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It's absolutely surreal to watch the death cult try to kill as many people as possible while also trying to parade under the banner of being pro-life.

And medical exemptions from wearing masks? Riiiight. Why do I get the feeling every mouth breather from the boonies who is attending the fair will suddenly come down with a case of COPD?

2

Regarding the Texas bill. People are ignoring one of the largest issues. This law is a risk for any woman who loses a pregnancy, not just those who have abortions. Miscarriage is more common than abortion, and far more common than people realize. Dilation and curettage is a procedure used for abortion but also commonly after incomplete miscarriages. This bill deputizes citizens to investigate and bring suit against all lost pregnancies, and subjects them to no penalties if they mistakenly target a miscarriage. Will clinics provide the common D&C procedure to those that suffered a miscarriage or just let women suffer increased infection risk to avoid the risk of a costly lawsuit? Every large employer in Texas should be very concerned; because no child-bearing age woman should move to this medically dangerous state.

4

I predict that anyone trying to collect an abortion bounty in Texas will end up spending a lot of money on medical bills.

5

2 - So true and so horrifying. Plus THey got their wish - there will be a case in the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.

3 - I don't follow. Just say the point you're trying to make instead?

7

mind them Vigilanties Texans -- if you have an Abortion one moment after a 'heartrbeat' is detected or if you drive a woman to a clinic or help her in ANY Way -- post-1st-heartbeat -- you're going to Prison. oh and Bonus: your Vigilanty gets $10K. in Cash.

now Who don't wanna Move
right straight to Texas?!
Ca$h and Carry!
maybe when
trumpfy
Steals the
next one you
can hunt 'em?

We'll see!

also -- BINGO @2
thank you

8

NYT:
But the Texas law was drafted to make it difficult to challenge in court. Usually, a lawsuit seeking to block a law because it is unconstitutional would name state officials as defendants. But the Texas law bars state officials from enforcing it and instead deputizes private individuals to sue anyone who performs the procedure or “aids and abets” it.

How in the world do they expect to get away with this?

9

@8 -- you get the Results
you Want when you
Stack 'our'
Courts.

10

@6 The graphs there are for the entire pandemic. New York and New Jersey got hammered early in the pandemic and so they still have a relatively high death rate/100K. If you look at current data, the top 10 states for new deaths/100K population are: Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, Alabama, South Carolina, Texas, Nevada, Kentucky, and Georgia. All states (except FL) with relatively low vax rates and few restrictions. The bottom 10 states are: Nebraska, Maine, Minnesota, Connecticut, DC, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Maryland, and Rhode Island. All (except NE) with relatively high vax rates.

FL and NE are the outliers, but can be explained by FL being so aggressively anti-COVID restrictions while NE is relatively rural ans less of a vacation destination.

11

new business idea for you budding capitalists:
go to East WA and Idaho selling black-market ivermectin, but really it's crushed-up baby aspirin.
bonus points if you pill-press them. into the shape of a crucifix.

14

@6 Molewacka: NY, NJ, and New England had extremely high CoVID death rates at the beginning of the pandemic, with the most densely packed populations in the country, and the doctors not knowing how to treat patients as effectively as they do now (death rate for people diagnosed with CoVID-19 has dropped from as high as 5% in the beginning to close to 1% now) - recall that back then, we still weren't sure if you could get Covid by touching surfaces, and hand sanitizer was used everywhere. People in the states encountering more CoVID deaths now have no excuse for the high rates - we know what causes the disease, we know how it's transmitted, we know we can drastically cut the infection rates with masks, vaccinations, and avoiding indoor crowds. There's no reason why Mississippi couldn't have the same infection rate today as does New Zealand (similar population sizes) if the people in conservative areas would use masks, avoid indoor crowds, and get vaccinated.
The article you cite is misleading. For example, my state (Kansas) has a Democratic Governor and is shown as blue on the table. but in fact, the Republican state legislature has banned her from imposing mask mandates, and discouraged vaccinations. Do you really think the state of Bob Dole, Mike Pompeo, Kris Kobach, and the Koch brothers, a state that last elected a Dem senator in 1932, should be listed as a blue state?
Similarly, that table lists Maryland as a Red State (hahaha!) because the governor is a Republican....but in fact he has emphasized social distancing and vaccination and told the entire population to "wear your damn masks!"
I conclude that table, and the whole article, are deliberately misleading, and recommend you not use that author as a source of anything in the future. I'd further wager that a map showing the proportion of Fox Viewers in an area and current Covid rates would be closely aligned.

