Scum of the earth:

The 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines to receive an abortion in Indiana should have carried her pregnancy to term and would be required to do so under a model law written for state legislatures considering more restrictive abortion measures, according to the general counsel for the National Right to Life.

Would be forced to in other words. A female child would be forced to push out a baby: rape times a million.

Jim Bopp, an Indiana lawyer who authored the model legislation in advance of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, told POLITICO on Thursday that his law only provides exceptions when the pregnant person’s girl’s life is in danger.

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Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on To pronoun or not to pronoun.

If “non-binary” has any meaning at all, that meaning should utterly undercut the current notion of “trans”…

This has always been a marriage of convenience to bolster numbers. It’s like the genderist version of the German-Russian Non-Aggression Pact. The “trans umbrella” has so many identities that, if you look for very long at all, are completely contradictory. NB and gender fluid identities both go against the concept of gender as a fixed, internal sense of whatever it’s supposed to be a sense of, but in different ways. Nonbinary identities supposedly stand outside the male/female dichotomy. But how does that work with the trans/cis dichotomy? … Read the rest

Trump shares his hearfelt sorrow at the death of one of his wives, the, the, you know, the blondy one, the foreign blondy one.… Read the rest

The Equalities and Human Rights Commission seems confused (or worse).

https://twitter.com/JRogan3000/status/1547654831283716096

Official bodies saying that knowing people can’t change sex is a “controversial belief” when it’s just a humdrum obvious known by everyone fact. Official bodies saying that in some circumstances it may be lawful to limit how “men are not women” is expressed. I await the heavy hand of the law falling on my shoulder because I’m aware that men are not women, and just typed the words. Julie Bindel should expect “consequences” for uttering the “controversial” “belief” that men are not women.

These people make me want to puke.

https://twitter.com/JRogan3000/status/1547661440416301056 https://twitter.com/JRogan3000/status/1547659231083450374… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Gay men seeking abortions.

I detect a strong tone of bullying subjugation in HRC’s statement. I could be wrong, but I doubt other groups’ advocacy orgs are putting out tweets with such wording that could be interpreted as claiming ownership over abortion rights. But that’s par for the course for the gender movement: its objective is to annex and then dismantle anything that has to do with biological sex. First, they took over gay rights orgs, which, save for LGB Alliance, have been completely assimilated by the Gender Borg and are now overtly hostile to actual homosexuals like me. Now it’s abortion’s turn.

Any marginalized group that counts women within its population has … Read the rest

An epic opening paragraph by Olivia Nuzzi at New York Magazine:

Donald Trump was impeached twice, lost the 2020 election by 7,052,770 votes, is entangled in investigations by federal prosecutors (over the Capitol insurrection and over the mishandling of classified White House documents and over election interference) and the District of Columbia attorney general (over financial fraud at the Presidential Inaugural Committee) and the Manhattan district attorney (over financial fraud at the Trump Organization) and the New York State attorney general (over financial fraud at the Trump Organization) and the Westchester County district attorney (over financial fraud at the Trump Organization) and the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney (over criminal election interference in Georgia) and the Securities and

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The Daily Mail [sorry]:

A town carnival has been forced to issue an apology after a float that jokingly featured burly men dressed ‘as the Olympic 2024 female athletic team’ was deemed ‘transphobic’.

Forced? Really? How?

Trans stand-up comedian Donna Landy attended the Great Torrington Mayfair and Carnival in Devon back in May and blasted a float for being ‘offensive’ and highlighting a backwards’ viewpoint on transgender issues.

I assume a trans stand-up comedian is one who isn’t funny.

The float featured a sign declaring: ‘Of course we’re women, we sit down to pee’ and ‘Olympics 2024 woman’s 100m final’ – referencing the recent decision from FINA, world swimming’s governing body, who recently adopted a new policy to prohibit

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No, I won’t say it with you.

Say it with us: abortion rights are LGBTQ+ rights.

— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) July 14, 2022

No they’re not. Abortion rights are women’s rights. Men don’t need them. Men’s lack of need for them is what frees them up to play football and boss women around.

Abortion rights are of course lesbian rights and bi women’s rights, and they’re rights for women who call themselves men, but they’re not gay men’s rights, because, again, men don’t need them.

Men don’t need them in more than one way – that is, there’s more than one way men don’t need them. Men don’t need abortion rights because men can’t get pregnant, and also because … Read the rest

Kate Manne:

Abortion bans target and primarily victimize women, who are seen as no longer fulfilling their rightful reproductive and social role as mothers in particular and caregivers in general, to everyone around them.

Primarily?

We are perceived as owing our bodies, our minds, our labor, to men and “their” children within a white supremacist, cis-normative hetero-patriarchy.

What does it have to do with white supremacy? What is “cis-normative” about it?

Hence the deliberate cruelty and, in my view, paradigmatic misogyny involved in enforcing pregnancy. 

I agree with that bit at any rate. It can’t help being misogynist, given who the victims are. That’s complicated by the fact that there are many many many women who want … Read the rest

The Beeb reports:

DJ Tim Westwood accused of sex with a 14-year-old

Julie Bindel points out that the word is “rape.”

DJ Tim Westwood is facing allegations from a woman who says they had sex several times starting when she was 14. She says Mr Westwood was in his 30s at the time and describes him as a “predator”.

The woman is one of several to come forward after an investigation by BBC News and the Guardian, with claims of misconduct and abuse dating from 1990 to 2020. Mr Westwood did not respond to a request for comment.

