Overheard (Alabama Edition) #6, 7, and 8 (Freethought Today)

"The idea is absurd and unscientific. It is instead tied to a religious crusade to downgrade the personhood of women by conferring personhood on frozen embryos."  

— New York Times columnist Charles Blow 

"Alabama is a dangerous theocracy. He [Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker] is self-anointed as the divine guide to interpret your laws through ancient religious texts and his own 17th-century filter. You are subject to his delusions, his interpretation of God, his inner mandate, despite your pesky First Amendment right to believe your own religious truth, or to believe nothing at all."  

— AL.com columnist John Archibald 

"You may think life is a matter of consciousness. Or you may think it is connected to the first stirrings of an embryo in the womb. Or you may simply think it is all pretty complicated. But it will not matter what you or I or anyone thinks or believes if the theocrats gain power. As in Alabama, they will use the law to impose their dogma on us all."

 — Seattle Times cartoonist David Horsey

https://www.freethoughttoday.com/free/overheard-alabama-edition/

Overheard (Alabama Edition) #5 Freethought Today

"Having three embryos in the freezer is not the same to me as having one that implants and become a pregnancy, and it’s not the same as having a child. We have three embryos. We don’t have three children." — Megan Legerski of Tuscaloosa, Ala., who is currently undergoing infertility treatment.

https://www.freethoughttoday.com/free/overheard-alabama-edition/

Overheard (Alabama Edition) #3 (Freethought Today)

"The longer-term danger — indeed the apparent longer-term goal — is to raise and expand the definition of unborn personhood, to go after birth control methods and reproductive technologies that involve fertilized eggs. The ultimate aim, of course, is to have the fertilized egg declared a person from the moment of conception, under state constitutions and, ultimately, the 14th Amendment."

 — Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus

https://www.freethoughttoday.com/free/overheard-alabama-edition/

The Choice

The @SenateGOP is willing to tear this country apart to remake America in Trump's image. Their loyalty is to power, not us.

https://youtu.be/GPXATItZtBw

How the Health Insurance Industry (and I) Invented the ‘Choice’ Talking Point - NYTimes

How the Health Insurance Industry (and I) Invented the 'Choice' Talking Point
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/opinion/healthcare-choice-democratic-debate.html

This one word reveals which Democrats are repeating insurance industry talking points on health care – Raw Story

As Democrats prepare to debate health care reform during the last debate before the first votes, a former top insurance company executive warned about one key talking point that he helped the insurance companies push. Wendell Potter laid out his warning in a new op-ed for The New York Times. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/this-one-word-reveals-which-democrats-are-repeating-insurance-industry-talking-points-on-health-care/

In its anti-'Medicare for All' push, the health insurance industry pulls from an old playbook - The Conversation US

In the wake of the New Deal, the business community realized that appealing to widely shared American values could get the public to oppose measures that curbed corporate power.
https://theconversation.com/in-its-anti-medicare-for-all-push-the-health-insurance-industry-pulls-from-an-old-playbook-127966

Biden calls for everyone having the choice to buy into Medicare - The Hill

His plan stops short of Sen. Bernie Sanders's proposal.....
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/441232-biden-calls-for-giving-everyone-the-choice-to-buy-into-medicare