10-8-21
A breaking story. The Associated Press reports:
"A federal judge ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., calling it an “offensive deprivation” of a constitutional right by banning most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state since September. The order Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman is the first legal blow to the Texas law known as Senate Bill 8, which until now had withstood a wave of early challenges. In the weeks since the restrictions took effect, Texas abortion providers say the impact has been “exactly what we feared.” But abortion services in Texas might not instantly resume even with the law on hold because doctors still fear they could be sued without a more permanent legal decision. Texas officials swiftly told the court of their intention to seek a reversal from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which previously allowed the restrictions to take effect. Planned Parenthood said it was hopeful the order would allow clinics to resume abortion services as soon as possible. In a 113-page opinion, Pitman took Texas to task over the law, saying Republican lawmakers had “contrived an unprecedented and transparent statutory scheme” by leaving enforcement solely in the hands of private citizens, who are entitled to collect $10,000 in damages if they bring successful lawsuits against abortion providers who violate the restrictions. The law, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in May, prohibits abortions once cardiac activity is detected, which is usually around six weeks, before some women even know they are pregnant. “From the moment S.B. 8 went into effect, women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution,” wrote Pitman, who was appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama. “That other courts may find a way to avoid this conclusion is theirs to decide; this Court will not sanction one more day of this offensive deprivation of such an important right.”
More to come as the story develops.
Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve. Forfeiture of liberty. At the hands of outrageously corrupt and abusive government.
10-1-21
More on the Texas abortion debacle. NBC News reports:
"The House passed legislation Friday that would codify abortion rights protections amid threats to Roe v. Wade from a Texas law banning most abortions and a wave of restrictions in other states. The measure advanced along party lines in a 218-211 vote, with only one Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, voting against it. The legislation now faces a dead end in the evenly split Senate, where Democrats would need at least 10 Republicans to support the bill for it to advance to a final vote. "This is about freedom, about freedom of women to have choice, about the size and timing of their families, [which is] not the business of people on the court or members of Congress," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said at a press conference with other House Democrats outside the Capitol ahead of the vote. Pelosi denounced the Supreme Court's decision to allow the law to take effect in Texas, saying they were "just rubber-stamping what they were sent to the court to do — which is to harm the health and well-being of America's women."
Forget? The Republican nazi way.
"The Supreme Court’s 5-4 order allowing the Texas law to take effect earlier this month was a "cowardly, dark-of-night decision to uphold a flagrantly unconstitutional assault on women’s rights and health” and "necessitates codifying Roe v. Wade," Pelosi had previously said. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., the lead sponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act, said Republicans have been using a two-pronged strategy over the last decade to attack abortion rights. First, she said, they "steadily packed the courts at every level with anti-choice judges" and second, "they've been crafting state laws designed to create a challenge to Roe for these judges to uphold." "Congress must protect the rights of women and pregnant people in every ZIP code, putting an end to an attack on abortion once and for all," she said. "The Women's Health Protection Act is how we do that. I've introduced the Women's Health Protection Act since 2013 and in every Congress since then because we knew this day would come." Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., said the measure would ensure that all Americans, regardless of their race, socioeconomic position or place of residence "will have equal access and freedom to get the care that they need." She added, "But maybe the most important thing this bill will do is it will end our reliance on the courts to protect people for the medical care that they need and deserve." Democrats are concerned that other states could follow in the footsteps of Texas, whose law, Senate Bill 8, bans abortions in the state as early as six weeks of pregnancy, before most women know they are even pregnant. The law allows anyone, even someone outside of Texas, to sue an abortion provider or anyone else who helped someone get an abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected for at least $10,000 per defendant."
More insanity from the outrageously fascist yellow-bellied Republican Nazi Right. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. NBC News reports:
"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., instigated a shouting match with a group of House Democrats who were holding an event outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday. “You should all be ashamed,” she yelled at the crowd of Democrats standing on the House steps, according to a video posted on Twitter by Insider reporter Bryan Metzger. The Democratic lawmakers had been touting President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda. “Killing a baby up until birth is a lack of civility. It’s called murder,” Greene shouted as she turned toward a smaller group of Democratic lawmakers descending the steps. “Hey, how about the border down there? Lack of civility, how about lack of laws?” Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., started yelling at Greene, “You should practice the basic thing you’re taught at church — respect your neighbors!” “Taught in church? Are you kidding me?” Greene responded. “Try being a Christian and supporting life.” “You try being a Christian,” Dingell was heard saying in response. Greene then told her, “Watch your step lady, you’re going to fall down. Control yourself.”
The insane Greene nazi needs to follow her own advice.
"The reporter also tweeted another video showing Greene trying to pick a fight with Dingell and several other House Democrats at the top of the steps, which led to them walking back inside the Capitol. Greene was also seen yelling at the larger group of House Democrats further down the steps as they were holding their event, telling them to “stand with them” and “stand with mothers” instead of “killing babies up until birth.” The outburst by the Republican lawmaker, who is known for making inflammatory remarks, came after the House passed legislation that would codify abortion rights protections amid threats to Roe v. Wade."
Who the hell is the nazi element in the Republican Party to force its perverse ideology and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion? A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, Rep. Greene.
The Washington Post reports:
"Earlier this month, Alan Braid did what no other surgeon in Texas had dared: He violated his state’s ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Then he announced it to the world. In a Sept. 18 op-ed in The Washington Post, Braid explained that he’d performed the procedure on a woman who was in her first trimester but beyond the state’s new limit, because she had a “fundamental right to receive this care.” Afterward, antiabortion groups circulated pictures of Braid on Facebook. Hundreds of people who’d never met him started calling him a “hero.” To others, the 76-year-old OB/GYN was “an example of evil.”
Evil is personified in the nazi element of the Republican Party which imposes its perverse ideology and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"Among abortion providers in Texas, Braid is known as a tireless doctor who has challenged many of the antiabortion laws that have surfaced from the state’s conservative legislature, said Antonio Cavazos, a retired OB/GYN who worked alongside Braid in San Antonio from 2016 to 2018. Now, Braid has stepped up to lead the charge against one of the greatest threats to abortion access in decades."
Dr. Braid is an example of Uncommon Valor. A man of principle, great courage to take on the nazi element in our formerly great country.
NBC News reports:
"K.T. Volkova got a positive pregnancy test just days before Texas' controversial law banning most abortions took effect. The 23-year-old, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, was nearly six weeks pregnant and immediately knew they wanted an abortion. But Volkova was already on the cusp of the limit set by the new law, which bars in-clinic abortions after the detection of a fetal cardiac activity, or as early as six weeks. The options to get an abortion were limited. Volkova figured it would be impossible to get the procedure done in person at a Texas clinic, flooded by others wanting abortions, before the law took effect Sept. 1. But a busy schedule meant traveling out of state was also out of the question. Volkova’s solution: ordering abortion pills online to end the pregnancy at home. “It was almost like an online shopping experience with a customer service representative,” Volkova said. “I personally would say it was maybe even easier than having to go to an actual clinic.” But Volkova, who used a second last name they don’t use publicly for privacy reasons, has been worried about potential legal ramifications and declined in an interview to give personal information or name the source of the pills."
Sad, isn't it, the nazi element is hell bent on forcing its perverse ideology and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion?
The Associated Press reports:
"Medication abortion accounts for about 40% of all abortions in the U.S. The increasingly common method relies on pills rather than surgery, opening the possibility for abortions to be done in a woman’s home rather than a clinic. It’s an option that has become important during the COVID-19 pandemic. As Republican states move to restrict access to abortion generally, many of them also are limiting access to medication-induced abortions. Providers say medication abortion is safe and essential, especially as access to clinics in Republican-controlled states becomes more difficult."
The nazi element in our formerly great country delusionally believes it owns your uterus, ladies. Does it?
NBC News reports:
"The day was jampacked at a Planned Parenthood clinic in southern Illinois when a woman who had just driven over 12 hours from Louisiana for an abortion procedure erupted into tears during her health intake. Kawanna Shannon, the surgical services director at the Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, dropped her tasks and led the woman into a private room to talk. The woman said she was panicking because she had used her rent money to pay for child care for her two kids, rent a car, buy gas and drive to the clinic in Fairview Heights. The days leading up to and after Texas’ restrictive abortion law went into effect, clinics in surrounding states became overbooked, diverting patients further away, including this patient who only had one extra day off work to get the procedure done, Shannon said. The woman's only option was Illinois, but it cost her her rent, she said."
Thanks to the nazi element in the Republican Party.
“No one is thinking about these hardships when they put these bans on. People have other children, people have health issues, people have all types of things and they are spending every dime just to go somewhere else because this basic need isn’t accessible in their own state,” Shannon said. “But there are people fighting for them, no matter what laws are being passed or what the restrictions are, and we are doing everything we can to be able to service these patients. They need to know that we're going to continue to fight for them.” The Illinois clinic, emblematic of a state that has deemed itself a safe haven for abortion care, is feeling the reverberations of the Texas law in the form of dozens of women forced to travel hundreds of miles just to secure an appointment. Despite facing its own challenges, including staff shortages and similar legislation up for consideration across the border in Missouri, the Illinois clinic said it is fully prepared to welcome any woman who needs the medical care."
