Alabama was on the verge of passing the most hypocritical and fanatically extremist abortion ban yet. The bill is delayed only because Democrats in the state senate wanted Republicans to go on record as opposing an amendment for rape and incest exemptions.
With confirmed plagiarist Neil Gorsuch and alleged rapist Brett Kavanaugh safely ensconced on the U. S. Supreme Court, it was only a matter of time before state legislatures with Republican strangleholds started passing extremist abortion bans.
These bans are sure to be challenged in court. That seems to be the plan: to have the cases go all the way up to the Supreme Court, where the narrow Republican majority will probably rule that a woman doesn’t have the right to decide what happens in her own body.
As usual, these bans say nothing about male accountability in pregnancy. Though to be fair to Bart O’Kavanaugh, no one has accused him of a completed rape resulting in an unwanted pregnancy.
If somehow Brett Kavanaugh found himself with an embryonic life form unwillingly implanted in his stomach, he’d want it out of his body as soon as possible. Because, damn it, he likes beer, and he won’t make the slightest sacrifice for a baby.
In a comment on Brainwrap’s update on the bans in Georgia and Ohio, Vetwife suggested that “Coca Cola could really feel a punch if boycotted,” and jazzed suggested sending a bunch of e-mails to travel@exploregeorgia.org.
After all, with Georgia’s draconian ban, it’s not hard to imagine a nightmare scenario in which a pregnant woman passing through Georgia suffers the miscarriage of a baby she really wanted to carry to term, and is then charged with murder.
The Georgia legislature might care more about the state’s industries than about their women constituents. Tourism and the Coca-Cola Company are the main things that come to mind when talking about Georgia.
Obviously Coca-Cola and Diet Coke are Coca-Cola products. Here are some other products you may or may not be aware are also Coca-Cola products:
- Ciel
- Costa Coffee
- Dasani
- del Valle
- Fanta
- Fairlife
- Georgia Coffee (I think I wanna try this one once the boycott is over)
- Glaceau Smart Water
- Glaceau Vitamin Water
- Gold Peak (cold tea)
- Honest Tea
- Mello Yello
- Minute Maid
- Odwalla
- Powerade
- Simply Orange
- Sprite
- Surge
- Zico
There is also the suggestion to boycott TV shows filming in Georgia. According to Project Casting, the currently filming shows are:
- A show for OWN with working title “Ambitions”
- Bigger for BET
- Conjuring 3
- Deadly Cults
- Dollar Toy Squad
- Encore!
- Fear Street, the first movie of a trilogy
- Good Eats: The Return
- Holidate
- Insatiable
- Intolerable with Nancy Grace
- Live to Tell
- Love & Hip Hop Atlanta Season 8
- Married to Medicine Season 7
- Ozark Season 3
- P Valley
- Robbie
- Saints & Sinners Season 4
- Say Yes to the Dress
- Stargirl Season 1
- Sunday Best
- The Aquarium
- The Christmas Card
- The Encounter
- The Liberator
- The Outsider
- The Plath Family
- The Real World
- The Walking Dead
Project Casting also lists Avengers 4 (not Endgame?) as a “film sign.”
And it turns out that Georgia Pacific is based in Atlanta, Georgia. But even if it wasn’t, that’s a Koch industry, so it might be a good idea to boycott it regardless.
Thursday, May 9, 2019 · 11:04:14 PM +00:00
·
Alonso del Arte
In the comment thread for Brainwrap’s update, Elle1964 asked: “Did you bother to find out if Coca Cola supports such legislation?” That prompted me to do a search that led me to a ThinkProgress.org article (emphases mine):
The measure faced plenty of pushback from various groups when the Georgia legislature first passed it. Reproductive rights and justice organizations occupied the state house for several weeks before the vote in late March; Coca-Cola and Amazon executives wrote lawmakers to oppose the bill, HB 481; and the Writers Guild even warned that the film and television industry, which pours a lot of money into the local economy, would leave the state when Kemp makes HB 481 law. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) also vowed to sue when Georgia officially makes the bill law.
Another good point from Elle is that people “won't stay away from a product they love for very long.” Or even products they don’t really love but are very convenient (like the two or three times I forgot I was supposed to be boycotting McDonald’s — some of the boycott reasons still apply, some don’t).
So the more important thing here would be to boycott Georgia tourism, regardless of the specific hospitality companies’ views on HB 481, so that then they can tell the legislature that they’re hurting on account of this Gileadean law.