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the conservative "now we'll support families" is so laughable. they've had decades to pass anything - anything! - that would help families. decades to reform adoption. instead they couldn't even support child tax credits. laughable and contemptible. part of me wants to laugh but mostly it's just anger. we've got these goons showing up with signs "we'll adopt your baby" - motherfucker, there's 400,000 fucking kids in foster care right now. 120,000 more waiting to be adopted. you don't have to wait but you know that. the fucking balls it takes to not give a penny to needy families, to gleefully cut WIC at every step, and then after your clown court kills roe to look at a camera and go "okay now it's time to help kids". go fuck yourselves. ....
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https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-indian-country-abortion-safe-harbor-fallacy/ by The Indian Country Abortion Safe Harbor Fallacy
Following the leaked draft of the United States Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, several conservative states have moved to restrict access to abortion. Oklahoma, for instance, has recently passed the nation’s strictest abortion ban, exposing individuals to ...
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(Sigh) Living under a religious theocracy is my personal nightmare. For now, you can escape pieces of it in America by living in a state that elects not to chain a twelve-year-old rape victim to a bed while her belly swells. The fact that the chains are made of law and not metal makes little practic...