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Now that she has gotten her way, she is lobbying for it to be repealed.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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Medical and legal professionals are rejecting the claim by an Ohio district attorney that he lacks the power to drop the case against an Ohio woman charged with abusing a corpse after she miscarried at home, a prosecution that has drawn national attention to the ways women can be criminalized for pregnancy outcomes.


Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins (D) released a memo last week saying his office is “duty bound” to follow Ohio law and present the felony abuse of a corpse charge against Brittany Watts, 33, to a grand jury.

Watkins’s office said he would not make further comments beyond the memo while the nine-person grand jury continues to investigate; the jury is expected to vote in the coming weeks on whether to indict Watts, who has pleaded not guilty.


Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights (OPRR) on Friday wrote a letter responding to Watkins, calling claims that he is obligated to present the case “troubling.”

“While you may believe you are ‘duty bound’ to proceed, you are, in fact, under no legal obligation to do so. As has been widely publicized and as you well know, but choose to ignore, the principle of prosecutorial discretion is well established in both federal and Ohio law,” the letter reads.


OPRR cited a June 2022 letter signed by more than 90 elected prosecutors around the country, including the Cuyahoga County prosecutor and the Columbus city attorney in Ohio, who pledged to use their prosecutorial discretion to pursue serious crimes rather than enforce abortion bans or “criminalize personal medical decisions.”……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/27/brittany-watts-miscarriage-grand-jury/

 

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In the months since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, at least 16 states have agreed to funnel more than $250m in taxpayer dollars towards anti-abortion facilities and programs that try to convince people to continue their pregnancies.

Much of that money is set to go to anti-abortion counseling centers, or crisis pregnancy centers, according to data provided by the Guttmacher Institute and Equity Forward, organizations that support abortion rights. It has been paid out throughout 2023 and will stretch into 2025.….

States to award anti-abortion centers roughly $250m in post-Roe surge

At least 16 states will fund largely unregulated facilities that try to convince people to continue their pregnancies

www.theguardian.com

 

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A judge has ordered a woman who set fire to Wyoming‘s only full-service abortion clinic to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, the full amount sought by prosecutors.

Lorna Green is serving five years in prison for burning Wellspring Health Access weeks before the clinic was set to open in Casper in 2022. The fire gutted the building while it was being renovated for the new clinic and delayed its opening by almost a year.

After opening this past April, Wellspring is now the only abortion clinic in Wyoming. A clinic in Jackson that provided pill abortions closed on 15 December due to rising costs.

On Tuesday, US district judge Alan Johnson ordered Green, 22, to pay about $298,000 in restitution including $240,000 to Nationwide General Insurance Company, the clinic’s insurer.

Green must also pay $33,500 to the building’s owner, Christine Lichtenfels, and $24,500 to Julie Burkhart, founder and president of Wellspring Health Access. Burkhart expressed satisfaction with the restitution.

“Not only did we have the emotional struggle and that trauma from the arson but also it was quite challenging for us financially. So I’m glad this is the final piece and it has been put to rest,” Burkhart said on Wednesday.

The restitution was identical to the amounts sought by prosecutors and was unopposed by Green’s attorney, Ryan Semerad, who in an emailed statement said on Wednesday that Green “looks forward to a productive and peaceful life after her term of incarceration”.

Green has expressed remorse for the crime, which she said was driven by anxiety and nightmares about the planned clinic. The Casper College mechanical engineering student had shown no sign of anti-abortion views on social media but told investigators she opposed abortion.

She admitted driving from Laramie to Casper, breaking into the clinic through a door and lighting gasoline she poured in trays and splashed on the floor. After months of little progress, investigators increased the reward to $15,000 and got tips leading to Green’s arrest in March.….

Woman who set Wyoming abortion clinic on fire ordered to pay $298,000

Judge ordered Lorna Green, now serving five years for the arson attack, to pay insurance company, building owner and clinic founder

www.theguardian.com

 

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In the months since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, at least 16 states have agreed to funnel more than $250m in taxpayer dollars towards anti-abortion facilities and programs that try to convince people to continue their pregnancies.

Much of that money is set to go to anti-abortion counseling centers, or crisis pregnancy centers, according to data provided by the Guttmacher Institute and Equity Forward, organizations that support abortion rights. It has been paid out throughout 2023 and will stretch into 2025.….

States to award anti-abortion centers roughly $250m in post-Roe surge

At least 16 states will fund largely unregulated facilities that try to convince people to continue their pregnancies

www.theguardian.com

That’s a grift for the forced birth crowd. Just like school vouchers and for-profit prisons, all Rs want to do is take taxpayer money and funnel it to their own.

 

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I don’t see how Trump being the nominee tempers abortion at all

He’s the one who put these justices on the Supreme Court, for the express purpose of overturning Roe

He’s said as much. He gloated about it when Dobbs decision came down

If you had to pick just one person to blame for Dobbs and the chaos that came afterwards who else would it be other than Trump?

