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[@RothePhoenix]

Uninformed or non medical personnel should not make laws about medical issues. Keep your laws off our bodies.

[@RevShifty]

There is no god damned universe where a politician, a nosy neighbor, or their religious beliefs should *ever* come between anyone and their healthcare. It's absolutely unacceptable, at every conceivable level.

[@johnsteiner3417]

The weakness of Roe was basing it on privacy. They should've based it on self-autonomy. In all other instances, a patient has the last decision on their treatment. Reproductive rights should fall under the *identical* category.

[@RevShifty]

There is no universe where a politician, a nosy neighbor, or their religious beliefs should *ever* come between anyone and their health care. It's absolutely unacceptable, at every conceivable level.

[@UnconventionalReasoning]

Former Gov Northam got more grief on the topic than Gov Youngkin. And Northam is an MD.

[@UnconventionalReasoning]

@@johnsteiner3417 They did what they could with Roe. It is a mistake to assume that another approach would have succeeded.

[@niclewis9610]

Take them seriously and literally. Ignoring their authoritarian rhetoric is living in an alternate reality. Believe them when they say Dictator.

[@dennisyoung4631]

I’ve *been* taking them seriously for many years.

[@niclewis9610]

@@dennisyoung4631 👏🏻I grew up Republican. Voted Independent but will never vote Republican again until Trump and the hateful cult is gone. There has to be at least two functioning Party's.

[@danieldickson8591]

@@niclewis9610 I believe the Republican Party is self-destructing as an institution; but another legitimately conservative party will arise to replace it, just as the GOP supplanted the Whigs.

[@MrHaighahatta]

Dictator, but "only for a day"...EVERY day!

[@texasca9753]

I believe them.

[@Mtnsunshine]

Contraception?!?!?! Vote every, single, republican OUT of office! Out, Out, Out…..

[@lexslate2476]

they're also against voting.

[@niclewis9610]

They want to monitor women's cycles, look what they've done to IVF and yes they want to restrict voting. Voting Blue down ballot.

[@RevShifty]

@@lexslate2476 They've already begun attacking voting in several states. Because they know damned well that if they don't cheat, they can't win.

[@PMickeyDee]

You can't be just figuring this out, right?

[@PMickeyDee]

@@ChA0s_AgeNt I feel like I got a hit of dyslexia trying to read that one

[@CGCareerCentral]

The way they treat humans once they're born dispels any notion that this is a "morality" issue.

[@dynamicworlds1]

It's not even a fetus issue as they constantly oppose things that would _actually_ lower abortion rates. "They're not pro-life, they're anti-woman" -George Carlin

[@RevShifty]

​@@dynamicworlds1It's purely about control. They don't care about actually lowering rates of pregnancy, of making it easier for women and couples to have children, about effective medicine, or even about maternal mortality rates. Not one single bit. It has always just been about control, at every step. And now that they have that inch, they're absolutely going to try to turn it into a mile.

[@cjenkins6587]

​@@RevShiftyNot a mile, but ten miles. They're trying to end voting rights, reproductive rights, weakening child labor laws, Abbott just pardoned a man who killed a BLM protestor-that killer is now emboldened to kill anybody he disagrees with, and Trump promising oil executives to destroy regulations if they give him $1,000,000,000.

[@user-fi6he2ud3h]

@@RevShifty It’s also about keeping poor people poor.

[@RevShifty]

@@user-fi6he2ud3h Absolutely. That just applies especially to women, and even then most especially to women of color (those who benefitted from discounted female health care the most by the numbers).

[@EricLing64]

Strange that the people that scream FREEDOM all the time really don't like it.

[@toughenupfluffy7294]

Oh, they like it alright, but only for themselves.

[@CantankerousDave]

Their freedom to take away that of others.

[@mortimersnerdishere]

They embrace FREEDUMB!!

[@timphelan2873]

They love freedom... for THEM... NOT for you. Same attitude these people have had since the beginning of this nation. The French had a great solution for these people when they got too loud with their elitism.

[@user-ly6pl5ot9m]

Trumpism = putinism = satanism

[@SaberToothBicycle]

Republicans: 'Keep the government out of our boardrooms!' The rest of us: 'Keep the government out of our bedrooms!'

[@markfeland2285]

🎯👍👏👏

[@SynchroScore]

And even then, they want the government to invade the boardrooms, to criminalize ESG guidelines, carbon-reduction/green energy goals, or disinvestment in fossil fuels or firearms manufacturers.

[@pauldavis3791]

Aren't these the same people who were so upset about being asked to wear a surgical mask during the pandemic?

[@bluelotus3750]

Yup

[@pshaw8406]

Sure, they don't want the government controlling their lives.

[@lisafish1449]

Yeah, but that's *their* right to bodily autonomy.

[@rebeccapresti9650]

And NC is trying to pass a law that would make it illegal to wear one in public, even if you're immunocomprimised!

[@lisafish1449]

@@rebeccapresti9650 that's just dumb

[@jaynye4991]

Anything that helps control women is republican policy.

