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

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Now that she has gotten her way, she is lobbying for it to be repealed.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

 

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Laurie Bertram Roberts never expected Americans to keep forking over money to pay for other people’s abortions. But the abortion fund director didn’t think it would get this dire.

When the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade last year, people donated tens of thousands of dollars to Roberts’ organization, the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund, which is dedicated to helping people afford abortions and the many costs that come with it. But, in August, Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund had to stop funding abortions. It’s now closed until January 2024.

“We just don’t have the money,” said Roberts, who co-founded the fund a decade ago. “It’s a strategic decision, to focus on fundraising for the next couple months, so that when we reopen, we’ll have money.”

For now, the fund – which has historically also helped people with other costs of living and parenting – is only offering access to its pantry of food and household supplies. This will be the longest the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund has ever been shut down.

“I didn’t think the emergency funding was gonna stay the same,” Roberts said in reference to the post-Roe donation spike. “But I didn’t expect for our funding to dip by 35 to 40% from last year.”

When the US supreme court overturned Roe, Americans rushed to rage-donate millions to abortion funds and clinics scattered across the United States.

Now, with the first year of post-Roe life in the rearview mirror, much of that money has been spent and the flow of donations has dried up for many organizations. And yet, as states continue to enact new bans and restrictions, the demand for help – and the cost of providing that help – has only grown.

The Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund isn’t the only abortion fund that’s had to turn its lights off recently. In mid-June, just three days before the anniversary of Roe’s overturning, Indigenous Women Rising announced that its abortion fund had hit its monthly budget and would cease operations until July. The Mountain Access Brigade, which serves people in Appalachia, closed its support hotline for 10 days in July to save money. By mid-July, the Utah Abortion Fund announced that it had already exceeded its monthly budget and would close until late August.

“You have increasing costs and decreasing donations,” said Hayley McMahon, who sits on the board of the Appalachian abortion fund Holler Health Justice and studies barriers to abortion at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. “Those two things combined are a perfect storm for just absolutely wiping out abortion funds.”……..

‘Feels horrible to say no’: abortion funds run out of money as US demand surges

A lifeline for many in states with abortion restrictions, abortion funds are being pushed to the brink due to rising costs and a drop in donations

www.theguardian.com

 

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Looks like one of those situations where it’s either you’re an idiot or you think we are
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RICHMOND — A group of Virginia Republicans has launched a digital ad campaign that takes direct aim at the issue that’s supposed to betheir Kryptonite in this year’s legislative elections: abortion.

“No Limits,” a 30-second spot that began running this week, accuses Democrats of being out of step with Virginia voters and seeking to make abortions available without restrictions up to the moment of birth.

“Voters have a very distinct choice,” said Garren Shipley, spokesman for the House Republican Caucus, which paid for what he called a “six-figure” ad campaign.

“Republicans have been absolutely clear from the get-go” that they favor a 15-week limit with exceptions for rape, incest or the life
of the pregnant person, he said. “But Democrats can’t give you a straight answer about what they want to do.”

The tactic of claiming the abortion high ground for Republicans following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade strikes some political observers as risky. Democrats have seen massive turnout in elections around the country ever since and are counting on the issue to help them this year in Virginia, where all 140 seats and control of the General Assembly are at stake on the Nov. 7 ballot.

“Even in red states, when abortion has been on the ballot, Republicans have lost,” said Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington. “Arguing that Democrats favor infanticide is an example of how difficult their position is.”

“I would like to be a fly on the wall to see how you make that pitch to a Republican candidate that, yeah, abortion is a winning issue. It’s not a winning issue,” said Soji Akomolafe, chair of the political science department at Norfolk State University.……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/09/22/virginia-elections-abortion-republicans/

 

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The post-Roe v Wade battle over abortion rights may just torpedo Republicans’ shot at the White House next year, and they know it.

Anti-abortion activists lost every abortion-related voter referendum last year, while ire over the fall of Roe has been credited with boosting Democrats in the 2022 midterms. Now, Republicans in the presidential primary are scrambling to figure out how to talk about and legislate abortion.

But they’re regurgitating some common anti-abortion myths to make their case.

At the last Republican debate, the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley suggested that the United States should ban “late-term abortions”, as a compromise between people who support abortion rights and those who do not. But while Republicans like to throw around the phrase, it’s not exactly clear what they mean – in medicine, “late-term” refers to pregnancies that last beyond 40 weeks, not abortions that occur later on in pregnancy.