Hat's off. Uncommon Valor.
"The clinic has long been preparing for what it calls “the writing on the wall,” according to Yamelsie Rodríguez, president and CEO of Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, which oversees the Fairview Heights clinic. “This is the reality that we have been seeing for a long time, and we’ve been preparing for a post-Roe world with a plan to ensure abortion services remain accessible with this clinic.” Over the last week, the clinic has seen patients from Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas. “No one will be turned away,” Rodriguez stated. Planned Parenthood and Hope Clinic invested $10 million into their clinics, which sit on the southwest border of the state just 15 minutes from St. Louis, and have been building clinical capacity and infrastructure in preparation for abortion bans and restrictions in neighboring states. Illinois stands as a lone refuge in the Midwest giving unencumbered access to abortion services with the Reproductive Health Act, which also ensures access to pregnancy care and birth control. Sponsors of the act emphasized in legislative sessions the importance of its protections should the landmark Roe v. Wade decision be overturned. The Supreme Court said in May that it would consider the legality of Mississippi's abortion ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy in its upcoming fall term. The law will protect the right to choose regardless of what happens with Roe v. Wade, said Jennifer Welch, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois. “As other states put more barriers into place for people to access this health care, we know that patients will turn to Illinois and we could see tens of thousands of patients if other states follow Texas' example or if the Supreme court further erodes abortion protection in their upcoming case.” Inside the busy clinic, Dr. Colleen McNicholas, one of six physicians who work at the facility, has spent a fair share of days staying late to care for patients, but more often than not that goes beyond just medical care, she said. After completing a late procedure for a patient last week, she had to help the woman, who drove over 300 miles from Tennessee, figure out how to get her car fixed. With everything being closed after hours, McNicholas then needed to help the patient get a hotel room for the night while waiting for a place to open to work on her car. It was an additional financial burden this patient wasn’t prepared for, she said. Most of these patients are existing in the intersections of marginalization with financial insecurity and housing insecurity, she said. Life in and of itself is exhausting for them and then having to jump through more hoops to be able to access care can be a really oppressive burden, she said. Half of all women in the U.S. who got an abortion in 2014 lived in poverty, according to a 2016 study by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research group. Kencia Page is the call center director for the clinic in Fairview Heights, which fields more than 350 calls a day. Many from out-of-state patients, she said, especially now with Texas stressing the entire system of abortion providers. “Our call center has received calls from patients in Texas frantic about the Texas abortion ban and desperate to figure out their options,” she said. “These patients are overwhelmed. We received a call from one Texas patient who did not know how they would be able to access abortion because they did not have any family support or any money to pay for travel and lodging to access abortion out of state. Page said it’s “heartbreaking” to hear stories like this, but it puts into perspective the importance of the work they do and that they will have to continue on if other states follow suit."
All courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party. -- Tolerate the growing nazism? Get what you truly deserve. Loss of all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. In a de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only.
Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve. Forfeiture of liberty. At the hands of outrageously corrupt and abusive government.
9-24-21
More on the abortion crisis in Texas. ABC News reports:
"Women driving hundreds of miles alone for an abortion, clinics overwhelmed with out-of-state patients, providers facing "relentless harassment" from "emboldened vigilante activities," those are some of the impacts detailed by the federal government in new court documents since the most restrictive abortion law went into effect in Texas earlier this month. Nearly a week after announcing a lawsuit against the state, the U.S. Department of Justice filed for an immediate injunction Tuesday to halt the enforcement of the law, known as SB8, which bars physicians from providing abortions once they detect a so-called fetal heartbeat -- technically the flutter of electrical activity within the cells in an embryo. That can be seen on an ultrasound as early as six weeks into a pregnancy -- before many women even know they're pregnant."
Direct assault on liberty by nazis in the Republican Party. Desperate to force their perverse ideology and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"In their latest filing, the DOJ documented the impact of the unprecedented law based on declarations from the leaders of women's health clinics, doctors and abortion rights advocates in support of the motion for a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction. "The devastating effects warned of in the pre-enforcement litigation immediately became a reality for patients and providers in Texas," the emergency motion states. "S.B. 8 has gravely and irreparably impaired women's ability to exercise their constitutional right to an abortion across the State." Under the law, between 85% and 95% of all abortions previously provided will stop, according to the motion. One Planned Parenthood affiliate in Texas went from providing 205 abortions the week before SB8 went into effect, to 52 the week after, according to the court documents. As a result, "Women are being forced to travel hundreds -- and sometimes thousands -- of miles to obtain an abortion under harrowing circumstances in the middle of a COVID surge," the motion states."
Thanks to the nazi element in the Republican Party. -- Democrats incapable of challenging the insanity. Worse? Caved into the Republican Governor and Legislature.
"The DOJ recounted the experience of one patient, a minor, who was allegedly raped by a family member and traveled eight hours, from Galveston, Texas, to Oklahoma, for an abortion. There is an exception under the Texas law for abortions in cases of medical emergencies, but not for cases of incest or rape."
Raw nazism. Hitler and Mussolini would have been proud.
"[Other] survivors of sexual assault have to bear the additional burden of taking time off work and arranging childcare because abortions are not available in Texas," the motion states."
Sadly, the Republican nazi way.
"According to the court documents, one patient drove a 1,000-mile roundtrip alone "because she didn't have paid time off work and couldn't afford" to miss her shift. Another "piled her children into her car and drove over 15 hours overnight to obtain a medication abortion in Kansas rather than struggle to patch together the money needed for airfare and child care or remain in limbo," Anna Rupani, co-executive director of the advocacy group Fund Texas Choice, said in her declaration. One patient traveled six hours each way to Oklahoma alone because she was worried she would make someone liable for helping her, the court documents state. Under SB8, private citizens can sue a person they "reasonably believed" provided an illegal abortion or assisted someone in getting it in the state, such as by driving them to an appointment. On average, patients are traveling 650 miles each way to get to abortion clinics in the Southwest, according to the DOJ. The waits and logistical hurdles in planning travel to another state "have made it such that some women are no longer eligible for a medication abortion and instead are subjected to more invasive procedural abortions," the motion states."
Time to remember both Democrats and Republicans at the polls. Neither party is worth a shit. For totally different reasons.
"SB8 not only affects Texans, but has had an "extreme impact on the rights of women in other states," the motion argues. Clinics in nearby states, including Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado, have been "overwhelmed" by an influx of Texas residents seeking abortions, with clinics in Tulsa and Oklahoma City in particular seeing an "overall staggering 646% increase" in Texan patients compared to the first six months of the year, according to the court documents. Planned Parenthood health centers in Oklahoma are seeing scheduling backlogs of "several weeks" due to the number of Texan patients, while some clinics are simply unable to accommodate large numbers of out-of-state patients due to current demands and staffing challenges "given the current threats from S.B. 8 layered atop the challenges of hiring in a pandemic," according to the court documents."
Again, thanks to the nazi element in the Republican Party. Democrats incapable of effectively challenging the nazism.
"Abortion clinic staff have also been impacted, the DOJ argues, as SB8 has "emboldened vigilante activities" against abortion providers and staff, including yelling at, recording and trying to follow them home." Staff are also concerned about the threat of potential lawsuits. Whole Woman's Health, which has 17 doctors on staff across its three abortion facilities in Texas, reported that only one doctor "unconditionally agreed to work" after the law was enacted, according to the court documents. "For most of our physicians, the risk was too great to even come to work," Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman's Health, said in her declaration. Some clinics risk closure for good under the law, supporters of an immediate injunction said. "If the law remains in effect for an extended period of time, and we are only able to serve a fraction of our patients with a fraction of our staff, we will have to shutter our doors and stop providing any healthcare to the communities we serve," Hagstrom Miller said. "I believe that, without court-ordered relief in the next couple of weeks, S.B. 8 will shutter most if not all of the remaining abortion clinics in Texas."
... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and many, many other issues. A de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only. Liberty? What's that?
The Associated Press reports:
"The new Texas law that bans most abortions in the state has been welcomed by many of the religious leaders who help bolster the anti-abortion movement. Yet some abortion opponents in U.S. religious circles are wary of the law and questioning the movement’s current direction. The wariness relates in part to the law’s most novel feature, which some critics view as an invitation to vigilantes: It provides no enforcement role for public officials and instead authorizes private citizens to sue anyone they deem to be assisting in an abortion, with the prospect of gaining $10,000 in the process."
Raw nazism.
"The law “has serious downsides” and conveys that anti-abortion activists are willing to engage in “desperate and extremist tactics,” said Charles Camosy, an associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University who favors tougher nationwide restrictions on abortion. “Because it appears to be playing legal games to get around rulings of federal courts, the law feeds the false narrative that pro-lifers don’t have public opinion on our side,” Camosy, a Catholic, said via email."
You're delusional, Professor, regarding public opinion.
