The Governor is Attempting to fill the DHHS with Anti-Abortion Crusaders

[TexasTowelie]

The state public health department is being overtaken for political reasons in yet another effort by the governor to attack family planning and public health in general. And in true NEGOP fashion, this clumsy takeover is being attempted with poor grammar, bad spelling, and plain old nonsensical ramblings..

A global pandemic placed public health in the spotlight for the last several months, but prior to Covid-19, public health funding had been cut and programming had been attacked for decades. In particular, Nebraska Title X (family planning) funding has been attacked from the right on several occasions to varying degrees of “success” by Ricketts-funded groups like the fanatical misogynist Catholic anti-gay hate group the Nebraska Family Alliance.

Over the last six months, public health staff have been stretched beyond their capacity to respond to the Coronavirus pandemic and to protect the health and lives of fellow Nebraskans.

The efforts by the DHHS to serve all Nebraskans have been interrupted incessantly. Whether it was the no-bid contract for TestNebraska without upfront clear data sharing structure back to DHHS to complete contact tracing, lack of support and even overt hostility from the governor on implementation of community safety measures (half-assed, unenforced DHMs, no statewide stay-at-home order, and no statewide mask mandate), complete disregard for public health expertise, or any of the other anti-science efforts that have occurred, one thing is certain: ensuring the public’s health in Nebraska is a lot harder than it should be simply due to lack of leadership.

Read more: http://seeingrednebraska.com/misogyny/the-governor-is-attempting-to-fill-the-dhhs-with-anti-abortion-crusaders/

[Claire Oh Nette]

1. The whole abortion debate....

The entire abortion debate is really about Old white men's fears of their not being enough old white men.

Oh, the unborn, they cry. Vote for the unborn...never mind that not every pregnancy comes to term. Never mind that not every pregnancy is safe medically. One in three or one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, often before women know they are pregnant. There are no "late periods." That late period is just the end of an unsuccessful pregnancy.

Those who want to regulate women's reproduction are ONLY concerned that a woman might abort an embryo that might turn into a white male.

If it were black women having the bulk of abortions, they'd care not. If Latinx women were having abortions, they'd care not. They only care because white people are no longer a majority, but a plurality. Hence the Quiverfull movement and other pro birth groups.

The same people who decry a woman's choice to terminate a pregnancy would put an end to CONTRACEPTIVES as well.

I had a heart attack at 24. No children for me. Ever. Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection--a kind of heart attack whose victims are 80% women, average age, 42, "typically fatal in labor and delivery." I was in the cohort in Greater metro Los Angeles who triggered the then non political CDC to send investigators who identified this type of heart attack. The cohort that led to warnings on birth control pills. This is what caused death in childbirth so often when young mothers died giving birth.

Their precious old testament gives specific instances when women should abort. What happens in other people's pants is not their concern. They insist they don't "believe" in abortion. Well, whether they "believe" in it or not, it exists. It's not like Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny.
Don't "believe" in abortion? Then A) don't knock anyone up. B) Don't have one.

Everything the GOP supports goes right back to a small coterie of White Men running the show, with all others mere "property" for the small white men to control.