The story of the Nebraska teen and her mom being prosecuted for an abortion drives home a point advocates have been making for years: abortion bans require state surveillance of all pregnancies to enforce -- ALL PREGNANCIES
Thinking of the dozens of women I know personally who were arrested and handcuffed for sitting outside senate offices in protest during the Kavanaugh hearings
🔥EMAIL FROM CHATTANOOGA MOM TO
@hamcoschools
(Chattanooga): “Since you made the mask policy optional, I intend to opt my daughter out of the dress code. Please make note.”
@NoogaHoller
To folks checking in on me and my crew we are all safe and accounted for. Thank you.
Also. End the fucking filibuster and pass some gun reform because my hands are shaking with rage typing this and checking on friends and family. I still don’t know if we know any of the dead
Honestly if you’re a white person who says they’re committed to racial justice and you’re in good standing with most your family I have *questions* for you and they are definitely pointed
I’ll start by stating what should be obvious. It’s a direct line from the courts saying you cannot destroy an IVF embryo to saying you must implant an IVF embryo
Wells Fargo paid $175 million to settle claims it racially discriminated against borrowers by charging Black and Latino families higher rates and fees on mortgages
Welp we're about 12 hrs till Texas' 6 week abortion ban takes effect. An emergency petition is at SCOTUS & if the Justices don't act they will have effectively reversed Roe on the shadow docket.
I can honestly say that in 10 years as a repro journalist I don't know what's next.
Well, it happened. The Supreme Court effectively overturned Roe v. Wade tonight for folks in Texas under cover of darkness That’s right! The biggest abortion rights news in 50 years happened in the shadows
Law enforcement was first tipped off the teen had a stillbirth and buried the remains.
Stillbirth is not a crime. It becomes a crime when the state presumes every pregnancy should result in the delivery of a healthy infant *FOR THE STATE*
The Trump administration argued court Tuesday that the government is not required to give soap or toothbrushes to children apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border and can have them sleep on concrete floors in frigid, overcrowded cells.
To answer the ‘nobody wants forced implantation’ crowd the reality is *something* is going to have to happen to all those IVF embryos what do you think that something is exactly
I’ll start by stating what should be obvious. It’s a direct line from the courts saying you cannot destroy an IVF embryo to saying you must implant an IVF embryo
A Louisiana doctor prescribed Cytotec to make the insertion of an IUD less painful. Walgreens called the physician to ask if the prescription was for an abortion, she told them it was for an IUD & the pharmacist still refused to fill it.
How about instead of closing the school authorities arrest the adults for terroristic threats against a minor? This is not actually hard unless you are a willing co-consipirator to potential violence.
This is an intentional rhetorical shift for conservatives. They are starting to plant the seeds and re-up old talking points that LGBTQ adults cannot be trusted around children. This is how they start to overturn marriage equality, folks.
All 3 Republicans running for Michigan Attorney General just stated that they oppose the ruling in Griswold v Connecticut which outlawed prosecuting married couples for using contraception.
You read that right.
Terrifying.
Okay what just happened at SCOTUS? Well for starters they let the most restrictive abortion ban in the country, a law that bans abortion at about 6 weeks pregnancy, take effect without a single court hearing arguments on its constitutionality.
Today I’m just filled with the overwhelming sense that we’re about to mess up an entire new year of school for folks and working families absolutely have no lifelines left
My take on the SOTU is that all of these important anti-poverty and civil rights policies are dead on arrival without filibuster and court reform. So whatever you think your policy priority is, it’s actually democracy reform
Here’s the thing folks. We’re in dark times. There’s no way out but through. I have no easy answers for what comes next.
Invest in your people and your community. Create pathways of support and resistance. And understand we’re building toward generational repair
Laura Strietmann, Cincinnati Right to Life leader, on the 10-year-old girl who was raped and went to Indiana for an abortion:
"While a pregnancy might have been difficult on a 10-year-old body, a woman's body is designed to carry life."
OH State Rep. Miranda (D) shuts her down.
What if there were no Facebook messages -- do we think law enforcement would have ended its investigation there? Not a chance. What other behavior did the teen engage in to 'endanger' the pregnancy? Can that be charged? This is the investigatory through line here
Booker says he's prepared to release the email on racial profiling that was mentioned in his line of questioning of Kavanaugh last night even if the consequence is expulsion from the Senate.