“‘Late-term abortion’ isn’t a thing,” said Katherine Kraschel, an assistant professor of law and health at Northeastern University. “It’s a term created by people who oppose abortion to spread disinformation and shame people who have abortion. It has no basis in medicine or science.”

Moreover, less than 1% of all US abortions are performed at or past 21 weeks of pregnancy, according to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data. While there isn’t great data on why people seek abortions later on in pregnancy, many of those cases may involve individuals whose pregnancies have been diagnosed with devastating fetal abnormalities – many of which can only be detected past the first trimester.

Women may also get abortions later on in pregnancy because it was too difficult to get one earlier. People who work at abortion funds have told the Guardian that, since Roe fell, they have seen an increase in people getting abortions in their second trimester of pregnancy.……


Earlier this summer, DeSantis claimed on CNN that “some liberal states” allow “post-birth abortions”. That statement is categorically wrong. Killing an infant is infanticide, a crime that is already illegal in all 50 states.

This kind of claim, however, has gained some traction within GOP circles; Republicans in Congress have spent years trying to pass legislation that would regulate babies “born alive” after an abortion.

There are situations, however, where an infant is born with medical conditions that mean it will not live long past birth. In these cases, providers and families may choose to give the infant palliative care and let the infant die instead of attempting medical interventions that would not significantly prolong life.…..

The abortion myths Republicans are recycling to reframe a losing issue

Anti-abortion activists lost every referendum on the issue in 2022 and the right is scrambling to find a way to talk about a political hot potato

www.theguardian.com

 

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The attorney and architect of the Texas six-week abortion ban has asked several Texas abortion funds to hand over information about every abortion that they have “assisted or facilitated in any way” over the last two years, including details about the abortion provider, the city and state where the abortion patient lived, as well as the identity of every person – other than the patient themselves and their family members – who may have helped the patient get the abortion.

These requests were made earlier this month as part of an ongoing lawsuit over Texas abortion restrictions. They also asked for information about every person who the funds may have worked with, including volunteers and donors, according to court documents. Furthermore, the requests asked the funds to supply details about the type of abortions they supported as well as when and where those abortions occurred.

A version of the requests also went to a Texas OB-GYN who is involved in the case. (The requests explicitly say that funds and the OB-GYN do not need to provide abortion patients’ identities, nor the identities of their family members.)

On Wednesday, the abortion funds asked a federal court to grant an order that would keep them from having to turn over the requested information.

“We are confident that we’re not going to get to the point where we are required to turn over this information, because these requests are preposterous,” said Neesha Davé, executive director of the Lilith Fund, the oldest abortion fund in Texas. “We have thousands and thousands of supporters who take advocacy actions or organize with us, or receive our emails, support our work in a variety of ways. These far-reaching requests could potentially affect thousands and thousands of people.”……

Texas lawyer asks abortion funds for details of every procedure since 2021

Architect of state’s six-week ban asks for information including identity of people who may have helped patient get abortion

www.theguardian.com

 

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Yelp on Thursday, alleging the review platform’s labeling of crisis pregnancy centers, facilities that aim to dissuade women from having abortions, violates state law — the latest example of corporate ripple effects from the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year.


Yelp added a label to pregnancy resource centers in Texas clarifying they “typically provide limited medical services and may not have licensed medical professionals on-site,” according to the lawsuit. Paxton’s office called that label “misleading and often untrue,” and said Yelp left the label up “until reproached by Attorney General Paxton earlier this year.”


Paxton, a Republican who has been Texas attorney general since 2015, argues the addition is a political motive by Yelp’s CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, who has called for companies to “take action” to support employees and customers accessing abortion care…….

Yelp said in a statement on Thursday that its earlier label was “truthful” but that its language for antiabortion pregnancy center listings has since been changed. “This is a Crisis Pregnancy Center,” it now reads. “Crisis Pregnancy Centers do not offer abortions or referrals to abortion providers.”


Yelp said that Paxton’s office was taking issue “with a truthful consumer notice that hasn’t been used on the Yelp site in over six months, won’t be used again, and which was helpful in informing consumers about crisis pregnancy centers.”


A year after the fall of Roe, tech companies are increasingly facing a fragmented patchwork of state laws governing digital information related to abortion. Tech companies find themselves at the center of a political tug of war between red states and blue states…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/28/ken-paxton-yelp-lawsuit-abortion-pregnancy/

 

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Yelp on Thursday, alleging the review platform’s labeling of crisis pregnancy centers, facilities that aim to dissuade women from having abortions, violates state law — the latest example of corporate ripple effects from the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year.


