ICYMI, the Republican Party has been heavily invested in trying to control the American population by controlling women’s reproductive rights for decades.
I will forever contend that no government has the right to micromanage the bodies of its constituents, and I also will never understand how the GOP was ever allowed to turn any of our bodies into their personal battlegrounds. They have always ignored the basic human rights of women in this country, regardless of skin color or political party.
The Evangelical Christians somehow managed to take a woman’s right to bodily autonomy and weaponize it, rather than support it in a loving and Christlike way. As my friend John Fugelsang writes in his essential book, Separation of Church and Hate, Jesus never once talks about abortion, although there are passages in the Bible that describe how to perform one to save a woman’s life. Neato, huh? Keep that in your back pocket the next time a self-avowed “Jesus follower” in the MAGA cult mentions the Bible in a discussion about an often life-saving medical procedure that’s literally no one’s business except the doctor’s and the patient’s.
I also like to bust out a snarky, “And which of Trump’s qualities is the most like Jesus? Point to the passage in the Epstein Files to support your argument.”
They really don’t like that one, especially since I identify as an atheist.
Anyway, men who have no business anywhere near a uterus are doing all they can to make sure they get to decide when women start families, not the women themselves. Seems like a weird way to run a country, yet that’s what they’re doing.
It’s bad enough that RFK Jr has been put in charge of our nation’s healthcare systems (thanks for nothing, Rep. Bill Cassidy), seemingly out of spite on Trump’s behalf. He’s been joined by fellow buffoons Dr. Mehmet “I Put the MEH in Mehmet” Oz, Dr. Phil “All Oprah’s Fault” McGraw, and others who should all have already lost their medical licenses — if they even had one. Trump keeps nominating egregiously underqualified and unlicensed medical practitioners for Surgeon General while also hiking insurance premiums. The pro-life party? Not even close.
Not when they’re cutting Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security next year. That’s fine, only the Libs need any of that, right MAGA?
The Trump regime just keeps proving that it wants all of us dead as fast as possible. The deliberate decimation of the FDA, CDC, and NIH is frightening and all part of the Project 2025/2026 plan from the heretics at the Heritage Foundation. Controlling women’s bodies has always been their focus, and they’ve already begun the process of turning America into the White Christian haven they all think America was founded to be.
While real medical doctors are being prevented from sharing information at medical conferences, the FDA is now deciding to also once again “review” the use of Mifepristone via an “anonymous” outside researcher. The drug, which is used as the first in a two-step process for a medical abortion, is used in combination with misoprostol (hey, guess what they’ll go after next) to stop a pregnancy from growing. It’s been safely used for the last 25 years, but now that RFK Jr — who works out topless in jeans and boasts about snorting coke from toilet seats — is in charge, look for that “review” to take place later this summer.
At the same time, a new government website is being promoted as a resource for “addressing the needs of mothers and fathers who face difficult or unexpected pregnancies and ensuring the well-being of mothers and the health of American families.” It’s even got a super-patriotic and pro-woman-sounding name: “Moms.gov”
Except it’s some serious anti-choice propaganda, sending a user to faith-based resources that will end up encouraging those seeking abortion care to alternative options.
It’s as if the government took all of those people who protest outside abortion clinics, who yell things like, “We’ll take your baby!” and made them into a website that guilts and shames people already facing one of the hardest decisions they’ll ever make.
“I don’t call them the pro-life party,” says Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), “I call them anti-choice.” Bonamici, who I’m proud to say is my Representative, told me on Tuesday that she and her colleagues will be investigating the website.
Just check some of the language on the Moms.gov landing page about resources for “pregnancy centers”:
Pregnancy centers provide supportive services for mothers and families. Many centers offer pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, STD/STI testing and treatment, parenting support, childbirth classes, medical referrals, and material goods like clothes and diapers—at no cost to you. There are more than 2,750 pregnancy centers across the country. The majority of pregnancy centers offer limited medical services.
“Limited medical services” means the “pregnancy centers” linked from this government website won’t offer any abortion care. And all of the “centers” are Catholic- and Christian-based.
It also includes a link to “Enroll Eligible Children” for a Trump Savings Account that’s not at all another grift from the Grifter-In-Chief. Despite my curiosity, I’m certainly not clicking through to find out what makes a child “eligible” for a Trump account. Maybe who their dad voted for? I don’t know, but I bet even checking it out puts you on a special list where you start getting weird emails or ads about “Pregnancy Centers” or “Adoption Resources.” I mean, I’m waiting for my turn to be added to the White House “Leftist Influencers” Enemies List, plus I’d never ask this regime for help with anything.
No site ending in “.gov” can be trusted right now except for the official pages for Congressional Democrats. If you need a proper resource for reproductive healthcare, look no further than Planned Parenthood.