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There's nothing standing in their way. Rules? We'll just change em.
A New Bill Introduced in Congress Would Constitute a Total Abortion Ban - WITH CONTACT INFO
Source: NY Mag
On Thursday, Iowa’s Republican Representative Steve King introduced a bill in Congress that would constitute a total abortion ban on a federal level, Rewire reports.
H.R. 490 would prohibit abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected. This can occur as early as six weeks into a pregnancy — a time period before many women know they’re pregnant.
“Since Roe v. Wade was unconstitutionally decided in 1973, nearly 60 million innocent babies’ lives have been ended by the abortion industry, all with a rubber stamp by the federal government,” King said in a Thursday press release from his office. “If a heartbeat is detected, the baby is protected.”
Read more: http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/01/new-heartbeat-bill-in-congress-would-constitute-a-total-abortion-ban.html
WHO TO CONTACT:
Here's the contact info for Steve King, the man who introduced this legislation:
https://steveking.house.gov/contact
202.225.4426
Here's the contact info for Trent Franks, the co-sponsor of this bill:
https://franks.house.gov/contact-me
(202) 225-4576
If you live in their states, contact them and make your voice heard. Email, call, write letters. Share this information on all your social media.
Here's a list of the House Committee of Judiciary members to contact (calling is best):
https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-members/
NOTE: If you choose to email, most of these reps won't accept emails unless you provide an address in their area. You can map their local office location and find a public address nearby them to use to bypass this requirement. As members of these committees, they should be available for contact for reasons such as these, but they seem to make it as hard as possible.
A New Bill Introduced in Congress Would Constitute a Total Abortion Ban
Source: NY Mag
On Thursday, Iowa’s Republican Representative Steve King introduced a bill in Congress that would constitute a total abortion ban on a federal level, Rewire reports.
H.R. 490 (legislative text found here) would prohibit abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected. This can occur as early as six weeks into a pregnancy — a time period before many women know they’re pregnant.
“Since Roe v. Wade was unconstitutionally decided in 1973, nearly 60 million innocent babies’ lives have been ended by the abortion industry, all with a rubber stamp by the federal government,” King said in a Thursday press release from his office. “If a heartbeat is detected, the baby is protected.”
Read more: http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/01/new-heartbeat-bill-in-congress-would-constitute-a-total-abortion-ban.html
This is what I posted on my FB today:
It's starting.
The next 4 years are going to see unprecedented attacks against women's rights. We are faced with a House and Senate ruled by a majority whose entire political careers have been about attacking and restricting women's rights. They are determined. And now there is very little standing in their way.
We have to be vigilant. Contact your representatives, donate, volunteer, share this information when you hear about it. If we don't fight, we're going to lose way more than just the next 4 years.
http://nymag.com/…/new-heartbeat-bill-in-congress-would-con…
Here's the contact info for Steve King, the man who introduced this legislation:
https://steveking.house.gov/contact
202.225.4426
Here's the contact info for Trent Franks, the co-sponsor of this bill:
https://franks.house.gov/contact-me
(202) 225-4576
If you live in their states, contact them and make your voice heard. Email, call, write letters. Share this information on all your social media.
If you want information about legislation, here's a link to find current legislation:
https://www.congress.gov/
KEEP THE PRESSURE ON - Who to contact about issues
Seems like every single day I read another article detailing Trump and/or his incoming administrations' corruption or conflicts. A common theme among responses (here and elsewhere on social media) is the question of "what can be done?"
I'd like to keep a running list of issues and contact people for those of us, who want to keep these issues from falling through the cracks, to reference. If there's already something like this going on here or elsewhere, please let me know. Otherwise, add to this post as relevant.
While I find profound comfort in being amongst a group of like-minded people, I know there are other constructive means to making our voices heard.
Calling is best, letters 2nd best and email last resort. We need to mobilize ourselves. We are a majority of the population and we cannot rely on our reps and lawmakers to act in or address these issues themselves. There is power in numbers. We have to keep their feet to the fire.
