Category Archives: Blastocyst Liberation

Your Abortion Is Slutty, Mine Is Not

Posted on September 30, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Well, not mine, since I’m a cishet male. Anyway, there’s an excellent piece by Leah Hampton that gets at the hypocrisy of anti-legal and safe abortion conservatives (boldface mine): The crux of my newfound doubt about Roe is the “everyone” … Continue reading →

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Republicans to Attempt to Ban Abortion in the U.S. Today

Posted on September 13, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Or so multiple news reports say. Later today, Senator and member of the political wing of the Proud Boys Lindsey Graham will introduce a bill, the “Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act.” This would enact a national ban … Continue reading →

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Let’s Not Fall Into the Same Abortion Trap

Posted on July 21, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

I’m worried that the focus on all of the pregnancy care problems Republican abortion bans have created, along with other care having nothing to do with pregnancy–and which are real and serious problems–ultimately will give Republicans an out. Yes, the … Continue reading →

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Sensible Democrats Are So Close

Posted on July 14, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

But still not getting it. In response to the anger by ‘activists’ rank-and-file Democrats over the Biden administration’s mealymouth and slow response* to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, former Obama White House official Jennifer Palmieri has thoughts (boldface mine): … Continue reading →

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An Ultimate (Judicial) Veto Point

Posted on July 11, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Of a sort. Looking at the reaction to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh being heckled by protestors while dining at Morton’s Steakhouse (lots of ‘dining at Morton’s isn’t a right enumerated in the Constitution’ jokes, along with a healthy dose … Continue reading →

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Is Abortion Different?

Posted on July 5, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Pessimists, and they should be distinguished from the skeptical, not especially optimistic types like me, have an advantage in political prognostication: because many things don’t work out as expected (such is life) and because times are pretty bad right now, … Continue reading →

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Yelling at Professional Democrats Works

Posted on July 1, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Sometimes, anyway. It turns out that having much of the Democratic Party, including (and especially) the normies, yelling at Democrats to codify abortion rights actually works (boldface mine): President Joe Biden gave his strongest response yet to the U.S. Supreme … Continue reading →

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Don’t Know Much About History…

Posted on June 30, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

This is, of course, a post about the Supreme Court junta. They don’t know much about biology either, but that will have to be the subject of another post. A few weeks ago, some asshole with a blog noted: One … Continue reading →

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There Are Things that Democratic Officials Can Do to Protect Abortion

Posted on June 28, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

And other rights too. Of course, they might not do them, but that is a matter of choice (SWIDT?). That Democrats choose to not suspend, limit, or overturn the Senate filibuster–and if the diminution of the Senate’s power isn’t a … Continue reading →

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So, What Is the Plan?

Posted on June 27, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

In light of Friday’s decision by the Republican Supreme Court judges to end the federal protection of legal and safe abortion, what is the Democratic Party’s plan? It can’t only be ‘vote harder.’ The current Democratic Party leadership had months … Continue reading →

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