Dr. Vibha PingléSep 22, 2023
James Gleick

This is Handmaid’s Tale stuff. We are the dystopia now.

I remember when even anti-abortion politicians were careful to say they would never criminalize the pregnant women. Now Nebraska is imprisoning a mother who helped her teenage daughter with an abortion pill.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/22/burgess-abortion-pill-nebraska-mother-daughter

US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills

Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty in July to providing an abortion after 20 weeks and tampering with human remains

The Guardian
Sep 22, 2023 at 6:44pmWeb
Show threadMarkSep 22, 2023
@JamesGleick This was under pre-existing laws before Roe v Wade was overturned.
Show threadJames GleickSep 22, 2023
@mark So?
Show threadMarkSep 22, 2023
@JamesGleick So “We are the dystopia now” does not make sense. Unless we have been in a dystopia already for many years.
Show threadJames GleickSep 22, 2023
@mark It says here you’re from Waterford, Ireland—what a lovely place! Ireland has had its troubles with the treatment of women, to be sure, but you have sensibly made abortion legal. In my own benighted country, I don’t know if you’ve heard, a savage right-wing minority is imposing a regimen of new laws taking away women’s reproductive rights and threatening them with dire punishments. Today’s is one barbaric example.
Show threadMarkSep 22, 2023

@JamesGleick No problem with any of that, I’m just a bit of a stickler for headlines matching the content of a linked article, as it were.

Hopefully democracy will do its thing and majority views will prevail over this savage minority.

Anyway, let’s leave it there, because it looks like you’re a bit famous, and there’s a risk of a pile on if I mince words, which I’m not up for.

Show threadStargeezer SmithSep 22, 2023
@JamesGleick
Well, after all the Bible gives them the right to be cruel. It says -- oh wait! It says "Judge not lest ye be judged."
Show threadLRSep 22, 2023
@JamesGleick in germany, the limit is 22 weeks. 2 weeks more than nebraska.
Show threadSeanSep 22, 2023
@lritter now it’s 12 weeks in Nebraska.
Show threadLRSep 23, 2023
@Craktok oof
Show threadRodneyPetersonTalentAgencySep 22, 2023

@JamesGleick

Yup. Shithole country.

Show threadPatrick GillamSep 22, 2023

@JamesGleick

Sorry I can’t cite the social post where I first read this, but someone observed that heck yes conservatives will indict women who terminate pregnancies, because women tend to vote for Democrats, and conservatives like to disenfranchise Democratic voters by convicting them of felonies.

Show threadTjsSep 23, 2023
@patrickgillam Not a very good plan for the Putin rebib's, Talk about losing you're base!
Show threadAleksandar VacićSep 22, 2023
@JamesGleick @GeekAndDad yes, yes it is. It’s super unnerving to watch this unfold.
Show threadNicole ParsonsSep 23, 2023

@JamesGleick

#KochNetwork spent decades manufacturing this felony disenfranchisement scheme for women voters.

Evangelicals & Catholics were used to attack the civil rights of women & conned into joining an anti-democracy movement.

They do not have the right to impose their fascist values on others.

The "war on drugs" disenfranchised millions of POC, and the "war on abortion & contraception" will disenfranchise millions of women.

Nebraska is anti-democracy.

Show threadPeter PrincipleSep 23, 2023

@JamesGleick Their fanaticism is exceeded only by their dishonesty.

But that's how fascism rolls...

Show threadDanny ContrerasSep 23, 2023
@JamesGleick Lies, they were never careful. They used synecdoches and, like always, prayed we wouldn't be paying attention. But the flies following the cattle that we always are could clearly see the entire picture and knew this was coming. We should be asking questions about how we've even allowed it to get this far. The obvious question now: what are we going to do to protect this woman?
Show threadKevin Karhan Sep 23, 2023
@JamesGleick didn't Texas charged a women that got an abortion with murder?
Show threadBlotreport: YESSep 24, 2023
@JamesGleick Theocracy.