#womensrights
I get the thrill of being the vote that tips the scale. What I don’t get is why anyone would use that power to suppress women. Tricia Cotham should walk in the shoes of a woman who’s subjected to forced pregnancy and whose life’s in danger It’s pretty sobering. #WomensRights #HumanRights #TriciaCotham
An important global resource that isn't on a lot of people's radar. It seems so plentiful and cheap.
Problems affect a large number of areas:
- #environment and #ecology
- #crime and #corruption (even "sand mafias"!)
- #HumanRights including #WomensRights
- #economy
- greed, poverty, inequality
"Beneath the Sands is a collaborative investigation by the ERC involving journalists and newsrooms based in 12 countries."
Trying to be “above the fray” in times like these…is deadly.
Privilege, privilege, privilege
Republicans’ abortion bans are nothing like those in Europe
Moreover, European countries that have 12-week limits on “elective” abortions still make it fairly easy for women to get abortions later on, with relatively broad exceptions for mental health or socioeconomic circumstances. Republicans have aggressively fought against similar exceptions, even the risk of suicide if a pregnancy continues — as a factor.
https://www.vox.com/23741997/republicans-12-week-abortion-bans-europe-roe-dobbs
#Iran launches militia patrol to crack down on #abortions
The #GOP claims it is for small #government, but not when it comes to your personal or #parental #rights. They believe government should make those decisions for you. What will they come for next? #WomensRights #CivilRights #GOPLies #SueTheBastards #LGBTQ #parenthood #TransRights
#Texas bill banning #gender-affirming care for #transgender #kids is now law.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/02/texas-gender-affirming-care-ban/
A man went to social media posting photos of #Nigerian #hildabaci he claims that she should be removed from the #GuinnessBook #Men are policing women’s bodies and telling them they shouldn’t wear #BathingSuits she’s wearing a bathing suit and she is calling her tomorrow and make it and this is in #Africa
#Woman #GenderOrEquality, #HumanRights #Womensrights #LaceysHouse #BlackWomen #Women #Equality, #HumanRights #Humanity
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #WomensMarch National Day of Action - 6.24.2023 | Women's March https://act.womensmarch.com/sign/062423-march-pledge/?source=text_t_WM_PET_MarchLaunch_060523_cl
#Introduction I live on the Big Island of Hawaii, retired from the corporate world. I have had a varied career including R&D in advanced materials (aerospace structural adhesives and composites), manufacturing management, IT management, and business process support. I have a degree in Chemistry from CalTech. I do a lot of volunteer work these days in addition to writing.
#Writing #Science #Tech #Liberal #WomensRights #VotingRights #BlackLivesMatter #VoteLikeBlackWomen
Civil Liberties Groups Demand California Police Stop Sharing Drivers’ Location Data With Police In Anti-Abortion States | Electronic Frontier Foundation
#EFF #Abortion #BadCops #WomensRights #Illegal #CivilLiberties
"not long ago, men were free to grab women–as long as they grabbed women lower than them on the hierarchy.
Because the 19th-century social hierarchy put white men on top and Black women on the bottom, there was always a woman lower on the hierarchy for a man to grab.
Consider the fact that the rape of an enslaved woman was not a crime, and if she resisted, the man could legally beat her."
~@Teri_Kanefield
https://terikanefield.com/giuliani-mcveigh-and-sexual-abuse/
"To put the matter bluntly, women are no longer dependent on men, which means men can no longer arbitrarily exercise their power over women, which, (I maintain) explains much of the anger and frustration you see here"
~@Teri_Kanefield
https://terikanefield.com/giuliani-mcveigh-and-sexual-abuse/
#Women #WomensRights #Freedom #Equality
vs
#MAGA #Sexism #Racism #Bigotry #Patriarchy #Oligarchy #Authoritarianism
As US aims to bring back manufacturing, supporting women is key
#Christian youth in #Pakistan gets death sentence for sharing #blasphemous content
Afghan women face '#pandemic of suicidal thoughts'
#Afghanistan #HumanRights #WomensRights #atheism #atheist #Antitheism
Millions of US Women at Risk After 'Regressive' Attack on Abortion Rights by Supreme Court
Abortion bans in 14 States. The experts said the bans could lead to violations of women's rights to privacy, bodily integrity and autonomy, freedom of expression, freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, equality and non-discrimination, and freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and gender-based violence.
