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State Rep. Laurie Pohutsky’s account was cheered by the left-leaning protestors and condemned by right-wing social media accounts.

The 36-year-old Democrat said the surgery was a personal decision she had been considering for a few years and was finalized by Trump’s election. She wanted to validate the fears other women might have about access to contraception by sharing it.

She told The Associated Press that she has received threats since speaking this week, referring at least one of them to Michigan authorities. The Associated Press reached out to Michigan State police for comment.

“I don’t fully grasp the level of animosity that people have about this,” Pohutsky said.

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[–] [email protected] 274 points 3 days ago (20 children)

I've had a vasectomy. Come at me, fascists.

[–] [email protected] 292 points 3 days ago (4 children)

they don't actually care about making babies. what triggers them the most is women making decisions for themselves

[–] disguy_ovahea 76 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oh they want more babies alright. They especially want more unwanted, orphaned, and abused children. People raised without support or guidance have limited options and make for ideal blue-collar workers who are less likely to band together in revolt.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

true, capitalism shits its pants over a declining birthrate, but still, babies will happen regardless. what they can't tolerate is women going around giving other women ideas about any kind of self-autonomy or control.

in other words, they can't force people to get pregnant YET, but they've always been able to force women to do as they're told-- hence the threats over women choosing to sterilize

[–] CitizenKong 19 points 3 days ago

Also, readily available cannon fodder in the likely war to come.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear 58 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Some of the craziest do care about making babies. They think the white race is being outbred into extinction. They are fucking nuts.

[–] Olhonestjim 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

It sure ain't, but if we ever manage to interbreed away the very concept of race, then good riddance. Us white people were never special.

[–] FinalRemix 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well, we're good at vitamin D during gloomy winter months. That's about it.

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[–] SkunkWorkz 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

If they hate non-whites so much they should actually encourage “race mixing”. I am a brown Asian and I have many cousins who are white. Basically pale white skin and blond hair. Just after two generations of mixing with white people most Asian features are gone only people who grew up with hapas can see that they are mixed.

In a white majority society “race mixing” will lead to more white people not less.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

It also leads to healthier offspring too, but that's another story.

I have a buddy who has a baby with a very dark black woman and the baby popped out as white as a snow flake, blue eyes, blonde hair. Its wild, whitest looking kid I have ever seen.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yet they fail to realize the solution is to make it more affordable to have babies

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

If you make it more affordable then the poors (brown people) will have more babies and that's the opposite of what they want.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear 9 points 3 days ago

Helping others sounds like communism.

[–] WhatYouNeed 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ask them if being a minority a bad thing? Their mental gymnastics almost causes them aneurysms.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

They fully believe that being a minority is a bad thing and that whites are superior, they just don't want to get in trouble for saying it out loud.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I will happily do my part to help along white genocide

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I won’t disagree with you, but I think there’s something else going on also.

They’re really into symbols of allegiance and obedience. Once something becomes “officially” a bad thing, they have to show their loyalty by attacking it. Using language in a certain way, not wearing face masks, being officially Christian, being officially anti-trans/anti-woman, not watching the wrong news sources, watching the right news sources… they want to feel comfortable that they are part of the tribe, and you are too. If you make even a single decision that isn’t the official tribal decision, they’ll get wild and suspicious and angry towards you.

I think that’s what’s going on here. What she’s doing isn’t contraception (strictly speaking) or abortion or transgender surgery… but it’s close enough to those things that she’s showing she’s not part of the tribe. And she’s a Democrat. So what do you do with people like that? You fuck them up because they are the enemy.

If you’ve been close to a culture like this you will have seen it in action, how they attack in order to keep everyone in line.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It starts young, too. These exact same mechanisms are used and reinforced in schools, both by administration and by students.

Bullies thrive on ganging up to attack those who are "different." Ever wonder why school admin does jack shit about bullying? Part of it is because when a group of kids bullies another for not being like everyone else, they're reinforcing the administration's desire for kids to fall in line. A kid who blends in and stays quiet is favored by both groups for the same reasons - the quiet kid doesn't challenge anyone's authority.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

I will, but on/by your side. Snipsnip gang represent!

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Man, the "freedom" crowd really hates it when people exercise their freedoms...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Freedom for me not for thee

[–] WrenFeathers 40 points 3 days ago

Imagine thinking you have a justified right to tell someone what they can and cannot do with their own reproductive system- to the point that you feel righteous enough to protest publicly about it?

All while at the same time, cheering on the new regime’s dismantling of governmental protections while vomiting some nonsense about how governmental involvement is unconstitutional.

