Trust In Supreme Court Fell To Lowest Point In 50 Years After Abortion Decision, Poll Shows
The 77%-28% split between Democrat and Republicans in their backing for abortion rights is the largest-ever partisan divide on the question.
Large majorities of Americans said they think a woman should be able to have an abortion if her own health is at risk, if there is a strong change of a serious defect in the baby or if the pregnancy was the result of rape.
Judges who chipped away abortion rights to hear federal abortion pill appeal
Three appeals court judges with a history of supporting restrictions on abortion will hear arguments May 17 on whether a widely used abortion drug should remain available
The case involves a regulatory issue — whether the Food and Drug Administration's approval of mifepristone and subsequent actions making it easier to obtain must be rolled back
This is not a moderate bill. This is one of the most extreme I've seen. The restrictions target access and force doctors to lie to patients. You can't make 3 appointments at a clinic that doesn't exist. It also mandates that doctors misinform based on far right junk "science.” It's an authoritarian nightmare with a moderate sounding name.
@TonyStark We need just one Republican in either chamber of the NCGA to vote not to overturn Gov. Cooper's veto. There are 5 who are possibilities. Everyone in NC who cares about this issue should contact them. #AbortionRights#Abortion#NCPolitics#NCpol
Rep. Jon Hardister Jon.Hardister@ncleg.gov
Rep. Tricia Cotham Tricia.Cotham@ncleg.gov
Rep. Ted Davis Ted.Davis@ncleg.gov
Rep. John Bradford John.Bradford@ncleg.gov
Sen. Bill Rabon Bill.Rabon@ncleg.gov
We are escalating our recently-launched #MakeDMsSafe campaign with a series of online ads, sidewalk decals, and billboards targeted at 🐦SlackHQ executives/employees and the general public, demanding end-to-end #encryption for Slack messages.
Personal communications are being used more and more to criminalize abortion seekers and providers. Slack is an absolutely vital communication tool for millions, but so far it hasn’t been the focus of calls for safer messaging. We’re changing that. #AbortionRights
Danville, Illinois City Council passed an ordinance to prohibit the mailing or shipping of medication abortion pills.
"An Illinois city on Tuesday banned the mailing or shipping of abortion pills, defying the state’s Democratic attorney general and the American Civil Liberties Union, who have repeatedly warned that the move violates Illinois law’s protection of abortion as a fundamental right."
Only weeks after a NC Democrat suddenly changed parties ― giving the GOP a veto-proof majority Republicans in the statehouse on Wednesday unveiled a 12-week abortion ban. Anti-choice tried to restrict abortion in the Southern state since it became a safe haven for care after federal abortion protections were repealed last year, and the proposed abortion ban now has a very real chance of becoming a law.
The number one killer of children in America is gun violence. Where is a Republican doing something about that?
The Republicans in NC described this bill as “pro-woman.” I can’t think of anything more NOT pro-woman than restricting their bodily autonomy in any way and interfering in personal medical decisions. The GOP again show they don’t GAF about anything other than being in control or life.
@TonyStark The rebels, misleadingly masquerading as "Republicans" are failing to disguise their anti-human slaveholder mentality & disgraceful heritage.
And they'll be going to hurt women affiliated with their organization, too.
You can bet — women won't forget. Nor will their loving partners, if there'll be harm.
😎💪 The Federal Government is warning hospitals, that are denying pregnant women emergency abortion, they're breaking federal law & putting women's lives in jeopardy.
To be clear: First & foremost the insurrectionary "Republicans" with their anti-human "legislation" are forcing hospitals to turn pregnant women seeking emergency abortion away.
It's the rebellious "Republicans", who are recklessly endangering the lives of pregnant women.
"fear among some Republicans that abortion bans could lead to political backlash.
...decried what would have been a near-total ban on abortion. One, Sen. Sandy Senn (R), likened the implications to the dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in which women are treated as property of the state.
"Conservatives have pushed GOP leaders to seize the opportunity to enact strict bans, but voters across the country have repeatedly demonstrated their strong support for abortion rights, striking down antiabortion amendments even in conservative states like Kentucky and Kansas.
