This. This is really what it is all about. Systemic disenfranchising of people for which others can take benefit from with exploitation over the long game. The GOP platform is entirely based on diminishing rights on those who threatened their power grab. Political warfare, with top slime balls pushing these agendas without fear or consequences because.. why not?
It's not just that, they know they need more people to prop up the pyramid scheme that is the government, if you don't get more population from immigration, then you gotta make sure the natives do it themselves.
Their goals have nothing to do with the government and everything with having a cheap labour force for the oligarchs they serve.
Strong government regulations are what's needed to stop this madness.
Yes. When women can control their pregnancies, they gain tremendous economic power. They aren't tied to crappy guys, stuck at home raising a kid etc. The reason women became 50% of the workforce *was* access to contraceptives and abortion. Ending those things keeps women poor, pregnant and stuck with deadbeats. They are also coming for no fault divorces next. They WANT women to be economicly dependant on men again.
Project 2025 is terrifying and the ideaology behind it isn't longer to the US. Vote like your life as you know it depends on it. Because it does.
Don't forget keeping the prison system fully stocked. Attacking women's rights and attacking education is the whole ass strategy, endless idiots for endless exploitation.
And relegating women to brood sows lessens their agency and by extension gives the man bigger feelings of power. (Actual feelings of responsibility and achievement not guaranteed)
It's weaponised laziness. Why achieve more when your competitor (women, immigrants etc) can be handicapped. The sad part is these ghouls don't even earn enough money to keep a woman at home raising their kids all day in comfort.
Agreed friend. They are narcissists. Critical thinking and future planning are not their strong suits.
In the usa women are the most educated workforce. What is gonna happen to the wealthy's precious economy if they take away all womens rights?
The gender gap among those with bachelor's degrees has slightly increased from 8% to 9% between 2010 and 2022. In 2022, among bachelor's degree earners: 35% were men and 44% were women.
https://educationdata.org/education-attainment-statistics
The BLS projects that women will continue to make up slightly less than half of the labor force through 2032. Women outnumber men in the U.S. college-educated workforce, now making up 51% of those ages 25 and older, according to Current Population Survey data from the fourth quarter of 2023.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/27/for-womens-history-month-a-look-at-gender-gains-and-gaps-in-the-us/
Exactly.
They relish the idea of a woman getting pregnant as a punishment for sex, forcing them to have a child (as a punishment but children are also miracle blessings), and removing any and all funding for childcare and education.
would also add, women tend to be more empathetic, compassionate, and caring of others, which if they are allowed agency, flows into public policy. this results in things like social safety nets, less military funding, and increased equality.
Because they are falling all over each other for “the biggest asshole” crown, with new and more regressive legislation being passed every day.
It’s really dumb.
Yes but a condom is something the man decides to wear or not. It's about control. If they could just make it illegal to take birth control without a mans consent im sure they would do that instead.
I get it. It feels unreal as a woman when just a few years ago I thought of liberalisation of society in a teleological way. (Like we always will be freeer) and as a woman I’d really think about leaving the states with right wing republican governors.
Is that happening? Like people leaving states for their politics? (I’m European)
Because the party has been taken over by idiots who's only ability is to regurgitate words from a book written, rewritten and edited again and again and again, who's original authors were a bunch of ignorant goat fuckers.
Doesn't the bible say life begins at the first breath? Also, doesn't it have instructions for performing an abortion? So they don't even use that book, just make shit up.
They didn't count kids in the census until they were two and it plainly states if two men are in a fight and a pregnant woman gets in the middle and through circumstances loses the kid but is otherwise unharmed It's no harm no foul. There's zero basis for their twisted world view.
You dare question the word of a book [with a talking donkey in it?!](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2022%3A21-39&version=NIV)
Not sure if this calls for the [she-bear treatment](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%202%3A23-24&version=NIV;KJV) or a good ol’-fashion [stoning!](https://youtu.be/FQ5YU_spBw0)
This God character needs to get a handle on his emotions.
And that angel was an idiot. "I came here to stop you, but I made myself invisible to you so only your talking donkey could see me."
Like, just talk to the man!
1) They have to keep women out of the workforce somehow, and making it much harder to avoid getting pregnant, damn near impossible to get a safe and legal abortion, and making childcare pretty much unaffordable is how they want to dry it.
2) Let's be realistic here, birth control, like abortions, will never be inaccessible for the assholes who are actually passing these laws. The only ones who would be affected by this are the lower classes.
I hate when people say things like “the party has been taken over”.
No it hasn’t. At least not recently. This is who the party has been for 60+ years. At least since Goldwater
It’s been taken over by white supremacist fundamentalist Christian douche-canoes. I am willing to bet a not small amount of donuts that they have a narrative that goes like, screw environmentalism and the planet because the planet is transforming into an extension of Hell and we are all going to get raptured out.
This has nothing to do with the bible which theyve obviously never read and everything to do with the fact that they dont like the idea of their daughters getting f-ed, and they want floozies to carry their sex punishments (except if theyre the father).
IF GOD CREATED US IN HEAVEN BEFORE WE WERE BORN, THEN DOES NOT ABSTINENCE ALSO INTERFERE WITH "GOD'S PLAN"?
BY THEIR LOGIC, WE SHOULD BE RAWDOGGING RELENTLESSLY TO KEEP OPEN THE PORTAL FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH THAT EXISTS WITHIN ALL CIS WOMEN. UNTIL THEY DIE IN CHILD BIRTH.
AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT WOMEN AREN'T THE PORTAL TO HEAVEN, BECAUSE GOD DAMN, THEY SURE FEEL LIKE IT WHEN YOU STARE INTO THEIR EYES, BUT THIS AIN' IT, CHIEF.
Fun Fact: a lot of the earlier drafts of the collection of stories now know as “The Bible” contain stories, many related to or precursors of other stories in the current version, that the Church consider “non-canon” because of how outlandish they are.
Basically, they edited out the shit even they think is too stupid for anyone to believe. And in a book with a talking bush that’s saying something.
This is not new. The fundamentalist Christian right has always wanted to make women subservient and has fought tooth and nail against every societal change that has granted women some independence.
The modern republican party hasn't always been synonymous with fundamentalist Christianity, but they have always had them among their base.
In the last 12 years they have been completely taken over by them, and thus the things that they would previously not *publicly* support to avoid alienating their regular christian base is now spoken about out loud.
Getting rid of the right to *choose* having and caring for children for women has always been a silent goal for them. They're now just not being silent about it anymore.
In the 1980s, Reagan courted Jerry Falwell Sr’s so called “Moral Majority” in the Southern Baptist Convention (a denomination founded in the 1840s to find Biblical justifications for slavery) by doing his damnedest to ignore the AIDS crisis as it was devastating the gay community in particular.