[–] FlyingSquid 90 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wait until they go after women who have medically necessary hysterectomies.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They already go after women, literally with legal persecution, for getting medically necessary abortions. Women dying for their control is absolutely acceptable in their eyes. I'm also convinced the reaction to this would be the same if her hysterectomy had been medically necessary.

Do you remember when trolls like this lurked in reddit DMs and on 4chan? You can outright openly say the most heinous things now and it has literally no consequences for you.

[–] stetech 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Medically necessary?

You mean those who we should just let die, lest they undergo something that would prevent them from becoming a baby machine? /s

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

Menopause is a liberal hoax by the Democrats.

/s

[–] FlyingSquid 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

These assholes have already made comments like a woman is defined as a person who can get pregnant. Which eliminates millions of cis women from the equation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

About 10% of women (or one in ten) experience a horrorshow called endometriosis that causes them non-stop abdominal pain.

Often the only way to really "solve" it is a hysterectomy.

They're literally just going to abuse a large number of women for something they never asked for.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've actually heard some transphobes say that hysterectomies should be banned because the uterus is a vital organ that women need to survive

[–] FlyingSquid 10 points 3 days ago

Terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

The outrage machine is in full gear, fueled by manufactured morality. A lawmaker makes a personal health decision, and the reactionaries lose their collective minds. Threats over surgery? Unhinged. These are the same people who scream about “freedom” while weaponizing it against anyone who doesn’t conform to their theocratic fever dreams.

Pohutsky’s honesty is a mirror. It reflects the fear women face in a country where access to contraception and autonomy is under siege. That she tied her decision to Trump’s election? Poetic. It’s not just about her body—it’s about everybody under the shadow of regressive policies.

Keep speaking, Laurie. Their threats are the last refuge of those losing control over a future they can’t stop.

[–] aesthelete 48 points 3 days ago

I like how "'libs of tiktok' posted a thing" is just immediately made into a story now.

[–] Zdvarko 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What's America's obsession with womans reproductive system?

[–] Snowclone 14 points 3 days ago

Big party of white supremacy is changing the demographics of the country to remain white, it's actually the only reason the US is still a white majority country, if they didn't genocide natives, ethnically clense Chinese Immigrants, and repeatedly try and ethnically clense the west for Hispanic peoples.

They know white birth rates are not at replacement levels, that's why they are doing everything they can to force white women into a position of being baby factories with no rights to oppose or pervent pregnancy, is no wonder they are also floating making interracial marriage illegal again, this is all happening to one goal, get white birthrates to replacement levels at all costs.

[–] stormeuh 6 points 3 days ago

Divide et impera

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

“I don’t fully grasp the level of animosity that people have about this,” Pohutsky said.

Yeah, neither do a lot of people. Its this weird fucking obsession that the idiots of this country have latched on to.

[–] brucethemoose 52 points 3 days ago (2 children)

condemned by right-wing social media accounts

Ugh.

I wish a meteor would hit Twitter’s HQ and main data center, right now, and I don’t understand why people are so addicted to such a gruesome site.

I found it spammy and annoying enough to never post, years ago, even with some of my niche communities largely there.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Surely you'd also like the meteor to fragment and take out the white house and the shower of bastards inside it.

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[–] TheDemonBuer 14 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Pohutsky told large crowd gathered in Lansing at the state Capitol Wednesday that she chose last month to have a bilateral salpingectomy to remove her fallopian tubes. While abortion is constitutionally protected in Michigan and state lawmakers have bolstered contraceptive access, she said the decision was prompted by doubts that the Trump administration will not target access.

I do find this to be a little odd, kind of drastic. But, it's her body. What people choose to do, under the guidance and care of an ethical, reputable medical professional, is their business. I certainly don't understand getting so upset about it, especially not to the point where you would harass her for it. Even if you strongly disagree with her decision, just shake your head, shrug your shoulders and move on.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

People should be allowed to have diverse beliefs, and should be allowed to act on them ... as long as it does NOT adversely affect another person's life or safety.

Right-wing fucknuts forget that last part.

"Your body, my choice" is attempted murder and should be treated as such.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I do find this to be a little odd, kind of drastic.

I might do the same if i could be forced to carry a rapist's baby, especially with contraceptives on the p2025 chopping block.

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[–] NatakuNox 9 points 3 days ago

It's not drastic! Look outside. Having kids in this world is outright cruel. Even within the wealthiest countries on earth, only a small sub section of the population can actually have children without bringing them into pure hell. Im an educator working in a poor to "middle class" area and even the more well off families are skipping meals, choosing to stop having children, choosing to forgo medical care, and making decisions that only you hear citizens in 3rd world countries make. If you have a kid today it's fucked.

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