SCOTUS Poised to Overturn Roe v Wade per leaked opinion

[Adam Lambert]

Hitler killed Jews because he said they're not people.

Abortion kills babies because feminists say they're not people.

Thinking this is profound enough to bump a 5 day old thread what a loser.

[Winehole23]

"what about their emails?"

Long before the leak of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, some Supreme Court justices often used personal email accounts for sensitive transmissions instead of secure servers set up to guard such information, among other security lapses not made public in the court’s report on the investigation last month.

New details revealed to CNN by multiple sources familiar with the court’s operations offer an even more detailed picture of years long lax internal procedures that could have endangered security, led to the leak and hindered an investigation into the culprit.

Supreme Court employees also used printers that didn’t produce logs – or were able to print sensitive do ents off-site without tracking – and “burn bags” meant to ensure the safe destruction of materials were left open and unattended in hallways.

“This has been going on for years,” one former employee said.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/polit...-investigation

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A single judge could outlaw the abortion pill nationwide. And that’s not even the worst of it.

The plaintiffs only filed there because they were guaranteed to draw a single judge:

Kacsmaryk, whom Donald Trump placed on the bench in 2019.

Before donning his robe,

Kacsmaryk served as deputy general counsel at the far-right First Liberty Ins ute,

where he fought LGBTQ equality, abortion, and contraception.

(He once said that being transgender is a “delusion” and scorned “secular libertines” who sacrifice children to their “erotic desires.”)

Since his confirmation, he has gained a reputation as perhaps the most lawless jurist in the country.
In less than three years,

Kacsmaryk has seized control over border policy,

repeatedly defied the Supreme Court’s decision protecting LGBTQ employees,

and restricted minors’ access to birth control.

It was probably inevitable that anti-abortion crusaders would shop their case to him.

The plaintiffs are anti-abortion medical associations joined by anti-abortion doctors.

Their claim is that some future patient might take mifepristone, suffer a rare side effect, then come to their practice for help, and that would qualify them for relief in federal court.

But this claim rests on multiple layers of speculation and contingencies, exactly the kind of

hazy conjectures that do not establish standing.

a second flaw quickly emerges:

The plaintiffs’ substantive arguments are ridiculous.

They accuse the FDA of fast-tracking mifepristone (in 2000) and ignoring potential adverse reactions. What they are doing here is effectively disputing the conclusions of the agency’s scientists.

This issue of authority and expertise leads to the suit’s third flaw:

Never before has a federal judge imposed a ban on a particular drug by wholly revoking FDA approval.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...ssibility.html

[Winehole23]

Kentucky has no exception for fetal abnormalities that aren't survivable for the fetus. Women with wanted pregnancies were denied medical care,

It was December 28. Earlier that morning, Amy, 31, her husband David, and their 20-month-old daughter Annie had celebrated a belated Christmas at their house in Louisville with family visiting from out of state. Amy and David had planned this pregnancy, and it was, in a way, perfectly timed. Their baby’s due date was five days after Annie’s birthday. Her children would be two years apart almost exactly to the day — a reality Amy was “ecstatic about.”

Sitting in a fluorescent-lit room inside Baptist Health Louisville, Amy looked for familiar shapes on the screen as an ultrasound tech probed her abdomen. Familiar with radiology in her career as a physical therapist, she has a baseline understanding of how to read ultrasounds: gray shapes usually indicate fluid, and bone shows up as white. Amy remembers seeing her baby’s arms, legs and the curve of its back. But there was no recognizable outline where the skull should be. “I couldn’t see the top of my baby’s head,” Amy said in an interview with the Herald-Leader. “I kept waiting for the tech to move the probe in a way where we could see what we should be seeing. I could tell she was searching for it, too.”

Read more at: https://www.kentucky.com/news/politi...#storylink=cpy

[Winehole23]

Over the next few minutes, Amy remembers the room blurring as she heard her doctor use the word “acrania,” which is when a fetus matures through pregnancy without ever developing parts of its skull. It can spur anencephaly, when the brain, too, is underdeveloped and partially missing. Pregnancies with either of these conditions are nonviable.

[Winehole23]

Leah, wanting to be judicious, got a more exact genetic test just before 12 weeks. She quickly learned her fetus had triploidy, a rare condition that causes the development of 69 chromosomes per cell instead of the regular 46. It causes not only severe physical deformities, but triploidy stunts development of crucial organs, like the lungs and heart. It means a fetus, if it even survives to birth, will likely not live beyond a few days. What’s more, Leah was also diagnosed with a partial molar pregnancy, which causes atypical cells to grow in the uterus and, as Leah’s doctors told her, could lead to cancer.

It was mid-July, and Kentucky’s trigger law and six week ban had been in effect for barely two weeks. Leah was familiar enough with what both laws restricted and assumed that because her pregnancy could cause her cancer and was nonviable, she would lawfully qualify as an exception. So, she weighed her options with her doctors at Baptist Health Lexington, who included Dr. Blake Bradley, her longtime OBGYN. Similar to Amy’s diagnosis, Leah’s doctors told her that even if she opted to carry the pregnancy to term, her baby “would live a short life in palliative care, most likely never leaving the hospital. It would really be a quite painful existence,” she said.

