You knew this was coming—an ARIZONA rep is blaming mass shootings not on the guns that make the whole “mass shootings” part of mass shootings happen, but on (drumroll, please!) ABORTION! Oh, and video games—because these problems are complex, people! This is why we can’t have nice things—like safe schools. Read & weep.
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Where does Arizona find the time to blame gun deaths on abortion when they’re so busy trying to shut down abortion care providers? They’re requiring abortion providers to have all sorts of expensive equipment for fetuses that are “born alive.” Does “fetus born alive” sound like an oxymoron to you? That’s cuz it is not a thing that happens! Republican lawmakers are just trying to bankrupt clinics.
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Not content with having turned Health and Human Services into a monolith of misogyny, the Trump administration (and the anti-choice rodents they let run things) is now slashing away at reproductive rights at the State Department. The Daily Beast details how they’re downgrading women’s and reproductive rights in a human rights report that’s more about people-they-consider-human rights.
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I don’t think we’re still in the nightmare version of KANSAS anymore! The crusade there to deny access to breast exams and birth control by cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood has been slapped down by a U.S. Court of Appeals. Gee, there IS no place like home.
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If you want to feel better about the world in general, read this beautiful Teen Vogue piece by someone who is working to bring medication abortions to public university campuses in California. It’s your daily dose of common sense.
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