[@alphabravo8703]

yup

[@jaynye4991]

republicants tried to control women and I didn't say anything because I wasn't a woman..... then they came for me.

[@markbernier8434]

It's not just women. just watch

[@okkietrooy6841]

Prohibition of birth control, also controls men. No sexual pleasure anymore unless you want to procreate.

[@olderthandirt7061]

I don't think Republicans will be satisfied until they pass laws to make women property.

[@PaulG.x]

1692: "They are not trying to control women , they are just going after witches."

[@CricketsBay]

^^^ This should be the pinned comment.

[@snicksabea]

Witches were the women who kept things clean. Hence why the broom stick was affiliated with witches. They swept.

[@bjornstahle4652]

@@CricketsBay agreed.

[@thomthom6268]

I had not even thought of the association, but it makes sense, especially in a patriarchal sense. Women helping women. We can't have that! /s But I've never looked into witchcraft from a historic perspective. Just from a "Charmed" perspective. Vote. 💙💙💙

[@kentesdall308]

Pretty bonfires soon, everyone loves a bonfire.

[@ryansackett6521]

I had a girlfriend that used contraceptives to help with her period. It was so heavy and so painful, these were the only things that helped. I’m so sorry that these rich white men know best. So sorry ladies!

[@peaceout6285]

Correction: These rich white men THINK they know best. They, in fact, don't know a damm thing!

[@RevShifty]

My first real girlfriend growing up spent years suffering crippling pain from her periods. It wasn't until she went on birth control that they finally became both more regular and much less painful. This is why letting politicians dictate medicine is *always* wrong. These politicians know how to pander to their idiot base, and absolutely nothing more.

[@RevShifty]

My first serious girlfriend growing up used to suffer from crippling and erratic periods. For years. It wasn't until she eventually went on birth control that they became more regular and much less painful. There is no universe where a politician should *ever* come between anyone and their health care. It's absolutely unacceptable. These people know how to pander to their idiot base, and absolutely nothing more.

[@alphabravo8703]

A lot of people (us men) aren't aware of this.

[@piros44]

Republicans don’t care how much women suffer in fact they want us to suffer because they hate us.

[@Opus313]

Vote Blue 💙 to protect reproductive rights!

[@okkietrooy6841]

Make the slogan: Protect female health.

[@goodun2974]

​@@okkietrooy6841 , "Vote Blue ---- Only YOU Can Prevent tRumpster Fires 🔥!" Smokey Bear 🐻

[@MBMCincy63]

No law should be allowed to tell me, I can't end a pregnancy if I can not carry it to term.

[@jbos5107]

Or don't want to carry it to term. If anyone thinks the republicans are not already thinking about how much they can sell "surplus" babies for, then they haven't been paying attention.

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

hell this is even worse this could make condoms and birth control illegal too

[@cjenkins6587]

​@@jacksmith-vs4ctThe GOP wants to ban Plan B, condoms, etc. They want women out of the workplace and citizens uneducated so they can be ruled.They refuse to understand women need to work and reproductive rights to support themselves and their families.

[@amethystrocks6433]

Or if you choose not to!

[@joannaphillips897]

Exactly

[@sagansturtleneck3806]

Some, like Mike Johnson, even have problems with no-fault divorce. Truly frightening.

[@breakingbadheisenberg9703]

And it's up next on their agenda .

[@madshorn5826]

Be fair: Guys like him can only pretend to be agreeable for very short periods of time. How else should ghouls reproduce and keep company? /s

[@patriciagazey4693]

Women are property to them

[@user-fi6he2ud3h]

@@patriciagazey4693 It’s what their bible tells them, after all.

[@Aphrael76]

That is absolutely terrifying you have any idea how many women suffered in abusive marriages prior to no-fault divorces. Back then spousal abuse wasn't sufficient grounds to get a divorce and even if by chance you were granted one, chances were the husband would be awarded child custody and no division of assets or alimony payments.

[@nickc9070]

Conservatism contradicts human evolution

[@RevShifty]

It is *always* inherently an intellectual and moral failure. Full stop.

[@ChA0s_AgeNt]

Wingers be werkin' themselves inside-oot, mane...

[@nickc9070]

@@RevShifty Yes. Collaboration and empathy are huge evolutionary advantages of humans. Conservatism disregards both

[@RevShifty]

@@nickc9070 It actively portrays both as weaknesses. And then the circular logic sideshow starts as soon as they start trying to tell you how that's totally not what they're really, actually, truthfully doing. Then rinse and repeat for decades, always getting dumber arguments with each new generation. It's disgusting, and I'm so damned tired of it all already.

[@herchelleonwood7463]

conservatism was invented to justify greed & selfishness .

[@dynamicworlds1]

They saw the Handmaid's Tale and decided it was a goal.

[@AdamBladeTaylor]

They saw it and thought it was a good start.

[@dennisyoung4631]

No - worse than that. Much worse.

[@ByronRTroy]

Right, cause they wouldn't have actually read it.

[@RevShifty]

Just like they saw the Satanic Panic and used that as an instruction manual.

