Actress Bette Midler called for women to refuse to have sex to protest Texas's recently enacted abortion law and suggested that Congress should guarantee abortion rights for women.
"I suggest that all women refuse to have sex with men until they are guaranteed the right to choose by Congress," Midler tweeted Thursday.
Texas's abortion law went into effect Wednesday. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to deny an emergency request to block the law.
The measure effectively bans almost all abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is usually at six weeks of pregnancy. The legislation also allows private citizens to sue people who aid or perform abortions in violation of the law.
President Biden said Thursday that he would ask the Gender Policy Council and White House counsel to launch a "whole-of-government effort" to respond to the law.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) separately said the House will vote on the Women's Health Protection Act when the chamber returns to session Sept. 20. The legislation protects a person's ability to seek an abortion and health care providers' ability to provide such services.
In a separate tweet, Midler blasted the GOP for piling on "yet another shock to women."
"The cruelty of the #GOP is endless. We are suffering COVID-19, hurricanes, apocalyptic flooding, wildfires from hell, joblessness, homelessness, evictions, racial strife, and they pick this hideous time to pile on yet another shock to women, by taking away their right to choose," Midler tweeted.
Since the Supreme Court's decision, GOP politicians in Arkansas, Florida and South Dakota have committed to implementing a version of the Texas law.
USeaMoose on September 5th, 2021 at 01:04 UTC »
I think that only works if you assume that conservative women, or women having sex with conservative men, are against abortion bans.
Which seems like not a safe bet, since a high percentage of women in Texas voting for women's rights would have avoided this issue entirely.
I would expect a large percentage of the women who care that much about women's rights are not sleeping with men who would vote against it.
So you'd end up with a whole bunch of liberal couples not having sex. Which may not be super effective
PanickedPoodle on September 5th, 2021 at 00:08 UTC »
~#sexlesstexas
damunzie on September 4th, 2021 at 23:57 UTC »
To counter this effort, anti-abortion women in Texas are offering to have sex with any man whose wife/girlfriend is withholding.
A few weeks later, pro-choice becomes a lot more popular.