10 years ago, this would be an Onion headline.
I wonder how they would go about all this. Medical records will have to be divulged to the State so it can track who is pregnant. They’ll have to outlaw home pregnancy tests, including buying them through the mail. Otherwise women could privately find out they’re pregnant and go out of state for an abortion without the State knowing. They’ll also have to monitor phone and email communications for everyone, not just the pregnant person, to make sure any attempt to contact out of state health providers is intercepted. Or maybe they’ll just slap an ankle bracelet on pregnant women.
They’ll probably also enact laws like the abortion travel ban that Amarillo, TX has on the ballot this November:
The ordinance, first proposed by anti-abortion activists, aims to forbid the use of the city’s roads and highways to seek an abortion out of the state. It would punish anyone aiding a woman seeking the procedure, including by providing funds or transportation, and be enforced through private lawsuits, similar to a 2021 state law that prohibited abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.
To think they found a position that is morally reprehensible from every possible angle, under all interpretations, and also involves bodily fluids, that’s somehow amazing.
I haven’t opened alternet.org since probably 1999. Nice to see they’re still banging around.
Jesus Christ USA, are you alright?
No, we are infected with lots and lots of xtian nationalist bullshit and an antiquated system that overly represents them. We need a system that allows us to ignore them since they are a minority - and let them bray as much as they like, but utterly powerless to tell anyone else how to live their lives.
No, we’re not. Please send help.
Fuck it, I’d welcome an invasion at this point provided whatever country did it super pinky promised not to do half the shit Republicans do.
I thought yall had plenty of those bootstraps you keep talking about. Couldn’t you help yourselves with those? /s
2 boot straps missed so far.
They stopped making those…it was cutting into shareholder profits.
Bootstraps ran out back in the 60’s, we’ve just been getting shoelaces
It’s just the south, they’ve been trash forever, this isn’t anything new.
Will they send the SWAT team if you miss your period?
You gotta bleed somehow…
Two things:
- That guy looks like he’s intimately familiar with video cameras and 1-way mirrors
- I wonder if that one southern Senator fond of underage girls has already volunteered to lead the program?
This is seriously fucking weird. “how often have you had blood exit your genitals this month, you filthy female” is not a question that anyone should be asking, especially the government. These freaks couldn’t even point out anatomical features on a picture of a reproductive system (male or female, but especially female). Like bitch, of you can correctly label and describe the function of all the parts of a woman’s sexual anatomy, them maybe you could have some input on the conversation, but even then you still shouldn’t be making other people’s decisions. Go fund some bridge repairs you vile little troglodites. JFC.
Next they will be tracking every time a girl takes a shit or walks outside. These people are sickening.
It’s a hop, skip, and a jump away from making them cover up head to toe in public and banning them from driving or being seen outside without a man.
The extremist terrorists were with us in the house the entire time.
The DHS reported on the extreme right being the biggest domestic terrorist threat ages ago. The right freaked out, as expected, and it was quickly played down.
But the DHS was right.
Well our yeehawdist gravy seals share another thing with other religious extremists.
Flags, trucks, needing to control women because they cannot otherwise get laid…
The GOP is the American Taliban.
Time to Take Out the Trash
Snopes is going to have to update their article about this.
menstrual surveillance departments
But why? This is information that can most certainly be gleaned from just about any data broker. Phone users cannot imagine just how much about their life is being meticulously catalogued and aggregated for ad tech networks.
The Trump team literally just needs to purchase the relevant aggregate data.
If you think I’m just being hyperbolic, btw there is software that can read your heart rate by the changes in red tonalities of your skin on camera, for example.
But why? This is information that can most certainly be gleaned from just about any data broker.
Obtaining the actual information is only part of the goal. The main reason is to create a perception in society that “you’ll be found out” which goes toward the goal of removing autonomy of women and turn them back into only ‘baby making machines’.
If you want to see how this plays out, we have an example from history, specifically what Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu did in 1967 making abortion and contraception outlawed:
From Wikipedia:
To counter this sharp decline in the birth rate, the Communist Party decided that the country’s population should be increased from 20 million to 30 million inhabitants. In October 1966,[1][2] Decree 770 was personally sanctioned by Ceaușescu. Abortion and contraception[citation needed] were declared illegal, except for:
- women over 45 (later lowered to 40, then raised again to 45).
- women who had already borne four children (later raised to five).
- women whose life would be threatened by carrying to term, due to medical complications.
- women who were pregnant through rape and/or incest.
Enforcement:
To enforce the decree, society was strictly controlled. Contraceptives were removed from sale and all women were required to be monitored monthly by a gynecologist.[3]: 6 Any detected pregnancies were followed until birth. The secret police kept a close eye on hospital procedures.
all women were required to be monitored monthly by a gynecologist.
At least we can rest assured on this point. As if a red state would ever make health care that accessible.
At least we can rest assured on this point. As if a red state would ever make health care that accessible.
I dunno about that. This aspect could be the only salient concept to Trumps “concepts of a healthcare plan”. Secret police monitoring women’s reproductive organs to force births sounds right on brand for conservatives that prattle on about “their white race not going to be replaced”.
women whose life would be threatened by carrying to term, due to medical complications.
- women who were pregnant through rape and/or incest.
Holy fuck a Romanian dictatorship had it better than some states in the US
Because they’re not competent. Or smart.
Has anyone been able to verify that he actually said this? The story stems from a Twitter post, and Miller apparently did do an interview on Newsmax on that date. But did he really say this? I’m suspicious because only that one source seems to be available.
NEVERMIND… Talking Points Memo noticed it also
Hey I mean if my state makes a law to hunt down and let’s say, disappear, people with the name “Jason Miller” then who’s Trump or Jason Miller to do with it?
Bunch of weirdos
Good lord, and I thought they went parodic with Homelander