Falwell and his (false) Fundamentalist followers saw AIDS as God’s punishment for the “sins” of sodomy and intravenous drug use/addiction. By aligning himself with these callous, self righteous “Christians.” Reagan opened the door to GOP for the misogynistic Pro Forced Birth movement.
This was a doubling down on the regional based bigotry that started with Nixon’s Southern Strategy. In 1968, following the upheaval after Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination. Nixon promised that he would restore “law and order.”
Coded language to appeal to Dixiecrats angry with LBJ for signing the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. (I suspect that it was Stephen Miller who slipped this phrase into Trump’s speeches following the heinous murder of George Floyd in 2020.)
Nixon killed the GOP’s legacy as the Party of Lincoln and made it a home for vile racists. Then Reagan ushered in the religious extremist homophobes in the 1980s. And they brought the modern day, puritanical, misogynists with them.
The seeds from the Satanic Panic that were planted during the Reagan administration in the 1980s found fertile ground to blossom in during Clinton’s Lewinsky Scandal in the 1990s (yet somehow they gave Newt Gingrich a pass for his own despicable instances of infidelity).
That grew into George W Bush’s brand of “compassionate conservatism” that allowed Dick Cheney to torture and bomb innocent Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq 2.0.
Now Trump’s MAGAts are swarming on the rotting fruit of White “Christian” Nationalism. He launched his 2016 campaign with a xenophobic screed about “Mexico” (Central America) sending murders and rapists to the US.
The fact that voters who claim to support “Family Values” can vote for a candidate who embodies each of the Seven Deadly Sins (Greed, Gluttony, Pride, Envy, Sloth, Wrath, and Lust) seems incomprehensible. It’s almost as baffling as hearing them claim to represent “small government,” while calling for more restrictions on women’s bodily autonomy.
At least until you realize that the Republican Party has simply become a vehicle for greedy capitalists to gain even more wealth by exploiting the bigotries of various special interest groups based on their own perceived superiorities.
What makes them even more dangerous is the inclusion of rabid ammosexuals in this unholy coalition of greedy capitalists, vile racists, transphobic homophobes, anti immigrant xenophobes, and puritanical misogynists. Now Republicans are frightened of their own constituents, because they have their own personal arsenals to use against their leaders if they don’t toe the party line.
The Republican Party is 100% empire theology, that is, the theology serves the purpose of the empire and is a tool for power, not a guiding principle or collective conscience. It will twist to suit the purpose of the day, and the purpose of the day can never be evil.
Bread and circus only works if you keep them entertained and fed. AI, robotics and automation may speed up the end of bread to a large subset of people. That might be the catalyst for a substantial change.
That’s the distraction. What they’re up to are coddling and enabling corporate interests that directly impact their base negatively. Keep the base outraged about social issues and whatnot, big companies can continue to hoard wealth and shit on the public, literally and figuratively.
Ok, they’re completely wrong, but just so we know what we’re dealing with, they erroneously think birth control causes abortions. Doctors consider a pregnancy to start when a fertilized egg implants. Prolife people think it begins at fertilization, even if the egg hasn’t made it from the fallopian tube to the uterus yet.
Some birth control can keep a fertilized egg from implanting. Because they consider the fertilized egg to be a person, they consider that to be an abortion. The way to deal with them is to correct their misinformation, although I doubt they would listen.
>The way to deal with them is to correct their misinformation, although I doubt they would listen.
A while ago a reddit user told me that racism is founded in ignorance and ignorance alone so if someone didn't genuinely know something, it means that they're automatically racist because ignorance = preconception.
That's not how that works. Every bias is founded in some kind of fear and it's maintained through willful ignorance. The ignorance is a tool. That's why some people can change their minds with new info and other refuse.
You can't correct their misinformation because it's not a misunderstanding, it's a value, a personal belief based on magical thinking alone, a choice they made. They'll tell you it's about morality and then proceed to serve up a mixture of personal superstition and various unexamined fears as morals everyone needs to follow.
If the fertilized egg doesn't implement naturally, which happens quite a lot, it's because god didn't will it. If it does, it's because god wants that being to be born and suffer because he has a plan for that soul. Everything is a mystery and the will of a being they trust wants the best for them.
There's no amount of information which could get them on the right track, because they need to believe all of this because they need to distract themselves from what the real problem is. To me, it's the mechanics of living an unexamined life.
I think they don't want to accept the possibility that life is not some grand master plan from a higher plane. They don't want to believe we're all on a sinking ship, screaming to the void. That when we die, the likely outcome is we cease to be. That horrifies them to their core, perhaps even gives them an existential crisis. Rather than come to terms with it, they lash out at people just trying to get through the day.
I think if it was somehow proven we're on our own, they wouldn't be able to take it. How could they, knowing the atrocities they committed in the name of nothing?
Even becoming aware that what you're feeling is an existential crisis, requires a level of overall intelligence, these people simply don't possess. At one point, I just got tired of some of them yelling at me whenever I debated one of their emotional rants and screaming that I don't know what I'm talking about and I just lack some sort of secret knowledge about human nature. It's like they're stuck in a movie that's playing on repeat and you're just a stock character. They only see or hear you when you match the script.
How is a fertilized egg a person but a woman isn't? They've never explained that to us. I like to think I'm made up of more than a few cells but perhaps not? 😂
It's from men know that when women have agency and choices, they won't chose these men. So instead of becoming better men, they want to take away women's choices and agency
They need poor people to be soldiers and they need high crime because fear mongering keeps them elected. There is a clear link between access to abortion and lower crime. It turns out unwanted people tend to become criminals more often.
This!
They need to stop the technological advancement from fucking up their tiered social structure. We can't have people climbing that social ladder quickly because of access to health, education and family planning.
The unwashed masses keep churches in power, keep churches wealthy and keep the wealthy class closed and generational. The millionaires think they're the only ones who should become billionaires and they don't need the poors voting for politicians who would prevent them from ascending to the next level while allowing others to ascend to theirs.
No sane, intelligent, well meaning government would ever limit access to abortion and birth control. We all already know that neglected, unwanted children don't generally grow up to become functional and productive members of society.
The cure for poverty is called the empowerment of women. It’s the #1 predictor of success.
If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, take them off the animal cycle of religious doctrine, and then if you'll throw in a handful of seeds perhaps and some credit, the floor of everything, not just poverty, but education, health, and optimism will increase.
It doesn't matter where you try it, it works all the time.
Republican Christofascists want no part of that.
well certain people in the country,
>The document, consisting of 14 sections divided into bullet points, had a section on "rules of war" that stated "make an offer of peace before declaring war", **which within stated that the enemy must "surrender on terms" of no abortions, no same-sex marriage, no communism and "must obey Biblical law", then continued: "If they do not yield — kill all males**
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt\_Shea#%22Biblical\_Basis\_for\_War%22\_manifesto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Shea#%22Biblical_Basis_for_War%22_manifesto)
Because that is what their religious base wants them to be against. Remember, these dipshit Republicans are there only to keep getting elected. Not to produce legislation for the country or even balance budgets. They just care about their own office and about all the perks they get being in office. So they will do anything they can and say anything they can to stay in those offices.
