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What will happen if abortion is outlawed? The new MeidasTouch ad, Traffic Stop, is a chilling view of things to come under the thumb of a right-wing Supreme Court.
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What will happen if abortion is outlawed? The new MeidasTouch ad, Traffic Stop, is a chilling view of things to come under the thumb of a right-wing Supreme Court.
If you are not frightened of a conservative majority already, now you will be.
Wow!! Scary AF!!😨😨😨
And entirely plausible.
— 🐮Devin Nunes’ Russian Cow🐮 (@AmericaPlsAwake) October 27, 2020
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The confirmation of Amy “Coathanger” Barrett has cemented a 6-3 conservative majority on the US Supreme Court. This is the future that conservative Republicans want for the US.
Understand this; this video isn’t meant to steer conservative people away from Trump.
It won’t scare conservatives, this is their motivation, their goal.
It’s meant to make normal people understand what’s at stake, have the appropriate amount of fear and anger to go VOTE.
— Archibald Fumblecock, Esq. (@A550L3) October 27, 2020
Questions for lawmakers (mostly male): Where is the childfather? Will he be arrested?, punished? Traumatized for life? Burdened with the education and upbringing? They lay all the blame to the women and rule over their bodies! So infuriating! Women are not re-production machines!
— Constanze Davidsson (@ConstanzeDavid1) October 27, 2020
— Craig From PA (@CraigFromPA) October 27, 2020
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Voter suppression and gerrymandering has allowed a minority of straight, wealthy, white men to hold on to power. Is it such a stretch to think these same people think upping the white population would cross a line?
Forced birth to prevent white minority population status in the US is an unspoken goal of some pro-lifers.
They pretend to care about life to gain power, but they are hypocritically pro death penalty, are against the social safety net, and don’t care about family separations.
— You can’t steal my joy (@carolinapanthag) October 27, 2020
Wealthy people will always have access to abortion.
But all those “family values” conservative phonies will need to figure out what to do when their mistresses get pregnant
— PW (@Pedsdoc106) October 27, 2020
This is exactly what will happen. You don’t get a little bit of Fascism you get it all. Trump has killed over 225K Americans. He would have no problem doing something like this.
— Mick🇨🇦CrazyCanuck (@MCrazycanuck) October 27, 2020
The @GOP is changing their logo… pic.twitter.com/SnHTv7ywW9
— Arthur (@Arthur08640588) October 27, 2020
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Think again. It’s already happening.
Women on Qatar Airways Flight Are Strip-Searched, Sparking Outrage in Australia https://t.co/4xRLgAJqV5
— Naegleria: 😷 BE A VOTER! #TurnTexasBlue! 😷 (@fowerli) October 27, 2020
And African American men are already pulled over for being just that.
Do we know of countries that do this? I immediately thought of how this plays out for Black men. Women could be next if laws are passed allowing police to arrest pregnant women or teens.
— JohnE. (@Quaferu) October 27, 2020
So, dystopian maybe. But far from impossible.
We definitely don’t want to become Gilead. pic.twitter.com/sTTMlklqZP
— Grumpy Indy - Wear a Damn Mask (@GrumpyIndy) October 27, 2020
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Banana Republicans don’t care about you after you are born. Otherwise, why won’t they wear a mask?
Not all but most GOP are hypocrites.
Pro-life is an ideology. They forget all humanity young and old were fetuses. Instead, GOP fought tooth and nails to pack the courts while 220,000 Americans faced an early death.
— JoEy Arth 🌎 Independent Voted 4 Biden/Harris (@JJDIDTIEBUCKLE_) October 27, 2020
And why would they try to destroy the Affordable Health Care Act in the middle of a pandemic?
So has the GOP helped hospitals plan to increase capacity for women giving birth? For unpaid medical bills for patients who can’t pay? For a higher maternal death rates? Have they helped adoption agencies plan for more babies needing foster care?
