deactherunner
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Lucasfilm came after a brewery for using a stormtrooper. Are they cool with this?
a bunch of Sandmans in the making looking for their payday too
Lucasfilm came after a brewery for using a stormtrooper. Are they cool with this?
Flying to DC this morning. There’s about 50 boys from a Catholic Boys school heading to the March For Life wearing these hoodies.
Hard to imagine being so excited to take away someone’s rights that you make a sweatshirt.
Meh not sure about this. Maybe some in there. I think it’s more to Shoo’s point that these kids live in a conservative bubble and believe what their parents believe or are taught in theology class, and they truly believe abortion is murder, not really thinking for themselves. I think they’re just going with the crowd on a school trip to DC (no class!), not to mention that their brains aren’t fully formed yet.
Re: catholic schools. Jesuit schools teach social justice across the board. I have friends who went to Jesuit schools and never heard anything from them about abortion. It was always about volunteering in lower income schools/communities and helping the least of us. And Jesuit schools I saw had a good mix of rich white kids and lower income kids on partial scholarship. I think jesuits educate appropriately but I could be wrong.
Catholic schools also teach actual science and not creationism. On a scale of 1-to-crazy, I am far less concerned about Catholic schools than about the Evangelical/fundamentalist ones.
How dare they sully Baby Yoda's good name with that BS? I love when conservatives whine about colleges indoctrinating kids with liberal ideas. There is no greater indoctrination of conservative bullshit than organized Christianity and Christian schools, and at a younger, more susceptible age. It's a cancer.
Are you ok? Have they hurt you?
My thoughts are with you as you undertake this challenging journey to DC.
Because this thread was bumped, seems a good enough place to put this paper. They looked at a cohort of women who wanted an abortion but were denied one, and compared them to a similar cohort of women who were just before the gestational limit and thus able to get an abortion. Despite similar levels of financial distress at baseline, there was a significant increase in financial problems for those denied an abortion that persisted out to at least 6 years. Unpaid bills, bankruptcies, liens, and evictions increase by 80%.
Paper: https://www.nber.org/papers/w26662 (probably paywalled?)
Overview: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mille/TurnawayPP.pdf
If a goal is for fewer women with unplanned pregnancies to choose abortion, we need policies to help make sure keeping the baby isn't such a financial hardship.
One of the great, consistent flaws in the GOP's abortion argument is that all of their care and concern for the baby and mother mysteriously seems to vanish the moment the child is born. After that, it's survival of the fittest. Doesn't sound very pro-life, but there it is.
Jesus strick. You look like RJ on his anti-Bernie crusade.