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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    Now that she has gotten her way, she is lobbying for it to be repealed.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.
     
    zztop said:
    Ah yes, the old 'it was a joke' defense.
    www.theguardian.com

    Michigan priest defrocked after making apparent Nazi salute at anti-abortion summit

    Calvin Robinson said he made gesture as ‘a joke’ to mock those who denounced Elon Musk’s similar salute
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    According to a statement on the Anglican Catholic church’s website, Robinson’s license in the church was subsequently revoked and he will no longer serve as a priest.

    “We believe that those who mimic the Nazi salute, even as a joke or an attempt to troll their opponents, trivialize the horror of the Holocaust and diminish the sacrifice of those who fought against its perpetrators,” the statement reads. “Such actions are harmful, divisive, and contrary to the tenets of Christian charity.”

    Robinson posted a statement on his Facebook page on Wednesday defending the gesture as “a joke” in “mockery of the hysterical ‘liberals’ who called Elon Musk a Nazi for quite clearly showing the audience his heart was with them”.
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    I feel like this nazi salute thing is just the new version of the "circle game," where people gave the "OK" sign as a pretend nod to white power, but using the cover of "JUST TROLLING THE LIBS, IT'S NOT REALLY ABOUT WHITE SUPREMACY! YOU LIBERALS WILL BELIEVE AND CRY ABOUT EVERYTHING!"

    Eventually, it was used primarily by white supremacist groups to intentionally reference white power, with the added benefit and cover of trolling the libs. Then, it just kinda went away.

    Now, they're using the much more blatant nazi salute in the same fashion, claiming first it was inadvertent, then a mistake, and now a joke. But I'm pretty sure we're headed to a place where the nazi salute becomes an intentional part of rallies. At first it will be a "troll the libs" thing, then it will just be...the thing.
     
    In an effort to restrict abortion access, WyomingRepublicans authored a bill that could choke access to a host of life-saving medical procedures, from chemotherapy to heart surgery.

    State judge Melissa Owens overturned Wyoming’s abortion bans in November 2024, citing the state’s constitutionally guaranteed right to healthcare.

    The Republican state senator Cheri Steinmetz and the bill’s eight co-sponsors took issue with the ruling, and sought to draw up a definition of healthcare that excludes abortion.

    “The intent of [Senate File] 125 is to do no harm and go back to that Hippocratic oath and look at healthcare through that lens,” Steinmeitz told the Guardian.


    Steinmetz says Senate File 125 offers a new definition of healthcare in Wyoming: “No act, treatment or procedure that causes harm to the heart, respiratory system, central nervous system, brain, skeletal system, jointed or muscled appendages or organ function shall be construed as healthcare.”

    The bill carves out exceptions – for example, when such a procedure is required to save the life of a pregnant woman, or if “a person has no chance of meaningful recovery” without it.

    Fetal personhood is still on the books in Wyoming from 2023’s overturned “Life Is a Human Right Act”, but experts interviewed said that the murkiness of the bill’s language made it unclear if it would succeed at restricting abortion access – its intended purpose.

    But Wyoming attorneys and healthcare law professionals at Boston University, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins and Pittsburgh University, say the problem is that a broad swath of healthcare procedures can be considered to cause “harm” by design.

    “There’s a slew of medical procedures, surgeries, treatments that can have potentially positive outcomes but may also cause harm in the short period or as an unintended consequence,” the Wyoming attorney Abigail Fournier said.

    “It’s scary to me, because I think it could be interpreted to be very limiting in terms of what healthcare providers can do.”

    Wyoming’s constitutional right to healthcare stems from a 2012, voter-ratified constitutional amendment stating that “the right to make healthcare decisions is reserved to the citizens of the state of Wyoming”.

    Tom Lubnau, Wyoming attorney and former Republican speaker of the state house, helped author the amendment. He sees much of the current legislature as having “tunnel vision”, and a fixation on passing social issue legislation that ignores constitutionality.…….

    www.theguardian.com

    Wyoming Republicans’ anti-abortion bill inadvertently targets chemotherapy and surgeries

    Senate File 125 could limit access to any treatment that ‘causes harm’ to the heart, lungs, brain and other organs
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    superchuck500 said:
    www.rawstory.com

    'Ludicrous': Red state doctor left gobsmacked as official data shows zero abortions

    In Arkansas, state health officials announced a stunning statistic for 2023: The total number of abortions in the state, where some 1.5 million women live, was zero. In South Dakota, too, official records show zero abortions that year. And in Idaho, home to abortion battles that have recently...
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    We’re going to reference North Korea a lot during this administration, aren’t we?

