https://apnews.com/article/abortion-veto-override-north-carolina-4282913637b499490494dd3e3cce3478
Party switcher made the difference. Fucking unreal how the people can vote one way and then have the person completely flip sides/positions.
In the pre- Dobbs month of April 2022, there were 81,730 legal abortions conducted throughout the US. On the average post- Dobbs month between July 2022 and March 2023, there were 79,031 legal abortions conducted throughout the US. This is a decline of 3.5 percent.
A state-by-state breakdown shows that legal abortions fell in restrictive states but that this decline was mostly offset by a corresponding increase in abortion in non-restrictive states. This indicates that most people in restrictive states are traveling to non-restrictive states to get abortions.
The SFP count only includes legal abortions conducted by abortion providers. This means that it misses all of the abortions conducted through less formal means, such as through abortion pills received through the mail or purchased across the border. These other abortions are necessarily difficult to track, but there is plenty of evidence that they have increased substantially after Dobbs . When those abortions are accounted for, the total decline in abortions is certainly below 3.5 percent and is probably around 1 or 2 percent.
I’d say one, inflicting all those horror stories just to get a 3% reduction in abortions
And two, anti abortion people are going to see these nunbers and absolutely try and criminalize traveling outside state lines and a national abortion ban
https://mattbruenig.com/2023/06/15/abortion-down-by-less-than-3-percent/
A good article about how humiliation and embarrassment are tools used by anti abortion and pro abortion advocates
A good ad on birth control
https://twitter.com/cwebbonline/status/1680071525230321666?t=DU2jhwptqY5oUyd49_Lwsg&s=19
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During a court proceeding to challenge Texas’ abortion ban…these people are monsters.
https://twitter.com/AliceOllstein/status/1681740250333208577?s=20
The court took a break after another plaintiff, Samantha Casiano, vomited while describing what she went through when she was denied an abortion after her baby was diagnosed with anencephaly. She said she had to watch her baby die after giving birth."
(anencephaly = a baby born without parts of the brain)
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Yep. That’s the policy objective of the law. Punish women. Make them suffer.
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Same proceeding, this is too far even for cartoon villains
https://twitter.com/ReproRights/status/1681686157933813760?s=20
Outrageous: To add insult to injury, Texas is claiming that Amanda Zurawski doesn’t have grounds to sue because her fertility has been compromised as a result of being denied an abortion and now she doesn’t have to worry about the bans because she might not get pregnant again.
A few weeks ago, there was a statewide vote in Ohio that was big news. It was ostensibly a general vote that would have made it more difficult to amend the state constitution, but it was very clearly targeted at an upcoming proposed amendment that would establish a right to abortion in the state constitution.
That proposal was utter bullshit, and now that the Ohio GOP failed on that front (because the proposal failed), they are engaging in more bullshittery:
Basically, abortion supporters were able to get 700,000 signatures to put a proposed amendment on the November ballot. Earlier this year, the GOP Attorney General approved a summary of the proposed amendment (submitted by abortion rights groups), one that would appear to voters at the voting both (instead of the full text of the proposed amendment).
But now the Secretary of State has stepped in and amended that summary language:
The original summary language seeks to assure access to abortion through what is called viability, when the fetus is able to survive outside the womb. It stated, “abortion may be prohibited after fetal viability,” but not in cases where a treating physician deems the procedure necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant person.
LaRose’s summary turned that section on its head. It now says the amendment would “always allow an unborn child to be aborted at any stage of pregnancy, regardless of viability if, in the treating physician’s determination” the life and health exception applies.
Hopefully it won’t matter, but it drives me nuts that the Ohio GOP is putting their thumb on their scale at every step in this process. Fortunately, we can just vote them out. (That is, we can vote them out as soon as the current legislature decides to comply with the Ohio Supreme Court’s repeated rulings that current district maps reflect unlawful gerrymandering.)
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Delay the abortion vote until 2024 when the Ohio House and half of the state Senate are up for election.
I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news about those repeated rulings (from the 2022 elections):
These results maintain the partisan balance on the high court but may result in a significant shift in outcomes. Currently, the court has a 4–3 Republican majority, but the retiring Republican chief justice had formed a majority with the three Democratic justices in high-profile decisions, including one that rejected legislative and congressional maps for violating new state constitutional provisions prohibiting partisan gerrymandering and another that limited the use of bail. (The Brennan Center is representing the plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits challenging Ohio’s legislative maps.) Justice Kennedy, the incoming chief justice, dissented from those decisions. In addition to redistricting, next year, the court will also likely hear challenges to the state’s six-week abortion ban.
Alabama’s Republican attorney general said in a court filing that he has the right to prosecute people who make travel arrangements for pregnant women to have out-of-state abortions.
In a court filing Monday, attorneys for Attorney General Steve Marshall wrote that providing transportation for women in Alabama to leave the state to get an abortion could amount to a “criminal conspiracy.”
That frustration is driving a new strategy in heavily conservative cities and counties across Texas. Designed by the architects of the state’s “heartbeat” ban that took effect months before Roe fell, ordinances like the one proposed in Llano — where some 80 percent of voters in the county backed President Donald Trump in 2020 — make it illegal to transport anyone to get an abortion on roads within the city or county limits. The laws allow any private citizen to sue a person or organization they suspect of violating the ordinance.
Antiabortion advocates behind the measure are targeting regions along interstates and in areas with airports, with the goal of blocking off the main arteries out of Texas and keeping pregnant women hemmed within the confines of their antiabortion state. These provisions have already passed in two counties and two cities, creating legal risk for those traveling on major highways including Interstate 20 and Route 84, which head toward New Mexico, where abortion remains legal and new clinics have opened to accommodate Texas women. Several more jurisdictions are expected to vote on the measure in the coming weeks.
“This really is building a wall to stop abortion trafficking,” said Mark Lee Dickson, the antiabortion activist behind the effort.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/01/texas-abortion-highways/
It’s like reverse Children of Men “oner” scene.
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Looks like TX is gonna need a wall to keep people in.
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Republican strategists are exploring a shift away from “pro-life” messaging on abortion after consistent Election Day losses for the GOP when reproductive rights were on the ballot.
At a closed-door meeting of Senate Republicans this week, the head of a super PAC closely aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., presented poll results that suggested voters are reacting differently to commonly used terms like “pro-life” and “pro-choice” in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, said several senators who were in the room.
I mean, what do these fucking morons think is happening with these heartbeat bills and abortion bans in red states.
““Many voters think [‘pro-life’] means you’re for no exceptions in favor of abortion ever, ever, and ‘pro-choice’ now can mean any number of things. So the conversation was mostly oriented around how voters think of those labels, that they’ve shifted. So if you’re going to talk about the issue, you need to be specific,” Hawley said Thursday.”
Ok, specifically, Mr. Hawley, what does a 12 year old girl do when she is too afraid to tell anybody for 3 months and then needs to finally share that she got pregnant? What does she do in these states with a 6 week abortion ban? Are you proposing she be forced to deliver a pregnancy at age 12?