Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights per draft opinion (Update: Dobbs opinion official) (2 Viewers)

We now have a full year of data from one of the first states with one of the most restrictive abortion bans. It’s what doctors and women tried to tell Rs would happen.

MT15 said:

We now have a full year of data from one of the first states with one of the most restrictive abortion bans. It’s what doctors and women tried to tell Rs would happen.

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Yeah, it's pretty clear what has led to this. There should be some limits, but Texas and other overly restrictive laws are hurting women and families' ability to respond to medical conditions detrimental to the health of both the mother and her child. It really needs to be left to the discretion of the doctors advising families.

MT15 said:

We now have a full year of data from one of the first states with one of the most restrictive abortion bans. It’s what doctors and women tried to tell Rs would happen.

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It's god's will...

(Just not the God that I serve.)

Yeah, we all knew this was coming

When the US supreme court upended the federal right to abortion enshrined in Roe v Wade, the immediate task before Democrats seemed simple: keep abortion legal in as many states as possible.

But over a year since Roe’s demise, some leaders in the reproductive rights movements worry that Democrats have tunnel vision, focusing their messaging and resources entirely on the legal tug-of-war over abortion bans in the midwest and south.

“Voters want to understand: what are you going to do to make things better? They don’t want to just hear, oh, we’re not going to ban abortion. That’s important, but that’s not good enough,” said Andrea Miller, president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, which supports abortion rights.

Miller said the fight to keep abortion legal is just one frontier in the larger battle for reproductive healthcare. She spent the past year pushing blue states to pass legislation that makes abortion easily accessible, affordable and without stigma for patients and providers.

In recent months, Maryland has emerged as an example of how Democratic lawmakers can take proactive steps to bolster abortion access, even in states where the procedure is and will likely remain legal.

Maryland is one of just eight states that require private insurers to cover abortion care with no cost-sharing.

In April 2022, in anticipation of the supreme court ruling on abortion, Maryland Democrats passed a bill that allows nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants, and other medical health professionals to supervise abortions.

“Before, we would only allow doctors to do it, even though nurse practitioners, midwives, all these other medical professionals are able to handle the similar things like miscarriages and deliveries,” said Maryland House Delegate Joseline Peña-Melnyk, one of the bill’s sponsors.

The law also directs the state to invest $3.5m a year for abortion-care training…….

While we’re at it can we smack the Ohio Republican Party upside their head? The election on August 8 that is for changing the majority requirement to 60% to change the Ohio constitution has been phrased by the psycho party as “saving Ohio’s constitution”. Of course, when there were Republican governors and legislators before this was never brought up. It wasn’t until Kansas and other states enshrined pro-choice that this became an issue. Only one Republican has had the intellectually honesty to admit that this is about abortion.

Dr Linda Prine is providing abortion access to people in all 50 states, even those that have banned it. That might seem like an admission to be discreet about in post-Roe America, but Prine and her colleagues at Aid Access, a telemedicine abortion service, are doing it openly and in a way they believe is on firm legal ground.

On 14 July, Aid Access announced that over the past month, a team of seven doctors, midwives and nurse practitioners have mailed medication abortion to 3,500 people under the protection of “shield laws”, which protect clinicians who serve patients in states where providing abortion is illegal. As soon as she learned about shield laws, Prine knew it represented an opportunity to go on the offensive, for those bold enough to try it.

“It made me think, OK, we need to fight back,” Prine said. “We can’t just take this lying down. We’ve got to do something. And this was what we can do.”

From its origins, Aid Access has always been willing to test legal boundaries. It was started in 2018 by the Dutch physician Dr Rebecca Gomperts.

At the time, FDA regulations prevented licensed US providers from mailing mifepristone, one of the two drugs in the medication abortion regimen, so Aid Access was structured like Gomperts’ other telemedicine service, Women on Web.

That process involved abortion seekers filling out an online consultation, and if eligible, Gomperts wrote a prescription from Europe and the pills were dispatched by a pharmaceutical partner in India.

Then, in 2020, Covid hit. And a federal judge suspended the FDA’s in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone. For the first time, legally prescribed medication abortion could be put in the mail.

Aid Access used this opportunity to implement a hybrid model: In states where telemedicine abortion was legal, US clinicians handled the prescriptions, while in states where it wasn’t, the pills continued to be mailed from India…….

And Ohio’s idiot AG has joined, iirc, 19 idiot Republican AGs who want access to medical records to basically track which women are crossing state lines to get abortions.

bird said:

And Ohio’s idiot AG has joined, iirc, 19 idiot Republican AGs who want access to medical records to basically track which women are crossing state lines to get abortions.

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That better get thrown out in court. They shouldn’t be able to do that.

MT15 said:

That better get thrown out in court. They shouldn’t be able to do that.

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They are trying to couch it as fighting crime. They don’t mention abortion but, again, just like the attempt to change the threshold required to amend the Ohio constitution, there was no concern regarding criminals before Kansas.

Mike assumes because he doesn’t care enough to find out.

In the link it is especially interesting that the spokesperson for the vote yes campaign says that the issue will protect the Ohio constitution from out of state influence that they are seeing on the vote no side. Immediately after that the article notes that an ILLINOIS millionaire has donated one million to the vote yes campaign.

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Yeah, the state of Ohio is probably gonna turn Democrat for President this election cycle.

DaveXA said:

Yeah, the state of Ohio is probably gonna turn Democrat for President this election cycle.

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One hopes so. DeWhine knelt to the so-called base and the rest of the Republican Party varies from mildly nuts to total whack job.

bird said:

One hopes so. DeWhine knelt to the so-called base and the rest of the Republican Party varies from mildly nuts to total whack job.

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Yeah, we'll see. Things can change a lot in a year.