Religion is Satanic: 1) Old white religious (often kid rapists and or wife abusers) political white men shoving their misogyny onto others, wanting death penalty or life in prison for abortion patients and providers, even in cases where the fetus will not survive being born. 2) catholic Ethics Oversight Committee at Ascension St. Thomas Midtown in Tennessee cancelled a woman’s scheduled *chosen* sterilization to protect her “sacred fertility.” JFC! If what is written about Jesus is true, he would not abuse women and girls like old white men “christians” and religions do.
Women should be aware that Catholic hospitals have done this for years. It’s not new. Before Planned Parenthood and other organizations that help women with their healthcare, those organizations would refer you to a surgery center that did sterilizations and was not associated with the local Catholic hospital. It was the workaround. With the closing of so many PP’s in red states, women are learning about the world they really live in. I grew up in that world, pre-Roe.
Kay-El:
“Durbin said if you have an abortion, you “forfeit your right to live.”” So he’s a judge, jury and executioner in one smarmy package?
Sue Connaughton:
Anybody else sick and tired of white males telling us what we can and can’t do with our bodies? Anybody else enraged by the fact that our government wants to have complete say so over reproductive health care as if we are chattel, aka, their personal property?
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Brittany:
The story about Ascension St. Thomas Midtown is insane. Why in the world would her doctor let it get to the point of surgery day before saying, “Oops, we can’t do that”? I won’t even go into how barf-worthy the phrase “sacred fertility” is. I sure hope she didn’t get charged for that visit and the ones leading up to it, but knowing the US, I’m sure she did.
Shandra Schoonover:
I understand the how, especially given it is a religious based health system, but my brain continues to be blown at the state and federal governments stepping into women’s health-care in ways that do not happen for men. It’s relentlessly oppressive and heartless.It’s rape religion and the fucking patriarchy
Thank you for your continued reporting, Jessica!
To succeed, the theologians invade the cradle..in the brain of innocence they plant the seeds of superstition.
Tennessee Canceled A Woman’s Sterilization to “Protect Her Sacred Fertility
A Tennessee woman says her scheduled sterilization procedure was canceled after a hospital’s ethics committee claimed they had a “duty to protect her sacred fertility.” Eeewyuck.
[—] says she was in the hospital awaiting surgery—IV in her arm—when nurses told her that the Catholic Ethics Oversight Committee at Ascension St. Thomas Midtown decided she was too young for the procedure. The article doesn’t say how old [—] is, but assuming she’s an adult, it shouldn’t matter.and, with climate change, AI and the hideousness of raping male humans notably in positions of power and in religions, the most cruel being the evangelicals and catholics, even many preteens know they don’t want to produce any kids because they’ll most likely get raped, and or stand high chance of getting abused and murdered as adults, never mind being poisoned by our toxic frac’d to hell, overly human infested, planet. I knew as a young child there was no fucking way, I would produce a hideous human, there were already then, billions too many of us. I promised myself by age 8, I would kill myself before I was forced to give birth. “Sacred fertility.” Fuck that gross anti-christ religious shit. Jesus would not do such abuse to women!
[—] told local reporters that birth control has never worked for her, that she’s never wanted kids, and that “I’ve wanted to pursue sterilization since I learned that that was something that a person could do.”She’s also concerned about living in a state without abortion access—which she should be!
The hospital didn’t return reporters’ queries, but Tennessee recently passed the Medical Ethics Defense Act—which allows doctors and hospitals to deny care based on their personal religious or moral beliefs. (Just a few months ago, we reported on a woman who was denied prenatal care because her doctor didn’t like that she was unmarried!Douche Fucker! What’s his religion?)
And if Ascension hospitals sound familiar, it’s likely because the religious health system has been refusing women care across the country. The group was found to have violated EMTALA for refusing a Texas woman care for her ectopic pregnancy in 2023, and AEDinterviewed an Illinois woman last year who was left with no fallopian tubes after an Ascension doctor refused to treat her ectopic pregnancy. A 2024 report also showed that Ascension hospitals are behind sharp spikes in certain communities’ maternal mortality rates:
Republicans’ attack on mifepristone was in a federal court yesterday, where Louisiana pushed for an end to telehealth abortion medication—arguing that pills by mail enable abuse and are unsafe. (They don’t and they’re not.)Pregnancy is much more dangerous, abusive and unhealthy!
