Storylines about abortion and conversations about it showed up on television 65 times this year, on prestigious dramas like The Pitt and Call the Midwife, on reality shows such as W.A.G.s to Riches and Love is Blind and on lowbrow animated comedies like Family Guy and South Park. That's about the same as last year. In 2024, TV shows featured 66 such plotlines.
Later, I would learn that 59% of abortion patients already have a kid - that the majority of the women who choose the procedure do it so they can better support a child that they already have. That my situation was actually quite common. Since the beginning of time, women have made decisions like this. I would also learn that the birthrate in the U.S. was falling each year and that 74% of parents under 50 were not interested in adding another child to their lives.
The share of men from ages 18 to 29 who said abortion would matter a great deal in shaping their vote increased by 12 points after they saw video testimony from people who were personally impacted by an abortion ban. For men ages 29 through 54 and those who were 55 and older, hearing directly from people affected by bans resulted in a 5 point increase in the same category.
Gen Z women are the most politically left-leaning group in the US, according to a poll which suggests that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average on issues such as abortion and gender-affirming care.
Someone who says, I'm against abortion, but says, I'm in favor of the death penalty, is not really pro-life. Someone who says that I'm against abortion, but, I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life. So, they're very complex issues. I don't know if anyone has all the truth on them; but I would ask, first and foremost, that there be greater respect for one another and that we search together,
Shadowbanning is the often silent suppression of certain types of content or creators in your social media feeds. It's not something that a U.S-based creator is notified about, but rather something they simply find out when their posts stop getting the same level of engagement that they're used to, or when people are unable to easily find their account using the platform's search function.
While purporting to be motivated by pro-life (or at least anti-death) principles, these laws and bills are fundamentally misogynistic. They have three fundamental functions. The first is to appease a key portion of the base. Second, couched in pro-life language, these laws provide excellent dog whistles for misogynists. The male misogynists generally understand that the message being sent to them is: "Your baby in her body. Her body in your kitchen. Making you a sandwich to put in your body."
While sitting at his desktop, Tapper searched the CDC website for the word abortion under the CDC's Ten Great Public Health Advancements. And you'll see, none of them include the word abortion,' he said. There's another one, also, just to be fair, Tapper continued. Here's another Ten Great Public Health Achievements,' United States, a different one. When Tapper typed in abortion, the search came up zero out of zero.
Gretchen, the tragic character in Faust, embodies the plight of women in societies where misogynistic moralities prevail and reproductive rights are severely restricted.
During his life in the food industry and public service, Vance Boelter's evolving worldview appeared influenced by fringe theological ideas rooted in charismatic Christianity and Christian nationalism.
In a 2023 sermon reviewed by WIRED and delivered by the alleged shooter in Matadi, a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he preached against abortion and called for different Christian churches to become 'one.' 'They don't know abortion is wrong, many churches,' he said. 'God gives the body gifts. To keep balance... God is going to raise up apostles and prophets in America, to correct His church.'
