Samuel Perry noted about the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection in Washington, D.C. on January 6, The Capitol siege recalls past acts of Christian nationalist violence (excerpt): [The] blending of Christian imagery with Trump flags put Christian nationalism, the often militarized fusing of Christianity and American white identity, on display during one of America’s darkest days. As someone … Read more
Big kudos to New York Times columnist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz for his revealing report on the explosion in interest in black market abortion procedures, based on internet searches, in the aftermath of a plethora of restrictions passed by states often under the (ironic) guise of “safety”.
Crossposted from DemocraticDiva.com
Arizona Republic columnist EJ Montini finds the way that some people engage in the ongoing debate over the fair use of the female breeding chattel to be unseemly.
What?
No placards? No shouting? No exchange of insults and accusations?
Actually, no. Just people with different opinion having their say and responding to others in a way that suggests that they actually listened to the other side.
It began when a long-time anti-abortion advocate I hear from now and then wrote to me with this question:
“Was throwing away a baby worse than abortion?”
She was talking about the case of Samantha Perez, who was 16 years old when she gave birth to a baby girl in her family’s bathroom then dropped the newborn out a window into an outdoor storage room, where the injured infant was found by sheriff’s deputies. (The child is fine now, according to authorities.) Perez had hidden her pregnancy from her parents.
This week she was sentenced to five years in prison and lifetime probation.
“Do you agree with her getting prison time?” the woman asked me.
Yes.
“And yet if she’d had an abortion nothing would have happened to her, how is that right?”