“The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an individual’s religious practices.”
Abortion bans are Unconstitutional. Pass it along!
Democratic personalities Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Cory Booker, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders react to the Alabama’s abortion ban
Hey everyone with a uterus on my friends list. With the current bs events taken place in this horrific time line, I just wanna give ya a PSA. Join the Satanic Temple, Islam, or convert to Judaism. Those religions have a religious and holy book right to grantee the life of the mother. Abortions are mandatory when the life of the mother is stressed or threatened. Don’t let the zealot Christians in our government control you. Take a stand and secure the rights they are trying to take from you. You have options. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.
Converting to Judaism is not the answer you think it is. Spend that time on activism instead.
And TST has never won a religious freedoms case regarding abortion. Not to mention that no Rabbi is gonna accept you as a conversion student if abortion is your driving reason. You have no idea the kind of work that goes into conversion.
Also, related to this discussion, if it were possible for a religious liberty argument to work for someone other than Christian bigots, the Temple’s failures in court establish bad precedent that makes future cases harder for other, much more established religions to argue.
If it was about babies, we’d have excellent and free universal maternal care. You wouldn’t be charged a cent to give birth, no matter how complicated your delivery was. If it was about babies, we’d have months and months of parental leave, for everyone.
If it was about babies, we’d have free lactation consultants, free diapers, free formula. If it was about babies, we’d have free and excellent childcare from newborns on. If it was about babies, we’d have universal preschool and pre-k and guaranteed after school placements.
abortion law in Poland was already the strictest in Europe, abortion was allowed in only 3 cases:
if the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest
if the mother’s health was at risk
in case of foetal defects.
another problem is that there is something called “conscience clause” among Polish doctors which means that they can deny a patient certain treatment if it’s against their conscience or beliefs (yes, it mostly applies to conservative, catholic doctors). some doctors went as far as not telling women about foetal defects until it was too late to terminate pregnancy. what’s more, abortion in case of rape happens very rarely, since it’s difficult to prove rape in the eyes of Polish law.
in 2019, only 1100 legal abortions took place in Poland, a country populated by 38 milion people. 98% of these abortions happened because of foetal defects.
on October 22nd 2020, Poland’s top court ruled abortion due to foetal defects inconstitional, basically making abortion illegal.
Polish women will be forced to give birth to children with basically no chance to live. they will be tortured physically and mentally. rich women will be able to visit neighbouring countries to have abortion there but there are plenty of women who will have unsafe, illegal abortions, endangering their lives.
there are protests happening all over the country. not for the first time though, we’ve been protesting abortion ban for few years now. there’s a sense of solidarity among us but the truth is, we’re afraid.
this is how catholic extremism looks like. Poland is becoming a real-life Gilead and it’s fucking terrifying.
This cartoon has nine panels, arranged in a three by three grid. Every panel shows the same subject: A man wearing glasses and a polo shirt, sitting at a small table, with a laptop computer open in front of him.
PANEL 1 The man sits typing on his laptop. There’s a “tap tap tap” sound effect for his typing. Above him, in Ariel font (a font commonly used for computer text), we can see what he’s typing. He is smiling and looks relaxed.
MAN (typing): Hello, “ask me anything” forum. I wrote proposed legislation to make using Mifepristone, also known as “the abortion pill,” a felony. Ask me anything!
PANEL 2 The man speaks aloud (in the usual faux-handwritten comic book font I use), looking pleasantly surprised.
MAN: I wonder how long it takes for… Oh, someone’s asked me a question already!
PANEL 3 The man reads aloud from his laptop screen. (Again, regular comic book font.)
MAN: “Pregnancy loss from taking an abortion pill is indistinguishable from miscarriage. How will you know who to arrest?”
PANEL 4 The man, still smiling and looking relaxed, types on his laptop.
MAN (types): Great question! First, we’ll tell doctors and nurses to immediately call the police if they think a miscarriage is suspicious.
PANEL 5 The same scene, but closer up. His smile looks creepier, however.
MAN (types): Cops will show up and grill women while they’re still bleeding and drugged. The perfect time to get a confession!
PANEL 6 Even closer up. His smile looks downright malicious now.
MAN (types): Experience suggests that certain classes of women- like poor women and Black women -will more often be seen as “suspicious.” That shouldn’t bother you becau
PANEL 7 The man leans back from the laptop and puts a hand on the side of his face as he thinks. He’s no longer smiling.
PANEL 8 Leaning forward again, frowning, the man hits the “delete” key a few times. We know this because of the sound effect, which says: “Delete! Delete! Delete!”
PANEL 9 The man types again, once more looking relaxed.
MAN (types): Great question! We’ll know who to arrest through good old-fashioned police work.
