Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights per draft opinion (Update: Dobbs opinion official) (3 Viewers)

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Now that she has gotten her way, she is lobbying for it to be repealed.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

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

more on this traitor

North Carolina's Party-Switching Abortion Traitor Now Says She Didn't Have an Abortion

State Rep. Tricia Cotham (R) is trying to rewrite history after leaving the Democratic Party to give the GOP a veto-proof majority on a 12-week abortion ban.

jezebel.com

Back in 2015, when Cotham spoke on the House floor about her medically necessary abortion for an ectopic pregnancy, she used very different language. Cotham said it was an “induced, physician-assisted miscarriage”—which is an abortion. (She also mentions “chemotherapy,” which suggests she was given the cancer drug methotrexate, to end the pregnancy.)

The worst part is that her constituents can't do a damn thing about it.

No, there is no process for a recall election in North Carolina

Dr. Bitzer told us that any person can change their party affiliation at any time, and no laws are in place to stop them.

www.wcnc.com

Betrayed her voters after 4 months in office. Someone should check her offshore accounts.

 

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Rachel is a third-year OB-GYN resident at a medical institute in Texas and last year, when the Dobbs vote overturned Roe v Wade, her education was derailed.

For her safety, she declined to offer her last name or where she studies. In June 2022, the state’s “trigger law” went into effect and abortions became illegal – first after six weeks, now full stop.

“I was horrified and angry,” said Rachel, when Roe was reversed.

Following the ban, clinics in Texas have stopped providing abortion care to patients, as well as training to medical residents like Rachel.

Yet as a part of a national program requirement, under the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), Rachel needs to have experience in abortion procedures to become an OB-GYN physician. In Texas, abortion training is now limited to miscarriage procedures, but not hands-on abortion care.

“I went into OB-GYN to help women understand the options they have surrounding their health,” continued Rachel. “I can’t think of another example in any other field of medicine where the law so clearly oversteps the boundaries of the patient-physician relationship by completely removing a safe, effective and well-studied healthcare option.”

Like Rachel, countless OB-GYN residents across the nation are finding their education at odds with recent abortion bans. One year after the Dobbs vote, 14 states have banned abortions outright, with several more imposing six- to 20-week bans.

In some states, like Texas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Missouri, doctors could face felonies if they perform an abortion outside of saving a patient’s life.

In this harsh new reality, OB-GYN programs nationwide are grappling with the logistical and legal challenges of how to graduate competent residents.

To meet her program requirement, last November, Rachel became the first out-of-state resident at Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) in Portland.

Sponsored by its Abortion Care and Training Fund, OHSU is now accepting OB-GYN residents from restrictive states for a month-long rotation in abortion procedures and surgeries, along with patient counseling.……

‘We weren’t meant to be criminals’: the gynecologists training out of state post-Roe

As abortion bans sweep the nation, OB-GYN residents rotate to abortion-supportive states to meet their program requirements

www.theguardian.com

 

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Yet as a part of a national program requirement, under the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), Rachel needs to have experience in abortion procedures to become an OB-GYN physician. In Texas, abortion training is now limited to miscarriage procedures, but not hands-on abortion care.

I can see how that would be pain in the neck for a medical student. Not as painfull as they themselves being aborted, but painful none the less.

The ACGME needs to take a look at this pronto. They need to decide whether they will change their requirements or whether they will leave the requirement in place, knowing that students in Texas will not be able to meet them. OR they could operate learning clinics in abortion-friendly states that Texas students can visit for the required experience.

Someday, euthanasia will be legal as end of life care in some states. But not others. Geriatric physician hopefuls may well be required to visit old folks homes and help residents die with dignity. They'll have to do so only in those states that allow it.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Rachel is a third-year OB-GYN resident at a medical institute in Texas and last year, when the Dobbs vote overturned Roe v Wade, her education was derailed.

For her safety, she declined to offer her last name or where she studies. In June 2022, the state’s “trigger law” went into effect and abortions became illegal – first after six weeks, now full stop.

“I was horrified and angry,” said Rachel, when Roe was reversed.

Following the ban, clinics in Texas have stopped providing abortion care to patients, as well as training to medical residents like Rachel.

Yet as a part of a national program requirement, under the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), Rachel needs to have experience in abortion procedures to become an OB-GYN physician. In Texas, abortion training is now limited to miscarriage procedures, but not hands-on abortion care.

“I went into OB-GYN to help women understand the options they have surrounding their health,” continued Rachel. “I can’t think of another example in any other field of medicine where the law so clearly oversteps the boundaries of the patient-physician relationship by completely removing a safe, effective and well-studied healthcare option.”

Like Rachel, countless OB-GYN residents across the nation are finding their education at odds with recent abortion bans. One year after the Dobbs vote, 14 states have banned abortions outright, with several more imposing six- to 20-week bans.

In some states, like Texas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Missouri, doctors could face felonies if they perform an abortion outside of saving a patient’s life.

