Wendy’s cousin is coming at an off hour, and I have a lot of extra work to do to make the job easier for her. This is my only article today, and I will not be sending links messages on Care2.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:22 (average 5:25). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Take:
From Think Progress: It’s been less than a week since Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, but already anti-women activists are plotting how best to take advantage of a weakened judicial branch in order to undermine access to safe abortions.
Kennedy was long thought to be the crucial swing vote on any legal challenge to Roe v. Wade, having already upheld the landmark decision in 1992. With his departure, Donald Trump will have an opportunity to nominate a second person to the bench, one who figures to be far less sympathetic towards women’s rights.
In case there was any doubt about the administration’s intentions behind filling Kennedy’s seat, the director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services Roger Severino appeared at the National Right to Life Convention on Thursday in Overland Park, Kansas and assured the crowd of anti-woman activists that the Trump administration was “just getting started.”,
“Our president is fearless when it comes to life and conscience,” Severino added.
If Trump is able to appoint a crucial fifth anti-woman justice to the Supreme Court, the fate of safe abortions for millions of women across the country will be jeopardized. Already, there are several states that have passed unconstitutional laws aimed at criminalizing abortion. Those laws are facing legal challenges, some of which seem likely to end up before the Supreme Court.
My comment is graphic.
RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
Cartoons:
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Severino’s comment about this president being ‘fearless when it comes to life and conscience’ is repugnant. He doesn’t give one iota about women, or their rights. Neither do the other misfits up there. Look at what’s going on at the border!!! with the parents and little ones!
It’s very difficult to get an abortion here in this state, unfortunately, with gals (in some cases) having hardships to go over 240 miles to the nearest clinic in the western/southern part of the state. Not only for abortions, but also for other health screenings
Happy Canada Day!!
Hope that you get your chores done. Have a good afternoon/evening, Take care, and Thanks,Tom.
7:04 Not that I would have done much better anyway … but the top of my desk and the bottom of my mouse need cleaning.
TP – Already? Hell, they’ve been planning this for YEARS. And may even have received advance notice. Already my unmentionable body parts.
Cartoon I – Have sent wishes to our Canadian Squatch on her post.
Cartoon II – Yup.
Your graphic comment (coat-hanger) is TRUE, it will happen again!!
Animae, LOVE the graphic! It is so true!!! You could also add “Piss on allies and enemies alike” (except Russia of course) to get their foreign relations policy onto the list!
Graphic stolen! But not to use here – it’s yours.
The only question is:
If it’s even possible, how many generations will it take to repair the damage Twitler has done to our nation and our Constitution?
In all probability, nobody they who remembers, who you or I were, will see that day.
I’ll start with a belated Happy Canada Day to all our Canadian friends and to those who’d rather reside on that side of the border right now. As I’m always nearly a day behind in commenting, I’ve already sent my best wishes to our dear Sasquatch on the day itself.
I just can’t imagine to live in a country that would deny women the choice to prevent or terminate unwanted pregnancy in the first trimester. Both have been options ever since I was a teenager, and because education and prevention always had the highest priority the Dutch always had one of the lowest abortion rates in the world. Even Ireland has legalized abortion now despite of the strong influence of the Catholic Church, and campaign ads and aid coming from the US.
Women of America stand up for what is rightfully yours! Don’t let these misogynists turn back the clock.
Puzzle — 4:22 As a Happy Canada Day gesture, I’ll share the pretty posies with you Puddy Tat!
Think Progress — ““Our president is fearless when it comes to life and conscience,” Severino added.”
The only thing Drumpf is fearless about is lining his own pockets and maintaining his power hold on the nation even though he was elected by a minority of voters. The voter turnout was not high — Wikipedia shows the average voter turnout from 1960-1995 at 48%. As a comparison, Canada had a turnout of 74% for the same period.
Next we’ll hear is that the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, ratified 18 August 1920, has been struck down:
Considering that women make up 51% of the population, Republicans are really dancing with the devil.
E Pluribus Unum — Out of Many, One — Although the context when this phase was adopted was different, the way Republicans are going, the US will have to give it up.
Thanks and Tired hugs!
If tRump were really “fearless when it comes to life and conscience,” he’d give a crap about kids AFTER they are born. He’d be all for public assistance – to say nothing of comprehensive sex-ed and better access to birth control. The Rethuglicanazis want every ejaculation to get a Social Security number, but not food, or shelter, or medical attention, or jobs, or living wages.