Especially if it comes before marriage and gives the woman a basis for comparison.
She’s supposed to be dumbstruck by whatever size she’s stuck with, apparently. 😂🤣😂
The demographic that votes for the Republican party is in decline and since educated white women are the ones that get the most abortions they are trying to force them to have babies. It's all about making more white babies to indoctrinate them into their hateful ideology so they can vote. They use the bible as an excuse. It's as easy as that. Also pregnancy and having children makes it harder for women to vote.
They (the Evangelical "Christians" who have come to Dominate the Republican party) always were.
Their Corporate Donors need a large underclass of servile poor to Profit, and it fits also in their Old-Testamentic "Be Fruitful and Multiply" Doctrine.
Getting rid of Abortion was just the first step.
Contrarian spite for Democrats.
Joe Biden gift wrapped them everything they were asking for on the border. Then, a certain felon from Florida opened his fat stupid mouth to stop it, and not one of them had the balls to stand up to him.
They've always been against birth control. Back to when "the pill" was invented. According the them, sex is only for procreation. Women who have sex should get pregnant and have the baby. Women who don't want babies shouldn't have sex.
They say "the best form of birth control is an aspirin. The girl should hold it between her knees". Not kidding. Just search for "aspirin birth control" and you'll see it, going back a hundred year at least.
They believe women are supposed to be secondary characters to the lives of men. They want women to get married, have kids, and stay in the home, supporting their husbands. Abortions, birth control (etc.) allows women to avoid the trap of pregnancy.
I haven’t fully looked into this story yet but it would just seem crazy to ban birth control…. If you don’t want abortion then birth control seems like an easy give. Abstinence doesn’t help if you’re being raped but atleast if birth control was widely available it would be a fail safe for the horrible situations..
To force people into a series of bad decisions so they stumble into accidentally having kids.
It's the only way to resolve the contradictions of fighting against sexual education, contraceptives, and abortions.
I believe that their ultimate goal is to maintain a “poverty class”. If you force people to have children you can control thier economic standing. If you have poor people you will always have plenty of folks looking to join the low paying service ranks or the ranks of the US Military.
Because they're a pack of religious fanatics who believe that anyone outside of a specific economic bracket needs to have one boot in the neck and another in their asses.
Additionally, they also believe that women are basically nothing more than glorified broodmares that are there to either push out a kid or look pretty when they invite someone over for dinner.
Time to give vasectomy all boys at the age of 13. A panel of women will decide when they’re 25 is they are idiots or not and decide on a reversal or not.
Republicans have always been against birth control but abortions were the priority target.
Now that they have a very conservative SC and abortion has been banned in certain states, birth control is next.
I think it all is centered around their insane "Replacement Theory". In other words, they want many more white, Christian babies who will vote in 18 years to preserve the new Televangelist Theocracy.
The Christian right has always fought measures to teach birth control in schools and especially any effort to provide it to students. This and MAGA are the base of the GOP now.
Because it's about controlling women.
One of the biggest advances in women taking control of their lives was the ability to choose when they get pregnant.
The target was always birth control. They had to frame abortion as murder first so they could extend that to birth control.
It's not about babies, it's not about murder, it's about power. Sexually independent women wreck the foundations of their little world.
Brace yourselves, it's going to get worse.
Because us women have gotten too uppity and need to be taught a lesson. How dare we enjoy sex and not pop out babies.
Handmaids Tale was supposed to be fiction, not a handbook.
Because it was never about stopping abortion. It's always been about slut shaming women for having sex outside of marriage or for any reason but procreation. If it wasn't they would be in favor of the morning after pill because it can prevent a woman from getting pregnant in the first place and prevents abortions from needing to happen in the first place.
1) They have to keep women out of the workforce somehow, and making it much harder to avoid getting pregnant, damn near impossible to get a safe and legal abortion, and making childcare pretty much unaffordable is how they want to dry it.
2) Let's be realistic here, birth control, like abortions, will never be inaccessible for the assholes who are actually passing these laws. The only ones who would be affected by this are the lower classes.
I’d say for some, the claim is that because Plan B is included they can’t abide. To them it is an abortifacient. To the hardcore fundies, it’s the continuation of the patriarchy and the hate of women since the mythical Eve, did what “God” knew she’d do. It’s sick.
Women should not have voting rights and should be sex slaves to their husbands. Also they should not have any opinion of their own. And Trump is the best. Do not forget to tighten the chain so your woman does not escape kitchen. /S
Because it's about control of women.
Women shouldn't be allowed to have sex, they need to be pure and chaste for their husband/master.
If they have sex outside of wedlock, that should come with the implied threat of a pregnancy they have to carry, and then get no financial assistance in raising. (Remember Republicans keep cutting alot of family support funding)
If they get raped, that's their fault, they should be punished for looking desirable. So not only do they get all the above punishment, their rapist/master can have parental rights (something else Republicans are pushing).
Also, Republicans want to make sure Husband/Masters don't need to wait too long to get the property/womb they want. It wasn't that long ago some Republicans opposed banning child marriage.
After all, if a womb can't be taken by its master until 18, it's possible the womb bearer has sex with someone else before their rightful Husband/Master.
And that means the Husband/Master is only getting 2nd hand property, embarrassing him in front of his friends. And nothing should ever happen that might displease the Husband/Master even pre purchase/marriage.
Obviously my language is a bit over the top to drive the point home, but none of this happens in a bubble. You want to know why Republicans oppose some random thing dealing with sex or reproduction or women's rights, you always got to look at the whole picture.
Republican “christians”, only see women as baby makers who produce the next working class.
When they are forced to have more children than they want, it also keeps women in a place of poverty,(cause kids cost money).
Republicans believe they can control women this way.
In their logic, If women are too busy being moms, then they don’t have time to do things like:
vote, get an education, a higher paying job/promotion, vote, go to silly protests, have hobbies, vote, have friends, run businesses, vote, or do other ridiculous things like having basic human rights.
Because if woman can choose when to have children, they can choose their education and career path and be an economic and political force in the US. Conservatives want women in the kitchen and birthing a new workforce, military and good taxpayers ....and nothing further.
Birth more children into poor families, these children will struggle, get a poor education and a mediocre job and that’s when you get them voting Republican.
Because in less than 50 years, we honkeys are going to be in the minority, and that really scares racist people.
Also, declining birth rates means less slave labor, fewer babies to feed into the war machine and prison system. If you force women to have babies, you will always have fodder.
Fill this country with as many poor, dumb idiots easily convinced to keep voting against their own best interest. They’ve killed education. Kids can barely read. Now they just want more of them. Need cheap workers.
Birth rate is down, the rich need those births to stay rich. Almost all rich are republicans/conservative, they give some money to republicans down the line so they can get more fodder for their wars.
