“A Texas woman was just forced to beg for life-saving health care in court and now any doctor who provides her the care she urgently needs is being threatened with punishment including a lifetime prison sentence,” Escobar said…. “This story is shocking, it’s horrifying, and it’s heartbreaking.”
The Texas Supreme Court and Ken Paxton continue to prevent Kate Cox from an abortion she needs to protect her life. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/08/texas-abortion-lawsuit-ken-paxton/ #misogyny #ReproductiveJustice #AbortionRights
@heidilifeldman
She'll have to flee the state, and I hope she sends Paxton a photo of the deformed fetus. Ask him why God would be pleased by her risking future pregnancies to bring that into the world. Yes, it's gross, but men are far too casual about forcing women to participate in these religious sacrifices.
@Nazani @heidilifeldman Texans voted for him after all the awful policies, she may not have but is paying the price.
@Nazani @heidilifeldman I'm surprised that hasn't happened already I surely hope it is not for a lack of funds and instead she's making a brave and principled stand for the benefit of future women in this position?
@heidilifeldman This was never about saving children. This is only about controlling women and saving patriarchy.
@CaseyWrites @heidilifeldman
It’s never been about saving “babies”.
@nancyann @CaseyWrites @heidilifeldman they actually tried it with a 10 year old rape victim...
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/14/anti-abotion-10-year-old-ohio-00045843
@CaseyWrites @heidilifeldman
It’s also about reducing competition for mediocre white men.
@nancyann @CaseyWrites @heidilifeldman
They started that shit when they got rid of women calling them witches and burning them at the stake...Fuckers.
@GatekeepKen @CaseyWrites @heidilifeldman
Here’s how bad it is. Texas is Gilead.
@nancyann @CaseyWrites @heidilifeldman
The death of his child is writen off in his tiny peanut of a brain as Sky daddy willed it so it's ok. Guilt ? nope. Sadness? nope. Jebus did it.. Texas is home to the largest mega church cults.
@GatekeepKen @nancyann @heidilifeldman I grew up there. You’re not wrong.
My parents are devoted members of Cowboy Church. I went once while visiting. It was covid times but TX had no mask mandate. Immediately, a man who I never met told me to take off my mask.
The pastor started the sermon with a sexist, homophobic joke that included rape.
He had a gun and said the world deserves god’s violence because there are trans ppl.
Horrifying
@CaseyWrites @nancyann@universeodon.co
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Trump taps the ignorant cults, that's his super power. Sorry about your family. I left my idiot family. They vote against my welfare. They are not my family.
@GatekeepKen @CaseyWrites @heidilifeldman
And right wing propaganda serves them up for republican tyranny. They are primed to be afraid of EVERYTHING.
@nancyann @CaseyWrites @heidilifeldman
Same MO the churches use to scare people into donations. It's all dogshit.
@CaseyWrites
OMG, this is not a “church”. It is a patriarchy death cult.
White-priviledged patriarchal death cult...
@CaseyWrites @GatekeepKen @nancyann @heidilifeldman
I kind of like the picture of him in a crucible.
@chemoelectric @CaseyWrites @GatekeepKen @nancyann @heidilifeldman No greater hate than Christian love
@CaseyWrites As it is sometimes said “Oh My Fucking God!” Food for thought, keep in mind, these people call themselves Cristians…
@Huntn00 correct. For anyone who thinks I’m making it up, I can send a link to the service. They put em on Facebook.
I didn’t even mention the part where the gun-toting pastor talks about beating his dog with a dead chicken.
@GatekeepKen @CaseyWrites @heidilifeldman
So he’s not accountable. How convenient.
@nancyann @CaseyWrites @heidilifeldman
It's a sickness akin to what trump has. It's untreatable. No mega church has given a nickle to Urakine. That should tell you who's side these traitors are on.
@GatekeepKen
The tax laws must be changed. If they’re “churches” a large percentage of the funds they collect must be used for charitable purposes. These are just big, untaxed businesses scamming the ignorant.
@GatekeepKen
The elephant in the room left undiscussed by democrats.
@nancyann
It's the electrafied rail..
@GatekeepKen
Yeah. And as long as voters believe they should choose one party, and then the other to keep things “balanced”. It will only get worse and worse. How do voters not see they’re footing the bill for the rich, corporations and churches?
