Hekate
Hekate's JournalI've changed. After 50 years of carefully saying I'm "pro-choice," Dobbs radicalized me
I’d already been paying attention to how the RW started changing definitions of contraceptions, and how ghastly the implications of personhood laws are for women using fertility clinics.
But when they started calling procedures “abortion” that I know to have been standard of care in obstetrics since my mother and her friends were having babies and miscarriages in the late 1940s and onward — that just gut-punched me in a very personal way. I have written about how rough my Mom had it giving birth to us 4 in the Baby Boom years. In addition to us, she had two miscarriages that almost killed her and one full term still birth. In college I knew a woman who had an ectopic pregnancy — and those are fatal if not removed very quickly. In my young married years I had a friend who was 4 months along when a routine exam with her OB-GYN revealed a very fast-growing cancer that needed specialized surgery (complete hysterectomy, ovaries, everything out) in another state — I was shocked that some idiot woman actually asked me whether they couldn’t “save the baby.” And on and on in the world of women.
So, thanks all to hell, SCOTUS — I feel very clarified on the subject. I now have no doubts in my mind that abortion is health care. You have come for my mother and my friends. I AM PRO-ABORTION NOW, thanks to the RW in this country.
I loathe Ivanka. But hear this: NO CHILD asks to be incested by her daddy. Just stop that.
Some of the comments here make me want to vomit.
There’s a lifelong host of psychological effects from having been abused this way.
I remember reading many times that a high percentage of prostitutes had been sexually abused as children — and from the first time I read that I wondered: what about those of us who don’t?
I remember reading that some girls end up as “daddy’s little princess” with all kinds of gifts and special privileges, and I wondered: what about those of us who never did?
It goes on and on like that. Studies that get published highlight the girls/women who stand out in some way — what about those who pretended as hard as possible that no such thing happened, and kept the secret for 20 years?
Ivanka Trump’s father has left a trail of utterly grotesque very public photos and interviews about his daughter as a child, as a teen, as a young adult. He fondles her, poses her… There was a lifestyle interview and magazine photos of the two of them on her bed, with her on the phone, clothed but very suggestive for someone who looked about 12 years old.
One of the most telling stories I’ve read in the past year is that (1) Ivanka’s childhood bedroom has never been changed a bit, and (2) she has never set foot in it since leaving home. Also there was a separate story last year by a woman who was sent by her lifestyle magazine to interview new-mother Melania, accepted a “tour” of the penthouse by Donald, and ended up in Ivanka’s bedroom being slammed against the wall by the big man himself. Rather reminiscent of how he raped E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room, except the reporter escaped with a groping. Oh yeah, that great unforgettable story with Stormy Daniels, where he told a porn actress that she “reminded him of his daughter.”
He pressured Ivanka into cosmetic surgery at an early age. Having a nose job is common for high schoolers in some places, but if you look at her brothers and her old photos you can see how her chin, lips, and cheekbones were resculpted — early. Her aunt the judge recalled at one point how Donald wanted her to have a boob job in her teens, and how the aunt objected that it was much too early for that. She had the boob job — at what age I don’t know, but she was the talk of the Golden Globes.
So, Ivanka, as we can all see, became “Daddy’s Little Princess” practically from birth, Daddy literally forcing her hapless small brothers to compete for his unattainable attention. Special gifts, special treatment, lots of money — all the largesse of a very rich man. And all for the low, low price of being his doll, his thing, his object, always dependent, never free. Always transactional. Always subject to his whims and rages. — I wouldn’t want that life for anything in the universe.
As an adult, Ivanka is responsible for her own behavior in both the legal and ethical sense. She participated fully in Trump, Inc. and Trump White House. She absolutely needs to face the Law along with the rest of them.
But the abused child lives in her, twisted by her monstrous father. Just as you would not make jokes about prison rape as a knock on homosexuality, please refrain from making jokes about the incest inflicted on this woman when she was a child.
The implied clause "fled the government of" was perfectly clear to me
If one wants to quibble, people started leaving England for the New World seeking religious freedom far earlier than the reign of King George III.
My own first ancestor here was a Dissenter came to Massachusetts in the 1600s, because of persecution and threat of execution — a Protestant who was not the right kind of Protestant, in a kingdom where Church and State were as one.
Which is the point.
Edited to add this from your OP:
A previous post of the OP's that turned out to be erroneous got a lot of attention before...
… being shut down by the OP. Many people believed on their say-so that MSNBC had fired their Muslim reporters/anchors, and got very angry. Many people also debunked the claim thoroughly, but every new respondent to the thread saw only the OP and joined the anger at the presumptive injustice. 138 replies ain’t chicken feed.
Note to Jury: This is readily available DU public record. I participated in that thread, having seen Ali Velshi reporting from the war zone many times in the previous days, obviously still in the employ of MSNBC.
My point is that once again the OP is being requested to verify their sources, and to examine said sources carefully. Once again, every person responding is having their emotions whipsawed. One of the more rational has pointed out that “the making and release of execution videos is an established terrorist tactic, but out of character for the IDF.” I think that’s well worth considering.
Second note to Jury: I think the issue of legitimate sourcing is also well worth considering. It’s in our TOS, after all.
Measurements of brevity: one Scaramucci, one head of lettuce, and one Scalise...
Help me come up with some more. 
Finally getting to listen to Joe's speech & he just gave me chills: "We can't not know!"
At their 14th birthday, he has taken each of his descendants to Dachau — kids, grandkids — because “WE CAN’T NOT KNOW” he said with great emphasis.
Chills — and tears.
Have I mentioned yet today how very fortunate we are to have Joe Biden just now?
As it happens I have developed a few work-arounds which I will be happy to share with you
Television:
Time of day (and time zone, since DUers are all over the map)
Station
Name of program
Name of person who said whatever it is you found interesting — anchor or panelist, it makes a difference
Radio would be exactly the same
Newspaper:
Pick a reputable one
Link
Title of article
Note whether the author is a columnist, someone from the editorial staff, or an Op-Ed contributor—it makes a difference
Four paragraphs only, due to copyright laws
Newspaper if your computer, pad, or the newspaper itself don’t give usable links (I have a problem with this):
All of the above, plus cite the date and page number
It’s not that difficult once you get the hang of it, and you will see the basics in the TOS. Do enjoy your time at DU.
Tuberville's "holds" have nothing to do with the competence of Biden's appointees nor that of those
…who are awaiting well-deserved promotions.
Tuberville hates women’s reproductive rights at all levels and wants those in the US military to have none.
Federal policy is that no money shall be spent for abortion, period. However, military policy has been that people in need shall not be prevented from obtaining one at their own expense — and further, if they are stationed in a state or country where abortion is forbidden/illegal, they shall be permitted to take leave to obtain this care.
Tuberville calls such travel “abortion vacations.” He’s 100% against the travel and the procedure.
So what the senator is doing is holding up all promotions — hundreds by now — until he gets his way. The term of office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has expired and he can’t hang around. The general who is supposed to replace him cannot do so without the approval of Tuberville’s committee. Therefore the position of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is vacant — and this country is in real trouble.
Siri's voice on my iPhone has decreased in volume & I don't know how to make it louder. ...
This is a problem when trying to follow map directions, as I can barely hear it over the car engine.
Help?
Oh deary deary me. Tell that to the children of Sandy Hook, Uvalde, & Marjorie Stoneman Douglas
There is a streak of ugly, ugly insanity that runs through this country’s collective psyche, and we are willing to sacrifice our children and people just minding their own business to a god that demands blood sacrifices on a daily basis. No other country on this planet does the same.
But you just just go ahead and tell us how this is a banana.
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