Um, so, make #FamilyPlanning and #Abortions illegal, force women to give birth, take away affordable health care, and then freeze #Childcare funds! As I've said before, #ProBirth is NOT #ProLife!
‘Scorched-Earth Attack’: Trump Admin Cuts Off Childcare Funds to All States
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-freezes-childcare-funds
@ProPublica #ProBirth is NOT #ProLife! smh
#Maine #FamilyPlanning will close its primary care practice at end of October
#MainePublic | By Patty Wight
Published October 1, 2025
"Maine Family Planning says it cannot sustain its primary care practice beyond this month.
"The nonprofit says it faced an impossible decision after losing $2 million in #Medicaid funding under a new federal law. That means 800 patients in #Aroostook and #Hancock counties will now need to find new primary care providers.
"The law bans health providers who also offer #abortions from being reimbursed by Medicaid.
“ 'The cruel and dangerous law has put us in an impossible situation,' President and CEO George Hill said in a written statement. 'Discharging and turning away vulnerable patients strikes at the very heart of MFP’s reputation as a trusted community provider that has been able to serve patients of any means for more than 50 years.'
"As a result, #MaineFamilyPlanning says they've been providing primary care to Medicaid patients in #EllsworthME, #HoultonME, and #PresqueIsleME free of charge since July."
Read more / Listen:
https://www.mainepublic.org/health/2025-10-01/maine-family-planning-will-close-its-primary-care-practice-at-end-of-october
#WomensHealth #FamilyPlanning #FundingCuts #MedicaidCuts #ProBirth #KillThePoor #TrumpSucks #USPol #MainePol
@AntiLethe Μεγάλο απόσπασμα. Ειπώθηκε από την Τζόαν Τσίτιστερ.
US🇺🇸 is overpopulated... & UNDERPAID!
No > free Viagra 4 CongreAss, who won't use condoms.
#GOP, corps, oligarchs & #Evangenitals push #ProLife (really #ProBirth) 4 cheap labor & ignorant Mil grunts.
tRump's wishful GENOCIDE is NOT the answer!
Get a vasectomy, #AKA🥸@JDVance❗️
As the #USA slides further into #Gilead... And ignore those low sperm counts!
As Trump Weighs #IV., #Republicans Back New ‘Natural’ Approach to Infertility
Long confined to the medical fringe, “restorative reproductive medicine” has unified Christian conservatives and proponents of the Make America Healthy Again movement on the political right.
By Caroline Kitchener, Aug. 21, 2025
Excerpt: "The field of restorative reproductive medicine, which dates back to the early 2000s, is grounded in the idea that infertility is a symptom of an underlying 'root cause.' Physicians who specialize in the approach analyze patients’ diet and exercise habits, while helping them 'chart' their menstrual cycles..."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/bJHwT
"He sold love away from his children's hearts
And told them it was sin
Now we're all at the mercy, we're all at the mercy
Of that little man within..."
- #KarlWallinger, #WorldParty, 1986
Can #empathy lead to sin? Some #ConservativeChristians argue it can
By TIFFANY STANLEY
Updated 5:20 PM EDT, August 21, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — "Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to #HumanDecency and #kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the #ChristianRight are preaching that it has become a vice.
"For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left: It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including #abortion access, #LGBTQ+ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on #social and #racial justice."
#WWJD #WWRWJD #WhatWouldJesusDo #ChristianCoalition #ChristianNationalists #Racists #Hatemongers #ProBirth
GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH!!! #JamesDobson, influential founder of conservative Christian group #FocusOnTheFamily, has died
By MIKE CATALINI and HOLLY MEYER
Updated 10:33 AM EDT, August 21, 2025
"Dr. James Dobson, a politically influential child psychologist who started a radio show counseling Christians on how to be good parents, founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was long a campaigner against #abortion and #LGBTQ+ rights, died on Thursday. He was 89.
"His death was confirmed by the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute.
"Dobson started Focus on the Family in 1977, which had more than 1,000 employees at its peak and gave him a platform to weigh in on legislation, advise White House panels and advocate against laws to ban #ConversionTherapy to 'cure' gay people.
