Equality forever!
The stay in the above matter is dissolved immediately.
At 4 p.m., a spokesman for the attorney general's office confirmed that Harris was about to begin officiating the marriage of Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, a Berkeley couple who were two of the four plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case decided this week. "About to marry the #Prop8 plaintiffs Kristin Perry and Sandra Stier. Wedding bells are ringing!" Harris tweeted Friday afternoon.
"About to marry the #Prop8 plaintiffs Kristin Perry and Sandra Stier. Wedding bells are ringing!" Harris tweeted Friday afternoon.
First and foremost, it's cruel, arbitrary and monstrous to tell any woman that she must simply carry a fetus to term as if it were a mere minor inconvenience. Beyond the mere principle of civil rights and freedom involved, it's an insult to women that severely underestimates the expense and danger involved in pregnancy. Some pregnancies go very smoothly, but many do not. Secondly, however, it's particularly monstrous in the context of a society that does not provide remotely adequate worker protections for pregnancy, childbirth, post-natal care and nursing--for women or men for that matter. To tell women what they can do with their bodies and to underestimate the problems with pregnancy is horrible enough. To do so while failing to provide free universal healthcare and worker protections isn't just patriarchal and monstrous, but downright punitive. It's the result of a sick, twisted culture whose highest priority is punishing women for daring to have sex outside of their husband's strict jurisdiction. And every culture that places punishing women for being sexual beings ahead of basic human rights should be humbled and brought to heel, with half its population emancipated from the monsters who would shackle them to their wombs.
Secondly, however, it's particularly monstrous in the context of a society that does not provide remotely adequate worker protections for pregnancy, childbirth, post-natal care and nursing--for women or men for that matter. To tell women what they can do with their bodies and to underestimate the problems with pregnancy is horrible enough. To do so while failing to provide free universal healthcare and worker protections isn't just patriarchal and monstrous, but downright punitive.
It's the result of a sick, twisted culture whose highest priority is punishing women for daring to have sex outside of their husband's strict jurisdiction. And every culture that places punishing women for being sexual beings ahead of basic human rights should be humbled and brought to heel, with half its population emancipated from the monsters who would shackle them to their wombs.
But for conservatives, the goal has never been actually reducing the number of abortions. It has always been about controlling women's sexual freedom. Expanded sex education and health coverage gives women greater sexual freedom while reducing abortions, so on balance conservatives hate that. Given the choice between more abortions and more freedom for women, conservatives will pick more abortions every time. And that tells you everything you need to know.
And that tells you everything you need to know.