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what impressed you about this?
what impressed you about this?
or are you not open to talking about your own post?
I mean, this, really. In all practicality, this is the stance of the majority on the left, but again, they (right-wangers) will keep covering their ears, going "lalalalalala, I can't hear you".
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Ahoppp, Snake, you're mentally ill because you made a double post, because the servers are acting up again!
it's about controlling and intimidating women
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-poli...ps-deposition/In 2022, a Texas district attorney announced and then quickly dropped murder charges against a woman who had an abortion. The woman, Lizelle Gonzalez, never should have been arrested, because the Texas penal code exempts women who terminate their own pregnancies from criminal charges. Last week, we learned that the DA had been accused in court filings of paying for his mistress’s abortion years earlier.
This allegation only came to light because Gonzalez filed a federal lawsuit against officials in Starr County, Texas, for violating her civil rights by charging her with murder. Even though the charges were dropped days later, her name and mugshot became international news; she’s suing for $1 million in damages.
The defendants—district attorney Gocha Ramirez, assistant district attorney Alexandria Barrera, and sheriff Rene Fuentes—have been trying to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that they have either absolute or qualified immunity for their actions taken as public officials.
But last year, Trump-appointed federal district court judge Drew Tipton disagreed, and said the case could move forward. In the meantime, Gonzalez’s lawyers have been conducting discovery related to the arrest and investigation, which is how they learned that Ramirez allegedly paid for an abortion in the late 1990s.
Gonzalez’s legal team is principally arguing that prosecutors had a duty to know the exceptions in the homicide statute before presenting the case to a grand jury. But they are also contending that Ramirez’s past conduct suggests that he personally knew that abortion is not homicide, since (presumably) he would have been reluctant to pay for an abortion if he understood it to be murder.
The Texas state bar disciplined Ramirez in early 2024 for allowing his office to file the murder charge and, in a settlement, Ramirez agreed to pay a $1,250 fine and have his license held in a probated suspension for one year.
Dobbs is killing Texas women, and Texas is trying to hide it
Banning the practice of emergency medicine is barbaric
https://interactives.dallasnews.com/...ternal-deaths/Porsha Ngumezi sat for hours in a Houston-area emergency room, passing grapefruit-sized blood clots as she waited to be treated for a first-trimester miscarriage.
When Brenda Yolani Arzu Ramirez’s baby died in the second trimester, it triggered a life-threatening infection that worsened over the hours she waited to deliver vaginally at an Austin hospital.
Both women faced delays in care. Both needed urgent procedures to clear their uteruses. Neither received them. Both died.
At the outset of Texas’ abortion ban, medical experts worried women like Porsha and Brenda would die from delays in care.
It may never be known exactly how many Texas women have died as a result of the state’s abortion restrictions. It’s not always possible to determine to what degree the bans, and the fear around them, influenced a patient’s care.
And the state is not trying to find out. The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee, the body responsible for investigating maternal deaths, has announced it is not investigating cases from 2022 and 2023, including the immediate aftermath of the state’s almost-total abortion ban.
by executive decree, Tylenol will no longer be available for pregnant women
lol Trump addressing American mothers like a football coach
"If you can't tough it out, if you can't do it, that's what you're gonna have to do. You'll take a Tylenol, but it'll be very sparingly ... I think you shouldn't take it."
"softest man in the world encourages pregnant women to get tougher"
actually, I'm glad to see zero Republican birds in this forum trying to justify this paternalistic bull
abusive husband snitches on his pregnant wife, sex-creep cop accesses license plate readers in multiple states to track her
Back in May, 404 Media published a bombs report: Texas police tried to track down an abortion patient using an automatic license plate reader (ALPR), accessing more than 83,000 cameras across the country. The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office told reporters this wasn’t a criminal investigation but a missing person case, claiming the search “was about her safety.” Even the ALPR company, Flock, jumped into say it was “unequivocally false” that the search was about abortion, calling it “clickbait-driven reporting.”
To no one’s surprise, they were full of : New reporting from 404 Media and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) confirms that police were trying to locate this woman with the goal of prosecuting her, after opening a “death investigation” into her abortion. After journalists took notice, police tried to cover their tracks.