    The states see what Trump and Musk do to the truth and say - hey we want some of those alternate realities.
     
    A Texas judge has ordered a New York doctor to immediately stop prescribing and mailing abortion pills to patients in Texas, setting up a challenge to state “shield laws” that could reach the US supreme court.

    In his order Thursday, Judge Bryan Gantt of Collin county district court ordered Dr Margaret Daley Carpenter of New Paltz, who uses telemedicine to see patients across the country, to cease her work and pay a penalty of more than $100,000. The lawsuit was filed by Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, a close ally of Donald Trump, in December.

    The case, which challenges the strength of “shield laws” established to protect physicians offering abortion care, is widely believed to be headed for the supreme court. Such laws emerged after the court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022 – and signify a growing divide among states since then.


    On Thursday, New York’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, said the state would not cooperate with an extradition request for Carpenter, filed by Louisiana officials in a separate case.

    The Texas lawsuit alleges that Carpenter provided a 20-year-old woman with the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol. After the woman sought follow-up care at her local emergency room, the “biological father of her unborn child” filed a complaint with the attorney general, according to court records. The anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life has encouraged men to report instances when they believe their partners may have received such abortion care, and file wrongful death lawsuits against the physicians and friends who provided assistance.

    A separate Louisiana lawsuit, the first criminal indictment of its kind, accuses Carpenter of sending the same pills to a pregnant teenager in that state.

    “I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana – not now, not ever,” Hochul said on Thursday.…….

    www.theguardian.com

    Texas judge fines New York doctor for mailing abortion pills to patient in Texas

    Judge Bryan Gantt orders doctor to stop prescribing and sending pills to state, setting up challenge to ‘shield laws’
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    Optimus Prime said:
    A Texas judge has ordered a New York doctor to immediately stop prescribing and mailing abortion pills to patients in Texas, setting up a challenge to state “shield laws” that could reach the US supreme court.

    In his order Thursday, Judge Bryan Gantt of Collin county district court ordered Dr Margaret Daley Carpenter of New Paltz, who uses telemedicine to see patients across the country, to cease her work and pay a penalty of more than $100,000. The lawsuit was filed by Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, a close ally of Donald Trump, in December.

    The case, which challenges the strength of “shield laws” established to protect physicians offering abortion care, is widely believed to be headed for the supreme court. Such laws emerged after the court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022 – and signify a growing divide among states since then.


    On Thursday, New York’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, said the state would not cooperate with an extradition request for Carpenter, filed by Louisiana officials in a separate case.

    The Texas lawsuit alleges that Carpenter provided a 20-year-old woman with the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol. After the woman sought follow-up care at her local emergency room, the “biological father of her unborn child” filed a complaint with the attorney general, according to court records. The anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life has encouraged men to report instances when they believe their partners may have received such abortion care, and file wrongful death lawsuits against the physicians and friends who provided assistance.

    A separate Louisiana lawsuit, the first criminal indictment of its kind, accuses Carpenter of sending the same pills to a pregnant teenager in that state.

    “I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana – not now, not ever,” Hochul said on Thursday.…….

    www.theguardian.com

    Texas judge fines New York doctor for mailing abortion pills to patient in Texas

    Judge Bryan Gantt orders doctor to stop prescribing and sending pills to state, setting up challenge to ‘shield laws’
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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    I'm a man, and this is definitely a case of men trying to control women. "The biological father of the unborn child" filed the suit. So...yeah.
     
    JD Vance has been labelled an “extremist” after he launched a broadside against the UK’s efforts to protect women seeking an abortion.

    The US vice-president’s criticisms of UK and Scottish policies on safe access zones around abortion clinics -part of a wide-ranging tirade against Europe on Friday - were derided as inaccurate and misogynistic by a number of groups, politicians and governments.

    Heidi Stewart, the chief executive of Bpas, the UK’s leading provider of abortion services, said safe zones - buffer areas of 150 metres around abortion clinics designed to stop women being harassed with leaflets, shown pictures of foetuses, or having to pass by vigils - were vital to protect women’s access to essential healthcare in an “overwhelmingly pro-choice country”.