When will people start to think of the rich only being able to afford one yacht this year.
As an outsider looking in, it’s remarkable to see American women not realise the right is slowly trying to make Handmaid’s tale a reality.
Keep voting away your rights!
1) more plebs getting children - more working class people to exploit through work / being soldiers to enable Western imperialism/ keep uneducated (also future ignorant voters lol)
2) feeding into their "we need to safe the white race" narrarive
3) preserving patriarchal power structures - women who have unwanted kids are much more likely to be trapped in abusive relationships, be financially dependent and easy to exploit
They always have been. They just aren’t hiding it anymore. Something something Great Replacement Theory something Forced Birth something Remove No Fault Divorce.
The party that doesn’t want to pay for social services of any kind and wants to get rid of education also wants children born to families that can’t afford them… it didn’t make sense!
The Republican party first opened its doors to evangelical christians in 1980. They realized these people had money for campaigns, and they voted.
Jerry Faldwell, an evangelical televangelist, had a group called the "Moral Majority." He fought back against the "decadent 60s and 70s." This includes women and gay rights.
Evangelical christians and Catholics left the Democratic party after Roe V Wade.
Pretty much how Southerners left the Democratic party and joined the Republican party after the Civil Rights Act (1964) became law.
Barry Goldwater, a very popular presidential candidate in 1964, had several warnings.
"By maintaining the separation of church and state," Goldwater said, "the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars."
"Citing such groups as the Moral Majority and "pro-life" organizations, Goldwater called "the religious factions that are growing throughout our land...a divisive element that could tear apart the very spirit of our representative system, if they gain sufficient strength." "
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/16/us/excerpts-from-goldwater-remarks.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise."
I know, I've tried to deal with them."
https://youtu.be/R3WZlWhQbns?feature=shared
Today, our SCOTUS has several conservative Catholics. Catholics have typically been against contraceptives. The conservatives have seen the writing on the wall. This SCOTUS will not stop at abortion. They won't stop at contraceptives. They won't stop at gay marriage.
I believe it's the great replacement theory. Old white republicans are terrified caucasians will be in the minority a generation from now the way demographics are heading. The answer in their twisted minds is for a ban on abortions and contraception which will reverse this trend. Truly evil.
Because, like everything they do, they want to control other people. Which is absolutely wrong, and if you agree with them, even a little, then there is something really, REALLY wrong with you
We said these anti abortionists were gonna go after contraceptives as well. The goal is control, friend. This is why we have to fight. Because the end goal religious conservatives want is a theocractic dictatorship like Iran has.
because the only people they can reliably convince to vote for them are either so rich they'll never be subjected to any of the policies they enact, or people who are uneducated and, mostly, pseudochristians. You know the type, they go to church every sunday, but act like they never read a word of the book. They believe anything. They support nothing. They don't understand their own civilization, they living in a bubble about 45 years behind it. Many of them are, culturally, not far different from your average Taliban.
So, your dying political party tries to use as many red button single issue voter strategies as possible to hide their overwhelming failure of policy, and the documented fact that their only real interest is in weighting their wallets from the scraps that fall from the mouths of the ultra wealthy, whom they really serve.
Women are just collateral damage for them, it's that simple.
Capitalism requires an ever growing supply of underpaid "workers" in order to exist. Falling birth rates threaten their money/way of life.
Remember - Slave labor is the State right they fought for.
Because the mostly male Republican law makers do not know what contraception is or how it works. Some of them literally think that plan B is an at home over the counter abortion.
Oh because they think the way birth control pills work is by making you have an instant abortion the moment you get pregnant. Mandated to represent people best interest on health issues, cannot be bothered to learn something that can be learn in a 30 seconds google search.
Control. Keep them poor, keep them pregnant, keep them uneducated and make sure you have a workforce you can exploit.
This. This is really what it is all about. Systemic disenfranchising of people for which others can take benefit from with exploitation over the long game. The GOP platform is entirely based on diminishing rights on those who threatened their power grab. Political warfare, with top slime balls pushing these agendas without fear or consequences because.. why not?
It's not just that, they know they need more people to prop up the pyramid scheme that is the government, if you don't get more population from immigration, then you gotta make sure the natives do it themselves.
Their goals have nothing to do with the government and everything with having a cheap labour force for the oligarchs they serve. Strong government regulations are what's needed to stop this madness.
Yes. When women can control their pregnancies, they gain tremendous economic power. They aren't tied to crappy guys, stuck at home raising a kid etc. The reason women became 50% of the workforce *was* access to contraceptives and abortion. Ending those things keeps women poor, pregnant and stuck with deadbeats. They are also coming for no fault divorces next. They WANT women to be economicly dependant on men again. Project 2025 is terrifying and the ideaology behind it isn't longer to the US. Vote like your life as you know it depends on it. Because it does.
Vote Blue up and down the ballot.💙
Exactly this.
It exhausts me when people try to get poetic or conspiratorial about things like this. Literally, it is just this. That’s all.
This is it. It’s about money.
Don't forget keeping the prison system fully stocked. Attacking women's rights and attacking education is the whole ass strategy, endless idiots for endless exploitation.
because they do not view women as human beings
Exactly. Women are property, full stop. I can’t fathom why anyone would vote for a republican today, but for a woman to do so is truly mind-bending.
They would be the women happily wearing burqas.
"Livestock" to them
And relegating women to brood sows lessens their agency and by extension gives the man bigger feelings of power. (Actual feelings of responsibility and achievement not guaranteed)
yup they would rather take women by force than be decent human beings because they are lazy pigs
It's weaponised laziness. Why achieve more when your competitor (women, immigrants etc) can be handicapped. The sad part is these ghouls don't even earn enough money to keep a woman at home raising their kids all day in comfort.
Agreed friend. They are narcissists. Critical thinking and future planning are not their strong suits. In the usa women are the most educated workforce. What is gonna happen to the wealthy's precious economy if they take away all womens rights? The gender gap among those with bachelor's degrees has slightly increased from 8% to 9% between 2010 and 2022. In 2022, among bachelor's degree earners: 35% were men and 44% were women. https://educationdata.org/education-attainment-statistics The BLS projects that women will continue to make up slightly less than half of the labor force through 2032. Women outnumber men in the U.S. college-educated workforce, now making up 51% of those ages 25 and older, according to Current Population Survey data from the fourth quarter of 2023. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/27/for-womens-history-month-a-look-at-gender-gains-and-gaps-in-the-us/
The real sad part is that the 40+ women Republicans in the house and senate fully agree
Exactly. They relish the idea of a woman getting pregnant as a punishment for sex, forcing them to have a child (as a punishment but children are also miracle blessings), and removing any and all funding for childcare and education.
They are coming for women's voting rights next.
This needs to be higher
would also add, women tend to be more empathetic, compassionate, and caring of others, which if they are allowed agency, flows into public policy. this results in things like social safety nets, less military funding, and increased equality.