RE: James Comey – violation of Hatch Act
https://osc.gov/Pages/HatchAct-HowToFile.aspx
RE: Trump Foundation Investigation
NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
http://www.ag.ny.gov/contact-attorney-general
RE: Trump conflict of interest, possible Emoluments Clause violations
Contact your Congressman/woman
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
Fun little tactic I like to employ when debating/arguing with an opposing viewpoint in person
Make your opponent specifically explain, detail or qualify their stance. I've employed this tactic too many times to count in my adult life after learning about it on HS speech/debate team many, many years ago. Here's a really basic article explaining it:
http://lifehacker.com/win-an-argument-by-asking-your-opponent-to-explain-thei-1718890620
Fun way to seem non-threatening while you're doing this is to act like you don't know the answer either. It's satisfying for a few reasons, least of which is getting to prove that they don't know WTF they're talking about without you looking like an ass and flat-out telling them they're an idiot.
Bit of advice for employing this tactic: always stay on the offense.
Are shills on FB using hacked/cloned accts to sway tide of comments?
Conspiracy theory warning. (Or maybe this is already well known and I'm just super late to the party? This is long....sorry.)
I posted something on my personal FB page when pussy-gate happened. I got nasty replies from complete strangers who I had no mutual friends with and who never responded to my replies to their comments. When I looked at their profiles there was no recent activity and they weren't from my area or the profile info was sparse. Whatevs. I didn't give it much thought.
Since then I've honestly been very surprised at the number of anti-HRC or anti-liberal responses I've seen on my friends' anti-Trump FB posts. When I try to figure out who the commenters are, same as my post...no mutual friends, inactive/sparse profiles. Just complete strangers coming in and dropping some nasty comment. I've also started to notice when reading anti-Trump news link posts on FB, when I click on a profile of someone who says essentially "killary" or "libtard" or another few word reply...majority of the time it's an inactive profile.
I thought maybe it was just me seeing a pattern where one doesn't exist to help justify my feelings after the election.
But today I was on a Huffpost FB post, reading the comments and decided to test my theory. Granted, this is not a scientific analysis by any means. But I was interested with what I found from a tiny sample.
The post had 1138 comments and the first reply was in essence "Trump's a narcissistic sociopath who's going to ruin our country". I checked the first 100 replies to that comment and broke the replies into 4 groups: For, Against, Unknown and N/A. Each For and Against response I clicked on the profile and noted if the profile had been active in the last year (active as in more than 2 posts since 2015). Here's what I found:
"For" had 81 responses with 2 inactive profiles
"Against" had 12 responses with 9 inactive profiles
Unknown had 6 responses
N/A had 1 response
Huff is obviously predominantly anti-Trump, so the number of For or Against posts didn't surprise me. It's the percentage of Against posters who have inactive profiles that surprised me.
Are hacked/cloned profiles being used as shill accounts to sway the tide of comments? Is this a thing? There was one obviously brand new fake account (Against), but all the rest had friends, photos, etc. Just no recent activity. There could be lots of non-nefarious explanations, as well as the simple explanation that I AM seeing a pattern that doesn't exist.
Since I have nothing else to do on a Sunday afternoon, I'm going to troll a Fox news page and do the same test on an anti-HRC post.
Trump suggests espionage against the US was a good thing
Source: Huff Post
Trump tweeted this morning:
"Are we talking about the same cyberattack where it was revealed that the head of the DNC illegally gave Hillary the questions to the debate?"
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-russian-espionage-was-a-good-thing-for-america_us_5853ffaee4b0b3ddfd8c272f
THIS! THIS is what was elected. A person who thinks espionage against his own fucking country is beneficial.
And his herr-derr mouth breathing supporters and surrogates are lapping it up.
There is no coming back from this kind of division of the people of this country. There is no reaching across the aisle to work with people who support this. This is cancer. And putting some damn ointment on it ain't gonna help.
We're doomed if our representatives don't start radiation and chemo on this situation, STAT.
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