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Wow, I never thought Jimmy Kimmel would make me cry.

Iseult The Idle, I know. I never thought he would either. *wipes tears away*

Nurses are not just physician handmaids. They’re professionals who provide valuable psychosocial and medical care. I’ll always be grateful to my ICU nurses.

Thank you also to all who are calling to protest. I’m one of the folks you’re fighting for.

My father served 18 years in that infamous 400-member $200-a-year New Hampshire state legislature that often includes doucheweasels like Robert Fisher* but also — because of the fact that the large number and low pay makes it a rather low status and therefore “traditionally suitable for women” part-time job, which has been taken by a lot of housewives with older children and is one of the reasons why today both Senators and both Congresspeople from our state are women.
My father was a lawyer who was particularly interested in health care policy. He read about the idea of Nurse Practioners and talked to some nurses advocating that, and he was the first sponsor of a bill to license Nurse Practitioners in NH. The first year he introduced the bill (around 1974, IIRC) he was told that he was out of his mind and that nurses could never handle that sort of responsibility, and he couldn’t sign up a single co-sponsor even among the fairly large number of women. He persisted, and added a bill to license Nurse MIdwives, and eventually both bills passed. Now, these things would have happened at some time anyway, but I like to give him credit for being ahead of his time. I myself have benefitted from the care of numerous nurses and their (seriously underpaid) assistants, including several Nurse Practitioners.

He was also the first American state legislator to introduce a resolution in a state legislature calling on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon, though the resolution went nowhere at the time. He did make one of Nixon’s famous enemies lists.

He was a traditionalist who came to admire the work of women legislators. NH was an early state to ratify the Equal Rights Amenment before Phyllis Schlafly’s anti-ERA campaign gained traction, and after it was clear the ERA was not going to be ratified by enough states, a (purely symbolic) attempt was made by anti-ERA people in the NH legislature to rescind that ratification. My father was chosen by the pro-ERA people to be the lead speaker against recission, and his side won.

On the other hand he was enough of a traditionalist to severely disapprove of the decision my wife and I made that she would go back to work and I would be a stay-at-home dad. But you can’t expect people to be ahead of their time in everything.

*https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2017/04/25/the-daily-beast-takes-on-the-creepy-republican-politician-who-founded-the-red-pill-subreddit/comment-page-1/#comments

@Jules — it’s a long and complicated story. The short answer is that Phyllis Schlafly and her organization managed to convince a lot of women that the ERA would be good for feminist college-educated career women but bad for stay-at-home housewives. They preyed on the fears of women who had never really done much outside the home and were afraid of being thrown into the workforce where they would be at a serious disadvantage due to lack of salable skills and experience — sort of like Trump (and the GOP in general) prey on the fears of less-educated people who are losing ground in the new economy.

They claimed that women would be subject to the draft (even though the draft had ended a few years earlier). They also played the unisex bathroom card that is now being used against trans people. And so on.

Christ A – Live!!

They got the AHCA through the House.

http://fortune.com/2017/05/04/ahca-health-care-bill-vote/

Apparently being a rape and/or domestic abuse survivor are now classed as ‘pre-existing conditions.

“What sort of thing might get you denied care? Oh, just a history of having been raped, subjected to domestic violence, or having PTSD. Also postpartum depression and Cesaraen conditions.”

https://boingboing.net/2017/05/04/personal-responsibility.html

Honest to God, fuck those goddamned killer ghouls.

@PeeVee the (Timber-Rattling Booger Slut, But Noice) Sarcastic
Alot of things point to it failing. Poor approval, senate base of people who need ACA, already 4 people are against it, more possibly from the inevitable poor score the upcoming bill analysis report comes out.

Even so I’m scared too. I just had my Aunt back for a few days you GOP heartless fucks.

The senate would need to pass it unchanged, otherwise it goes back to the house with any amendments, for another vote. I kinda get the impression that was the plan: pass the hot potato to another body. It’s what the house did 60-odd times before.

Oh, god. 🙁

I’m trying not to cry now.