In response to the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, which invalidated the constitutional right to an abortion that was in place for almost 50 years, several dozen prominent corporations have announced new health care policies. While the details vary, these companies say they will cover travel costs for employees that need an abortion but are unable to obtain one locally.
Exposing this is vital. Thank you! It is beyond hypocritical to donate to an organization such as RAGA and try to play the card for Women on the other. If your position is Pro Choice then you should have nothing to do with electing any sort of Republicans anywhere. They all stick together at the end of the day and will be our demise as a functioning democracy.
If tying health care to employment is problematic, you can bet employer funding of abortion is a mess. I hope the needle moves on reporting like this in light of reproductive rights being such a hot-button issue. Really tired of seeing the same companies donate to Republicans with impunity.
Thanks for supporting WRRAP. While I know abortion is a complicated topic for many people and I respect that, it is not complicated for me and never has been. I trust women to make the right medical and personal decision for themselves. Full stop. Anyone following this case knew the decision was forthcoming if for no other reason than the leaked opinion. I hope today this question becomes moot, but until it does, I want to know why the Commander-in-Chief had no trigger law that ordered military medical facilities to offer abortions to civilians in states with trigger laws that now do or soon will criminalize them. I also want to know why there has been almost no coverage focused on the medical definition of abortion, when and why abortion is performed, and what truly now is illegal in the type of healthcare available to women. Example: Is surgery to remove an ectopic pregnancy actually illegal in the states that outlaw abortion with no exceptions for life of the mother? If the baby dies during gestation, will the mother be forced to carry to term? (There’s an interview with Debbie Reynolds’s I believe from the 1970s where she discussed living through that particular nightmare before Roe.) Amidst the outrage, we need facts in context. Writing this makes me so angry on so many levels that I need to stop now.
Why does that matter? RAGA, by its own admission, played a central role in Dobbs. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R), a member of RAGA, was in charge of the legal strategy to eliminate the constitutional right to an abortion.
@LynnFitchAG
Today marks a new era in American history. Roe v. Wade is finally behind us. This decision is a victory, not only for women and children, but for the Court itself. Now, our work to empower women truly begins.
What does “our work to empower women” mean in this context? That you can become a breeder for the State? That you can be “The Little Woman” behind the man? It certainly doesn’t point to an kind of equality for women because you are being defined by your fecundity.
I set up sending 200 postcards in a swing state. I will text and call as well. I donate to some candidates like Frankin in Iowa, Flowers and Warnock in GA.
I am doing what I can for the midterms.
Unfortunately I cannot do m7ch but sizzle over the corps playing both sides of the field. I send emails to them, I can boycott them but Americans seem tone deaf on anything but gas prices and inflation until Roe was overturned last week. How long befire that falls from the media headlines? 'Bout as long as the fools saying "keep an asprin between your legs" or "those tiny beating hearts" from people I know who wouldn't help an old lady cross the street much less help an impoverished family.
Vote and do my part to get others out to vote for people who will try to help keep our democracy
Always very helpful to learn of the companies, particularly those based in Texas, that are working to undermine American Democracy by restricting civil rights and pushing for corporate dominance, often from Christian Nationalists, of our country. I save Popular Information articles in order to add to my long list of companies and rogue states I will not solicit.
Empower women by keeping them barefoot and pregnant? Their signs are a complete oxymoron. Also, there is no such thing as being Pro-life. Look at what they do to the living. Their only concern is for the fetus, not the baby once born. Once born, you and it are on your own. They are anti-abortion, period. If you ask any of these people how many of these unwanted they plan to adopt, how many hospital bills they plan to pick up, you hear crickets.
Exposing this is vital. Thank you! It is beyond hypocritical to donate to an organization such as RAGA and try to play the card for Women on the other. If your position is Pro Choice then you should have nothing to do with electing any sort of Republicans anywhere. They all stick together at the end of the day and will be our demise as a functioning democracy.
If tying health care to employment is problematic, you can bet employer funding of abortion is a mess. I hope the needle moves on reporting like this in light of reproductive rights being such a hot-button issue. Really tired of seeing the same companies donate to Republicans with impunity.
Thanks for supporting WRRAP. While I know abortion is a complicated topic for many people and I respect that, it is not complicated for me and never has been. I trust women to make the right medical and personal decision for themselves. Full stop. Anyone following this case knew the decision was forthcoming if for no other reason than the leaked opinion. I hope today this question becomes moot, but until it does, I want to know why the Commander-in-Chief had no trigger law that ordered military medical facilities to offer abortions to civilians in states with trigger laws that now do or soon will criminalize them. I also want to know why there has been almost no coverage focused on the medical definition of abortion, when and why abortion is performed, and what truly now is illegal in the type of healthcare available to women. Example: Is surgery to remove an ectopic pregnancy actually illegal in the states that outlaw abortion with no exceptions for life of the mother? If the baby dies during gestation, will the mother be forced to carry to term? (There’s an interview with Debbie Reynolds’s I believe from the 1970s where she discussed living through that particular nightmare before Roe.) Amidst the outrage, we need facts in context. Writing this makes me so angry on so many levels that I need to stop now.
Why does that matter? RAGA, by its own admission, played a central role in Dobbs. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R), a member of RAGA, was in charge of the legal strategy to eliminate the constitutional right to an abortion.
@LynnFitchAG
Today marks a new era in American history. Roe v. Wade is finally behind us. This decision is a victory, not only for women and children, but for the Court itself. Now, our work to empower women truly begins.
What does “our work to empower women” mean in this context? That you can become a breeder for the State? That you can be “The Little Woman” behind the man? It certainly doesn’t point to an kind of equality for women because you are being defined by your fecundity.
I set up sending 200 postcards in a swing state. I will text and call as well. I donate to some candidates like Frankin in Iowa, Flowers and Warnock in GA.
I am doing what I can for the midterms.
Unfortunately I cannot do m7ch but sizzle over the corps playing both sides of the field. I send emails to them, I can boycott them but Americans seem tone deaf on anything but gas prices and inflation until Roe was overturned last week. How long befire that falls from the media headlines? 'Bout as long as the fools saying "keep an asprin between your legs" or "those tiny beating hearts" from people I know who wouldn't help an old lady cross the street much less help an impoverished family.
Vote and do my part to get others out to vote for people who will try to help keep our democracy
Always very helpful to learn of the companies, particularly those based in Texas, that are working to undermine American Democracy by restricting civil rights and pushing for corporate dominance, often from Christian Nationalists, of our country. I save Popular Information articles in order to add to my long list of companies and rogue states I will not solicit.
Empower women by keeping them barefoot and pregnant? Their signs are a complete oxymoron. Also, there is no such thing as being Pro-life. Look at what they do to the living. Their only concern is for the fetus, not the baby once born. Once born, you and it are on your own. They are anti-abortion, period. If you ask any of these people how many of these unwanted they plan to adopt, how many hospital bills they plan to pick up, you hear crickets.
So where are insurance companies on this issue?