aren't paying attention.
under his eye.
Note: there is no way of knowing whether her drug use contributed to the stillbirth. Could it have? Certainly. Can we tell? No. A great many pregnancies end in miscarriage or stillbirth, and most of the time nobody ever knows why. Yet the underlying assumption of her arrest here is that it did.
Fetal endangerment is not illegal. Do we HOPE people won’t smoke and drink while pregnant? Sure, we hope that, and the vast majority don’t. However, for those that choose to, it is nobody’s job to punish them for it. Who owns our bodies? Who owns pregnant people’s bodies? Just because a person is pregnant doesn’t mean…
Not a “child”.
Nailed it.
Even if sports actually mattered, there’s one whiny female swimmer and like three runners who feel wronged, and rightie politicians keep dragging the same four people to all their events and giving them a podium. It’s rivers of sad.
In fairness, they claim to be operating from a place of love.
Nikki - the Supreme Court just said that your bodies are not your own, maybe thats bigger than sportsball.
“Please hate.”
The smaller and weaker the group to hate is, the easier it is for conservatives to hate them. Women, blacks, Spanish speakers, Jews, Mooslims and gays are all now big and/or organized enough to meaningfully push back, politically and especially economically, so transpeople get the crosshairs this election.
Haley calling the existence of trans women in sports “the women’s rights issue of our time”
think I'd rather live in a dirty crack house than in a republicans mind. it's cleaner.
Nimrata “Nikki” Randhawa Haley, the fascists you have willingly joined will not stop at trans people. The only way they can claim the power they (and you) crave is by demonizing different people and stoking irrational fear in the ignorant. They start with the weaker, smaller groups and then work their way up to…