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[GameAddict411]

52% of white women voted for him. All I can say is that people should handle the consequences and like Obama said a few days ago never help the Republicans fix the healthcare system after they completely destroy it.

 

[Rebel Leader]

GOP: God's Obstructionist Pawns.

Get rid of the first word.. don't give them away out

 

[Mass Effect]

And so will crime and poverty.

More profits for private prisons!

Sounds like everything is going according to plan.

 

[Transistor]

Fuck the GOP.

That is all

 

[Xe4]

52% of white women voted for him. All I can say is that people should handle the consequences and like Obama said a few days ago never help the Republicans fix the healthcare system after they completely destroy it.

A surprising ammount of white women are pro life. They're getting exactly what they want.

Those that are pro-choice and voted for Trump either don't care about it, or are dumb as fuck.

 

[WiiredShawn]

52% of white women voted for him. All I can say is that people should handle the consequences and like Obama said a few days ago never help the Republicans fix the healthcare system after they completely destroy it.

To be fair, 52% of white women who voted. Granted, that means a whole shit ton of women who didn't care enough to vote to stop this from happening.

Granted, I imagine that a large swath of the white women who voted for Trump are also not the kind of women who need PP. Let's not forget that Trump was really popular with white people who made over $50k a year.

Get rid of the first word.. don't give them away out

I agree. But they've already aligned themselves with "God's principles." They're just doing what "God wants." We don't need abortions or clinics because "God will provide." Christianity is the greatest political tool ever usurped - it pretty much allows politicians to get away with doing remarkably little while hiding behind the veil of a "higher purpose."

I don't know how we strip them of it, though.

 

[Epsilon-delta]

52% of white women voted for him. All I can say is that people should handle the consequences and like Obama said a few days ago never help the Republicans fix the healthcare system after they completely destroy it.

This statistic bothers me as well as the 30% of Latinos who voted for him.

 

[Dierce]

Also lets not forget that they aren't solely against abortions. Republicans are against sexual education at schools and have a hard time accepting contraceptives. Their entire ideology is a huge clusterfuck of misery.

 

[JaggedSac]

I started donating a $10 a month donation to them last month because I knew this would happen. It's not much but I figured it's the least I can do for an organization that does so much.

Yep started donating as well.

 

[Neuromancer]

So whats their women's healthcare plan?

"Our plan is to not care about women's health"

 

[azyless]

Isn't the money PP receives from the government not allowed to go to abortions in the first place in the US ?

edit : okay my bad it's actually in the link :

no federal money is allowed to go to programs that include abortion services, unless they are needed to preserve the life of the mother or are caused by rape

So this would basically force women and teenage girls to have their rapist's baby or to literally die, what a noble goal. Fuck these evil bastards, as if they hadn't made it hard enough already to have an abortion in that country.

 

[Pau]

Granted, I imagine that a large swath of the white women who voted for Trump are also not the kind of women who need PP.

Or who think will need it.

 

[Hazmat]

I donated for the first (and probably not last, it looks like) time to PP a couple days ago. We get to help women in need of good healthcare and give the middle finger to the GOP. It's a bargain at twice the price.

 

[shnurgleton]

Isn't the money PP receives from the government not allowed to go to abortions in the first place in the US ?

Yeah, I thought the effect of the Hyde Amendment was pretty much this? If so, lawmakers must know and are intentionally encouraging misunderstanding in order to score political points. Which is super plausible.

 

[Particle Physicist]

This is only the first public health disaster they will create.

Pretty much...

 

[Nafai1123]

So whats their women's healthcare plan?

Chastity belts.

 

[ClosingADoor]

Disgusting. There should be more money going to things like this. But sure, you rather have teenage mothers and young people totally not ready for a family.

 

[ezekial45]

52% of white women voted for him. All I can say is that people should handle the consequences and like Obama said a few days ago never help the Republicans fix the healthcare system after they completely destroy it.

