There is no such thing as the "culture war." What we're actually talking about is white evangelicals trying to cheat at politics rather than accept that Americans long ago rejected their authoritarian and superstitious viewpoints.
BRITT BILL WOULD CREATE FEDERAL DATABASE TRACKING PREGNANCIES
Alabama Senator Katie Britt, best known for delivering a bizarre, melodramatic televised response to President Biden's 2024 State of the Union address, has introduced a bill to create a federal website to collect data on pregnant people.
The bill, the More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed Act (MOMS Act), would mandate the creation of a federal website called Pregnancy.gov, which Britt calls a "clearinghouse of relevant resources available for pregnant and postpartum women, and women parenting young children."
The website would take users through series of questions, it claims, to generate a list of relevant resources of interest within the user’s zip code. The bill would also allow government officials to reach out to users for additional information.
The database would refer users to so-called "crisis pregnancy centers"; fake clinics that do not actually provide women with healthcare, but rather use deception and coercion to scare women away from getting an abortion, even if it necessary for their own health.
Remember: Texas saw an estimated 26,313 rape-related pregnancies during the 16 months after the state outlawed all abortions, with no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest, according to a 2024 study. Out of the thousands of rape-related pregnancies in 14 states, Texas had 45% of the total. #NoRepublicansEverAgain
Cuellar’s home & campaign office in Laredo, Texas, were raided in Jan 2022 as part of a federal investigation into #Azerbaijan & a group of US businessmen who have ties to the country. His office had pledged to cooperate w/the investigation.
#HenryCuellar, 66, a #lawyer, is a fmr #customs broker & #Texas secretary of state. A member of the #centrist “Blue Dogs” & New Democrat Coalition, Cuellar was first elected to the House in 2004.
"I didn't think it would apply to US!", whimpered 28 year old Cole Jacobsen of Idaho Falls, ID after his wife (the mother of his three other children) died from an ectopic pregnancy the doctor (being the closest at the time ) believed would be fine and she just needed to tough it out. #AbortionRights
From crowded to quiet: Inside a clinic as Florida bans abortions after six weeks.
@19thnews reports: "At A Woman’s Choice in Jacksonville, staffers treated a surge of last-minute patients before the May 1 deadline. Now, they will have to refer most of them out of state."
The ban, which took effect on Wednesday, was part of Gov. Ron #DeSantis’s push into cultural #conservatism. But Florida #politics is rarely that simple.
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What? Democratic Primary and Nonpartisan Election
When? Tuesday, May 21th
Who? John Barrow
For? Georgia Supreme Court
Why? Restore women's right to make their own medical decisions.
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In some #pregnancy emergencies where #abortion is required, there isn’t even a chance the baby will be born. Where #Idaho may argue that is it providing medical care with lifesaving exceptions, it amounted to a potentially fatal game of semantics that increases the likelihood that places like Idaho become #maternity care deserts.
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a case that could determine whether doctors can provide abortions to pregnant women with medical emergencies in states that enact abortion bans.
AP has a live blog on the battle between federal and state rights: https://flip.it/K-8aGN
For ongoing coverage of the abortion debate, follow @abortion
The justices heard arguments in an appeal by #Idaho ofcls of a lower court's ruling that found that the 1986 US law at issue, the #EmergencyMedicalTreatment & Labor Act (#EMTALA), supersedes the state's near-total #ban in the relatively rare circumstances when the 2 conflict.
President Joe #Biden's admin, which sued Idaho over the #abortion#law, has urged the justices to uphold that ruling.
"A full 54% of Americans (and 56% of registered voters) now want Congress to pass 'a law that keeps abortion as legal and accessible as it was nationwide under Roe v. Wade,' according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll."
Yahoo News reports: "That is the highest level of public support for making Roe the 'law of the land' since Yahoo News and YouGov started asking about the issue in spring 2022."