Roe vs. Wade, American abortion rights

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Abortion rights across the US: we track where laws stand in every state
Abortion is now nearly completely banned in 14 states, while two have banned abortion past roughly six weeks of pregnancy

Carter Sherman and Andrew Witherspoon with additional reporting by Jessica Glenza and Poppy Noor
Fri 12 Jan 2024 20.23 CET


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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng- ... on-laws-us

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Raped, pregnant and in an abortion ban state? Researchers gauge how often it happens
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-sho ... ban-states

Their total estimate of pregnancies due to rape in states with abortion bans is 64,565.

Dickman, who is also a researcher at the City University of New York, says he and his colleagues were shocked at the numbers their calculations yielded.

"I was horrified," he says. "Sexual assault is incredibly common — I knew that in a general sense. But to be confronted with these estimates that are so high in states where there's no meaningful abortion access? It's hard to comprehend."

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‘I didn’t know what I was supposed to do’: US women who miscarry are in dangerous legal limbo post-Roe
With near-total bans on abortion in 14 states, the laws on miscarriage are vague – stoking fears of criminal consequences and leaving women desperate

by Carter Sherman
Wed 24 Jan 2024 16.00 CET

For a long time after her miscarriage, Rebecca sat on the toilet, trying to figure out what to do.

“I thought about fishing it out of the bloody water,” she said. “I didn’t really want to hold it in my hand. I also didn’t know what I would do with it afterwards. Am I gonna put it in the trash? Am I gonna dig a hole in the backyard? What the hell am I supposed to do? I had no idea.”

It was around 3 or 4 in the morning; her husband was trying to get some sleep before work. She was exhausted and in shock.

“Ultimately, I flushed it. I didn’t want to,” Rebecca said. As she thought about it all again, she kept repeating herself: “I didn’t know what I was supposed to do.”

Rebecca, who is from Ohio, experienced that miscarriage in fall of 2014. Nine years and one supreme court decision later, another distraught woman would also miscarry into a toilet in Ohio – but after she tried to flush, she would have a very different experience. Her case would ultimately land a national spotlight on the anguish, uncertainty and even danger that millions of women, like Rebecca, have experienced in the minutes and hours after a miscarriage.





https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... ts-options

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@JessAnderson4VA
Listen to this 3:37 minutes of brilliance #barbie

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Is it dusty in here?

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Yes, here, too.

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That is outstanding, just outstanding.

And yes, it is dusty in here.

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Great ad #FAFO - NSFW language.

Justices Jimmy, John, and Jane f*cked around with Texans' reproductive freedoms, and now they're about to find out.

#F*ckAround #FindOut #FAFO #FindOutPac

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The dirty dozen. Squared. And then some. Le sigh.
https://x.com/BillPascrell/status/17552 ... 12609?s=20

Reminder that 147 republicans in Congress are begging the supreme court to ban the woman’s health drug mifepristone and telling millions of women to go to hell. Here are their names.

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Did Ronny Jackson not vote?

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Did Ronny Jackson not vote?

He's a pill pusher. ALL pills, I guess.

Actually, he's against it: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-118hr383ih
Not sure why he isn't party to the lolsuit.

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&$%#*(%

Florida Chief Justice Pushes Fetal Personhood At Argument For Abortion Amendment

During Wednesday’s arguments over the language of a proposed ballot initiative to protect abortion rights, Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Carlos Muñiz kept returning to a well neither side had briefed.

“It talks about ‘all natural persons are equal before the law and have unalienable rights’ — I don’t know that I could affirmatively say that the term ‘natural person,’ as a matter of just ordinary meaning, doesn’t include the unborn,” Muñiz said. “We certainly talk about the unborn that way.”

Muñiz was quoting from one of the earliest passages in Florida’s constitution that says that all natural persons “are equal before the law and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, to pursue happiness, to be rewarded for industry, and to acquire, possess and protect property.” If this passage applied to “the unborn” — or in non-anti-abortion political speak, embryos and fetuses — abortion at every stage would be murder. This is a state-level version of fetal personhood, the anti-abortion white whale.

While Muñiz was eager to promote his radical interpretation of the state constitution, Florida, even under its hard-right regime, does not presently embrace it. The state currently has a 15-week abortion ban, with a six-week one tangled up in court. If the state was operating under his preferred approach, abortion would likely be banned completely.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/flor ... -amendment

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They will force an 11yo raped and impregnated by her father to carry the baby to term. Monsters.

Senate Republicans block rape and incest exceptions for Missouri abortion ban

Despite recent blow-ups among Republicans in the Missouri Senate, the majority party remained unified Wednesday to block a Democratic effort to legalize abortion in cases of rape or incest.

After Republicans opened debate on a plan to ban Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood, Democrats responded with amendments aimed at loosening Missouri’s near-total abortion ban. Missouri since June 2022 has only allowed abortions in medical emergencies.