16

we should Sue anyone
maskless & unvaxxed
who comes within
ten feet of us

17

@16 -- cattle prods?

20

@14 (#2, Stix) Hey hey - always gotta say hello to a fellow Kansas. I had to GTFO over a decade ago but still have a lot of love for Lawrence and Manhattan.

21

...sigh. Kansan, that is. Goddamn this lack of an edit feature.

22

I must say blip, you're getting a number of important points about covid across this morning. Good coffee I guess.

23

"People are actively disregarding science while citing “science” to justify ignoring science, for no conceivable benefit other than to pick fights online ...."

I love that line Blip. Nice work.

25

@23 For right-wingers, "I follow the science" has become as much of a throw-away claim as "I didn't vote for Trump...I'm more of a Libertarian."

The irony of "science" becoming a magical word for the right!

26

Banning abortion does not stop abortion. Ever. It just makes it more difficult to access (meaning if you're rich you can access it just like everything else while everyone else is fucked) and dangerous, meaning more women die (but banning abortion is not about being pro-life).

Trump and his psychosis has truly unleashed an all or nothing wholesale return of this country to the 1800s by any and all means necessary. What a fucking shit show.

Texas should immediately and permanently be banned from any federal funds for any reason. They want to be a shit hole country? Go for it. The rest of this country is not here to fund your hate or take care of anti-science fucktards or fund your vigilante abortion provider murderers. FUCK TEXAS.

As for the Supreme Court. They won't rule on it because ruling on it would mean they would have to uphold Roe v. Wade as the law of the land and they know it. So instead they do nothing,

I long for this country to start sterilizing any and all babies born so that no more humans are born. It should happen worldwide. Humanity is obviously too fucking stupid to live. For fuck sake I would take full on nuclear destruction and instantaneous death RIGHT NOW over this slow shit show of cruelty and evil that is going to play out over the next decades as people are forced to suffer and die for the sake of the 1% getting whatever they want in the world.

Forcing women to give birth to children they don't want and then as a society doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to care for those children is pure fucking evil. It is forcing the creation of life solely to starve it, abuse it, use it, and kill it. Talk about a death cult. This is extreme. This is incomprehensible.

27

My body, my rights: Right wingers who are against vaccines and masks.
My body, my rights: Women defending their rights to abortion.

The hypocrisy is thick.

30

@27,

Pretty sure if abortions jeopardized the livelihoods and well-beings of the rest of civilized society the debate surrounding their legality would be a little bit more complex and nuanced.

31

@12 - great idea. And how about a law deputizing anyone in Washington to take any jackass who refuses the vaccine to court?

34

@1 Brent Gumbo, @2 Incredulity, @16 & @17 kristofarian, and @26 xina for the WIN!!!

@17 I like your cattle prod idea, kris, especially when used on Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, Doug Duce, Tate Reeves, and Ron De Santis. A lot of corrupt white RepubliKKKan males are in serious need of "a zap in the badoobies".
Where is Dustin Hoffman?
Channeling Dorothy Michaels.......

35

I'm grateful to have gotten my full bilateral hysterectomy last summer.
I weep for women and girls everywhere, especially those held in Texas by the RepubliKKKan Taliban.

36

Whatever you do, please do not impede the TX abortion law by providing bad data to this and similar sites. Please do not share this site and advise others to do the same.

That would be wrong.

https://prolifewhistleblower.com/anonymous-form/

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In King Country, support for choosing to terminate a pregnancy early is nearly universal. It's only when adult women chose a reasons to have sex that police and prosecutors don't approve of, such as for money, that the criminal system likes to control what they can do with their body.

40

@20 ManservantHecubus: Rock chalk!


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