[@danteattenborrough4686]

MAGA = Make America Gilead Already

[@rslagle2689]

Thankfully, Virginia governors can only serve 4 years. I live in Virginia and will be happy when he's gone!!

[@toughenupfluffy7294]

You are presently allowed to start a petition for recall. Until they decide to take that right away.

[@terryhenderson424]

There was a time not too long ago that all but one intercourse position and all but specified forms of all other sexual acts were illegal in most states. I do believe we are returning to our 1950's values which we've been promised since the 1980's.

[@StarlordStavanger]

Glen Youngkin?

[@TheViolalove]

I wish we had this in Texas! Our governors have unlimited terms. I’m sure if we get a Dem governor again, the R’s will put a limit.

[@patrickporter1864]

Dictators once in office even for a day do not tend to go away.

[@poisonsumc7426]

... have yet to hear how they're banning viagra due to religious beliefs...

[@m.jasondoty9062]

Well, that's because they believe it makes those pricks stand a little firmer.

[@RevShifty]

That won't ever happen. And we all know exactly why.

[@sharibigay4712]

And they won't cause that would actually affect all those old men making medical decisions oops moral laws.

[@patrickjordan2233]

​@@RevShifty 🤔🤔 "it wouldn't be because the male side of that demographic refused to get a jab, and have some ED after their covid carousel.. would it?.." 😂🤣🤔

[@RevShifty]

@@patrickjordan2233 Whatever the cause, it's apparently more important to make sure grampa and all his golf buddies can still get hard than it is to treat women like actual human beings. It's disgusting. I hate this sideshow so much.

[@FrankBenlin]

It's like they don't know that women are the majority.

[@RevShifty]

If they understood how objective reality worked at all, then they wouldn't be Republicans in the first place.

[@kevinp7056]

They do know women are the majority.. that's why they want them home, bare foot, and under the control of their men

[@RevShifty]

If they understood objective reality are all, then they wouldn't be Republicans in the first place.

[@davidmesa3970]

Exactly

[@PMickeyDee]

It's like minority rule is a feature, not a bug

[@michaelhanson3509]

“When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a Flag and carrying a Cross.” ~Sinclair Lewis. Make no mistake, this is where we are at.

[@patwo9719]

I am 73 years old and I am frightened for my daughter and granddaughter's futures. If you don't stop the GQP now you are hurting women in the future.

[@jimwing.2178]

If WE don't stop the GQP now then WE are hurting EVERYBODY in the future.

[@hedymills1372]

Ladies.. they will be coming after our right to vote next! Some are already saying it out loud! Vote blue, for our daughters and granddaughters!

[@esthervonepp8908]

How incredibly sad and sadistic...oh my word people ..get out and vote these horrid people out forever..hugs from Canada where we women have almost every right that a man has except equal pay for equal work and that ,thankfully is beginning to change

[@catherinegallagher7632]

Women's rights in Canada are not thar secure either. If Poilievre and the Conservatives get into government, you will soon see the erosion of women's rights. Look what they are doing to healthcare in Alberta and Ontario

[@chrisforsyth8323]

Also from Canada, and I can only add that my Union Sisters make what I make.

[@chong2389]

That could change if PP is elected.

[@TheJasonBorn]

It isn't about what you say, it's is about what you do. The Governor of Virginia decided to not put into law a basic human medical right. A thing that is both wise and needed, he decided it wasn't important enough to enshrine in law. The governor of Virginia does not support basic human reproductive rights. Support Georgia (the country). Vote Democracy. Vote Ukraine. Vote Biden. Vote Blue.

[@davidmesa3970]

👍💙💙

[@UnconventionalReasoning]

Clarence Thomas told us this was the intent in his concurring opinion with the Dobbs case.

[@jodyschlamb1863]

I might actually hate Clarence Thomas more than Trump. I have NEVER felt such loathing in my life as I do for these guys. I don't like the feelings they bring out in me. I usually don't use the word HATE in regard to a human being.

[@UnconventionalReasoning]

@@jodyschlamb1863 💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@sherry6919]

Thank you Beau for explaining it to everyone who still thinks it’s not about reproductive rights and let’s even go one further, it IS about WOMEN’S reproductive rights!

[@Turai12]

Not solely women's but it's true that those affected the worst and the majority of those hurt are women.

[@amethystrocks6433]

It's about all of women's rights!

[@williamgraham6917]

Wait till they tell you it applies to the use of condoms, and vasectomies. Dude they are going to after our choice as well, yes focused on women, but this effort will apply to men as well. Especially those men that are not part of “our betters”. You know they and their female family members and mistresses will do just fine regardless of the law. Keep them uneducated, taxed, poor, sick and hungry! Is their rally cry!

[@amyturpen4726]

Condoms are also on their hit list of contraceptives. This is an all out war to make sex illegal outside of a straight, monogamous marriage.

[@jimwing.2178]

Stop it with the WOMEN's rights whining. It's about HUMAN rights. Part of what the Christofascists are trying to achieve is that nobody enjoys sex, including men.

[@TexasCat99]

It was never about the babies. Control of women is what it was always about. Many of them want women to be dependent on guys.

