A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking mailing of prescriptions of mifepristone.

A panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is requiring that the abortion pill be distributed only in person at clinics.

“Every abortion facilitated by FDA’s action cancels Louisiana’s ban on medical abortions and undermines its policy that ‘every unborn child is human being from the moment of conception and is, therefore, a legal person,’” the ruling states.

Pretty much. It’s the 5th circuit being assholes again.

Blessed <3

All the more for the rest of us ;)

I encourage you to ask them to flesh out their arguments it is often hilarious.

It’s especially funny when they try to use “the nuke” to do so

Reasonable people can disagree with or be put off by things Piker has said or positions he’s taken. In fact, it would be surprising if they weren’t: Piker, like Rogan, is first and foremost an entertainer whose willingness to be outrageous is a key part of his persona. There are certainly plenty of things that Piker’s said in the tens of thousands of hours of public airtime he’s logged over the past six years that I would not cosign.

But that’s plainly not the reason for this tedious uproar. We know it isn’t, because of the scores of commentators and political figures who remain in the good graces of the Democratic establishment despite saying things that are not identical to but often far, far worse than anything Piker’s said — let alone actually doing things that have caused untold death and misery to millions. We also know it isn’t because centrist Democrats who tut-tut at Piker, like Elissa Slotkin, still eagerly get in line to yuk it up with Bill Maher — who, just like Piker, once made an offensive statement about September 11 that he later apologized for (besides his virulent, open racism toward Arabs and Muslims).

No, this is about a sick political establishment that constantly bemoans political violence but is so deeply suffused with the most extreme forms of it that openly calling for and defending mass murder via the US or Israeli military doesn’t even raise an eyebrow. And it’s about the ongoing factional war within the Democratic Party, which is seeing its discredited and widely hated corporate establishment once more play the move it always goes back to when it feels its control wavering: cancel culture and language policing.

They’d much rather cry about Piker than actually look inward at why they continue to lose elections. It would be comical if it wasn’t so blatant and frustrating.

Even if OP doesn’t know it, it’s the truth and shouldn’t have offended people for being the truth.

One should only be offended by this if one holds the belief that women are directly causing men to be lonely. And that’s an entire can of worms to open there.

The male loneliness epidemic isn’t caused by women.

That’s the point of the meme.

Dude, bro

‘Dude’ works better, bro

If it’s a contributor, then it isn’t all fucking made up, now is it?

If you read the article and the study it references, selective sex abortion has affected these numbers.

Its not the only reason, but this is also not my only comment about it here.

Men angry.

Doesn’t quite match up since she is the performer here as well.

Comfort to me, what does that even mean?

One reason, do we persevere?

Existing for the sake of existing, meaning disappears

Meanwhile, I only just started learning basic politics

Meanwhile, they sexualize my body and get mad when I exploit it

It’s just for capital

Am I an animal?

It’s just for capital, capital, capital

But do I care at all?

Amyl and The Sniffers - Capital immediately came to mind.

It’s hard to survive in late stage capitalism. Might as well exploit it.

Turns out when you allow sex-selective abortions and inflate the importance of men above women, there’s more men in the population and more competition for being able to procreate.

TLDR There’s too many men around.

I’m clearly biased, but you are giving major modern Velma vibes and jinkies its awesome :3

The skirt is cute, but the top is AMAZING! Love that cropped look with the denim skirt

Reproductive-age populations show a growing male surplus around the globe as aconsequence of declining mortality, narrowing sex differences in mortality, and sex-selective abortions in some countries. Population structures are important determinantsof marriage markets and childbearing. In this study, we estimate the past, current, andfuture difference between the male and the female total fertility rates around the worldusing an established indirect demographic approach drawing on data from the UNWorld Population Prospects. Our results indicate a crossover from historically highermale fertility to increasingly higher female fertility, which occurs globally in 2024.This shift is not toward parity, but rather reflects a growing disparity driven by theincreasing male surplus at reproductive ages, which exerts downward pressure on malefertility rates relative to those of women. The difference is expected to grow to up to20% in countries like China and India, where sex-selective abortion has reinforced seximbalances in population structures. Overall, we highlight the growing sex inequalitiesin reproduction and call for more research on sex differences in fertility.

Here is the study that this article is based on.

“The key finding is that we are observing a shift from a higher total fertility rate among men to a higher total fertility rate among women, which has occurred globally in 2024. This shift is driven by an increase in the proportion of men in the population,’ explains Schubert, a researcher at the MPIDR. Schubert and his colleagues attribute this to long-term trends such as falling mortality, narrowing mortality gaps between women and men, and the link to sex-selective abortions in some countries.”

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I love them as a band and the name makes sense once you know what it’s representing, but it’s terrible for searching or recommending to people.