Danielle Muscato (she/her)

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

was jan 6 your laundry day or something, @DCPoliceDept? — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @haymarketbooks: Police are the shock troops of the slide into fascism. Police abolition is essential to the struggle for democracy. htt… — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @DMVBlackLives: Welcome to #DC. How can protest be peaceful when police bring deadly weapons and qualified immunity? Stop repeating t… — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @pookleblinky: 2% of all pregnancies are ectopic, which *inevitably* kills parent and fetus if not aborted by 16 weeks or so. There are… — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

Thanks for the inspiration for this thread, @leilacohan https://t.co/Q9optxXZUp — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @ProvAtlantic: My hospital bill for a very complicated pregnancy and then child birth would have exceeded $50k — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

If you find yourself pregnant with a child you don't want, & you don't think abortion is moral, then don't get one. It doesn't matter to me. But leave the rest of us out of your bizarre, twisted morality. You are making America worse for everyone. Fuck you, Danielle Muscato — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

although it is obvious from your behavior that this is a lie. Study after study shows that outlawing abortion does not, actually, reduce the number of abortions. It only makes them more dangerous. This isn't about reducing abortions. This is about punishing women. (27/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

to proper healthcare, just because YOU think women who have sex are sluts. You have no right to try to take away our access to birth control, which would actually REDUCE the demand for abortions—which is what you claim you want, (26/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

To those celebrating: There's nothing shameful about sex. I am fed up with Christians trying to dictate healthcare. If you believe sex is sinful, though that's harmful & unhealthy, it's your 1st Amdment prerogative. But you have no right to take away our access to safe abortion — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

because this is specifically misogynistic and sexist. I think it's important that we identify what's really going on here if we want to try to address it. (24/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

What they really want to do, I submit, is to punish women for enjoying sex. They want to punish women for having sex that's not for the purpose of reproduction. I'm saying women here, instead of pregnant people, or parents, (23/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

and neatly explains why Christians (pretend to) hate abortion, even though their voting behavior, in reality, increases the demand for abortions. It also explains why Christians never protest at fertility clinics, even though fertility clinics destroy embryos every day. (22/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

have an extremely punitive—retributive even—view of what criminal justice is supposed to look like. I believe that in the minds of many Christian Americans, this extends to moral wrongs in addition to actual crimes, (21/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

despite the fact that low-income parents (and their children) are undeserving of punishment and prisoners are, by definition, convicted of a crime. Americans, I believe stemming from our society's Christian influence about concepts such as sin and hell, (20/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

I don't think it's a stretch to say that conservatives consider the allocation of taxpayer resources to low-income parents (so they can afford to care for their babies) similar to allocating taxpayer resources to prisoners, (19/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

and they view the babies themselves not as victims in this, but as the fault and responsibility of the mother, specifically. (18/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

rewarding her for being a "slut," which defeats the purpose of the punishment. I don't think that these people are sociopaths. I think that they simply can't bring themselves to "reward" people who commit acts they consider sinful, (17/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

By this I mean that they consider pregnancy not simply the result or logical consequence for having sex, but that a woman who has sex *deserves to be punished* with a baby she doesn't want and can't provide for. Giving money or resources to her would be, in effect, (16/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

Well, it makes perfect sense when you consider it from this perspective: I think that conservatives rail against abortion because they view pregnancy and childbirth as punitive. (15/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

Evangelical Christians worship someone who spoke at length in the Bible about the piety of selling all your possessions and giving to the poor. It is absolutely bizarre that these same people REFUSE to give one penny to poor new parents. What gives? (14/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

When a boy has sex for the first time, he "becomes a man." When a girl has sex for the first time, or with too many people, especially if she's unmarried: She's a "slut." (13/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

and behavior, they tend to view women/femmes as the provocateurs when it comes to sex. When a man has too many kids (if he's judged for this at all), he's told to "wrap it up." When a woman has too many kids, she's told to "keep her knees together." (12/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

So what are they? What do all of these policy positions have in common? I submit that the most accurate term would actually be "slut punishers." We know that these people view sex as sinful and shameful, but if you look at their materials, speech, (11/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

only 13 states require sex education programs in public schools to be medically accurate (!). Since these same people are against comprehensive sex ed, distribution of free condoms and other forms of birth control, etc, I think we can't call them "anti-abortion" either. (10/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

accurate, compulsory, and comprehensive sex education for pubescent children. Abstinence-only sex ed, as well as lack of sex ed, has been proven over and over to be less effective at preventing unwanted pregnancies versus comprehensive sex ed. Currently, (9/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

If someone wanted to take the data we have available about why people seek abortions and what policies work best to reduce the demand for them to its logical conclusion—as many pro-choice people do—the single best thing we as a society could do is mandate medically (8/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

Making abortions inaccessible doesn't have a significant effect on the demand for abortion, NOR the number of abortions actually performed; it only affects the cost and risk of those abortions. (7/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

I also don't think that it's accurate to say that these people are "anti-abortion." Study after study shows that the best way to reduce the number of abortions is by reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies. Further, amazingly, (6/29) — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

and also considering that these same people who are against abortion are trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act and tax-funded nutrition and other programs for pregnant people, I don't think we can call them "pro-birth." (5/29) — PolitiTweet.org