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Now that she has gotten her way, she is lobbying for it to be repealed.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

 

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Two common abortion pills are, as of Tuesday, classified as “controlled substances” in Louisiana, due to a first-of-its-kind law that medical professionals warn will endanger the lives of women by restricting medication used to treatpostpartum hemorrhage and other conditions.

Louisiana, which already bans abortion, passed a law reclassifying mifepristone and misoprostol as schedule IV drugs – a designation typically reserved for drugs that carry a risk of abuse or dependence.

People caught with the drugs without a valid prescription could face up to five years in prison, although pregnant women who procure it for their own use are exempted from punishment under the law.

Although the drugs are typically used in US medication abortions, they are also regularly used in an array of other circumstances, such as to help with miscarriage management, treat ulcers and soften the cervix during labor and other procedures.

Normally, at the Louisiana hospital where OB-GYN Dr Nicole Freehill works, misoprostol is kept in so-called hemorrhage carts, which can be easily wheeled into the rooms where patients deliver babies and which carry medications normally used to treat hemorrhaging, including misoprostol. It takes about 15 seconds to pull the misoprostol out of the cart, Freehill said.

Now, due to the security requirements placed on schedule IV drugs, the hospital must keep misoprostol stocked outside of patients’ rooms. When the hospital ran a drill to see how long it took nurses to grab the misoprostol under the new rules, it took nurses two minutes, Freehill said.

“A lot of people might go: ‘Oh, two minutes, that’s really fast.’ And yes, in the long scheme of things, that’s fast. But when you have someone who is actively hemorrhaging – in two minutes, they can lose hundreds of cc’s of blood,” Freehill said. “So those seconds count. I’m definitely worried about what’s going to happen to patients who are hemorrhaging.”

Compared to other wealthy nations, the United States already has a far higher maternal mortality rate, particularly among Black Americans.

Before the law’s passage, more than 200 doctors wrote a letter to the state legislator behind the law, asking him to reconsider it. “Controlled substances require more complex coordination by pharmacists, patients and providers, with increased documentation and often longer waits for patients,” they wrote. “Overall, this results in fear and confusion among patients, doctors, and pharmacists, which delays care and worsens outcomes.”…..

Doctors issue stark warning as Louisiana reclassifies abortion pills

Officials class mifepristone and misoprostol as ‘controlled substances’ – which medics say could imperil women’s lives

www.theguardian.com

 

[MT15]

I’ve been thinking about the common assertion that nothing in the Constitution protects women from bans on the type of healthcare they can receive. This just cannot be true - unless you are willing to say that women are not full citizens with all the rights that men enjoy. If women are not equally protected then the Constitution just doesn’t mean what people think it means. If the state can compel women to give birth against their will, women are not really full citizens. They essentially are not free citizens if their lives can be ruled like that. Roe was correctly decided, and the recent ruling in GA just underscored that to me. Once the fetus reaches viability, then the state has a vital interest. Before then it’s simply tyranny by the state. This is fundamental to women being considered full citizens with full rights. If people don’t believe that, they are saying they are okay with women being second class citizens.

 

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Two common abortion pills are, as of Tuesday, classified as “controlled substances” in Louisiana, due to a first-of-its-kind law that medical professionals warn will endanger the lives of women by restricting medication used to treatpostpartum hemorrhage and other conditions.

Louisiana, which already bans abortion, passed a law reclassifying mifepristone and misoprostol as schedule IV drugs – a designation typically reserved for drugs that carry a risk of abuse or dependence.

People caught with the drugs without a valid prescription could face up to five years in prison, although pregnant women who procure it for their own use are exempted from punishment under the law.

Although the drugs are typically used in US medication abortions, they are also regularly used in an array of other circumstances, such as to help with miscarriage management, treat ulcers and soften the cervix during labor and other procedures.

Normally, at the Louisiana hospital where OB-GYN Dr Nicole Freehill works, misoprostol is kept in so-called hemorrhage carts, which can be easily wheeled into the rooms where patients deliver babies and which carry medications normally used to treat hemorrhaging, including misoprostol. It takes about 15 seconds to pull the misoprostol out of the cart, Freehill said.

Now, due to the security requirements placed on schedule IV drugs, the hospital must keep misoprostol stocked outside of patients’ rooms. When the hospital ran a drill to see how long it took nurses to grab the misoprostol under the new rules, it took nurses two minutes, Freehill said.