Yelp added a label to pregnancy resource centers in Texas clarifying they “typically provide limited medical services and may not have licensed medical professionals on-site,” according to the lawsuit. Paxton’s office called that label “misleading and often untrue,” and said Yelp left the label up “until reproached by Attorney General Paxton earlier this year.”


Paxton, a Republican who has been Texas attorney general since 2015, argues the addition is a political motive by Yelp’s CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, who has called for companies to “take action” to support employees and customers accessing abortion care…….

Yelp said in a statement on Thursday that its earlier label was “truthful” but that its language for antiabortion pregnancy center listings has since been changed. “This is a Crisis Pregnancy Center,” it now reads. “Crisis Pregnancy Centers do not offer abortions or referrals to abortion providers.”


Yelp said that Paxton’s office was taking issue “with a truthful consumer notice that hasn’t been used on the Yelp site in over six months, won’t be used again, and which was helpful in informing consumers about crisis pregnancy centers.”


A year after the fall of Roe, tech companies are increasingly facing a fragmented patchwork of state laws governing digital information related to abortion. Tech companies find themselves at the center of a political tug of war between red states and blue states…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/28/ken-paxton-yelp-lawsuit-abortion-pregnancy/

You can't tell the truth in Texas.

I vomit in my mouth every time I hear this criminals name. Inexcusable that he's still the AG of Texas.

 

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Arkansas is building a “monument to unborn children” on the grounds of its state capitol, and Saturday marks the last day for its would-be artists to submit prospective designs for it.

The monument is planned to commemorate the “unborn children aborted during the era of Roe v Wade”, the 1973 US supreme court decision that legalized abortion nationwide until it was overturned last year.

It will be funded by private individuals and organizations, rather than the state, while its construction will be overseen by the capitol arts and grounds commission, a state agency – with the help of some Arkansas anti-abortion groups……

Arkansas moves to install ‘monument to unborn children’ on state grounds

Designs for the commemoration to ‘unborn children aborted during the era of Roe v Wade’ must be turned in by Saturday

www.theguardian.com

 

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So predictable.

 

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Women, especially those who are not seeking abortions but have serious complications, are harmed every single day in this country due to religious extremists forcing their beliefs on the rest of us.

 

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New York City public hospitals will now offer abortion care via telehealth, placing them among the first public health systems in the US to do so.

The city’s mayor, Eric Adams, announced on Monday that abortion pill prescriptions would now be available by telephone or online, adding that such access can happen from “the comfort of your home”.

As a result of the move, New York City residents will now be able to connect with health practitioners for those prescriptions, building on previous legislations to protect abortions rights in New York.

“If you are clinically eligible, that provider will be able to prescribe abortion medication that would be delivered to your New York City address within days,” Adams said during Monday’s announcement.

“We will not stand idly by as these attacks continue and the far-rights seeks to strip our citizens of their basic rights,” Adams added, referring to abortion restrictions being legislated across the country.

Abortion rights organizations celebrated Monday’s announcement as an essential step to protect reproductive rights.

“Today marks a historic win for abortion access in New York City,” said Wendy Stark, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater New York.

“When we make abortion care more accessible, we empower individuals to make the best decisions for themselves, their families and their futures,” Stark added.……

New York City public hospitals to offer abortion care via telehealth

Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday that abortion pill prescriptions would now be available by telephone or online

www.theguardian.com

 

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These people are just going to keep going until the voters stop them:

 

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Haley wants to be seen as moderate, but I don’t believe a word she says. She has betrayed us at every turn by kowtowing to MAGA for years. She wouldn’t stand up to Trump when he was president, she won’t stand up to the religious zealots over our rights either.

They won’t stop, even if they make abortion a crime and start throwing women in jail. Then they will go after birth control, and marriage equality. There is even talk of doing away with no-fault divorce - so that women must prove infidelity or abuse in order to leave their husbands. Women having equal rights as men is the true target for these people, and they won’t stop until women are stripped of most of their rights.

 

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Disgusting:

 

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Clearly this wasn’t about the unborn - it is about controlling women. Always.

 

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Clearly this wasn’t about the unborn - it is about controlling women. Always.

Anti-choice people, opposed to access to full reproductive healthcare, never wanted to consider the many consequences that overturning Roe would bring about. Unthinking, brainwashed servants to their religion. There is no real way to reason with people who have already decided that everything is as their God intended. To them, that woman was meant to have a baby in a prison shower and nearly die.

