Share our toolkit asking why MAGA extremists want our bodies to be ruled by patriarchy? It’s disgusting & backward, but it is what they desire.
Let us take a quick peek at the MAGA Republicans’ plans to attack our reproductive civil rights.
Trump has bragged that he personally is responsible for overturning Roe v. Wade and says he believes that “there should be some form of punishment for the woman.” We need to remember he said that, but there’s more!
And, how about Trump’s hand-picked Supreme Court’s war on women’s health and the odious decision that has made women second-class citizens and stripped away a woman’s right to making decisions about her own body?! That decision also has thrown the reproductive healthcare system in the U.S. into chaos, with ob-gyns fleeing these restrictive states, leaving women there with no healthcare alternatives.
In Texas, for example, any doctor in that state who performs an abortion, and any woman who has an abortion, could be sentenced to life in prison. Take the case of Kate Cox. This 31 year old Texas mother of two and her husband wanted a big family and were looking forward to having a new child in their lives. 20 weeks into her pregnancy, Kate’s doctor discovered that her baby was not viable and would die. Because her other babies were born via C-section, taking this baby to term would endanger her future fertility. A female judge determined that her case should be an exception and granted her the right to get an abortion.
Ken Paxton, one of the most corrupt attorneys general in the country, decided that he knew better than these supposedly stupid women and petitioned the all-male Texas Supreme Court, which overturned the female judge’s order. It did not stop there. Paxton sent a threatening letter to medical staff and doctors in hospitals across Texas, reminding them that they are subject to life in prison for defying his law. What a peach, huh?
Do not be fooled. The MAGA party wants a nationwide abortion ban. If they get a majority in the House and Senate, and the presidency in 2024, that’s what they will try to get.
This was a political ad for a past election but is very much relevant now and for future elections. Keep government out of your bedroom. Neither patriarchal Republicans nor corrupt judges should be allowed to restrict women’s fundamental right to bodily autonomy, nor to threaten other basic human rights they plan to target.
Only Democrats give a flying f*ck about protecting the freedoms and protections of pregnant people. The right wing’s obsession with abortion today is not about pro-life. It clearly is about controlling women.
Throughout history, authoritarians have targeted women. Our homegrown wannabe authoritarians only care about the baby when it is a fetus. They vilify the woman for valuing her doctor’s vigilance over her pregnancy and the doctor for sharing a professional, informed medical diagnosis with the expectant mother. When a doctor identifies problems where birth might cause harm to the mother or to the baby’s viability, a doctor is obligated by the oath of the doctor’s profession to truthfully disclose the facts, no matter how painful.
Keep in mind, once that baby is born, this MAGA party says “to hell with the child”, and consistently votes against laws that feed, educate, or care for the child they have forced that woman or family to have. Hypocrisy, thy name is MAGA and Republican!
We cannot afford to put our freedoms into the hands of this MAGA party. They see the healthcare needs of the majority of their country’s citizens as – irrelevant. Very sad. Very true. For freedom’s sake, Vote Blue!
The Case Against Donald Trump
Once again we have to make a choice in 2024. Donald Trump should not even be considered for president ever again.
- Trump is clearly in cognitive decline.
- Trump used the presidency to enrich himself.
- Trump is uninformed and inept.
- Trump is a habitual liar. Trump is cruel.
- Trump has 91 felonies hanging over his head.
- Trump is a white nationalist.
- Trump not only welcomes dictators, he acts and talks like a dictator.
- And Donald Trump plans to end American Democracy.
Donald Trump had his chance to govern all Americans, instead he made a mockery of the constitution.
The Case is Clear Donald Trump must not be president.
If Trump wins in 2024, we can say goodbye to all our personal freedoms.
Remember that infamous day in 2016 when America awoke to the news that Donald Trump was our new president? How long did it take for that knot in your own stomach to go away? That day, the United States found itself at a crossroads, not sure how we were going to grapple with this unforeseen turn of events that we would learn would almost immediately change the course of history.
From the beginning, Trump demonstrated a relentless pursuit of power, fueled by a disregard for truth, and an insatiable arrogance that left no room for empathy or humility. He came down that escalator at Trump Tower, went straight to the microphone dehumanizing Mexicans, calling them rapists and criminals, and promised to build a wall to keep “them” out. He also promised a ”complete ban on Muslims coming into our country” which was his first executive order, plummeting airports around the world into chaos. Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump did something odious and heinous every – single – day!
As Trump races toward becomes the presumptive Republican nominee for president in next year’s election, The Economist, in its 38th annual predictive guide to the coming year, labels the twice impeached, the four time indicted ex-president as the “biggest danger to the entire world, not just to our country, if he returns to office in 2024.”
The Economist article goes on to say: “This is a perilous moment for a man like Mr. Trump to be back knocking on the door of the Oval Office. Democracy is in trouble at home. Mr. Trump’s claim to have won the election in 2020 was more than a lie; it was a cynical bet that he could manipulate and intimidate his compatriots, and it has worked! ”
A second term would be a watershed in a way the first was not. Victory would confirm his most destructive instincts about power. His plans might encounter less resistance.
The article further highlights the disdain Trump has for our allies and his admiration for autocrats in authoritarian countries like Russia, North Korea, Cuba, Turkey, Hungary and others.
If Trump were to win in 2024, he would be much less constrained than he was in his first term. There might be no “adults in the room” to help control his worst instincts. He wants to fire thousands of civil servants and replace them with his loyalists, to weaponize the Department of Justice to imprison his perceived enemies, and to implement martial law to enable our military to shoot and kill peaceful protestors.
Donald Trump is an extremely sick, dangerous, and evil man. If he were to win, America could become a dictatorship.
Let’s urge everyone to use their vote to support Trump’s most formidable opponent – President Joseph R. Biden in 2024.
