SCOTUS set to overturn Roe and Casey

[Katheryne Helendale]

Update: Kate Cox has left Texas to get the abortion she needs.

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say | APNews

No word on if she plans to return to Texas.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Update: Kate Cox has left Texas to get the abortion she needs.

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say | APNews

No word on if she plans to return to Texas.

I would think it would be unsafe to go back... wish her luck!

 

[Beebo Brink]

I would think it would be unsafe to go back... wish her luck!

Her husband and kids are in Texas, so unless they also leave, she probably does plan on returning.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Her husband and kids are in Texas, so unless they also leave, she probably does plan on returning.

The legal bill of going back might be a lot bigger than the moving cost of getting out. Whatever they decide to do, I wish them luck and safety.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Yep. If she goes back to Texas not pregnant, she will likely be wanted on felony charges.

Texas is one really fucked-up state.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Update: Kate Cox has left Texas to get the abortion she needs.

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say | APNews

No word on if she plans to return to Texas.

I was wondering why she didn't do that before. She has all this legal assistance and her life is in danger, get the hell out of there.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Welcome to the "Pro-Life" Dystopia

The Texas Supreme Court, including one judge who was arrested for protesting abortion clinics, just denied a potentially life-saving abortion for a woman whose fetus had a fatal diagnosis.

open.substack.com

Evernote link

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Her husband and kids are in Texas, so unless they also leave, she probably does plan on returning.

They would be wise to leave. Under Texas law, Kate's husband could (and likely will) be charged with aiding and abetting, and their children taken away and put in foster care.

I sure as hell wouldn't want to come back to that!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

They would be wise to leave. Under Texas law, Kate's husband could (and likely will) be charged with aiding and abetting, and their children taken away and put in foster care.

I sure as hell wouldn't want to come back to that!

So kind of like that North Korea thing where someone defects and the state takes revenge on the extended family?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

So kind of like that North Korea thing where someone defects and the state takes revenge on the extended family?

Something like that, yes. It's what fascism does.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Something like that, yes. It's what fascism does.

How Soviet. (I’m sure that line won’t piss anyone off! )

 

[Jolene Benoir]

A Black woman was criminally charged after a miscarriage. It shows the perils of pregnancy post-Roe

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-miscarriage-prosecution-brittany-watts-b8090abfb5994b8a23457b80cf3f27ce

The doctor said that, while a fetal heartbeat was still present, Watts’ water had broken prematurely and the fetus she was carrying would not survive. He advised heading to the hospital to have her labor induced, so she could have what amounted to an abortion to deliver the nonviable fetus. Otherwise, she would face “significant risk” of death, according to records of her case.

That was a Tuesday in September. What followed was a harrowing three days entailing: multiple trips to the hospital; Watts miscarrying into, and then flushing and plunging, a toilet at her home; a police investigation of those actions; and Watts, who is Black, being charged with abuse of a corpse. That’s a fifth-degree felony punishable by up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

A prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor pains. Texas is fighting compensation for her stillbirth.

The seven-months-pregnant officer reported contraction-like pains at work, but said she wasn’t allowed to leave for hours. The anti-abortion state is fighting her lawsuit, in part by saying her fetus didn’t clearly have rights.

www.texastribune.org

All of a sudden, the unborn are not actual human beings with rights. The hypocrisy is fucking disgusting!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

A prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor pains. Texas is fighting compensation for her stillbirth.

The seven-months-pregnant officer reported contraction-like pains at work, but said she wasn’t allowed to leave for hours. The anti-abortion state is fighting her lawsuit, in part by saying her fetus didn’t clearly have rights.

www.texastribune.org

All of a sudden, the unborn are not actual human beings with rights. The hypocrisy is fucking disgusting!

But think of the shareholders and Calvinist work ethic!

 

[Free]

Florida ready to follow Ohio and secure abortion rights

A measure has reached the threshold to qualify for this year's ballot.

www.politico.com

Florida abortion rights advocates, who have seen access to the procedure erode in the state and nationally in recent years, reached a major milestone that could shape abortion access throughout the south.

Groups seeking a constitutional amendment protecting abortion on Friday secured enough state-certified signatures by the Feb. 1 deadline to put a referendum on the 2024 ballot.

If successful, voters in the country’s third-most populous state could undo Florida’s abortion bans, keeping access open to thousands of patients throughout the South who travel to Florida from neighboring states — and from as far away as Texas — to avoid more restrictive prohibitions.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A League of Their Own

Do pregnant women have the same rights under the law as everyone else?

jill.substack.com

 

[Free]

Republican Officials Openly Insult Women Nearly Killed by Abortion Bans

Red states would rather let a patient die than let her terminate a dangerous pregnancy. And they’re barely pretending otherwise.

slate.com

 

[detrius]

A Black woman was criminally charged after a miscarriage. It shows the perils of pregnancy post-Roe

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-miscarriage-prosecution-brittany-watts-b8090abfb5994b8a23457b80cf3f27ce

Good news:

Ohio Grand Jury: Woman Who Miscarried Is NOT A Criminal

Telling the prosecutors to get bent. Also, sounds like the prosecution was political.

crooksandliars.com

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Good news:

Ohio Grand Jury: Woman Who Miscarried Is NOT A Criminal

Telling the prosecutors to get bent. Also, sounds like the prosecution was political.

crooksandliars.com

Good news, yes. But it should NEVER have gotten to that point! Slowly but surely, the GOP is criminalizing being a woman!

 

[Free]

Fucking God.

Because of Florida abortion laws, she carried her baby to term knowing he would die

A Florida woman, unable to get an abortion in her state, carried to term a baby who had no kidneys.

Deborah Dorbert’s son Milo died in her arms on March 3, shortly after he was born, just as her doctors had predicted he would.

She said her pregnancy was proceeding normally until November, when, at 24 weeks, an ultrasound showed that the fetus did not have kidneys and that she had hardly any amniotic fluid. Not only was the baby sure to die, her doctors told her, but the pregnancy put her at especially high risk of preeclampsia, a potentially deadly complication.

Her doctors told her it was too late to terminate the pregnancy in Florida, which bans nearly all abortions after 15 weeks. The only options were to go out of state to get an abortion or to carry the baby to full term, and Dorbert and her husband didn’t have the money to travel.

What followed was an agonizing 13 weeks of carrying a baby she knew would die and worrying about her own health. It left Dorbert with severe anxiety and depression for the first time in her life.

Florida law allows abortions after 15 weeks if two doctors confirm the diagnosis of a fatal fetal abnormality in writing, but doctors in Florida and states with similar laws have been hesitant to terminate such pregnancies for fear someone will question whether the abnormality was truly fatal. The penalties for violating the law are severe: Doctors can go to prison and face heavy fines and legal fees.