Calls this an important moment of civil disobedience
The same political media that spent years treating Paul Ryan as a serious policy wonk just cruising right past Elizabeth Warren is just one reason I wake up wanting to set things on fire
BREAKING: The body of Miya Marcano, a Florida college student who vanished after repeatedly rejecting romantic overtures from a maintenance worker in her apartment complex, has been found, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said
Sen. Ted Cruz in a new statement attributes his Cancun trip to “wanting to be a good dad” to his girls — while Texans were without heat, water and power.
I don't have a lot of thoughts on today's failed WHPA vote other than the usual way of doing business is how we got here and it sure as hell won't get us out
Those of us covering religious refusals warned this was the direction the right is trying to take the law. We’ve also seen a Catholic school in Michigan cite religion as basis to turn away a student with disabilities. It was never *ONLY* about an objection to same-sex marriage.
This is an extremely niche tweet but I keep thinking about how pissed the founding fathers would be that Catholics were even on the Court to begin with
Good morning Twitter welcome to another SCOTUS opinion day and a reminder that we don't have to live like this! Constantly refreshing our screen to see what rights we still have or don't have thanks to the FedSocSix. Unpack the courts!
JUST IN!
Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas are asking a state court to issue a temporary restraining order against Texas Right to Life from enforcing
#SB8
the abortion bounty/6 week ban
I had largely been powering through the news and working and then my 17 old son just came up and gave me a hug. Didn't say anything. Just a hug. And then the tears came.
Honestly I would be pretty fucking angry if I found out Joe Biden *doesn’t* routinely say “Why the fuck isn’t this happening?” or “What the fuck are we doing?” or, most of all, “Fuck them.”
And when given a chance to loudly and proudly proclaim these beliefs to the rest of the country he punted. He and other evangelicals don't actually have the courage of their convictions.
They are cowards.
Florida female student athletes have to report their menstrual history to play: When they got their first period, when they had their last one, etc. A third party has access to that info, and parents and doctors are raising red flags
@katikokal
So. I've been following Mike Pence's career for well over a decade now. I have two books where his anti-choice policies feature prominently! Some might say I have a *thing* for Mike Pence. And they wouldn't be wrong and we can all talk about that later. FOR NOW I'LL SAY THIS
Let's just get this out of the way. We can stop debating about whether or not SCOTUS overturned Roe. They did. So what if it’s on a technicality. It’s not a technicality to the people forced to carry pregnancies to term against their will.
Kavanaugh says the law requires coverage of "abortion introducing drugs"
He means hormonal birth control. Anti-choice activists believe that birth control = abortion so when they try to ban abortion don't think they'll stop there
One of the least surprising bits from yesterday's nazi parade and storm on the Capitol were the presence of so many well-known anti-choice protesters and activists
Mike Pence on Friday challenged the entire 2024 Republican presidential field to support a national abortion ban at 15 weeks, demanding that the party go further than its primary front-runner, Donald Trump, has so far been willing to go.
This is a man who has built an entire career around enshrining his specific religious world view on the rest of us.
He wants to prosecute you if you don't deliver a healthy baby to the state
He will try and "pray the gay away" out of you which is euphamistic violence
Booker again making the case for slowing the confirmation process because of all the fuckery around Kavanaugh documents. Notes this is a constitutional duty the Senate has.
It’s wild to me that in 2020 I’m giving my daughter the same advice about having your own money and plan that my grandmother who was born before women could vote gave me
There is going to be a lot of talk about the Biden-Harris Executive Orders dropping today and I am HERE FOR IT including the protections against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. THIS ONE IS A BIG DEAL HERE IS WHY
The goal of the personhood movement is of course to *in part* eradicate all sorts of assistive reproductive technologies like IVF but it’s the coercion and control at the center that needs a bright spotlight
Eradicating IVF is also a direct shot at Obergefell where Kennedy assumed the conservative movement would respect the *dignity* of LBGTQ families. We’ve seen how that’s going.
I appreciate everyone who has told me that this is blatantly unconstitutional as though the current SCOTUS gives one chicken fried fuck about things like precedent
The Texas Senate passed three bills on Thursday that would require public schools to promote religion to their students and employees, including a proposal for each classroom in the state to prominently display the Ten Commandments, starting next year.
what if the reason kids are depressed is bc they realize theyre living in a dying state with no hope for upward mobility and theyre expected to start their adult lives w $100k in debt and no real job prospects, but im no expert maybe it’s actually masks and zoom classes
Four members of the U.S. Navy have been accused of engaging in a sex with an underage girl on a naval base and recording and photographing the illicit encounter, according to charge sheets released to
@NBCNews
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