Why NOT to vote Republican

[jp1]

Dr Oz. ‘Abortion decisions should be between women, doctors and local political leaders.’

[frugal-one]

Dr Oz. ‘Abortion decisions should be between women, doctors and local political leaders.’

This is what you will get if you vote for republicans. Talk about invasion of privacy!. Read somewhere they want girls in high school to tell them menstruation times so they can be monitored….. big brother anyone?

[catherine]

This is what you will get if you vote for republicans. Talk about invasion of privacy!. Read somewhere they want girls in high school to tell them menstruation times so they can be monitored….. big brother anyone?

Wow. I couldn't believe it until I looked it up, and after a very brief internet search I found that you are right--a couple of different motives for tracking menstrual cycles but it still comes down to NOYDB as far as I'm concerned.

Tracking female athlete cycles, to identify trans females who are barred from female sports in Florida.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucele...h=1fff5e685170

A movement (MHM, or Menstrual Hygiene Management) to teach young females proper menstrual hygiene and provide support, purportedly most needed in low- and middle=ncome populations because they don't have "adequate physical environments and social support" to be able to handle it on their own. Wow. How did we manage for millennia without such "needed" support? I guess we poor and middle-income people never had a mother, sister or aunt. Wow.

https://health-policy-systems.biomed...61-020-00669-8

[iris lilies]

Agreed that this action of the Florida High School Athletic Association is overstepping. I would tell my kid not to answer these questions. But then, my kid wouldn't be out for any athletic competition who am I kidding, I would throw nerd genes.

Trans women will be entering women’s sports. That’s just they way thing are going and we need to accept it, and all of the Title 9 codicils in the world are not going to stem the tide.

There have been, for years, various standards used at Olympic level sports to identify women vs men, not always successfully. A few female Nigerian track stars come to mind for their excessive amount of testosterone.

A reminder here: This is not law.

As for the 2nd article, that is entirely different and should not be part of this discussion IMHO. It addresses helping efforts in third world countries to address a health issue. Paternalistic? maybe, but that can be said for much if the West’s work in 3rd world countries. If you skim the article “Bandledesh, Gambia, Phillipines…etc” are mentioned.
i have heard of these efforts to bring sanitary products and procedures to these areas of thevworld.

[iris lilies]

Dr Oz. ‘Abortion decisions should be between women, doctors and local political leaders.’

Dr. Oz says he is not in favor of prosecution, but when he is in the position of making law, he needs to be clear why he is making a law that he does not support.

All it takes is one zealous county prosecutor to intimidate physicians who perform abortions in his locale.

[JaneV2.0]

Agreed that this action of the Florida High School Athletic Association is overstepping. I would tell my kid not to answer these questions. But then, my kid wouldn't be out for any athletic competition who am I kidding, I would throw nerd genes.
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Honestly. If I ended up with an athletic child, I'd figure it had been switched at birth. And my father was an athlete.

[frugal-one]

Watched the most recent 60 Minutes episode. It was quite disturbing to hear some of the republicans continued spread of lies. When asked for backup evidence..there was none. But, people are voting for them anyways.

Also showed scientists trying to find clues of other possible pandemic producing viruses. As heard before the covid19….It is not a matter of if but when… I sure hope it is not in my lifetime!

[Rogar]

Watched the most recent 60 Minutes episode. It was quite disturbing to hear some of the republicans continued spread of lies. When asked for backup evidence..there was none. But, people are voting for them anyways.

Me too. Election deniers running governor in 19 states, attorney general in 10 and secretary of state in 12 are the numbers they used. And that's not to mention congressional candidates. Like the moderator said, it's a threat to democracy. The best logic I can come up with is that there are those who think winning is everything at the cost of lying on major issue of election fairness and outcome. I really don't get it.

[jp1]

When even one of the "good" republicans like Glenn Youngkin uses the occasion of an assassination attempt on Nancy Pelosi as the punchline of a joke at a campaign rally it's clear there are no "good" republicans left.

[bae]

It was amazing to see how quickly the QAnon/MyPillow wing of the GOP managed to spin the attack on Paul Pelosi into some sort of vile lurid gay/drug/sexwork conspiracy theory, and how fast that spread through the infosphere.

Within a day or so, even relatively mainstream/sane-appearing right-wing acquaintances of mine were passing along the agitprop.

Shame. Shame. Shame.