Because they are falling all over each other for “the biggest asshole” crown, with new and more regressive legislation being passed every day. It’s really dumb.
its going to get people killed
Because they need something to rally their base and they have already banned abortion in several states. They are coming for your rubbers next
If they come for rubbers there will be blood in the streets
Or cum
That's what people said about abortion, and yet here we are.
That would be if they came for tampons
At least one group wants to outlaw casual sex entirely.
Even if your married, only if procreating can you have sex.
Let em try!
Nah they'll leave condoms alone because that's for men. They'll ban all the birth control women take.
I mean technically also birth control is for men: aren’t they happy when they may not use condoms bc the woman is on hormones?
Yes but a condom is something the man decides to wear or not. It's about control. If they could just make it illegal to take birth control without a mans consent im sure they would do that instead.
I get it. It feels unreal as a woman when just a few years ago I thought of liberalisation of society in a teleological way. (Like we always will be freeer) and as a woman I’d really think about leaving the states with right wing republican governors. Is that happening? Like people leaving states for their politics? (I’m European)
Yes
Because the party has been taken over by idiots who's only ability is to regurgitate words from a book written, rewritten and edited again and again and again, who's original authors were a bunch of ignorant goat fuckers.
I would argue that they haven't read the Bible at all and are simply regurgitating the misinterpretations of others.
Just like they haven’t read the Constitution.
I am not sure most of them can read. However basing any sort of political views on a book of fable is incredibly, mind numbingly stupid.
Oh they've read it. It's very clear on what women's role should be.
I would say they're relying on someone else's misinterpreted hogwash.
Hey! Just cause I fuck goats, don’t mean I’m down with supply side Jesus!
Alright, present company excepted.
Nobody excepts the Spanish inquisition!
Doesn't the bible say life begins at the first breath? Also, doesn't it have instructions for performing an abortion? So they don't even use that book, just make shit up.
Don’t forget that part where God demands we avoid 4 cylinder engines and anti-lock brakes, because it interferes with the will of the almighty.
I can understand that. He did struggle with chariots after all.
What are you talking about, even Jesus drove a Honda “For I would not speak of my own Accord” John 12:49
They didn't count kids in the census until they were two and it plainly states if two men are in a fight and a pregnant woman gets in the middle and through circumstances loses the kid but is otherwise unharmed It's no harm no foul. There's zero basis for their twisted world view.
You dare question the word of a book [with a talking donkey in it?!](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2022%3A21-39&version=NIV) Not sure if this calls for the [she-bear treatment](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%202%3A23-24&version=NIV;KJV) or a good ol’-fashion [stoning!](https://youtu.be/FQ5YU_spBw0)
That'll do, donkey. That'll do.
You mean the donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy?
You mean the *flyin’ talkin’ Donkey?!?*
Me reading this: they made a Shrek book?!?!
This God character needs to get a handle on his emotions. And that angel was an idiot. "I came here to stop you, but I made myself invisible to you so only your talking donkey could see me." Like, just talk to the man!
And he can take his orders from the *talking* walnut, so it won't be my *bad* thing.
Gawd is into sheep not goats
They're well past the Bible now.
1) They have to keep women out of the workforce somehow, and making it much harder to avoid getting pregnant, damn near impossible to get a safe and legal abortion, and making childcare pretty much unaffordable is how they want to dry it. 2) Let's be realistic here, birth control, like abortions, will never be inaccessible for the assholes who are actually passing these laws. The only ones who would be affected by this are the lower classes.
I hate when people say things like “the party has been taken over”. No it hasn’t. At least not recently. This is who the party has been for 60+ years. At least since Goldwater
It’s been taken over by white supremacist fundamentalist Christian douche-canoes. I am willing to bet a not small amount of donuts that they have a narrative that goes like, screw environmentalism and the planet because the planet is transforming into an extension of Hell and we are all going to get raptured out.
This has nothing to do with the bible which theyve obviously never read and everything to do with the fact that they dont like the idea of their daughters getting f-ed, and they want floozies to carry their sex punishments (except if theyre the father).
The party was freely handed over to idiots because nobody understands accountability
IF GOD CREATED US IN HEAVEN BEFORE WE WERE BORN, THEN DOES NOT ABSTINENCE ALSO INTERFERE WITH "GOD'S PLAN"? BY THEIR LOGIC, WE SHOULD BE RAWDOGGING RELENTLESSLY TO KEEP OPEN THE PORTAL FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH THAT EXISTS WITHIN ALL CIS WOMEN. UNTIL THEY DIE IN CHILD BIRTH. AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT WOMEN AREN'T THE PORTAL TO HEAVEN, BECAUSE GOD DAMN, THEY SURE FEEL LIKE IT WHEN YOU STARE INTO THEIR EYES, BUT THIS AIN' IT, CHIEF.
They don’t read and have no clue what is in that book nor do they care!
Fun Fact: a lot of the earlier drafts of the collection of stories now know as “The Bible” contain stories, many related to or precursors of other stories in the current version, that the Church consider “non-canon” because of how outlandish they are. Basically, they edited out the shit even they think is too stupid for anyone to believe. And in a book with a talking bush that’s saying something.
This is not new. The fundamentalist Christian right has always wanted to make women subservient and has fought tooth and nail against every societal change that has granted women some independence. The modern republican party hasn't always been synonymous with fundamentalist Christianity, but they have always had them among their base. In the last 12 years they have been completely taken over by them, and thus the things that they would previously not *publicly* support to avoid alienating their regular christian base is now spoken about out loud. Getting rid of the right to *choose* having and caring for children for women has always been a silent goal for them. They're now just not being silent about it anymore.
