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

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Now that she has gotten her way, she is lobbying for it to be repealed.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

 

[MT15]

I didn’t realize Cruz was so involved

You usually just hear about Trump and his SCOTUS picks (with some Mitch McConnell thrown in)

Cruz is pretty much involved in anything terrible. Just assume it.

 

[Optimus Prime]

This mofo again
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The state of Texas sued the Biden administration in a bid to block a rule designed to protect the privacy of women living in states that ban abortion who travel over state lines for the procedure.

In a suit filed Wednesday in federal court in Texas, the state asked a judge to strike down a rule issued in June that strengthened the Health Insurance Portability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule regarding reproductive health.

The rule prohibits the disclosure of protected health information related to reproductive health care in certain circumstances.

In the suit, filed against the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Texas argued that the rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which governs how federal agencies develop and issue regulations.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued the rule would unlawfully restrict state law enforcement investigations.

“This new rule actively undermines Congress’s clear statutory meaning when HIPAA was passed, and it reflects the Biden Administration’s disrespect for the law,” Paxton said. “The federal government is attempting to undermine Texas’s law enforcement capabilities, and I will not allow this to happen.”

The rule, announced earlier this year, came in the wake of concerns that patients who travel to clinics for legal abortion or reproductive care will eventually have their records sought following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the DHHS said.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, at the time of the announcement, said, “Each and every American still has a right to their privacy,” especially in the cases of “very private, very personal health information.”……..

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4865043-texas-biden-administration-abortion-privacy-rule/

 

[Optimus Prime]

Florida’s Department of State is examining thousands of petition signatures that were used to get the abortion amendment on November ballots, saying it’s looking for fraud.

In a move that supporters of the amendment fear could be “political interference,” Gov. Ron DeSantis’ deputy secretary of state has asked supervisors in Hillsborough, Orange, Palm Beach and Osceola counties to gather roughly 36,000 signatures for the state to review.

The signatures were among the nearly 1 million collected — and verified by local supervisors as belonging to real Floridians — to permit Amendment 4 to appear before voters in November. The amendment would protect abortion access and undo the state’s six-week abortion ban that DeSantis championed.

Whether the request could be used to challenge the amendment or strike it from the ballot is not clear. A deadline in state law to challenge the validity of the signatures has long passed.

Defeating the amendment has become a top priority for DeSantis this fall. The governor has organized and supported one of the main groups opposing the initiative.

Two supervisors told the Times on Wednesday that the state’s inquiries were highly unusual.

“I have never in my tenure had a request like this one,” said Osceola County Supervisor of Elections Mary Jane Arrington, a Democrat who has been in the job for 16 years..........

DeSantis administration reviewing abortion amendment petitions for ‘fraudsters’

Two elections supervisors said the state’s request was highly unusual.

www.tampabay.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Missouri judge has ruled that a ballot measure asking voters whether abortion rights should be enshrined in the state constitution is invalid, potentially jeopardizing an election scheduled for November.

In a ruling issued on Friday, Cole county circuit judge Christopher Limbaugh said that the reproductive rights petition – also known as amendment 3 – led by Missourians for Constitutional Freedom did not comply with state law.

Abortion rights activists are hopeful an appellate court could reverse Limbaugh’s decision, but for now it remains unclear whether voters will be able to decide the issue as scheduled on 5 November, the same day as the presidential election.

According to Limbaugh, his decision came as a result of the campaign’s “failure to include any statute or provision that will be repealed, especially when many of these statues are apparent”. He went on to add: “The court must conclude that the defendant-intervenors’ initiative petition was insufficient.”

Limbaugh, however, also said he “recognizes the gravity of the unique issues involved in this case and the lack of direct precedent on point”. He ruled that he would wait until Tuesday for the amendment to be removed from the ballot, giving an appellate court time to decide whether or not to uphold his ruling.

Under amendment 3, Missourians would be granted the constitutional right to an abortion up until fetal viability, in addition to protections surrounding other reproductive healthcare needs such as birth control and in vitro fertilization. The amendment would also provide protections against criminal prosecution for individuals who assist with abortions.

Missouri was the first state to officially outlaw abortion after the US supreme court eliminated the federal abortion rights that had previously been established by the Roe v Wade decision.

A total of 14 states have now enacted near-total bans on the procedure, though a clear majority of Americans generally favor legalizing access to abortion. But with abortion almost completely banned in the state with very limited exceptions, Missouri is among the most restrictive when it comes to reproductive freedoms.............

