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Hi @RepChipRoy please stop imposing Christian theological notions onto American citizens. We have separation of church and state here, despite your past defense of homophobic discrimination as “Christian values.”
Would you like to learn?
Come and learn.
1/x thread. https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1336388322776788995
Would you like to learn?
Come and learn.
1/x thread. https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1336388322776788995
Oh, wait, I already taught your friend Newt this, you can read this thread. https://twitter.com/theradr/status/1308570100354691073
Here's another thread! https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/1125877688877625347
So--yes, I have made the case that abortion access is a legitimate Jewish issue, and having access is in part a freedom of religion issue (here's one more piece if you want it https://www.newsweek.com/abortion-jewish-right-scotus-june-medical-services-louisiana-constitution-1514214).
But let's talk about who's really harmed most by cutting abortion access.
But let's talk about who's really harmed most by cutting abortion access.
Wealthy people will almost always find a way to get abortions as they need.
The people who are always most harmed by cuts to abortion access are those who already had less privilege to begin with.
The people who are always most harmed by cuts to abortion access are those who already had less privilege to begin with.
There is is nothing “pro-life” about increasing the likelihood that people—most of all those impacted by poverty and systemic racism—will seek out unsafe ways to obtain abortions if our access to reproductive healthcare is cut further.
There’s nothing “pro-life” about the fact that those who lack access to reproductive health care — disproportionately low-income people, BIPOC, immigrants, and LGBTQ individuals — are more likely to live in poverty and to remain in abusive relationships.
There’s nothing “pro-life” about forcing people to stay pregnant given that the US has the highest rate of maternal mortality and morbidity among industrialized countries, w/Black & indigenous Americans 3x more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than white Americans.
There’s nothing “pro-life” about restricting abortion access given that high rates of unsafe abortions are directly associated with laws restricting access to critical health care and that unsafe abortions are a leading cause of death worldwide.
Also reminder that evangelicals (who hadn't been at all bothered by Roe when it passed) took on abortion as a strategic decision to find an issue that would galvanize evangelicals after they lost on school segregation (aka racism) in SCOTUS. https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734303135/throughline-traces-evangelicals-history-on-the-abortion-issue
Oh, turns out he thinks religious persecution is bad—so perhaps that includes not persecuting non-Christians who, as a matter of faith, religious law or personal conscience, require abortion access!
Because forcing people to do things according to your religion would be... yes. https://twitter.com/repchiproy/status/1336085613746016256
Because forcing people to do things according to your religion would be... yes. https://twitter.com/repchiproy/status/1336085613746016256
(And yes obvs some Jews are on Medicaid & some Jews are BIPOC & some Jews are poor & etc, realized that sequence of tweets might have been misleading. What I meant to say was: this matters not as just a Jewish issue, but as an American issue, hitting marginalized folks hardest.)
So for any of you who want to help defeat the Hyde amendment once and for all, which is among other things another way that systemic racism and punishing low-income people for being poor play out in our healthcare structure, tell your lawmakers: http://ncjw.org/act/action/urge-your-lawmakers-to-fight-for-equal-access-to-abortion-coverage/
