‘None of you are pregnant’: Paid parental leave bill sparks emotions in Alabama Senate
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‘None of you are pregnant’: Paid parental leave bill sparks emotions in Alabama Senate
https://www.al.com/news/2024/05/none-of-you-are-pregnant-paid-parental-leave-bill-sparks-emotions-in-alabama-senate.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=redditsocial
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Old white man prevents woman from caring for her baby without losing her job.
Edit: typo
I hope she does come back with numbers. Alabama folks giving birth deserve better.
“Pro-life”
Republicans want to force rape victims to give birth to their rapist’s off-spring, and then show up to work the very next day.
Nice values.
>“None of you are pregnant, ever will be pregnant nor will have a baby,” Figures said. “You have no idea what it’s like; not only the physical things we have to go through, but the mental and emotional things we have to go through.”
>She added, “The least you can all do is give us a little time, eight weeks, to deal with that. I just want to say, ‘I’ll be coming back with a vengeance next year and I won’t be by myself.’”
the full quote.
8 weeks of leave is disgusting. Pay a fair living wage so that one parent can support 3+ people.
How is it acceptable to force a child into this world without allowing the parents to raise that child?
> Alabama. No state minimum wage law. Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the current Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
This is Alabama’s view towards workers. Never let any right-wing person tell you that “human life” is more important than money.
Greed is third of the seven sins these people willfully ignore.
>The Alabama Senate voted in support of legislation Thursday giving teachers eight weeks of paid parental leave, only for the chamber’s president to say he wasn’t transmitting the measure to the House for further consideration this year.
>The move upset the sponsor of SB305 – Sen. Vivian Figures, D-Mobile – who said she “ought to leave the Senate” and start “energizing women to let them know the power we all have.”
>“It stings that you voted that it not be transmitted,” Figures said after Senate President Pro Tem Greg Reed, R-Jasper, said he was withholding unanimous consent to move the legislation to the House, acknowledging that it likely would not get voted on before the end of the session. The legislature’s session has three days remaining, and the Senate can withhold transmitting new bills to the House after the legislative session reaches 26 days. Thursday was Day No. 27 in this spring’s session.
Alabama is forcing women to have birth….but getting angry at services for pregnant people
Sometimes, males are literally the worst
Refusing to bring it to the state house is cruel at this point.
They are still mentally in the 1800’s. Women work in the field harvesting grain and at the end of the strip give birth, tie the baby on their back and start another strip.
This is one of the reasons why we choose the bear.
I notice in the photo there are almost no books left on the shelves…
Alabama, ladies and gentleman. Be glad you’re not stuck there.
This is so on brand for the GOP. “Senate President Pro Tem Greg Reed, R-Jasper, said he was withholding unanimous consent to move the legislation to the House, acknowledging that it likely would not get voted on before the end of the session.” Even though he voted **FOR** the measure. Fucking vote these shitbirds out of office. Dude voted for the bill because it looks good and no one’s going to remember that he killed it by refusing to pass it on just because he could. Preserved his voting record with zero danger to those that vote for him and zero consequences from those that don’t but see that voting record as a positive (see, the voted for it, he tried!).
>We don’t understand why no one wants children!!
>*Actively continues to make our already shit society even worse*
The end result of outlawing abortion and denying maternal leave is to put women back in the home. Which is where the evangelicals and most of the GOP think women belong.
It really is time to get the christofascists out of our government.
“You’re going to have that baby whether you want to or not, and you won’t get any time off or assistance to properly care for it, get fucked.”
Men,
this is where you can speak up. The fact that the US doesn’t even have this for new mother’s is beyond me. I would just bring the baby with me in protest lol
Men you had, have, or will/might have a baby too! You deserve to be at home with your child too. Huge adjustment for your entire family.
I have friends in Hungary and my jaw hit the floor on their parental leave policy after they had their baby. Go google it.
Nobody wants to work anymore!
Ten years ago my wife was fired for announcing she was pregnant. Six figure job. She told them, 2 weeks later her job was posted and told she was no longer needed. That was fucked up, but things are going to get a lot worse soon if maga has their way. We are back sliding fast.
> Senate President Pro Tem Greg Reed, **R-Jasper**, said he was withholding unanimous consent to move the legislation to the House
The cruelty is the point.
Don’t you all just love the PaRTy OF fAmiLY VALuEs!
Imagine being a republican
And yet that state will still re-elect all of those clowns in the next election. I dare you to prove me wrong, Alabama.
I picture an Alabama senate meeting as a pack of brain damaged monkeys slinging feces at each other and drinking their own pee.
And those are the smart ones.
How can they claim to be pro-life with every other breath and do everything in their power to put pregnant women and children at risk?
Just gonna leave this right here Up to 17 weeks pregnancy leave and up to 61 weeks parental leave
Our nation is a joke. Paid parental leave should be a federal law.
