Do we REALLY think this is a future Americans would EVER accept?

A significant portion of Americans regularly answer polls with the statement that someone has to be a Christian in order to be a full citizen. Women’s reproductive rights are under nonstop attack. In addition their socioeconomic status is less than stable; the Lilly Ledbetter Act is a political football rather than an…

It’s not really a nuanced issue. We have a ton of data about why women have abortions and what policies actually reduce the number of abortions (comprehensive sex education, affordable birth control, etc.) and so-called “pro life” people tend to address none of them. All they’ve done is tried to make it as difficult…

Death by a thousand cuts. If you roll back access to medicine and particularly birth control you are literally forcing women into celebacy (no period in history would show this to actually work), or pre-mature motherhood. This is absolutely what is being pushed for by the right wing. They admit as much usually…

The point isn’t if anyone hates Trump. He had a lot to say about how to treat women, including what he does to random women, he was still voted in as president, It is very timely. You can’t spend so much time disagreeing with opinions about subjects you don’t understand.

No there isn’t. If it’s not your body it’s not your choice. There are no ifs or buts about this.

It’s an old excuse to say “it doesn’t happen round here so it doesn’t happen” You are not statistically relevant.

In the novel, the political situation arises due to extremist religious right wingers who take over the government and severely restrict women’s rights. In reality, we have extremist religious right wingers who have taken over the government and fight every day to severely restrict women’s rights. The only person…

No it isn’t people should have a autonomy over their own bodies. the end. 

The book was published in 1985 and it was timely then and it’s timely now. The religious right have gained and lost power over the years, but America is still a deeply Puritan country. Laws are still passed whose SOLE purpose is to punish women for having abortions.

What makes it scary is that this is ABSOLUTELY a future that some (more than we want to admit to ourselves I suspect) Americans would accept. Accept, and even welcome with open arms. It’s abhorrent and wrong to you and me, but not everyone.

Hitler wasn’t Hitler before turning into Hitler, you know.

Well, there are pretty consistent and increasingly accepted encroachments on women’s agency and rights; the continual creep of abortion and birth control limitations, the erasure of discrimination protections against pregnant women in NC (part of the ‘bathroom law’ everyone is talking about), the weird feitishization…

I think there are a lot of abuses people will take and adapt to so long as they are doled out in pieces. Do I think there will be some kind of terrorist incident that will throw the nation into chaos and allow a theocratic government to take over? No.

When that ‘single example’ has his hands on the lever of government and is actively attempting to force his views on everyone under his sway, that make resistance a touch easier. If your ‘single example’ is such a minority, why is he the one the voters put in charge? And why does he obviously have no fear of losing…

The swift turn towards christian theology as a form of governance and an excuse to oppress women is all too real, even before Trump.

UGH! God, I’m a dude and you even make me wanna move to a lesbian-only commune ruled by Alison Bechdel. Come on, man! Can’t you just post that troll shit somewhere else and leave the Jezebel women alone FFS?

A legislative panel of five men just buried a law that would allow women in Maryland to terminate the PARENTAL RIGHTS of their RAPISTS. As in a man who rapes a woman in Maryland has legal rights to the fetus that may come about as a consequence of him forcing himself inside of her body. This is the 9th time they’ve…

Abortion isn’t a black and white debate, but there are a great many folks who treat it as such and allow no possibility of middle ground. Think of the lawmakers who are trying to outlaw abortion even in cases of rape/incest.* You put enough of those types of people in power — as we are apparently trying to do — and…

Jesus, one of the trials was hinged on the testimony of a six year old who was told she was responsible if the accused went free and that he would kill her next. By both the DA and the kid’s own grandmother.