In this harsh new reality, OB-GYN programs nationwide are grappling with the logistical and legal challenges of how to graduate competent residents.

To meet her program requirement, last November, Rachel became the first out-of-state resident at Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) in Portland.

Sponsored by its Abortion Care and Training Fund, OHSU is now accepting OB-GYN residents from restrictive states for a month-long rotation in abortion procedures and surgeries, along with patient counseling.……

‘We weren’t meant to be criminals’: the gynecologists training out of state post-Roe

As abortion bans sweep the nation, OB-GYN residents rotate to abortion-supportive states to meet their program requirements

www.theguardian.com

The next logical step here is for the the Legislative branch set the parameters for gaining a license to practice medicine.

US Doctors will risk losing their ability to practice medicine outside the US because the way our Legislative branch is now run by mob-rule, they eventually will be limited to countless other procedures.

 

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Of course it was a lie

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

that's because today underestimated what the people wanted. they thought they would be able to pass stuff with the voters support, but they quickly realized they were wrong.

 

[MT15]

More on the negative effects on women’s health:

How post-Roe laws are obstructing clinical care

A new report presents the preliminary findings of the Care Post-Roe Study, and shows how health care providers have been unable to provide the standard of care in states with abortion bans since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade ten months ago, leading to harm and negative health...

www.ansirh.org

 

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That it has only been a year since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and ended the federal right to an abortion feels absurd, almost impossible. How horribly and dramatically our country has changed since then.

In a span of just 12 months, thousands of lives have been permanently changed – dreams dashed, intentions scuttled, childhoods abruptly ended, talents and potential suppressed, health risked, and the self-determination of pregnant women snatched from them by a body of unelected jurists who believe that their own sentiments are more important than those women’s dignity.

The decision unleashed atrocities and morbid perversions of medical ethics that have rapidly become routine. Women experiencing miscarriages now wait around in emergency rooms and parking lots, unable to receive treatment until they sicken to the point where sufficiently brutal health outcomes (life-ending or life-altering, depending on the state) become a certainty.

Other women, and no small number of girls, now gestate and give birth to infants conceived by their rapists – their coaches, abusive boyfriends, acquaintances, priests, fathers.

Still others are forced into torturously monstrous exercises in medical futility, their bodies commandeered and used by the state to birth babies without lungs or heads.

Any one of these scenarios is the stuff of a horror movie, episodes of legally mandated medical sadism that makes a mockery of the principles of liberty, equality, privacy or due process.

But the anti-choice movement also seems to be determined to bring an end to free speech: when an Indiana doctor, Caitlin Bernard, spoke to the media about performing an abortion on a raped 10-year-old girl who had had to flee Ohio for the procedure, Indiana state Republicans set about a year-long campaign of harassment and intimidation meant to punish her for speaking publicly about the reality that their policies had created……..

A year ago Roe v Wade was overturned. Grieve for the new America | Moira Donegan

The supreme court’s decision has created a two-tiered class of US citizenship: one for men and one for women. It is a generational tragedy

www.theguardian.com

 

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Speaking one year since the US supreme court removed the federal right to abortion, Mike Pence said candidates for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination should stand firm on the electorally unpopular issue and take a hard line on bringing in national limits.

“For me, for our campaign, we’re going to stand where we’ve always stood, and that is without apology for the right to life,” the former congressman, Indiana governor and vice-president to Donald Trump told Politico.

Later, addressing the Faith & Freedom conference in Washington, Pence said every Republican candidate “should support a ban on abortions before 15 weeks, as a minimum nationwide standard”.

Claiming this was a “reasonable and mainstream standard”, Pence said: “American abortion policy has more in common with China and North Korea than it does with the nations of Europe – and it is time for that to change.”

In response, Shwetika Baijal, spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Votes, a political group associated with the women’s health provider, accused the former vice-president of “spew[ing] harmful anti-abortion rights rhetoric”.…..

Pence tells Republicans to take hard line on abortion despite electoral liability

Former vice-president calls for federal 15-week ‘minimum’ ban in contrast to Trump who suggested issue cost party votes

www.theguardian.com

 

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Speaking one year since the US supreme court removed the federal right to abortion, Mike Pence said candidates for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination should stand firm on the electorally unpopular issue and take a hard line on bringing in national limits.

“For me, for our campaign, we’re going to stand where we’ve always stood, and that is without apology for the right to life,” the former congressman, Indiana governor and vice-president to Donald Trump told Politico.

Later, addressing the Faith & Freedom conference in Washington, Pence said every Republican candidate “should support a ban on abortions before 15 weeks, as a minimum nationwide standard”.

Claiming this was a “reasonable and mainstream standard”, Pence said: “American abortion policy has more in common with China and North Korea than it does with the nations of Europe – and it is time for that to change.”

In response, Shwetika Baijal, spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Votes, a political group associated with the women’s health provider, accused the former vice-president of “spew[ing] harmful anti-abortion rights rhetoric”.…..