A lot of women, mostly white and middle to lower class, buy into the patriarchy. Specifically the belief that men have their best interests in mind and that they need to know their place. A lot of women who are progressive and largely rebel against the patriarchy will get hurt by this, and the ones who voted in favor of this will get hurt too. It's unfortunate and sad that so many women screwed over their own gender.

 

[Ogodei]

So whats their women's healthcare plan?

Crisis pregnancy clinics that exist to pressure the girls into not getting abortions and teach them about Jesus and not really provide them with any medical help whatsoever.

 

[Violence Jack]

All they see is that 3%.

 

[LiK]

GOP ignores everything else PP does and only focuses on abortion. They're so goddamn ignorant. It's infuriating.

 

[Stop It]

So whats their women's healthcare plan?

Abstinence-only education. It's fool-proof.

That is sarcasm.

Not according to the GOP it isn't.

What's a woman?

Someone who makes babies, and stays at home, in the kitchen preferably.

"God will take care of it."

If God put women on this Earth to make babies, then by God she shall.

will this just privatize abortion clinics more?

Saves the GOP base paying for them then, even better.

Also lets not forget that they aren't solely against abortions. Republicans are against sexual education at schools and have a hard time accepting contraceptives. Their entire ideology is a huge clusterfuck of misery.

The Evangelical base certainly are. I'm sure a good portion still believe that proper sex education increases sexual activity in teenagers. Hint to the GOP: Look at how New Labour tackled teenage pregnancy in the UK. Better sex education and free contraceptives transformed the stats from among the worst in Europe to pretty darned decent. De-funding Planned Parenthood will result in more, rather than less unplanned pregnancies and have a knock on effect on those who can afford it least.

But hey, that's Gods will right guys? Protect the un-born until they're here, then fuck them and their parents, you're on your own. That's Freedom!

 

[captive]

What you need to talk about for PP is STD prevention (which brought down the HIV infection rate to historically low levels) and safe sex education.

Not abortions.

That's a battle that ain't getting won against them.

we're talking about republicans here, they are the people:
1) that don't care if abortions are even a fraction of what PP does (They are) it doesnt matter.
2) that still believe those anti PP videos released last year are real, even after it came out that they were fake.

 

[Saganator]

Every... fucking... day... I hear something about Trump/GOP that infuriates me. I think I need a therapist now.

 

[Wilsongt]

Will the government take care of those new born children? What about paying for those pap smears? Mammograms? Birth control that some women have to use for medical purposes?

No?

Get the fuck out of here with this shit. A fucking party of white men dictating where and the kind of care women can get simply because they are so concerned about what happens in a woman's vagina.

 

[Glirk-Dirka]

They can move to do this all they like.

It's not happening. They don't have the bodies to make it happen.

It's just a scare tactic to get PR from their mouthbreathing base and to position themselves against the dems.

It's absolutely happening. You take authoritarian's at their word. They mean what they say.

 

[Cesare Borgia]

But both sides are the same, voting doesn't matter, etc right.

 

[stanis]

They can move to do this all they like.

It's not happening. They don't have the bodies to make it happen.

It's just a scare tactic to get PR from their mouthbreathing base and to position themselves against the dems.

hope you're right

 

[Joni]

What you need to talk about for PP is STD prevention (which brought down the HIV infection rate to historically low levels) and safe sex education.

Not abortions.

That's a battle that ain't getting won against them.

You don't get STDs when you don't have sex. Stop promoting people having sex!

 

[dskillzhtown]

The next 4 years are going to be disastrous for this nation.

I think the next 4 years will show how much people actually care about this nation. Will they sit back and do nothing, or jam phone lines, protest, and vote out the people who they disagree with. It could be a galvanizing 4 years, or a 4 years of misery. The reaction to the ethics board and people actually calling their reps may be a sign of things to come.

 

[Wilsongt]

But both sides are the same, voting doesn't matter, etc right.

Bernie was robbed.
But her emails.
Goldman Sach speeches.

 

[DragonSworne]

This will generate so many coal mining jobs.