— GenericHuman (@generichuman101) October 27, 2020
The fact is, countries with legal access to abortion actually have fewer abortions. The Guttmacher Institute, an international reproductive health non-profit group based in the US, found that fewer people seek abortions in countries with legal access to the procedure, compared to where the procedure is either completely against the law, or permitted only to save a mother’s life.
It’s not about pro-life. It never has been. Or even pro-fetus, or they’d be fighting tooth and nail for women’s healthcare, especially pre-natal care. It’s about controlling women’s bodies and behavior. Nothing else.
— Ginger Rogue (@CopperSiren) October 27, 2020
Amnesty International is definitive: “preventing women and girls from accessing an abortion does not mean they stop needing one… it only forces people to seek out unsafe abortions.”
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People who won’t be told to put on a mask want to control women’s bodies. Morality is a smokescreen when men make laws to govern women.
For generations, young women have been ostracized from families, forced to quietly end pregnancies, or to give away their child in the name of religion and honor. It has always been about controlling women, not the sanctity of life. That is what they want us to go back to.
— RosisRoad (@RosisYellow) October 27, 2020
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— Tinafaye (@Tinafayeee) October 27, 2020
Just to state the obvious, abortions are performed only on people who can get pregnant in the first place. This means that denying abortions affects only their rights. Denying anything to only certain individuals is a clear case of discrimination.
If it was about men’s bodies there would be riots and possibly armed militias. Women are equally as angry when someone else tells them what they can do with their bodies. Especially when it’s a man. Women deserve the right to choose.
— Orlokk Noxx (@orlokk_noxx) October 27, 2020
As Kamala Harris asked Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings, “Can you think of any laws that give the government power to make decisions about the male body?”
— #VOTEBLUE2020 (@JillyCarleen) October 27, 2020
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A conservative majority Supreme Court will be making the rules long past when the senators who rushed Amy “Coathanger” Barrett through are around to gloat.
Yep these old white men that will probably be dead in the next 10 years do not care what they just did to women of all ages. They think women are meant to be looked at, bedded, and to be silent. I want to see more women running in all types of government positions.
— Marci Moore (@MarciMo13888676) October 27, 2020
— Jay Ashworth (@_Baylink) October 28, 2020
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Just like Trump’s miracle COVID treatment.
…born in 1906
— Ann Mcdonald (@annmcd88) October 27, 2020
Wealthy people will always be able to afford abortions.
This could be true and sadly she could be one of the lucky girls who would be fortunate enough to have money to get to a border and the support of her mother.
— Flush the Turd Nov3rd! 7 days to election!! (@TweetiepieHawly) October 27, 2020
When comedian Michelle Wolf took on abortion rights on her show, The Break, she joked that because she was wealthy and lived in a blue state, that she would “always be able to get an abortion.” Wolf’s point was that other women are not so lucky: the WHO estimates that “25 million unsafe abortions take place each year.”
A point that should have been made in this video is that the wealthy will have access to safe abortions.They will pay big bucks - in cash - to get the best care for their daughters and or mistresses!!
— Lucie 🌊❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪⚜️ (@LSUYankeeGirl) October 27, 2020
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Of course, the party that gives tax breaks to the rich are happy to block the poor and marginalized from getting anything.
It’s a damn shame because they say they’re pro-life but when the baby is seeing the light of day Republicans won’t deliver some sort of Child Care package for the parents or single Mother or Father. For the GOP, Pro-life is just an ideology.
— Trey 2hype (@Trey_2Hype) October 27, 2020
Happy to keep the poor poor. Even if they are living with a partner or family, if fear or lack of access causes a woman to carry their child to term, they are now responsible for caring for a child on the same marginal income that they had before, or less if this prevents them from being able to work.
I’m a man in his 50s but my late mother remembered the time when abortion wasn’t legal in the UK. A time of backroom abortions, of pain, fear, infection and even fatalities. She always said banning abortions didn’t stop them, they just made them dangerous for the poor.
