SCOTUS set to overturn Roe and Casey

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If, as HM believed, he has, or had, "an arrangement with Melania," he's pretty comprehensively trashed the basis of that kind of understanding -- that is, both parties pretty much live their own lives, but are discrete about it and don't do anything publicly to embarrass the other one.
To be truly fanciful, Melania's pro-abortion statement could be seen as a shot across the bow, a warning or at least a reminder to Trump that she knows where the skeletons are buried. Wonder how much she gets per month to keep her trap shut....
 

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A long piece, and not an easy story to get through.

In 2023, my sister Victoria spent more than 24 hours hemorrhaging into three diapers when Dallas-area hospitals declined to help her. “I know you’re not supposed to have regrets, but I do,” she said, about supporting Trump. “Look what’s happened.”
This woman got lucky. Not all can.
 

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‘It’s the First Amendment, stupid.’ Judge tells Florida to stop threatening TV stations
A federal judge ordered Gov. Ron DeSantis’ state Health Department to stop threatening television stations with criminal prosecution if they kept running ads in favor of an abortion amendment on the ballot next month.

In a sharply worded ruling on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker rebuked the DeSantis administration for trying to quash what he called constitutionally protected political speech.

“To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it’s the First Amendment, stupid,” Walker wrote, granting a request for a temporary restraining order. A hearing for a preliminary injunction is scheduled for later this month.
 

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I found this an unteresting read.

Coverture is an arcane but newly relevant legal idea that goes all the way back to the 1700s: the notion that a woman’s legal identity vanishes whenever it finds itself in close proximity to something deemed to be a superior interest. In the 1700s, that interest was the husband. Today, it’s the fetus.
The Insidious Legal Theory Behind the Abortion Rights Rollback
 

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Getting women barefoot and pregnant when they're marrying age is not soon enough for Republicans.

The FDA approved mifepristone for abortion and miscarriage management decades ago, and last year, allowed mifepristone to be sent by mail, dispensed online, or at pharmacies.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, and Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador—all Republicans—take issue with this. Abortion access decreases teen pregnancy, and they seem to think that is a bad thing.
“Remote dispensing of abortion drugs by mail, common carrier, and interactive computer service is depressing expected birth rates for teenaged mothers in Plaintiff States,” the attorneys allege in the complaint, which was filed before forced birth enthusiast Judge Matt Kacsmaryk in the Northern District of Texas’s Amarillo Division. They claim that decreased births constitute “a sovereign injury to the state in itself,” and causes downstream injuries like “losing a seat in Congress or qualifying for less federal funding if their populations are reduced.” In other words, uteri are state slush funds, and girls owe the state reproduction once they are capable of it.
 

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Just like in Afghanistan when men are suddenly realizing what the leopards eating faces party truly is: "WTF they're going after US?."
 

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Florida's extraordinary attempts to subvert the forthcoming referendum on abortion

 

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Before Roe was overturned, the State of Ohio was using "death by a thousand cuts" to put barriers in place, including multiple office visits, admitting privilege requirements, ultrasounds, the whole anti-abortion playbook. So the amendment that passed prohibits the State from directly or indirectly burden or interfere with abortion access. So of course they want to keep all of those measures in place and will drag out appeals as long as they can.
 

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Before Roe was overturned, the State of Ohio was using "death by a thousand cuts" to put barriers in place, including multiple office visits, admitting privilege requirements, ultrasounds, the whole anti-abortion playbook. So the amendment that passed prohibits the State from directly or indirectly burden or interfere with abortion access. So of course they want to keep all of those measures in place and will drag out appeals as long as they can.
Missouri is kind of trying to do similar things. We have amendment 3 currently on the ballot to allow abortion again. It's expected to pass. The disinformation campaign against it tried to claim it was "extreme" because it was removing "safety measures" on abortions. Anyone that knows anything knows those "safety measures" were just to make life hard for abortion clinics.

Since Amendment 3 is popular, they are just lying their their teeth to slander it. A lot of people are trying to claim this will give sex change operations to kids and all manner of other things not at all in the amendment.