A friend has suggested that we call britt's insanity the ELSIE Act.

[niyad]

iI have not worked it out yet. Perhaps some of our more talented members could suggest the best words???

For those of you who have not seen one of today's more insane little tidbits, that nutcase from Alabama, katie britt (remember her state of the union response?) has introduced a bill called the MOMS Act (More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed), which would essentially create a federal data base of pregnant people. She has been excoriated, laughed at, ridiculed all over the internet today (including the cringe-worthy video, which has not been posted on DU yet).

[dsp3000]

1. sorry this makes no sense to me. what are you referring to?

[niyad]

3. That gender traitor katie britt(r-AL) (state of the union response)

has proposed the oh-so-cleverly named MOMS Act (More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed), which would essentially create a federal registry of pregnant people. Since women are essentially seen as gestating/lactating cows, might as well be honest with the legislation.

Many of us here remember Elsie, the Borden cow mascot.

[joshcryer]

8. Exposing Ladies' Sensitive Information Everywhere

Had to convince Copilot to generate this but here's a bunch more:

Privacy:

Exposing Ladies’ Sensitive Information Everywhere
Endangering Liberty, Sacrificing Individual Expectations
Encroaching Lives, Surveillance Increases Exponentially
Eroding Levels of Security, Invasion of Expectations
Entering Lives, Snooping Intrusively Everyday

Bodily atonomy:

Encroaching Ladies’ Sovereignty, Invasion Escalates
Eroding Liberty, Sacrificing Individual Expectations
Exposing Ladies’ Sensitive Information Excessively
Endangering Ladies’ Security, Intrusive Enforcement
Enforced Legislation, Sacrificing Individual Empowerment

[niyad]

9. THANK YOU!!!

[joshcryer]

10. No thank you for the suggestion, sorry for not getting it right away. I even Tweeted it out!

Link to tweet

[niyad]

14. WOW!!! Even bigger THANK YOU!!! I will be interested in what kinds

of responses you get.

[joshcryer]

16. I don't have many followers on that account...

...but hopefully people will search the MOMS Act and find it! 🤞

[joshcryer]

13. Another one when I asked it to be sarcastic: Endless Laundry, Sleepless In Eternity

[niyad]

15. I like it!!!

[NanaCat]

27. Her fascist legislation

Also proposes to direct pregnant women to fraudulent 'crisis pregnancy' centers that dole out anti-science propaganda about contraception and abortion.

[niyad]

28. "crisis pregnancy centers" financed by our taxes, no less.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Elsie? Like Elsie the Cow?

A mascot for Borden's Dairy from the WayBack Machine.

[niyad]

5. Exactly.

[TSExile]

7. Think breeder cows. Livestock. Chattel.

But then, even livestock is worth more than a human female in the eyes of the patriarchy.

[joshcryer]

4. Any searches for this only bring up this page, what exactly are you talking about?

[niyad]

6. see post 3

[Mossfern]

11. Try searching Elsie the Cow

https://medium.com/the-tasteful-toast/forgotten-food-mascots-elsie-the-cow-4cb5e0073bab

[joshcryer]

12. Yeah, OP explained, and it is perfect.

[Duncanpup]

17. Frightening idea a national birth data base.

[niyad]

19. Next will be a national menstrual data base.

[onenote]

29. Here's the bill. Don't see where it forces pregnant women to register as part of a national data base.

https://www.britt.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/MOMS-Act_FINAL-Britt_Rubio_Cramer1.pdf
What is bad about this bill is not what everyone is claiming it does, but doesn't. It's that it would create a central clearinghouse where pregnant women could get pre- and post-natal information and would provide grants for organizations that provide pregnancy-related information. It even requires such information be provided in multiple languages. That would actually be a good thing, but it isn't a good thing in this bill because the bill bars pregnancy-related information information or grants from being provided to any entity, including such entity's affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, and clinics, that performs, induces, refers for, or counsels in favor of abortions, or provides financial support to any other organization that conducts such activities.

[Iris]

18. Did she make a video introducing the Moms act?

What's the video?

[niyad]

20. Apparently she did. The newsweek article in the DU OP where I

first read about this insanity earlier today mentioned it, but I have not seen it. It was said to be even more cringe-worthy than her SOTU histrionics.

[Iris]

21. Wow. She really needs to take a step back

[niyad]

22. off a cliff would be helpful.

[Iris]

26. Exactly

[joshcryer]

23. night bump before I hit the hay

great idea for a post!

[niyad]

24. Thank you. On both counts!

[niyad]

25. . . .