English Teachers: “Every character in a story serves a purpose. Writers don’t write anything for no reason; everything is part of a greater metaphor that the writer is trying to convey to their audience.”
i feel like people really don’t appreciate the full extent of how dangerous the pro-life movement really is. Like go look at the wikipedia page for anti-abortion violence, they’re not above just straight-up murdering people in broad daylight, in their homes, in their churches in front of their families. They’re not above bombings.
Where I used to live, Pensacola, Florida, the only clinic in town that provided abortion was bombed twice. A doctor who worked there was murdered, and the doctor who came in to replace him was murdered along with his armed bodyguard. The whole time this was going on, protesters were allowed to demonstrate outside the building this whole time. They were allowed to do this after two bombings, a break-in, and three murders in broad daylight. In other words, the city was pretty much complicit in it.
Bill O’Reilly railed against Dr. George Tiller on 28 different episodes of his show, calling him a baby murderer on national television until a pro-lifer murdered Dr. Tiller while he was at fucking church. The killer went to prison, but Bill O’Reilly was so obviously guilty of incitement but nothing happened.
These people view abortion as literally equal to infanticide and I do believe that 99% of pro-lifers, in one way or another, whether they would say it in public or not, believe that murder is justified to prevent women from having access to abortions. 99% of them believe women should be punished for seeking or for having had abortions. The journalist Kevin D. Williamson got fired from the New York Times for tweeting that women who’ve had abortions should be hanged, but really he’s just a rare example of a pro-lifer being completely honest about what he really believes.
Why treat the pro-life movement as any different from any fascists, neo-nazis, or reactionaries? Their goals, the vision of society they’re working towards building, and the means by which they plan to achieve it certainly aren’t very different!
I don’t even live in Texas but honestly we need politicians like Beto
What’s so great about Beto?
Doesn’t take any PAC money or big donor money period. Left or right. Won’t be beholden to big money interests.
Already pledged to support Bernie’s Medicare for All bill should he win
Legalization of Marijuana, expunging records of nonviolent drug offenders.
He wouldn’t have voted for Kavanaugh, and he would have voted for the Violence Against Women reauthorization.
Expanding of LGBTQ rights.
Public works projects like extending broadband access to rural areas and funding for the rail project between Dallas-SA-Austin-Houston.
Bringing back and protecting the voting rights act.
Increasing money for the VA.
Finding healthy solutions to immigration and the boarder, just like his home town El Paso a boarder town that’s one of the safest cities in the country
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