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Now that she has gotten her way, she is lobbying for it to be repealed.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

 

[fooferdoggie]

Texas banned abortion. Then sepsis rates soared.​

Texas banned abortion. Then sepsis rates soared. | CNN

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.

www.cnn.com

 

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Texas banned abortion. Then sepsis rates soared.​

Texas banned abortion. Then sepsis rates soared. | CNN

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.

www.cnn.com

Yep, and watch those idiots try to justify or blame something else when the cause is obvious.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Some of the anti-abortion activists pardoned by President Donald Trump are already planning a new wave of civil disobedience, according to a report.

The president issued pardons in January to activists who had broken into and blocked access to abortion clinics.

The anti-abortion group LiveAction recently held an online event, where a number of the activists released from federal prison said they would take up their efforts to close theremaining clinics available in the U.S., according to Politico……

Pardoned anti-abortion activists plan new wave of civil disobedience

‘Protesters seem to know that they’re not going to be held accountable,’ clinic operator says

www.independent.co.uk

 

[MT15]

After ProPublica did its first article on the deaths in GA due to the anti-abortion law, Kemp turned over the membership of the medical board that evaluated the cases and assigned the cause for these maternal deaths. And even though the members of that medical board used to be public like any other appointed board in the state, now Kemp refuses to divulge who he put on the board. I’m quite sure there will never be another maternal death attributed to the anti-abortion law, which is the intended result.

 

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After ProPublica did its first article on the deaths in GA due to the anti-abortion law, Kemp turned over the membership of the medical board that evaluated the cases and assigned the cause for these maternal deaths. And even though the members of that medical board used to be public like any other appointed board in the state, now Kemp refuses to divulge who he put on the board. I’m quite sure there will never be another maternal death attributed to the anti-abortion law, which is the intended result.

But transparency and accountability .......

 

[Optimus Prime]

The Trump administration fired off a series of dramatic attacks on abortion rights on Tuesday, as it signaled its plan to drop out of a case defending access to emergency abortions while asking the US supreme court for permission to join a case against the abortion provider Planned Parenthood.

The justice department said it would move to dismiss the case over emergency abortions, which had been originally filed by the Biden administration, according to court papers filed by the largest hospital network in Idaho.

The Biden administration had sued Idaho over its near-total abortion ban, which it accused of running afoul of a federal law that protects patients’ right to health care in emergencies.

The dismissal could come as soon as Wednesday, St Luke’s Health System wrote in a court filing. The hospital has previously said that Idaho’s ban forced its providers to fly women out of state for emergency care.


Meanwhile, the Trump administration has filed paperwork asking the US supreme court to let it join the upcoming oral arguments in a case over South Carolina’s attempt to eradicate Medicaid funding for medical services offered by Planned Parenthood.

Although it is already illegal to use federal dollars to pay for abortions, South Carolina’s Republican governor, Henry McMaster, ordered the state department of health to block Planned Parenthood from Medicaid because, McMaster said, “payment of taxpayer funds to abortion clinics, for any purpose, results in the subsidy of abortion and the denial of the right to life”.

The Trump administration hopes to help defend South Carolina’s actions, asking for 10 minutes of the April oral arguments’ running time. South Carolina is being represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, a powerhouse Christian legal group that was the architect of much of the conservative attack on abortion and LGBTQ+ rights……

Trump launches fresh attacks on US abortion rights

Administration to drop Idaho emergency abortion lawsuit and back South Carolina in Planned Parenthood funds case

www.theguardian.com

 

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There’s a small, unremarkable beige building in downtown Casper, the heart of Wyoming’s oil country, tucked between a Sinclair gas station and a local dry cleaner. Most days of the week, the building attracts a small throng of protesters.

In May 2022, it was burned down just three weeks before a new business was set to open in the building. Since it finally opened in 2023, Wyoming lawmakers have passed a number of laws designed specifically to shut it down.

Wyoming’s 2025 legislative session, which has just ended, has brought them closer than ever to succeeding in obstructing the work of Wellspring Health Access, the state’s only full-service abortion clinic.