[@olderthandirt7061]

Your second sentence doesn't go far enough. In truth, they want women to be the property of guys.

[@Sableagle]

"The Purpose and Value of Women in the Bible" 11 months ago, Aron Ra. _That_ is what they want.

[@stuartbagedonow9770]

@@Sableagle I’d add if you dig a little deeper the plan is to keep the public uneducated and religious, what better way to stay n charge.

[@gggongaga2949]

May God help them, if they r forced to depend on any man like my deadbeat 1st husband! 😂😂😠

[@OhHollyO]

I live in Virginia. I called the governor asking him not to veto this legislation. And he vetoed it. I’m livid!

[@midwestengineer3235]

Doesn't it feel great your representative willingly ignores their constituents? Just saying hi from blood red Iowa.

[@OhHollyO]

A wise man once said the Republicans want to rule you, not represent you. This is another clear example of that.

[@donxavier10]

Odd stance for the party of "My body, my choice." Guess what Republicans should really say is "Your body, my choice."

[@dennisyoung4631]

They are going after pretty much everything, not merely “reproductive rights.”

[@ByronRTroy]

Indeed.

[@debrajohnson9489]

Yep. They are also discussing women's right to vote. Dems have been too complacent in always "taking the high road". This is the result of that BS! It's time to fight fire with fire. Those "back burns" are used for a reason.

[@deafengineer]

Keep in mind: "Contraceptives" includes condoms, inserts, sponges, spermicides, and even "Manuevers" (pulling out) and "scheduling" (tracking your cycle). If it ever becomes a law that "contraception is illegal", that means even carrying a tampon (cause it's your time of the month) can be used for "reasonable suspicion" for more illegal searches. Or even carrying a condom for the same reason. It's not JUST women's rights, and it's not just abortion, it's incredibly invasive law.

[@RevShifty]

They've already tried collecting data from period tracking apps at least once. This is 100% about controlling women, and absolutely nothing else

[@RevShifty]

They've already tried collecting data from period tracking apps at least once. It is 100% about controlling women, no matter how they try to dress it all up.

[@sapphireriddles6692]

When roe first went down, very shortly after it hit the news in mo (possibly not for the first time) that the state govt had looked at info on women's cycles (i think it was medical records from planned parenthood, which they are currently working to cut off from medicaid). Women were advised to delete period tracking apps. Even before roe was struck down, there were some cases across the nation where miscarriagew were investigated (and i Think charged) as illegal abortions. I recall one where it was because the pregnant woman lost her child after being shot but as it was determined she started the fight she was held responsible for the death of an unborn child. So, women were advised not to keep data on their periods anywhere that could be accessed cause heaven forbid some news-stunt hungry lawmaker decide your early period was Actually maybe a secret abortion.

[@RevShifty]

@@sapphireriddles6692 Texas collected a metric ton of the same kind of data from across the state a few years back. And then they confiscated a list of everyone across the state who changed their listed gender on their license. These people are actively attacking women and trans folks now, but there's zero chance they just suddenly decide they don't need even more control. That has never happened once in all of history. That's why *everyone* needs to be pissed about this, and they need to make sure the people in authority absolutely know how angry they all are.

[@jimwing.2178]

@@RevShifty It's not 100% about controlling women. It's 100% about controlling everybody. They do not want men or women to enjoy sex.

[@thetalkingbear]

KC Chiefs kicker pretty much spilled the beans on the religious rights stance on contraception and women in a graduation speech. Seriously his speech was chilling. It was delivered with such arrogant confidence.

[@jimwing.2178]

There are a LOT of Catholics in his age group that are arrogant about their religious beliefs.

[@jefferson808]

Yeah that was difficult to watch. There were some boos from the crowd; but the applause he got at the end made me feel physically ill.

[@AuntieMamies]

This is why my husband got snipped this year. If Trump wins next year I have no idea what women's rights is gonna look like next year

[@toughenupfluffy7294]

All of us voters with a conscience-and even those without one-need to make absolutely certain that never happens. Vote BLUE, for me AND you! 🌊🌊🌊

[@davidmesa3970]

Scarry isn't it.

[@Mhantrax]

Snipped the wrong man... 😂

[@ariaflame-au]

@@Mhantrax She doesn't plan to sleep with the other dudes.

[@RevShifty]

I've debated getting a vasectomy myself for years. I never really wanted children, and I don't even like kids all that much. The procedure itself doesn't bother me, but for some reason the idea of physically committing to something for the rest of my life scares the hell out of me. But this current political trainwreck just might make that decision much easier all of a sudden.

[@joanfregapane8683]

I absolutely cannot fathom how it’s legal for states to interfere with accepted, established and safe healthcare. Whether it’s contraception, or D&C’s after miscarriages, or age appropriate gender affirming care, or IVF, OR abortion.

[@hacksawbob3310]

This proposed law was a brilliant move to show the public exactly what the Republicans are up to.

[@ansmith827]

Where are the AMA, medical institutions, medical school officials, teachers, staff, etc AND their lawyers? Politicians are practicing medicine without a license.