@GatekeepKen You put an L where there should be an N. #SaxonSwearing @nancyann @CaseyWrites @heidilifeldman
@GatekeepKen @nancyann @CaseyWrites @heidilifeldman … and those mega churches are led by corrupt con men in the same vein as #TheHeadLiar picking the Sheeps’ pockets.
@Huntn00 @nancyann @CaseyWrites@toot.communit
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Trump will make the Whitehouse a revolving door with lobbiest paying him, not the Senators and House members..He won't need congress.
@nancyann @GatekeepKen @CaseyWrites @heidilifeldman
Texas is Worse than the book or movie or series ‘Gilead’ in its cruelty. It’s what Fascists always do. It is like Goering’s Prussia in a time-line to total Fascist take-over.
Read Chris Hedges Book ‘American Fascists, The Religious Right and The War Against America’. It’s more timely than ever.
I’ve been using the ‘F’ word since the Electoral coup in ‘00. I was appalled by Ray-Gun. The roll back of Roe began with Hyde Amendment in 1980
@NoctisEqui
Indeed. They’ve worked on this for a very long time. They saw trump as an opportunity to accelerate their plans and come out of the shadows.
@heidilifeldman If Kate Cox dies, Paxton should be prosecuted for murder.
It's a wonder any sane, rational, educated person still lives in that hell-hole of a state.
I lived there briefly back in the 90s, a job transfer thing. Couldn't get back out fast enough. It's like a different planet.
@demerara @heidilifeldman It's a reasonable question, but moving out of state is a very expensive, extremely disruptive life change. Some of the hesitancy is sunk cost fallacy, but there are also real and practical barriers to migrating an entire family and livelihood to a new state. The people that can afford to move out can also afford to leave the state occasionally to work around these stupid laws, and that is much cheaper than leaving. The rich are inconvenienced, the poor are trapped.
@RushGirl @heidilifeldman A fucking Handmaid's Tale nightmare!!!!
Papiere, bitte. Arbeit oder Vergnügen? Wo gehst du hin? Sind Sie zurzeit Schwanger? Wir müssen Ihren zuletzt verwendeten Tampon sehen.
@RushGirl @heidilifeldman What alarms that photo combined with how easy it is to test for hCG (pregnancy hormone). All it takes is a drop of blood or urine. There is even a saliva based test recently developed and available in many countries (not yet the US I don’t believe but don’t quote me). All the tools exist to make that photo a reality.
@heidilifeldman let's tie the fate of the judge with the fate of the woman
@heidilifeldman It's unfortunate that men can't (generally) get pregnant, otherwise we would have already had an intersection between abortion laws and the 2nd Amendment freaks.
@heidilifeldman There would have been the Ruby Ridge Abortion Clinic, and they would have driven off the feds.
@heidilifeldman Where we once thought they were being performative about their cruelty to entertain their voting base, now I wonder if they're doing it just for sport.
@heidilifeldman such unspeakable cruelty and evil, the GOP are sickening
@heidilifeldman
Gotta keep that evangelical base that cares so much about the unborn and not so much about the mother.
@heidilifeldman These sadists hate women. HATE them. There is no other explanation.
The religious bigots who overturned Roe vs Wade enjoy the ego boost of pleading, dying women.
The sadism is GOP policy.
https://www.salon.com/2015/12/10/its_not_compassion_sadism_and_control_is_whats_driving_anti_choice_extremists/
It is the Season of Sadism.
Brought to you by Republican billionaire donors.
@Npars01 @heidilifeldman And women continue to vote GOP.
Self-loathing opportunists, traitorous quislings, and deluded collaborators exist everywhere.
@Npars01 @AnOldGuy @heidilifeldman Brainwashed by the Religious Industrial Complex.
"the anti-choice movement is not and never was interested in "babies," but in making sex as fraught and dangerous a choice as possible for women, with the dim hope that this will convince then not to have it"
Sounds about right, especially given their own communities are riddled with sex scandals, extra marital affairs, closeted non binary hypocrisy, secret abortions, the list goes on. Every accusation is a confession right?
I like calling it anti-choice not pro-life
@heidilifeldman pro-life is such a misnomer