A huge Democratic win in a GOP-leaning district in deeply red Alabama shines a spotlight on reproductive rights and provides a national roadmap for victory.
Everyone should be clear-eyed that contraception is next on the chopping block. Despite the actual scientific data, these religious fundamentalists believe contraception prevents fertilized eggs from implanting in a woman's uterus, thus....infanticide! Clarence Thomas has said as much and I noticed that no one seemed to notice what he said. Everyone needs to WAKE UP. Contraception is the next agenda item for these religious wackos and they are not done with us yet. GAH!!!
Thank you Jay for calling attention to Alabama’s District 10 special election! As a woman in Alabama, I was watching this race closely. The polls said they were neck and neck. Lands 25 point win proves polls are often wrong these days.
I told my father a year ago that this was be an election won on women’s rights. He laughed at me. He said politicians would never go there. Well, Lands did, and she won by a landslide. Women are paying attention. Our rights are being stripped away day by day from the likes of Tom Parker up to SCOTUS.
I am a pharmacist who suffered a miscarriage and took mifepristone to avoid surgery that would have been a much longer recovery. I rely on contraceptive pills, not just for birth control, but to allow me to live my life daily without pain. Why does these mostly old, white men get to persecute and prosecute me for my very personal healthcare decisions? IVF was even a bridge too far for even conservative Christian women in Alabama.
Katie Britt may like her place in the kitchen, but I refuse to let any man put me there. What were the GOP thinking? I am at a loss.
Thank you Marilyn Lands for fighting to keep me out the kitchen barefoot and pregnant! Thank you to the voters of District 10 who showed the GOP women continue to deserve equality the inalienable rights of men. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️
Wow, thanks for this fantastic news. I doubt I'm alone in saying I had no idea about this.
I hope Democrats put a laser focus on, not just the attempts by red legislatures to ban abortions, but on the many court cases filtering through the federal system, including the one on mifepristone that SCOTUS looked at skeptically yesterday. I am pretty sure there are others, or will be soon.
Casual voters need to understand that the presidency is also important because of all the judges that could get installed by the cult of hate if it somehow won the presidency. If that awareness had been made more clear, maybe Hillary would never have lost, and we'd be living in a different world today.
EDIT: Technically, in my mind, Hillary didn't lose, but that's another topic.
I hope the GOP keeps underestimating the anger of this country's women over Dobbs and all the follow-on nonsense the republicans keep pushing. Just yesterday, we heard oral arguments at the Supreme Court over the continued availability of mifepristone, which has been safely used by millions of women to have their abortions at home instead of the hospital.
The threat of treating frozen embryos as persons, thus eliminating IVF entirely; the on-going attacks on contraception, the U.S. House toying with fetal personhood legislation, and the virtual elimination of abortion availability in some states have made American women of all political stripes furious.
Women are willing to vote for their rights. The GOP has been warned.
Great news and from Alabama no less. I had an abortion back in the day because young, still in college, birth control failure and had already dumped the boyfriend when I found out. No abortion pills then so I had to go to the hospital. I have two family members who have used IVF successfully. Those that would deny us these medical procedures either have no uterus or are religious nuts who use their bible as a cudgel.
Yay! I wrote postcards to get out the vote as I believe it has an effect. I have been trying to find out how many eligible voters are in the district and finding it difficult. Looking at the number of total voters (less than 6K) it reinforces my view that alerting folks to an upcoming (especially a special) election is very important.
Let's not forget that for all their evangelism and fundamentalism, there are probably hordes of Alabama women who get those "three-month visits to Auntie Flo" who return sullen and quiet, while the former boyfriend is packed off to join the Marine Corps. Somebody here on Substack told me that the Bible Belt states lead the nation in downloading internet pornography, including gay pornography. What a surprise....
I really appreciate your crusade on polls. I turn the TV off anytime they start talking horserace, since I know they're coming at the discussion based on polls that invariably over-favor republicans by 6-8 points, which in turn leads to serious hand-wringing and worried looks and prophecies of doom. I can't take it, because I know they don't know what they're talking about.
I live in the very blue area of northern Virginia. I have been quaking in my boots at the power extremists have managed to wrangle and at the legislation they are producing to attack our freedoms. There definitely have been increasing instances where reproductive rights especially have started to matter at the ballot box and show results... but now I can definitely see that the freedoms that matter so much to me... are also very important to folks in very much more conservative regions. This is a vast relief.
Everyone should be clear-eyed that contraception is next on the chopping block. Despite the actual scientific data, these religious fundamentalists believe contraception prevents fertilized eggs from implanting in a woman's uterus, thus....infanticide! Clarence Thomas has said as much and I noticed that no one seemed to notice what he said. Everyone needs to WAKE UP. Contraception is the next agenda item for these religious wackos and they are not done with us yet. GAH!!!
