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Dec 4, 2021Liked by Claire Potter

It's a two pronged assault. Barrett's remarks about abortion made me nauseous. It confirmed my fears that the rabid right does not consider women fully human. But the fact that they are willing to chuck stare decisis as a power play to please their funders is blood curdling.

I keep thinking that the solution is to form a religion because religions seem to be the privileged entities in their eyes.

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tanya marquette

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Here is one the many articles that deride this health bruhaha and I hope you find it informative.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/trends-in-mortality-and-morbidity-in-the-most-vaccinated-countries-twenty-one-proven-facts/5761773

Every independent researcher, including and especially Dr. Robert Malone who invented the mRNA technology in 1989, has called for the end of this drug program. The data from around the world, including the US, clearly shows the deaths are mainly in the vaccinated who are the ones who are shedding and spreading. Further, the levels of viral fragments in vaccinated and unvaccinated are no different showing these drugs do nothing. Of course the PCR test, itself, is being used erroneously as it identifies nothing, specifically not C-19 which has never been isolated. This is true from every other country trying to do research on this alleged virus and includes Fauci who has stated the CDC does not have any samples of this virus.

You might also chew on this: Peter Daszak, who worked with Fauci and took several $$$million for a gain-of-function grant to be done in conjunction with the Chinese, stated publicly in 2015 at the National Academy of Sciences they had a need to create a narrative that required the media to support the effort to create a pandemic based hype to push a vaccine that will attract big money interests to invest in it. This is not conspiracy as Dr David Martin defines as this was the plan laid out in public. Conspiracies are planned with 2 or more people with the intentional goals of hiding and harming the public. This was just a plain out nefarious plan in pubiic view. However, the use of the media to bury these intents and distort information makes is conspiratorial in my book.

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We need a multi-layered response. One of those layers is to revoke the tax-exempt status of religious entities. In this article by Mark Oppenheimer, he explains why this isn't as bad as some would have you believe. It is not a secret that almost all religious groups, from the mainstream to the right-wing, already break the Johnson Amendment law with impunity. Oppenheimer also points out that other nonprofits should also lose this exemption. Trump made many efforts to kill the Johnson Amendment entirely as a gift to his Evangelical supporters. The repeal of the Johnson Amendment was put into the Republican tax reform bill. Senator Ron Wyden used the Byrd Rule to stop it.

https://time.com/3939143/nows-the-time-to-end-tax-exemptions-for-religious-institutions/

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And let’s never forget it’s about the right to enjoy sex. For women to have the freedom of enjoying not just controlling their bodies. Sexual pleasure, especially women ‘s, is anathema to puritanical dominion past and present. Lust is a deadly sin. This repressive order is what unites the prohibitions on homosexuality and women’s sexual freedom. It goes to the core of domination (male)—who will have pleasure and who will serve and labor at the master’s pleasure. Not only the right of women to choose motherhood or not, the right to choose whatever kind of sex they want. We could go on…

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I seem to recall reading of evidence that women have always had abortions. Herbs like carrot seed and others that we probably no longer have any history to describe. And of course unwanted pregnancies from rape were also abundant particularly since patriarchy rose its head (pun intended). And fast forwarding to the 1960-70's women seemed to get pregnant just from looking. It was a big underground network of information and help that existed. But the stress from the cloak and dagger access and the frightening unknown of whether you survived and survived reproductively in tack was a great stress. Often the end result was not good for women.

I recall the rising up of women to demand the right to control our own body as a core feminist principle and fight. To not have control over your own body is a form of enslavement. it is all about power with one class of people, men, being able to suppress women and control them for male purposes. Sexism has not changed one iota and the many women who serve men's need for power and control are the same today as in years past--a false sense of identity, an identity based on internalized sexism as we used to call it.

The piece that makes it more insidious and dangerous today is the gallop toward blatant totalitarianism that we are suffering. The use of this current covid debacle to propagandize people into a state of submission in which we lose almost all civil liberties is frightening in a way i have never experienced. As RFK jr says in studying the history of totalitarianism he has never seen any such State move into this state of dictatorship so quickly as in the past year in the US where we have lost just about every one of our Bill of Rights except one--guns! It is not just forced predgnancies we have to fear but the total loss of our body if they can force drug us with any toxic drug they want just by creating fear regardless of the truth.

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Excellent, Claire! I saw my best friend through an illegal abortion in '65. It was the best of circumstances in that she had a real M.D., but he did a d and c with NO anesthesia, so she came out screaming and bleeding, and charged $900! About $7500 today. Women don't stop getting abortions, they just get unsafe ones. Hospitals used to have a "septic ward" for women with infections received from these. Bonnie Anderson

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