As anti-gay sentiment grows, more #LGBTQ+ people seek to flee #Uganda
‘Sweetest feeling’: Iran’s female ice hockey team defies the odds
The ACT’s takeover of Calvary Hospital overrides conscientious objection and threatens religious freedom
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/act-takeover-of-calvary-hospital-overrides-freedom-of-conscience/102356586
"Reading between the lines, however, this compulsory acquisition is because Calvary Hospital and the ACT government had a fundamental disagreement over the definition of healthcare. For the government, the provision of abortion is non-negotiable, whereas Calvary Hospital relies on institutional conscientious objection to refrain from participating in abortion based on the conviction that it is morally wrong to intentionally end a human life."
Abortion is often not an easy decision and sometimes required to save the life of a pregnant person. Regardless of the circumstances, it's their body so it should be their choice.
Some religious nutjobs believe that an unborn bundle of cells has more rights than a living adult human.
It's morally repugnant for religious people who run hospitals to think they can pick-and-choose what type of treatment to offer patients who go to them for medical help.
'Haunting and vivid portrayal of life in England in the 1900s' mybook.to/ChainmakersTrilogy The white slaves of England, the fight for a living wage, and women's suffrage. Hunger strikes, the rise of Hitler, and the rescue of Jewish children. Strong independent women. #authors #bookstodon #womensrights #historicalfiction
Attacks on LGBTQ+ Rights & Women’s Rights Escalate
The anti-abortion playbook that uses violence and threats has been co-opted by other movements—including anti-trans extremists
https://msmagazine.com/2023/06/02/pride-month-lgbtq-women-trans/
The overlap between these movements doesn’t end here—when it comes to both anti-trans legislation & anti-abortion legislation, far-right groups like The Heritage Foundation & the Alliance Defending Freedom are behind both.
#HeritageFoundation #AllianceDefendingFreedom #WomensRights #TransRights
Women's rights, Women choose, Women decide. Period.
In Afghanistan, religious-based laws have made it impossible for a woman to survive on her own. Women cannot attend school or hold jobs or support themselves outside of marriage.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/04/afghanistan-taliban-women-marriage-divorce/
Thread of article: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/109965752069270952
Religious-based laws should NOT be tolerated in the USA. Abortion bans enshrine Christian beliefs as law which contradicts the establishment clause of the #FirstAmendment
Iranian model wears ‘noose’ dress at Cannes festival to protest executions at home
#Hamas condemns Jerusalem #Pride march, calls for confrontation
Today in 1924, June Callwood was born in Chatham, Ontario.
Called Canada's Conscience, she founded several charities around Canada & established one of the first shelters for women in crisis, and the first HIV/AIDS hospice in Canadian history.
She died in 2007 in Toronto.
#charity #canada #history #womenshistory #womensrights #canadian #histodon #histodons
'Haunting and vivid portrayal of life in England in the 1900s' mybook.to/ChainmakersTrilogy The white slaves of England and women's suffrage. Hunger strikes, the rise of Hitler, and the rescue of Jewish children. Strong independent women. #historicalfiction #bookstodon #womensrights
#BillC311 is an act to amend the criminal code and make physical or emotional harm to a pregnant person an aggravating factor in sentencing. This may seem like an act to protect people, but #AbortionRights groups & some Liberal and NDP MPs see it for what it is: a slippery slope to #criminalizing #abortion . It's a #dangerous #precedent to set.
Please SIGN #petition & share widely!
https://act.leadnow.ca/bill-c-311-petition
#Canada #WomensRights #OurBodiesOurChoice #CanPoli #HumanRights #ProChoice #SignPetition
@AbortionFront And the struggle continues into the 21st century #History #WomensRights https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP33-Womens_RIghts.mp3
The Global War on Gay Rights
Modern-day debates over gay rights and women’s rights are far less about long-standing cultural norms and far more about power and social control.
https://msmagazine.com/2023/06/01/gay-rights-religion-usa-africa/
On Monday Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni signed a bill into law that will impose broad punitive penalties on LGBTQ Ugandans ... Uganda has long been a hub for American religious groups seeking to export conservative Christianity abroad.