"He became a force in the 1980s for pushing conservative Christian ideals in American politics alongside fundamentalist giants like #JerryFalwell and #PatRobertson. He campaigned for bringing religious conservatives into the political mainstream, and in 1989, Falwell called Dobson a rising star. Decades later, he served on President #DonaldTrump ’s Evangelical Executive Advisory Board."
https://apnews.com/article/james-dobson-obituary-focus-on-family-51a9dbf50e26eaee2ac01d457e9d46aa
#ChristianCoalition #ChristianNationalists #Homphobes #ProBirth #ChristianRight #Fundamentalist #HandmaidsTale #MAGADeathCult #ChristoFascists #ChristoFascism
Cool argument, bro. #ProChoice #AntiChoice #ProBirth #Feminism #Abortion
Also ich sage mal so. Empfehlungsschreiben und Gutachten werde ich für das #Cusanuswerk sicher nicht schreiben. #rechtekampagne #verfassungsgericht #EkkehartReimer #demokratiefeinde #probirth #katholisch
Another blow to #ReproductiveRights... Thanks, #SCOTUS!
States can block #Medicaid money for health care at #PlannedParenthood, the #SupremeCourt says
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Updated 3:09 PM EDT, June 26, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — "States can block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid money for health services such as #contraception and #CancerScreenings, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
"The 6-3 opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch and joined by the rest of the court’s conservatives was not directly about abortion, but it comes as Republicans back a wider push across the country to defund the organization. It closes off Planned Parenthood’s primary court path to keeping Medicaid funding in place: patient lawsuits.
"The justices found that while Medicaid law allows people choose their own provider, that does not make it a right enforceable in court. The court split along ideological lines, with the three liberals dissenting in the case from #SouthCarolina.
"Public health care money generally cannot be used to pay for abortions, but Medicaid patients go to Planned Parenthood for other needs in part because it can be difficult to find a doctor who takes the publicly funded insurance, the organization has said.
"South Carolina Gov. #HenryMcMaster, a Republican [and asshole], said Planned Parenthood should not get any taxpayer money. The budget bill backed by President Donald Trump in Congress would also cut Medicaid money for the group. That could force the closure of about 200 centers, most of them in states where abortion is legal, Planned Parenthood has said."
#WelcomeToGilead #TheHandmaidsTale
#McMasterIsABastard #ProBirth #ProCancer #MAGADeathCult
Looks like #Trump is trying to follow #Putin's playbook! More white babies! To hell with everyone else!
Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.
The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.
By Anna Nemtsova, April 29, 2025
"Russia was in demographic decline long before the war in Ukraine. Now it’s in free fall.
Since 2022, hundreds of thousands of Russians have died or suffered critical injuries in Ukraine. The result: According to one demographer, Russians may have had fewer children from January to March 2025 than in any three-month period over the past 200 years. As of 2023, the country’s fertility rate—1.4 births per woman—lies well below replacement level and amounts to a roughly 20 percent drop compared with 2015. In some regions, births fell that much in just 12 months. Last year, deaths outpaced births by more than half a million.
This crisis has led to one of the world’s most extreme natalism campaigns—and one of the weirdest. President Vladimir Putin has commanded his government to “stimulate” Russian women to have at least three children, and to make sure they get pregnant when they’re young. To that end, the Ministry of Education has been discussing ways to create “conditions for romantic relations” in schools. Last month, Moscow’s Department of Health displayed giant pink banners around the city asking women, How’s it going? Still haven’t given birth?
If this is supposed to make them want to procreate, it doesn’t seem to be working—at least not for Larisa, a 21-year-old university student who was incredulous when she saw the sign on her way to campus. Even though her parents cover the cost of her car and apartment, she told me, “I have enough money to pay just for my food. Forget three babies.” Indeed, the Kremlin’s own polling has shown that almost 40 percent of Russian women of childbearing age say they won’t have kids in the next five years because of financial concerns.