While the Democratic amendments weren’t likely to pass, the minority party used the opportunity to showcase and document Republican support for what Democrats believe is an unpopular abortion law out of step with public opinion.

All Republicans present voted down amendments by Sen. Tracy McCreery, D-Olivette, to legalize abortion in cases of rape and incest.

Sen. Sandy Crawford, R-Buffalo, said she opposed exceptions for rape and incest because life is precious. “God is perfect. God does not make mistakes. And for some reason he allows that to happen — bad things happen,” she said. “I’m not gonna be able to support the amendments because I am very pro-life.”

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... 53020.html

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Oh, but it gets worse.

If you were a rape victim and had an abortion as a teenager, Republicans want to make sure you can’t get cancer care later in life. So, then you’ll just die of cancer.

Republicans in Missouri have drafted an amendment to ban women for life from accessing Medicaid if that woman has ever had an abortion. #moleg

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Welcome to Gilead!

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Welcome to Gilead!

You are not wrong. More about God and his wish for women (and girls) to bear rapist's children.

Listen to Missouri Republican State Sen Sandy Crawford justify her vote against a rape/incest exception to the abortion ban by stating “God doesn’t make mistakes.”

I’m deeply sorry that Sandy was unable to have kids, but god wasn’t present when my rapist held a gun to my head.

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A company tracked visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations for anti-abortion ads, senator says
The details in Wyden’s letter, sent Tuesday morning, reveal what’s believed to be the largest publicly known location-driven anti-abortion ad campaign.

A company allegedly tracked people’s visits to nearly 600 Planned Parenthood locations across 48 states and provided that data for one of the largest anti-abortion ad campaigns in the nation, according to an investigation by Sen. Ron Wyden, a scope that far exceeds what was previously known.

The details in Wyden (D-Ore.)’s letter, sent Tuesday morning, reveal what’s believed to be the largest publicly known location-driven anti-abortion ad campaign. Abortion rights supporters have feared this type of data could also be used by certain state governments to prosecute women who get the procedure after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled there is no constitutional right to an abortion.

Wyden’s letter asks the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Near Intelligence, a location data provider that gathered and sold the information. The company claims to have information on 1.6 billion people across 44 countries, according to its website.

The company’s data can be used to target ads to people who have been to specific locations — including reproductive health clinic locations, according to Recrue Media co-founder Steven Bogue, who told Wyden’s staff his firm used the company’s data for a national anti-abortion ad blitz between 2019 and 2022.

The Wall Street Journal first reported on the campaign last May, focusing on the anti-abortion group Veritas Society’s efforts in Wisconsin, along with Arkansas, New Jersey, California and Colorado.

The group’s parent organization, Wisconsin Right to Life, didn’t respond to a request for comment.

The ability to use people’s location data to target ads to Planned Parenthood visitors has been available to data brokers for years, with one ad firm boasting in 2015 that it could “tag all the smartphones entering and leaving the nearly 700 Planned Parenthood clinics in the U.S.”

Wyden’s letter reveals for the first time the scope of an anti-abortion ad campaign that used location data to target the hundreds of Planned Parenthood clinics in the country.

Justin Sherman, a researcher who studies data brokers at Duke University, called the campaign’s scale unprecedented.

“This is the largest targeting campaign we’ve seen to date against reproductive health clinics based on brokered data,” he said.

Wyden’s letter cites an interview his office conducted with Bogue, who disclosed that the company used Near to reach the people who would receive the anti-abortion ads.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/1 ... s-00141172

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Chilling.

If you think republicans aren’t coming next for your birth control reminder that when Democrats voted last session to keep birth control legal in America 96% of republicans in Congress voted no. Remember it.

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Another side.

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen, unimplanted embryos qualify as human children under state law.

IVF has long been in the crosshairs of the anti-abortion movement, and this unprecedented decision immediately imperils all IVF access throughout Alabama.

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OFFS

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There isn't anything about human reproduction they aren't going after.

Well, except Viagra.

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Fearing prosecution, UAB pauses in vitro fertilization after Alabama embryo court ruling

The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system has paused in vitro fertilization procedures following an Alabama Supreme Court decision due to fear of criminal prosecution and lawsuits, a spokeswoman said.

A statement emailed by UAB spokeswoman Hannah Echols said they are “saddened” for patients who want to have babies through IVF. She said patients can continue the process up through egg retrieval, but fertilization and embryo development is paused for now.

The process, which involves fertilizing eggs outside the body and then transferring embryos to the womb, accounts for about 2 percent of births in the United States, according to RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association. The UAB Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility made the move after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos had the same status as children in wrongful death lawsuits.

“We must evaluate the potential that our patients and our physicians could be prosecuted criminally or face punitive damages for following the standard of care for IVF treatments,” Echols wrote in the email.

A majority of justices on the Alabama Supreme Court, in a decision released Friday, ruled that fertilized eggs and embryos have the same status as children. The opinion referred to embryos, which are often stored in cryogenic freezers, as “extrauterine children.“

https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/uab-pau ... s-say.html