Demons
Cecile Richards says Trump has reinstated the global gag rule.
BREAKING: As one of his first acts in office, President Trump has reinstated the #GlobalGag rule.
— Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) January 23, 2017
So far the only news stories I can find are from anti-abortion sites.
On the other hand this guy seems to have found Fox reporting it:
Room full of men just made it harder for women in developing countries to access abortions. #globalgag pic.twitter.com/WwlGYF5vYy
— Ciaran Jenkins (@C4Ciaran) January 23, 2017
Someone else has a photo of the gang:
Here is a photo of the people who just made it harder for women all over the world to access abortion. They seem ill-equipped. #GlobalGag pic.twitter.com/qNWEYDRASU
— Sarah Berry (@SarahJ_Berry) January 23, 2017
De mens. (Except for one person snuck into the corner.)
Given the way Trump’s been going, it seems likely that the US won’t be funding much of anything worldwide any more for a while, so this might not make a whole lot of practical difference.
Unless of couse Trump and the Rethuglicans carve out reproductive “education” as an exception, and offer to allocate funds worldwide, just to be able to withhold that funding out of spite. The horrible part is that they are vile enough for this to sound plausible.
Well, if they didn’t want control over their own bodies, they shouldn’t have, um…
Ben, I’m glad you didn’t finish that sentence. I just had a run-in this week at my atheist meet up with a young man who didn’t think federal funds should be used to help women “manage their sluthood”. Fortunately, I was not alone in my pile on. He thinks the fact that he is willing to consider men who have a lot of sex sluts as well makes it okay for him to go around determining what makes someone a “slut” or not.
His definition of “slut” seemed to be anyone who had sex without protection…they should have “consequences”. And no one understands: having an abortion is consequences. It isn’t like a fun day at the beach. Women don’t wake up in the morning, think about their options for the day, and say, no I’ll skip the movie, I’m bored with the beach, I don’t wanna read…oh, yeah, I guess I could have an abortion. That would be fun.
#4
Just because someone doesn’t believe in any gods doesn’t mean they aren’t a cesspit of OTHER dumb ideas.