As you know, what happens in this case won’t just impact Louisiana, but the whole country. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is using this suit and multiple criminal cases to go after shield laws—and, she hopes, get them in front of themajority catholic misogynistic corrupt Pedo protectingSupreme Court.
Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, called it a “craven attempt by anti-abortion officials to limit access to abortion care.” You can read background on the suit here and here.
The Louisiana Illuminator has a good breakdown of what happened in the courtroom yesterday, but here’s the short version: Louisiana and the FDA argued in front of Trump appointee U.S. District Judge David Joseph. The judge also heard from Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro Inc, companies that make mifepristone—and granted their motions to intervene.
What’s important to remember is that while the Trump administration absolutely wants to ban abortion, the FDA is asking the court to pause Louisiana’s suit until the agency can conduct its own ‘safety review’ of the medication. That’s purely political: they don’t want abortion pills in the news before the midterms.
We probably won’t know more for a few weeks, so in the meantime consider reading this good backgrounder from Mother Jones, or—if you want a refresher on all the wacko arguments conservatives are making against mifepristone—check out our explainer on another mifepristone suit.
Georgia Republicans Back ‘Equal Protection’ Bill
Well this is troubling: Two abortion ‘abolitionist’ leaders say that their latest ‘equal protection’ bill in Georgia is cosponsored by one in four Republican lawmakers.
I’m going to repeat that: One in four Republicans in the Georgia House of Representatives has signed onto a bill that would have abortion patients punished with the death penalty or life in prison.
The clip below is from a Turning Points USA event at the University of Alabama, featuring Bradley Pierce of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion and Jeff Durbin from End Abortion Now:Look! They’re both ugly old white men! Where are their vicious fairy tale loaded misogynistic bibles?
It’s unclear if the pair are discussing a new bill we haven’t seen introduced yet, or if last year’s “equal protection” legislation (HB 441) will be rolled over into the new session. If it’s the latter, the six primary sponsors are: Reps. Emory Dunahoo, Mike Cameron, Charlice Byrd, Danny Mathis, Trey Kelley, and Martin Momtahan. You can find their contact info here.
‘Abolitionists’ Exposed
Unfortunately, the two extremists above didn’t just talk about Georgia. They made clear that ‘abolitionists’ have made a tremendous amount of progress across the country over the past decade. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: these maniacs are not fringe anymore.
A few other highlights from the video:
When asked whether they’re concerned that banning abortion will push women to end their pregnancies unsafely, Pierce says “we’re not trying to make murder safe,” and Durbin replied that “murder belongs in back alleys.”
Durbin said if you have an abortion, you “forfeit your right to live.”
When a woman in the audience asked how ‘equal protection’ laws would deal with women who miscarry, Pierce claimed that people die every day and most aren’t investigated so women shouldn’t worry. (Tell that to the over 400 women who’ve been arrested since the end of Roe!!)
Their language was especially notable: instead of saying that women “have” or “obtain” abortions, they say women “commit” abortions.
In the States: Kentucky; South Dakota, New Hampshire, Massachusetts
While we’re talking about ‘equal protection’ bills: Kentucky Republicans have just introduced legislation that would, you guessed it, punish abortion patients as murderers. HB 714 was likely drafted by the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, which put out a statement lauding the bill today.
From sponsors Reps. Richard White and Josh Calloway:
“Under this legislation, murdering anyone would be made illegal for everyone, ensuring that all humans made in the image of God are equally protected in accordance with the Kentucky Constitution, the United States Constitution, and the Law of God.”FFS! That’s propaganda! We are not made in any god’s or gaia’s or nature’s or the universe’s image; our species evolved. What Law of god? The bible? It’s fairy tales written by most likely drunk misogynistic men, which had women written instead, would most likely have gone this way:
Republicans know that women are able to sidestep state bans by using abortion pills, so they’re trying to make impossible for potential patients to find out about the medication at all.
