To the Unknown Zygote… In “Just Try and Top This, Texas” news, TENNESSEE is considering a “monument to unborn children” on state capitol grounds. Gee, will it be the size of an actual blastocyst? You’ll need a microscope to see it.
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News flash: a WEST VIRGINIA newspaper really likes using the word “dismemberment.” When the Register Herald did a story on multi-state attempts to curb reproductive rights, they decided to consult the Theocratic Thesaurus for their terminology. Read this to see how “mainstream” press fall in line with rightwing propaganda.
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To nobody’s surprise, MISSISSIPPI, forever 50th in everything you want to be 1st in, is shooting for the bottom of the barrel in repro rights. They’re working on a bill to ban abortion after only 15 weeks. We just hope nobody tells them about that “monument to the unborn” thing Tennessee has going on.
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Here’s a timely takedown from ThinkProgress on NY Times’ conservo column-monger David Brooks. Brooks wrote a column as an “Imaginary Democratic Consultant” telling Dems to embrace a 20-week abortion ban. No thanks, Unreal David. We have enough non-imaginary Democrats who don’t get it—rights aren’t negotiable!
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