Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights per draft opinion (Update: Dobbs opinion official) (1 Viewer)

[LovesMusic7360]

Not long ago Kari Lake proclaimed Arizona's abortion law was a great law and wanted it the law of the state.

Now that she has gotten her way, she is lobbying for it to be repealed.

As I have been saying since 2022, the overwhelming vast majority of women aren't going to vote for the man who proudly boasts that he got rid of Roe V. Wade. Nor are those women going to vote for a forced birther politician.

Turns out, republican belief in "pro life" was all just lies to get votes. Who is surprised? I sure am not.

How many forced birthers will do the same about face?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ka ... r-BB1ltx3I.

Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake is actively lobbying state lawmakers to overturn a 160-year-old law she once supported that bans abortion in almost all cases, a source with knowledge of her efforts told CNN.

 

[superchuck500]

In Wisconsin, the R candidate for state Supreme Court just lost very convincingly. To a D woman. R candidate ran on upholding an abortion ban from the 1800s, and tried his best to find a way to overturn the 2020 election in Wisconsin. This is the deciding vote for the state Supreme Court. Overturning Roe did this, IMO, at least in large part.

I also see this as important for voter rights as well. Wisconsin is about 50/50 in party split by active voter rolls but the state house is dominated by Republicans - they are always teetering on a supermajority. This is because they have gerrymandered and engineered the state.

 

[MT15]

Dan Knodl says he would consider impeaching Janet Protasiewicz if he is elected to the Senate

Knodl faces Democrat Jodi Habush Sinykin in next week's election that will determine if Republicans win a super-majority in the state Senate.

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Wisconsin senate supermajority win gives Republicans impeachment power

Republicans control 22 of 33 senate seats, giving them necessary votes to impeach officials including Democratic governor

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I read somewhere that if they decide to impeach her, the governor gets to appoint her replacement, at least initially. I really am hoping they don’t go that route though, without cause. I’m not sure how the statute is worded, but I imagine they will have to show cause and I don’t believe not voting how they want her to is cause.

 

[MT15]

With the crazy decision issued by crazy Trump butt crevasse judge, the main medication used to manage miscarriages is at risk of being banned nationwide. (can’t spell it, too lazy to look it up). This medication was approved by the FDA decades ago and has a proven safety record better than Tylenol or Viagra. There is another drug, but it has higher risks and is more painful for the woman.

When a woman starts to lose her pregnancy in the first trimester, which is when most spontaneous abortions happen, she is at risk for a partial abortion where placental and fetal tissue can be retained. This is dangerous and can lead to sepsis which is potentially fatal. Even if fatality is avoided the woman can be rendered sterile by the aftermath.

The drug is used to complete the spontaneous abortion and ensure the woman doesn’t develop these complications.

But by all means let’s have an idiot judge in TX deny that crucial medical care to women. So what if some women who were never seeking an abortion die?

It has never been more clear to me that women aren’t deemed as even human by these zealots. They don’t matter, their suffering doesn’t matter, they just aren’t viewed as even human.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[superchuck500]

 

[MT15]

Not at all surprising:

 

[MT15]

Learning there are even more uses for the drug. Also, there are definite medical protocols that are followed for its use. It’s not like there aren’t medical standards and practices.

 

[brandon]

Not at all surprising:

Guess who called this almost a year ago: https://madaboutpolitics.com/thread...ate-dobbs-opinion-official.199191/post-300204

 

[Optimus Prime]

A Republican lawmaker went on an angry rant Sunday morning just after CNN "State of the Union" host Dana Bash fact-checked him on the multiple uses for the drug mifepristone which a Donald Trump-appointed judge is trying to take off the market.

Asked to address the highly controversial ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued late Friday, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) stated the FDA should prepare to follow his directive with no complaints.

"The House Republicans have the power of the purse, and if the administration wants to not heed this ruling, not live up to this ruling, then we're going to have a problem," the Republican threatened. "And it may be a come to a point where House Republicans on the appropriation side have to defund FDA programs that don't make sense."

