cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24607393

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The US is actually going to implement a nationwide abortion ban and the measures for how it’s going to be handled are already in the works. This bill, which I link to here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/7/text , seems ok at first glance and only seems to want to implement nationwide healthcare centers for women. But when you actually look at what these Pro Women’s Healthcare Centers are and mean to offer, it becomes really clear what’s going on.

On the first page of the PDF or booklet that appear when you search for the healthcare centers it is clear that they are supported by pro-life organisations and hold extreme pro-life values. And when you read the (very short) booklet it states their values and services that are to be provided. Among them is a requirement for “Abortion Pill Reversal” and encouragement for “Sterilization Reversal”. The last page clearly states their values, where among them it states that:

“Abortion is not women’s healthcare, because of the damage it causes to women’s physical and emotional health and the destruction of unborn life, many of whom are females. Abortion is usually something women turn to when they feel they do not have another choice. This is a tragedy and the opposite of choice and empowerment.”

And it goes on to list similiar values. The bill to implement these healthcare centers states that:

"That the House of Representatives—

(1) expresses its support for women nationwide to have access to comprehensive, convenient, compassionate, life-affirming, high-quality health care; and

(2) recognizes the high standards established by Pro Women’s Healthcare Centers consortium as standards worth implementing nationwide."

This means that the values that these Pro Women’s Healthcare Centers have are to be set as standards nationwide.

A link to the PDF/booklet about the Pro Women’s Healthcare Centers (PWHC): https://nacn-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/PWHC-Booklet.pdf

  • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
    643·
    17 hours ago

    yes. elections have consequences. republicans haven’t been coy about wanted to outlaw abortion nationwide at the federal level. enough democrats didn’t vote in the last election (mostly young people for whom these bans will effect the most, and cause the most harm) to ensure republicans now control ever branch of united states government, the legislative (both house of congress), the judicial (doj and the supreme court), and executive (the presidency). that’s a clean sweep, and a wide pipe for the monsters to do just about anything they want to. congratulations.

    • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2475·
      16 hours ago

      If only liberals had self reflection to learn why the lost the election in a landslide. Nope. Blame voters!

      Edit:

      • no primary
      • biden promised to be a one term president and lied, he’s senile and demented
      • lied about inflation
      • two new forever wars
      • funded a genocide
      • awful covid policy of “let it rip!”
      • last minute push of no votes Kamala instead of holding a fucking primary to start with
      • only platform is “we’re not trump”
      • real platform is “nothing will fundamentally change”
      • voting third party is not supporting fascism you stupid fucking liberals
      • continue to refuse to change your stupid ways and continue to lose elections
      • democrats didn’t do shit to stop fascism because fascism doesn’t threaten capital and they only exist to stop the left
      • democrats lose on purpose so they can cynically fundraise off it
      • keep voting blue no matter who and keep fucking losing
      • blue MAGA be whining crying and carrying on that if you didn’t vote for fascist genocider joe that you’re a fascist! Grow up and read history you fucking babies.
      • insults voters rather than listens to their concerns
      • assumes everyone who didn’t vote for biden voted for trump which is logically false
      • zero class consciousness and everything boils down to losing identity politics
      • nobody cares that Kamala was black and indian that’s not a reason to vote for or against anyone
      • nobody cares that the fighter pilot dropping bombs on brown people abroad is a black gay Jewish trans man, we want the bombing to stop!
      • democrats had fifty fucking years to make roe v Wade law but instead cynically fundraised off it
      • biden fucked over labor

      Keep fucking crying. Never self reflect that it’s YOUR FAULT for not pushing the dems left. Never self reflect that the democrats DID THIS TO THEMSELVES.

      • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
        263·
        15 hours ago

        I agree with most of what you said, but voting 3rd party in the general election really is mathematically equivalent to simply not voting.
        And it’s worse when it’s voting 3rd party in place of voting for the least bad of the two electable parties, then (just like not voting) it’s mathematically equivalent to voting for the most bad of the two parties.

        This is not an opinion. It’s how the elections are structured, and I would very much prefer a better structure, but we don’t have it and have to work with what we have.

        Even in the primaries, voting 3rd party usually simply means being unable to influence the major parties - but in this case you are absolutely correct that the “primaries” were a farce.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          152·
          14 hours ago

          It’s also not an opinion, that when people feel like you don’t actually act in their interests, they start voting for others.

