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Conservative abortion bans remind me of the phrase "the purpose of a system is what it does" (wiki):
The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer, who observed that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do."
Conservative policies in general practically never do what they are "supposed" to do. Their actual purpose is what they inevitably end up causing
See also: "war on drugs", "war on terror", etc.
Yep, exactly. Sex education, criminal policy, economics, everything.
Yup it's what systems thinking refers to as the intersecting systems of oppression for marginalized groups.
Conservative War on Women.
It's not a war because no one's fighting back.
trump and the republican party did this. Intentionally. It's not an accident. This is exactly what they wanted.
Yup. Everyone said this would be the result of their laws, and now here we are. This was expected. They knew what they were doing when they pushed for these laws.
I know the people that pushed this are liars, but it still galls how critics of their assault on women's rights said this is exactly what would happen and their response was the laws would make exceptions for these situations. Then they didn't. They're the worst kind of people.
First of all, obviously the best strategy is actually fixing the problem by throwing out the misogynist christofascist nutjob GOP and repealing their insane laws.
But I want to talk about the next-best strategy: we need an organized legal campaign to actively and aggressively make it even riskier/more expensive for doctors to engage in negligence or malpractice by refusing treatment than it is for them to risk "violating" the aforementioned insane laws by performing treatment. They need to be more scared of our retaliation against them for not doing their goddamn job than they are of the nutjobs' retaliation against them for doing it.
I understand that putting even more pressure on doctors and trapping them in a potentially untenable position is not great. But their comfort is not as important as their patients' health, so there is really no alternative.
We also need to organize things like legal defense funds -- along with, perhaps, more "extralegal" tactics -- to defend doctors who do act right.
Ah, I figured it had to be an abortion situation. Yeah, that's fucking awful. I am not really sure we decided to walk backwards as a people. But what we do about it from this point on is really in the hands of the voters.
Or we could take direct action, help women get access to abortions even if they're illegal. Everything from driving them to Mexico to darknet market abortion pills.
I hear you but ectopic pregnancies I am not sure that's something that can just be handled with pills.
*Ah, see the drive to Mexico thing. I have a bleak hot-take on it that's not very nice and it's definitely coming from a dark place. I guess I'll just put there's certain places in America I have always avoided regardless of their small bastion cities. And generally people never really got why I felt that way if I opened my mouth on it. But I think people are starting to see big picture how I formed that opinion, over twenty years ago.
Ultimately though, women should be able to seek medical assistance at their closest hospital. And the fact that, that's not on the table and sits right with a large chunk of Americans seems bizarre.
The reason why I am just saying vote is because liberals (which I will assume is a large chunk of this space in general) put up a large fervor but where was that fervor when Trump got elected first go round? My dipshit ex wrote in Bernie Sanders regardless of how much I pleaded for her to just vote Hilary and look at where we're at. And yeah, Russians blah - blah -blah! But at the end of the day liberals lived too far in their own heads and created this mess in the first place. So get off your asses this November and vote! Dips.
What the fuck do you mean they "continue to violate federal law". Isn't this why you have this massive defense budget for? Where's the fucking army, America? Where's the navy busting in and laying down the law? Where are the drones? Why isn't the airforce out there bombing the doctors and nurses? Why the fuck is the FBI not responding? Where are the CIA and NSA and other three-lettered dipshits? HOW IN THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE A FUCKING CIVIL WAR AGAINST WOMEN AND YOU DO LITERALLY NOTHING ABOUT IT?
How in the fuck does this actually happen more than exactly once before it is swiftly met with disproportionate retaliation and superior firepower?
I had a talk with my shrink about this the other day. We're both queer women, I'm a poc - both have health issues. America doesn't give a fuck about women. I am not really sure who does. France? Whoever it is, kudos to you! You dun did good. If a federal law took urinals out of bathrooms people would be burning flags and marching on Washington until there were urinals back in bathrooms at a rate of 2x before. So yeah. Eh, it is what it is. It's heartbreaking but it is what it is. There will be moves at some point, but I am not sure when. You can only break the law for so long and I think this article is made to create outrage to make said moves.
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