Near-total abortion bans went into effect in Wyoming after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, but a Wyoming district court judge overturned the bans last year citing the state’s constitutionally guaranteed right to healthcare access. The case – brought by Wellspring – is currently in the hands of the Wyoming supreme court.

Due to an injunction, Wellspring was able to operate during the prolonged legal battle. That changed last week, when the conservative legislature passed a law requiring facilities providing in-clinic abortions meet the regulatory requirements of ambulatory surgical centers, which have entirely different building codes and regulations, requiring a prohibitively expensive relocation.

The law would also require doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 10 miles, which is more stringent than its codes for ambulatory surgical centers.……:

Fate of Wyoming’s last abortion clinic in balance as Republicans take aim

Wellspring center in Casper pauses services after conservative legislature passes tough new restrictions

www.theguardian.com

 

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A Supreme Court case about abortion could destroy Medicaid

Kerr v. Planned Parenthood asks the justices to render much of federal law unenforceable, in order to spite abortion providers.

www.vox.com

 

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A Supreme Court case about abortion could destroy Medicaid

Kerr v. Planned Parenthood asks the justices to render much of federal law unenforceable, in order to spite abortion providers.

www.vox.com

Would they rule in such a way? Since it revolves around abortion I would say it is likely they would. The SCOTUS as currently compromised is incompetent. That was shown with the Chevron decision. To think that congress which is not comprised of people who are experts in virtually anything is capable of passing individual laws regarding the complex system which is the environment simply underscores the lack of intelligence that the conservative majority has.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

This could cause irreparable harm to her and even threaten her life! This is just so forking stupid!

 

[Optimus Prime]

Doctors who practice medicine in states with abortion bans have described in a new study how three of their pregnant patients died, but probably could have been saved had they been able to receive abortion care.

The doctors, who treat lung, respiratory and other critical illnesses, never raised abortion, including the option of traveling out of state for the procedure, out of fear of legal repercussions, according to interviews with the doctors in the study, which was published in Chest Pulmonary, a medical journal. No other information about the patients who died was published.

The study, led by the researcher Katrina Hauschildt at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, sought to understand how abortion bans put in place after the supreme court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade affected specialist doctors outside the field of obstetrics and gynecology, where most research has been focused.


“While these downstream consequences [on pulmonary and critical care physicians] have been hypothesized, little systematic empirical data exists on the impact of these policies on patients with pulmonary and/or critical illness and their physicians,” the study said.

The research, based on interviews with more than two dozen pulmonary and critical care physicians, who work in 15 states with abortion bans, described “repeated experiences of restricted and delayed treatment” of their patients, impacts to training, concerns about ways abortion bans had “disparate impacts across social groups”, and their own moral distress at navigating abortion laws.

In one case, treatment for an ectopic pregnancy, which is by definition nonviable, was delayed, resulting in “hemorrhagic shock”, a doctor reported.

“This study clearly demonstrates the immediate and wide-spread harm that abortion bans are having on pregnant people. Even in states with ‘exceptions’ to the abortion ban, doctors’ hands are tied until it is too late and severe outcomes, including preventable death are happening,” said Dr Caitlin Bernard, an Indiana-based obstetrician-gynecologist and reproductive and abortion rights activist.

Bernard added: “While some cases are deemed newsworthy, these daily injuries and death are not even counted, much less made public. Nobody will ever know how many women have been harmed or died because of abortions bans preventing appropriate medical care.”……….

Three critically ill patients in US could have survived with abortions, study shows

Doctors in states with abortion bans say patients were not told of abortion care as option for fear of legal consequences

www.theguardian.com

 

[MT15]

This could cause irreparable harm to her and even threaten her life! This is just so forking stupid!

This is also dangerous to her health. Sepsis is a very serious complication and having a dead fetus inside you for prolonged periods of time is just inviting sepsis. I cannot stand the people who voted for this. I wish I could make every one of them feel a fraction of her pain, both physically and emotionally.