    “Bpas ... will always remain proud to stand against misogynistic and anti-democratic interference with British women’s reproductive rights by foreign extremists, whether they are the vice-president of the US or not,” she said.

    The Labour MP Stella Creasy, who campaigned for the safe zones which were introduced last year, posted a picture of a scene from the dystopian television series The Handmaid’s Tale alongside with the words: “And so it begins … ” She accused Vance of calling “for the right to harass women having an abortion” because “our bodies are their battleground, our human rights their target”.

    In Vance’s speech at the Munich security conference, he said the UK had “placed the basic liberties of religious Britons ... in the crosshairs”, citing the prosecution of Adam Smith-Connor, a physiotherapist and army veteran.

    Vance said he had been charged with the “heinous crime of standing 50 metres from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes, not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own”.

    Smith-Connor, who is receiving legal support from Alliance Defending Freedom International, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group in the US - was convicted of breaching a safe zone in October last year after refusing repeated requests to move away from outside an abortion clinic in Bournemouth in November 2022.

    A community officer spoke to him for an hour and 40 minutes and asked him to leave, but he refused. Smith-Connor was handed a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay more than £9,000 costs after the case brought by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council.

    Vance also claimed the Scottish government had distributed letters to citizens whose houses lay “within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law”.

    Shortly after his statement, a Scottish government spokesperson said: “The vice-president’s claim is incorrect. Private prayer at home is not prohibited within safe access zones and no letter has ever suggested it was.”………

    www.theguardian.com

    JD Vance decried as extremist over attack on UK abortion clinic safe zones

    US vice-president’s comments, part of a wide-ranging tirade against Europe, called inaccurate and misogynistic
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    Rachael Clarke remembers life before buffer zones. Almost every day, the head of staff at the UK’s biggest abortion provider would get emails from staff worried about protesters outside clinics – and women crying in the waiting room.

    Some of the protesters had huge placards with graphic images of foetuses. Others held candlelit vigils and said prayers. One scattered baby clothes in the bushes. “We had everything from people telling women that having an abortion was putting their baby in a meat grinder to people following nurses down the road in the dark telling them they were killing babies,” says Clarke.

    Since buffer zones were rolled out nationally late last year – building on public space protection orders that were already in place outside some clinics – she says things have drastically improved.


    Reports of alleged harassment outside British Pregnancy Advisory Service clinics have stopped almost completely. So when she heard JD Vance, the US vice-president, decrying buffer zone laws as an attack on the “liberties of religious Britons” in a speech on Friday at the Munich Security Conference – and condemning the conviction of a man, Adam Smith-Connor, who he said had been targeted for “just silently praying on his own” – she wasn’t impressed. “You can’t see these things in isolation,” she says.

    Rather than being a one-off, Clarke sees the Smith-Connor case as part of a wider effort by anti-abortion campaigners to test the new law to the limits – and shift the focus away from the true reason for buffer zones to a debate about freedom of speech.

    Hers is a view shared by reproductive healthcare professionals, legal experts and campaigners who believe buffer zones – intended to protect service users and staff – are being targeted in an orchestrated campaign by conservative Christian groups that are fuelling the spread of misinformation and seeking to shift the terms of the debate.……

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    Prayer and prosecutions: the US ‘hate group’ waging war over Britain’s abortion clinic buffer zones

    Anti-abortion campaigners cheer as JD Vance brands safe zones an attack on ‘liberties of religious Britons’
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    Optimus Prime said:
    JD Vance has been labelled an “extremist” after he launched a broadside against the UK’s efforts to protect women seeking an abortion.

    The US vice-president’s criticisms of UK and Scottish policies on safe access zones around abortion clinics -part of a wide-ranging tirade against Europe on Friday - were derided as inaccurate and misogynistic by a number of groups, politicians and governments.

    Heidi Stewart, the chief executive of Bpas, the UK’s leading provider of abortion services, said safe zones - buffer areas of 150 metres around abortion clinics designed to stop women being harassed with leaflets, shown pictures of foetuses, or having to pass by vigils - were vital to protect women’s access to essential healthcare in an “overwhelmingly pro-choice country”.

