Thursday, October 31, 2024

Michelle Obama asks America to Consider Women: 'Take Our Lives Seriously'

I want you to think about which presidential candidate could possibly care more about our reproductive health. I just want to take a moment with this particular question, because there is so much that gets lost in the conversation about women's reproductive rights. I want the men in the arena to bear with me on this. Because there's more at stake than just protecting a woman's choice to give birth.

Posted by truthhurts at 08:32 AM | 6 COMMENTS | permalink

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So let me take a minute to help folks, especially the men in our lives, get a better sense of what could happen if we keep dismantling parts of our reproductive care system piece by piece, as I fear Donald Trump will do. I want folks to understand the chilling effect, not just on critical abortion care, but on the entirety of women's health, all of it.

There are good reasons why so many women and physicians are horrified by what's happened since Donald Trump's justices overturned Roe v. Wade. We're seeing women scrambling across state lines to get the care they need. Just this week, a major medical journal reported that after Roe was overturned, infant mortality in this country rose. One woman spent 22 days in jail on murder charges after she miscarried in her own bathroom.

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Y'all, we are teetering on the edge.

If your wife is shivering and bleeding on the operating room table during a routine delivery gone bad, her pressure dropping as she loses more and more blood or some unforeseen infection spreads and her doctors aren't sure if they can act, you will be the one praying that it's not too late. You will be the one pleading for somebody, anybody, to do something.

#1 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-30 10:32 AM

I have to say this speech was, just, breathtaking.

I will also say I have zero respect for any man who does not fully support women and their rights to reproductive care. That put "state's rights" -------- ahead of the ability of any woman to get the care she needs. Women are literally dying.

And again, from someone who has gone through it:

"You will be the one pleading for somebody, anybody, to do something."

If you are a man with a mother, sister, daughter, niece, aunt, grandmother, do something. Support, PROTECT, the women you love.

#2 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-30 10:35 AM

The average American's life isn't even on the radar for Oligarchs... except as people they can manipulate into supporting tax cuts for the very wealthy.

Which is why Oligarchs love Trump and Trumpers.

The Est GOP is thrilled to have Trump as their (easily manipulated) Leader.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-30 01:29 PM

Mark Cuban approves.

#4 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-10-31 07:11 PM

I think them Texans ARE serious when they take a women's life in Texas. They ain't fooling. That's fer sure.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-01 12:02 PM

Mark Cuban approves.

#4 | POSTED BY GRACIEAMAZED

Does Elon and his belly button approve?

How about his concubines? Wonder if they approve.

Never mind.

I don't really care. Do you?

4 more Daze!

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-01 12:07 PM

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