Many European streets are named after people, but it's very rare for them to be called after a woman — with the exception of two religious figures. Here's a look at how street names reflect historical gender-imbalance and who society valued, which cities do best, and which are getting worse.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/european-street-names-women/
Thank you #Nevada for moving to increase State protection of a womans right to seek an abortion. Roll on that constitutional amendment in 2026. Assuming that is we can keep misogynistic old white men out of Federal power.
Ugh. This “reversal” nonsense is actually being advocated by a “Pregnancy Care Center” in Seguin, Texas. And they’re supported by United Way.
“Claims regarding abortion ‘reversal’ treatment are not based on science and do not meet clinical standards. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)* ranks its recommendations on the strength of the evidence and does not support prescribing progesterone to stop a medication abortion.”
*ACOG, founded in 1951, is a 501(c)(3) organization with a membership of more than 60,000 obstetrician-gynecologists and women's health care professionals.
#HealthCare #abortion #AbortionIsHealthCare #FactsMatter #WomensRights #WomensHealth
#Argentina allows morning-after pill to be bought over counter
"The South Carolina Senate votes to ban abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. State Sen. Tom Davis (R) remarked, “At some point in time, the right of the state to see the unborn child born does take precedent over the woman’s right to her body.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/25/ann-telnaes-cartoon-south-carolina-abortion-ban/
#Women #WomensRights #BodilyAutomony #Abortion #Healthcare #SouthCarolina #USA
#EditorialCartoon #Cartoon
A number of #GOP candidates have stated they want to overturn the Griswold v Connecticut SCOTUS ruling.
Not only would this make it illegal for women to use birth control.
It would basically END the legal right to personal privacy for both women AND MEN.
See video: https://youtu.be/-5keiBzhG-E
61% of Israelis support equal rights for #LGBTQ people - poll
#SCOTUS has already started eroding women's #BodilyAutonomy by revoking the right to #Abortion. A number of Republicans are already talking about revoking a woman's right to #BirthControl (and to vote).
https://projects.propublica.org/supreme-risk/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The #GOP wants to return to the era when #women were the property of men, to be used for purposes of procreation, male pleasure and/or housekeeping, unable to control their own bodies or their own lives without male permission.
@blogoklahoma 👏👏👏 Good! More state Supreme Courts should follow acknowledging established SCOTUS precedents based on the Fourteenth Amendment.
#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #14thAmendment #HumanRights #CivilRights #AbortionRights #WomensRights #SaveLives
Uproar after #Uganda enacts anti-gay law
#HumanRights #WomensRights #atheism #atheist #Antitheism
https://www.dw.com/en/title-uproar-after-uganda-enacts-anti-gay-law/a-65773608
#Blinken says #US to consider visa restrictions over Ugandan anti-gay law
#LGBTQ #HumanRights #WomensRights #atheism #atheist #Antitheism
https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-warns-uganda-possible-sanctions-due-anti-gay-law-2023-05-29/
Trial begins for #Iran journalist who reported Mahsa Amini’s death
#HumanRights #WomensRights #atheism #atheist #Antitheism
https://www.dawn.com/news/1756679/trial-begins-for-iran-journalist-who-reported-mahsa-aminis-death
Uganda enacts harsh anti- #LGBTQ law including death penalty
Idaho Governor just signed legislation that will stop pregnant women from crossing state lines. WTH!!
#WomensRights
#MyBodyMyChoice
#VoteOutTheGOP
#votebluetoendthisnightmare
Currently listening to podcast https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/marie-coleman-on-feminism/102345178
>A name synonymous with the women’s movement in Australia over the past 60 years is Marie Coleman. As part of the 2023 Pamela Denoon Lecture series, Marie reflects on her time as the first woman to head a federal government agency in 1973 and her advocacy for universal childcare, single mothers' payments, paid parental leave and the push for equal pay.
