The Trump administration is calling frozen embryos children – opinion

But the move represents a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s pursuit of fetal personhood, the doctrine that anti-abortion forces aspire to enshrine in law whereby fertilized eggs are granted constitutional rights as persons – a regime that would ban all abortion and many kinds of birth control and miscarriage management, would curtail the basic … Read more

‘Your body, my choice’: what misogynistic Trump supporters feel about sexual power | Moira Donegan – opinion

This new, avowedly and vulgarly sexual rightwing masculinity is what Fuentes was crystalizing in his snide little coinage of “your body, my choice”: it is one that aims to use physical and sexual force to coerce women into a degraded gendered role, one subject to men’s domination and only partial, limited and conditional in its … Read more

Sexist attacks on women surge on social media after Trump’s win, report finds

As misogynistic voices online “exploit Donald Trump’s election as a rebuke of both reproductive rights and women’s rights,” the report stated, “the impact on women could extend into the next presidential election and beyond.” Fuentes’ post, which accrued more than 50,000 likes, was viewed more than 90 million times on X within a week. Though … Read more