SCOTUS set to overturn Roe and Casey

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[Aribeth Zelin]

That package is basically like receiving an anonymous letter in the mail, with words and letters cut from a magazine or newspaper, spelling out "We ArE wAtchING yoU".

Except a bit scarier, considering that its corporate spying not just some weirdo stalker.... so larger number of victims.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Isabeau]

17 House Democrats arrested at abortion rights rally

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Carolyn Maloney were among those detained.

www.axios.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Democratic lawmakers including Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Speier and more arrested in abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court | CNN Politics

More than a dozen Democratic members of Congress were among those arrested by Capitol Police on Tuesday afternoon as part of an abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court.

www.cnn.com

This is called leading from the front. The willingness to do this is a desirable trait in an elected representative, IMO.

ETA: Ninja'd by Isa, lol

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

Saber-rattling going on here in Louisiana over abortion right now.

The state is one of the many red states that enacted "trigger laws" in anticipation of Roe's overturn to completely outlaw all abortion and imprison doctors and others who provide abortion-enabling services, although in Louisiana's case the law is under a temporary injunction pending legal challenges and can't be enforced yet.

However, the mayor and city council of New Orleans, along with the city police superintendent, as well as the Orleans Parish sheriff and the parish DA, have all publicly pledged that they will not make any arrests or charge anyone under the new abortion ban. This has riled the state AG (who is positioning to run for governor in the impending race), who has called for the state's bond commission - of which he is a member - to hold up any new state funding for anything in New Orleans until the local officials agree to enforce the abortion ban. The governor does not support the AG's call.

 

[Free]

The opposition is fucking insane.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

That's one way to interpret it, although it would be pretty difficult to "save the life of a baby" by killing the mother, so I don't think that's how this law would shake out in enforcement. I think the more practical interpretation is the state sanctioning the murder of OB-GYN doctors and staff.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

That's one way to interpret it, although it would be pretty difficult to "save the life of a baby" by killing the mother, so I don't think that's how this law would shake out in enforcement. I think the more practical interpretation is the state sanctioning the murder of OB-GYN doctors and staff.

And mothers who are not white, most likely.

 

[Soen Eber]

N
And mothers who are not white, most likely.

Nah, they'll just suffer a "medical incident" after being pulled over and violently thrown out of the car because the officer mistook a tampon for a deadly weapon.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Fun fact: Missouri is one of the states who just decided women aren't allowed to get abortions, because they say a fertilized embryo is a human life.

Also fun fact: In Missouri, if a married woman is pregnant she can't get divorced until the pregnancy ends (i.e. she gives birth or miscarries), because... Missouri doesn't recognize it as a human life (and thus custody can't be finalized) until it is born.

Anyway, just like all the other states removing the woman's choice, we're going to see a lot more murdered pregnant women in this country.

 

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Remarks by Vice President Harris at the 113th NAACP National Convention | The White House

Atlantic City Convention CenterAtlantic City, New Jersey 11:54 A.M. EDT THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everyone! (Applause.)

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We know, NAACP, that our country has a history of claiming ownership over human bodies. And today, extremists, so-called leaders are criminalizing doctors and punishing women for making healthcare decisions for themselves — personal decisions that it is her right to make in consultation with her doctor, her pastor, her priest, her rabbi, her loved ones, not her government telling her what to do.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I keep saying it

 

[Rose Karuna]

I keep saying it

Margaret Atwood is most certainly a modern day Nostradamus

 

[Isabeau]

So I'm wondering if companies that make contraceptive products donate to the republican party and found this from a few years back.

Why J&J, Merck back GOP opponents of birth control they're selling

A look at a possible conflict between a company's line of business and its campaign contributions.

www.nj.com

 

[Free]

Margaret Atwood is most certainly a modern day Nostradamus

Not quite; Nostradamus' "prophecies" were based on astrology, and he was constantly wrong.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Not quite; Nostradamus' "prophecies" were based on astrology, and he was constantly wrong.

Agree - Nostradamus was just the most famous one I could think of at the moment.

 

[Soen Eber]

Not quite; Nostradamus' "prophecies" were based on astrology, and he was constantly wrong.

More like "pre-crime"

 

[Isabeau]