I shouldn't post this. It's too negative. But I'm FED UP.
Thanks, niyad! 
FED UP with the Republican corporate dark money swamp dragging women down in 44 states.
Where is the ERA now that we need it most?
None of the male promoted Iron Age religious beliefs or male invented legalese can cover up male driven religious, legal and corporate assaults on women right now in the 21st Century USA -- Uncivilized Swamp of Amerikkka.
As Republican men revive feudalism and demonize women leaders as witches, the only male allies of women that exist are in the Democratic Party.
However imperfect they are in policy and practice, Democratic male allies, on their worst day -- Kennedy, LBJ, Clinton, Franken, Biden, and yes, Cuomo -- are better for women than any Republican on their best day.
No allies of women are seen in thousands of U.S. corporations.
Pro-life is for profit. Just as an exercise, mind you, consider that all over this country, in every state, millions of frozen "embryos" in fertility clinics lie frozen with their little "heartbeats." Does anyone hear any right winger pro-lifers fight to free them for a life with a mother? Are the 2% of them designated by their "owners" for research fought for in legislatures or courts? Does anyone interview the women they "harvested" them from? Does anyone hear one religious or political male leader say they have to "save" those "heartbeats" from research labs or clinic trash heaps? or from being used for pandemic vaccines?
No allies in Republicans.
Does anyone see one abortion bill supporter across 30 Republican-controlled legislatures write one bill to "help" pro-life problems for frozen embryos, or caged, already alive, innocent children with real heartbeats?
Does anyone hear in one word in statehouses of the constitutional or religious prior life rights (life, liberty, etc, etc.) and god-given free wills of women?
No.
American women know these hundreds of abortion bills are the swamp.
One by one, each bill exists to show women and their Democratic allies just who can and will eventually drown their "settled law" and equality before the law.
Their defenders have never been and never will be reasoned with.
At this minute they persist in seeking negative justice in the courts.
When male and female sexists take the religious stand between a woman and her god, they presume a spiritual and legal right to control women's god-given free wills, constitutional rights, bodily autonomy, hearts, minds and souls, based their own definitions of words like "pro-life," and "babies." Their virtue signal bullshit shaming of women really hides their own deep seated shame for their choice to deny "life, liberty..." through the courts of other men, heaven, institutions and the Constitution.
Women are used to being "beaten until morale improves." Literally, even.
Women -- especially their male allies -- should stop being inured to this -- not for their descendants who will have to sort out and clean up the uncivilized swamp of amerikka, and not to just "be on the right side of history.
Women and male allies must show the power that beats Might Makes Right rule.
No explanations, apologies or regrets.
What Democrats know:
We face hundreds of anti-abortion bills NOT because most men and women "don't understand."
We Democrats face the religious, legal, corporate world still driven by men who don't want anyone to understand their belief: that they themselves will not suffer MERE EQUALITY. They will not share power for the common good.
As the negative justice of bills that overly burden women or deny women access to abortion and custody drown our energy, as laws get passed by the hundreds against women, what else can women think of men and their institutions. It's not what those institutions say, it's what the sexists within them do to maintain the Uncivilized Swamp of Amerikka.
The economic/social swamp pulls women down by centuries of forced impoverishing slavery through the household economy. They tread the swamp of unequal pay for the same work, while staying impoverished by most of the actual costs of
-- immediate child care,
-- home hygiene,
-- personal injury care,
-- insurance,
-- loss of work time,
-- healing help through family counseling.
all further social darkness for them and/or their children.
Lower income and higher costs drag women down because of the unspoken, unrecognized, unpaid-for household economy -- the violent economic and social dark underbelly of capitalism and corporate profit.
Take Alabama, one of the 44 states that keep women treading.
These corporations DONATE to the Alabama politicians who ban the majority of their state from any abortions for any reason --
-- Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent, Atlanta, GA
-- AT&T CEO Randall L. Stephenson, Dallas, TX
-- Exxon Mobile CEO Darren Woods, Irving, TX
-- Pfizer Albert Bourla and Ian Read, New York, NY
-- Walmart Greg Penner and Doug McMillon,Bentonville, AR
-- Boeing Dennis Muilenburg - Chicago, IL
-- State Farm Michael Tipsord - Bloomington, IL
-- Eli Lilly David A. Ricks, Joshua Smiley, Indianapolis, IN
-- Caterpillar Jim Umpleby, Deerfield, IL
-- The rest:
Koch Industries, Witchita, KS -- run by the supposedly libertarian Koch brothers, donated $2,500 to Ainsworth, $1,500 to Chambliss, $1,500 to Ledbetter, and $2,000 to Reed.
Fantasy sports site Draft Kings -- Boston, MA -- donated $5,000 to McCutcheon, and $500 to Ainsworth.
Tobacco-maker Altria -- Henrico County, Virginia -- Howard Willard -- donated $1,000 to Chambliss, and $500 to Reed.
Cable provider Comcast -- Tupelo, MS -- Ralph J. Roberts -- donated $2,500 to McCutcheon.
Health insurance giant Caremark -- Birmingham, AL and Northbrook, IL -- donated $1,500 to McCutcheon.
Anheuser-Busch -- St. Louis, MO -- Michael Doukeris -- donated $1,000 to McCutcheon, and $1,500 to Reed.
DONATION UPDATE From Judd Legum, the corporate contributors to Governor Ivey herself (per tweet) :
Judd Legum
@JuddLegum
These corporations back @GovernorKayIvey, their enabler who signed the ban into law --
@BCBSAssociation (BlueCross) (75K)
@ATT (113K)
@LillyPad (30K)
@StateFarm (10K)
@Boeing (10K)
@Walmart (7K)
@CocaCola (10K)
@exxonmobil (5K)
@comcast (21K)
@pfizer (5K)
FED UP with the sexist, parasitic dark money infusion into the Uncivilized Swamp of Amerikkka used to keep its host down and docile.
I'm FED UP with the laughabe, deadly irony of the "undue burden" question.
Because here comes to the 2020-2021 SCOTUS in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Inc. with plaintiffs wanting to know how much they can get away with burdening women and women's allies over abortion access. And here comes Barrett and Kavanaugh to their rescue.
BTW, where's that state ratified ERA?
Docilely buried and forgotten in the swamp?
Can Democrats drag the ERA out to solve all of the above?
Can Rachel help?
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