“A lot of people might go: ‘Oh, two minutes, that’s really fast.’ And yes, in the long scheme of things, that’s fast. But when you have someone who is actively hemorrhaging – in two minutes, they can lose hundreds of cc’s of blood,” Freehill said. “So those seconds count. I’m definitely worried about what’s going to happen to patients who are hemorrhaging.”

Compared to other wealthy nations, the United States already has a far higher maternal mortality rate, particularly among Black Americans.

Before the law’s passage, more than 200 doctors wrote a letter to the state legislator behind the law, asking him to reconsider it. “Controlled substances require more complex coordination by pharmacists, patients and providers, with increased documentation and often longer waits for patients,” they wrote. “Overall, this results in fear and confusion among patients, doctors, and pharmacists, which delays care and worsens outcomes.”…..

Doctors issue stark warning as Louisiana reclassifies abortion pills

Officials class mifepristone and misoprostol as ‘controlled substances’ – which medics say could imperil women’s lives

www.theguardian.com

She missed an opportunity to really drive it home.

“A lot of people might go: ‘Oh, two minutes, that’s really fast.’ And yes, in the long scheme of things, that’s fast. But when you have someone who is actively hemorrhaging – in two minutes, they can lose hundreds of cc’s of blood,” Freehill said. “So those seconds count. I’m definitely worried about what’s going to happen to patients who are hemorrhaging.”

As opposed to "Two minutes seems fast, huh? How about I cut your brachial artery and we wait fifteen seconds and I say 'We could be sewing that closed right now.' then we wait another minute forty-five."

 

[Lapaz]

Trump is now saying he would veto a national abortion ban, but that's not what matters, because #1, that bill would never pass congress, since abortion rights are popular; #2, his judicial appointments can effectively ban abortion; #3 the Comstock Act can effectively ban abortions nationally; and #4 it is more important to pass legislation to restore Roe v Wade, which is a bill that could realistically pass congress due to its popularity.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

i 100% think he would sign it in the tiny chance it made it to his desk.

 

[LA - L.A.]

i 100% think he would sign it in the tiny chance it made it to his desk.

His choice would be to sign it or get removed from office by his cabinet under the 25th Amendment.

 

[bird]

His choice would be to sign it or get removed from office by his cabinet under the 25th Amendment.

Which just might happen anyway if he is elected. The remove him and Vance immediately pardons him.

 

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Abortion-rights ballot measure supporters across the country have raised nearly eight times as much as groups campaigning against the amendments on the November ballots.

But that advantage may not translate into a huge benefit down the stretch in Florida, the most expensive of the nine statewide campaigns to enshrine abortion rights into state constitutions.

So far, campaign finance data compiled by the watchdog group Open Secrets and analyzed by The Associated Press tells a similar story in most of those states: Amendment backers have raised multiple times as much money and have far more donors, bringing in nearly $108 million compared to $14 million for their opponents as of reports aggregated by Tuesday.

Still, it’s not a sure thing that will mean more spending to promote the measures in every state in the final weeks before the Nov. 5 elections.…….

Abortion-rights groups are outraising opponents 8-to-1 on November ballot measures

Abortion rights groups have outraised opponents by a nearly 8-to-1 margin in campaigns for ballot measures across the U.S. this year.

apnews.com

 

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Ron DeSantis’s administration has appeared to threaten a local TV station with legal action for airing an abortion rights campaign ad.

The ad in question is the same one that aired in Florida during the vice presidential debatebetween Tim Walz and JD Vance. It features a woman named Caroline who needed to have an abortion and cancer treatments after a brain tumor diagnosis in 2022.

Such a difficult situation would have been complicated by Florida’s six-week abortion ban today.

“The doctors knew that if I did not end my pregnancy, I would lose my baby, I would lose my life, and my daughter would lose her mom,” the woman says. “Florida has now banned abortion … even in cases like mine. Amendment 4 is gonna protect women like me.”

The letter — dated October 3 and sent by the Florida Department of Health to WFLA TV’s vice president Mark Higgins — was shared on social media by journalist Jason Garcia, who accused the administration of “trying to intimidate” the TV station.…….

DeSantis threatens local TV stations for airing abortion rights campaign ads

Florida governor accused of trying to punish local TV stations airing ads that support Amendment 4

www.independent.co.uk

 

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.

Without detailing their reasoning, the justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law.