Things went sideways in the interview when the CNN host pointed out the drug is, "... also frequently prescribed for women experiencing a miscarriage and by some estimates, as many as one million women miscarry every single year. So are they just on their own?"

"If this ruling is uphold, upheld, no," he insisted. "I think it's important that we take care of women and it's important that we have real discussions on women's health care and get off the abortion."

"Get off the abortion conversation!" he exclaimed before ranting, "Women have a whole lot more other issues than just abortion. Let's have those real conversations and let's talk about, you know, let's talk about the other things that are happening in this world!"............

GOPer flips out after CNN's Dana Bash fact-checks him on abortion drug

A Republican lawmaker went on an angry rant Sunday morning just after CNN "State of the Union" host Dana Bash fact-checked him on the multiple uses for the drug mifepristone which a Donald Trump-appointed judge is trying to take off the market.Asked to address the highly controversial ruling by...

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[Taurus]

A Republican lawmaker went on an angry rant Sunday morning just after CNN "State of the Union" host Dana Bash fact-checked him on the multiple uses for the drug mifepristone which a Donald Trump-appointed judge is trying to take off the market.

Asked to address the highly controversial ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued late Friday, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) stated the FDA should prepare to follow his directive with no complaints.

"The House Republicans have the power of the purse, and if the administration wants to not heed this ruling, not live up to this ruling, then we're going to have a problem," the Republican threatened. "And it may be a come to a point where House Republicans on the appropriation side have to defund FDA programs that don't make sense."

Things went sideways in the interview when the CNN host pointed out the drug is, "... also frequently prescribed for women experiencing a miscarriage and by some estimates, as many as one million women miscarry every single year. So are they just on their own?"

"If this ruling is uphold, upheld, no," he insisted. "I think it's important that we take care of women and it's important that we have real discussions on women's health care and get off the abortion."

"Get off the abortion conversation!" he exclaimed before ranting, "Women have a whole lot more other issues than just abortion. Let's have those real conversations and let's talk about, you know, let's talk about the other things that are happening in this world!"............

GOPer flips out after CNN's Dana Bash fact-checks him on abortion drug

A Republican lawmaker went on an angry rant Sunday morning just after CNN "State of the Union" host Dana Bash fact-checked him on the multiple uses for the drug mifepristone which a Donald Trump-appointed judge is trying to take off the market.Asked to address the highly controversial ruling by...

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"Stop talking about abortion, you whore! It makes us look bad!"

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

"Stop talking about abortion, you whore! It makes us look bad!"

and lose elections!

 

[Optimus Prime]

Republicans just got a potentially huge ruling in their long-running quest to ban abortion: A federal judge in Texas on Friday suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a key abortion medication, mifepristone.

A dueling opinion in Washington state, which held that the abortion pill should remain accessible, has put the issue on a beeline to the Supreme Court. The nation’s highest court could soon rule on access to an abortion pill that appears to account for more than half of abortions in the United States.

But if this was a proud moment for the GOP, you wouldn’t know it by its response. As The Post’s Dan Diamond noted, virtually no Republicans were publicly celebrating the Texas ruling on Friday night — as opposed to the many Democrats decrying it. And that continued through the weekend, according to Legistorm’s compendium of lawmaker tweets and press releases; it records only one GOP press release in favor. One of the few Republicans to weigh in by early Monday, Rep. Nancy Mace (S.C.), actually urged the FDA to disregard the Texas ruling.

So what gives? It seems perhaps the clearest example to date of how the GOP is the proverbial dog who caught the car on abortion rights and isn’t quite sure what to do about it.

Support for abortion rights in general has trended upward since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, with Republicans seeming to pay a price at the ballot box in the 2022 midterms. Positions favoring abortion rights won when the issues were put directly to voters, including in red states.

