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BAREFOOT & PREGNANT,WOMEN AT THE MERCY OF TYRANTSDouble exclamation markWOMEN WILL DIE FROM BACK ALLEY ABORTIONS,SAME AS BEFORE ROE V WADEDouble exclamation markPOOR WOMEN WILL BE HIT THE HARDESTDouble exclamation markCAREERS VANISHDouble exclamation markSEXISM,RACISM,
trumpism,CULTISM,
FASCISM,TERRORISM.
DEMOCRACY WILL WITHER & DIE,& DICTATORS WILL THRIVE
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hlthe2b
(102,236 posts)Women did not sit quietly by for this fifty years ago. Young women join the older and unite! There is power in numbers against those who would bring such subjugation policies to women in this country.
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mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)has emboldened every ignorant asshole in America. Who knew there were so many?
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Little nasty bugs that they are. There is no hiding from the Truth.
Once again Conservatives have over reached and are going to pay the political price.
I have no doubts or fears. Sock it to them.
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)and hope with all my heart you're right! It's Labor Day, the sun is shining and no smoke in the air. I'm gonna hold on to your good vibes all day and for sure, sock it to them!
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)bdamomma
(63,845 posts)those who are promoting this assault on women crash and burn.
orangecrush
(19,546 posts)Makes me want to forget my manners with these scum.
And I mean that in the worst possible way.
Kid Berwyn
(14,897 posts)trump is SMALL*.
* A case of the lowest.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,739 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)dchill
(38,481 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,897 posts)Fred Gardner
Counterpunch.org, June 10, 2021
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After some superficial improvements (a stronger spring, clearer instructions) that supposedly justified raising prices, Mylan began its big marketing push in 2009. With almost 90% of the market, their key goal was to get every school in the US to keep EpiPens on hand. Children face the highest risk of a fatal response because many never been exposed to the substance theyre allergic to. Adults generally know what theyre allergic to and try to avoid exposure or carry the antidote.
As Governor of West Virginia, Joe Manchin had appointed his wife to the state Board of Education in 2007. By 2012 Gayle Conelly Manchin would be president of the National Association of State Boards of Education, an official-sounding-but-private outfit that lobbies state boards to adopt policies favored by Association members. In 2016 USA Today (a paper that doesnt get enough credit for serious muckraking) reported that Mrs. Manchin had spearheaded an unprecedented effort that encouraged states to require schools to purchase medical devices that fight life-threatening allergic reactions.
The associations move helped pave the way for Mylan Specialty, maker of EpiPens, to develop a near monopoly in school nurses offices. Eleven states drafted laws requiring epinephrine auto-injectors. Nearly every other state recommended schools stock them after what the White House called the EpiPen Law in 2013 gave funding preference to those that did.
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Heathers brilliant career was launched after Joe Manchin introduced her to the CEO of Mylan. Although her claim to have a Masters Degree in Business Administration was exposed as a lie, her fast rise to the top was unimpeded. Heather had something better than a degree, she had real audacity. And so she quadrupled the price of a drug that several million US Americans must have on hand and buy every year. (Somebody ought to confirm that epinephrine degrades significantly in a year. It might be a pseudo-scientific marketing device like Dial Soaps famous Rinse and repeat.)
Heathers salary rose from $2.5 million in 2007 to $18.9 million in 2015. She was then 45 years old and would have become the poster child of Pharmaceutical Industry Greed had it not been for Martin Shkreli, who raised the price of the anti-parasitic drug Diapram from $13.50 to $750. Then the publicity-welcoming pharma bro won the auction for the worlds only copy of a hip-hop album by Wu-Tang Clan. Shkreli was sentenced to seven years and may still be doing time for securities fraud, but presumably, he got to enjoy Once Upon a Time in Shaolin before the 2-CD rarity was seized by the feds.
Heather is married to a corporate lawyer named Jeffrey Bresch whose firm represents, in addition to numerous Fortune 500 companies, the Pennsylvania Republican Party in its challenge to the validity of votes mailed in on Election Day in 2020. (But thats another story). Heather retired at age 50 in 2020 after arranging Mylans merger with Upjohn. The first woman to head a Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical company, her accomplishments included Mylans acquisition of Abbott Laboratories and a transfer of corporate headquarters to the Netherlands, bringing the merged companies tax rate down from 24% to 21%. The moral of the story is: you dont really need an MBA to be a successful corporate executive.
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/06/10/manchin-family-values/
RexLipton
(69 posts)very concerned.
steventh
(2,143 posts)If These Walls Could Talk (1996) Demi Moore, Anne Heche, Cher, Sissy Spacek. The movie examines the abortion issue through three stories set in different eras: 1952, 1974 and 1996.
I've never seen it. I'm watching now.
Wild blueberry
(6,626 posts)Thank you, Cher!
Upthevibe
(8,042 posts)a long time ago.....
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)ShazzieB
(16,389 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,191 posts)Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)That state needs to be banished from civilization if they're gonna act like a bunch of neanderthals led by cave men...
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,417 posts)bdamomma
(63,845 posts)there will be more women in the streets protesting than those who were protesting when tRump got in. Women are not going to stand for this crap.