[@shielanunn3484]

Yes where ARE the voices of our Medical professionals

[@jefferson808]

Too busy being underpaid to keep a crumbling society educated and semi healthy, that’s where.

[@benevolencia4203]

It’s never been about “children” it’s about sex, control, and religious proclivities.

[@loricusenza4887]

We need a prosecutor who is willing to charge these lawmaker with practicing medicine without a license, because that is what they are doing and it’s illegal!

[@suzannepottsshorts]

AMEN!!!!!

[@brendajohnson3173]

Our state Democratic legislators agree with your point, Beau. "“By vetoing our legislation, Governor Youngkin is now on the record agreeing with the extremists in his party - including Donald Trump - who conflate contraception with abortion,” state Sen. Ghazala F. Hashmi (D-Chesterfield) and Del. Marcia S. “Cia” Price (D-Newport News) said in a written statement about a pair of identical bills they sponsored that would have put a right to obtain and use contraception into Virginia law. He wanted the bills to simply say people have access to contraception under federal law, providing no protection by the state. He went all bipartisan to avoid a budget crisis but after he signed that legislation he signed 8 and torpedoed the rest. That brings his total vetoes this year to 201. Among others he gave a thumbs down to measures that would have banned guns from psychiatric hospitals, closed tax loopholes for confederate "heritage" groups, and remind parents to store weapons out of children's reach. We gotta get rid of this guy.

[@RevShifty]

Jesus. That man is some dedicated garbage.

[@maryreeves357]

Of course he can't run again next year but we need to discourage running for anything! The Senate must stay Democratic!

[@gilesluver]

Youngkin had the nerve to say that "these rights were already protected by the Supreme Court. " Like that can't disappear with the stroke of Alito's pen!

[@serendipityshopnyc]

I hope the voters of Virginia won't be hornswoggled by Youngkin's sweater vests again in 2025. This dude's not a moderate soccer dad. He's a right-wing extremist in sheep's clothing. VOTE. HIM. OUT!

[@jarethgriethe4439]

Fortunately even if he is popular with the state GOP and GOP leaning constituency (He's for some reason got over a 50% approval rating in the state) he can't be voted back in in 2025. There's no voting him out, he's automatically out for the next race.

[@obviousalias9506]

Similar to the current GOP House Speaker: a wolf pretending to be a lamb.

[@bonniebrush94]

He can't run consecutively. in some ways his current underlings are as bad, if not worse.

[@marcusc6825]

Now add in the "no divorce" laws they are skimming through to see how it floats and we have full blown women are 2nd class citizens stuff.

[@taniabaildon9696]

You can add child marriage to that list as well.

[@harryseaword]

Birth control should be free and easily accessible to ALL. If someone can't afford it, they certainly can't afford a baby.

[@pilarvaile8865]

Reproductive rights have proved to be inseparable from "abortion" rights - as all thinking humans knew at the outset.

[@dynamicworlds1]

Keep calling a spade a spade, Beau.

[@j.n.sloane]

Thank you for making this clear to people who didn't understand. And, in effect, it goes further than that. It says that families don't have the right to decide how large they get. Women aren't the only ones who will be controlled by this. The poor will not be able to feed all the children they produce and will be forced to take ANY job, multiple jobs, in order to not watch their children starve. A starving population is much easier to control. THAT is the end game. Subdue the populace to let the overlords rule.

[@kyReeElainProhm]

“You little lady, need to obey. Go back to the kitchen!” 🤨 umm. Isn’t that where the knives are kept? 😳

[@jefferson808]

….and the fire..

[@dont6441]

It amazes me how uninformed the average GOP voter is. All they hear is a sound bite or two and think that is all they need to know about an issue. GOP leadership is counting on their base not digging any deeper.

[@RevShifty]

They're all basically just half trained circus seals. They don't really know why they do what they do, but they damn sure know how to clap and honk when the trainer gives the appropriate signal.

[@guidosarducci209]

Here's how it is about abortion: The bill would probably have reduced the need for abortion by preventing pregnancy before it happens. So the veto actually increases demand for abortion. So there will be more abortions than there would have been if he had not vetoed it. So vetoing this bill was a pro-abortion action.

[@RevShifty]

It's also still an anti female healthcare bill. A lot of men seem to think birth control is just about preventing pregnancy. I know countless women who use it to help control erratic or extremely painful periods, and I'm sure plenty of other folks could say the same. This actively harms every woman doing that in VA. It's absolutely disgusting, no matter how you slice it.

[@KristineWahl-ft9qj]

Or - it's a forced pregnancy/birth, and adoption for profit bill. There's a shortage of supply for domestic adoptions, remember. So heartwarming /s

[@amyturpen4726]

It is also a move towards forced straight monogamous marriage, making sex to dangerous & illegal outside those confines.

