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[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 74 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 43 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Once again, I am introducing a bill that would make handguns legal only for women.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Mark Robinson suggested our culture tells women to have sex and get an abortion to get out of trouble. “It’s all right to murder someone to get out of it,” he said in 2021. “Once you make a baby, it’s not your body anymore. It’s y’all’s body.”

To which John Oliver replied, “I will say, if the women of this country do think it’s alright to murder someone to get out of trouble, they are currently showing incredible restraint.”

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

A bear would never do this.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 months ago

You missed the part where she hurt his feelings. Can’t have that.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This is happening in my state. I hope a law is proposed to counter sue people like this and absolutely ruin them

“Fathers of aborted fetuses can sue for wrongful death in states with abortion bans, even if the abortion occurs out-of-state,” Mitchell said in a statement. “They can sue anyone who paid for the abortion, anyone who aided or abetted the travel, and anyone involved in the manufacture or distribution of abortion drugs.”

Jonathan Mitchell should have been aborted. He's a stain on the Earth, a waste of resources, and a parasite to society.

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't even be an Uber driver or an airport shuttle driver in Texas the way that law is worded.

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

This comment helped my wife get an abortion

[–] Naja_Kaouthia@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago

What in the flying blue buttfuck is going on with this trying to strip women of their privacy shit? That psycho Katie Britt is trying to put pregnant women in an Excel sheet and then there’s this fuckin’ guy.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 29 points 6 months ago

TLDR: money grab

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lmao. This Collin Davis fella named and shamed himself.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


As soon as the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade two years ago, anti-abortion activists started debating if and how they could limit Americans’ ability to cross state lines for legal abortions.

The man, Collin Davis, said in court records that when he learned his former partner planned to get an abortion in February 2024, he hired an attorney who would “pursue wrongful-death claims against anyone involved in the killing of his unborn child”.

However, activists determined to end abortion nationwide have launched a series of legislative and legal volleys to undermine that right, often by targeting groups and individuals who may help patients travel.

Alabama’s attorney general has threatened to prosecute groups that help women leave the state for abortions – a threat that a federal judge beat back forcefully earlier this week.

Court records in Davis’s case also repeatedly cite the Comstock Act, a 19th-century anti-vice law that, in the eyes of some abortion opponents, bans the mailing of abortion-related materials nationwide.

Such an interpretation of the Comstock Act, which the Biden administration disagrees with, would result in a de facto national ban on abortions, because clinics rely on the mail to obtain the drugs and equipment they need to do their jobs.


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