— Rob Chappell (@taffygeek) October 27, 2020
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Pregnant women are already in enough danger.
Also, pregnant women are the most at risk demographic for murder by the romantic partner/father of the child. Now take away abortion as an option and see how many more women are killed by the fathers of those babies before they can be born.
— eyeswideopentx (@eyeswideopentx) October 27, 2020
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There were abortions before Roe v Wade became the law of the land.
This is a gut punch.
This just literally sucked the air out of the room and turned my stomach.
For those of you who think this is hyperbolic, ask your mothers and grandmothers what it was like.
I guarantee it’ll make your blood run cold.— Doug Do-Mas (@AntrumOHighmore) October 27, 2020
But they were a horror show.
Emergency rooom Drs said that the INSTANT abortion was legalized, botched abortion patients and their deaths disappeared from hospitals. One moment it was a regular occurrence, and then suddenly it was gone. pic.twitter.com/fdwVPoOYuo
— I Just Can’t Even … (@Gotherrific) October 27, 2020
Unskilled practitioners can injure or kill with methods that range from bizarre to barbaric. Even a fully trained physician would be compromised in their work because they would have to function in a way that shielded them from being discovered. Illegal, unsafe abortions are, “the third leading cause of maternal deaths worldwide,” according to the World Health Organization (WHO). And these unsafe procedures, “lead to an additional five million largely preventable disabilities.”
Overturning Roe v. Wade will kill more people than it saves.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a giant of women’s rights. Amy “Coathanger” Barrett is…not.
I was a child of the 60s and it was not unusual to hear on the evening news about back alley clinics, botched abortions or attempted home abortions by wire hanger. There were some states with limited abortions but many could not afford to travel, hotel, etc. Ginsburg stopped it
— Alma Fleischer (@Vote2saveUS) October 27, 2020
For all the women who fought for our rights.
Chilling. Menacing. Be under NO illusions ladies. They are coming for your RIGHTS. For the women who fought before you and the girls who will be the women of the future - NOW is the time for your voices to be heard. LOUD #VOTE de 🌊##BidenHarris2020Landslide #MakeThemPay
— Amanda Bail (@1scrummymummy) October 27, 2020
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If you don’t like the thought of this, you’re not the only one.
Many of us have pre Roe v Wade stories. Horrific time. We are being dragged backwards to a dark time in our country by a powerful and sick fringe element that has taken over our government. We must rise up to reject this.
— MotherofGrace (@woodysgal3) October 27, 2020
Protect Our Rights and Our Lives, overturning Roe v Wade is a death sentence for many Women.
Vote @JoeBiden and Blue to keep all of the Women you know and love safe and alive. pic.twitter.com/V4LwD26XRh
— Karen (@l_ackman) October 27, 2020
MEN: Grandfathers, Fathers, Men who got the females pregnant, Brothers,Friends, stand with all females and protect your rights…
— Theresa Slater-Smith (@theresaslaters1) October 27, 2020
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The clock is ticking…
When I think of how long ago we marched chanting “get your laws off our bodies”….. Let this be a wake-up call. They have awoken a sleeping giant and we will take things for granted no more. We will VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION to get us back on the right track.
— Patti 📚 (@Vote_Blue_) October 27, 2020
Fuck this shit, we’re not going backwards. We’re united and we will win this election because we’re fighting for the rights of all Americans.
— Carol Walker🩸 (@mom49of3) October 27, 2020
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Here’s a way you can congratulate Trump’s newest justice.
Great idea.
— Larry Lang (@llang5G) October 27, 2020
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Abortion is still legal. For the time being, it is still a woman’s right to choose her own fate.
Anyone looking for ways to help abortion access in the US right now should read this thread! https://t.co/8BvWVZrqDI
— believe survivors 💖 (@helmsinki) October 27, 2020
