{"id":71317,"date":"2019-05-16T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71317"},"modified":"2019-05-16T07:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T12:23:18","slug":"what-if-you-declared-a-sex-strike-and-nobo-er-let-me-try-that-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71317","title":{"rendered":"What If You Declared A &#8220;Sex Strike&#8221; And Nobo&#8230;Er, Let Me Try That Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, amid news of several states&#8217; abortion laws (intended to provoke SCOTUS-ready legal challenges to <em>Roe V. Wade<\/em>), one-time &#8220;actress&#8221; Alyssa Milano declared a &#8220;sex strike&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2019\/05\/13\/liberal-sex-strike-fails-to-score-n2546186\">fared about as well as you&#8217;d expect<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Milano &#8211; whose movie credits include &#8220;Who&#8217;s The Boss&#8221;,  [NOTE TO MITCH:  TRY TO CARE ABOUT ALYSSA MILANO&#8217;S &#8220;ACTING CAREER&#8221; LONG ENOUGH TO GET A LIST IN HERE BEFORE YOU PUBLISH THIS], and, uh, &#8220;Who&#8217;s The Boss&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/pluralist.com\/alyssa-milano-failed-sexstrike-shatters-phone\/\">reacted<\/a>, well, about as well as you&#8217;d expect:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>With states continuing to restrict abortions despite her #SexStrike protest, Alyssa Milano became so furious that she destroyed her own property, she admitted on Twitter Wednesday.<br> \u201cI just threw my phone across the room. Cracked the screen. Read this. Please,\u201d Milano tweeted, linking to CBS News story about an 11-year-old girl who couldn\u2019t get an abortion because of Ohio\u2019s \u201cheartbeat bill.\u201d&#8230; \u201cHeartbeat bills,\u201d which prohibit most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, have passed in four states this year, and Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday voted to effectively outlaw the procedure entirely. Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, was expected to sign the legislation.<br> Although none of the laws have gone into effect amid legal challenges, pro-choice advocates fear they will push the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, a landmark 1972 ruling enshrining the right to abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217;s a former child star, and not used to getting her way.  But then, progs are largely the same.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, amid news of several states&#8217; abortion laws (intended to provoke SCOTUS-ready legal challenges to Roe V. Wade), one-time &#8220;actress&#8221; Alyssa Milano declared a &#8220;sex strike&#8221;. It fared about as well as you&#8217;d expect. And Milano &#8211; whose movie credits include &#8220;Who&#8217;s The Boss&#8221;, [NOTE TO MITCH: TRY TO CARE ABOUT ALYSSA MILANO&#8217;S &#8220;ACTING [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71319,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71317\/revisions\/71319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}