WHAT IS ✌🏾CHOICE✌🏾 IF THERE REALLY ISN’T A CHOICE?

LIES!

CORRECT! If you answered ‘LIE’ to question #1 you’re absolutely correct! In the NPR story at the end of this article, the Supreme Court had the audacity and unmitigated gall during a whole pandemic determined that employers were indeed allowed to “opt out” of providing health insurance coverage for birth control.

LIES!

RIGHT AGAIN! If you called BS in response to being told abortion would never be illegal again and never put you in danger of arrest, you’d be oh-so-correct. Have you heard Lizelle Hererra’s* story? If ‘Hereditary’ met ‘SAW’ and had ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ it still could not beat the very real and true tale of Lizelle Hererra’s arrest and release.

(*The source linked is an opinion piece.)

LIES!

YES! Even after a global [as in planet Earth] health [as in alive/well/sick/dead] pandemic [as in uncontained], AND! unparalleled child care crisis, elder care crisis, economic crises and all kinds of care crises [plural!] — If you had the sneaky suspicion that a critical mass of the United States government would still look us all dead in the face and REJECT a national paid leave plan—and in fact, hold a bill hostage until it was excluded from a piece of proposed legislation…

you’d be correct! Vogue includes a tidbit that sets the inner temp to hell best:

After all, activists have been lobbying for paid family leave in the U.S. since at least 1919, when the newly formed International Labor Organization adopted the Maternity Protection Convention of 1919, calling for 12 weeks of paid maternity leave, free medical care during and after pregnancy, job guarantees upon return to work, and periodic breaks to nurse infant children.

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