Pence tells Republicans to take hard line on abortion despite electoral liability

Former vice-president calls for federal 15-week ‘minimum’ ban in contrast to Trump who suggested issue cost party votes

www.theguardian.com

Ummmm.

Later, addressing the Faith & Freedom conference in Washington, Pence said every Republican candidate “should support a ban on abortions before 15 weeks, as a minimum nationwide standard”.

Sooooooooooo 2nd trimester abortions????????

Yeah, I know he didn't mean that. Either way, I hope they all take the 15 week pledge and reap their rewards! Obviously, they are not concerned about the poll numbers regarding this matter.

 

[Optimus Prime]

For what it’s worth at least pence has made his position very clear and not the mealy mouthed fence straddling of others
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Despite their unpopularity with the American public, former Republican vice-president and 2024 White House hopeful Mike Pence doubled down Sunday on his hard-line support of staunch abortion restrictions, saying: “We just can’t rest or relent until we restore the sanctity of life.”

Pence – in an interview on Fox News Sunday – made clear that he viewed bringing the elimination of abortion “to the center of American law” as both essential and “a winning issue” for the Republican party trying to wrest back control of the Oval Office.

“I’m pro-life, and I don’t apologize for it,” Pence boasted to host Shannon Bream, even though polling shows most Americans favor keeping the termination of pregnancies legal in most cases.

The Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling that the US supreme court handed down one year ago Saturday in effect left it up to states to decide whether abortion should be legal within their boundaries. Many states have taken steps to severely limit access to abortion, setting off a seismic shift in how doctors are training to provide reproductive care to how far patients in need of attention must travel.

Pence on Sunday hailed the Dobbs decision as “a historic victory” which sent the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling establishing federal abortion rights “to the ash heap of history”.

But he also suggested it didn’t go far enough and reiterated a call he had publicly made days earlier for his fellow Republicans to rally behind setting “a minimum standard” and implementing a nationwide ban on abortions beyond 15 weeks.…….

‘We can’t rest or relent’: Pence reiterates support of staunch abortion restrictions

Former vice-president hails Dobbs decision as ‘historic victory’ but says it didn’t go far enough and urges a nationwide ban

www.theguardian.com

 

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Pence himself told this lie just recently. It’s a disgusting lie.

 

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oh look, sneaky

In post-Roe era, House Republicans begin quiet push for new restrictions on abortion access

House Republicans are pushing new restrictions on abortion access and trying to build on the work of activists whose strategy successfully elevated the abortion fight to the Supreme Court.

apnews.com

 

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CNN) — A strict abortion law that took effect in Texas in 2021 may have led to nearly 10,000 more births than expected in the last nine months of 2022, according to research published in the journal JAMA.

Texas Senate Bill 8, which banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy with few exceptions, took effect nearly 10 months before the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade and revoked the federal right to abortion.

For their study, published last week, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzed years of birth records to understand how the state law may have affected local trends.

Using data from other states and from Texas in years prior to the new law, they established a version of what birth trends in Texas would have probably looked like without the law and compared that with the actual number of births reported.

They found that from April to December 2022, the first months that would have reflected the effects of the policy change, there were about 297,000 total births: about 3% more than the 287,000 births that would have been expected without the law………

Under strict abortion law, Texas had nearly 10,000 more births than expected in the last nine months of 2022, research finds | CNN

A strict abortion law that took effect in Texas in 2021 may have led to nearly 10,000 more births than expected in the last nine months of 2022, according to research published in the journal JAMA.

www.cnn.com

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

now the ones who wanted to ban abortions will be complaining that they have to spend more for medicaid and food stamps...

 

[GrandAdmiral]

This is so forked up and the cowards who supported the bill don't want to answer why there can't be any exceptions, even for the cruel shirt like this that they put their constituents through.

The family’s ordeal started in April, when Heather was nearly five months pregnant and they found out their daughter was missing a major part of the brain, a condition called anencephaly. They say their doctors told them she would either be stillborn or die very quickly after birth.

The Maberrys wanted to terminate the pregnancy, but a near-complete abortion ban in their state doesn’t have exceptions for birth defects – even severe ones like anencephaly.

The Maberrys went out of state to end the pregnancy, but their insurance, Kentucky Medicaid, wouldn’t pay for it. They wanted to induce birth so they could hold Willow, but that would’ve cost them tens of thousands of dollars. Instead, they had to settle for a much less expensive surgical procedure – but that procedure does not leave the fetus intact.

“We’re grieving pictures,” Heather said. “We’re grieving a blanket.”

Kentucky couple ‘furious’ state abortion laws meant they couldn’t hold their daughter to say goodbye | CNN

All Heather and Nick Maberry wanted to do was hold their dead baby, but strict Kentucky abortion laws meant they couldn’t.

www.cnn.com

And for the record, this is another example of a family that WANTED their child if not for the health condition of the fetus. And now they're left with this agony due to cowards.