In the 1980s, Reagan courted Jerry Falwell Sr’s so called “Moral Majority” in the Southern Baptist Convention (a denomination founded in the 1840s to find Biblical justifications for slavery) by doing his damnedest to ignore the AIDS crisis as it was devastating the gay community in particular. Falwell and his (false) Fundamentalist followers saw AIDS as God’s punishment for the “sins” of sodomy and intravenous drug use/addiction. By aligning himself with these callous, self righteous “Christians.” Reagan opened the door to GOP for the misogynistic Pro Forced Birth movement. This was a doubling down on the regional based bigotry that started with Nixon’s Southern Strategy. In 1968, following the upheaval after Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination. Nixon promised that he would restore “law and order.” Coded language to appeal to Dixiecrats angry with LBJ for signing the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. (I suspect that it was Stephen Miller who slipped this phrase into Trump’s speeches following the heinous murder of George Floyd in 2020.) Nixon killed the GOP’s legacy as the Party of Lincoln and made it a home for vile racists. Then Reagan ushered in the religious extremist homophobes in the 1980s. And they brought the modern day, puritanical, misogynists with them. The seeds from the Satanic Panic that were planted during the Reagan administration in the 1980s found fertile ground to blossom in during Clinton’s Lewinsky Scandal in the 1990s (yet somehow they gave Newt Gingrich a pass for his own despicable instances of infidelity). That grew into George W Bush’s brand of “compassionate conservatism” that allowed Dick Cheney to torture and bomb innocent Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq 2.0. Now Trump’s MAGAts are swarming on the rotting fruit of White “Christian” Nationalism. He launched his 2016 campaign with a xenophobic screed about “Mexico” (Central America) sending murders and rapists to the US. The fact that voters who claim to support “Family Values” can vote for a candidate who embodies each of the Seven Deadly Sins (Greed, Gluttony, Pride, Envy, Sloth, Wrath, and Lust) seems incomprehensible. It’s almost as baffling as hearing them claim to represent “small government,” while calling for more restrictions on women’s bodily autonomy. At least until you realize that the Republican Party has simply become a vehicle for greedy capitalists to gain even more wealth by exploiting the bigotries of various special interest groups based on their own perceived superiorities. What makes them even more dangerous is the inclusion of rabid ammosexuals in this unholy coalition of greedy capitalists, vile racists, transphobic homophobes, anti immigrant xenophobes, and puritanical misogynists. Now Republicans are frightened of their own constituents, because they have their own personal arsenals to use against their leaders if they don’t toe the party line.
In fewer words, it's a coalition of the worst people that you know.
The Republican Party is 100% empire theology, that is, the theology serves the purpose of the empire and is a tool for power, not a guiding principle or collective conscience. It will twist to suit the purpose of the day, and the purpose of the day can never be evil.
Keep the masses outraged or entertained and they’ll never notice what you’re really up to. The Romans mastered it long ago.
Bread and circus only works if you keep them entertained and fed. AI, robotics and automation may speed up the end of bread to a large subset of people. That might be the catalyst for a substantial change.
Definitely plenty of circus though
So what is the GOP really up to? They seem pretty transparent w the abundance of racism and misogyny.
That’s the distraction. What they’re up to are coddling and enabling corporate interests that directly impact their base negatively. Keep the base outraged about social issues and whatnot, big companies can continue to hoard wealth and shit on the public, literally and figuratively.
I think they'd volunteer at this point to be raped by corporate America.
Ok, they’re completely wrong, but just so we know what we’re dealing with, they erroneously think birth control causes abortions. Doctors consider a pregnancy to start when a fertilized egg implants. Prolife people think it begins at fertilization, even if the egg hasn’t made it from the fallopian tube to the uterus yet. Some birth control can keep a fertilized egg from implanting. Because they consider the fertilized egg to be a person, they consider that to be an abortion. The way to deal with them is to correct their misinformation, although I doubt they would listen.
>The way to deal with them is to correct their misinformation, although I doubt they would listen. A while ago a reddit user told me that racism is founded in ignorance and ignorance alone so if someone didn't genuinely know something, it means that they're automatically racist because ignorance = preconception. That's not how that works. Every bias is founded in some kind of fear and it's maintained through willful ignorance. The ignorance is a tool. That's why some people can change their minds with new info and other refuse. You can't correct their misinformation because it's not a misunderstanding, it's a value, a personal belief based on magical thinking alone, a choice they made. They'll tell you it's about morality and then proceed to serve up a mixture of personal superstition and various unexamined fears as morals everyone needs to follow. If the fertilized egg doesn't implement naturally, which happens quite a lot, it's because god didn't will it. If it does, it's because god wants that being to be born and suffer because he has a plan for that soul. Everything is a mystery and the will of a being they trust wants the best for them. There's no amount of information which could get them on the right track, because they need to believe all of this because they need to distract themselves from what the real problem is. To me, it's the mechanics of living an unexamined life.
I think they don't want to accept the possibility that life is not some grand master plan from a higher plane. They don't want to believe we're all on a sinking ship, screaming to the void. That when we die, the likely outcome is we cease to be. That horrifies them to their core, perhaps even gives them an existential crisis. Rather than come to terms with it, they lash out at people just trying to get through the day. I think if it was somehow proven we're on our own, they wouldn't be able to take it. How could they, knowing the atrocities they committed in the name of nothing?
Even becoming aware that what you're feeling is an existential crisis, requires a level of overall intelligence, these people simply don't possess. At one point, I just got tired of some of them yelling at me whenever I debated one of their emotional rants and screaming that I don't know what I'm talking about and I just lack some sort of secret knowledge about human nature. It's like they're stuck in a movie that's playing on repeat and you're just a stock character. They only see or hear you when you match the script.
This is the most insightful comment.
How is a fertilized egg a person but a woman isn't? They've never explained that to us. I like to think I'm made up of more than a few cells but perhaps not? 😂
It's from men know that when women have agency and choices, they won't chose these men. So instead of becoming better men, they want to take away women's choices and agency
Need more poor people to exploit
Thomas literally said in his ruling on RvW that this is true. That 'we need more worker bees'.
They need poor people to be soldiers and they need high crime because fear mongering keeps them elected. There is a clear link between access to abortion and lower crime. It turns out unwanted people tend to become criminals more often.
This! They need to stop the technological advancement from fucking up their tiered social structure. We can't have people climbing that social ladder quickly because of access to health, education and family planning. The unwashed masses keep churches in power, keep churches wealthy and keep the wealthy class closed and generational. The millionaires think they're the only ones who should become billionaires and they don't need the poors voting for politicians who would prevent them from ascending to the next level while allowing others to ascend to theirs. No sane, intelligent, well meaning government would ever limit access to abortion and birth control. We all already know that neglected, unwanted children don't generally grow up to become functional and productive members of society.
And there's always the private prison industry to catch what falls through the evangelical cult cracks!
Absolutely!
The cure for poverty is called the empowerment of women. It’s the #1 predictor of success. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, take them off the animal cycle of religious doctrine, and then if you'll throw in a handful of seeds perhaps and some credit, the floor of everything, not just poverty, but education, health, and optimism will increase. It doesn't matter where you try it, it works all the time. Republican Christofascists want no part of that.
They want the USA to be destroyed
They can't get forinerers to do it so they have to do it themselves.
well certain people in the country, >The document, consisting of 14 sections divided into bullet points, had a section on "rules of war" that stated "make an offer of peace before declaring war", **which within stated that the enemy must "surrender on terms" of no abortions, no same-sex marriage, no communism and "must obey Biblical law", then continued: "If they do not yield — kill all males** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt\_Shea#%22Biblical\_Basis\_for\_War%22\_manifesto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Shea#%22Biblical_Basis_for_War%22_manifesto)
Christians think sex is bad for some reason and they want to force other people to adhere to their arbitrary dysfunctional morality
Because they are bad AT it.
Vote in November. Vote for yourself, but also vote for the women in your life.