It is illegal in the UK to have sex with a 14-year-old.

In other words it’s statutory rape. It’s not “having sex … Read the rest

The making of a non-binary person:

There’s a meme that pops up every now and then about a bird that is called a penguin its whole life. One day the bird meets a doctor who says, “You are not a penguin, you are what is called a swan.” The swan is filled with relief. Suddenly, its whole life makes sense.

I had my swan moment in 2011 when I was in my mid-20s.

…I fell into an online rabbit hole and stumbled to the Wikipedia page for gender identities. It was here that I first read the definition of “non-binary”. In those paragraphs, I learned about people who do not follow binary gender norms, people who feel they exist

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The deepities of India Willoughby are deep indeed.

Yes, our worldview is that your anatomy not your brain dictates what sex you are.

Well done India. pic.twitter.com/kl9NQZqc8X

— Dr. Jane Clare Jones (@janeclarejones) July 13, 2022

“Children as young as 3 know they’re the opposite sex.” Hmmm, what could be a little off about that argument? Could it be the fact that children as young as 3 know a lot of things that aren’t true? Could it be that children as young as 3 know they are dinosaurs and tigers and flying warriors in capes? Could it be that children as young as 3 believe what adults tell them?

Children as young as 3 know lots of things that aren’t … Read the rest

There was this one wild night in Trump’s lame duck tenure:

Late on a Friday night about six weeks after Donald Trump lost his reelection, a fistfight nearly broke out in the White House between the president’s fired national security adviser and a top White House aide.

A bunch of “unofficial Trump advisers” had managed to get into the Oval Office, where a bunch of official people tried to get them out, and everyone shouted at everyone else for hours.

There was shouting, insults and profanity, former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann testified to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Herschmann said he nearly came to blows with Michael Flynn, a former

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What it’s like in Trumpy Murka:

I think about guns because guns are what I talked about most for the last several months as I ran in our local Republican primary for county magistrate. Not gas prices. Not the “stolen” election. Not caravans at the southern border. Not abortion. Not the mundane, budget-related duties of the seat I was running for. I talked about guns. I am a Democrat who ran for local office as a Republican because in Anderson County, Kentucky, right down the road from the state capitol, Democrats no longer have a prayer of winning a partisan election, even if it is to serve in a nonpartisan job. This is die-hard Trump country now. Donald Trump

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How stupid is this?

I believe abortion is a tragedy.

There are over 60 million unborn children who have never breathed, lived, hugged, loved, or danced.

Our country is far poorer without them. pic.twitter.com/kQH4tTBU99

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) July 12, 2022

Why not also tear your hair over all the couples who split up before having children? All the couplings that didn’t result in pregnancies? All the billions of potential pregnancies that were just sexual assaults that didn’t quite get the job done? We don’t need more people. Better people, more generous people, more decent people, more unlike Ted Cruz people, yes, but more numbers, no. We’re racing toward the cliff of climate disaster, so maximizing the possible … Read the rest

The Washington Post duly takes the party line.

Sen. Hawley accused of transphobic questioning at abortion hearing

Not “Hawley called transphobic” but “accused of transphobic questioning” – which subtly implies that there is such a thing as transphobic questioning.

The subhead isn’t even a little bit subtle:

The Missouri Republican refused to acknowledge that some transgender men can get pregnant

No he didn’t. He refused to swallow the lie that some men can get pregnant.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday on the legal impact of the end of Roe v. Wade, was accused by a congressional witness of employing a transphobic line of questioning.

Or to put it another way, a congressional witness marched … Read the rest

Trump tried to squeeze a witness.

Donald Trump attempted to contact one of the witnesses who has been speaking to the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, the panel said Tuesday.

Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the panel, delivered the revelation at the conclusion of the committee’s seventh public hearing on the Capitol attack.

According to Cheney, Trump tried to call the unnamed witness after the committee’s sixth hearing last month. The witness, who has not yet been publicly revealed as a participant in the committee’s investigation, declined the call.

Not surprisingly, this could be a crime.

If the justice department gathers evidence indicating that Trump was attempting to influence witness testimony in the January 6

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Yet another one.

The organization has “women” in its name, but still, it obeys the orders Not To Say The Word.

Paid sick days give people seeking abortion care the time they need to travel to a clinic, receive care, and recover.

Learn how you can use paid sick days for medication abortion.

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Newsweek reports on Professor People Capable of Pregnancy and her smug exchanges with Josh Hawley:

A University of California, Berkeley, law professor slammed GOP Senator Josh Hawley as “transphobic” during a Senate hearing Tuesday on abortion policy.

During the hearing, professor Khiara Bridges used the phrase “people with a capacity for pregnancy,” which is considered a gender-neutral term that encompasses everyone who is able to get pregnant, including transgender men and nonbinary individuals.

No it isn’t. People like Khiara Bridges may consider it that, or may pretend to, but it isn’t just generally or widely or universally “considered” that, not least because it’s bullshit. Women are the only people who are able to get pregnant; that includes women who call … Read the rest

When Josh Hawley is talking sense and the academic he’s questioning is talking unmitigated bullshit:

3/ Why in God's name do you want to endlessly feed them this sort of ammo? There are a million answers you can give that would accomplish your political goals without making you sound like a Bill O'Reilly wet dream.https://t.co/1DvPcBW6gr

— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) July 12, 2022

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