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Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

A Democratic state Rep. from Michigan says she has sterilised herself as a form of protest against President Trump.

Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D-Livonia) stated “Just under two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to ensure that I would never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump’s America.”

“I refuse to let my body be treated as currency by an administration that only sees value in my ability to procreate,” she added while speaking to hundreds of extreme left-wing protesters on the lawn of the Michigan Capitol.

“If you know people who are questioning how serious this is, I’m going to repeat myself: A sitting government official opted for voluntary sterilization because she was uncertain she would be able to access contraception in the future,” she further claimed.

A Michigan State Rep announces she sterilized herself to avoid getting pregnant in Trump’s America…

Sometimes there really are no words. pic.twitter.com/dHGVkgmcPU

— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 6, 2025

🗣️ Laurie Pohutsky (@lpohutsky19) opens up on decision to voluntarily forego having children rather than raising them under new Republican government

Read the article ⬇️https://t.co/ffAUiPg89p pic.twitter.com/AguPFE75nk

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) February 8, 2025

Unable to access contraception? What on Earth is she blathering about?

In 2022, Michigan added a measure to their state constitution that made abortion, contraception, and sterilization a “fundamental right.”

Michigan has functionally zero restrictions on abortion – codified in their state Constitution. Abortion any time any place for any reason.

This statement is nonsense and this person clearly needs help. https://t.co/wRLDFDvmSa

— James Blair (@JamesBlairUSA) February 7, 2025

DUMocrats continue to show their stupidity and grotesqueness at the same time. She had no rights removedby DJT.
Abortion is legal in Michigan. In April 2023, Gov Whitmer repealed a 1931 law that banned abortion in most cases. The state constitution also guarantees abortion rights https://t.co/5BU7Df1aSm

— JD – America’s Golden Age 🇺🇲 (@JosephDelSordo) February 7, 2025

Trump has also repeatedly said abortion is a states issue following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

As such, it is unclear why these people are still claiming that Trump is going to deny them those rights.

Radical leftists are inventing fake issues as a justification for staying angry and taking extreme measures because they cannot accept that Trump won the election.

Rep. Laurie Pohutsky @lpohutsky19 has been on a crusade to enable abortion of unborn babies up until birth since we entered the legislature together 6 years ago.

She very well knows that President Trump can not take away her ability to abort her unborn baby here in Michigan.… pic.twitter.com/K1oRTPsQFi

— Brad Paquette (@BradPaquetteMI) February 6, 2025

Build the resistance to what? Peace and prosperity? Being normal?

— Jim (@Jim74835999) February 7, 2025

Footage from the Michigan protest was posted online by Trump supporters who were harassed and told they had no right to be there.

The only way to stop left-wing fascism is to stand up and confront left-wing fascists. pic.twitter.com/mhVH9M7HwH

— Matt Maddock (@matthewmaddock) February 5, 2025

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Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Friday that its forces had captured the coal mining town of Toretsk amid the slow but steady advance of its forces in Donetsk region. Russia calls the same town by the name of Dzerzhinsk, and state media is declaring its ‘liberation’ after Ukraine forces had long held it.

Journalist Guy Elster also wrote on X, “Russia said its forces had seized the key mining town of Toretsk in east Ukraine after months of fighting.”

Ukraine’s military had used Toretsk primarily as a staging ground from which to launch almost daily artillery, missile, and drone strikes on Russian front line positions in Donbass.

The Associated Press on Friday additionally detailed the ground situation as follows:

Alkhimov, the 28th Brigade officer, told AP his unit continued to hold its ground on Friday afternoon. He added: “Intense (Russian) assault operations are ongoing.”

DeepState, an open-source Ukrainian map widely used by the military and analysts, showed late Thursday that Ukrainian troops were on the northwest edge of Toretsk and still had some soldiers inside the town itself.

“The Russia’s claimed fall of Toretsk, if confirmed, would advance its sweep across the Donetsk, which has cost Moscow heavily in troops and armor but has paid dividends for the Kremlin,” AP continues.

“In the offensive, Russian forces crush settlements with the brute force of 3,000-pound (1,300-kilo) glide bombs, artillery, missiles and drones, then send in infantry units to attack the exposed defenders.”

Last year saw the area towns and cities of Avdiivka and Vuhledar fall to the Russian onslaught, with last month Velyka Novosilka as well as Kurakhove falling.

The Russian Defense Ministry has also announced that the two small villages of Druzhba and Krymskoye, which lie to the northeast of Toretsk, have been taken this week.

Aftermath video showing war-ravaged Toretsk:

Toretsk was once a typical European town, brimming with homes, parks, stores, and schools. Until russian turned it into ruins. pic.twitter.com/7tUhoOtiK6

— Kate from Kharkiv (@BohuslavskaKate) February 7, 2025

All of these had long generally formed a strategic belt of Ukrainian defenses in the east, which are fast crumbling, also as the key town of Pokrovsk is increasingly under threat. Military analysts say that once Pokrovsk falls, Russia will quickly be able to complete its hold over all of Donetsk.

Meanwhile, this week has seen a new offensive into Kursk by Ukraine forces, in a desperate effort to maintain some level of leverage before likely negotiations with Moscow commence.