The War on Women

Texas is clearly in competition with Florida for the title of cruelest, most tiny dicked, inhumane pro-death state of all time. With Ken Paxton and his pet Supreme Court’s decision to deny Kate Cox the emergency medical care she needs, the state proves itself to be anything BUT pro-life. Is it too late to abort Paxton?

“continuing the pregnancy puts her at high risk for severe complications threatening her life and future fertility, including uterine rupture and hysterectomy.”

 Let’s not forget about Brittany Watts in Ohio either. She faces felony charges for having a miscarriage.

Or Brittany Poolaw. Oklahoma charged her with manslaughter for her miscarriage. 

Republi/Fascists are trying to shove us back into a 19th century existence. Did you know that:

We couldn’t serve on jury duty until the mid/late ‘50s—the Civil Rights Act of 1957 gave women the right to serve on federal juries.

Birth control pills for, MARRIED COUPLES only, weren’t legal until 1965. The Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that married couples have a Constitutional right to privacy that includes the right to use birth control. Unmarried women were unable to get the pill until the Supreme Court's 1972 decision in Eisenstadt v. Baird.

We couldn’t attend Ivy League Universities until the late '60s.

Princeton and Yale began admitting women in 1969, with Brown University following in 1971 and Dartmouth in 1972. The lone Ivy holdout, Columbia University, did not admit women until 1983. (source)

Women couldn’t officially run the Boston Marathon until 1972.

We couldn’t attend a military academy until 1976.

An unmarried woman couldn’t open a bank account until 1974—It wasn't okey dokey and law of the land until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act was passed.

It was legal to refuse to give a woman a mortgage on a house until 1974.

Couldn’t become an astronaut until 1978.

Maternity leave wasn’t enshrined in law until February of 1993’s passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Marital rape wasn't a crime in all 50 states until 1993.

Women couldn’t serve in combat until 2013.

The last restriction on women's service ended in 2013 when Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lifted the Pentagon's 1994 ban on women in direct ground combat roles. (source)

I wasn’t hired for a lab assistant gig at Harvard in 1981 because the professor said he wanted to hire a man, not a woman who would just leave when she got married and pregnant. Also, he thought women weren’t strong enough to lift the trays of test tubes and shit. I let this fucker know that I was, at that time, regularly benching 130 AND would not be having rugrats. I walked out of the interview, called into the Harvard employment office and reported him…for all the good that did.

We’re NOT going back!