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MicroWave Feb 23, 2024

Hillary Clinton warns birth control is ‘next’ after Alabama IVF ruling

Hillary Clinton warns birth control is ‘next’ after Alabama IVF ruling - Lemmy.World

Hillary Clinton is warning about the legality of birth control in the wake of a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that found frozen embryos created through fertility treatments are children under state law. “They came for abortion first. Now it’s [in vitro fertilization], and next it’ll be birth control,” the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of State said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “The extreme right won’t stop trying to exert government control over our most sacred personal decisions until we codify reproductive freedom as a human right,” Clinton added.

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hydroptic Feb 23, 2024

The extreme right won’t stop trying to exert government control over our most sacred personal decisions

It’s not the extreme right, this is mainstream for conservatives. The extreme right is the one calling for eg. the extermination of gender / sexual minorities or non-whites (and the extremists aren’t nearly as rare as people generally like to think)

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Viking_Hippie

It’s not the extreme right, this is mainstream for conservatives.

You’re both right and wrong: the Republican mainstream has become extreme. Fascism, anarcho-capitalism and bizarre combinations of the two contradictory ideologies are extreme no matter how common they become.

The extreme right is the one calling for eg. the extermination of gender / sexual minorities

That’s already a pretty mainstream view/goal in the GOP. Most of them are just using coded language rather than outright saying it yet.