>Pamela Denoon Lecture presented by the National Foundation for Australian Women. March 9, 2023
>Speakers
Marie Coleman
>AO PSM
Jane Madden
>President
National Foundation of Australian Women
***
She is absolutely fabulous! Such a dynamo. Thank goodness for peeps like her. 💜
I’m loving @Teri_Kanefield book, #FreeToBeRuthBaderGinsburg The Story of Women and Law. It is so well written!!!
If you’re like me, and a good book is a way to tune out people and the everyday noise of life, and connect with a true, inspiring story, I recommend this book.
It’s cool to know (a Mastodon know) the author and read her blog, her toots, as she gently and thoughtfully walks us through complex and trying times.
Thanks Teri!
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/us/abortion-access-restrictions-bans-us/index.html
Planning summer vacation? Here is a great map to help you decide where you can take your vacation dollars. All the green ones feel safer than the red ones…….
CA cops illegally share data with anti-abortion states, civil rights groups say - Because… of course they do, they’re cops. We’ve got a hidden in plain sight fifth column in police departments, especially county sheriff departments that are seeking to support conservative, right-wing causes even when it is illegal to do so. It’s bad enough the many police professionals are openly supportive of groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. But they are taking their resistance to progressive change and legislation one step further with this kind of behavior. #police #policing #LawEnforcement #cops #policeofficers #choice #abortion #abortionrights #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights #womensrights #reproductiverights #abolishpolice #AbolishThePolice https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article275795726.html
@augieray As tweeted B4:
From Marco Rubio to #Woke-obsessed #Autocrats like #DeSantis...
NOTHING screams delusion like claiming to “counter #China” & the #CCP & defend #Taiwan — where #LGBTQ #Rights are enshrined in the #Constitution — LIKE aggressively championing:
❶ #Guns, #DomesticTerrorism & #MassShootings
❷ #VoterSuppression
❸ +of: #WomensRights, #Minorities & #HumanRights
❹ #Secession, #Treason, #Insurrection, and #Collusion with #Russia & genociders like #Putin🔴https://bit.ly/3BbZQOT
The activists confronting period taboos in Pakistan
The Press is Falling for Anti-Abortion “Fetal Heartbeat” Propaganda
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/27/abortion-fetal-heartbeat-propaganda-press-coverage/
#WomensRights #1A #SupportWomensReproductiveRights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #ExpandSCOTUS #GOPWarOnWomen #EndTheFilibuster #SeparationOfChurchAndState #VoteProgressive
New Substack article - The Free and Fearless Lucy Stone: The story of a remarkable women's rights pioneer and her legacy.
https://thingsinvisible.substack.com/p/the-free-and-fearless-lucy-stone
#womensrights #americanhistory #abolition #biography
@TonyStark 😎 The United States Declaration of Independence is unmistakably clear about despots oppressing the people:
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
#SaveLives #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #WomensRights #HumanRights #AbortionRights #ExpelTheGOP #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #MarchOfNoConfidence #MarchForOurLives #ProChoice
US doctor reprimanded, fined for talking about child’s abortion
Today in 1899, Muriel Fergusson was born in Shediac, NB. She was New Brunswick's 1st female judge of a probate court & she fought for increased participation by women in politics.
From 1953-1975, she sat in the Canadian Senate & was the 1st female Senate Speaker from 1972-1974.
#womenshistory #canada #history #womensrights #cdnpol #cdnpoli #canpol #canpoli #canadian #histodon #histodons
‘War on women’: Taliban curbs on Afghan females a ‘crime’
In a changed Indonesia, some fear a ‘backlash’ against freedoms
US doctor who treated 10-year-old rape victim faces board hearing
"The South Carolina Senate votes to ban abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. State Sen. Tom Davis (R) remarked,
“At some point in time, the right of the state to see the unborn child born does take precedent over the woman’s right to her body.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/25/ann-telnaes-cartoon-south-carolina-abortion-ban/
#Women #WomensRights #BodilyAutomony #Abortion #Healthcare #SouthCarolina #USA
#EditorialCartoon #Cartoon
🤬
South Carolina's abortion bill signed into law
>A six-week abortion ban in South Carolina has been signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster.