"Secret Shoppers" in Oklahoma pretended to be pregnant women. They called 34 hospitals in the state to ask about the hospitals' policies on pregnancy complications requiring abortions.
"I think one of the most frightening statements, which was at one of the hospitals, the person was trying to be reassuring and she said,
'Oh, well, you know, in the case of a medical emergency, we would try to use the woman's body as an incubator to just try to keep the pregnancy going as long as possible'"
In the US, we make women wait in the hospital parking lot until they are on the verge of death before turning their expiring bodies into incubators in the ER.
#Biden is right. We’re still fighting a battle for the soul of America.
As the president acknowledged in his…video, winning that fight will require more than beating Trump a 2nd time. So much has happened since 2020. He highlighted the rollback of #AbortionRights, #BookBans & #VoterSuppression laws.
“Around the country, #MAGAextremists are lining up to take on those bedrock freedoms,” Biden said.
@MJ@TonyStark@Litzz11 Against the will of not only the majority of American women, but even against the will of the overall majority of Americans, today's so-called corrupt & insurrectionary "Republicans" are intentionally running a despot's mega-truck over women's right to self-determination, the Constitution & all of Abraham Lincoln's legacy.
They deserve to be banned from U.S. Congress.
Btw: How much money did "GOP" senators get (offered) for the confirmation of today's SCOTUS majority?
Trump Defends Push To Restrict Abortion Rights After Rebuke
Donald Trump, stinging from a rebuke by a leading anti-abortion group, used a speech in Iowa to spotlight his actions as president to try to restrict abortion rights.
Chief among the accomplishments Trump listed were his nominations of three conservative judges to the U.S. Supreme Court. The appointments paved the way for the overturning last year of the landmark Roe. v. Wade ruling
#SCOTUS on Fri preserved full access for now to #mifepristone that has been taken by millions of women… (for >20 years), its first major abortion-related decision since overturning #RoeVWade’s constitutional guarantee of #AbortionRights last year.
#ClarenceThomas did not explain his reasoning. #Alito said the admin & the public would not have been harmed by agreeing w/the lower court….
“It would simply restore the circumstances that existed (& that the Government defended) from 2000 to 2016 under three Presidential administrations,” Alito wrote.
(Except during those years women had the protections #RoeVWade granted - duh)
The #5thCircuit next month will review the merits of the case brought by antiabortion groups against the #FDA’s regulation of #mifepristone — a review that will be conducted by a separate, & likely different, 3-judge panel than the one that made the initial ruling. That merits decision will almost surely be appealed to #SCOTUS no matter the outcome. But until then, the justices’ Fri order says… Mifepristone will be available under existing FDA regulations nationwide.
One of the perks of not living in Texas (besides that glaringly obvious one) is that you can donate to this charity and potentially get placed on a bounty list by a lunatic who may try to sue you for $10,000 if they find out about your donation and learn that you’re visiting.
It’s like an extra perk for donating to a good cause 😈😈😈
The Supreme Court on Friday protected access to a widely used abortion drug by freezing lower-court rulings that placed restrictions on its usage as appeals play out.
Last night, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. It's one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country.
DeSantis clearly knows that signing into law an abortion ban is very unpopular with the majority in the USA - that’s why he did not even mention the bill he signed yesterday during his speech to the students at Liberty University (a conservative Christian school) today!
This mifepristone ruling was literally the worst decision from a federal judge that I've ever read. It’s worse than Aileen Cannon's rulings in the Trump document case, which I didn't think was possible.
It’ll be interesting to see how the Fifth Circuit reacts. They're a bunch of right-wing cranks themselves, but maybe they’ll know better.
@HankPym@TonyStark
I had read a Yahoo article back in February on this and one of the replies was "Should Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk try to take Mifepristone off the US market, you need to file a complaint with the clerk of court for the fifth district in New Orleans that the judge is practicing medicine without a license and using his personal religious beliefs to sway his judicial decisions. (Both are considered judicial misconduct.)"
Here's the address and the form to do so:
United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
Office Of the Clerk
F. Edward Hebert Building
600 S. Maestri Place
New Orleans, LA 70130-3408