"The law, Senate Bill 8, prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks. It was assailed in a recent column in the National Catholic Reporter, an independent online news outlet, by one of its senior reporters, Michael Sean Winters. “I fear greatly that the premature implementation of this truly strange law will turn out to be the historic beginning of a backlash against the pro-life movement for which it is ill-prepared,” Winters wrote."
Hopefully, that's true. You have no right to force your perverse ideology and religious views on the rest of us in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"He said the law’s provisions encourage “a kind of vigilante justice we had all thought consigned to old Western movies” and warned that its implementation would likely prompt some women to resort to illegal and potentially risky abortions."
You think?
“I am as pro-life as pro-life can be, but I detest the pro-life movement, for its short-sightedness, for its moral myopia, for its viciousness,” Winters wrote. “The pro-choice movement is now energized in a way it has not been for years.”
No question.
"Amid the furor over SB 8, the Catholic bishop of Lexington, Kentucky, John Stowe, issued a broader critique of some elements of the anti-abortion movement, suggesting they pursued their cause while neglecting other pressing social issues. “Those who vehemently fight legal abortion but are uninterested in providing basic healthcare for pregnant mothers or needy children, who are unconcerned about refugee children or those lacking quality education with no hope of escaping poverty cannot really claim to respect life,” Stowe tweeted."
Called hypocrisy.
Uncommon Valor. Texas physician challenges GOP nazi abortion law. The Washington Post reports:
"A Texas doctor stepped forward Saturday to say he had performed an abortion that is illegal under the state’s restrictive new law to force a test of its legality. “I understand that by providing an abortion beyond the new legal limit, I am taking a personal risk, but it’s something I believe in strongly,” Alan Braid, a San Antonio OB/GYN, said in an op-ed in The Washington Post. “I have daughters, granddaughters and nieces. I believe abortion is an essential part of health care. ... I can’t just sit back and watch us return to 1972.” Braid said he performed a first-trimester abortion on Sept. 6, just a few days after the law known as Senate Bill 8 went into effect in Texas, making nearly all abortions illegal after a woman is about six weeks pregnant — with no exceptions for incest or rape. The doctor said he acted because he had “a duty of care to this patient, as I do for all patients.”
"John Seago, legislative director for Texas Right to Life said that group “is exploring all of our options to hold anyone accountable who breaks the (Texas) law.” “This is obviously a stunt to move forward with other legal attacks on the law,” he said of Braid’s column. “This was always something that we expected — that someone would essentially try to bait a lawsuit. So we’re just moving into the next phase of Senate Bill 8 right now.”
Who the f--k is this nazi, and others who think like him, to force their perverse ideology and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion?
"But the leader of another Texas-based anti-abortion-rights group, said it has no plans to sue Braid at this time. Braid “is willfully conducting illegal abortions right now,” said Chelsey Youman, national director of public policy for Human Coalition, which operates crisis pregnancy centers across the country. “He knows he’s currently incurring liability and he may face repercussions for that ... but for the most part that’s a choice the larger abortion clinics have not made. They’re saying they’re going to comply. We should celebrate that lives are being saved in the interim.”
A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, you fascist son of a bitch. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. Do fascists who think like you truly believe they own a woman's uterus? Can dictate to women what they can and cannot do with THEIR uterus?
"Abortion rights advocates, meanwhile, praised Braid for stepping forward. “The situation has become untenable,” said Kristin Ford, acting vice president of communications for NARAL Pro-Choice America, an abortion rights advocacy group. “Roe v. Wade has been rendered meaningless in the second biggest state in the country, and we can’t continue in that limbo,” she said. Advocates said the Texas law is likely to have a disproportionate effect on low-income Texas residents and people of color — a view Braid seemed to share. In his column, he recounted speaking with a 42-year-old woman with four children — three under age 12 — who recently entered his clinic seeking an abortion. He advised her to go to Oklahoma, which is nine hours from San Antonio, and offered to help with funding. She told him she couldn’t go even if they paid to fly her in a private jet. “Who’s going to take care of my kids?” she asked him. “What about my job? I can’t miss work.”
The nazi element in the Republican Party couldn't care less.
"Braid also shares his memories of treating patients who underwent unsafe abortions in 1972, the year he began his obstetrics and gynecology residency at a San Antonio hospital. He said he saw three teenagers die as a result of illegal abortions that year, including one who died of massive organ failure, caused by a septic infection."
Expect more of the same. A return to the cave courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party. Blessed to date by five of the six Republican nazis on the Supreme Court. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and many, many other issues.
"Braid’s clinics are represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, which brought a federal lawsuit against the Texas ban. “We stand ready to defend him against the vigilante lawsuits that S.B. 8 threatens to unleash against those providing or supporting access to constitutionally protected abortion care,” said Nancy Northup, the group’s president and CEO. The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments this year in another abortion base involving a restrictive law in Mississippi, but that one was stayed from taking effect. Mississippi officials have asked the court to overturn Roe v. Wade and continue a state law that bans abortions after 15 weeks."
The future does not look good. We now live in a de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only. The raging nazism now embraced by the Republican Party will not stand. Should it continue, an unwanted, dreaded second American revolution already on the horizon will become an unwanted reality.
Dr. Braid opines:
"Newly graduated from the University of Texas medical school, I began my obstetrics and gynecology residency at a San Antonio hospital on July 1, 1972. At the time, abortion was effectively illegal in Texas — unless a psychiatrist certified a woman was suicidal. If the woman had money, we’d refer her to clinics in Colorado, California or New York. The rest were on their own. Some traveled across the border to Mexico. At the hospital that year, I saw three teenagers die from illegal abortions. One I will never forget. When she came into the ER, her vaginal cavity was packed with rags. She died a few days later from massive organ failure, caused by a septic infection."
Expect far more of the same courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party.
"In medical school in Texas, we’d been taught that abortion was an integral part of women’s health care. When the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Roe v. Wade in 1973, recognizing abortion as a constitutional right, it enabled me to do the job I was trained to do. For the next 45 years — not including the two years I was away in the Air Force — I was a practicing OB/GYN in Texas, conducting Pap smears, pelvic exams and pregnancy check-ups; delivering more than 10,000 babies; and providing abortion care at clinics I opened in Houston and San Antonio, and another in Oklahoma. Then, this month, everything changed. A new Texas law, known as S.B. 8, virtually banned any abortion beyond about the sixth week of pregnancy. It shut down about 80 percent of the abortion services we provide. Anyone who suspects I have violated the new law can sue me for at least $10,000. They could also sue anybody who helps a person obtain an abortion past the new limit, including, apparently, the driver who brings a patient to my clinic."
Raw nazism courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party. Readers are reminded abortions were illegal in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Hitler and Mussolini clearly believed the state owned a woman's uterus.
"For me, it is 1972 all over again. And that is why, on the morning of Sept. 6, I provided an abortion to a woman who, though still in her first trimester, was beyond the state’s new limit. I acted because I had a duty of care to this patient, as I do for all patients, and because she has a fundamental right to receive this care. I fully understood that there could be legal consequences — but I wanted to make sure that Texas didn’t get away with its bid to prevent this blatantly unconstitutional law from being tested. Though we never ask why someone has come to our clinic, they often tell us. They’re finishing school or they already have three children, they’re in an abusive relationship, or it’s just not time. A majority are mothers. Most are between 18 and 30. Many are struggling financially — more than half qualify for some form of financial aid from us. Several times a month, a woman confides that she is having the abortion because she has been raped. Sometimes, she reports it to the police; more often, she doesn’t. Texas’s new law makes no exceptions for rape or incest."
Courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party.
"Even before S.B. 8, Texas had some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. That includes a 24-hour waiting period, meaning a woman has to make at least two visits to our clinic. Ultrasound imaging is mandatory. Parental consent is required for minors, unless they obtain court approval."
Courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party.
"And yet, despite the restrictions, we were always able to continue providing compassionate care up to the legal limit of 22 weeks. It meant hiring more staff, everything took longer, but we managed. Until Sept. 1. Since then, most of our patients have been too far along in their pregnancies to qualify for abortion care. I tell them that we can offer services only if we cannot see the presence of cardiac activity on an ultrasound, which usually occurs at about six weeks, before most people know they are pregnant. The tension is unbearable as they lie there, waiting to hear their fate. If we detect cardiac activity, we have to refer them out of state. One of the women I talked with since the law took effect is 42. She has four kids, three under 12. I advised her that she could go to Oklahoma. That’s a nine-hour drive one way. I explained we could help with the funding. She told me she couldn’t go even if we flew her in a private jet. “Who’s going to take care of my kids?” she asked me. “What about my job? I can’t miss work.”
Courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party.
"I understand that by providing an abortion beyond the new legal limit, I am taking a personal risk, but it’s something I believe in strongly. Represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, my clinics are among the plaintiffs in an ongoing federal lawsuit to stop S.B. 8. I have daughters, granddaughters and nieces. I believe abortion is an essential part of health care. I have spent the past 50 years treating and helping patients. I can’t just sit back and watch us return to 1972."
Courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party.
The Washington Post reports:
"Broad majorities of Americans oppose key provisions of a restrictive Texas abortion law, and a majority disagrees with the recent Supreme Court decision that allowed the law, which effectively bans abortions after six weeks, to go into effect, a new poll finds. The new law takes a novel approach, relying on private citizens to sue people who help women get forbidden abortions, effectively eliminating the guarantee in Roe v. Wade and subsequent Supreme Court decisions that women have a right to end their pregnancies before viability and that states may not impose undue burdens on that decision. In the Monmouth University poll, 70 percent of Americans say they disapprove of “allowing private citizens to use lawsuits to enforce this law rather than having government prosecutors handle these cases.” Meanwhile, 81 percent say they disapprove of giving $10,000 to “private citizens who successfully file suits against those who perform or assist a woman with getting an abortion.” The poll also finds that 54 percent of Americans disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision to let the law stand while the legal battle over it continues."
The Associated Press reports:
"A San Antonio doctor who said he performed an abortion in defiance of a new Texas law all but dared supporters of the state’s near-total ban on the procedure to try making an early example of him by filing a lawsuit — and by Monday, two people obliged. Former attorneys in Arkansas and Illinois filed separate state lawsuits Monday against Dr. Alan Braid, who in a weekend Washington Post opinion column became the first Texas abortion provider to publicly reveal he violated the law that took effect on Sept. 1. They both came in ahead of the state’s largest anti-abortion group, which had said it had attorneys ready to bring lawsuits. Neither ex-lawyer who filed suit said they were anti-abortion. But both said courts should weigh in. The Texas law prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, which is usually around six weeks and before some women even know they are pregnant. Prosecutors cannot take criminal action against Braid, because the law explicitly forbids that. The only way the ban can be enforced is through lawsuits brought by private citizens, who don’t have to be from Texas and who are entitled to claim at least $10,000 in damages if successful."
A bounty hunter system in a de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only.
"Oscar Stilley, who described himself in court paperwork as a disgraced former lawyer who lost his law license after being convicted of tax fraud in 2010, said he is not opposed to abortion but sued to force a court review of Texas’ anti-abortion law, which he called an “end-run.” “I don’t want doctors out there nervous and sitting there and quaking in their boots and saying, ‘I can’t do this because if this thing works out, then I’m going to be bankrupt,’” Stilley, of Cedarville, Arkansas, near the Oklahoma border, told The Associated Press."
Get this:
"Felipe N. Gomez, of Chicago, asked a court in San Antonio in his lawsuit to declare the new law unconstitutional. In his view, the law is a form of government overreach. He said his lawsuit is a way to hold the Republicans who run Texas accountable, adding that their lax response to public health during the COVID-19 pandemic conflicts with their crack down on abortion rights. “If Republicans are going to say nobody can tell you to get a shot they shouldn’t tell women what to do with their bodies either,” Gomez said. “I think they should be consistent.”
Not possible in a de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only.
"Gomez said he wasn’t aware he could claim up to $10,000 in damages if he won his lawsuit. If he received money, Gomez said, he would likely donate it to an abortion rights group or to the patients of the doctor he sued. Legal experts say Braid’s admission is likely to set up another test of whether the law can stand after the Supreme Court allowed it to take effect. “Being sued puts him in a position … that he will be able to defend the action against him by saying the law is unconstitutional,” said Carol Sanger, a law professor at Columbia University in New York City. Braid wrote that on Sept. 6, he provided an abortion to a woman who was still in her first trimester but beyond the state’s new limit. “I fully understood that there could be legal consequences — but I wanted to make sure that Texas didn’t get away with its bid to prevent this blatantly unconstitutional law from being tested,” Braid wrote."
Readers will recall:
"Two federal lawsuits were already making their way through the courts over the law, known as Senate Bill 8. In one, filed by abortion providers and others, the Supreme Court declined to block the law from taking effect while the case makes its way through the legal system. It’s still proceeding in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In the second case, the Justice Department is asking a federal judge to declare the law invalid, arguing it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.”
Interestingly:
"The Center for Reproductive Rights, one of the plaintiffs in the first federal lawsuit, is representing Braid. The center’s senior counsel, Marc Hearron, noted in a statement that the Texas law “says that ‘any person’ can sue over a violation, and we are starting to see that happen, including by out-of-state claimants.”
Far more interesting? Get this:
"Texas Right to Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion group, criticized both lawsuits and Braid’s opinion column. “Neither of these lawsuits are valid attempts to save innocent human lives,” the group said. ”We believe Braid published his op-ed intending to attract imprudent lawsuits, but none came from the Pro-Life movement.” Texas Right to Life launched a website to receive tips about suspected violations, though it is currently redirecting to the group’s homepage. A spokeswoman for the group has noted that the website is mostly symbolic because anyone can report a violation and because abortion providers appeared to be complying with the law."
Not only that, the site's been hacked. Repeatedly. Tough, isn't it? Sadly, these extremist assholes truly believe they own your uterus, ladies. Can dictate to you what you can and cannot do with YOUR uterus. Acceptable in what is supposed to be a democratic republic?
"Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s office did not immediately return a message seeking comment Monday."
What could the nazi say? How do you defend the indefensible?
"Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said that if a lawsuit against Braid reaches the Texas Supreme Court, that court could decide whether the Legislature exceeded its power by allowing anyone to sue. “The Texas Supreme Court will have the opportunity/obligation to say whether this approach — which would not be limited to abortion — is an acceptable way for the Legislature to pursue its goals,” Grossman said."
No question the nazi element would extend this bounty system approach to law enforcement in lieu of criminal prosecution to an exponentially increasing number of issues. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms as our formerly great country continues to deteriorate, embraces nazism.
"Seth Chandler, a law professor at the University of Houston, said anyone suing would “have to persuade a Texas court that they have standing” despite not having personally suffered monetary or property damages."
Seatbelts on. CBS News reports:
"In an op-ed criticizing Texas' new restrictive abortion law, actress Uma Thurman revealed Tuesday that she had an abortion as a teenager, saying it has been her "darkest secret until now." The new Texas law, the most restrictive measure in the U.S., bans abortions as early as six weeks of pregnancy, before most women know that they are pregnant. It also allows private citizens to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps someone get an abortion for at least $10,000. Victims of rape and incest are not excluded from the law's restrictions. In the few weeks that the law has been active, some Texas residents have fled across state lines to be able to access the procedure elsewhere. Thurman wrote in The Washington Post that, for her, the measures are "something akin to horror," and that it is "a staging ground for a human rights crisis for American women." "This law is yet another discriminatory tool against those who are economically disadvantaged, and often, indeed, against their partners," Thurman said. "Women and children of wealthy families retain all the choices in the world, and face little risk." "I can assure you," she wrote, "that no one finds herself on that table on purpose." The 51-year-old actress said she opted to share her experience to "draw the flames of controversy away" from vulnerable women currently impacted by the law. "In my late teens, I was accidentally impregnated by a much older man. I was living out of a suitcase in Europe, far from my family, and about to start a job. I struggled to figure out what to do. I wanted to keep the baby, but how?" Thurman wrote. When she called her parents for help in figuring out a plan, her mother was "gravely ill in the hospital." The conversations she had with her parents during that time, she said, was the first time they had ever discussed sex. "My childish fantasy of motherhood was soundly corrected as I weighed answers to their very precise questions. I was just starting out in my career and didn't have the means to provide a stable home, even for myself," Thurman wrote. "We decided as a family that I couldn't go through with the pregnancy, and agreed that termination was the right choice. My heart was broken nonetheless." Thurman underwent an abortion procedure in Germany, and wrote that every part of the process hurt. It was a pain, she wrote, that she thought she had deserved. "There is so much pain in this story. It has been my darkest secret until now," Thurman wrote. "...I have no regrets for the path I have traveled. ...The abortion I had as a teenager was the hardest decision of my life, one that caused me anguish then and that saddens me even now, but it was the path to the life full of joy and love that I have experienced. Choosing not to keep that early pregnancy allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wanted and needed to be."
Poignantly:
"Thurman wrote that she hopes her story will provide some light for women and girls who may have to go through similar situations, or who "might feel shame that they can't protect themselves." "To all women outraged by having our bodies' rights taken by the state; and to all of you who are made vulnerable and subjected to shame because you have a uterus — I say: I see you," she wrote at the conclusion of her op-ed. "Have courage. You are beautiful."
Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve. Forfeiture of liberty. At the hands of outrageously corrupt and abusive government.