[@kindlepartica3010]

It's not a good faith argument. Their goal is to control women and force births

[@guidosarducci209]

@@amyturpen4726 there is that too. In a sense I was ridiculing the governor by saying he was pro-abortion. My actual opinion is that the the economic goal is a steady increase in population. That's borne out by the fact that recently the birth rate in the United States has dropped below the replacement rate and stayed there consistently for years. That's why they are also harnessing men's economic resources. The whole thing is a concerted plan to increase the population of consumers to drive the economy. That's why even when abortion was considered a constitutional right, they were constantly interfering with anything that would reduce the number of babies born. And of course, that's why Roe vs. Wade was overturned, and why they are not stopping at abortion, and have been interfering with birth control, and why they've targeted planned Parenthood clinics, even ones that don't provide abortion. That's also the reason that men were never given reproductive rights and the myth was perpetuated that men just walk away all the time. In reality they might walk away sometimes but then the state will pursue them for child support even if the mother doesn't, if she applies for Medicaid or welfare for the child. There were even some cases where astonishingly men who were determined genetically not to be the father where nonetheless court ordered to continue child support payments. All this only makes sense in one context. We are all being harnessed as reproduction machines, women and men. We are trained that this is about the subjugation of women, so that instead of identifying the real enemy we fight amongst ourselves. Divide and conquer. It's not some wild conspiracy theory. The economy and our economic system is driven by population growth. Lately more and more countries have had what they've been calling "demographic crises." Italy is one of the more recent ones, and you can hear politicians starting to let the facade drop and try to tell people to have more children. I think the single place where it's most obvious has to be Russia, although I'm not sure it might be China. We need to band together as a population and demand that we all have reproductive rights because right now, the ones who have reproductive rights are the rich. I'm 61 so I have no horse in that race. I just care about what's right, and I care about my children. And without being overly patriotic, I do care about my country, and the people in it. And reproductive rights are not a zero-sum game. Giving them to men doesn't take them away from women. There is no way in which women would be forced to become parents just because men were not. That doesn't even make sense. When it's presented that way you know you're being manipulated.

[@user-ce7st1ki1n]

Thank you for clarifying for those that don’t/won’t understand the whole intent.

[@waynewright5023]

Watch what he does--ignore what he says. He *doesn't* "support reproductive rights", as a law or policy, and this is in pursuit of nothing more than control. Again--watch what he does--ignore what he says..

[@Arulane]

It has never been about just abortion. It has always been about control. I remember the first time we went through all this but this time, they are crazier.

[@citrinedragonfly]

Don't give Youngkin any credit. He doesn't deserve it. He said that, in all likelihood, to try and appease and seem reasonable. He is not reasonable.

[@joannaphillips897]

No law should allow strangers to get my PHI, get in between me and my Dr, nor make decisions about what I can and can’t do with my body.

[@comfortablynumb9342]

I'll be voting in VA. Blue.

[@davidmesa3970]

👍💙💙

[@dalairem]

💯 💙

[@SeasonedCitizen]

👍🩵💯

[@bonniebrush94]

Realistically, if Trump wins in November, we may not be able to vote blue in 2025.

[@pattyofurniture]

Being treated like livestock sucks.

[@aceymac]

No one’s vetoing laws to protect access to appendectomies! This is basic healthcare born out of science and delivered by qualified providers to consenting patients.

[@okkietrooy6841]

Not directly. However, they will not do anything to make sure basic healthcare is accessible.

[@shericreary8301]

Don't tell us what to do with our bodies !!! It's not yours Republicans!!!!!!!

[@bjdefilippo447]

Harrison Butler's commencement speech was another indication of the world they'd like to see. Guy's mother is a top-level medical physicist, but he thinks women's priority, even if they have college degrees, should be perfecting their homemaking skills.

[@fligsnurt7835]

Actions speak louder than words, some people need the blinders removed.

[@nonamenojane]

Not to mention the number of wanted pregnancies that need abortion care. Sometimes when a pregnancy fails, a person needs medical intervention to keep their health safe. Can you imagine the emotional torture the situation has? The strictest states are forcing these grieving mothers to be on death's doorstep before they can get help.

[@SocksAndPuppets]

They're constantly going after sex education too. It's not about abortion, it's about control.

[@erikkennedy8725]

Yep, I've been saying for some time that the right views babies as the punishment for wanton sex.

[@RevShifty]

Absolutely. It's all about controlling women, front to back. That's why many of these sideshow clowns are already targeting no fault divorce, as well.

[@BC25citizen]

Or for being poor. I just watched one of those ancestry shows where a young family lost five out of six babies in ten years. Yet it would have been illegal for them to prevent those five wasted pregnancies. Sure, they could have taken better care of the one kid that survived. Heck, the mother might even have lived past 32. But no. Immoral.

[@Sableagle]

Yes, and just like that militia in Somalia, they view "being snatched off the street, dragged into a car and taken to some industrial estate where there aren't any witnesses" as "wanton" behaviour. Remember that one? Thirteen. Stoned for adultery. Seriously.

[@JenniferRusso5]

They also want future low wage workers.

[@BC25citizen]

@@JenniferRusso5 and of course, future members of their cult

[@dennisfarris4729]

They are not opposed to killing they are opposed to recreational sex....