Most of Larisa’s friends are like her: women in their early 20s who came to Moscow to study and start their career. That’s precisely the path that Russian leaders are trying to discourage. Irina Filatova, a member of Parliament, recently warned that young women’s ideas about “self-development” are a threat to Russia’s “traditional family values.” But if they insist on going to college, then at least they should find a husband there, so they “can give birth at age 18 or 19,” another female legislator suggested last year.
To assuage concerns about the cost of having kids, authorities in the Oryol region recently began offering pregnant students $1,200. Daria Yakovleva, a women’s-rights activist, told me that such programs may lead girls to think of childbearing as a ticket to economic security, even though having children in Russia often entrenches poverty. Svetlana Gannushkina witnesses these financial burdens firsthand. A human-rights advocate who served on Russia’s Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, Gannushkina helps low-income families that are unable to provide for their children. She doesn’t see government handouts as a solution. “Paying girls money for pregnancies is a strange approach,” Gannushkina told me.
“Authorities should be forcing men to feel responsible, first of all, but so far, all we hear is demands for women—what women should not do or should do.”
One of Gannushkina’s clients, Takhmina, is pregnant with her eighth child, and her husband makes less than $800 a month. Gannushkina told me that the state was supposed to send them financial aid but has withheld it since a right-wing mob attacked Takhmina’s family online because they’re ethnically Tajik. Evidently, Gannushkina said, “she is not the kind of pregnant woman they want.”"
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/04/russia-putin-demography-children/682637/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/mGso7
#TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #TrumpIsAFascist #ChristoFascism #HandmaidsTale #ProBirth #WhiteNationalism
Um, make that $200,000 - $300,000 (February 2025 estimates via Parent Magazine). That *might* be enough to raise a child until the age of 18 (assuming there is universal health care. If not, add maybe another $100,000?)
Trump administration looking at $5,000 'baby bonus' to incentivize public to have more children
The "baby bonus" is one of a number of proposals being considered.
By Hannah Demissie and Katherine Faulders, April 23, 2025
But hey, let's make family planning and abortions illegal so we can STARVE more children!!! smh
Trump's #WarOnChildren: #DOGE Guts #HeadStart, #ChildAbuse Programs, #Healthcare & More
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/24/war_on_children
#TrumpHatesChildren #ProBirth #NoTaxBreaksForBillionaires #WarOnThePoor #BadDOGE #USPol #FundSchoolsNotSpaceX
#Maine #GovernorJanetMills fires back after #Trump's demand for 'full throated apology'
by Randy Billings, Mon, March 24, 2025
Mar. 24—"Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Monday brushed off President Donald #Trump's weekend demand that she issue a 'full throated apology' for publicly challenging him during a White House event last month.
"The governor responded to Trump's social media post while at a public event in Bangor. But it was not an apology.
"Mills contested Trump's claims that he wants to protect women through his executive order barring #TransgenderAthletes from women's sports, pointing out that women in the United States and around the world will be hurt by his moves to eliminate #ForeignAid, attack #SocialSecurity and #Medicaid, and impose #tariffs that will spark #TradeWars and drive up consumer prices.
"'If the current occupant of the White House wants to protect women and girls, he should start by protecting the women and teenage girls who are suffering #miscarriages and dying because they can't get basic, life-saving health care in states across this country,' Mills said, according to the Bangor Daily News. 'If he truly cares about women and girls and people of this country, let's see the economic plan. Let's see the health care plan. Let's see the education plan.'
"Mills, who was in Bangor celebrating the purchase of a mobile home park by its residents under a new state law, added that 'if he cares about women and girls, he should talk about the little girls and boys and infants in #Sudan and other countries who are dying right now because he has cut off their supply of food and life-saving medicines.'"
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gov-mills-fires-back-trumps-224700049.html
#TrumpIsABully #USPol #MaineResists #MaineResistance #SeeYouInCourt #ProtectTransYouth #FuckTrump
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Resist #Authoritarianism #USAID #ProBirth #WomensHealthCare #GirlsHealthCare #ReproductiveRights #GovernorMills
Not just #Maine -- all of #NewEngland is being targeted! And don't get me started about #ProBirth types! They don't give a SHIT about feeding children after they are born!!!
