Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Abortion Restrictions

[Tero]

You are right, the issue is most important to the poor. We, both democrats and GOP, are too focused on the convenience of abortion for the rest.

[Tero]

On Wednesday, lawmakers in Louisiana pushed forward legislation that would do precisely what the Washington talking points deny: grant constitutional rights to “all unborn children from the moment of fertilization,” and classify abortion as homicide. Such a law could, in fact, put women and doctors in prison and ban certain types of contraception, such as IUDs or morning-after pills, that block implantation of a fertilized egg.

There is no problem!
State Representative Gene Wu, a Houston Democrat, said he worries that in Republican states that have been living with steadily rising restrictions on reproductive rights, the response to overturning Roe could be as muted as it has been in Texas, and that in Democratic states, voters will be reassured that their rights are safe.

“This has been done so incrementally, it’s like there’s a learned helplessness. We’ve taken so much abuse; what’s a little more?” he said, likening women in states like Texas to the frog in the boiling pot of water. “I hope that’s not the case.”

Another study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found a 21.6 percent jump in the use of such (long term) contraception in the months after the 2016 election of Mr. Trump, with his vows to install justices who would overturn Roe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/us/p ... at28L1NjY0

[laklak]

I love Elon Musk. Tesla will pay travel expenses for any employee in Texas who wants an abortion. He's such a fucking Dude. Free speech, abortion rights, LBGTQ rights, private industry kicking the ever loving shit out of all the combined governments in the world - this is what an American Libertarian looks like.

[Tero]

Not a fan. He is just pulling your strings.

[Tero]

SNL cold open poking fun of Alito hostorical ramblings.
https://youtu.be/mLMp-1NdzR8

[Brian Peacock]

Hostorical! Portmanteau of hostile and oracle.

[Tero]

Abortion by mail. If it goes by a federal carrier, states cannot open the package.

State bans are likely to apply to all forms of abortion, and conservative states are already trying to crack down on medication abortion, as my colleague Kate Zernike has reported. But stopping the pill-based form isn’t so easy. “The pills are pretty easily accessible online, and the laws are very hard to enforce because they are sent privately via mail,” Claire said.

One large provider is Aid Access, an international organization run by a Dutch doctor, Rebecca Gomperts, that is committed to keeping abortion accessible even in places where it is illegal. Aid Access often connects Americans with European doctors, and people can order pills even if they are not pregnant, to have them on hand if they want them later. (In 2014, Emily Bazelon profiled Gomperts in The Times Magazine.)

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[Sean Hayden]

They'll never learn. We decide the laws shithole, one way or the other.

--have some change ready to donate to the poor bastid they eventually arrest, probably a Canadian. Imagine that, Texans hauling your Canadian ass to Austin... they'll do it too

[Tero]

They have a plan. But they is NYT. Not senators.

Here’s one way to do that: get clear public commitments from every Senate Democrat (and candidate for Senate) not only to vote for the Roe bill in January 2023 but also to change the filibuster rules to ensure that a majority vote would actually pass the bill and send it to the White House for the president’s signature.

[Sean Hayden]

Our betters only respond to disorder, and they're asking for it in spades.

[JimC]

They'll never learn. We decide the laws shithole, one way or the other.

--have some change ready to donate to the poor bastid they eventually arrest, probably a Canadian. Imagine that, Texans hauling your Canadian ass to Austin... they'll do it too

Surely only your Federal government can do an extradition from another country, not a state...

[Sean Hayden]

Canada's rolled over for less, the example was intentional...but yes, you wouldn't think so.

[Tero]

Amongst our weapons are..

1 the supreme court
2 the supreme court and gerrymandering

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... -wade-ohio

[Tero]

Postponed

The justices released one decision Wednesday, but the case expected to overturn Roe v. Wade was not handed down

The Dobbs case stems from a dispute over a Mississippi law which bans abortion after 15 weeks. Argued in December, the case is seen as the biggest test yet for how the new 6-3 Republican-appointed majority on the court – capped with the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett in 2020 – will handle major controversial issues.

As the Supreme Court continues to finalize its ruling in Dobbs and several other cases before its summer recess, the investigation into who leaked the draft opinion by court officials is ongoing.

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[Svartalf]

That's a common trope. "All women who have abortions regret it". I've heard that any number of times, usually from people who a) never had an abortion and/or b) can't have one because they don't have a uterus.

You know, I regret every hour I've ever wasted in hospitals, and you can't say I go there too often.