Thank you Jay for calling attention to Alabama’s District 10 special election! As a woman in Alabama, I was watching this race closely. The polls said they were neck and neck. Lands 25 point win proves polls are often wrong these days.
I told my father a year ago that this was be an election won on women’s rights. He laughed at me. He said politicians would never go there. Well, Lands did, and she won by a landslide. Women are paying attention. Our rights are being stripped away day by day from the likes of Tom Parker up to SCOTUS.
I am a pharmacist who suffered a miscarriage and took mifepristone to avoid surgery that would have been a much longer recovery. I rely on contraceptive pills, not just for birth control, but to allow me to live my life daily without pain. Why does these mostly old, white men get to persecute and prosecute me for my very personal healthcare decisions? IVF was even a bridge too far for even conservative Christian women in Alabama.
Katie Britt may like her place in the kitchen, but I refuse to let any man put me there. What were the GOP thinking? I am at a loss.
Thank you Marilyn Lands for fighting to keep me out the kitchen barefoot and pregnant! Thank you to the voters of District 10 who showed the GOP women continue to deserve equality the inalienable rights of men. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️
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Wow, thanks for this fantastic news. I doubt I'm alone in saying I had no idea about this.
I hope Democrats put a laser focus on, not just the attempts by red legislatures to ban abortions, but on the many court cases filtering through the federal system, including the one on mifepristone that SCOTUS looked at skeptically yesterday. I am pretty sure there are others, or will be soon.
Casual voters need to understand that the presidency is also important because of all the judges that could get installed by the cult of hate if it somehow won the presidency. If that awareness had been made more clear, maybe Hillary would never have lost, and we'd be living in a different world today.
EDIT: Technically, in my mind, Hillary didn't lose, but that's another topic.
I hope the GOP keeps underestimating the anger of this country's women over Dobbs and all the follow-on nonsense the republicans keep pushing. Just yesterday, we heard oral arguments at the Supreme Court over the continued availability of mifepristone, which has been safely used by millions of women to have their abortions at home instead of the hospital.
The threat of treating frozen embryos as persons, thus eliminating IVF entirely; the on-going attacks on contraception, the U.S. House toying with fetal personhood legislation, and the virtual elimination of abortion availability in some states have made American women of all political stripes furious.
Women are willing to vote for their rights. The GOP has been warned.
Yessssss!!!! I see a blue tsunami heading our way! #voteblue #bidenharris
Great news and from Alabama no less. I had an abortion back in the day because young, still in college, birth control failure and had already dumped the boyfriend when I found out. No abortion pills then so I had to go to the hospital. I have two family members who have used IVF successfully. Those that would deny us these medical procedures either have no uterus or are religious nuts who use their bible as a cudgel.
I have chills. I guess SCOTUS forgot the power of women when they overruled Roe v. Wade. We are women hear us roar!!!
Yay! I wrote postcards to get out the vote as I believe it has an effect. I have been trying to find out how many eligible voters are in the district and finding it difficult. Looking at the number of total voters (less than 6K) it reinforces my view that alerting folks to an upcoming (especially a special) election is very important.
Please VOTE!
I can always count on you, Jay, to brighten my day. Great results. Now on to the same in November or as we say “Roevember”!!
Let's not forget that for all their evangelism and fundamentalism, there are probably hordes of Alabama women who get those "three-month visits to Auntie Flo" who return sullen and quiet, while the former boyfriend is packed off to join the Marine Corps. Somebody here on Substack told me that the Bible Belt states lead the nation in downloading internet pornography, including gay pornography. What a surprise....
I really appreciate your crusade on polls. I turn the TV off anytime they start talking horserace, since I know they're coming at the discussion based on polls that invariably over-favor republicans by 6-8 points, which in turn leads to serious hand-wringing and worried looks and prophecies of doom. I can't take it, because I know they don't know what they're talking about.
I live in the very blue area of northern Virginia. I have been quaking in my boots at the power extremists have managed to wrangle and at the legislation they are producing to attack our freedoms. There definitely have been increasing instances where reproductive rights especially have started to matter at the ballot box and show results... but now I can definitely see that the freedoms that matter so much to me... are also very important to folks in very much more conservative regions. This is a vast relief.
I love the kind of news that brings a breath of fresh air and rays of hope!
Too early to celebrate, of course, but November 2024 could be a frikkin' blowout!
This is why I don’t get my panties in a wad when polls predict Trump over Biden.