New England schools and food programs take ‘devastating’ hit after #USDAFundingCuts
The more than $1 billion in federal funding helped #schools, #ChildCare programs, and #FoodPantries in 40 states to buy produce and other items from local farmers.
By Amanda Gokee and John Hilliard Globe Staff, Updated March 12, 2025, 3:03 p.m.
"In October, the USDA announced $1.7 billion for states and #tribal governments to purchase #locally and #regionally produced foods for #EmergencyFoodAssistance, including free meals for schools and child-care programs.
"That funding included $1.2 billion to support local food purchases with schools, child-care facilities, food banks, and other institutions, according to the USDA. School meal programs would get $500 million to make food purchases, and states, territories, and #TribalNations would receive another $500 million. Child-care facilities were supposed to get $200 million, the USDA said.
"The money earmarked for food banks, schools, and child-care facilities was meant to help them meet the needs of their recipients and help ensure they had access to healthy foods, according to the USDA at the time."
Original article:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/12/metro/new-england-food-program-usda-federal-funding-cut-ri-nh-ma-vt-me-ct/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/AvN3n#selection-2481.0-2499.213
#USPol #FundingCuts #BadDOGE #Hunger #HungerGames #KillThePoor
@vij
There r NO laws supporting Tuberville! He's acting as a stubborn asshole on a FAUX religious #ProLife platform which is really #ProBIRTH -- serving corp/oligarch agenda 4 cheap mass labor/Mil grunts. How can Senate condone this insane stunt which smacks of ILLEGAL obstruction.
How is FORCED birth the enforcement tool of any State anti-abortion laws? Y is Tuberville not enforcing anti-RAPE laws in all States, esp. TX?
RETHUGLICANS r World's greatest cherry-pickers❗️🖕🏼🏏💩🤪🤥🤥
#ProLife Catholics r suckers 🟠🍄rump & FAUX-CONVERT #AKA🤓 @JDVance needed 2 support #Project2025 (rape, womens' anti-health/anti-voting, ISR🇮🇱 anti- PSE🇵🇸 & RUS🇷🇺 anti-UKR🇺🇦 genocides) & other PROFIT-deals US Conference of Catholic Bishops OK'd❗️
It's #ProBIRTH: Corp Slavery❗️
Seems the #ProLife types are really #ProDeath [of women who seek reproductive care or choose not to have children] and #ProBirth [but do nothing to improve #SocialWelfare programs] and against #BodilyAutomony. And, apparently, they only want #WhiteSupremacists like themselves to breed, eh? [#ForcedSterilization for anyone not up to THEIR standards?!] Hmmmm... #WhiteNationalism #Eugenics #CallItWhatItIs
SCOTUS just gave abortion clinics a rare win
But more significant threats from Trump’s Department of Justice remain.
by Julianne McShane, 2/24/2025
"Abortion rights advocates took the court’s rejection of the cases as a win, albeit a limited one.
"Katie O’Connor, director of federal abortion policy at the National Women’s Law Center, said that while the organization was “relieved” to hear about the court’s decision, “anti-abortion extremists are now more emboldened” thanks to Trump.
"Last month, for example, Trump’s DOJ announced it would limit enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a 1994 federal law that prohibits physical force, threats, or intimidation against people trying to access reproductive health clinics. While the law has been used to prosecute both anti-abortion protesters targeting abortion clinics and abortion rights protesters targeting anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, Trump baselessly claimed the Biden administration 'selectively weaponized [the law] against Christians.' The new DOJ guidance—which says the FACE Act should only be used in 'extraordinary circumstances' or cases involving 'death, serious bodily harm, or serious property damage'—reportedly has abortion providers bracing for more intense protests and fearing more violence. (The DOJ’s directive to limit FACE Act enforcement, though, does not override the legality of buffer zones, which are controlled by state and local law enforcement.)"
Read more:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/scotus-just-gave-abortion-clinics-a-rare-win/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
#AbortionRights #WomensRights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #BodilyAutonomy #BirthControl #PlannedParenthood
#ProBirth is not #ProLife!
