State Rep. Laurie Pohutsky’s account was cheered by the left-leaning protestors and condemned by right-wing social media accounts.
The 36-year-old Democrat said the surgery was a personal decision she had been considering for a few years and was finalized by Trump’s election. She wanted to validate the fears other women might have about access to contraception by sharing it.
She told The Associated Press that she has received threats since speaking this week, referring at least one of them to Michigan authorities. The Associated Press reached out to Michigan State police for comment.
“I don’t fully grasp the level of animosity that people have about this,” Pohutsky said.
“I don’t fully grasp the level of animosity that people have about this,” Pohutsky said.
Yeah, neither do a lot of people. Its this weird fucking obsession that the idiots of this country have latched on to.
Imagine thinking you have a justified right to tell someone what they can and cannot do with their own reproductive system- to the point that you feel righteous enough to protest publicly about it?
All while at the same time, cheering on the new regime’s dismantling of governmental protections while vomiting some nonsense about how governmental involvement is unconstitutional.
Man, the “freedom” crowd really hates it when people exercise their freedoms…
I’ve had a vasectomy. Come at me, fascists.
they don’t actually care about making babies. what triggers them the most is women making decisions for themselves
Some of the craziest do care about making babies. They think the white race is being outbred into extinction. They are fucking nuts.
It sure ain’t, but if we ever manage to interbreed away the very concept of race, then good riddance. Us white people were never special.
The concept of race was forged by white supremacists. Good luck breeding that shit away.
Do you really think race and racism wasn’t a thing outside Europe? In India? Japan? Etc?
People are very tribal.
There’s a thread of truth to what they say. Humans are tribal, but that doesn’t mean that what we use as in group and out group signifiers is universal and lines up with western European racial boundaries.
In some cases, existing group divisions were altered to fit with other peoples notions about how it should work: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48619734.amp
In Africa, certain ethnic groups defined themselves based on language and a rough “wide or narrow” metric. Talk or short, skinny or stocky, wide nose or thin. Etc. it’s like a racial categorization from the west, but it uses features that we don’t usually use , and only became overt once it was used by colonial powers to classify people and assign social status.
Point being that “I don’t know you so I don’t trust you” is a human tendency, but race and racism as we would recognize the terms are not, they’re just a specific instance.
