Crash Course: RFK Jr.'s tour shows why "alt medicine" went MAGA

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The anti-feminist movement, for instance, borrows paranoid language about ["chemicals" to portray both birth control](~/AASU4wA~/RgRo18PDP0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvM3cwNWY2MGU1Zi8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9YW9ycWh6azRzYSZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpm9MY-9WZJjR1tUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~) [and abortion as dangerous](~/AASU4wA~/RgRo18PDP0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMjUxemplYjVtZS8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9YW9ycWh6azRzYSZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpm9MY-9WZJjR1tUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~), while implying that pregnancy, because it's "natural," is perfectly safe. The reality is the inverse. Birth control and competently performed abortion are both exponentially safer than pregnancy, a condition that requires regular medical monitoring even under the healthiest conditions. It also shows the level of self-delusion that informs the "glorious past" fantasies of MAGA and their alt-med collaborators, as the high death rate in childbirth before the modern era isn't exactly a hidden part of history. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRo18PDP0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvaWdhcnZ2aWs1by8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9YW9ycWh6azRzYSZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpm9MY-9WZJjR1tUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). The mission creep of hate From Chauncey DeVega: Donald Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan and purges will not stop here. They will expand to include any people who Trump and his MAGA movement and the other neofascists designate as the “enemy.” [Read the rest](~/AASU4wA~/RgRo18PDP0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMnFkbThvMGw2by8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9YW9ycWh6azRzYSZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpm9MY-9WZJjR1tUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). 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