Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…

Energize an Ally Tuesday

 

The year is 2016. Americans have just elected an avowed and unrepentant "pussy grabber" to be President of the United States. If you're waiting for a punchline, you'll be staring at your screen for eternity. Donald Trump is, I think it's fair to say, going to be a menace to women on a scale that makes his beauty-pageant behavior ("I can bust down the dressing room door and stare at the chicks' ta-tas because I own the joint. But I'm a very classy ogler, believe me.") look quaint.

So thank god there are some battle-tested allies who will fight back hard when the He-Man Womanhater party tries rolling back women's rights by a century or more. This week we're highlighting and supporting the Center for Reproductive Rights, whose president Nancy Northup has this to say about the incoming groper administration:

“Make no mistake: Donald Trump’s proposed policies pose a direct threat to the constitutional protections recognized by Roe v. Wade and resoundingly reaffirmed in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.  Our country now stands perilously close to a return to the dark days when women were forced to put their own lives at risk to get safe and legal abortion care.

President-elect Trump has publicly pledged to overturn Roe and promised punishment for the one in three American women who will have an abortion in her lifetime.

When a woman decides to end a pregnancy, she needs safe, high-quality care--not a prison sentence.  The Center for Reproductive Rights will continue to harness the momentum of the recent victory in Whole Woman’s Health and is ready to bring the full force of the law in order to oppose any attacks on reproductive freedom in the courts and Congress.”

The Center's mission is "dedicated to reproductive rights, with expertise in both U.S. constitutional and international human rights law. Our groundbreaking cases before national courts, United Nations committees, and regional human rights bodies have expanded access to reproductive healthcare, including birth control, safe abortion, prenatal and obstetric care, and unbiased information." If you're able and so inclined, here's the Center's donation page. The sooner we help our allies shore up their defenses for the coming shitstorm, the better we’ll all be able to push back against the orcs at the gate.

Cheers and Jeers starts below the fold...