MUST WATCH: A Texas woman calls out her state senators, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, for nearly killing her. Make no mistake, Republican policies are designed to put women, children, and pregnant people in danger—this is a feature, not a bug. In other words, it is their 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.
Recently in Oklahoma, a woman’s molar pregnancy became cancerous. Molar pregnancies usually do not produce a fetus and, in the cases in which they do, the fetus is not viable. No matter what the doctors had done in this case, there would have been no baby. And yet, when Jaci Statton went to the emergency room—in pain and bleeding heavily—hospital staff told her to wait in the parking lot until she became so ill doctors would have no choice but to treat her.
“Unless you are crashing in front of us or your blood pressure goes so high that you are fixing to have a heart attack,” she was told, we cannot help you.
Republicans do not care that someone who has an unviable pregnancy will DIE if they don’t have access to an abortion. Republicans don’t care if denying health care results in infertility.
The platform of the Republican Party is cruelty; it is misogyny; it is control.
And we need to fight against them with all of our strength.
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If @SpeakerMcCarthy & @HouseGOP have their way, and 22% is cut from the VA, what will that cause
Rural #Veterans waiting hours, if they can even get care at all
We already don't provide enough mental health help
Kevin and the GOP only see Vets as props
#NoCutsToVeteransCare
Cellist @YoYo_Ma performed a rendition of “America the Beautiful” with the Philadelphia Orchestra (@PhilOrch) to commemorate the launch of #Artemis I to the Moon.
Just this quarter, @Exxonmobil posted a record $19.66 billion in profits, and @Chevron raked in $11.23 billion.
Corporations need to stop price gouging consumers.
Americans deserve relief at the gas pump.
https://t.co/X0juofrYQg
We have two parties.
One is anti-democracy, anti-truth, and anti-rule of law.
The other is sometimes inept and foolish, with some fringe illiberal elements--but basically committed to the institutions and norms of liberal democracy and a free society.
It's not a tough choice.
BREAKING: Under President Biden, the U.S. is experiencing the LOWEST rates of poverty, uninsured and peacetime unemployment in recorded American history. 🇺🇸
#StCharlesCounty's ½-cent Transportation Sales Tax was first enacted by voters in 1985, and the county has benefitted from more than $1 billion in transportation improvements and has built or improved 1,110 miles of county roads over the past 36 years. https://t.co/VEMqLrRjYH