A bit of good news
"A Catholic group and two pregnant women wanted to sue on behalf of the women’s unborn fetuses, but the Rhode Island Supreme Court – citing Roe v. Wade – said in May that they didn’t have the legal right to bring the case.
The challengers urged the Supreme Court to step in and take the case after it overturned Roe in June. But the court declined to do so without comment."
The HOV lane lady is screwed.
She already got her ticket dismissed. But I think she got a second one. Not sure what happened with that. Assuming we’re talking about same HOV lady. There has to be more than one, doesn’t there.
There is only 1 in the news that I’m aware of. I hope she was trying to draw attention to the issue more than she was really trying to get out of the ticket.
The covert abortion network rising up after Roe
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/18/illegal-abortion-pill-network/
Not gonna lie. The leopards eating faces aspect made me lose a whole lot of sympathy for her.
As she was a pro-lifer, it is certain that bolded is exactly what she wanted for other women in need.
But not herself
Next we’ll learn that some pro-life politicians paid for their partners to get abortions
Let’s not go for a base hit here, maybe some of the the proper RWNJ “Christian” females candidates have an aborted fetus buried in their past. Home run.
If you were curious if the conservative women’s groups were coming for birth control and IVF, the answer is yes. If you were curious if they want to start tracking doctors to make sure their medical decisions are what they want, the answer is yes
On Oct. 27, the Tennessee affiliate of National Right to Life held a webinar to encourage GOP legislators to hold the line. The anti-abortion organization helped write and lobby for so-called trigger bans — laws that outlawed abortion in anticipation of Roe being overturned — in Republican-majority statehouses across the country.
ProPublica reviewed a recording of the call. It provides the clearest examples yet of the strategy that the law’s architects are pursuing to influence legislators and the public amid growing national concerns that abortion bans endanger women’s health care and lives.
They said they see Tennessee’s ban, with its tiny carve-out for life-saving procedures and steep penalties for doctors, as the best example of a law that protects every potential life — even when it means pregnant patients must face serious risks or trauma in the process. The group has released model legislation suggesting it would like to see similar language adopted across the country, not weakened by exceptions.
During the call, one activist reminded the group about the law’s strict requirements for doctors. “The burden of proof, the onus, is on the doctor to prove that he or she was in the right.”
“It’s not that [the doctor] didn’t violate the text of the statute, it’s that they had a justifiable reason to do so,” said another activist. “And that reason — you’ve drawn it very narrowly — is to save her life, to prevent an organ system from failing.”
Katie Glenn, state policy director at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, discusses how Tennessee’s total abortion ban addresses life-threatening medical emergencies. Credit:Webinar audio reviewed by ProPublica
A Tennessee lawmaker on the call suggested health data could be mined to track and investigate doctors, to make sure the abortions they provided to save patients’ lives were truly necessary.The discussion also captured anti-abortion groups coaching legislators on messages aimed at swaying the wider public to support their stance.
One researcher said that when lawmakers are challenged about the state’s lack of exceptions for rape and incest cases, they should try to “hide behind the skirts of women” who carried such pregnancies to term and believe abortion is wrong. Others suggested “negativity” toward the law would fade and raised the possibility of regulating contraception and in vitro fertilization in a few years’ time.
She laid out why the anti-abortion movement sees Tennessee’s ban as so important: “The way that many state laws work is they’ll say, ‘Abortion, elective abortion, is generally illegal except in these situations.’ … That’s the way they phrase it, is around this word of an ‘exception,’” she said. “What y’all did is you said, ‘Elective abortion is illegal all the time.’”
Brewer contrasted an “emergency room middle of the night instance, where a woman is bleeding” — which he made clear he believes the law’s affirmative defense covers — with a situation where a woman might want to terminate a pregnancy because of a high-risk medical history.
“That is not an urgent need,” he said. “We want to make sure that these quasi-elective abortions are being stopped.”
Glenn said cases involving abortion pills should not be permitted under the law because the process takes multiple days.
“Nothing about that is an emergency,” she said. Brewer and Glenn did not respond to requests for comment.
