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    Now that she has gotten her way, she is lobbying for it to be repealed.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.
     
    Married men live longer than single men. Single women live longer than married women.

     
    Hundreds of active-duty and retired service members have pleaded with Donald Trump’s administration to stop a far-reaching plan to end abortion care and counseling for American veterans.

    The proposal would eliminate access to this medical care for veterans through the federal government’s health system, even in instances of rape, incest or to protect the health of the patient — coverage that has been available to veterans and their beneficiaries for nearly three years.

    The rule change would apply to all those receiving care through the Department of Veterans Affairs, even those living in more than a dozen states where abortion care is legally protected and a constitutional right.

    More than 20,000 people submitted public comments in response to the rule change — including thousands of objections from veterans, their family members and abortion rights advocates.

    “I am a veteran of the US Army and if this rule was in place I wouldn’t have joined,” one person wrote.

    “[As] an Army brat, military spouse, and miscarriage survivor, give our soldiers HEALTHCARE!” another person wrote.

    “As [a] veteran of the Marine Corps, having these medical procedures available gave me the option to stay combat ready,” another said. “How dare you take that right away from our women in uniform.”

    One Navy veteran said she is “utterly appalled” by the rule change.

    “This seems more like an ideological decision than one based on facts and science,” she wrote. “Reproductive healthcare includes the overall well-being of the female body. … Has the VA decided that the wellbeing of women no longer matters? Was my service to my country for naught?”………

    www.independent.co.uk

    US troops and veterans flood Trump administration website over cuts to abortion care

    More than 20,000 public comments filed in response to far-reaching rule change that would eliminate abortion access at VA facilities
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     
    Coney Barrett seems to indicate she has an idea how the Dobbs decision leaked.



     
    In the first two years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, prosecutors in 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, new research released on Tuesday found.

    Of the 412 cases tracked by Pregnancy Justice, the vast majority took place in the US south, targeted low-income women and involved allegations that women broke laws against child abuse, endangerment or neglect, according to the research, which was compiled by the reproductive justice group. About 300 prosecutions took place in Alabama and Oklahoma. In 16 cases, law enforcement charged women with homicide.

    Because there is no national database of US arrest or court records, the group believes the tally is likely to be an undercount. In a report released in September 2024, Pregnancy Justice said it had recorded 210 pregnancy-related prosecutions in the first year after Roe fell – the highest number ever recorded at that time. Pregnancy Justice is now devoting more resources to unearthing records of pregnancy-related prosecutions, so the group can’t say for sure whether these prosecutions are on the rise post-Roe or whether they are simply tracking them more closely.


    Nearly 400 of the cases included in the new report involved allegations of substance use during pregnancy. In an example described to the Guardian, after one woman gave birth, the hospital tested her umbilical cords for drugs. When the test came back positive for marijuana, the woman was arrested for felony child neglect, even though she had a medical marijuana card.

    The laws used in most of these prosecutions, Pregnancy Justice pointed out, are typically meant to protect children, not fetuses. By prosecuting pregnant women under them, the group says, states are cementing the legal doctrine of “fetal personhood”, which seeks to grant embryos and fetuses full legal rights and protections – sometimes at the cost of the rights of the woman carrying them. Alabama and Oklahoma are both hubs for the growing fetal personhood movement.

    “That is the ultimate goal of the anti-abortion movement,” said Dana Sussman, senior vice president at Pregnancy Justice, which scoured court and police records to find the cases. “It wasn’t just to overturn Roe. It is to establish full personhood, full rights for embryos and fetuses.”……


    www.theguardian.com

    Hundreds of US women charged with pregnancy-related crimes since fall of Roe

    Study finds prosecutors targeting low-income women mainly in US south – and figure likely to be an undercount
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     
    Disagreements in Congress about abortion could derail the Republican Party’s ability to come up with a grand deal on healthcare.

    Any delay could prove politically toxic, as the GOP faces pressure from voters over spiking health care costs and Affordable Care Act subsidies that are expiring at the end of the year, while President Trump is pushing hard to scrap Obamacare altogether for a vaguely defined “Trumpcare” replacement.

    Thus far, much of the drama has played out behind the scenes or by implication. A White House plan reportedly circulating on Capitol Hill called for a two-year extension of the subsidies, though President Trump never carried out an expected Monday announcement of the plan, and the supposed proposal avoided the abortion issue entirely.

    This came as a shock to some in Congress, where Republicans and lobby groups have pushed to extend the ACA’s existing abortion funding limits and cut off subsidies entirely to plans that cover abortion.……..

    Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota has said there won’t be “any” Republican votes to extend the subsidies without new abortion restrictions on Obamacare, which already prevents federal funds from being spent on abortions, though some states use separate funds to cover the procedure in plans on the ACA marketplace.…….

    www.independent.co.uk

    Abortion becomes key issue as Republicans figure out Obamacare replacement

    The Affordable Care Act already prevents federal funds from being spent on abortions in covered plans, but some Republicans are pushing for harder limits as they seek a deal to address health care costs
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    Disagreements in Congress about abortion could derail the Republican Party’s ability to come up with a grand deal on healthcare.

    Any delay could prove politically toxic, as the GOP faces pressure from voters over spiking health care costs and Affordable Care Act subsidies that are expiring at the end of the year, while President Trump is pushing hard to scrap Obamacare altogether for a vaguely defined “Trumpcare” replacement.

    Thus far, much of the drama has played out behind the scenes or by implication. A White House plan reportedly circulating on Capitol Hill called for a two-year extension of the subsidies, though President Trump never carried out an expected Monday announcement of the plan, and the supposed proposal avoided the abortion issue entirely.

    This came as a shock to some in Congress, where Republicans and lobby groups have pushed to extend the ACA’s existing abortion funding limits and cut off subsidies entirely to plans that cover abortion.……..

    Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota has said there won’t be “any” Republican votes to extend the subsidies without new abortion restrictions on Obamacare, which already prevents federal funds from being spent on abortions, though some states use separate funds to cover the procedure in plans on the ACA marketplace.…….

    www.independent.co.uk

    Abortion becomes key issue as Republicans figure out Obamacare replacement

    The Affordable Care Act already prevents federal funds from being spent on abortions in covered plans, but some Republicans are pushing for harder limits as they seek a deal to address health care costs
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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    They are completely ignoring the people they are supposed to represent.
     

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