But even in that context, the abortion pill would seem to be an unusually dicey issue for the Republican Party:

• A Reuters poll last month tested precisely this issue, asking whether people would support federal courts overturning access to mifepristone. Just 27 percent expressed support, while 7 in 10 Americans opposed such a ruling.
• A month earlier, the same poll asked whether medication abortion should remain legal in the United States. Americans agreed it should, 65 percent to 21 percent, with even 49 percent of Republicans agreeing.
• The numbers echo other polling on whether people should be allowed to receive the pill via the mail. A Public Religion Research Institute poll in February showed people opposed banning that by 72 percent to 26 percent. The same poll last year found that 56 percent of Republicans also opposed such a ban.
• A Marquette University Law School poll last year found Americans opposed a ban on women getting prescriptions for the pill from out-of-state providers by 76 percent to 23 percent.

These last two questions, it bears emphasizing, weren’t even about whether the pill should simply be available — just whether people should be able to get it via the mail and from out-of-state providers (i.e. potentially if abortion is banned in their state). But the totality of the data indicates that this is a more lopsided issue than abortion rights generally. Around 7 in 10 Americans support access, and even relatively easy access, to the abortion pill, and that includes as many as half of Republicans.

There are some caveats here.

The biggest one is that people don’t seem to know much about medication abortion. One recent poll showed that only 31 percent said they had heard of mifepristone, despite estimates finding it accounts for more than half of abortions. Another suggests many people wrongly equate it with Plan B, or emergency contraception that can be taken within 72 hours of intercourse to prevent pregnancy. That poll showed 36 percent of people wrongly believed they were the same thing, which could inflate support...............

Why the GOP isn’t celebrating this major antiabortion ruling

 

[DaveXA]

Interesting that Republican Nancy Mace is peeing all over her party's position on abortion and saying the FDA should ignore the court rulings blocking the abortion pill.

At least there are a few Republicans seeing this is going to be a disaster for them the way things are headed currently.

 

[zztop]

Interesting that Republican Nancy Mace is peeing all over her party's position on abortion and saying the FDA should ignore the court rulings blocking the abortion pill.

At least there are a few Republicans seeing this is going to be a disaster for them the way things are headed currently.

Thats because unfortunately this happened to her when she was young

It took SC Rep. Nancy Mace 25 years to share she was raped. She never expected this.

When South Carolina state Rep. Nancy Mace decided to share her personal story of being raped at 16, she thought the speech would make her fellow Republicans think twice about

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The Iowa attorney general’s office has paused its practice of paying for emergency contraception – and in rare cases, abortions – for victims of sexual assault, a move that has drawn criticism from some victim advocates.

Federal regulations and state law require Iowa to pay many of the expenses for sexual assault victims who seek medical help, such as the costs of forensic exams and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. Under the previous attorney general, Democrat Tom Miller, Iowa’s victim compensation fund also paid for Plan B, the so-called morning-after pill, as well as other treatments to prevent pregnancy.

A spokesperson for the Republican attorney general, Brenna Bird, who defeated Miller’s bid for an 11th term in November, told the Des Moines Register that those payments were now on hold as part of a review of victim services.

“As a part of her top-down, bottom-up audit of victim assistance, attorney general Bird is carefully evaluating whether this is an appropriate use of public funds,” the spokesperson, Alyssa Brouillet, said in a statement. “Until that review is complete, payment of these pending claims will be delayed.”

Victim advocates were caught off guard by the pause. The chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood North Central States, Ruth Richardson, said in a statement that the move was “deplorable and reprehensible”…….

Iowa suspends provision of emergency contraception to sexual assault victims

Republican attorney general criticized by victim advocates that also ends state paying for abortions in similar circumstances

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[DaveXA]

Thats because unfortunately this happened to her when she was young

It took SC Rep. Nancy Mace 25 years to share she was raped. She never expected this.

When South Carolina state Rep. Nancy Mace decided to share her personal story of being raped at 16, she thought the speech would make her fellow Republicans think twice about

www.postandcourier.com

I wasn't aware of that. Certainly gives good context to her story. Thanks for posting.

 

[Taurus]

I wasn't aware of that. Certainly gives good context to her story. Thanks for posting.

"I can't believe my colleagues would want to see me punished for being raped!" - says female member of the Punish Women for Being Raped Party

 

[superchuck500]

In what has now become unsurprising, the 5th Circuit leaves much of the wacko ruling from district judge Kacsmaryk in place - allowing standing against clear SCOTUS precedent.