The wife and I are currently on [Paid Leave Oregon](https://paidleave.oregon.gov/) after the birth of our first child at the end of March. I get 12 weeks and she gets 14 weeks at 100% of our normal wages.
Everyone should be afforded this opportunity.
In civilized nations they consider parental leave and healthcare basic human rights. They actually want citizens to have and raise kids.
Believe it or not, they actually don’t want kids to starve to death, be abandoned, shot en masse by a kook in school, etc. etc. etc.
As Americans, can we even imagine such a place?
Its not even halfway through the year, but because they decided that there wasn’t time to bring up the measure this session it can’t be brought up until next year?
Either the legislative process is more convoluted than I thought or they are really lazy.
I hope she does come back next year amd I hope she doesn’t come back alone, as she said. It’s typical for men in these states, imo, to sideline women’s issues, school lunches, minority issues because, quite frankly, and again, this is my opinion, but why would they ever want to mess with the status quo? So force them to.
Republicans want the full experience from hand maidens tale
It has NOTHING to do with the child – it has everything to do with controlling women’s bodies.
Hundreds of children getting birthed due to abortion bans that also have parents that can’t be there because they can’t afford to take the time off work? How much DO they want crime to explode? Because it’s gonna be by a lot. Although it is a GOP state, so it’s possible they’ll just have the kids work on unsafe assembly lines (because safety regulations were too “burdensome”) alongside the parents.
I want everyone to understand that these views come directly from their Christian doctrine. It was women’s fate (by Eve’s fault for original sin) that women experience pains and suffering in childbirth. Any intervention in that area is circumventing god’s will. We are told to pray for strength to get through it or forgiveness for the judgement. Any complications we face were preordained. Alleviating the course of events is a unnecessary. It’s all in god’s perfect design and needs no intervention. We are to endure or die. They also believe the greatest honor a woman can have besides children for god and husband is dying in the process. Health and reward are in heaven and we’re told to pray for strength but go to our death joyfully. This doctrine informs their politics and voting: It’s our fault. We’re being dramatic. Faith will save us. Any complaining is the devil telling the woman to try to reduce her punishment. I wish I had to add the **/s** but I don’t.
Should be 12 months. Like other civilized countries.
>Reed cited concerns over how much an eight-week paid parental leave measure would cost the state’s educational budget.
This is the party of family values and Christianity, they care more about money than helping parents and newborns. Conservatives want to harm teachers benefits to drive them out of the public sector. The perfect scenario for charter and private schools to swoop in with no hint of offering benefits, parental or otherwise.
> … when it comes to, again, that child in the womb and whatever moral status we want to assign to it, that’s where the government has a obligation, I would say, to step in. To say, if for example a woman who is thinking about choosing abortion has an obligation to care for that baby through nine months and beyond, perhaps. She has an obligation to that child, but also society has an obligation to her. **To make sure that she has the support and the resources she needs to be able to do that, to not feel pressured by the economy, by her employer, by her boyfriend, whatever that situation may be.**
From “pro-family” advocate Patrick Brown speaking to NPR’s *On Point* [on March 26](https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/03/26/reproductive-health-under-a-second-trump-term).
But in practice, the same legislators who do not support abortion also do not support giving women “the resources” to be a good parent.
Which makes the words of people like Patrick Brown mean *nothing*.
! guess that was supposed to be a Big Bang Theiry Atheist Gotcha?
Americans: “Ah yes, paid parental leave needs to be debated, this is a hot topic issue.”
Rest of the developed world: “Americans.. are you okay.. is your head feeling okay?”
Moms and dads deserve to be able to be with their newborn…amount of time idk.
150% pro-mandatory-parental-leave, but she’s arguing the wrong thing. Republicans do not have empathy, and hit them, women aren’t *really* humans, they’re just home and baby makers in their eyes.
You have to argue what they want to hear.
Ironically, trying to save a few bucks in the budget by not giving maternal leave will leads to a reduction in the Alabama workforce. Those kids would pay their fair share back in taxes in a year once they start working.
Denying women the ability to give birth to kids and keep their job, while also forcing them to have kids will result in so much more poverty and an even shittier economy. It makes me so happy for the republicans, and so sad for the women and the democrats of that state.
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Of women taking out the trash.
Holy shit- fighting for 8 whole weeks!!
What slackers- can’t they just pop it out and go back to teaching the kids the next day? /s
Thank god we have a federal mandate in Canada allowing 12 or 18 months of maternity/ paternity leave. This is freakin barbaric. I can’t believe this is a state thing, and there is not a federal maternity leave across the whole US.
Uh oh America’s second worst state has opinions. Let’s continue to pretend anyone outside the south cares what these troglodytes think.
Evil fucking hypocrites, honestly. There’s no nice way to put it.
“Who cares about babies and moms, we only care about unborn babies” -alabama republicans
“Why is no one having babies anymore” -also Alabama republicans
I assume they don’t want the leave because they don’t think women with children should be working outside the home in the first place.