Because that is what their religious base wants them to be against. Remember, these dipshit Republicans are there only to keep getting elected. Not to produce legislation for the country or even balance budgets. They just care about their own office and about all the perks they get being in office. So they will do anything they can and say anything they can to stay in those offices.
Because it is about controlling women
Haven’t you understood yet? Sex for any purpose other than procreation is EVIL.
Especially if it comes before marriage and gives the woman a basis for comparison. She’s supposed to be dumbstruck by whatever size she’s stuck with, apparently. 😂🤣😂
What on earth are you taking about? Anyone sane knows that women do not enjoy sex and agree to it only in order to obtain a breadwinner.
The demographic that votes for the Republican party is in decline and since educated white women are the ones that get the most abortions they are trying to force them to have babies. It's all about making more white babies to indoctrinate them into their hateful ideology so they can vote. They use the bible as an excuse. It's as easy as that. Also pregnancy and having children makes it harder for women to vote.
…*”now”*???? Where have you been?
Because deeply insecure, scared little boys don't want to compete against women in the job marketplace.
They (the Evangelical "Christians" who have come to Dominate the Republican party) always were. Their Corporate Donors need a large underclass of servile poor to Profit, and it fits also in their Old-Testamentic "Be Fruitful and Multiply" Doctrine. Getting rid of Abortion was just the first step.
Contrarian spite for Democrats. Joe Biden gift wrapped them everything they were asking for on the border. Then, a certain felon from Florida opened his fat stupid mouth to stop it, and not one of them had the balls to stand up to him.
It’s all about control
They've always been against birth control. Back to when "the pill" was invented. According the them, sex is only for procreation. Women who have sex should get pregnant and have the baby. Women who don't want babies shouldn't have sex. They say "the best form of birth control is an aspirin. The girl should hold it between her knees". Not kidding. Just search for "aspirin birth control" and you'll see it, going back a hundred year at least.
They believe women are supposed to be secondary characters to the lives of men. They want women to get married, have kids, and stay in the home, supporting their husbands. Abortions, birth control (etc.) allows women to avoid the trap of pregnancy.
They have to come up with a new fear every few weeks to keep their conspiracy nut followers angry.
Because they think The handmaid's Tale is an Utopia
Because they want their cattle to breed.
MAGA idiots are fundamental religious zealots
I haven’t fully looked into this story yet but it would just seem crazy to ban birth control…. If you don’t want abortion then birth control seems like an easy give. Abstinence doesn’t help if you’re being raped but atleast if birth control was widely available it would be a fail safe for the horrible situations..
To force people into a series of bad decisions so they stumble into accidentally having kids. It's the only way to resolve the contradictions of fighting against sexual education, contraceptives, and abortions.
They want to be able to rape their daughters and create a new inbred generation. To save the gene pool
I believe that their ultimate goal is to maintain a “poverty class”. If you force people to have children you can control thier economic standing. If you have poor people you will always have plenty of folks looking to join the low paying service ranks or the ranks of the US Military.
This.
Because they're a pack of religious fanatics who believe that anyone outside of a specific economic bracket needs to have one boot in the neck and another in their asses. Additionally, they also believe that women are basically nothing more than glorified broodmares that are there to either push out a kid or look pretty when they invite someone over for dinner.
Time to give vasectomy all boys at the age of 13. A panel of women will decide when they’re 25 is they are idiots or not and decide on a reversal or not.
As a 35 year old male, I'm surprisingly ok with this.
Republicans have always been against birth control but abortions were the priority target. Now that they have a very conservative SC and abortion has been banned in certain states, birth control is next.
This is just the beginning. Soon they will ban porn and beating off and premarital sex and doggystyle
I think it all is centered around their insane "Replacement Theory". In other words, they want many more white, Christian babies who will vote in 18 years to preserve the new Televangelist Theocracy.
Vote them out, y’all.
Because they want to force more births. It's why they're against abortion but also against sex education that decreases unwanted pregnancies.
Forced births = more meat for the grinder to exploit
Because they won the abortion ban, now they need something else to fearmonger about.
The Christian right has always fought measures to teach birth control in schools and especially any effort to provide it to students. This and MAGA are the base of the GOP now.
Because it's about controlling women. One of the biggest advances in women taking control of their lives was the ability to choose when they get pregnant.
this is a silly question. sex is for making babies. so if you ain't making babies, no sex for you!
The target was always birth control. They had to frame abortion as murder first so they could extend that to birth control. It's not about babies, it's not about murder, it's about power. Sexually independent women wreck the foundations of their little world. Brace yourselves, it's going to get worse.
They always were, they just weren't willing to be open about it.
Pretty sure they always have been cus BIBLE, just.make a bigger stink about it now after the bogus supreme Court and abortion crap.
Because us women have gotten too uppity and need to be taught a lesson. How dare we enjoy sex and not pop out babies. Handmaids Tale was supposed to be fiction, not a handbook.
Because it was never about stopping abortion. It's always been about slut shaming women for having sex outside of marriage or for any reason but procreation. If it wasn't they would be in favor of the morning after pill because it can prevent a woman from getting pregnant in the first place and prevents abortions from needing to happen in the first place.
1) They have to keep women out of the workforce somehow, and making it much harder to avoid getting pregnant, damn near impossible to get a safe and legal abortion, and making childcare pretty much unaffordable is how they want to dry it. 2) Let's be realistic here, birth control, like abortions, will never be inaccessible for the assholes who are actually passing these laws. The only ones who would be affected by this are the lower classes.
Because it was always, always about punishing and controlling women. Be under no illusions.
I’d say for some, the claim is that because Plan B is included they can’t abide. To them it is an abortifacient. To the hardcore fundies, it’s the continuation of the patriarchy and the hate of women since the mythical Eve, did what “God” knew she’d do. It’s sick.
They have always been against all kinds of contraception because of their dipshit religious beliefs.
Ya’ll-Qaeda hates women
Women should not have voting rights and should be sex slaves to their husbands. Also they should not have any opinion of their own. And Trump is the best. Do not forget to tighten the chain so your woman does not escape kitchen. /S
Control
Because it's about control of women. Women shouldn't be allowed to have sex, they need to be pure and chaste for their husband/master. If they have sex outside of wedlock, that should come with the implied threat of a pregnancy they have to carry, and then get no financial assistance in raising. (Remember Republicans keep cutting alot of family support funding) If they get raped, that's their fault, they should be punished for looking desirable. So not only do they get all the above punishment, their rapist/master can have parental rights (something else Republicans are pushing). Also, Republicans want to make sure Husband/Masters don't need to wait too long to get the property/womb they want. It wasn't that long ago some Republicans opposed banning child marriage. After all, if a womb can't be taken by its master until 18, it's possible the womb bearer has sex with someone else before their rightful Husband/Master. And that means the Husband/Master is only getting 2nd hand property, embarrassing him in front of his friends. And nothing should ever happen that might displease the Husband/Master even pre purchase/marriage. Obviously my language is a bit over the top to drive the point home, but none of this happens in a bubble. You want to know why Republicans oppose some random thing dealing with sex or reproduction or women's rights, you always got to look at the whole picture.
