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Whether it is conscious or not, it seems significant that the weakening of child labor laws falls right on the heels of the assaults on the right to abortion. Forcing women from the workforce will present big problems for the Chriso-Fascist. How convenient.

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Sure. And now they are going apeshit with anti-trans stuff.

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Mar 31, 2023Liked by Paul Street

Biden has had a few opportunities to help women and their significant others to help in having an abortion. For example, did he try to set up military bases in the states that are making abortion illegal? Has Biden mentioned anything about rejecting the ruling of the lower court judge Kacsmaryk on the anti-abortion pill, Mifepristone which is FDA-approved, NO?

My belief, which elicits no actual fact, is because of his religion. Catholicism doesn’t permit such an act, and Biden, being the religious person that he claims to be, makes up for any assertive action on his part.

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RU4AR is the only group that pointed out the executive branch power Biden has to make abortion available n all fifty states. I heard Sunsara Taylor demand this literally within minutes if not seconds of the Dobbs v. Jackson rulng right outside the High Handmaid Court. Planned Parenthood, NARAL et al ...crickets. Totally capptive to the dismal Dems. And yes, Biden could tell the FDA to reject/ignore the Amarillo ruling. I suspect you are right on the religion angle.

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27 years ago was when Democrats stripped those left jobless of their basic human rights (UN's UDHR) to food and shelter, and the consequences have been appalling.

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I so agree. The neocons are bringing us to the brink of extinction. They're all psychopaths. How the hell did they ever get control of our system? They need to be expunged.

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Yoi know this isn't about medically-necessary abortions needed to save lives. It's about inconvenient pregnancies among middle class women. When Democrats stripped those left jobless of their most basic human rights (UN's UDHR) to food and shelte3r, liberal media swept the consequences under the carpet.

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You find the right to access medical abortion pills insufficiently proletarian? That is a darkly hilarious and shameful application of a painfully narrow class perspective. You think abortion is legit only when necessary to "save lives?" You mean only when the mother's life is in grave danger from the continuation of her pregnancy? Wow. Abortion is necessary as a full right on demand without apology to save women's freedom and opportunity, ok? Calling unwanted pregnancies merely "Inconvenient" is egregious understatement, to say the least. Here and below you seem not to grasp that the US has two hideous dollar-drenched and imperialist ruling parties, one of which has gone Christian white nationalist-neofascist.

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Wow, like dude, chill. (?) What I'm pointing out is that IF abortion were a right, even the poor would have access to it. They do not because they cannot afford abortions. Therefore, abortion is a consumer option. You seem not to grasp that we are now 27 years into the Democrats' war on the poor.

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I don't think so. A. That's not what you said, actually. Look at your comments. You made no such point. B. gtfoh with "consumer option." C. The final sentence is absurd: you are conversing (sort of) here with a person who may possess the 21st Centtury published word count record when it comes to describing, diagnosing, and denouncing the classist neoliberalism of dismal Dems from the Marxist viewpoint. :) What in the my essay or comments suggest not grasping Dems' participation in anti-poor politics? Nothing. Zero. BTW 27 years is absurd. Always a capitalist and imperialist party, the Dems took their full neoliberal turn in the second half of the Carter administration. So that would be 45 years if we want to get picky about years that way. I'm sorry if you think it's emotionally upsetting, but I take people's comments seriously and I don't hold back. I see what you wrote and it's nope, nope, not, wrong, wrong, nope. Sorry "dude."

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I always said, "this generation ain't the boomers!" Could you imagine roe v wade being torched with Boomers? Mass shootings galore.....DNC...crickets..... streets would be overflowing. instead.....we have screen time! hooray!

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The trans issue is all over the place. Some NYTs reporters are getting hit hard by some opeds and lauded by others. Then there's the issue how to deal with minors making decisions that will effect them the rest of there lives. When the hormones kick in all hell brakes loose. To be honest with so many other very important issues on the table I've kinda let this issue ride. Know some young adults that have transitioned and done so early. So the very few cases I've witnessed seem, from my perspective non problematic. But I'm sure there's horror stories our there but not witnessed by me. I don't even know why I'm commenting on this. I hope we sell find bodies we're comfortable in. 🙏

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Some 1% of the population identifies as "trans." A classic issue of mass distraction as Democrats set the stage for nuclear world war.

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