 

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A different article about this case - ETA: no article, just her picture. It’s hard to tell anymore with the way Twitter handles articles.

 

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Allie Phillips thinks of herself as the ordinary neighbor nextdoor. She shops at the Walmart clearance rack. She posts TikTok videos of herself and her six-year-old daughter, Adalie, singing along to Taylor Swift and dancing the Wednesday Addams dance. Up until recently, the most political thing she’d ever done was vote, and only in presidential elections.

hile she was outraged by the supreme court overturning Roe v Wade last year, the 28-year-old from Tennessee never imagined she would need an abortion – much less that, after publicly sharing her story of being denied one, she would decide to run for office.

“I’m a mom. I have a daughter in the public schools. I’m not a polished politician. I’m not a self-made millionaire,” Phillips said. “I have the most to lose in this race, but I also have the most to gain. And I’m running off of a personal tragedy at the hands of my own government.”

Last month, Phillips became one of several women around the country to sue their states for denying them abortions that, they said, were medically necessary. Now, she’s campaigning to win a Tennessee statehouse seat that has not been represented by a Democrat in more than a decade, in a district that former president Donald Trump won by 55% in 2020. The Republican who currently represents the district in the statehouse, Jeff Burkhart, ran unopposed in the last election.

“I’m gonna try. I don’t know if I’m gonna win, but I’m gonna sure as hell try,” Phillips said. “And if anything, at least I’m making him fight for his seat.”

Phillips became a single mom at 22 before meeting her now husband three years later. They had a plan: after getting married, they would buy a house and then start trying for a baby. By November 2022, Phillips was pregnant. They named the fetus, a girl, Miley.

Everything seemed fine until an anatomy scan at around 19 weeks into Phillips’ pregnancy. About five minutes in, the ultrasound tech stopped the scan and said she needed to go get the doctor. “I never want to give anybody bad news,” the tech said, before she left the room.

Within a few days, Phillips’ pregnancy had been diagnosed with a litany of devastating issues. The fetus was swimming in too little amniotic fluid. Miley’s stomach and bladder were abnormal. Her heart was not working properly. Her lungs were underdeveloped. Finally, her brain had not split into two hemispheres.

There was nothing that could be done to heal Miley; if the fetus made it to birth – and that was a big if – she would probably die soon afterward. Phillips had just two options: she could continue her pregnancy, at great risk to her own health, or she could get an abortion. But she couldn’t get one in Tennessee, because the state bans abortion in almost all circumstances…….

Tennessee’s abortion ban put her at risk – now she’s running for office to change the law

After 28-year-old Allie Phillips had to leave the state in order to get an abortion for a pregnancy that could endanger her life, she began to envision a law that helps families in her situation

www.theguardian.com

 

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Several anti-abortion groups on Tuesday sued the city of San Antonio over the city’s plan to create a reproductive justice fund and provide $500,000 to organizations that offer Texans reproductive care.

The lawsuit seeks to put a halt to the reproductive justice fund, which, it alleges, would give taxpayers’ dollars to “criminal organizations that violate the state’s abortion laws” by helping people get abortions out of state.

Because Texas law bans anybody from helping “procure” an abortion, the lawsuit argues, “if any part of the ‘procurement’ activity occurs within Texas, then the act is criminal even if the abortion that has been ‘procured’ takes place outside the state.”

It’s not yet clear, however, whether the $500,000 devoted to the reproductive justice fund – out of the city’s $3.7bn budget for 2024 – will in fact go towards groups that help people get abortions or instead be used to fund other kinds of reproductive services.

In a proposal for the fund viewed by the Guardian, reproductive justice organizations suggested the money support a wide variety of causes, including expanding access to pregnancy tests, diapers and doulas as well as covering travel to abortion clinics outside of Texas. It would not pay directly for abortion procedures.

“It’s a shame that such a comprehensive initiative that aims to actually improve the health outcomes of our San Antonio community is being reduced to misinformation,” said Laura Molinar, co-director of Sueños Sin Fronteras de Tejas, one of the organizations that championed the Reproductive Justice Fund’s creation. “I’m at a loss for words, because I’m just so upset.”……..

Anti-abortion groups sue San Antonio over reproductive justice fund

Plan includes $500,000 to organizations offering Texans care but it unclear if it will go to groups that help people get abortions

www.theguardian.com