[Winehole23]

After Leah’s abortion, she sent a message to her high-risk doctor. Her doctor responded the following day. Leah shared that correspondence with the Herald-Leader.

“You’ve been on my thoughts a lot,” her doctor wrote. “Words cannot express the dismay I feel right now. I’ve spent my whole adult life learning how to care for mothers in heart wrenching or dangerous situations like yours, and the politics now make it not only impossible, but to work to take care of patients like they deserve — with compassion and science — in these horrible situations is wrong and immoral.” “I hope your procedure yesterday was smooth, though I know it was hard,” her doctor wrote. “I’m so sorry we could not (were not allowed, rather) to take care of you here.”

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The state’s top law enforcement officer, Attorney General Todd Rokita, will face the judgment of the Indiana Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Commission.

FOX59 received confirmation of the matter before the commission this afternoon. A woman at the Washington law offices of Schaerr Jaffe acknowledged that managing partner Gene Schaerr has been retained by the Indiana Attorney General for a pair of legal matters.

One case is the grievance filed against Rokita with the Disciplinary Commission.

Disclosure of complaints to the commission are rare. By rules set down by the Indiana Supreme Court, matters before the commission are confidential. The only public notification comes when an attorney is punished.

Aside from the existence of an investigation of Rokita, FOX59 has no information on what exactly the Attorney General is alleged to have done to merit a review by the Disciplinary Commission.


The other matter Rokita hired Schaerr for is connected to the Attorney general’s investigation of Dr. Caitlin Bernard.

Last year, Rokita publicly announced he was examining the details of an abortion provided by Bernard to a 10-year-old Ohio sexual assault victim. In response to the investigation, attorneys for Bernard sought an injunction against Rokita.

In a court filing, Marion County Judge Health Welch denied the request, but also wrote “the Attorney General clearly violated Indiana law discussing (his investigation of Bernard) in the media.”

https://fox59.com/indiana-news/attor...ry-commission/

[RandomGuy]

A single judge could outlaw the abortion pill nationwide. And that’s not even the worst of it.

The plaintiffs only filed there because they were guaranteed to draw a single judge:

Kacsmaryk, whom Donald Trump placed on the bench in 2019.

Before donning his robe,

Kacsmaryk served as deputy general counsel at the far-right First Liberty Ins ute,

where he fought LGBTQ equality, abortion, and contraception.

(He once said that being transgender is a “delusion” and scorned “secular libertines” who sacrifice children to their “erotic desires.”)

Since his confirmation, he has gained a reputation as perhaps the most lawless jurist in the country.
In less than three years,

Kacsmaryk has seized control over border policy,

repeatedly defied the Supreme Court’s decision protecting LGBTQ employees,

and restricted minors’ access to birth control.

It was probably inevitable that anti-abortion crusaders would shop their case to him.

The plaintiffs are anti-abortion medical associations joined by anti-abortion doctors.

Their claim is that some future patient might take mifepristone, suffer a rare side effect, then come to their practice for help, and that would qualify them for relief in federal court.

But this claim rests on multiple layers of speculation and contingencies, exactly the kind of

hazy conjectures that do not establish standing.

a second flaw quickly emerges:

The plaintiffs’ substantive arguments are ridiculous.

They accuse the FDA of fast-tracking mifepristone (in 2000) and ignoring potential adverse reactions. What they are doing here is effectively disputing the conclusions of the agency’s scientists.

This issue of authority and expertise leads to the suit’s third flaw:

Never before has a federal judge imposed a ban on a particular drug by wholly revoking FDA approval.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...ssibility.html

The definition of activist judge. smh.

[Winehole23]

The definition of activist judge. smh.

it's all about will to power. mine is and should be normative, yours is an intolerable aberration. cons utionality is a smokescreen, not a principle. they're playing Calvinball.

[Winehole23]

Pluralism is kaput on one side of the aisle.

[boutons_deux]

Actually, One Texas Judge Is Not the Final Decision-Maker on Medication Abortion

One district judge’s ruling does not have to affect the entire country.

Though the case makes

wholly unpersuasive arguments, undermined by the facts and the evidence,

plaintiffs filed in this specific court because Kacsmaryk

is one of the most conservative judges on the federal bench and has an explicit and do ented animus toward abortion.

To be clear,

mifepristone is one of the most studied drugs in this country.

The evidence shows that it is safer than penicillin, Viagra, and thousands of other drugs the FDA has approved.

There is no evidence that the FDA acted improperly in approving mifepristone;

FDA law scholars and government agencies, like the Government Accountability Office, agree.

(If you want to read more about abortion pills, we have a forthcoming law review article available here that explains all you need to know.)

So the medical basis for this argument is meritless.

Congress crafted procedures by statute for the FDA to use to withdraw approval of a drug.

