End of Roe - the fight continues

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Abortion Could Be on Ballot in These States in November

... Measures to enshrine abortion access are securely on the ballot in Colorado, Florida, Maryland (Senate swing state) and South Dakota.

But efforts remain underway to get abortion-related measures on the ballot for voters in a number of other states, including Arizona (WH and Senate swing state), Nevada (WH and Senate swing state) and New York....

Where else could abortion be on the ballot?

... Arkansas ...

Missouri ...

Montana (Senate swing state) ...

Nebraska ...
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Witness Beautifully Slams Door On GOP Senator's Loaded Abortion Question
Jocelyn Frye of the National Partnership for Women & Families put Sen. John Kennedy in his place at a hearing.




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Domestic Abuse And Abortion Bans Create ‘A Very Dangerous Recipe’ Post-Roe
A new report analyzes survivors' experiences with reproductive coercion, intimate partner violence and the threat of criminalization.


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Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill mifepristone: Here's a closer look at the case
It's the first major abortion ruling since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.


The Supreme Court just upheld full access to mifepristone, a widely used abortion drug. In a unanimous ruling issued on Thursday, the justices decided that the challengers who brought the case did not have standing, or a right to bring the lawsuit.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, wrote the opinion.

"Under Article III of the Constitution, a plaintiff's desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue. Nor do the plaintiffs' other standing theories suffice," Kavanaugh wrote. He also added that "federal courts are the wrong forum for addressing the plaintiffs' concerns about FDA's actions."...
GoBoofGo. Unanimous!
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What's next?

The Supreme Court still has to decide on another abortion-related case, Moyle v. United States. The justices will have to decide whether a federal law that requires emergency rooms to provide stabilizing care, including abortions, in certain medical emergencies overrides state law in places that impose a near-total ban on abortion, like Idaho.
That hits close to home for me.

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Nice decision, but couldn't some of the several other courts that these cases went through come up with that long ago? Couldn't the first court to hear the case tossed it for no standing, and then the appeals court decline to hear it? Not that I'm disappointed or disagree with the Supremes' decision, I just think there are for some reason more cases making it to the Supreme Court than there used to be.

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They kicked the can for a few years until the next challenge makes it's way up to them.
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GoCubsGo wrote:
Thu Jun 13, 2024 12:22 pm
They kicked the can for a few years until the next challenge makes it's way up to them.
Maybe so, but I'll stick with my point. Most cases should get to the Supreme Court because of conflicting rulings in two or more federal Appeals Courts, on matters of Constitutional issues, or in some cases, because of contested errors on appeal. I haven't read the actual cases, and don't have enough interest to do so, but c'mon - plaintiffs with lack of standing getting all the way to the Supremes without somebody noticing?

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O Really wrote:
Thu Jun 13, 2024 12:47 pm
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Thu Jun 13, 2024 12:22 pm
They kicked the can for a few years until the next challenge makes it's way up to them.
Maybe so, but I'll stick with my point. Most cases should get to the Supreme Court because of conflicting rulings in two or more federal Appeals Courts, on matters of Constitutional issues, or in some cases, because of contested errors on appeal. I haven't read the actual cases, and don't have enough interest to do so, but c'mon - plaintiffs with lack of standing getting all the way to the Supremes without somebody noticing?
Sorry, don't get me wrong, I agree with you it's silly. What's also funny is the Supremes making everyone wait with baited breath with what appears to be a no brain unanimous decision with no real opinion authored.
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O Really wrote:
Thu Jun 13, 2024 12:16 pm
Nice decision, but couldn't some of the several other courts that these cases went through come up with that long ago? Couldn't the first court to hear the case tossed it for no standing, and then the appeals court decline to hear it? Not that I'm disappointed or disagree with the Supremes' decision, I just think there are for some reason more cases making it to the Supreme Court than there used to be.
Fta: Read more from the Associated Press on the background of the case.
Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication

... The mifepristone case began five months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe. Abortion opponents initially won a sweeping ruling nearly a year ago from U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump nominee in Texas, which would have revoked the drug’s approval entirely.
RWers have shopped a bunch of cases to this asshole.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals left intact the FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone. But it would reverse changes regulators made in 2016 and 2021 that eased some conditions for administering the drug.

The Supreme Court put the appeals court’s modified ruling on hold, then agreed to hear the case, though Justices Samuel Alito, the author of the decision overturning Roe, and Clarence Thomas would have allowed some restrictions to take effect while the case proceeded. But they, too, joined the court's opinion Thursday.
The Circuit Judges were appointed by Repugs 12-5, but still mostly ruled against Kacsmaryk and the misogynists. The Chief Judge, Priscilla Richman, is a Repug Baylor alum who was appointed by Shrub. "Richman also served on the boards of advisors of the Houston and Austin Chapters of the Federalist Society."

Shaky rulings are the norm. Good on SCOTUS for stepping in, spanking Kacsmaryk and swatting the misogynists away.

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Texas' anti-abortion heartbeat law aimed to save babies, but more infants died.

Ironic huh?
... In the wake of the law's passage in Texas, more babies died before their first birthday, likely due to birth defects or genetic problems that wouldn't have allowed them to live, the study found. These pregnancies would typically have been terminated by abortion, according to researchers. The Texas heartbeat law does not provide exceptions for pregnancies involving such conditions. Mothers are legally obligated to carry these babies to birth under state law....
Not a surprise. The point was never about saving babies. Rather, it's about imposing christofascist misogyny.



