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When I saw the video clip of Missouri Republican Barry Hovis, a former cop, saying almost every rape was "consensual rape" & the way he was saying it...I was filled with instant RAGE & I told my wife that disgusting POS needs to be raped!

...I KNOW! ...I was wrong! I should've never allowed these Troglodytes to effect me in that way!! HONESTLY, how else do you teach pig headed me who speak of women being raped like its something women just need to shut up about?!?!
...To see & hear him (& so many others across USA) not only look so comfortable & empowered to say such disgusting things in public but incorporate those Bronze Age pigheaded ideas into law is honestly the most nauseating yet infuriating series of events I've ever witnesses in America!

...These bastards are talking about my dead Mom, my wife, my nieces, Sister in Law & all my other female family & friends who I LOVE & RESPECT!

…What a woman decides to do with her own body is her decision & the decisions her & her health providers make are as personal & private as any a man & his health providers make NO EXCEPTIONS!!

people also are using IVF and other fertility treatments.. most of which are "not natural"...

so the IVF industry gets to destroy fertilized potential children almost at a whim but a woman cannot.

Beware of women being arrested for miscarriage... and btw, fact, nearly half of fertilized eggs fail to implant. That means that "god" is aborting more babies than humans could ever imagine.

But facts do not matter to these morons... and it is really all about controlling women.

...once they make them felons for daring to exercise agency over their own bodies, they can deny them the vote.

Since we're talking Republicans here, that's probably a 'feature' rather than a 'bug' in their little ruse of a program.

Actually estimated to be more on the order of 70-75%. I have often used your analogy of "god" being the most prolific abortionist out there.
When you know all that can go wrong with cell division and mutations, it is easy to understand why fertilizations fail or why miscarriage happens: there are just too many opportunities for abnormalities to occur, and nature takes care of this the majority of the time by "disposing" of the abnormal embryo. It is now estimated that up to 80% of miscarriages are due to genetic or chromosomal abnormalities that would never allow an embryo to survive to term, much less out of the uterus.

Than he should be forced to have a 5-lb kidney stone for 9 months, then pass it.

yes INDEED

It really is all about putting women under the thumb of men.

God damn.

Millions of people who consider abortion murder nevertheless approve aborting babies whose conception was nonconsensual (not that they are ever asked to consent of course) or between relatives. These exceptions were the result of a political deal, but now they've taken on the status of religious belief -- unquestioned.

Just variations on a potentially terrible hypocrisy capable of rationalizing murder of a lot more people than just fetuses in utero. I remember people outraged, claiming to be weeping, over a zoo animal being put down who were completely unmoved by vicious cruelty to billions of animals slaughtered for their dinner tables. Tears or forks and knives? Entirely dependent on the label. Worthy or vermin needing "cleansing"? Entirely dependent on the label.

But they’re also trying to divvy the baby.

these days artificial insemination means eggs in storage. They can hardly demand that all those eggs be carried to term or the parents (only one or both?) will be charged with murder. (And eventually it will be murder.)

And trying to make modern insemination techniques for people who need them illegal would also be a huge problem.

If he refuses, and a pregnancy results, he pays a hefty fine and/or some jail time.

the biggest tell is how the fundies react when you point it out to them. Tell them it's about controlling women's sex lives and they get all defensive and huffy and start spewing the usual crap about the sacred nature of life.

I'll bet they are all for it.

it. Never mind.

A judge could rule against them based on the stated intent.

It goes along with their twisted belief that women are “lesser beings.” They are s sick bunch.

Who would have thunk it?!

No longer pretending to hide their hatred of women.

... and it would be proof that I didn't "consent" to being raped. Let's face it girls, we don't need penetration in order to enjoy it (wink, wink).

I swear we’re still fighting the goddamn Civil War. It’s the same native sickness in the same regions, but it’s now spread out into the Midwest as well. Along with POC, women’s freedom is seriously under attack

John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald (with others, I am certain), James Earl Ray and Sirhan B. Sirhan shifted the course of our history rightward with each killing, always rightward.

It was true forty years ago and it'll probably be true twenty years from now.

This type of thinking/power and control goes back generations and will continue for generations. Hopefully demographics will shift and younger people with more open minds will be the majority in the govt in all states eventually.

WOMAN pushing this shit. how many kids does she have?