#VoteOutTheGOP
#votebluetoendthisnightmare
#WomensRights
#ThisIsNotFreedom
A short article on the Edwardian days. Perhaps someone would enjoy.
https://wordsmith.social/cappuccinogirl/the-edwardian-paradox
#amwriting #writing #writingcommunity #blog #blogging #historybuff #laborhistory #WomensRights #UK #HistoryBlogging
Traffickers switch to Myanmar after China erects border fence
Hello #Mastodon friends and strangers, this is a reminder that this account of mine contains images involving 🏳️🌈 #MaleNudity (including my own.) Please #follow me at @boeckli if you prefer family friendly content. Thank you 🙏
PS: I’m #gay and I care deeply about #LGBTQ issues, as well as #TransRights, #WomensRights and #BLM.
@Mary625 @StevenBeschloss Winning a seat running as a Dem & then defecting to the "GOP" she defrauded the people, who voted for her, IMO.
She forfeited the legitimacy of her seat & should resign.
Bribery, corruption? Involvement of Leonard Leo's Catholic-Orthodox $billion network?
#DefendDemocracy #Democracy #ElectoralFraud #RepsForSale #Bribery #Corruption #NC #WomensRights #HumanRights #AbortionRights
They simply can't be trusted.
We all know what comes next.
#Abortion #AbortionLaws #RoeVWade #WomensRights #Republicans #Fascism
Lebanese feminists protest after woman harassed over swimsuit
Kafka-esque nightmare’: what many women face when reporting rape
Netflix documentary Victim/Suspect examines a broken system that too often turns women from victims of sexual assault to suspects of false claims
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/20/netflix-documentary-victim-suspect-women-rape
#rape #Netflix #documentary #women #WomensRights #WomensSafety
"It didn’t occur to her that fallout from the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a half-century constitutional right to abortion would affect them.
A routine ultrasound halfway through her pregnancy changed all that."
#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/41RzDzo
Mastodon thread of article: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/110397578809330645
@dangillmor With $billions of Leonard Leo's dark money in the background, today's manipulated SCOTUS majority is enacting the Federalist Society's & Catholic Opus Dei's agenda.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/04/leonard-leo-federalist-society-conservative-abortion
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #Corruption #Bribery #TaxEvasion #MoneyLaundering #ExpandSCOTUS #TermLimits #DefendAmerica #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #Freedom #HumanRights #WomensRights #AbortionRights #LGBTQ
Rep. Tricia Cotham (R-NC) is a traitor. #WomensRights #NorthCarolina #TriciaCotham #GOPTraitors
North Carolina Has a Brutal New Abortion Ban Thanks to One Woman's Betrayal https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43920643/north-carolina-abortion-ban-tricia-cotham/
All these male politicians passing abortion bans will never have to lie in their cars bleeding out while doctors and lawyers turn their backs on them. I hope they bleed out from every other available orifice. #AbortionRights #WomensRights
Sorry, WHAT? 🤬
" ... the deputy commissioner (of the #MetPolice) wrote: “I’m not minimising the role we have to play (in upholding a law PREVENTING RAPE VICTIMS BEING FORCED TO HAND OVER THERAPY NOTES WHEN THEY REPORT A CRIME) ..."
"Nogah Ofer, of the Centre for Women’s Justice, said: “There is quite a lot of finger-pointing between the police and CPS on this issue ..."
JUST. DO. YOUR. FUCKING. JOBS
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/17/moj-and-police-row-on-twitter-over-pressure-on-rape-victims-to-hand-over-therapy-notes
#UKPolitics #SafeStreets #WomensRights #EndViolenceAgainstWomen
This should not be happening.
#DomesticAbuse #WomensRights
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/17/johnny-depp-cannes-criticism-of-festival-organisers
18-hour work days and no savings: An Uber driver in Delhi
"Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Robin Bartleman, introduced an amendment that would have explicitly allowed doctors to induce or perform an abortion if a woman presents at a hospital with PPROM.
... stories recounted on the House floor demonstrating that doctors did not feel they could act in a PPROM situation.
