Abortion Rights Et Al



If you are worried about Trump being elected and abortion rights disappearing, let me recommend you fully support the misogynistic Republican party's pro life stance by creating fliers of all the abortifacients expectant women should avoid to protect their baby, a la that scene in The Incredibles.

I got some free books once from somewhere. Two or three of them were about some island where they outlawed the importation of slaves some years before they outlawed slavery and life expectancy for slaves was very low there because they treated their slaves terribly (like a mere three years after arrival from elsewhere).

After they outlawed the importation of slaves, the number of slaves steadily shrank because they weren't importing new ones and birth rates among "ignorant, helpless slaves with no resources" failed to be replacement level. One book or study concluded they were likely using herbal birth control of some sort.

I imagine they were probably using herbs to induce miscarriage. Historically the primary means of "birth control" was inducing miscarriage, sometimes in gruesome ways that could kill the mother.

If you are pro family and you want healthier children etc, I suggest you try helping moms go to college part-time. PAY for part-time college and make sure campuses have daycare centers similar to WW2 on-site daycare at work. 

Last I checked, you could get Federal financial aid for taking just two college courses but not one. An easy place to start is for someone -- local community colleges, perhaps -- to put the information together for how a mom can get most or all of the cost of two classes paid and convenient daycare options to help make school feasible.

Start with where we are now and begin filling in the chinks. Initially, you don't even need information on how this can lead to a DEGREE. That can come later as you get more takers for a "part-time college for moms" program or agenda.

Women tend to take courses they can fit in around their family obligations AND can afford. If you help them do that, some women will go and SOME college is better than none for job hunting later when the kids are older.

If possible, provide daycare on campus or at least find daycare options near campus to list in your informational flyer or web page. It makes a huge difference if mom can go talk to her kid on her break and have lunch with the kid if she wants.

Try supporting maternity leave in some fashion. America is the only "developed" country without good maternity leave nationally. There are like two others that are as bad and they are extremely poor. What's our excuse?

Someone could research how they made Rosy the Riveter policies actually work so women could successfully go to work while their men went to war. We did this overnight as a nation for WW2, then promptly reversed it and forgot how to do that well as soon as the men came home from war.

American women have politically taken the extremely American stance of "Don't tread on me" and we default to "If you will get the hell out my way, I can do just as good a job as you."

Last I checked stats, it works for something like three percent of American women. The minute you have a child or husband, you're back to making two thirds what a man makes because of the pink collar ghetto which boils down to women take jobs that leave them with the time and energy for their "second shift": doing the women's work at home and raising the kids.

You know, what the Bible lists for the worth of a woman 2000 years ago. "Progress."

In contrast, European women politically said "Help me carry this burden of child bearing and child rearing" and they have lower divorce rates, more family help taking care of the kids (Grandma instead of daycare, for example) and have done a better job closing the wage gap. Italian women were making something like 87 percent what men made three decades ago when I was reading everything I could to answer my question "How the hell did I end up in this 1950s style marriage???"

If you want to work on updating laws and policies, I suggest you find out what European policies look like. No need to reinvent the wheel here.

My recollection is Italy and France had done the best job at that time in closing the wage gap. So if it were me, I would look at their policies from 30 to 50 years ago and then custom fit it to the American system.