MSN

Judge rules Missouri ballot measure to protect abortion rights is invalid

Ruling, which may be reviewed by appellate court, could strike reproductive rights measure off November ballot

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

More than two years after the US supreme courtoverturned Roe v Wade, state abortion bans are forcing doctors to provide substandard medical care, new research released Monday shows.

The study describes how one woman, whose water broke too early on her pregnancy, ended up in the ICU with severe sepsis because she could not get an abortion to end her doomed pregnancy.Her story is one of dozens of narratives collected by the research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, which is housed at the University of California, San Francisco.

Another woman’s liver transplant was canceled because doctors discovered that she was pregnant – even though the pregnancy was unwanted. Yet another was forced to give birth to a baby with anencephaly, a severe and fatal fetal anomaly. By the time the baby was handed over to the mother, the baby’s skin had turned from pink to navy.


“The scream and wailing she let out once she saw the baby was soul-crushing and enough to break everyone in the room,” a medical student recounted to researchers. “The mother kept screaming ‘Why, God?’ in Spanish over and over, but this was not a problem up to the divine, but rather a completely man-made problem.”……

State abortion bans are forcing doctors to provide substandard care – new study

Research group describes health workers waiting until patients ‘on brink of death’ before providing care

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

The DeSantis administration is escalating its war on Amendment 4, using state agencies to combat the abortion rights referendum on November's ballot.

Why it matters: Gov. Ron DeSantis' use of state resources to oppose a ballot initiative in Florida is unusual, and critics argue it violates a statute that prohibits the state from "influencing" a person's vote.

Driving the news: Florida's State Department began a review last week of petition signatures in support of the abortion amendment from at least four counties, including Hillsborough.

• The probe comes long after the deadline to challenge the validity of the signatures, per the Tampa Bay Times. Secretary of State Cord Byrd certified the signatures seven months ago.
• Also last week, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration published a web page that lobbed a flurry of criticism at the abortion amendment.
• The agency's website argues that the ballot question's "vague" language leaves the timeframe for abortions unclear and threatens existing regulations.

What they're saying: "Part of the Agency's mission is to provide information and transparency to Floridians on the quality of care they receive," the AHCA told Axios in an unsigned statement.

• "Our new transparency page serves to educate Floridians on the state's current abortion laws and provide information on a proposed policy change that would impact care across the state."

Reality check: The amendment guarantees abortion access until fetal viability, which is about 24 weeks into pregnancy.

• The website also evokes debunked criticism of the amendment, such as assertions that it would eliminate parental consent or lead to unqualified providers determining exceptions to the viability standard.

Catch up quick: DeSantis launched a political action committee called the Florida Freedom Fund in May to ensure the defeat of this year's historic referenda on abortion access and recreational marijuana.

• It's raised over $2 million so far — a drop in the bucket compared with the $47 million war chest behind the abortion amendment.
• The Florida Supreme Court later allowed the inclusion of a disclaimer on November's ballot, outlining the costs the state would incur from litigation should the abortion amendment pass.
• Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson, Attorney General Ashley Moody and Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, all DeSantis cabinet members, have pledged $600,000 toward defeating the amendment...............

MSN

 

[MT15]

Further info on DeSantis’ tactics in FL. Shamefully sending police to select counties to try to intimidate voters.

 

[MT15]

 

[MT15]

Great news! MO Supreme Court rules that abortion measure must appear on the ballot in MO. GOP had done everything they could to keep it off. Because they don’t really want the people to decide. Anyone who says they do is lying to you.

 

[LA - L.A.]

Someone get this man some Colon Blow.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

i wish a MFer would come to my door to question me about a petition i signed.. that door would break their nose it would slam so hard .

 

[Taurus]

i wish a MFer would come to my door to question me about a petition i signed.. that door would break their nose it would slam so hard .

You must be white.

A brother tries that and those cops would perforate the whole house.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

You must be white.

A brother tries that and those cops would perforate the whole house.

yes. sometimes i forget about that privilege in those kind of situations..

although I'm half Puerto Rican, i don't look it, so i can get away with being white when i need to. lol

 

[bird]

You must be white.

A brother tries that and those cops would perforate the whole house.

Hell, they might perforate the house first.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Former president Donald Trump certainly recognizes that he’s in a tricky position on abortion. Running for president in 2016 and seeking to bolster his support among religious conservatives, he promised to nominate justices to the Supreme Court who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade’s protection of access to abortion. He did; they did. And now he’s running for president again, part of his record being that he’s the guy who upended the ability of women to have access to the procedure.

