Feminist Friday: Lectures Still Aren’t Magic

[ismnotwasm]

This recaps a lot of what has been already posted, but it's handy to have in one thread

This Week in Ladybits

Ugh. UGH. I know we talk about the massive, draconian efforts to restrict abortion in this section, a lot, but have we talked lately about the massive efforts to restrict birth control? Birth control. What freaking YEAR is this?

This week in particular, poor friendly birth control got dragged back into the debt ceiling fight as a faction of the GOP tried to force a “conscience clause” — an out for employers who don’t think ladies who work for them should be able to get naughty bad birth control covered by their insurance plans — into the Affordable Care Act in exchange for letting the federal government start functioning again.

The trend is even more alarming because so many of the loudest voices against birth control remain willfully ignorant about how it works. It’s really easy to stick to one hardcore position in an argument when you let the facts just bounce straight off your skull.

It might be time to be less polite about the fact that we have religious fanatics in elected offices, large and small. If you’re LGBT or female or any combination of those things, the words “Biblical law” should make you very jumpy.

And yes, abortion clinics are still shutting down. Take a look at Ohio.

http://www.afterellen.com/feminist-friday-lectures-still-arent-magic/10/2013/

[gollygee]

1. I remember way back when I was a young woman

my mom (a 2nd wave feminist) saying that anti-abortionists would eventually go after birth control, and me and others thinking she was crazy. I remember an uncle telling her that no one would even suggest that because it would be political suicide.

But my mom has seen a lot and grew up in a fundamentalist church. She knew what was coming.