I remember some very sensible people telling me abortion would never be under threat in the UK the same way it happened in the US. - ThreadSky

mckelvie.bsky.social • 4 days ago

I remember some very sensible people telling me abortion would never be under threat in the UK the same way it happened in the US.

Reposted from Jolyon Maugham KC

Yet another transphobe now feeling safe to come out as anti-abortion too. www.thenational.scot/news/2519525...

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screading.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah... in general people seem to have drilled into themselves if you cede on one thing (genocide, transphobia, etc), you're not offering up the signal you'll give up on literally anything else.

mckelvie.bsky.social•4 days ago

If you take Nigel Farage's words in good faith here I have a bridge in our capital city to sell you.

danhawk333.bsky.social•4 days ago

Once a banker always a wanker that old boy Nigel is

mckelvie.bsky.social•4 days ago

This movement is international. We have to treat it as such. So many connections, so much of the same money behind it.

alisonsampson.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think it's already much further home than we think, in the UK tradition of our civil liberties being curtailed without the fuss.

mckelvie.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yep. And the fact that it is still technically a criminal offence means it's very precarious.

atiredgay.bsky.social•4 days ago

Like with the anti-trans movement, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is also being pushed by the US based Heritage Foundation.

mckelvie.bsky.social•4 days ago

Tufton Street connects a bunch of dots (including transphobia).

atiredgay.bsky.social•4 days ago

Well they need people in the UK to actually do their dirty work.

mckelvie.bsky.social•4 days ago

Oh what I meant was, that's the point where a lot of the same money is coming into UK politics. Definitely connected.

ericleitzen.bsky.social•4 days ago

When the fashy weirdos have solidarity

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HTQmfJo7Gzw&pp=ygUORWdvcmFwdG9yIG9vcHM%3D

playbackjunkie.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's 24 weeks because a lot of serious birth and developmental defects are detected at the 20 week scan. It's not so someone can get over half way through their pregnancy then change their mind, that just doesn't happen

mckelvie.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah. But also he's not being honest. This is the same playbook as with transphobia - the end goal is banning abortion completely.

playbackjunkie.bsky.social•4 days ago

Start off small so people start agreeing then keep adding and adding until you end up radicalising them. Like that proverb about the frog in a boiling pot 😮‍💨

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