“'Leave it to the states' is the kind of messaging anti-abortion activists and their judicial helpmates love: It sounds clean, neat, reasonable. But when states enact near-total bans, when the federal government somehow loses its authority to block those bans even when they threaten women with serious illness — as Idaho is pushing for here —"
"The oral arguments over Idaho’s abortion ban and whether it trumps federal law that requires hospitals to give pregnant patients emergency medical case may have marked a new low for this court.
It was so bad that even Justice Amy Coney Barrett said she was 'shocked' by the position Idaho was taking."
On the PBS NewsHour covering the SCOTUS Idaho abortion ban case:
"The briefs in this case are full of real-life stories of pregnant women being denied standard medical care in Idaho and around the country." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz7IfpZro68
The conservative Supreme Court justices today are just like most Supreme Court justices have always been: entrenched in the view that the federal government does not have the power nor the right to protect ALL of its citizens, notwithstanding the triumph of the 14th Amendment, which attempts to make dual sovereignty fully compatible with democracy. 1/ #LawFedi#women#abortion#AbortionAccess
The gender health gap in one telling example (Anne-Marie Volkmann, UCL/FT):
'chronic pain is a good example: 70% of people living with it are women & studies show that they feel pain more often & more intensely than men. In sharp contrast, 80 per cent of pain studies are conducted on men — or on male mice'!
Across the health system similar disjunctures on gender lines are evident.
As she concludes: 'the gender health gap’s impact...is shocking. Doctors must listen to women'!
I've always like Henri Cartier-Bresson's photography, and on leafing through a large retrospective book this morning came across this photo which I just love.... if this is the 'decisive moment' what are these women doing.
Or, have the elaborately staged a moment symbolic to them (and to Cartier-Bresson) that is now lost to us?
'"It was Trump who ripped away the rights of women in America.
It was a political deal to get rid of Roe, a political deal Trump made with the evangelical base of the Republican Party to look past his moral and character flaws in exchange for his commitment to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who would overturn Roe."
»“Every 10 minutes a child is killed or wounded. They are protected under the laws of war, and yet they are ones who are disproportionately paying the ultimate price in this war,” […]
Türk said he was horrified by the destruction of An Nasser Medical Complex and Al Shifa Medical Complex«
Fifty years ago, a group of women from the villages of the Western Himalayas sparked Chipko, a green movement that remains relevant in the age of climate change. #women#activism#environmentalism
Candidates is finished but the chess world keeps rolling. European Women's Championship is being played in Greece. The most interesting player is 9 year old Bodhana Sivanandan from England who might be the next Judit Polgar. So far she's played 3 International Masters, winning 1 and getting draws with the other two.
Follow her progress, because she might be the next great thing in chess.
"One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a #Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her... [another horror story]... And in #NorthCarolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby died.
A Palestinian child cries next to his mother after they were rushed into Nasser hospital, following an Israeli strike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 13, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Palestinian women and children at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 17, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Ahmed Barhoum lost his wife, their five-year-old daughter, and five other relatives in an Israeli air attack on their home in Rafah last night.
“This is a world devoid of all human values and morals,” Barhoum told The Associated Press news agency while holding the body of his slain daughter, Alaa.
“They bombed a house full of displaced people, women and children. There were no martyrs but women and children.”
“We are forced to block the road, because we are poisoned, everything is polluted, we can’t grow vegetables anymore,” Radivojevic said this month as she stood at the blockade.
"One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.
Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade...
Pregnant patients have “become radioactive to emergency departments” in states with extreme abortion restrictions, said Sara Rosenbaum, a George Washington University health law and policy professor.
“They are so scared of a pregnant patient, that the emergency medicine staff won’t even look. They just want these people gone,” Rosenbaum said."