 

[Monocle]

Get fucked, ladies!

Or actually, don't. Don't ever get fucked, or you're fucked.

 

[JCX]

Bernie was robbed.
But her emails.
Goldman Sach speeches.

Well isn't PP part of the "establishment" Bernie wanted to take on?

 

[Chmpocalypse]

PP has been getting the largest donations in its history over the last two months, so my hope is that will keep going. Hopefully bigger donations and states can get more active.

Unfortunately, this is just going to motivate people to do more desperate things to get abortions. They're not solving the problem, they're just removing options for people to make themselves feel better. It's sickening. Planned Parenthood is a fantastic resource for women, and it's horrifying that these men think this is in the best interests of women in this country.

I'm sure they'll be targeting Rowe v Wade next. This is fucking awful.

Fantastic for men too! I got my vasectomy done there (by, I kid you not, a Dr. Curington).

Going to be a lot more local anti-women rallies I'll have to counterprotest. My roommate and I were the only pro-choice people to stand up (and walk past, and argue with, hateful morons) last time. :

 

[Joni]

I think the next 4 years will show how much people actually care about this nation. Will they sit back and do nothing, or jam phone lines, protest, and vote out the people who they disagree with. It could be a galvanizing 4 years, or a 4 years of misery. The reaction to the ethics board and people actually calling their reps may be a sign of things to come.

They don't care enough to stop these people from getting into office. They are only executing their campaign promises on which they got elected.

 

[Epsilon-delta]

I think the next 4 years will show how much people actually care about this nation. Will they sit back and do nothing, or jam phone lines, protest, and vote out the people who they disagree with. It could be a galvanizing 4 years, or a 4 years of misery.

I think it will be the latter.

Shit, fireworks will go off if the GOP attacks gay marriage imo.

 

[KernelPanic]

This is only the first public health disaster they will create.

Reminds me of this I randomly saw on Twitter:

@AlecMacGillis Old white guy in Dr.'s waiting room, sitting next to me:"they said Obamacare would be repealed, not the Affordable Care Act!"

 

[LegendofJoe]

Planned Parenthood doesn't service women only. I got STD testing done there after a drunken one night stand (just in case). I paid 20 dollars at the time and they ended up refunding all of it a few weeks later. One of the best experiences I've ever had at a medical office.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Reminds me of this I randomly saw on Twitter:

The fuck...

That...that can't be real. I refuse to believe it.

 

[The Albatross]

I read "Defend"

Then I reread.

ugh.

 

[Biske]

So whats their women's healthcare plan?

Pray to Jesus that you die and get reborn as a Man so you can live in a country that gives a shit about your rights and health.

 

[Izuna]

disgusting

 

[Atomic Playboy]

All they see is that 3%.

GOP ignores everything else PP does and only focuses on abortion. They're so goddamn ignorant. It's infuriating.

No, they see more than that. This is the same group pushing abstinence-only education, remember. Any service that specifically acknowledges women having sex for any reason outside of heterosexual marital procreation is an abomination and must not be funded by the government. Planned Parenthood is a symbolic target for their hatred of the concept that women be allowed agency over their own sexuality. Abortion is just a part of that.

 

[Kusagari]

The fuck...

That...that can't be real. I refuse to believe it.

I seriously wouldn't be surprised if 50% of the country had no idea the Affordable Care Act and Obamacare are the same thing.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

People need to organise large scale mobilisation if this starts moving ahead

Talking don't ask don't tell level organisation

 

[A Link to the Past]

Surprising no one, the party responsible for the AIDS pandemic is rushing towards the next pandemic to kill poor people.

 

[Metalingus5150]

Any Trumpers want to defend this?

 

[Shard]

I think it will be the latter.

Shit, fireworks will go off if the GOP attacks gay marriage imo.

It can be both, the ACA and Planned Parenthood are actually fairly popular things all said.

 

[Farooq]

Any Trumpers want to defend this?

You can't, shit is vile.