In the chat box, Lynn, the representative who first introduced the trigger ban, asked Brewer to check with the state Department of Health to find out if data could be monitored to flag doctors who performed abortions at a higher rate so they could be investigated to find out if patients’ lives were truly at risk.
https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/1592641416169422848
Talk about the need for 100th trimester abortions….
Conservatives are compromising on abortion
MADISON – Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Tuesday he is willing to require women and girls to have a police report to prove they are a victim of sexual assault or incest before they could obtain an abortion.
Inevitable logical corollary: if the guy that the woman accuses of rape is acquitted, she is liable for murder.
(And this from the party of pearl clutching over false rape accusations…)
Just the dumbest set of workarounds and bandaids to try to define a fetus as a full fledged human life.
Georgia 6-week abortion ban unblocked by Georgia Supreme Court
The first salvo started last week with a petition asking the Food and Drug Administration to require any doctor who prescribes the pills to be responsible for disposing of the fetal tissue — which anti-abortion advocates want to be bagged and treated as medical waste rather than flushed down the toilet and into the wastewater.
If the FDA ignores or rejects the petition, as is expected, the group Students for Life of America plans to sue.
The new push is the culmination of years of brainstorming around how to restrict access to the pills — particularly since their use surged following the outbreak of Covid-19 and the FDA’s ruling in 2021 that they are safe to take at home without a doctor present.
The group’s FDA petition argues that the high number of people using pills to terminate pregnancies at home and flushing fetal remains down the toilet — which has increased in part due to the same group’s efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade and restrict access to surgical abortions — poses risks to the environment.
It claims without direct evidence that trace amounts of the drug in wastewater could threaten livestock and wildlife as well as humans, citing some studies in which the drug was given directly to animals rather than ingested from groundwater, and others where drugs flushed directly down the toilet contaminated the water supply.
“It seems like they’re laying the groundwork for considering contraception itself as medical waste,” said Susan Wood, the former FDA assistant commissioner for Women’s Health and a professor of health policy at George Washington University.
Graham: ‘To those who suggest that being pro life is losing politics, I reject that’
Hamrick insisted the group’s work “is confined to abortion-inducing drugs” and that it only cited studies of birth control to argue that it’s also worth studying the impact of abortion pills on “aquatic and animal life, as well as the food supply.”
The petition acknowledges that the FDA did examine the potential environmental impacts of abortion pills when it first weighed approval, quoting a 1996 report in which “the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has concluded that the product can be manufactured, used, and disposed of without any expected adverse environmental effects.” But Students for Life argued this study is inadequate and outdated, and further testing is warranted. The group also demanded the agency require that patients who take the pills place the fetal remains in a medical waste “catch kit” and return them to the medical provider
The journal article, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, describes the experience of two large Texas hospitals over a period of eight months following that legislation. The authors, who care for patients at those hospitals, describe how their hospitals managed 28 women who presented at less than 22 weeks’ gestation with serious complications following the ban on abortion.
Without the ability to offer abortion to their patients, all 28 women were managed expectantly. This is a medical way of saying that they waited for something terrible to happen. That wait lasted, on average, nine days.
During that nine days of waiting, here is what was achieved for the babies: 27 of the patients had loss of the fetus in utero or the death of the infant shortly after delivery. Of the entire cohort, one baby remained alive, still in the NICU at time of the journal article’s publication, with a long list of complications from extreme prematurity, including bleeding in the brain, brain swelling, damage to intestines, chronic lung disease. and liver dysfunction. If a baby survives these complications, they often result in permanent, lifelong illnesses.
During those nine days of waiting for an immediate threat to maternal life, here is what happened to the women of that cohort: Most of them went into labor, or had a stillbirth, which meant the medical team could then legally intervene and empty the uterus. Fifty-seven percent of those pregnant women had some sort of complication, and for about a third of them, it was serious enough to require intensive-care admission, surgery, or a second admission to the hospital. One of the 28 patients ended up with a hysterectomy, which means she will never carry a pregnancy again. The authors of the article estimate, based on their pre-September practice, that about half of those maternal complications would have been avoided if immediate abortion had been offered as a choice. But of course, post-September in Texas, these women didn’t get a choice.
This is some horrific shit.
The only fair thing is for men to go 130+ years without the vote.