Though I also look at the argument from the other side too. If the anti-abortion position is that abortion is murder full-stop, then why does the rape or incest caveat even matter?

Can we also get rid of the judgemental and shaming “even in cases of rape or incest” caveats?

Democrats suck when it comes to messaging.  They need to get with the fucking program and quit letting the GQP control the narrative.

White Christian Supremacy never cared about the children. Only about making life hell on earth for women they deem whorish.

The gauntlet has been thrown down. I predict this will go all the way to the Supreme Court, where the spineless conservative justices will have to actually rule on it instead of handwaving away that it’s too novel an approach. This law is bad in so many ways, and I am glad he is taking a stand. Also that at least one…

On a related note, it’s worth remembering that covid infections in pregnant women increase maternal mortality, miscarriage, and sundry other complications for mother and child.

Yet I suspect that many of the so called “pro-life” advocates championing the Texas law are among the ranks of the unvaccinated and oppose…

It’ll be once I feel I’ve done enough research. I’m working on that now.

What is the exact form of bullying that you think would work on either of them? I see a lot of people babbling on about how Schumer should do something or Biden should do something and I’m not clear what that is.

Sinema should be primaried. Unfortunately, there’s no real option for pressuring Manchin (the only real thing beyond outright bribing him with pork for WV is maybe going after his daughter w/ investigations into her employer and that has a huge downside risk).

I think the second one used to be a lot more common, as young middle-class people who start off wanting to Change the World get a bit older and a bit more invested in the system, until they eventually end up in management with a family and a house that they theoretically own, and find that they are too bought in to…

I believe the cliche is, “A conservative is a liberal who got mugged.”

Tired of the “Trump sucked” genre of books. Begging y’all to stop buying these books and to stop paying attention to these grifter vultures. They are making bank picking over the rotten carcass of Trump’s presidency, whose disastrous term they helped manifest. Why do we keep rewarding the fuckers who enabled Trump…

I’m not a psychologist, and I’ve never met Rose McGowan, so this is a super useful take, but:  I wonder if she learned to process her trauma by attacking Weinstein, and now that he’s in jail and has no career, she doesn’t have any way to process her trauma any more, hence her lashing out at anyone with even the most…

Fuck these “insider accounts.” The dirt was dished in public view for four years. All these assholes were co-conspirators. Unless these accounts are being used as testimony in criminal cases, not interested.

That’s something I’ve seen too - in this case, though, I think there’s also a kind of “ressentiment” at work - Gowan (and others like her) are frustrated they don’t receive the validation and accolades they feel they deserve from the kind of people they want, and so they lash out by loudly embracing values that are a…

I have a family member who went this route but eventually gave it up. Like McGowan, he claimed that he had long felt this way but didn’t feel safe saying so. This was a straight, white, Christian male in northern Florida. 

1) This is the right move

I read the complaint. I found it thorough, informative, persuasive, and well-written. DOJ did a nice job. Hopefully that still matters. 

Excellent news! I was thinking we might have to wait for someone or a foundation to privately back a clinic in a lawsuit to establish standing and challenge the law again, but this is even better. 

My fear is that these abortion vigilantes will also use Texas’s fancy new “anyone can have guns because we LOVE guns” law into murder territory. Even moreso than they usually do.