Living in the US, feels like we've gone back 50 years

Looks like it was re-animated by a spammer, boat however, reading it takes me back to Wendy Davis's heroic attempt to filibuster the Texas abortion bill.

www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/26/texas-senator-wendy-davis-abortion-bill-speech

Things seem to have got progressively worse for women's rights since then.

This is a zombie thread from 5 years ago. Is there any particular reason why it’s been reanimated?

As an interested outsider, I would suggest that the Democrats' relentless push towards 'inclusivity'

www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/how-extreme-is-the-equality-act/

is alienating those in the centre ground and giving the hard-line Republicans many extra votes.

It's all about self-interest: do you ensure your daughter can have an abortion should she need it or protect her from the possibility of a girl with a penis turning up in her school showers? Both unlikely, but it's not hard to see why the second scenario might have a more emotive response.

Maybe the Democrats should take a long hard look at their own policies before condemning those of their opponents? Both sides would benefit from a more centralist position.

brian i am your new follower

Solidarity to women in the US. I hope sanity will return soon.

Actress involved in the #metoo advocates a "sex strike" . I think it's a great idea and hope it catches on

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-48242766

I saw that women are protesting by advocating for refusal of intercourse with men

I agree with you Down. The belief aspect is one of the many things that is so troublesome about that case. I just felt it important to clarify Hobby Lobby's stance because they do provide most forms of male and female birth control to their employees.

The next case that will probably work its way through the courts is Eden Foods. They object to all contraception.

I am very upset with the Hobby Lobby decision, but I feel that it is important to understand exactly what Hobby Lobby objected to. They provide other forms of contraceptives, such as the pill and diaphragms. They objected to four contraceptives that they believe to be abortifacients.

One of the biggest problems is that some owners of other closely held companies object to all forms of birth control; some of these cases will eventually be decided and the Hobby Lobby case may make it possible for them to ban all forms of birth control.

Very good point about Viagra provision to unmarried men. It is hard to imagine a religion that would object to birth control, but condone extra-marital sex.

Downamongtherednecks - I hear you, I also live in the US, have done since December 2013.

I can't believe how quickly the rights of women have been eroded in just the seven months we've lived here. DH and I have always been very aware of US politics and happenings, even before moving here, as we're dual citizens (my mom is American, both of DH's parents are). Before we decided to relocate here, every blow for women made me angry, and now we're living here it's damn well personal.

The decision by SCOTUS, to support Hobby Lobby was a huge blow, especially when the company's healthcare will still cover Viagra. If Hobby Lobby bosses are so right-wing Christian, surely the healthcare will only cover Viagra for married men, because to the right-wing lot, sex outside of marriage is a sin?! But no, of course there won't be such a stipulation, as the men can do what they like!

With regards to the buffer ring around abortion clinics, I was livid with SCOTUS over that one, especially when they get their own buffer ring to protect them from protesters.

I want to volunteer as a clinic escort, those incredible people who help guide patients and staff into the clinic, in order to shield/protect them from demonstrators. However, I'm not able to do it at the moment, as I'm seven months pregnant. I do however volunteer for them in another capacity at the moment, it's only a small thing, but it's my little way of saying f* you to the anti-abortion lobby!

So someone wants to control our bodies and what we do with them. This time lifers and the religious right. Christian Concern were campaigning in the UK over this but fortunately most people see them as nutters and avoid dealing with them as much as possible. Every woman should have the right to decide what goes on with her body and sometimes stupid laws are just that stupid laws.

The ones I really can't understand are the women who go along with the concept of the state controlling women's bodies. Why? Just Why?

And yet there remains to men the most simple yet powerful solution to stop all abortions, everywhere: Stop getting women pregnant.

Somehow I doubt it'll catch on.

I love the Onion!

try this

Motorcycle vagina is a real travesty, especially since the proponents defend it as a measure to protect women's health. And we lefties farther south used to admire North Carolina for being one of the more reasonable Southern states.

I just googled motorcycle vagina law and this was the first hit. If anyone could be in any doubt as to what the real agenda behind this sort of legislation is, this paragraph is really damning (and comes "straight from the horse's mouth" - it's a forced-birther republican on the subject of whether to extend state funded medical aid to the unborn...)

"UPDATED: According to the Huffingon Post, the author of Texas' anti-abortion bill, State Rep. Jodie Laubenberg (R), has argued against health care for the unborn because "they're not born yet." Back in 2007, she tried to pass a bill that would force expecting mothers to "to wait three months before they could begin receiving prenatal and perinatal care under the Children's Health Insurance Program." When asked "You do know, don't you, that these are U.S. citizens?" Laubenberg answered "But they're not born yet."

"Pro-life? Yeah. Sure."