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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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[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Condoms used to only be legal for married couples.

Get ready. As long as conservatives have any power at all, they will use it to oppress the normal people. They always have.

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Wow they really just declared themselves a religiously affiliated state. I can't imagine this doesn't make it to the US supreme court. The scary question is will those goons back Alabama's play to become a Christofascist state? If so it would definitely be my breaking point to leave.

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

After that I feel like they'll try to abolish child age of consent and to just straight up make rape legal. That's what these people really want.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Soon jacking off will be a crime

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean they are literally passing laws which require attaching your real name to your porn habits. So yeah, I'd say it is 100% the goal to leak this stuff and eventually, openly persecute people for it.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Probably just to blackmail, at least at first.

[–] davetapley@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson:

It scans all the activity on your phone, or your devices, your laptop, what have you; we do all of it,” Johnson told the panel about the app

It sends a report to your accountability partner. My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17. So he and I get a report about all the things that are on our phones, all of our devices, once a week. If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-son-monitor-porn-intake-covenant-eyes-1234870634/

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

So Jack no Jack off?

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17

Ah yes, I'm sure a 17 year old teenager has found absolutely no way to watch porn other than his (now infected) phone. Nope. No siree.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That, and if this dumbazz thinks his son is not yanking it because he infected his phone, he's about as deluded as it gets.

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[–] nifty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or maybe being single will be a crime? A fantasy dreamed up the utterly deranged.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Uh oh, the incels won't be happy with that at all. Same with the MGOTW bunch (who are probably also just incels, too, if we are being honest).

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

These people won't stop till its literally illegal to be naked by yourself without some homely chapped-ass chaperone

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