9-17-21
In follow-up to the ongoing abortion issue in Texas and throughout the country, The Associated Press reports:
"The Justice Department on Thursday sued Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.” The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Texas, asks a federal judge to declare that the law is invalid, “to enjoin its enforcement, and to protect the rights that Texas has violated.” “The act is clearly unconstitutional under long-standing Supreme Court precedent,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a news conference announcing the suit. The Justice Department argues the law unlawfully infringes on the constitutional rights of women and violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which says federal law supersedes state law. Federal officials are also concerned other states could enact similar laws that would “deprive their citizens of their constitutional rights,” he said. “It is settled constitutional law that ‘a State may not prohibit any woman from making the ultimate decision to terminate her pregnancy before viability,’” the lawsuit reads. “But Texas has done just that.” The Texas law, known as SB8, prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity — usually around six weeks, before some women know they’re pregnant. Courts have blocked other states from imposing similar restrictions, but Texas’ law differs significantly because it leaves enforcement to private citizens through civil lawsuits instead of criminal prosecutors.
"Earlier this week, Garland vowed the Justice Department would step in to enforce a federal law known as the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. That law, commonly known as the FACE Act, normally prohibits physically obstructing access to abortion clinics by blocking entrances or threatening to use force to intimidate or interfere with someone. It also prohibits damaging property at abortion clinics and other reproductive health centers. The lawsuit filed on Thursday seeks an immediate injunction to prohibit enforcing the law in Texas. Under the statute, someone could bring a lawsuit — even if they have no connection to the woman getting an abortion — and could be entitled to at least $10,000 in damages if they prevail in court. “The statute deputizes all private citizens, without any showing of personal connection or injury, to serve as bounty hunters authorized to recover at least $10,000 per claim from individuals who facilitate a woman’s exercise of her constitutional rights,” Garland said. “The obvious and expressly acknowledged intention of this statutory scheme is to prevent women from exercising their constitutional rights by thwarting judicial review.” The attorney general also argued the Texas law could expose some federal employees at different agencies across the government to civil liability for doing their jobs."
United Press International reports:
"Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a lawsuit Thursday against Texas' restrictive abortion law.
"Garland said that Texas does not deny the statute violates precedent. "Instead. the statute includes an unprecedented scheme to in the chief justice's words 'insulate the state from responsibility," Garland said, citing Chief Justice John Roberts' dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court vote 5-4 last week against abortion providers in the state who had filed an emergency application for relief against the law. To provide this insulation, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in the Supreme Court dissent that SB8 "deputized the State's citizens as bounty hunters," to enforce the state law. Garland referred to this enforcement mechanism as a "legislative scheme" in his remarks. "Nor need one think long or hard to realize the damage that would be done to our society if states were allowed to implement laws that empower any private individual to infringe on another's constitutional protected rights," he said. "The United States has the authority and the responsibility to ensure that no state can deprive individuals of their constitutional rights through a 'legislative scheme.'" Garland noted that the enforcement mechanism was unusual. "It does not rely on the state's executive branch to enforce the law, as is the norm in Texas and everywhere else, rather the statute deputizes all private citizens without any showing of personal connection or injury to serve as bounty hunters authorized to recover at least $10,000 per claim from individuals who facilitate a woman's exercise of her constitutional rights," Garland said. The goal of the scheme was "to prevent women from exercising their constitutional rights by thwarting judicial review for as long a possible," Garland said. "Thus far, the law has had its intended effect. Because the statute makes it too risky for an abortion clinic to stay open, abortion providers have ceased providing services. This kind of scheme to nullify the constitution of the United States is one that all Americans whatever their politics or party should fear. "If it prevails, it may become a model for action in other areas, by other states, and with respect to other constitutional rights and judicial precedents." Garland said that the Justice Department also is bringing the suit because SB 8 conflicts with federal law by prohibiting federal agencies from exercising their authorities and carrying out their responsibilities under federal laws in relation to abortion services. It also unconstitutionally restricts federal employees and non-governmental partners who implement the same federal laws by potentially imposing civil liabilities and penalties, he said. The suit seeks a declaratory judgment that SB 8 is invalid under the supremacy clause, the 14th Amendment, is pre-empted by federal law and violates the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity. It also seeks a permanent and preliminary injunction prohibiting SB 8's enforcement. "The Department of Justice has a duty to defend the constitution of the United States and to uphold the law," Garland said. "Today, we fulfill that duty by filing the lawsuit I have just described."
NBC News reports:
"Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said the court's recent ruling upholding Texas' abortion law was "very, very, very wrong" in an interview with National Public Radio released Thursday. "I'll add one more 'very,'" he told NPR's Nina Totenberg. "And I wrote a dissent. And that's the way it works." Last week, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court declined to block a restrictive Texas law that bans abortions after fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which experts say is as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The law also allows anyone in the country to sue abortion providers or others who help women get the procedure after that time frame. Chief Justice John Roberts dissented along with the court's three liberal justices: Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. Each wrote separate opinions opposing the majority decision. Abortion rights activists argue that the lack of action by the high court dealt a crippling blow to Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nationally. The Justice Department announced Thursday that it had sued Texas over the law, which the department said is "in open defiance of the Constitution."
Fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only. Sad, isn't it?
"Breyer, who told NPR that the abortion case should not have been decided on an emergency basis, signaled that the court could address the issue during another term. "And so we'll see what happens in that area when we get a substantive matter in front of us," he said. Breyer, 83, also rebuffed calls from progressives for his early retirement to give President Joe Biden an opportunity to appoint a younger member to the liberal wing. Breyer, whom President Bill Clinton tapped for the court in 1994, said he would retire on his own terms. "I'm only going to say that I'm not going to go beyond what I previously said on the subject. And that is that I do not believe I should stay on the Supreme Court or want to stay on the Supreme Court until I die," he said. "And when exactly I should retire or will retire has many complex parts to it. I think I'm aware of most of them, and I am and will consider them."
'Comforting,' isn't it? LOL.
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9-10-21
The fight against loss of abortion rights in Texas ramps up. NPR reports:
"The dating-app company Bumble has created a special fund to help people affected by Texas' new abortion ban. The CEO of Match, which owns Tinder, is creating a similar fund. Both companies are based in Texas and are led by women. "I'm not speaking about this as the CEO of a company," Match Group CEO Shar Dubey said in a note sent to employees Thursday night. "I'm speaking about this personally, as a mother and a woman who has fervently cared about women's rights, including the very fundamental right of choice over her body." "I immigrated to America from India over 25 years ago and I have to say, as a Texas resident, I am shocked that I now live in a state where women's reproductive laws are more regressive than most of the world, including India," Dubey added."
Sad, isn't it? We've lost our country. A democratic republic in name only. In reality, a de facto fascist police-state. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
Readers will recall:
"The Texas law bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, which is earlier than most people would realize that they've become pregnant. It also extends enforcement powers to the general public."
Not only that, there are no exceptions for victims of sexual assault or incest.
"Match Group says its leader, not the company itself, is creating the fund, which would provide aid to any Match employees in Texas who are forced by the new abortion restriction to seek care outside the state. Dallas-based Match owns Tinder, Plenty of Fish and a dozen other apps. Dubey's message came the day after Bumble, which is based in Austin, Texas, said it was setting up a fund to support reproductive rights. "Bumble has created a relief fund supporting the reproductive rights of women and people across the gender spectrum who seek abortions in Texas," the company said as the state's new abortion law took effect this week. "We'll keep fighting against regressive laws like" the one in Texas, the company said, noting that it was founded by women and is led by CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd. Match Group CEO Dubey also called the Texas law regressive — a "big step back in women's rights," she said, noting that it does not allow exceptions to the ban for victims of rape or incest. Bumble's tweet announcement of its fund has met with a mixed response. Some commenters asked the company to reconsider the move — but others said the company should move out of Texas altogether."
ABC News reports:
"Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas filed for a temporary restraining order against an anti-abortion group in the latest stage of the fight for abortion rights. The request is to stop Texas Right to Life and associates from suing Planned Parenthood abortion providers and health care workers under Senate Bill 8, the six-week abortion ban that went into effect in Texas this week that is the most restrictive abortion law in effect in the nation. S.B. 8 curiously prohibits the state from enforcing the ban but allows private citizens to bring civil suits against anyone who "aids or abets" an abortion."
Kangaroo justice in a de facto fascist police-state. Democratic republic in name only. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
"Texas Right to Life has been at the forefront of the push for civilians to enforce the ban and has launched a website for people to submit claims that they know someone who gave or aided an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy."
Raw nazism. Readers are reminded abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
"The filing claims Texas Right to Life's "threatened implementation of the six-week ban and its enforcement scheme, as well as S.B. 8's fee-shifting provision, would cause imminent, irreparable injury" to Planned Parenthood providers and workers. "Anti-abortion activists are already staking out our health centers, surveilling our providers, and threatening our patients," Helene Krasnoff, vice president for public policy litigation and law, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement. "The physicians, nurses, and clinic staff at Planned Parenthood health centers in Texas — and at abortion providers statewide — deserve to come to work without fear of harassment or frivolous lawsuits."
Readers are reminded:
"The law went into effect at midnight Wednesday after the Supreme Court failed to respond to abortion providers' request for an emergency injunction while the law is being challenged in courts. The Supreme Court later issued an unsigned order refusing to block the law that experts see as blatantly unconstitutional under Supreme Court precedent."
Matters not in a de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only.
