I am seldom overtly political here, but I want to say a thing out loud.
A right to bodily autonomy isn't conditioned on being a rape or incest survivor. We must not create special circumstances when we recognize a woman's right to avail herself of family planning services or medical care.
It's her body. The decisions are hers, in consultation she takes with her doctor, and influenced, to the extent she elects, by her partner.
That's it.
Identical philosophy applies to trans folks.
@paul I was never all that hardcore, and very late to the party. I started using daily not long after EM made his offer. Very quickly I found that I'd tuned it to show me tons of interesting stuff from interesting people, and the contrast to the garbage I saw on Facebook was striking.
It was great for a short while. But the signal to noise ratio has degraded terribly since the takeover. I don't know enough to know why. I just know that it's so. Its mostly junk now and barely worth opening.
A few days ago, few people across the country knew the names Justin Jones or Justin Pearson. Nor did we give the TN legislature a second thought.
Now both men are re-energized, to a new level, with national attention — and Tennessee’s many sins are now under scrutiny.
Nice job.
Whittier College made some of the most absolutely mind-blowingly bumptious defamation threats against a client that I’ve seen in my career. So I wrote about it.*
*nothing I do online is the fault of my firm or clients
https://popehat.substack.com/p/berating-the-bumptious-whittier-colleges