The amendment was defeated by a party-line vote of 80-33."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/16/ucsf-abortion-study/
#Health #Healthcare #Abortion #Pregnancy #Miscarriage #Women #WomensHealth #WomensRights #Florida #USA
"The research also highlighted a number of other pregnancy complications that medical providers said were impacted by the Supreme Court ruling. Patients were unable to terminate pregnancies with fetal anomalies, medical providers said, while others faced delays in obtaining the medication necessary to treat an early miscarriage."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/16/ucsf-abortion-study/
#Health #Healthcare #Abortion #Pregnancy #Miscarriage #Women #WomensHealth #WomensRights
"After greenlighting an abortion for a patient with a Caesarean scar ectopic pregnancy, one doctor described a situation where other colleagues who were necessary to safely complete the procedure were unwilling to help, saying they did not feel “legally protected.”
The physician recommended that the patient travel elsewhere, but the patient did not have the means to leave the state."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/16/ucsf-abortion-study/
#Health #Healthcare #Abortion #Pregnancy #Women #WomensHealth #WomensRights
Patients “are being harmed in significant ways because care is being denied or delayed,” said Daniel Grossman, a professor at UCSF and the lead author of the report. “These laws are having a broader impact beyond people who are seeking abortion because they have an undesired pregnancy.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/16/ucsf-abortion-study/
#Health #Healthcare #Abortion #Women #WomensHealth #WomensRights #AbortionIsHealthcare
#MatchGroup has announced that it is pulling out of #Russia by the end of June because it is "committed to protecting human rights".
Sometimes, it is better to just shut up instead of reminding the world how shitty you have been for the last year+ in not doing so when most decent companies left.
That being said, maybe #MTCH pulling out of #Texas because they are committed to protecting human rights would be a good idea next?
#Dating #WomensRights #Match #Tinder #OkCupid #Hinge #Meetic #POF
Poisoning of Schoolgirls in Iran
Petition:
The abortion argument is about controlling women and their bodies, and it’s as disgusting as it is shameful. This is pure misogyny.
Abortion isn’t the crime here. The crime is the abuse of women mentally, emotionally, and physically. They are being denied control over their own bodies and health decisions. These are personal, private matters; they deserve the utmost respect.
Women will remedy this problem at the polls. I’ll be voting with them.
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #BodilyAutonomy
Via @emptywheel: Sam Alito almost killed this woman.
But he's worried that leak of the Dobbs opinion put him at risk.
"2 hospitals that refused to provide emergency #abortion to a pregnant woman experiencing premature labor put her life in jeopardy & violated federal law, a first-of-its-kind investigation by the federal govt has found.
The findings, revealed in documents obtained by AP are a warning to hospitals around the country..." https://apnews.com/article/emergency-abortion-law-hospitals-kansas-missouri-emtala-2f993d2869fa801921d7e56e95787567 #WomensHealth #WomensRights
Let’s be proactive and stand up for what matters, eh? If you see this, please share your own message of advocacy. There’s a lot of despondency, but there’s also so much great work being done by awesome Canadians out there. My Canada includes addressing #ClimateChange 🇨🇦 speaking up against #hate, #racism, #antisemitism 🇨🇦 advocating for #IndigenousRights, #womensrights #disabilityjustice rights, #LGBTQIA rights 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ and, yeah, supporting public radio (@CBC)
#Senate Will #Vote on #removing obstacles blocking the ratification of 100-Year-Old #WomenSRights #Amendment This Week
The #Constitutional #amendment to establish #equalrights for #women is needed now more than ever, Schumer said.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #ERA #EqualRightsAmendment
"What these numbers mean is that while a vocal and uncompromising subset of the Republican Party base may want a society like that in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in which women have no agency and no autonomy over their bodies, most Americans do not want to live in such a cruel dystopia."
See thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/110181205256157207
of article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/10/abortion-dobbs-ruling-republicans-blowback/
#WomensRights #HumanRights #BodilyAutonomy #Freedom #AbortionRights #Abortion #USA
"If [#SCOTUS]... were to uphold the ruling handed down by U.S. Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk in #Texas, the #FDA’s authority to vet and approve drugs, considered the gold standard around the world, could be permanently undermined...
“This kind of Monday morning quarterbacking logic would allow courts to invalidate almost any FDA approval,”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04/07/texas-abortion-pill-decision-fda/
#Healthcare #Abortion #AbortionRights #WomensRights #WomensHealth #Freedom #FreedomToChoose #USA
So #NikkiHaley thinks women's sports is the most important issue today?