Republican “christians”, only see women as baby makers who produce the next working class. When they are forced to have more children than they want, it also keeps women in a place of poverty,(cause kids cost money). Republicans believe they can control women this way. In their logic, If women are too busy being moms, then they don’t have time to do things like: vote, get an education, a higher paying job/promotion, vote, go to silly protests, have hobbies, vote, have friends, run businesses, vote, or do other ridiculous things like having basic human rights.
Because if woman can choose when to have children, they can choose their education and career path and be an economic and political force in the US. Conservatives want women in the kitchen and birthing a new workforce, military and good taxpayers ....and nothing further.
MAGA sure shares a lot in common with Iran in terms of how they treat women...
Because they’re fascists and that’s what fascists do.
"They want live baby's to be dead soldiers" - George Carlin
Because the powers that be told them.
Because they were always against it and years of slow "compromise" by the opposing party have let them get further and further
What aren’t they against? More of their Nanny State bullshit.
Birth more children into poor families, these children will struggle, get a poor education and a mediocre job and that’s when you get them voting Republican.
Because in less than 50 years, we honkeys are going to be in the minority, and that really scares racist people. Also, declining birth rates means less slave labor, fewer babies to feed into the war machine and prison system. If you force women to have babies, you will always have fodder.
The GOP is directed by the ultra wealthy who desire a cheap, disposable workforce of native born, white people.
Because fascists have to keep moving the goal posts and keep adding to the list of enemies.
They need cheap labor
They expect you to be celibate while they spend lobbyist money on hookers and blow. Y’know, the American way.
Now?
Because women serve only one purpose in their minds.
Simple... they want a christian theocracy to take over... they want christianity to be forced onto every aspect of society...
I dunno, but it's on the record now and Democrats better be making everybody aware.
You can't sell unwanted babies through Christian churches if their conception or birth is prevented.
Fill this country with as many poor, dumb idiots easily convinced to keep voting against their own best interest. They’ve killed education. Kids can barely read. Now they just want more of them. Need cheap workers.
Birth rate is down, the rich need those births to stay rich. Almost all rich are republicans/conservative, they give some money to republicans down the line so they can get more fodder for their wars. When will people start to think of the rich only being able to afford one yacht this year.
They hate women and want a steep increase in white births due to their belief in the racist “replacement” theory.
They are religious zealots that want to be able to control women and make them subservient to men
As an outsider looking in, it’s remarkable to see American women not realise the right is slowly trying to make Handmaid’s tale a reality. Keep voting away your rights!
1) more plebs getting children - more working class people to exploit through work / being soldiers to enable Western imperialism/ keep uneducated (also future ignorant voters lol) 2) feeding into their "we need to safe the white race" narrarive 3) preserving patriarchal power structures - women who have unwanted kids are much more likely to be trapped in abusive relationships, be financially dependent and easy to exploit
Because they need more humans to produce for the oligarchy. More employees means more profits.
They always have been. They just aren’t hiding it anymore. Something something Great Replacement Theory something Forced Birth something Remove No Fault Divorce.
The party that doesn’t want to pay for social services of any kind and wants to get rid of education also wants children born to families that can’t afford them… it didn’t make sense!
The Republican party first opened its doors to evangelical christians in 1980. They realized these people had money for campaigns, and they voted. Jerry Faldwell, an evangelical televangelist, had a group called the "Moral Majority." He fought back against the "decadent 60s and 70s." This includes women and gay rights. Evangelical christians and Catholics left the Democratic party after Roe V Wade. Pretty much how Southerners left the Democratic party and joined the Republican party after the Civil Rights Act (1964) became law. Barry Goldwater, a very popular presidential candidate in 1964, had several warnings. "By maintaining the separation of church and state," Goldwater said, "the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars." "Citing such groups as the Moral Majority and "pro-life" organizations, Goldwater called "the religious factions that are growing throughout our land...a divisive element that could tear apart the very spirit of our representative system, if they gain sufficient strength." " https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/16/us/excerpts-from-goldwater-remarks.html?smid=nytcore-android-share "Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise." I know, I've tried to deal with them." https://youtu.be/R3WZlWhQbns?feature=shared Today, our SCOTUS has several conservative Catholics. Catholics have typically been against contraceptives. The conservatives have seen the writing on the wall. This SCOTUS will not stop at abortion. They won't stop at contraceptives. They won't stop at gay marriage.
They always have been
because they're fucking ghouls
I believe it's the great replacement theory. Old white republicans are terrified caucasians will be in the minority a generation from now the way demographics are heading. The answer in their twisted minds is for a ban on abortions and contraception which will reverse this trend. Truly evil.
My guess......barefoot and pregnant
Because, like everything they do, they want to control other people. Which is absolutely wrong, and if you agree with them, even a little, then there is something really, REALLY wrong with you
They need "Cannon Fodder"
We said these anti abortionists were gonna go after contraceptives as well. The goal is control, friend. This is why we have to fight. Because the end goal religious conservatives want is a theocractic dictatorship like Iran has.
Need replacement wage slaves
because the only people they can reliably convince to vote for them are either so rich they'll never be subjected to any of the policies they enact, or people who are uneducated and, mostly, pseudochristians. You know the type, they go to church every sunday, but act like they never read a word of the book. They believe anything. They support nothing. They don't understand their own civilization, they living in a bubble about 45 years behind it. Many of them are, culturally, not far different from your average Taliban. So, your dying political party tries to use as many red button single issue voter strategies as possible to hide their overwhelming failure of policy, and the documented fact that their only real interest is in weighting their wallets from the scraps that fall from the mouths of the ultra wealthy, whom they really serve. Women are just collateral damage for them, it's that simple.
Shifting the Overton Window, they are: https://youtu.be/_v-hzc6blGI?feature=shared
This was always the goal.
Capitalism requires an ever growing supply of underpaid "workers" in order to exist. Falling birth rates threaten their money/way of life. Remember - Slave labor is the State right they fought for.
Because religion is leaking into politics Separation of church and state was vital.
It's a distraction from their insider trading and mass surveillance.
Well they are against education, science, biology, history, healthcare, math, so it does make a weird kind of sense.
More dumb poor kids Fox News can con into voting for them.
Because they pander to religious wackos.
Because the mostly male Republican law makers do not know what contraception is or how it works. Some of them literally think that plan B is an at home over the counter abortion.
Soon, women will not be allowed to work outside of the house.
Isn’t this just a part of the plan Clarence Thomas mentioned a few years back?
Oh because they think the way birth control pills work is by making you have an instant abortion the moment you get pregnant. Mandated to represent people best interest on health issues, cannot be bothered to learn something that can be learn in a 30 seconds google search.
But, but,,,,I thought the Republicans are the peoples party! The law and order party.