"In the hours before the law went into effect, abortion providers in Texas raced to provide care for patients up until midnight. Meanwhile, anti-abortion protesters rallied outside. Marva Sadler, Whole Woman's Health director of clinical services, told ABC News on Wednesday that walking out of the clinic in Fort Worth that night was "scary." "We knew that there were protesters out on the sidewalk," she said. "We knew that they were watching our every move. We felt almost infiltrated, as if we were being set up." While the law is in effect, it is continuing to be litigated."
A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous. traitorous, Seig Heil!, to the nazi element in the Republican Party.
The Associated Press reports:
"A judge has temporarily shielded some Texas abortion clinics from being sued by the state’s largest anti-abortion group under a new law banning most abortions. The temporary restraining order issued Friday by District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Austin in response to the Planned Parenthood request does not interfere with the enforcement of the law. However, it shields Planned Parenthood’s clinics, specifically, from whistleblower lawsuits by the nonprofit group Texas Right to Life, its legislative director and people working in concert with the group. A hearing on a preliminary injunction request is scheduled for Sept. 13. The temporary restraining order only shields Planned Parenthood clinics from Texas Right to Life lawsuits and doesn’t prevent Texas Right to Life from suing non-Planned Parenthood abortion clinics in Texas. It also doesn’t prevent people who aren’t affiliated with the Texas Right to Life from suing Planned Parenthood. The law, which took effect Wednesday, prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, which is usually around the sixth week of pregnancy and before some women realize they’re pregnant. The law also leaves enforcement to private citizens through lawsuits instead of to prosecutors through criminal charges. Planned Parenthood said in a statement Friday that the law was “already decimating abortion access in the state, as providers are forced to turn people away” once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity. It said historically, 85% to 90% of women who have gotten abortions in Texas were at least six weeks into their pregnancies. In its petition filed late Thursday, Planned Parenthood said that even if it prevails in every case filed against the group, the lawsuits would still accomplish the law’s goal to “harass abortion providers and others critical to a patient’s support network.” The group also said fighting the lawsuits could bankrupt those who are sued, since under the law they can’t recover attorney fees and costs if they win."
Kangaroo justice in a de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only.
"Texas Right to Life Vice President Elizabeth Graham said in a statement that her group expects the lawsuit to be dismissed and that, “until then, we will continue our diligent efforts to ensure the abortion industry fully follows” the new law."
A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, you national socialist, fascist pieces of shit. Who the hell are you bastards to force your perverse ideological and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion?
NBC News reports:
"Organization Texas Right to Life is urging citizens to submit anonymous tips on its website to help enforce the state's new anti-abortion law. So a handful of TikTokers decided to put whistleblowing into their own hands —by flooding the organization's website with Shrek porn (and other deliberately false information). The effort to troll the anti-abortion group was spearheaded by Gen Zers Victoria Hammett and Olivia Julianna, who both said they felt appalled by the recent legislation, which forbids abortions once cardiac activity is detected, which is usually around six weeks of pregnancy. The law also allows private citizens, including people who live outside of Texas, to sue abortion providers or anyone else who helped someone get an abortion after the six-week limit for at least $10,000 per defendant. "Texas has anonymously set up a system where you can report people who have gotten abortions," Hammett, 22, said in an Aug. 23 TikTok video, which has amassed more than 850,000 views. "Wouldn't it be so awful if we send in a bunch of fake tips and crashed the site? Like, 'Greg Abbott's butt stinks.'"
LOL.
"Julianna, 18, a native Texan, said she knew she wanted to take action after learning about Texas Right to Life's website. "I found out about this website and thought, 'We have to do whatever we can if they're going to use the internet against us — the very people who were raised on the internet,'" Julianna said. Shortly after, Hammett posted her own video to raise awareness about the anti-abortion website. Their message quickly exploded. "The reaction has been amazing because people have felt really lost in regards to this anti-abortion legislation, and this was just one way of fighting back against this new law," Hammett said. Many TikTok users, according to Hammett, have deliberately sent fake information to the website, including tips with titles like "Greg Abbott farts" or "calls to abort Ted Cruz."
LOL.
"Some have sent graphic images of Shrek, while others have reported excerpts from the 2007 film, "Bee Movie," or Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" series. TikToker Sean Black, 20, who asked NBC News not to use his real name out of fear for his safety, said he used his own software engineering expertise to get a little more creative. "I coded this bot that basically spams the website with fake submissions," he said. "Once the bot is downloaded, it will automatically open the website, fill out the form with fake data that makes it look like you're in Texas, submit it and then re-submit it, again and again." According to Black, more than 30,000 people have already downloaded the bot as of Friday afternoon. Attempting to crash the anti-abortion website is one of several initiatives that Gen Zers have spearheaded using TikTok as a tool to spread the word. Last year, some users launched an anti-racist campaign to flood some websites and apps that were collecting crime tips with K-pop fan videos."
Get this:
"Though some TikTokers said their submissions have led to the website crashing, Kim Schwartz, the director of media and communication at Texas Right for Life, told NBC News that the organization has not experienced any issues with the website so far. "People who have been saying it crashed are confused," she said in an email Thursday. "If people can't access it, it's because they're blocked. People who have been reporting fake tips get their IPs blocked." Schwartz said the group anticipated trolls, and has implemented safeguards on its website. She declined to specify the safeguards to prevent further spam.
"Even with preventative measures in place, Julianna said TikTokers, particularly Gen-Z teens, are just going to continue to do what they know how to do best. "What these anti-abortion people ought to realize is that this may only seem like a silly, trolling campaign to us young people, but this is our way to try to ruin their plan and buy us some more time to get Roe v. Wade federally codified," she said. "I don't think these anti-abortion people realize the internet isn't their space; it's ours. We grew up on it, and we know how to navigate it." Hammett agreed, adding that she knew messing with the website wasn't going to substantially prevent the anti-abortion law from being enforced. "This effort was to get more people talking about this problem," she said. "The most important thing right now is: We need to do more, we need to protest, we need to phone bank, and we need to go and vote Greg Abbott and these other Republican lawmakers out."
NPR reports:
"GoDaddy will no longer host a site set up by the Texas Right to Life to collect anonymous tips about when the state's new law banning almost all abortions was being violated."
How about that?
"The website promoted itself as a way to "help enforce the Texas Heartbeat Act," since the Texas law allows private citizens to sue anyone who performs or assists in an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant. On Thursday night, officials at GoDaddy informed the Texas Right to Life that it was violating the company's terms of service and would no longer provide hosting, giving the group 24 hours to find another provider before going dark, according to Dan Race, a GoDaddy spokesman. In recent days, the tip line has been inundated with fake reports from TikTok and Reddit users who sought to overwhelm and crash the site with prank messages."
Apparently, Texas Right to Life lied about the true effectiveness of TikTok and Reddit users.
"Some software developers helped further fuel the push to flood the tip line with spam by developing tools to make it easy. Portland, Ore.-based computer programmer Jonathan Díaz created an app, Pro-Life Buster, to generate fabricated stories that would be submitted at random times to the site. More than 1,000 made-up stories had been shared by users."
LOL.
"It's no one's business to know about people's abortions, and such a website is absolutely deplorable," Díaz wrote. "This is why we're pushing back." On GitHub, a site where developers share and collaborate on software code, Díaz wrote: "Hopefully these fake tips help make the system useless." GoDaddy confirmed to NPR that the digital tip line violated its prohibition on collecting personally identifiable information about someone without the person's consent. GoDaddy also bans sites that violate the privacy or confidentiality of another person."
Consider the Aryan arrogance of these national socialist, fascist pieces of human excrement:
"A representative for Texas Right to Life said in a statement that the group will not be silenced and that it is "not afraid of the mob."
Jesus Christ. What the hell is this? Reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini? Readers are reminded abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy.
"Our IT team is already in process of transferring our assets to another provider and we'll have the site restored within 24-48 hours," said spokeswoman Kimberlyn Schwartz."
A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, you fascist pieces of human excrement.
"Web hosting companies, which provide the out-of-sight infrastructure that keeps the Internet operating, have before come under pressure for hosting divisive content. Amazon Web Services stopped hosting right-leaning social media site Parler, citing its role in inciting violence in the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol. And GoDaddy, back in 2018, severed ties with conservative social network Gab after it emerged that the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter was a frequent user of the site. Alternative web hosting companies, like Epik, based in the Seattle area, and SkySilk, outside of Los Angeles, often have rescued polarizing sites that are booted from other web hosting companies for violating rules or giving a platform to incendiary or violent content. Officials from Epik and SkySilk have not said whether one of the companies will support the Texas Right to Life site."
NBC News reports:
"For Native American women living on tribal lands, obtaining an abortion has long been a difficult and daunting process. For Native women in Texas, that challenge has been magnified after the U.S. Supreme Court refused this week to block the state's ban on most abortions, underscoring the unique health disparities that Indigenous women have long faced and the potential threats to their health, said Charon Asetoyer, executive director of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center. Asetoyer, a Comanche tribe descendant, fears that many Native women, who already suffer from the highest rates of rape and sexual assault, will be unable to find the monetary means to access a safe and legal abortion outside Texas — if that's even an option for them — or be forced to give birth under already strenuous and financially fraught circumstances. Indigenous women in the United States are more than twice as likely than white women to die from conditions caused or exacerbated by pregnancy. "It's certainly a whole other level of mental anxiety and cruelty that's forced upon us," Asetoyer said. "Our right, our human right, to make this decision is being taken from us."