How about leaving the transgender community alone and focus on #womensrights, #reproductiverights, equal pay, Healthcare, childcare, and the list goes on....
@futurebird Why do these people want to live in the 1890s?
Because at that time Abraham Lincoln, who would definitely have detested their Confederate tyrannical illiberalism & slaveholder policies (=> women's right to self-determination, abortion, people's right to live freely with whatever gender they are & who they love etc. etc.), was already dead.
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.”
— Abraham Lincoln, 1858 —
#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #Freedom #CivilRights #HumanRights #WomensRights #VotingRights #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #Overthrow #ProsecuteALLRebels
👏🏻👏🏻 #Minnesota passes bills protecting reproductive, gender-affirming care, banning conversion therapy #LGBTQ #health #WomensRights
Almost three-quarters of college students told pollsters that laws governing reproductive health factored into their decision of whether to stay enrolled in their current campus or leave.
#WomensRights #AbortionRights #RedStatesLose
Abortion Access Is Affecting Where College Students Decide to Study https://time.com/6273561/abortion-ban-colleges-red-states/
Men supporting #women in #Iran as a form of civil disobedience, by wearing #hijab .
via @kambiz
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The Extreme Court
by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
"I know nothing about medicine, but I'm gonna ban a drug because I don't like it!"
"And I'm not a woman and know nothing about your situation, but I'm going to decide what you do with your body!"
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Medical abortion access in all 50 states is under threat via a Texas federal judge. We have a temporary hold by the Supreme Court, so MAKE SOME NOISE.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-pill-ruling-supreme-court-administrative-stay/
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I am struggling with relief that a temporary stay has been placed, anger at who did it (Alito) and rage that the pharma lobbyists are the ones now controlling this entire thing. No one gives a shit about the real women and the lives that will be effected by this. #AbortionRights #WomensRights
#SupremeCourt temporarily restores access to abortion pill #Mifepristone .
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/14/supreme-court-abortion-mifepristone/
Biden Administration Moves to Ban Healthcare Workers From Reporting Abortions to Police
So it looks like there’s some confusion around what this exactly is, so let me try to add some context:
As part of all these other moves that law enforcement in anti-choice states are taking (including literal fucking checkpoints at the New Mexico-Texas border), those antitrust law enforcement are also looking to send subpoenas for medical records to abortion clinics in pro-choice states in order to prosecute the women (if that state prosecutes the women) or the people that helped her get the abortion. The medical professionals in the states, of course, feel like they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They don’t want to betray the patient confidentiality, but at the same time they don’t want to be held in contempt themselves for failure to comply with a subpoena.
The federal government, except in particular circumstances, can’t intervene in a state court’s prosecution of its own state criminal laws, but it can involve itself when that criminal process crosses state lines. So what this proposed rule is doing is prohibiting law-enforcement from subpoenaing records related to reproductive health services outside of their own state. And basically telling healthcare providers in pro-choice states that if they don’t respond to a subpoena, they are not breaking the law; rather, they only break the law if they do handover the records as that will be a violation of HIPAA if the patient did not consent.
As an aside, this rule did not come out of nowhere. If you didn’t know this already, if you are in a part of a Part 2 substance-abuse program, those records also have very strict rules about when they can be shared with law-enforcement. A while back, there was concern that people would not seek treatment for their substance abuse out of fear they would get arrested and lose their job. So the federal government modified HIPAA to prevent law-enforcement and employers from being able to get records about substance-abuse treatment in a federally funded program without explicit patient consent.
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So now that those busy few months of people leaving Twitter are over -- what do those of us on Mastodon see as the best way(s) to contribute to the 2024 effort?
The Republicans are coming for everything and, if we put in the work, we'll stop them. The question is -- how do we best utilize the time and energy we've got?
#VoteBlue #Democrats #Mastodon #politics #uspol #uspolitics #democracy #fascism #antifascism #republicans #womensrights #womenshealth #lgbtq #lgbtqia #trans #abortion #activism
Oh, the madness on the Right ~
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