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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 09:18 AM Aug 2017

Criminalizing Birth Control Ultimate Goal Of Religious Right And GOP.

The Trump attack on insurance for birth control and even abortion is to criminalize it. The ultimate goal is to pass laws making it a felony to inform, use, provide or even assist the use of birth control or perform any abortion even to save the life of the women. What Trump is doing is only just the beginning. Moves at the DHS and war on Planned Parenthood reveal the strategy even further. And it is obvious why Pence could even be worse.

The GOP is also fully behind such a goal. If you look at all the laws that the GOP is proposing thought the states where they have control. Even crossing state lines would be criminalized with the GOP in control. Prosecuting and jailing any and all participants involved could be in the future of the US.

We are facing the most radical agenda about women's health than we have in decades. A super extreme right wing Supreme Court could find such laws constitutional.

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Criminalizing Birth Control Ultimate Goal Of Religious Right And GOP. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Aug 2017 OP
guess no more sex for you guys! samnsara Aug 2017 #1
Ha ha ha ha ha! DUzy! nt longship Aug 2017 #2
Yeah, that will get results fast...boycott sex! BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #4
So then why don't they greymattermom Aug 2017 #3
We will always have states rights. pwb Aug 2017 #5
So if a woman mercuryblues Aug 2017 #6
Anything Is Possible With The Extremely Radical Religious Right. TheMastersNemesis Aug 2017 #10
Mathematically, anything is possible, regardless of religion, radicals or party affiliation. LanternWaste Aug 2017 #11
Each new birth, above the norm, will add $350K to state and local budgets, spread over 20 years. TheBlackAdder Aug 2017 #7
It's just another way of trying to return to the 1950s. MineralMan Aug 2017 #8
It's also a great way to keep people poor FLPanhandle Aug 2017 #9
Why? What purpose? It's murder to stop the little sperms in their tracks? Amaryllis Aug 2017 #12

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
4. Yeah, that will get results fast...boycott sex!
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 09:30 AM
Aug 2017

I guess prostitutes should join in to really make the point stick. Lots of men will be sitting in front of their computers more and more.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
11. Mathematically, anything is possible, regardless of religion, radicals or party affiliation.
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 03:59 PM
Aug 2017

Mathematically, anything is possible, regardless of religion, radicals or party affiliation.

Everything else is simple prophecy for example, political mass deportations, soon-in-a-commonwealth-near-you civil wars, mass incarcerations of progressives and a host of other poorly thrown hooey).

MineralMan

(146,311 posts)
8. It's just another way of trying to return to the 1950s.
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 11:53 AM
Aug 2017

When I was a young high school kid in California, condoms could only be purchased in pharmacies by people over the age of 21, and all packages were labeled, "For Prevention of Disease Only." It was illegal for doctors to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women, and the only form of contraception for women at the time was the diaphragm.

All of that changed in 1964 and 1965. The birth control pill finally became available. At first, it could not be prescribed for unmarried women under the age of 21, but that restriction went away quickly, and the sexual revolution was underway.

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)
9. It's also a great way to keep people poor
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 11:57 AM
Aug 2017

Nothing is more devastating to the finances of low wage earners than having children.

Childcare, diapers, clothing, school expenses, etc. all eat deeply into paychecks without much margin over basic needs.

A woman who wants to go to school or just study to get ahead, save something at the end of the month, will now be at high risk of permanent poverty.

Which is what the GOP wants.

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