She is on fire.

[sheshe2]

This is fire! From #Kentucky Sen. Karen Berg, the only woman & the only medical professional on this panel about the anti-abortion bill. She laid it all out - how the GOP are killing, disempowering & disrespecting women, all based on a medical sham. She spoke truth to power!

Link to tweet

This woman. She’s everything. A diagnostic radiologist. She’s talking about how a fetus does not have a four chamber heart at 15 weeks. It’s not viable. She shames Kentucky elected men for making life harder for women under a bill that is a medical sham!

The only woman and physician on the committee. “You are killing women!” Then, she apologizes to the people of Kentucky for their weak ass elected’s.

Women are coming for Republicans. We won’t go back.

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Link to tweet

Watching christo-fascist white men with zero medical knowledge make laws to control women is infuriating. We don't need GYNOTICIANS.

[Lovie777]

1. I am woman...........................

hear me roar.

[et tu]

9. roar in 24- gotv nt

[liberalla]

32. Great bumper sticker!

[planetc]

11. in numbers too big to ignore.

[COL Mustard]

25. You go, girl!

(Respectfully said, of course!)

[maxsolomon]

2. Any references to medical viability are a red herring from the GQP.

They don't actually care about the science.

The soul enters the body at the moment of conception. Their faith tells them that's how God works, and that's why dropping a tray of IVF Zygotes can be prosecuted for wrongful death.

[Marthe48]

16. Politics isn't religion

Religion isn't government.
There is a separation of church and state in the U.S. Constitution.
Religion isn't science.
Any politician using religion to press a point is being inappropriate. If they have to resort to using religion to bolster their argument, they have a poor argument.
When religious zealots spout their blather, shut them down.

[Hekate]

26. The soul enters the body at the first breath: so it says in the Bible they don't bother to read

They piss me off no end

[Bayard]

3. Facts and logic?

Well, we can't have that!

Berg represents eastern Jefferson County, which is the wealthy side of the Louisville suburbs.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. I hope to see Kentucky awaken and pull back from the GOP abyss in my lifetime.

[riversedge]

10. I am in my early 70's and I do not think I will see it--but HOPE is strong.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. It went from Bluegrass to Red-assed pretty quickly, might turn around fast.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. She's brave to take those white, male ignoramus

idiots on.

They could care less about women's health.

[malaise]

6. Gynoticians

Perfect

[BlueSky3]

7. That was

amazing. I hope they remember her words when some of them are voted out of office.

[sheshe2]

21. I bumped into her speech on twitter.

Loved what I saw and had to look her up to find out more about her.

She is a good and very strong woman.
Kentucky senator: Transgender son has died by suicide

A Kentucky state senator said Tuesday that her transgender son, a trans rights advocate on whom "a lack of acceptance took a toll," has died by suicide. He was 24.
Democratic Sen. Karen Berg said her son Henry Berg-Brousseau “long struggled with mental illness, not because he was trans but born from his difficulty finding acceptance.” She said he died on Friday.

The Louisville lawmaker said her son had just received a big promotion working for the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates for LGBTQ rights. He had finally found a community, she said, “but that could not undo the brokenness that he already felt.”

Berg has talked about her son during legislative proceedings as she opposed Kentucky bills that take aim at transgender people, which have increasingly passed in Republican statehouses across the country. That includes a 2022 law that bars transgender girls and women from participating in school sports matching their gender identity from sixth grade through college.

More: https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2022/12/21/karen-berg-transgender-son-died-by-suicide

[Delmette2.0]

30. I hope every woman sees this video!!

[Hope22]

8. Thanks to this woman for standing up!

The weight of the world is on the shoulders of every thinking woman in this country. The rest will find out in the near future. This entire scene is a nightmare that won’t end! Slowly I think the men who do not currently speak out on this issue will soon be standing on corners with us. This is not a woman problem but a course of civilization problem. We are in too deep! You can ‘dress us in red’ but be certain to sleep with one eye open! What makes me even angrier is the cost of lost opportunities. Here we are discussing the same old shit when we could be creating, learning and sharing better days with those who need a hand up, with our families , planning for the future.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. Equal protection of the law refers to people, not clusters of cells in a uterus.

The Subversive Corrupt Court of the U.S. was dead wrong in Dobbs. We all need to speak out and stand up until this shit is corrected.

[onecaliberal]

12. K&R

[Faux pas]

14. Kickin

[riversedge]

17. If only the uneducated lawmakers would listen and learn. If if if

[brer cat]

18. K&R

[Ohio Joe]

19. They want women enslaved or dead - nt

[JohnnyLib2]

20. Kick

This is one Kentucky politician who needs more exposure.

[niyad]

22. THANK YOU, Sen. Berg.

[sheshe2]

23. Amazing woman.💙

[niyad]

24. She is indeed. I hope she makes it to the national stage very soon.

[Cha]

27. Excellent OP.. TY & KY Sen Karen Berg!

Perfectly stated.

Link to tweet

[keithbvadu2]

28. Gynotician --- They play doctor in the legislature

[sheshe2]

29. There you have it.

Thank you Planned Parenthood.

And thank you, Keith.

[Farmer-Rick]

36. The GQP should be wearing priests' collars

Anti-abortion, forced birth, is all about religion and imaginary super daddies in the sky. Anti-abortion and forced birth has absolutely nothing to do with science, concern for women or concerns for babies.

Without religion especially, Christian Evangelical religions, there is NO scientific reason to prevent abortions before fetal viability.

It's all this stupid nonsense about the super daddy wanting all zygotes and only human zygotes (eating fertilized chicken eggs is fine), to be born....as if their magical god isn't powerful enough to do it himself.

Why did their all powerful god allow for the abortion pill if he wanted all zygotes to be born. And why does he allow for miscarriages?

There is ample scientific evidence to show that nearly 85% of fertile human eggs pass through a woman's body, never developing enough for birth.

But of course this is all about forcing religious dogma into law.

[calimary]

42. Makes me wonder why thousands of evangelical women aren't storming the laboratories

where embryos are kept in storage, and demanding to be implanted with those embryos so they can all develop in a womb.

You say it’s a human being when it’s a cluster of cells that you wouldn’t even recognize as human spittle if you were staring at a sample of it.

[NNadir]

31. The only physician and the only woman on the panel, a diagnostic radiologist no less. Powerful.

[sarchasm]

33. Truth to powerful idiots.

If this isn't a study in the dichotomy of dumbassery and doctoral knowledge, I don't know what is.

[Layzeebeaver]

34. her "Thank you" at the end...

... should have been "Fuck you."

[lark]

35. On fire indeed and saying what every single physician should be screaming out loud.

Reublicans are killing women on purpose - an asshat in NC wanted it put into law that the fetus had priority over the pregnant woman! When 1 in 3 births end in miscarriage naturally, this is just a tactic for controlling women and making impoverished workers who have no education or health care and who work for pennies. That is the big plan and abortion is the first step. Next comes disallowing contraception, then sex and we are at the Handmaiden stage which is Alito and Thomas' wet dream.

[KS Toronado]

37. From today's TOONs

[sheshe2]

40. On point!

[Kennah]

38. Offred standing by

v

[BobTheSubgenius]

39. I have nothing worth adding to this post, except my K&R.

I wish I had said it, though. All of it.

[calimary]

41. Most intriguing Kristin O'Connell quote!

THIS Kristin O’Connell?

https://serc.carleton.edu/serc/kristin.html

[sheshe2]

44. Thanks for posting her bio, calimary.

[OldBaldy1701E]

43. "Women are coming for Republicans. We won't go back."

Good, because there are times it seems no one else will.