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Over 800,000 People Sign Onto Arizona Abortion Amendment

... On Wednesday, Arizona for Abortion Access announced that it had turned in more than 800,000 signatures more than two times the 384,000 it needed to move forward with the process of qualifying their proposal for the ballot.

The proposed ballot initiative would amend the state's constitution and create a "fundamental right" to receive an abortion up until fetal viability. After that point, the measure would prohibit the state from restricting abortion in situations where the health or life of the pregnant person is at risk.

According to Abortion for Access, it is the largest number of signatures ever submitted in Arizona for a citizen-led ballot initiative.

"It represents one in five Arizona voters. It's an amazing feat for us. I think it's a demonstration of the strength of our campaign and the excitement of Arizona voters to really settle the issue of abortion rights on the ballot in November," Chris Love, a spokesperson for Arizona for Abortion Access said in a statement....

Now that the signatures have been submitted, the office of Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, has until August 27 to review it and formally certify the measure for the November ballot.
:happy-cheerleaderkid: Having worked on several ballot initiatives this is incredible.

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Kansas Supreme Court strikes down second-trimester abortion ban, affirms right to abortion
The 5-1 ruling struck down a GOP-led ban on a common procedure used in second-trimester abortions


... Senate Bill 95, passed by Kansas Republicans, banned an abortion procedure used in many second-trimester pregnancies called dilation and evacuation.

“S.B. 95 does not further patient safety. It compromises patient safety,” Rosen wrote in the opinion, adding that the bill “eliminates a safe and common medical procedure and leaves patients subject to procedures that are rarely used, are untested, and are sometimes more dangerous or impossible.”

... “We stand by our conclusion that section 1 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights protects a fundamental right to personal autonomy, which includes a pregnant person’s right to terminate a pregnancy,” Rosen wrote.

Outside Kansas, at least five states will consider the right to an abortion at the ballot box in November, while even more mull restrictive bans or legal protections in their legislatures.

At a federal level, President Joe Biden has called for a restoration of Roe v. Wade, while the Trump-backed Project 2025 calls for a national ban on mifepristone, a drug that is used in most medicated abortions.
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Kansas Supreme Court strikes down second-trimester abortion ban, affirms right to abortion
The 5-1 ruling struck down a GOP-led ban on a common procedure used in second-trimester abortions


... Senate Bill 95, passed by Kansas Republicans, banned an abortion procedure used in many second-trimester pregnancies called dilation and evacuation.

“S.B. 95 does not further patient safety. It compromises patient safety,” Rosen wrote in the opinion, adding that the bill “eliminates a safe and common medical procedure and leaves patients subject to procedures that are rarely used, are untested, and are sometimes more dangerous or impossible.”

... “We stand by our conclusion that section 1 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights protects a fundamental right to personal autonomy, which includes a pregnant person’s right to terminate a pregnancy,” Rosen wrote.

Outside Kansas, at least five states will consider the right to an abortion at the ballot box in November, while even more mull restrictive bans or legal protections in their legislatures.

At a federal level, President Joe Biden has called for a restoration of Roe v. Wade, while the Trump-backed Project 2025 calls for a national ban on mifepristone, a drug that is used in most medicated abortions.
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So Serra, my electronic librarian, suggests books that she thinks I might like. Sometimes I do, sometimes not. But she suggested a book named "When She Woke" by Hillary Jordan. I don't necessarily recommend it to BRD readers, but there are some astounding parts of it, considering it was written in 2010. Remember in 2010, Obama was halfway through his first term; it was 5 years before the Supremes ok'd gay marriage; despite some loons walking around with signs harassing people at abortion clinics, it was unthinkable that Roe would actually ever be overturned; the idea that Trump could ever be President was laughable, and the Supreme Court mostly had integrity; and Covid was 9 years in the future.

With that in context, Jordan wrote her book set in Texas in a not-too-distant future where a pandemic had taken a great toll and disrupted society in many ways, including a governmental takeover by right wing extremist Christians. Abortion was illegal and those performing an abortion, having an abortion, or being an impregnator of a person getting an abortion were subject to punishment. Part of the punishment was the process of "chroming" where those convicted were subjected to a process that turned their skin colors according to the crime. "Reds" were the worst, but there were other colors. Convicts were turned loose, with trackers, but must remain colored until the end of their sentence.

Past the first shock of how prescient the author is, the story is basically a futuristic re-imagining of "The Scarlet Letter". Hester Pryne in "Scarlet" becomes Hannah Payne in Jordan's version. Decent beach reading (or in my case listening), but probably not to everybody's taste.

Scary, though, to see the clear parallels to what is happening now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_She_Woke

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Truth meet fiction.
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IVF Threats in Alabama Drive Clinics to Ship Out Embryos

If red states are losing embryos, which they consider to be people, to blue states that aren't so whackadoodle, then their congressional representation and other census-dependent considerations should be reduced relative to those blue states. :twisted:


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Supreme Court declines to block Biden family planning rules in Oklahoma

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Oklahoma's bid to claw back millions in federal family planning grants that the Biden administration had rescinded over the state’s refusal to provide information about abortion to patients who request it.

Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented, saying they would have granted the state's application for relief....
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Misogynist Oklahoma had already LOST at the District and Appellate Court levels. Beggars can't pick and choose which rules to adhere to.

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