That sounds about right. People forget that Trump was the original pusher of MRNA injections. Without Trump, there would have been no way for Fauci to inflate himself.
You're very right about abortion. I may not be a young woman anymore, but I am actually glad Republicans did not win Illinois for the reason that they would have pushed to make abortion illegal here. Not that I ever was an incredibly sexual person or anything, but my younger self lived in fear of getting pregnant from age 12 - 31, when I had myself sterilized. I didn't want kids this time around, yet there were plenty of parties who wanted to foist that decision on me whether I liked it or not. In my opinion, that attitude (that someone else has autonomy over my body because I had the misfortune to get pregnant after forced or consensual sex) is disgusting and it's actually more reprehensible than the women/girls who obtain abortions as a form of birth control. I myself never had enough unprotected sex or wasn't fertile enough to merit having to have an abortion. Nevertheless, the fear of it during my prime ruined my attitude about sex and resulted in a great deal of anger directed towards men and maleness. I have yet to meet a woman who had an abortion who saw it as a form of birth control. For every woman I know who had an abortion and told me about it (more than a dozen) it was a one-time only procedure done because there was no other good choice.
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Date: 2022-11-19 09:04 pm (UTC)You're very right about abortion. I may not be a young woman anymore, but I am actually glad Republicans did not win Illinois for the reason that they would have pushed to make abortion illegal here. Not that I ever was an incredibly sexual person or anything, but my younger self lived in fear of getting pregnant from age 12 - 31, when I had myself sterilized. I didn't want kids this time around, yet there were plenty of parties who wanted to foist that decision on me whether I liked it or not. In my opinion, that attitude (that someone else has autonomy over my body because I had the misfortune to get pregnant after forced or consensual sex) is disgusting and it's actually more reprehensible than the women/girls who obtain abortions as a form of birth control. I myself never had enough unprotected sex or wasn't fertile enough to merit having to have an abortion. Nevertheless, the fear of it during my prime ruined my attitude about sex and resulted in a great deal of anger directed towards men and maleness. I have yet to meet a woman who had an abortion who saw it as a form of birth control. For every woman I know who had an abortion and told me about it (more than a dozen) it was a one-time only procedure done because there was no other good choice.