"A month ago, a phone call was the only thing the doctor could offer to #women in states with #abortion bans...
Now she can legally mail them pills herself.
...one of the largest #AbortionPill suppliers, Europe-based Aid Access, now allows US medical professionals in certain Democrat-led states that have passed abortion “shield” laws to prescribe & mail pills directly to patients in antiabortion states" #GiftArticle#GiftLink https://wapo.st/3K5gXpH
"the question of legal peril could wind up in a gray area ultimately resolved by the courts, such as whether shield-law states have the power to block other states from extraditing people charged with crimes...
Molly Meegan, ACOG’s general counsel and chief legal officer, said... “it is wrong for a state to be able to prosecute clinicians and patients in other states where #abortion remains #legal and unrestricted.” #GiftLink https://wapo.st/3K5gXpH
Abortion restrictions are Republicans putting the state between an individual and their doctor, and placing decision making on an individual’s healthcare and medical decisions in the hands of the state.
'He said that postponing #childbirth is a “depraved practice” that causes #infertility and #miscarriages .'
He called for 'over-the-counter sales of emergency #contraceptives to be restricted in Russia by the end of this year.'
While #Trump and everyone affiliated with him is like "if we get in, we're making him king," Democrats will run and hide from things like court packing and filibuster reform for fear of it tripping off some kind of executive power arms race.
You're already in it, and you've quite possibly already lost.
@andrew@law this is the exact rejoinder the last time I posted about #ExpandTheCourt. *whinging tone: “but!!! But, then republicans/conservatives will do it next time.” As if we’ve not seriously slid into fascism already and an unaccountable, activist court has stripped our rights. It’s alarming and disheartening to see #abortion criminalization legislation so common today. But let’s not give those republicans any ideas!!!! End the pacifism!!
NEW: Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch is demanding access to information about Mississippi residents who obtain abortions or gender-affirming care in other states.
"Traditionally, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which funds the annual budget and appropriations of the Department of Defense, passes Congress on a bipartisan basis. Since 1961 it has been considered must-pass legislation, as it provides the funding for our national security."
"end the Defense Department program that reimburses military personnel who must travel for abortion services; bar healthcare for gender transition; prevent the military academies from using affirmative action in admissions (an exception the recent Supreme Court decision allowed); block the Pentagon from putting in place President Biden’s executive orders on climate change;"
"prevent schools associated with the Defense Department from teaching that the United States of America is racist; and block military schools from having 'pornographic and radical gender ideology books' in their libraries."
"For all that there is grumbling on both sides over one thing or another in the measure, it is generally kept outside partisanship.
Late last night, House Republicans broke that tradition by loading the bill with a wish list from the far right. Republicans added amendments that eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the Defense Department;"
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And now we come to #Dobbs, and the cowardly, illegitimate #SupremeCourt's cowardly, illegitimate overturning of #RoeVWade, a move that was immediately followed by "red" states implementing total, or near-total bans on #abortion:
Abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming after a judge ruled Thursday that the 1st-in-the-nation law to ban them won't take effect July 1 as planned while a lawsuit proceeds.
While other states have instituted de facto bans on the medication by broadly prohibiting abortion, only Wyoming has specifically banned abortion pills
...
House Republicans have advanced a bill that would restrict access to abortion pill mifepristone as part of a quiet effort to attack abortion rights at the federal level.
...
Prolife Nazi Republicans offer the death penalty for women who have abortions.
The same right wing Nazis have said women should enjoy rape, keep the rape baby and if they do not want to have children women shouldn't have sex as they outlaw contraception?
Nazis are the ultimate assholes.
Texas denied abortions to these women when their lives were in danger. Now they're suing the state.
Though speaking out requires them to relive losing their wanted pregnancies, four plaintiffs told The 19th they're doing it because they know they're "not the only ones like this."
#Abortion in #Iowa is legal again, for now, after a judge blocks new restrictions
The new law prohibits almost all abortions once cardiac activity can be detected, which is usually around six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant.
“I wish the double standard in this legislation was shocking, but it’s not.... Let’s be clear that these cuts are not about saving taxpayer money. This is blatant misogyny and transphobia that set the military back instead of creating an inclusive culture for troops rooted in the freedom they defend every day."
--Christian F. Nunes,
President,
National Organization for Women