Trump has tried to spin this legacy as a demonstration of his ability to get things done.

“What we're doing is bringing it back to the states where everybody wanted it,” he said during an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention this summer. “Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, everybody wanted abortion brought back. They didn't want Roe v. Wade in the federal government. They wanted it — everybody wanted it back.”

This is untrue for various reasons, particularly that Democrats and liberals were not asking that legal protections for abortion access be reversed. But it’s where Trump has landed: a 10th Amendment, states'-rights rationale for what he did while serving as president.

If there’s one thing that American history demonstrates, though, it’s that a lack of federal protections allows states to finagle the rules, should they want to, to achieve the outcome they’re looking for. “Letting states decide” theoretically means letting state residents decide, but generally, instead, means letting elected representatives decide. And that often means having partisan actors use the rules to secure or protect their own power.

What has “let the states decide” on abortion looked like in practice?

It has meant that Republicans on Michigan's Board of State Canvassers blocked ballot access for a constitutional amendment protecting access to abortion two years ago because some presentations of the ballot language lacked clear spaces between the words. The state Supreme Court ultimately allowed the amendment to be put before voters.

It has meant an effort by Ohio's Republican secretary of state to present loaded language to voters considering an amendment protecting abortion in that state. The Republican-majority legislature also created a special election before the vote on the abortion amendment with the goal of making it harder to amend the state constitution.

In both of those cases, the efforts ultimately failed and voters were allowed to vote on the question. In each case — as in each of seven such electoral tests since Roe was overturned — supporters of increasing access to abortion were victorious.............

MSN

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/10/gop-officials-arent-too-interested-letting-states-decide-abortion/

 

[bird]

Former president Donald Trump certainly recognizes that he’s in a tricky position on abortion. Running for president in 2016 and seeking to bolster his support among religious conservatives, he promised to nominate justices to the Supreme Court who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade’s protection of access to abortion. He did; they did. And now he’s running for president again, part of his record being that he’s the guy who upended the ability of women to have access to the procedure.

Trump has tried to spin this legacy as a demonstration of his ability to get things done.

“What we're doing is bringing it back to the states where everybody wanted it,” he said during an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention this summer. “Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, everybody wanted abortion brought back. They didn't want Roe v. Wade in the federal government. They wanted it — everybody wanted it back.”

This is untrue for various reasons, particularly that Democrats and liberals were not asking that legal protections for abortion access be reversed. But it’s where Trump has landed: a 10th Amendment, states'-rights rationale for what he did while serving as president.

If there’s one thing that American history demonstrates, though, it’s that a lack of federal protections allows states to finagle the rules, should they want to, to achieve the outcome they’re looking for. “Letting states decide” theoretically means letting state residents decide, but generally, instead, means letting elected representatives decide. And that often means having partisan actors use the rules to secure or protect their own power.

What has “let the states decide” on abortion looked like in practice?

It has meant that Republicans on Michigan's Board of State Canvassers blocked ballot access for a constitutional amendment protecting access to abortion two years ago because some presentations of the ballot language lacked clear spaces between the words. The state Supreme Court ultimately allowed the amendment to be put before voters.

It has meant an effort by Ohio's Republican secretary of state to present loaded language to voters considering an amendment protecting abortion in that state. The Republican-majority legislature also created a special election before the vote on the abortion amendment with the goal of making it harder to amend the state constitution.

In both of those cases, the efforts ultimately failed and voters were allowed to vote on the question. In each case — as in each of seven such electoral tests since Roe was overturned — supporters of increasing access to abortion were victorious.............

MSN

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/10/gop-officials-arent-too-interested-letting-states-decide-abortion/

States, the meth labs of democracy.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

yes. sometimes i forget about that privilege in those kind of situations..

although I'm half Puerto Rican, i don't look it, so i can get away with being white when i need to. lol

I remember when I used to be able to pass...

Then the melanin kicked in at about age 6.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

I remember when I used to be able to pass...

Then the melanin kicked in at about age 6.

if i go on vacation to the beach or somewhere where i am going to be in the sun all week, i darken quick. once we were on a cruise, on our first stop, the vendors and peddlers spoke to me in broken English, on our third stop, they would start out in speaking to me in Spanish and I'd be like, i don't speak Spanish..
(my grandmother never taught my mom Spanish, so none of us kids or grandkids speak Spanish either .)