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As the 2024 election season ramps up, Republicans continue to struggle to find a winning national strategy on the flashpoint issue of abortion – where restricting the procedure has animated the conservative movement for half a century but tormented the party since the fall of Roe.

The supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade delivered Republicans one of their most significant policy victories in a generation. But in the year and a half since the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the ruling has also become one of their biggest political vulnerabilities.

Over the last 18 months, voters have favored abortion rights in seven consecutive ballot measures, including in conservative states. Republicans underperformed in the 2022 midterm elections while Democrats scored off-year election wins in Wisconsin, Kentucky and Virginia – results that again emphasized the enduring power of abortion rights.

Now the presidential election year brings a further huge test.

“With abortion, there’s really a kind of catch-22 for Republicans,” said Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis and a leading expert on the history of abortion in the US. “On the one hand, you have a lot of base Republican voters who really care about opposing abortion and on the other you have a huge group of something like 70% of Americans who don’t like abortion bans.”

The US supreme court meanwhile set the stage for another major showdown over abortion rights, this time just months before the 2024 presidential election. The court has agreed to decide a casethat could determine the accessibility of a widely used abortion pill, including in states where the procedure remains legal.

But whether abortion will continue to fuel Democratic victories in a presidential election year is also unclear.

Despite delivering a long list of anti-abortion victories, voters tend to view the Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, a thrice-married former Democrat from New York, as less socially conservative than his rivals, says Gunner Ramer, political director for the anti-Trump Republican Accountability Pac.

“Donald Trump likes to stoke culture wars and own the libs but on social issues he’s seen as more moderate,” Ramer said, adding: “If Trump is the nominee, Democrats are in a much trickier position on abortion.”……….

Republicans seek winning strategy on abortion for 2024 – with Democrats also in a tricky spot

Issue animated conservatives for 50 years but has tormented Republicans since the fall of Roe – and it’s unclear also whether it will continue to fuel Democratic victories

www.theguardian.com

 

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The group working to ensure abortion access in Florida has nearly reached the number of signatures it needs under state law to put a proposed constitutional amendment on the 2024 ballot. As of last week, Floridians Protecting Freedom had almost 864,000 of the required 891,523 validated signatures.

This is important news. The voters of Florida must have the chance to speak on this issue, rather than allowing the Florida Legislature, which passed an extreme, six-week abortion ban in May, to force its decision on the rest of us.

The ballot measure is not a done deal yet. The state is trying to block voters from having their say. Attorney General Ashley Moody has filed a court challenge regarding the wording of the summary that would appear on the ballot.

Getting the signatures is a crucial step. The abortion-rights group has until Feb. 1 to submit all the signatures and meet other requirements, including that the signatures come from at last half of Florida’s congressional districts. The group has said it’s on track to submit 1.4 million signatures for validation by the state. That should be more than enough — almost half a million more than required — even allowing for some signatures to be tossed out as invalid.

It’s a milestone in the fight to let voters decide in a state where Republicans have mostly succeeded in locking down control of government. But it’s something else, too. The large number of signatures gathered, 1.4 million, is an indication of just how far the Florida Legislature has strayed from what many people in this state actually want — not that the Republican Legislature pays much heed to that anymore.

In recent years, legislators and Gov. Ron DeSantis took it upon themselves to change Florida abortion laws, first by passing a 15-week restriction in 2022 and then, emboldened by the federal court’s decision on Roe v. Wade, a six-week law in 2023. All of that’s in limbo right now, pending a court challenge. The six-week law is contingent on the state Supreme Court ruling in favor of the 15-week law.

But there’s another significant hurdle looming: the state itself.

Moody’s brief, filed with the state Supreme Court, argues, essentially, that Floridians will be confused by the wording of the ballot summary. The amendment would prohibit any state law that delays or bans abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the health of the patient. It would protect abortion access in Florida until viability, estimated at around 24 weeks

The ballot summary reads in part that “no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.” Moody, though, is arguing that the word “viability” could have more than one meaning.

The Florida Supreme Court decides whether the wording of a proposed constitutional amendment is clear and is limited to a single subject, standards the amendment must meet to get on the ballot. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed five of the seven Supreme Court justices, shaping the court into an increasingly conservative body............

MSN

 

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So the wonderful judges on 5th circuit have decided that if a pregnant woman is dying and they don’t feel like doing an abortion to save her life, they’re allowed to let her die.

 

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Colonel Dillon Patterson, who assumed his role as commander of the 188th Wing of Ebbing Air National Guard Base in June, announced his resignation on Dec. 18 due to religious beliefs, according to a letter from Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders to President Joe Biden sent on Jan. 2.

"Unfortunately, Col. Patterson was forced to personally choose between either continuing his command or adhering to his sincerely held religious beliefs against abortion. Because he adhered first to his faith instead of overtly political mandates, he voluntarily resigned his command," Gov. Sanders said.

The Arkansas National Guard confirmed on Jan. 2 that Col. Patterson submitted his resignation on Dec. 18 for "personal reasons." Brigadier General Wes Nichols assumed interim command of the 188th Wing on Dec. 28 and will lead the wing until a permanent replacement is found.