The Biden administration had asked the justices to throw out the lower court order, arguing that hospitals have to perform abortions in emergency situations under federal law. The administration pointed to the Supreme Court’s action in a similar case from Idaho earlier this year in which the justices narrowly allowed emergency abortions to resume while a lawsuit continues.

The administration also cited a Texas Supreme Court ruling that said doctors do not have to wait until a woman’s life is in immediate danger to provide an abortion legally. The administration said it brings Texas in line with federal law and means the lower court ruling is not necessary.



Texas asked the justices to leave the order in place, saying the state Supreme Court ruling meant Texas law, unlike Idaho’s, does have an exception for the health of a pregnant patient and there’s no conflict between federal and state law.

Doctors have said the law remains dangerously vague after a medical board refused to specify exactly which conditions qualify for the exception.……

Supreme Court lets stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate Texas ban

The Supreme Court has let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.

apnews.com

 

[MT15]

This is what is happening. And SCOTUS just said - that’s totally fine. Let them die.

 

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Texas abortion case: The U.S. Supreme Court declined an appeal by the Biden administration to mandate, under a federal law, that Texas hospitals provide abortions in emergencies, such as when a pregnant patient’s health or life is at serious risk. [AP]

Alabama IVF case: The U.S. Supreme Court also rejected an Alabama IVF clinic's appeal after it was found liable for the wrongful death of frozen embryos. The February ruling sparked concern over the legal landscape of IVF. [Reuters]

Georgia abortion ban: The state’s Supreme Court reinstated Georgia’s six-week abortion ban after a lower court ruled that it was unconstitutional. The ban will remain in place until the court hears an appeal from Georgia’s attorney general. [ABC News]

 

[MT15]

This is how extreme Rs are. And never believe they are moderating. Planned Parenthood provides contraception, mammograms and PAP smears to low-income, vulnerable women. They don’t want that. They want women to suffer and die from preventable causes, to prove they are second class citizens and have no worth other than bearing children.

 

[MT15]

What do they think viability means, for cripe’s sake?

 

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A Texas man who sued his ex-wife’s friends for allegedly helping her get an abortion dropped his lawsuit on Thursday after the case was settled.

Marcus Silva first sued Jackie Noyola and Amy Carpenter – both friends of his ex-wife – along with Aracely Garcia in 2023, alleging that the three had helped her obtain abortion pills in July 2022, about two months after she filed for divorce. Silva asked a Texas district court to award him more than $1m in damages for their “criminal and murderous actions”.

Abortion bans typically target providers, not patients, and Texas, like the vast majority of states, does not criminalize self-managed abortion. (Silva’s ex-wife was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit.)

However, abortion rights advocates feared that, even if the first-of-its-kind lawsuit was not legally sound, it would still intimidate people out of helping one another get abortions.

The case had been set to go to trial before Silva dropped the lawsuit. In court filings, Silva did not explain his reason for the decision, but a notice of settlement was submitted to the court. Carpenter told the Washington Post that no money had been exchanged as part of Silva’s abandonment of the lawsuit.


Silva was represented in the lawsuit by Jonathan Mitchell, a lawyer who masterminded the Texas six-week abortion ban that deputized ordinary people to sue one another over suspected illegal abortions.

“While we are grateful that this fraudulent case is finally over, we are angry for ourselves and others who have been terrorized for the simple act of supporting a friend who is facing abuse,” Noyola said in a statement. “No one should ever have to fear punishment, criminalization, or a lengthy court battle for helping someone they care about.”……

Texas man drops lawsuit against women accused of helping ex-wife get abortion

Marcus Silva asked court for $1m damages in case that was legally questionable but worried abortion rights activists

www.theguardian.com

 

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Abortion has passed inflation to become the top issue in the presidential election for women younger than 30 since Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket, according to results released Friday of a survey of female voters by KFF.

About 2 in 5 in the group of young voters said abortion was their top concern in the recent survey, compared with 1 in 5 who ranked it most important in the same survey in the spring.

In the earlier edition, inflation was the top concern for younger voters, as it was for women voters of all ages. Inflation remained the top concern for women in each age group over 30 and for women overall. Women overall ranked abortion as their No. 3 concern, after inflation and threats to democracy, but ahead of immigration.….

Abortion has passed inflation as the top election issue for women under 30, survey finds

A survey has found that abortion has passed inflation to become the top issue in the presidential election for women younger than 30.

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