Judge Kacsmaryk

cannot force the FDA to adopt another process to do the same—

doing so would violate federal law.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...epristone.html

Judge K will rule in favor of the hilariously BAD plaintiffs' case.

[Winehole23]

So much for states rights, Republicans are pushing for a nationwide ban.

The nation’s second-largest pharmacy chain confirmed Thursday that it will not dispense abortion pills in several states where they remain legal — acting out of an abundance of caution amid a shifting policy landscape, threats from state officials and pressure from anti-abortion activists.


Nearly two dozen Republican state attorneys general wrote to Walgreens in February, threatening legal action if the company began distributing the drugs, which have become the nation’s most popular method for ending a pregnancy.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...pills-00085325

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Abortion pill uncertainty looms in Walgreens decision

After being threatened with legal action from GOP attorneys general, Walgreens won't dispense abortion medication in some states that don't currently have bans The GOP attorneys general indicated Walgreens and other pharmacies would be in violation of the Comstock Act, a nearly 150-year-old law originally written to stop anything that could “corrupt” morals from being sent in the mail. -- The Hill email

Repugs are concerned about morality? only if it suits their Christian Nationalist fascism

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Walgreens ignites political firestorm over abortion pills

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday said his state won't do business with the nation's second largest pharmacy chain in the wake of its decision not to sell mifepristone in certain states.

"California won't be doing business with @walgreens — or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women's lives at risk. We're done," Newsom tweeted.

-- The Hill email

[Winehole23]

What are Republicans doing to support the families they say they care so much about?

[Winehole23]

It's not pro-life, it's anti-woman.

The women who are bringing the suit contradict stereotypes about who receives abortions and why. Married, and some with children already, the women rejoiced at their pregnancies, only to discover that their fetuses had no chance of survival — two had no skulls, and two others were threatening the lives of their twins.

Though they faced the risk of hemorrhage or life-threatening infection from carrying those fetuses, the women were told they could not have abortions, the suit says. Some doctors refused even to suggest the option, or to forward medical records to another provider.

The women found themselves furtively crossing state borders to seek medical treatment outside Texas, worried that family and neighbors might report them to state authorities. In some cases, the women became so ill that they were hospitalized. One plaintiff, Amanda Zurawski, was told she was not yet sick enough to receive an abortion, then twice became septic, and was left with so much scar tissue that one of her fallopian tubes is permanently closed.

“You don’t think you’re somebody who’s going to need an abortion, let alone an abortion to save my life,” Ms. Zurawski, 35, said. “If anybody reads my story, I don’t care where they are on the political spectrum, very few people would agree there is anything pro-life about this.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/u...&smid=sl-share

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[Winehole23]

Ms. Zurawski left intensive care after three days, and the hospital after a week. Two months later, she had an operation to remove scar tissue from her uterus and fallopian tubes, but the doctors were unable to clear one.

[Winehole23]

Bad for kids, bad for families, bad for Texas.

"Sanc y of life" stops at birth.

An estimated 2.7 million Texans—mostly children and new moms— are at risk of losing their Medicaid insurance in the next few months, some as early as June. That’s almost half of all Texans now on the Medicaid rolls.

For over a year, public health advocates have raised concerns about Texas Health and Human Services’ (HHSC) ability to handle this recertification process, which begins April 1 and is expected to be finished within 12 months. State officials are apparently worried, too: HHSC recently requested an additional $143 million to cover more staff to process the approaching onslaught.

“It’s probably the largest enrollment event, if not the largest enrollment event since the ACA [federal Affordable Care Act],” Eubank said.

Medicaid, a federal en lement program administered by states, provides health insurance for low-income residents who cannot afford private insurance. Nearly half of Texas children depend on the program, as do 51 percent of moms, whose prenatal care and hospital bills are covered.

In this, the most underinsured state in the country, millions of people fall outside of Medicaid coverage due to Texas’ strict eligibility criteria and Republican leaders’ refusal to accept billions of federal dollars to expand the program. The state’s requirements around income eligibility mean the vast majority of working poor Texans make too much to qualify for coverage.

A single mother of two would need to earn less than $4,000 per year to be eligible for Texas Medicaid insurance, while childless adults are ineligible no matter how poor they are. Eligibility requirements ease for single pregnant women, who may make up to $2,243 a month, but that coverage cuts off two months after birth regardless of their care needs.

https://www.texasobserver.org/medica...ergency-covid/

[Winehole23]

D&C is health care

[boutons_deux]

Some Texas bag prick is suing three women who he claims helped his girlfriend get an abortion that he was against

[Winehole23]

Some Texas bag prick is suing three women who he claims helped his girlfriend get an abortion that he was against

Texas law is a great boon to abusive boyfriends and daddies who want to their daughters and make them criminals if they try to reclaim control over their own lives.

[Winehole23]

He's afraid.

No confidence in US Martials and the Amarillo PD and contempt for the First Amendment and the public's right to know what goes on in court. Judge Kacsmaryk is also acting like he's already made up his mind. Otherwise, what would he have to be afraid of? His court was picked for a good reason.

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