    “Bpas ... will always remain proud to stand against misogynistic and anti-democratic interference with British women’s reproductive rights by foreign extremists, whether they are the vice-president of the US or not,” she said.

    The Labour MP Stella Creasy, who campaigned for the safe zones which were introduced last year, posted a picture of a scene from the dystopian television series The Handmaid’s Tale alongside with the words: “And so it begins … ” She accused Vance of calling “for the right to harass women having an abortion” because “our bodies are their battleground, our human rights their target”.

    In Vance’s speech at the Munich security conference, he said the UK had “placed the basic liberties of religious Britons ... in the crosshairs”, citing the prosecution of Adam Smith-Connor, a physiotherapist and army veteran.

    Vance said he had been charged with the “heinous crime of standing 50 metres from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes, not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own”.

    Smith-Connor, who is receiving legal support from Alliance Defending Freedom International, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group in the US - was convicted of breaching a safe zone in October last year after refusing repeated requests to move away from outside an abortion clinic in Bournemouth in November 2022.

    A community officer spoke to him for an hour and 40 minutes and asked him to leave, but he refused. Smith-Connor was handed a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay more than £9,000 costs after the case brought by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council.

    Vance also claimed the Scottish government had distributed letters to citizens whose houses lay “within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law”.

    Shortly after his statement, a Scottish government spokesperson said: “The vice-president’s claim is incorrect. Private prayer at home is not prohibited within safe access zones and no letter has ever suggested it was.”………

    www.theguardian.com

    JD Vance decried as extremist over attack on UK abortion clinic safe zones

    US vice-president’s comments, part of a wide-ranging tirade against Europe, called inaccurate and misogynistic
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    JD Vance is a moron and a charlatan. What a piece of sheet.
     
    A Republican state lawmaker in Missouri has introduced legislation that would create a “central registry” of pregnant people who are “at risk for seeking an abortion,” what the bill’s author called the makings of an “e-Harmony for babies” to match with adoptive families.

    The legislation would also allow the state to share information from that database with law enforcement agencies, “including those outside of this state,” the bill states.

    Republican state Rep. Phil Amato largely deferred questions about his “Save MO Babies Act” during a Children and Families Committee hearing to Gerard Harms, an adoption attorney who wrote the bill.

    “We’re looking at something like e-Harmony for babies — mothers who want to put up their children need to match with prospective parents,” Harms told the committee Tuesday. “That’s exactly what the intent of this is. Against, inartfully drafted.”

    Harms said participation is voluntary and would comply with all federal health privacy laws.

    But skeptical state lawmakers and abortion rights advocates have raised alarms about data privacy protections and what amounts to “government surveillance” tracking people who could seek an abortion…….





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    Missouri Republican proposes ‘e-Harmony for babies’ database to track pregnant women

    Abortion rights advocates slam legislation that proposes sharing data with law enforcement
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    Optimus Prime said:
    A Republican state lawmaker in Missouri has introduced legislation that would create a “central registry” of pregnant people who are “at risk for seeking an abortion,” what the bill’s author called the makings of an “e-Harmony for babies” to match with adoptive families.

    The legislation would also allow the state to share information from that database with law enforcement agencies, “including those outside of this state,” the bill states.

    Republican state Rep. Phil Amato largely deferred questions about his “Save MO Babies Act” during a Children and Families Committee hearing to Gerard Harms, an adoption attorney who wrote the bill.

    “We’re looking at something like e-Harmony for babies — mothers who want to put up their children need to match with prospective parents,” Harms told the committee Tuesday. “That’s exactly what the intent of this is. Against, inartfully drafted.”

    Harms said participation is voluntary and would comply with all federal health privacy laws.

    But skeptical state lawmakers and abortion rights advocates have raised alarms about data privacy protections and what amounts to “government surveillance” tracking people who could seek an abortion…….





    www.independent.co.uk

    Missouri Republican proposes ‘e-Harmony for babies’ database to track pregnant women

    Abortion rights advocates slam legislation that proposes sharing data with law enforcement
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    Small government…or not.
     
    superchuck500 said:
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    As we keep repeating over and over, this was predicted to happen before all of these restrictions were put in place. Time and again we see the same thing over and over. When will Republican voters learn? And why is it that they all have such short attention and memory spans that they can't connect their votes for Republicans to the horrible outcomes that occur as a result of what the Republican legislators/governors enact?
     

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