[@shoresean1237]

Remember when Youngkin actively campaigned as 'Not So Trumpy' and then began to govern as 'Super Trumpy'? Neighboring Maryland might want to retain that memory for Larry Hogan, who, at minimum, would hand the committee gavels to reallllly Trumpy folk. Repeat after me: This Is Who They Are, This Is What They Do, This Is All They Know.

[@mariondowney4103]

Yea it is about control

[@SavageGreywolf]

Beau: this isn't just about women's rights, and I think it's important to frame it that way so people really understand what's at stake in these struggles. The madness the GOP wants to push upon us will affect every man, woman, child, and 'prefer not to respond' in the country.

[@brendamartini2165]

Exactly. This affects EVERYONE.

[@shielanunn3484]

Dont their supporters realize these draconian measures affect them also

[@janwag6856]

Thanks Beau, speak the truth with education.

[@NancyfromIllinois]

I just can't believe this is happening...has everyone on the gop gone crazy???

[@Nightghaunt]

Yes

[@RevShifty]

Yes. Absolutely. Every last single one of them. I don't understand how that's even remotely surprising. They've been attacking abortion for decades already. As long as I've been alive. Which is why this actually surprising anyone confuses the hell out of me.

[@Turai12]

Always have been crazy. This isn't a new thing.

[@JenniferRusso5]

They're not crazy. They're sociopaths.

[@parrot998]

Do not avert your gaze from what you see. For this is the honest truth about the right wing. It has been the truth since the birth of modern era politics in the late 1700's, and as long as we allow them any scrap of power it will remain the truth. Increasing sadism, control, exploitation, and the violent enforcement of deeply twisted systems is and always has been their aim. If they support anything, odds are it's something they think can be used to these ends. Don't trust them, don't defend them, stop pretending they are a legitimate political faction. They aren't. And if the majority of people, instead of pretending they are worth reaching or that the things they say and believe have any value, simply rejected them and their beliefs on mass, they'd stop being a threat... Because if there is one thing they can't stand, it's the idea that they aren't normal, that they are an outgroup. Fascists shut up when they are unable to delude themselves with an illusion of normalcy, and all other RWers fall in line when faced with the same scenario.

[@juliamartinez3775]

I’m 60 and female. I’m hoping this nightmare ends before it gets to the point that we become “property” again. This sh*t is un-freakin-believable 😔😔😔 one of the things that baffles me, is that there are plenty of women who absolutely don’t mind going back to that time 😩🤷🏻‍♀️

[@sarinaevert9293]

We have known it’s about control for years.. morality my A**

[@debradipiazza844]

Gove. Youngkin said, “Let me be crystal clear: I support access to contraception. However, we cannot trample on the religious freedoms of Virginians.” So some Virginians’ rights and freedoms outweigh others’.

[@debbeleigh1930]

I am so grateful for Beau and his team keeping me informed! Thank you! Voting 💙

[@deannealbrecht774]

They are going after women's rights.

[@shielanunn3484]

Lets just BAN Sex

[@scottmwilhelms2437]

Always remember who wants to rule and who wants to represent based not on their rhetoric, but their actions or lack thereof.

[@JesseMaurais]

When you understand why they are banning abortion you will understand why they will not stop at abortion. If they had their way there would also be no sexual education in schools either.

[@terryleach5108]

My brother's wife had a miscarriage several years ago and underwent a procedure known as a D&C (dilation and curettage) , a procedure often performed on a woman after a miscarriage or other issues. Since it involves scraping tissue inside the uterus it may be possible that some of the miscarried fetus's remaining tissue is removed. This is HEALTHCARE for the woman! Laws put in place by "holier than thou" politicians put a sizeable percentage of the American population (women) at risk because procedures such as this are illegal in many "red" states. Vote Blue!

[@kathosim501]

Thank you! We’ve been shouting it for years but get called hysterical. It helps when a man says it, much as that infuriates me.

[@RevShifty]

That's exactly why I always speak up. I'm an angry looking white guy with no neck and a bushy beard. I know I could say the exact same thing you just did, word for word, and immediately have a larger audience than you could find without even trying. And the exact same thing goes for almost any other group of people they try to other. It isn't fair, but at least I can use my love of arguing and comfort with confrontation for something positive. So I use that. This kind of thing is flat out unacceptable to me. It is 100% about controlling women, and I don't need any more motivation than that to be furious.

[@amethystrocks6433]

​@@RevShiftyThank you!

[@kathyq6167]

Thank you Rev!! 🙏✌️🫶🤗 I appreciate you for my daughter's and granddaughter.

[@kayallen7603]

WE VOTE BLUE HERE !!!

[@donhoverson6348]

Correction. Not going after reproductive rights. Going after WOMENS' reproductive rights.

[@itsjustmeagain986]

Let this go viral!

[@rachelb2464]

Share it on your other social media accounts. Best way to help this channel is free advertising by spreading it yourself.

[@andrewrobinson1479]

Is this the Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits? What year is this again? I can't believe this is even a topic of debate.

[@thinkinginTx]

No darlin....welcome to Gilead!

[@karherineware3508]

Thanks for the heads up Beau! This is just terrifying. The right continues to be more and more brazen by the minute. We must vote blue up and down the ballot.