... By the nazi element in the Republican Party which remains determined to force its perverse ideology and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"She hoped to shine a light on Native American maternal mortality rates. Instead, she became a statistic of it. Abortion-related data available through the federal Indian Health Service, or IHS, which provides health care access to about 2.5 million American Indians and Alaska Natives, is woefully incomplete, activists and researchers say. Asetoyer helped to spearhead a survey in 2002 that found 85 percent of IHS health care facilities did not comply with the agency's official abortion policy, and at 62 percent of the facilities, staff said that they do not provide abortion services or funding even in cases where the woman's life is endangered by the pregnancy. That is in violation of the Hyde Amendment, which was enacted by Congress in 1976. The measure — whose namesake was GOP Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois — essentially prohibits federal funds to be used for abortion services except for pregnancies that were the result of rape or incest or if the woman's life is at risk. Many states also require women seeking abortions to have filed police reports within a certain time frame. After the Hyde Amendment was passed, the IHS said it performed 25 abortions over a 20-year period, according to researchers. The IHS did not immediately respond to a request for the latest available abortion-related statistics or comment about the process for Native women on tribal lands who are seeking abortions. Asetoyer said the problem remains that many IHS facilities simply don't have the resources to perform abortions or their employees mistakenly believe that all forms of abortion are illegal. "They don't even provide abortions under the restrictions of the Hyde Amendment," she added. The main IHS website doesn't specifically mention abortion on its "reproductive health" page nor does its health manual reference allowances for abortions related to rape or incest."
Why not?
"Activists say that's particularly troubling given that 1 in 3 Native women are raped or the victim of attempted rape, according to 2012 Justice Department statistics."
Outrageous. Intolerable.
"Texas' new abortion law is the most restrictive in the nation, and bans such a procedure once a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat, which is usually around six weeks and may even be before some women realize they're pregnant. The act makes an exception for medical emergencies that would affect the mother's health, but not for rape or incest. Even with the state law in place, Native women in Texas who get care through the IHS would theoretically have more permissive access to an abortion since the Hyde Amendment does make exceptions for rape or incest. But tribal and urban IHS health centers in Texas contacted by NBC News said they do not provide abortion services regardless."
Why not?
"Native women seeking an abortion typically have to venture off the reservation, which can be a taxing experience if the nearest clinic is in a city that might be hundreds of miles away, requiring extensive travel and out-of-pocket costs. Asetoyer, who resides on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, said that has been the case in her state, where the only clinic offering abortions — a Planned Parenthood in Sioux Falls — paused procedures for seven months in 2020 because of pandemic-related restrictions. More than 450 women had to travel out of state, South Dakota News Watch reported. For those women, particularly Native women living in poverty, getting a safe abortion may simply be unrealistic, said Sarah Deer, a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Kansas and a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. Adding yet another distressing layer to the issue of how Native women have historically been denied their reproductive rights, about 3,400 of them — including three dozen under 21 — were forcibly sterilized by the IHS in the 1970s. The practice was part of the federal government's "family planning" services, and was explored in the 2018 documentary "Amá" about the consequences of coerced sterilization. "Understanding reproductive justice in a historical context is the government saying, 'We don't want you to have babies. We don't want any more Indians to take care of. Your children will be removed,'" Deer said. "The message we want to send now is that all reproductive justice in Indian Country is laden with these really difficult issues."
Outrageously unconstitutional law based on a ruse. NPR reports:
"The Texas Abortion Ban Hinges On 'Fetal Heartbeat.' Doctors Call That Misleading."
Disingenuously designed to force the perverse ideological and religious views of the nazi element in the Republican Party on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"The term "fetal heartbeat," as used in the new anti-abortion law in Texas, is misleading and not based on science, say physicians who specialize in reproductive health. What the ultrasound machine detects in an embryo at six weeks of pregnancy is actually just electrical activity from cells that aren't yet a heart. And the sound that you "hear" is actually manufactured by the ultrasound machine. The Texas abortion law that went into effect this week reads: "A physician may not knowingly perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman if the physician detected a fetal heartbeat for the unborn child." The new law defines "fetal heartbeat" as "cardiac activity or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart within the gestational sac" and claims that a pregnant woman could use that signal to determine "the likelihood of her unborn child surviving to full-term birth." But the medical-sounding term "fetal heartbeat" is being used in this law — and others like it — in a misleading way, say physicians who specialize in reproductive health. What we're really detecting is a grouping of cells that are initiating some electrical activity. In no way is this detecting a functional cardiovascular system or a functional heart. "When I use a stethoscope to listen to an [adult] patient's heart, the sound that I'm hearing is caused by the opening and closing of the cardiac valves," says Dr. Nisha Verma, an OB-GYN who specializes in abortion care and works at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The sound generated by an ultrasound in very early pregnancy is quite different, she says. "At six weeks of gestation, those valves don't exist," she explains. "The flickering that we're seeing on the ultrasound that early in the development of the pregnancy is actually electrical activity, and the sound that you 'hear' is actually manufactured by the ultrasound machine." That's why "the term 'fetal heartbeat' is pretty misleading," says Dr. Jennifer Kerns, an OB-GYN and associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco. "What we're really detecting is a grouping of cells that are initiating some electrical activity," she explains. "In no way is this detecting a functional cardiovascular system or a functional heart." Kerns adds that health care providers might use the term "fetal heartbeat" in conversations with patients during this early stage of pregnancy, but it's not actually a clinical term. "This is a term that is not widely used in medicine," Kern says. "I think this is an example of where we are sometimes trying to translate medical lingo in a way that patients can understand, and this is a really unfortunate side effect of this type of translation."
Precisely, why this needs to change. Why facilitate, why wind up enabling the nazi element in the Republican Party and all those who oppose abortion to distort reality to force their perverse ideological and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion?
"The text of the Texas law claims that "fetal heartbeat has become a key medical predictor that an unborn child will reach live birth" and continues, "the pregnant woman has a compelling interest in knowing the likelihood of her unborn child surviving to full-term birth based on the presence of cardiac activity." But obstetricians say that's not how this information is used by health care providers. "We don't use it to date of pregnancy," says Dr. Samantha Kaplan, an OB-GYN at Boston Medical Center and assistant professor at Boston University's School of Medicine. "Or, honestly, to predict that pregnancy is going to continue until delivery." For plenty of people, she says, this activity is detected and the pregnancy still ends in a miscarriage. "There is nothing specific and meaningful and relevant about the detection of cardiac activity at this gestation that implies anything that's relevant for women's health or for pregnancies," says Kerns. "It is one indicator — among many indicators — that a pregnancy may or may not be progressing with some expected milestones." Under the Texas law, women have to know they are pregnant very quickly: "Six weeks is just not enough time." In reality, it would be really hard for a woman to know she's pregnant before the point at which cardiac activity would be detectable by an ultrasound. She would have to be tracking her periods carefully, have regular periods, notice her period was late and then be able to quickly get an appointment with her doctor to confirm a pregnancy. "Periods vary in length — and can be normal — from 21 to 42 days," Kaplan says, adding that "late" periods can happen for many reasons, some of which have nothing to do with being pregnant. "It can be because of stress, it can be because it changes in sleep, changes in weight, travel — all of those things can do it. We actually aggressively counsel women they shouldn't be panicked about being a week or two late." Pregnancies are dated from the start of a woman's last period. A few weeks after that, if fertilization and implantation occur, Kern says, there's "a window of a few days, maybe a week or two at the most, where you can actually detect an intrauterine pregnancy [with an ultrasound] before you detect any kind of cardiac motion or electrical activity," says Kerns. The Texas law is "clearly trying to move the needle back to almost to the point of detection of pregnancy with the goal of outlawing nearly all abortions," she adds."
Raw nazism. De facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only.
NBC News reports:
"Hours after Texas’s restrictive abortion law went into effect on Wednesday, Blair Wallace took to Houston’s Tranquility Park with some 60 other people in protest. “It’s not a surprise to me that the Republican leadership at the Texas legislature would allow something like this to go through,” Wallace, a policy and advocacy strategist with the ACLU of Texas, told NBC News. “We know the brunt of this will fall on our Black and brown communities, and our poor communities the most.”
Already, has.
"Wallace is one of many critics of Senate Bill 8, which bans abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy and allows anyone to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps someone get the procedure after the time frame. Wallace, who worked with the ACLU of Texas to halt the bill, and others say it would make getting an abortion in Texas nearly impossible and disproportionately affect poor people who give birth, especially Black and Latino residents. People would have to drive 248 miles on average to undergo the procedure out of state, up from 12 miles in state, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization that researches reproductive rights. People with money could fly out of state to get an abortion. But for those with lower incomes, work obligations, lack of transportation, and financial struggles could make it far more difficult to leave Texas. As many as 8 out of 10 people who need abortions could be forced to continue their pregnancies, according to The University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Policy Evaluation Project."
