Every single WI Senate Republican voted against the Right to Contraception Act,......

[riversedge]

Vile Repugs in WI do not even want women to have contraceptives. Damn-they live in the Dark ages and want everyone else to do so also!


State Senator Dianne H. Hesselbein
@SenHesselbein
#ICYMI @SenateDemsWI
attempted to pass the Right to Contraception Act, a bill I authored with @LisaSubeck
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Every single WI Senate Republican voted against moving this proposal forward. They had an opportunity to show Wisconsinites they weren't extremists like their national counterparts, but they chose to double down on their anti-choice, anti-woman, and anti-freedom position.

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[KS Toronado]

1. Isn't that helping turn the State blue?

[AllyCat]

9. We hope. Their gerrymandering prevents their listening to their voters.

Hopefully, the new maps will help.

[Timeflyer]

2. Do they hate women, or just don't like women controlling their own bodies.

Or both. Or they don't believe in adult female personhood.

[calimary]

3. Probably both. Plus a love of the era when women had no voice and couldn't vote

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so the “ownership” was complete and unquestioned.

[et tu]

7. also when a husband

could send his wife to an asylum if she wasn't compliant~
ah the good old days, @#$%^ not!

[calimary]

16. I suspect there are still men who long for those days...

Quite a few men, I'd guess.

[bernieb]

14. Oh, the great 1900's

When men were men and women were chattel.

[calimary]

15. Welcome to DU, bernieb!

That's about the size of it. And why do I feel as though there are growing numbers of people who want those "good old days" back again?

[et tu]

17. your good intuition!

[lark]

19. It's really more about hating, but the controlling part is essential to the asshats.

They want us to produce babies that will be marginal, non-educated, with no health care or benefits and work for pennies. This thought of free workers is more important to them (their riches) than the rights of women - which they are completely happy to remove. They will next disallow contraceptives of any kind, then start killing us if we deviate from their proclamations and take charge of our own health. This is their goal, rich men controlling everything and women have no say (they will remove our votes) in the process.

[MOMFUDSKI]

4. They need more and bigger shovels.

Proceed

[LastDemocratInSC]

5. When a person or group or movement can control the sexual behavior of other people

they can easily control more aspects of the others' lives. Abdicating the right to make one's own decisions about any form of health care, especially decisions about reproductive issues, is surrender of the self to outside agency.

[MadameButterfly]

6. Should we expect a rash of divorces among Wisconsin legislators?

Do they have any daughters? Do they not like sex, or have their wives long since denied them sex so nothing to lose? maybe they have affairs and ok for the mistress to have an (illegal) abortion? maybe they're just old enough it's irrelevant to their lives and to hell with everyone else?

And this is worth making their party a pariah in the state why?
i am confused.

[TheRickles]

8. Seems guaranteed to backfire against them in the upcoming elections.

Appealing to their base, but alienating the majority. Go for it!

[slightlv]

12. I wouldn't think even the base could like this.

There's got to be a genetic memory in R's for asexuality. There are a whole of Men who need to give up even the idea of 'getting lucky' for many, many years... If not for the rest of their lives. This goes back to the theocracy they want all of us to live under. Dominionism... Now known as christian nationalism. Its all facism by another name. Anyone feel like living in Iran? Thats one of the models they're working on for us.

[moniss]

10. These are the same

people who have been for the idea that marital rape is not possible because a husband has a "right" to sex with his wife. These are the same people who believe a man should always be paid more than a woman. These are the same people who believe that women should not be hired for "certain" jobs. These are the same people who don't believe women should serve in the military with men on active duty. These are the same people who refuse to provide adequate funding for crime labs to process rape kits in a timely manner. The list doesn't end there.

[Ohioboy]

11. For some reason there's a weird movement against birth control

Oddly, it seems to be promoted by incels. The idea is that feminism and the pill have put women in a position where they don't need marriage.

[sybylla]

18. My talibangelical sister in law says the same thing.

She got pregnant in high school. Both her daughters did, too. And her oldest son is a divorced incel who years later can do nothing but blame his ex for everything that's gone wrong in his life.

[Ohioboy]

20. I think the complainers of the world have united

The internet has helped them find each other.

[GiqueCee]

13. Escalation by increments...

... is their strategy. If you want to exercise complete and ruthless control over an entire population, start with the marginalized demographics that all the room-temperature IQs fear. Every weak and ignorant male is terrified of giving equality to women, so that's who Republicans attack first, by restricting their rights again and again and again. They simultaneously attack and undermine Black folks, Jews, Gays, Trans individuals; the list goes on.

These are obscenely vile and hate-filled people. I saw a recent interview with a hard-core Trump-humper in her gaudy, tasteless, defiling-the-Flag-Code, clown suit, in which she expressed some disappointment in Trump because she felt that "he was not hurting the people he was supposed to be hurting". That sums up conservatism in a dozen words.

EVERY evangelist preacher is carved out of the same turd as the insane Jim Jones of Guyana fame. They are control freaks gone supernova, and are not to be trusted under any circumstances. That's the model that all Republicans emulate. They crave dominion over the lives of others, and they are NEVER satisfied, up to, and including, how, when, and why you die. They consider "A Handmaid's Tale" to be an instruction manual.

I'm old enough to remember when it was possible to have Republican friends, and just agree to disagree on some policy issues. Those days are gone forever. Now, my hatred of Der Republican Party burns hotter than the surface of the Sun.

[Jimbo S]

21. Condolences to Diane

The passing of her mother last week.

I know the family. Great progressive people.