Col. Patterson will remain an active member of the Arkansas Air National Guard. The resignation will not impact his rank or service record..............

According to Sanders, Col. Patterson's resignation comes after the U.S. Department of Defense issued a policy that "had disregarded his service and abandoned his most fundamental constitutional rights in favor of more fashionable political and social experiments."

The Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, making the right to abortion no longer federally protected. Instead, the ruling left the decision to allow abortions up to the state.

Arkansas was among the states that banned abortion following the Supreme Court decision.

In October 2023, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued the Pentagon's abortion travel policy, which allows reimbursement for travel expenses when a service member has to go out of the state for an abortion or other reproductive care. This policy was passed by the House on Dec. 14, 202, as a part of the National Defense Authorization Act.

Gov. Sanders said the policy "subverts the actions of states like Arkansas by using taxpayer dollars to fund the travel, meals, and lodging associated with out-of-state servicemember travel for procurement of an abortion procedure."

She included that this policy goes against "deeply held religious convictions" of commanding officers, like Col. Patterson, as they are forced to approve abortion leave.............

MSN

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Colonel Dillon Patterson, who assumed his role as commander of the 188th Wing of Ebbing Air National Guard Base in June, announced his resignation on Dec. 18 due to religious beliefs, according to a letter from Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders to President Joe Biden sent on Jan. 2.

"Unfortunately, Col. Patterson was forced to personally choose between either continuing his command or adhering to his sincerely held religious beliefs against abortion. Because he adhered first to his faith instead of overtly political mandates, he voluntarily resigned his command," Gov. Sanders said.

The Arkansas National Guard confirmed on Jan. 2 that Col. Patterson submitted his resignation on Dec. 18 for "personal reasons." Brigadier General Wes Nichols assumed interim command of the 188th Wing on Dec. 28 and will lead the wing until a permanent replacement is found.

Col. Patterson will remain an active member of the Arkansas Air National Guard. The resignation will not impact his rank or service record..............

According to Sanders, Col. Patterson's resignation comes after the U.S. Department of Defense issued a policy that "had disregarded his service and abandoned his most fundamental constitutional rights in favor of more fashionable political and social experiments."

The Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, making the right to abortion no longer federally protected. Instead, the ruling left the decision to allow abortions up to the state.

Arkansas was among the states that banned abortion following the Supreme Court decision.

In October 2023, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued the Pentagon's abortion travel policy, which allows reimbursement for travel expenses when a service member has to go out of the state for an abortion or other reproductive care. This policy was passed by the House on Dec. 14, 202, as a part of the National Defense Authorization Act.

Gov. Sanders said the policy "subverts the actions of states like Arkansas by using taxpayer dollars to fund the travel, meals, and lodging associated with out-of-state servicemember travel for procurement of an abortion procedure."

She included that this policy goes against "deeply held religious convictions" of commanding officers, like Col. Patterson, as they are forced to approve abortion leave.............

MSN

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If you can't put the country and secular law above your own personal religious feelings then, yeah...don't let the screen door hit you.

 

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More Americans are now stockpiling abortion pills in case they get pregnant, according to new research published Tuesday.

Before Roe v Wade was overturned in June 2022, Aid Access, an organization that mails abortion pills to people across the US, received an average of 25 requests a day from people seeking the pills despite not being pregnant. After the leak of the supreme court decision to overturn Roe, that average shot up to 247 requests each day, the research published on Tuesday found.

That number fell after the actual decision, but rose again to 172 a day in April 2023, as US courts signaled a willingness to restrict the availability of a major abortion pill.……

More Americans are stockpiling abortion pills without pregnancy – study

From September 2021 to April 2023, Aid Access tracked roughly 48,400 advance provision requests for mifepristone

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

He resigned over his religious belifes against abortions. But its not against his religious beliefs to be ok with innocent civillians dying as casulties of war? seems suspect...

 

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It smacks of eugenics. Culling the herd of defective baby-making machines.

 

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Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce abortion law against emergency room doctors ahead of hearing case

The Biden administration's lawsuit argued that the state's near-total abortion ban conflicts in part with a federal law setting standards for hospital emergency room care.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce abortion law against emergency room doctors ahead of hearing case

The Biden administration's lawsuit argued that the state's near-total abortion ban conflicts in part with a federal law setting standards for hospital emergency room care.

www.nbcnews.com

They are completely fine with women dying. And these aren’t even women that are seeking abortions, they are women with medical emergencies during pregnancy.

There should be a special place in hell for these people.

 

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You cannot donate an organ from a dead body with prior consent of the person while living.

 

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If Biden's team is smart, one of these women appears with him in every red/purple state he visits. The attack has to be on the ENTIRE GOP, not just Trump. They are ALL ok with this, they're all culpable and should all be voted out.
Courting the black vote is all well and good, but they're a minority. Women are not. I think Joe should've announced his campaign at a burned-out women's clinic. I think that puts the most important issue to the most Americans right out front-and-center.