New Hampshirelawmakers are considering a bill that would change the state’s 24 week abortion restriction to 20 weeks. Republicans claim HB 1590 would clear up a discrepancy in the law—pointing to the fact that New Hampshire’s criminal code someone to be charged if they cause a woman to lose her pregnancy after 20 weeks.
Co-sponsor Rep. Kelley Potenza says, “This is going to get twisted and turned into an abortion conversation and it really shouldn’t.” We’d argue it’s pretty straightforward, but sure! As Kayla Montgomery of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England says, “this is an abortion ban.”
Fox News is having a grand time mocking the gender-inclusive language used by a Massachusetts Planned Parenthood. Last week, the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts (PPLM) announced the expansion of its vasectomy services. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Luu Ireland noted that “birth control is for and is used by people of all genders.”
“By offering vasectomy, we are providing men and people who carry sperm an option for long-term contraception while also eroding the idea that pregnancy prevention falls just on people who can get pregnant. It’s for all of us.”
Which is all correct and important! But the conservative news outlet decided that one line was worth an entire headline and article. Imagine if they dedicated that kind of energy to the women dying from sepsis because of abortion bans.
Texas Is Going After Two More Abortion Providers
Just a month after Texas filed a lawsuit against a Delaware abortion provider for allegedly mailing abortion pills into the state, Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office announced new legal action against two other abortion providers: California’s Dr. Remy Coeytaux, and Aid Access‘s founder and Dutch physician Dr. Rebecca Gomperts. (This is on top of Paxton’s prosecution of midwife Maria Rojas and her colleagues.)
Paxton said in a release, “Radicals sending abortion-inducing drugs into our state will be held accountable for ending innocent life.”JFC! Douche fucker! Abortion is prevention, not killing life. Besides, there are billions too many humans pushing extinction of all life on earth, never mind human life. The more birth control and abortions, the greater the chance human life on earth continues. And, where is god to fix earth? Nowhere to be seen.
The AG’s office isn’t suing on behalf of a patient, but instead points to the Aid Access website—which says pills can be sent to Texas—as evidence. Paxton did something similar in his suit against Delaware’s Debra Lynch: there’s no patient or specific pills he’s suing over; instead he provided quotes that Lynch gave to the media about mailing abortion medication.
In other words, Texas is targeting abortion providers over public speech; it seems like the state is having a hard time finding women who want to sue over their abortions.
It’s worth remembering that Gomperts and Coeytaux are also being sued by anti-abortion attorney Jonathan Mitchell, who alleges both mailed pills into Texas that were later used to ‘coerce’ abortions. As AED reported yesterday, the man suing Coeytaux is a convicted domestic abuser—and Mitchell is openly wielding the suit to ban abortion nationally:
It should go without saying, but we’ll say it anyway: ‘born alive’ abortion is not a thing, Except for Donald Trump reportedly (in the Epstein files) witnessing the murder of a new born of a girl he had raped with Epstein, the new born was tossed overboard providing free and quick, “Born Alive” abortion!~ Turns out “christian” Trump and his kid raping Epstein pals are the Born Alive abortionists.and Republicans know it. The point of these bills is to drum up public outrage, and to make abortion seem extreme and dangerous.
The truth is that ‘born alive’ legislation forces doctors to perform futile and painful medical procedures on fatally ill newborns. Instead of allowing families to peacefully say goodbye and hold their children in their final moments, this legislation steals that choice from parents—while threatening doctors with criminal charges.
Missouri’s ‘Born Alive’ bill, for example, could open the door to punish doctors who offer compassionate, emergency abortion care for extreme, fetal conditions with the death penalty. And this is happening in a state that, in 2024, passed a constitutional amendment to enshrine a right to abortion.
We’ll be keeping an eye on this legislative trend, and will update you as the bills move forward. (Or, hopefully, don’t.)
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