locked up until they deliver?
locked up if they lose the baby?
Have to wear a Scarlett “B”?
I hate preventable abortion too, but, 
this… is not the way to go.
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I am perhaps the most anti-abortion poster here and i consider this ridiculously bad. Instead of at risk of abortion, let’s make a list of politicians at risk of fascism.
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It’s like a couple years ago I had a breaking point moment of pause when Tennessee was considering a bill (that I think either died or got withdrawn) that essentially would have given babydaddys veto power over abortions. It properly gave me pause to consider the obvious consequences of such a power.
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Right now? Nothing. It’s innocent. Innocuous. We’re looking to help these poor, defenseless women, and their pre-born infant babies! How could you argue against us identifying people who need help? Wow, I guess you hate women and babies, you monster.
Until abortion is illegal. Then, anybody who is identified as pregnant and doesn’t have a live birth can be investigated for charges.
Yeah, that’s kind of what I figured. I mean if they were going to make a list of at risk pregnant women to provide them with extra health care or something… but that’s basically what WIC is all about.
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Trump issued an Executive Order to protect access to and lower the costs of IVF.
I guess the hundreds-billionaire Musk needs to save money to make more children?
Again, I’m unsure how he thinks he has this power.
Well that’s easy. He thinks he’s omnipotent, so obviously he thinks he has that, and every, power.
What’s relevant is whether the courts and Congress are willing to cede it to him.
The reality is that unless the executive order is challenged in court, or unless Congress intervenes with legislation or impeachment…he has the power.
This order is one that I can’t imagine that anyone with standing to intervene would do so.
Agreed. He’s asking for recommendations to protect access and reduce costs. This is one of his few directives so far I have no issues with.
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Yup. He hasn’t ordered it to happen. He’s asked for his team to come up with recommendations on how to do it.
I don’t get the left-leaning people who oppose this. When states starting making it difficult to do IVF because of the embryos that were being discarded, they complained. Now, Trump is trying to reverse that, and make it easier to access IVF. He’s not breaking any rules (at least not yet). What’s not to like?
Given miscarriages happen everywhere and happen in maybe 20% of pregnancies, this isn’t too likely at least for identifications of early pregnancies.
I’m okay with killing the penny, too.
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but how does that make sense when the nickel is proportionately more expensive?
Or do we kill that one too.
In the US’s hyperpolarized political environment, “they” can never be allowed to win. “Their” losses are “our” victories.
That’s apparently the norm now, regardless of who “they” and “we” are.
Have we gotten to the point where people throw nickels away? If so, we should get rid of them. For years now, most smaller shops have had a tray for you to throw your pennies into so the next buyer doesn’t need to fish around for a penny or get pennies in change. That’s when we should have stopped making pennies.
I have not seen those boxes, but maybe that is yet another example of my being not that observant.
Yes, it makes sense. You need a lot fewer nickels. You never need more than one in standard change-giving, and you need a nickel only 40% of the time. That’s compared to needing them 80% of the time and needing multiple pennies. So the ratio of what you expect to use would be, what, 40/200? I’d think you’d not need significantly more nickels than are already being minted. There are $179m in pennies made each year and $18m in nickels.
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someone wrote an article in which they argued the opposite but maybe they didn’t know what they were talking about and frankly I don’t care enough either way lol
just my 2 cents… savor it while it lasts. sometime later I may have to give 5 cents