          Mainstream and centrist democrats do just enough to be less awful than republicans, but that’s not what we need as a country. Biden did just enough to return to the old (and only less awful) status quo.

          See people who give a fuck about genocide watching most dems support genocide by Israel.

          See people who are smart enough to know this economy actually sucks for the bottom 90%

          See people who watched as Biden and his government agencies pissed away four years and failed to hold a fucking insurrectionist to account.

          See people watching democrats treat that insirrectionist’s party as if they were somehow reasonable and fair minded people with whom “compromising” is acceptable; and deciding that, no, maybe we shouldn’t vote for people willing to parrot the republican party line on immigration.

          I voted Harris, but damn was my nose aching from pinching it closed. At a certain point party leadership needs to pull their heads out their asses and realize the reason voters left is because they keep running to the right. You want more voters? Try running to the left.

          Climate resilience. Universal healthcare. Tackle income inequality. Tackle the cause of education debt. Tackle the cause of gun violence and throw in solid, reasonable restrictions on guns. Tackle homelessness with proven strategies. Tackle drug addiction in ways that actually work. Open up immigration and tackle that crisis too.

          Like, it ain’t rocket science. (Though we also need to fund that and keep all the patents here and not held exclusively by Chinese companies making bank off our research grants.)

          Edit: this is like a store blaming the customers when the customers stop shopping there because the store doesn’t sell what they want.

        • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          417·
          14 hours ago

          Oh for fucks sake. Electoral college. I’m in a solid blue state it doesn’t fucking matter who the fuck I vote for or if I vote at all. But even if I was in a swing state there’s no way in fucking hell id be voting for a genocider and liberals need to get that through their thick fucking minds instead of smugly admonishing and tsk tsking everyone with fucking morals who refused to vote for that piece of shit.

          This is NOT the way to win elections and blue MAGA is too high on their own supply to understand why they fucking lost in a landslide.

          DEMOCRATS ARE TO BLAME FOR TRUMPS RETURN. RUN A COMPETITIVE PRIMARY AND THIS WOULD OF NEVER HAPPENED.

          also in my state I can vote for whoever I want in a primary. I can vote in the democrat or Republican or progressive (state party) primary. Another +1 for Vermonts pro democracy policies.

          • CthuluVoIP@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            5 hours ago

            What landslide? Why do people keep insisting that this was a resounding defeat? The margin was absolutely minuscule.

            • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              12·
              4 hours ago

              Because it was a landslide. They lost the presidency, the senate, the house, state governments, local elections. My state lost the most seats.

              Not calling it a landslide is liberal la la land refuse to self reflect cope.

          • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
            81·
            13 hours ago

            Yeah, I was writing for the perspective of someone whose votes mattered at all to begin with (which isn’t myself). Indeed the electoral college is its own catastrophe and needs to die.

            Anyway, yes, the DNC is to blame. I agree.
            However a part of the mechanism that helped trump win is opinions like “even if I was in a swing state there’s no way in fucking hell id be voting for a genocider” - I get it, I really do, but if I were in a swing state myself there’s no way I’d help the rapist convict even worse genocider win. There were no good options this election, but there were orders of magnitude differences between levels of bad.

            • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              25·
              6 hours ago

              I’m not voting for a genocider period. I voted third party which is a vote against genocide. I have zero regrets and am enjoying the liberal fucking meltdown over it.

            • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              427·
              15 hours ago

              You’re right, I voted for biden in 2020 which is one of my biggest regrets in life.

              He’s the genocider. Meanwhile trump got his peace deal signed which means for eight fucking months this could of happened under biden but that senile racist Zionist fuck wrote a blank check to Israel instead.

              Love liberal logic. Genocide is ok as long as it’s brown people abroad!

              • droporain@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
                202·
                14 hours ago

                You might be slow homie. Neither party was or is gonna stop the genocide. It’s almost like we make a bunch of money selling weapons in some kind of military industrial complex. But I’ll let you figure it out for yourself enjoy these interesting times.

                • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
                  14·
                  21 minutes ago

                  So you admit that a vote for either Democrats or republivans was a vote for genocide… and you’re still blaming the voters for failing to vote for genocide?

                  Make it make sense.

      • diverging@lemm.eeEnglish
        97·
        15 hours ago

        biden promised to be a one term president and lied, he’s senile and demented

        No, he didn’t.