I seriously blame the environmental movement of the 70s-90s and it’s framing of the issue around nature as this delicate thing we need to protect because it’s precious and pretty, and not around “hey, you want mass famines and water-wars!? Because this is how you inflict mass famines and water-wars on humanity.”
Fresh off their historic victory in bringing about the end of the constitutional right to abortion in the US, these groups are importing familiar tactics, including public protests and demonstrations, anti-abortion counseling centers or so-called “crisis pregnancy centers”, and the cultivation of ties with clerical leaders.
These efforts are meeting significant opposition in Britain, where abortion access is widely supported and generally available up to 24 weeks and parliament recently passed legislation targeting harassment outside clinics. But reproductive rights advocacy groups are warily observing the US movement’s expansion.
“That US Christian right and anti-abortion groups are establishing bases in the UK means that the issue of abortion – and related sexual and reproductive rights – will become increasingly contested in public debate and at a political level, even when there is broad social acceptance for the UK abortion model,” says Neil Datta, executive director of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Health.
“We can expect that the successes they have had in the US in these areas to be adapted to a UK context in the coming years.”
On this day, 5 April 1932 in Newfoundland, a crowd of 10,000 people demonstrated outside the central government building in protest at price increases and pension cuts. Police attacked the demonstrators, clubbing a child in the head, and got more than they bargained for. One officer was pulled from his horse and beaten, while the mob smashed up the building, setting fire to it and storming it in search of Prime Minister R.B. Bennett. A group of police and priests attempted to get the PM to safety, but he was cornered a couple of times, once punched in the face, before he managed to escape. Then the demonstrators set about looting all the downtown liquor stores, and the government subsequently collapsed.
More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10486/newfoundland-riothttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=603780888461797&set=a.602588028581083&type=3
Just a hunch here, gop. But I think being 14 and married to a gross older man or dying in a mining accident is a bigger threat to a child than hearing about trans people.
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