"Federally funded family planning centers in Texas must receive parental consent before prescribing birth control to teenagers, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, partially upholding a decision from a lower court...It’s the highest profile legal challenge to birth control access since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, and could be appealed to the Supreme Court."
There are no easy ways to establish reproductive rights in America including the right to an abortion. I don’t see Democrats gaining enough Congressional control for Biden to carry out his promise to “sign a bill.” Elie Mystal says it can only be possible through enlarging the Supreme Court. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/to-preserve-abortion-rights-biden-must-expand-court/
"The first over-the-counter birth control pill will be available in U.S. stores later this month, allowing American women and teens to purchase contraceptive medication as easily as they buy aspirin...A one-month supply will cost about $20 and a three-month supply will cost around $50, according to the company’s suggested retail price. It will also be sold online."
Emma Goldman, U.S. anarchist, #feminist - compelling advocate of free speech, the eight-hour work day, and birth control, was arrested in New York City on Feb. 11, 1916, just prior to giving another public lecture on family planning.
She was charged with violating the Comstock Act, an 1873 statute banning transportation of "obscene" matter through the mails or across state lines.
At the time, federal courts interpreted the statute as prohibiting distribution of #contraception information.
"An influential thinktank close to #Trump is developing plans to infuse #Christian nationalist ideas into his administration if he returns to power...
Those policies include banning immigration of non-Christians into the #UnitedStates, overturning same-sex marriage & barring access to #contraception...
Lisa Needham issues a warning: they're coming for birth control next:
"On X, Heritage’s official account posted last year that 'a good place to start would be a feminist movement against the pill and … returning the consequentiality to sex.'
"Religious conservatives are calling for a return to a world where sex isn’t recreational or for pleasure but is instead fraught with consequences — namely, pregnancies that can’t be terminated even when the pregnant person’s life is in danger."
"They are coming for birth control pills (and other forms of contraception). They are coming for the very concept of recreational sex — sex for fun (which, yes, partnered and married people do too!). Sex, they argue, should come with 'consequences.' Or, as the Heritage Foundation put it, conservatives should focus on 'restoring the consequentiality to sex.'”
"Republicans have … marched in lockstep to oppose the Right to Contraception Act introduced by Democrats because it would have included methods, such as IUDs and the morning-after pill, that some consider abortifacients. It’s hard to square support for IVF, which, as practiced in the United States, nearly always entails the loss of fertilized eggs, with opposition to Plan B because it may result in the loss of a fertilized egg."
Andrew Egger on what happens when the dog (the "pro-life" GOP base) catches the car (the elusive GOP promise to end abortion):
"Before Dobbs, it was easy for the GOP to let the pro-life movement take the lead when it came to setting their abortion-policy agenda—after all, none of that policy was ever going to become law. Expect more and more daylight between party and movement in the months and years ahead."
Greg Olear does an in-depth analysis of the plans Heritage Foundation in store for all of us, if Trump is elected — plans that are out in the open and public, so that if we vote for Trump, we're voting for these plans to be imposed on ourselves and the whole nation.
He notes that Mike Roberts, who heads Heritage Foundation, is an ultra-right Catholic who makes plain that he wants to dismantle democracy in favor of theocracy.
"The Cowboy Catholic and his Leonard Leo-backed extremists want to ban abortion at the federal level. They have stated this unequivocally, time and again. Trump is their vehicle for doing so. (Sidenote: Nikki Haley is totally on board with this, too.) And once abortion is outlawed, they’ll come for contraception, because these religious zealots harbor the erroneous belief that sex is for procreation only and not pleasure,"
I just read an article on #Slate that I will NOT link to espousing the virtues of “the pull-out method” when it comes to #contraception. The headline asks, “Withdrawal is a perfectly effective form of contraception. So why are some doctors and sex educators so against it?”
I don’t put a lot of stock in conspiracy theories, but when shit starts staring you in the face…
Un nouveau puzzle utérus pour une commande spéciale incluant deux particularités : l'utérus est en deux couches, permettant de distinguer la paroi de la cavité utérine et de montrer le positionnement d'un DIU ("stérilet") et le bois est deux fois plus épais, permettant de montrer l'insertion d'une coupe menstruelle !
Le rectum, que je n'avais pas placé sur les précédents puzzles, est également représenté, afin de pouvoir expliquer les conséquences de l'endométriose.
Egalement, l'une des trompes présente une ligature :)
🇬🇧 Dull idea that came to my mind after the 1024th update of the month for my IDE , IA plugin (enabled by default, Jetbrains) .
I wish we, as a society, were as fast to allow free access to #contraception, #abortion and generally speaking to let women to dispose of herselves the way they want as fast we adopted and pushed IA into everything.
🇫🇷 Idée naze qui me vient après la 1024éme miseà jour du plugin IA intégré (par défaut) dans mon logiciel de développement (Jetbrains). J'aimerais qu'on adopte les lois pour protéger le droit à l"#avortement, l'accès à la #contraception et manière générale le droit des femmes disposés d'elle même aussi vite qu'on as adopté l'IA dans tous et n'importe quoi
"Women should be given full control of their contraceptive needs by being allowed to buy the morning-after pill in supermarkets and petrol stations in the UK, a coalition of healthcare bodies has said.
The Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) said it was high time the barriers to emergency contraception were removed by reclassifying the morning-after pill under the general sales list, meaning it could be bought in shops."
Dan Diamond reports that on the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration announced new steps to protect access to contraception, abortion medication, and emergency abortions at hospitals. The efforts include issuing guidance making no-cost contraceptives more available and creating a new health department team dedicated to enforcing the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
The link in /1 opens to a gift reading of the Dan Diamond article, provided by PRRI iin its Morning Buzz newsletter today. My summary of the article above is also quoting PRRI's summary.
The #WhiteHouse on Mon is announcing new steps intended to ensure #access to contraception, #AbortionMedication & emergency #abortions at #hospitals. It represents President Biden’s latest bid to contrast himself w/ #Republican challengers who support strict abortion limits & arrives on the anniversary of #SCOTUS ruling that guaranteed #AbortionRights for nearly 50 yrs.
The effort to expand #access to #contraception involves several measures. Federal agencies are issuing guidance that would make no-cost #contraceptives more available under the #AffordableCareAct & take similar actions to expand contraception access for federal employees. HHS Secy Xavier Becerra also plans to send a letter to #health#insurers instructing them of their obligation to provide no-cost contraceptives, acc/to a memo the #Biden WH sent to reporters Sun.