[@angelogarcia2189]

I'm not gunna be surprised when Republicans start talking about temperance.

[@RevShifty]

Me neither. That will be the day I immediately quadruple my homebrew volume at a minimum. I don't even drink that much, I just refuse to allow that sideshow any say in my private life whenever possible.

[@Out_of_My_Head]

We're living a dystopia.

[@RevShifty]

This is indeed the worst and dumbest timeline.

[@jamesm.9434]

They need the working poor.

[@cindystimson3632]

You are 💯 correct, i don't know how anyone can believe otherwise.

[@soyevquirsefron990]

But I voted conservative to take away rights I don’t like, not rights I do like!

[@ShawnMarieRichards]

Leopards? My face?

[@jamesschrader6855]

Never let the Republicans have the power to name, what they are saying 💯

[@brettbosley779]

I'm trying so hard not to advocate violence right now...

[@sumiland6445]

It's about comprehensive gynocological and obstetric healthcare. Oklahoma state is a OB/GYN healthcare desert since state legislators passed the strictest anti-abortion laws in the nation. IUDs are illegal. Tubal ligations are no longer legal to perform. IVF and fertility programs are gone. Gov Kevin Stitt has a TASK FORCE that monitors all pregnant women from conception through giving birth. Doctors are required to give the Task Force information on all their pregnant patients.

[@CricketsBay]

HIPPA Violations. All of it. It's about forcing women to be pregnant and keeping them out of the workforce. If something goes wrong and they die from pregnancy complications, the Republicans see that as a major plus. The cruelty IS the point.

[@shielanunn3484]

Horrendous

[@kathyq6167]

Watch your mortality rates there.

[@sumiland6445]

@@kathyq6167 the state Gov won't allow accurate reporting of health statistics. His guy is running the state health dept.

[@debrajohnson9489]

Doesn't HIPAA protect against this?

[@Juiceboxdan72]

Do these people understand what Gen Z is about to do to them?

[@Sableagle]

Hardware store for the hammer, garden centre for the sickle?

[@kathyq6167]

We can only pray that they show up. I live in a university town, too many of the kids I ask if they're registered say "no". I do my best to inform. 🙏🙏🙏😢

[@jasongallagher5464]

I know that I’m responsible for adding 3 kids to this world and I’m part of the problem, but speaking as someone who has been waiting on lines at theme parks for rides for hours at a time for the last 30 years, we need to do more to promote contraception 🙌

[@paolagrando5079]

To me it isn't about promoting contraception, but to have the choice to use them. Like education is very important. Teaching kids how to research for stuff, to be inquisitive, to understand how things work so to be able to decide if they are right for them, if they need improvement, if they are harmful, etc.

[@jasongallagher5464]

@@paolagrando5079 Well yeah I agree with all of that I was kinda half serious half making a joke there though

[@samthompson2980]

Deja-Beau! I swear we've covered this before! Republicans will NEVER learn or STOP!!

[@paulasharp4475]

I'm with you on this. Your exactly right!!

[@jcreadore]

Howdy friends! 👋😍‼️💫💙💖

[@m.jasondoty9062]

Hi, J.

[@jcreadore]

@@m.jasondoty9062 Howdy! 👋😃💫🌙💙

[@Struthio_Camelus]

Hey there, Julia!

[@jcreadore]

@@Struthio_Camelus Howdy Struthio! 👋😃💫💙🌙

[@olderthandirt7061]

I'm not particularly astute but I have seen the Republican party moving in this direction for years.

[@christawarda7386]

Beau, you are so right. It's about control. And if they had their way and were able to get rid of the ability to use contraceptives, they'd go after women's right to vote after that.

[@debrajohnson9489]

They are already going after women's right to vote. They have said it publicly.

[@toneottesen4764]

I cry for women of Virginia! 😢 World is watching, from Norway! ❤

[@TexasCat99]

A pregnant 18-year-old will less likely go to school or college and have a career. She will be more dependent on the father of her child, our children. The GOP isr going after no fault divorce. This may help the guys who cannot actually get a girlfriend or keep a wife. Young guys should also think about the implications. They may be a dad at age 19 and end up not finishing college because they have to work, to raise the children. Like the good old days from 100 years ago. This hurts everybody.

[@RevShifty]

I'm a man and I've been furious about this since I was a kid. I've watched this fight against abortion happen over the course of my entire life, and unlike most folks, I read the damned decision. This was *never* about the fetus. It is 100% about controlling women, period. I don't need any more motivation than that to become furious, personally. That is flat out unfuckingacceptable to me right out of the gate.

[@Sableagle]

Some of them intend to push it beyond "She will be more dependent on the father of her child," all the way to "She will be the property of the father of that child." There's a man called Aron Ra who's been going through the bible verse by verse with some experts in various relevant fields, and there's an excerpt from one of those streams titled: "The Purpose and Value of Women in the Bible" that explains the role the (R) souls in government want women to have in the US.

[@TexasCat99]

@@Sableagle simply, Christian Taliban.