#Republican abortion bans

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[reasonsforhope]

THANK FUCKING GOD

"The Supreme Court on Thursday [June 13, 2024] unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.

The nine justices ruled that abortion opponents lacked the legal right to sue over the federal Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the medication, mifepristone, and the FDA’s subsequent actions to ease access to it. The case had threatened to restrict access to mifepristone across the country, including in states where abortion remains legal.

Abortion is banned at all stages of pregnancy in 14 states, and after about six weeks of pregnancy in three others, often before women realize they’re pregnant.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was part of the majority to overturn Roe, wrote for the court on Thursday that “federal courts are the wrong forum for addressing the plaintiffs’ concerns about FDA’s actions.”

The opinion underscored the stakes of the 2024 election and the possibility that an FDA commissioner appointed by Republican Donald Trump, if he wins the White House, could consider tightening access to mifepristone, including prohibiting sending it through the mail...

Kavanaugh’s opinion managed to unite a court deeply divided over abortion and many other divisive social issues by employing a minimalist approach that focused solely on the technical legal issue of standing and reached no judgment about the FDA’s actions...

While praising the decision, President Joe Biden signaled Democrats will continue to campaign heavily on abortion ahead of the November elections. “It does not change the fact that the right for a woman to get the treatment she needs is imperiled if not impossible in many states,” Biden said in a statement...

About two-thirds of U.S. adults oppose banning the use of mifepristone, or medication abortion, nationwide, according to a KFF poll conducted in February. About one-third would support a nationwide ban...

More than 6 million people [in the U.S.] have used mifepristone since 2000. Mifepristone blocks the hormone progesterone and primes the uterus to respond to the contraction-causing effect of a second drug, misoprostol. The two-drug regimen has been used to end a pregnancy through 10 weeks gestation...

Biden’s administration and drug manufacturers had warned that siding with abortion opponents in this case could [have] undermined the FDA’s drug approval process beyond the abortion context by inviting judges to second-guess the agency’s scientific judgments. The Democratic administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, which makes mifepristone, argued that the drug is among the safest the FDA has ever approved."

-via AP, June 13, 2024

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Note: A massive relief and a genuine victory - this will preserve access to the medication used in 2/3rds of abortions last year, for at least another 2 years. (Probably minimum time it will take Republicans to get their next attempt before the Supreme Court.)

Still, with this, a sword that has been hanging over our heads for the last two years is gone. There will be a new one soon, but we just bought ourselves probably at least 2 years. The fight isn't over, but this is absolutely worth celebrating.

[thashining]

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The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the GOP’s 2021 ban on abortion care — far outpacing a slower rise in maternal mortality across the nation, a new investigation of federal public health data finds.

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[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[isawthismeme]

[saywhat-politics]

Looks Like Greg Abbott Failed to ‘Eliminate Rape’

In 2021, the Texas governor justified his state's abortion ban by pledging to "eliminate rape." Now, he launched a $100,000 billboard campaign against undocumented immigrants with messages such as “How much did you pay to have your daughter raped?”

[mariacallous]

Leftists blaming Biden for not being able to pardon Marcellus Williams are stupid enough, but people blaming Harris are straight up remedial. Open the fucking schools!

People understanding or caring about federalism and the distinction between federal crimes and pardons and state crimes and pardons is apparently a high bar.

[batboyblog]

the amount of time women in America have to drive to get access to abortion health care has increased 300% nationally

[heterorealism]

[esmeraldaka]

Again, I'm not a political blog and never will be. And I'm also not a USA citizen (thanks god)

But I am a woman and queer, and I support everyone in what identities makes them feel the best.

And project 2025 is objectivly disgusting for everyone.

Also, the dumbass orange man says he knows nothing about the project. Which is a bad take no matter what:

He's either with them writing it and ready to put it in place and lying about it (most likely), or he's so dumb that he doesn't have a clue what his own team is doing (still likely since he's a dumbass)

Anyway, I'm not from that country, but please: throw in jail everyone linked with that project please.

And good luck talking if pronouns are banned. No more "I", "me", "my", "myself", "we", "us", "our", "ourselves", "You", "your", "yours", "yourself", "She", "her", "hers", "herself", "he", "him", "his", "himself"; "they", "them", "their", "themselves", "themself", ... in your sentences!

(And I will delete comments from people with no real arguments as I see them so don't bother. I just want to share this since it is objectively really dangerous for a lot of people)

[thashining]

Take our lives seriously

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Tex-ass Republicans are stone cold killers.

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