Perhaps worst of all, this investigation was prompted by the woman’s abusive partner—a man who threatened her at gunpoint before turning her in to police over her abortion.King claimed the woman “was not under investigation at any point.” But police collected evidence related to the woman’s abortion—like text messages, photos, and the envelope her abortion pills arrived in. They also went to the district attorney’s office about prosecuting the woman, only to be told Texas law wouldn’t allow it.https://jessica.substack.com/p/texas...e-plate-readerWhat’s more, Sheriff Adam King himself was later arrested and indicted on multiple counts of sexual harassment. That’s right: In August, the cop in charge of this case turned himself in over charges related to sexual misconduct and retaliation against his victims. He’s accused of “unwelcome sexual advances” and pressuring his female employees to undress in front of him.
I guess sex-pest cops tracking pregnant exes all over the country for wife-beaters is just states' rights in Trump's America
when you deny people emergency treatment, they can die
https://www.propublica.org/article/t...r-preeclampsiaTierra Walker had reached her limit. In the weeks since she’d learned she was pregnant, the 37-year-old dental assistant had been wracked by unexplained seizures and mostly confined to a hospital cot. With soaring blood pressure and diabetes, she knew she was at high risk of developing preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication that could end her life.
Her mind was made up on the morning of Oct. 14, 2024: For the sake of her 14-year-old son, JJ, she needed to ask her doctor for an abortion to protect her health.
“Wouldn’t you think it would be better for me to not have the baby?” she asked a physician at Methodist Hospital Northeast near San Antonio, according to her aunt. Just a few years earlier, Walker had developed a dangerous case of preeclampsia that had led to the stillbirth of her twins.
But the doctor, her family said, told her what many other medical providers would say in the weeks that followed: There was no emergency; nothing was wrong with her pregnancy, only her health.
Just after Christmas, on his birthday, JJ found his mom draped over her bed, lifeless. An autopsy would later confirm what she had feared: Preeclampsia killed her at 20 weeks pregnant.
Yet lawmakers who wrote the bans have refused to create exceptions for health risks. As a result, many hospitals and doctors, facing the threat of criminal charges, no longer offer these patients terminations, ProPublica found in interviews with more than 100 OB-GYNs across the country. Instead, these women are left to gamble with their lives.
As Walker’s blood pressure swung wildly and a blood clot threatened to kill her, she continued to press doctors at prenatal appointments and emergency room visits, asking if it was safe for her to continue the pregnancy. Although one doctor do ented in her medical record that she was at “high risk of clinical deterioration and/or death,” she was told over and over again that she didn’t need to worry, her relatives say. More than 90 doctors were involved in Walker’s care, but not one offered her the option to end her pregnancy, according to medical records.
(doctors are cowed by an extreme and inhumane law, women are dying for lack of emergency medical care in Texas)
(putting forum MAGAs down as being cool with Texas women dying for lack of emergency medical care -- silence implies agreement)
The backlash to the ACA prompted states to protect individual choice in medical care in their cons utions
The Wyoming Supreme Court just overturned a ban on abortion on that basis
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-...5e9fea575be63eAbortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws that include the country’s first explicit ban on abortion pills, ruling Tuesday that they violate the state cons ution.
The justices sided with the state’s only abortion clinic and others who had sued over the bans passed since 2022, the year that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
Wellspring Health Access in Casper, the abortion access advocacy group Chelsea’s Fund and four women, including two obstetricians, argued that the laws violated a state cons utional amendment ensuring that competent adults have the right to make their own health care decisions.
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Women got the franchise in Wyoming in 1869
https://wywf.org/wyoming-womens-legislative-history/One stipulation included in the bill was that women had to either be naturalized citizens or swear an oath that they were seeking citizenship.
(they might have been worried about the shortage of white women -- there were about ~9,000 would be citizens in 1869, ~20,000 by 1880)
preventing telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone will affect the availability of abortion where it is legal
https://www.courthousenews.com/fifth...ll-nationwide/
Mifepristone is proven safer than Viagra, but can't be sent through the mail
Guns however are fine
https://thehill.com/regulation/court...handguns-usps/A nearly 100-year-old federal ban on mailing handguns through the U.S. Postal Service is uncons utional and cannot be enforced, according to an opinion released Thursday by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The 15-page opinion concluded that a 1927 law, which made it illegal to use the Postal Service to mail concealable firearms, such as pistols and revolvers, infringes on the Second Amendment.
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