Ladies? You no longer own your uterus according to this outrageously unconstitutional law. The nazi element in the Republican Party most certainly delusionally believes it does.
"Marsha Jones, executive director of The Afiya Center, which partners with abortion centers and provides people with resources to access safe abortion services, said laws like the new one in Texas only perpetuate poverty for poor and Black and Latino people. “When systems are in place that force folks to have children that they cannot take care of, and there’s no system in place to assist them with taking care of those children, nothing but a system that penalizes our parenting, you’re creating generational poverty,” Jones said."
No question. As intended by the nazi element in the Republican Party to keep the masses under its jackbooted boot heel. Called power.
"Texas Republicans maintain that the abortion legislation is intended to save lives. But research shows that unintended pregnancies hold people back from completing education and getting and keeping a job, and even lead to poor health and economic outcomes for the children. People denied abortions are more likely to live in poverty, with economic instability and poor physical health."
Texas Republicans are congenital liars lying out their ass. If they were so concerned with loss of innocent life, they would be screaming bloody murder about all the innocent, unarmed civilians being murdered by the criminal, out of control, jackbooted bastards in blue. Instead, they defend, protect and coddle these murderous thugs in uniform. Stunning hypocrisy. Galling. Aryan arrogant. Nazi.
"The move is the latest in a string of Republican-led legislation that would disproportionately impact poor people in the country. Last year, Donald Trump was voted out of the White House after months of historic anti-racism and police brutality protests. This year, in many states, Trump’s party has regrouped and enacted tough new laws on subjects ranging from voting rights and Medicaid to education and abortion rights."
That's right. Our formerly great country is now a de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only. Courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party.
"By May, state Republicans had introduced at least 253 restrictive voting bills in 43 states, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law. As of August, eight states had passed election laws that opponents say make it harder for people, placing restrictions on everything from in-person voting to mail-in voting."
Voter suppression. Clearly, the only way Republican nazis now think they can win elections.
"Officials have said the restrictions would have the effect of silencing Black voters and other voters of color, who are credited with powering Joe Biden’s presidential win. And as oppressed groups battle voter suppression, they must also contend with GOP efforts to limit Medicaid. At least 12 states, including Texas, Florida and Georgia, have refused to expand Medicaid, deciding to stick with Trump-era restrictions that would allow funding caps on health care and work requirements for low-income recipients. “Poverty is a policy choice. It all seems very intentional,” said organizer and activist Johnathan Perkins, who co-hosts “Black&,” a podcast about identity and racism. “There’s no reason that there should be people starving to death in the wealthiest nation to ever exist. And the people who are in power benefit.” “The GOP has made these wedge issues, so they have to come up with laws and enforce them against the people they see as their enemies, or not going to vote for them, i.e. Black people, poor people. That’s why gerrymandering is a thing.”
Democratic republic in name only. In reality, a de facto fascist police-state to keep the masses under the boot heel of the top of the food chain.
"Gerrymandering has been a major concern for organizers and Democrats throughout this redistricting cycle. This year represents the first redistricting process since the Supreme Court gutted key federal voting-rights protections against discriminatory maps in 2013 and, in 2019, decided to allow partisan gerrymandering. As a result, advocates have warned that in states where they control the legislature, Republicans could draw boundaries that would diminish the power of Black and Latino communities. On Wednesday, a separate Texas law banning homeless encampments throughout the state went into effect. The bill makes it a class C misdemeanor to camp in unapproved public spaces. The move comes shortly after the city of Austin reinstated its public camping ban, approved by voters earlier this year, making it a class C misdemeanor punishable by an up to $500 fine. Organizers across the country who have worked to combat these GOP-led bills said they would only make life more difficult for poor people in the country. Organizers across the country have launched crusades against Republican-backed anti-protest bills, gerrymandering attempts, and laws that would harm and criminalize unhoused people. It is this organizing that Perkins maintains is key to combating legislation that would disproportionately impact poor people. “What we do is look to the people that are doing the good work on the ground of organizing,” Perkins said. “In order to combat what the GOP is doing, we have to trust, support, and follow the Black and brown women who are doing the hard work.”
... As Texas women no longer own their uterus. --The nazi element in the Republican Party most certainly, delusionally believes it does.
NBC News reports:
"The ripple effect after Texas’ highly restrictive anti-abortion law went into effect was immediate. Within 24 hours, legislators in at least six states — Florida, Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, North Dakota and South Dakota — expressed interest in introducing similar legislation."
As our formerly great country continues to nazify courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party.
"With state legislatures out of session, most of the bills won’t be introduced right away. But abortion rights advocates say the threat to women’s reproductive freedom across the United States has already begun — and extends far beyond abortion. “It’s important to realize that the attacks on abortion are not the endgame for the anti-choice movement,” said Kristin Ford, the acting vice president of communications and research for NARAL Pro-Choice America. “It is not the sole focus for their efforts or their vision for what the future of this country looks like.” Much of the movement’s efforts center on when a fetus or an embryo is entitled to rights, she said, which has led a number of states to propose “personhood” legislation over the years. The bills typically define human life as beginning at the moment of fertilization and propose legal protection from that moment. Such bills could gain momentum and affect access to contraceptives or what happens to unused embryos in in-vitro fertilization procedures, said Jessica Arons, senior advocacy and policy counsel for reproductive freedom at the American Civil Liberties Union."
Get this:
"She and other reproductive rights experts foresee two consequences of Texas’ law. In the near term, they said, they expect more copycat anti-abortion legislation to be proposed, with other states emulating Senate Bill 8’s first-of-its-kind language. Then, they anticipate that the momentum from S.B. 8 could help the anti-abortion movement achieve its broader ambitions. “Certainly, their long-term goal is not just to eliminate legal abortion in this country. It is to enshrine personhood in our laws,” Arons said."
Raw nazism:
"S.B. 8 went into effect after a divided Supreme Court declined to block it. It bans abortions once fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which is as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women are even aware that they are pregnant. What makes the law unique is how it is enforced. The state government doesn’t ensure it is followed; rather, private citizens, including those outside Texas, can sue abortion providers or people who help women get abortions after the six-week mark, and they can receive $10,000 plus the cost of their legal fees if they win their lawsuits. Having citizens rather than the government enforce the rule “was the linchpin for the Supreme Court allowing the law to go into effect,” said Elizabeth Nash, a state policy analyst with the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization that researches reproductive rights. “They’re outsourcing enforcement. That’s key,” she said."
Outrageously unconstitutional. No more than kangaroo justice in a de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only.
"Arons said the enforcement mechanism is concerning, and not just for reproductive freedoms. “The fact that Texas has discovered this end run around the Constitution by going this route of private enforcement rather than government enforcement is something that really puts every fundamental right at risk,” she said. “I think this is just the beginning, especially if the Supreme Court continues to choose inaction in the face of threats to fundamental rights.”
... Hear the rumble? Too deaf to hear? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. As these perverse nazis in the Republican Party continue to impose their ideology and religious views on all.
"S.B. 8 has made abortions nearly impossible to obtain in Texas. The average one-way driving distance for pregnant women went from 12 miles to 248 miles, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Less than a week after the near-total abortion ban was implemented, other states were already fielding calls from women in Texas in need of services. Last Friday, Dr. Colleen McNicholas, the chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, said her health centers were hearing from women in Texas. “It is a shame that in the most resourced country in the world that people are having to travel hundreds of miles for basic reproductive health care,” she said. Many of the patients are coming simply to get medication, not for a procedure, she added. Missouri, where McNicholas is, could be the next state to ban most abortions: A federal hearing is scheduled this month to review its ban on abortions at eight weeks’ gestation with no exceptions for rape or incest. “I can’t tell you the number of people I’ve heard say things like ‘Roe will never be overturned.’ The reality is it doesn’t have to be overturned for the effects to be completely devastating on a community.”
Thanks to the nazi element in the Republican Party and six Republican nazis on the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Although Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that deemed a woman’s right to an abortion to be constitutionally protected, still legalizes abortions on the federal level, “many of us have already been operating in a post-Roe world,” McNicholas said. “Many of those we serve already have such limited access that the value of Roe has already been decimated,” she said. “I can’t tell you the number of people I’ve heard say things like ‘Roe will never be overturned.’ The reality is it doesn’t have to be overturned for the effects to be completely devastating on a community.”
... Hear the rumble?
The Associated Press reports:
"The Justice Department said Monday that it will not tolerate violence against anyone who is trying to obtain an abortion in Texas as federal officials explore options to challenge a new state law that bans most abortions. Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department would “protect those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services” under a federal law known as the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Garland said in a statement that federal prosecutors are still urgently exploring options to challenge the Texas law. He said the Justice Department would enforce the federal law “in order to protect the constitutional rights of women and other persons, including access to an abortion.”
Has to be far, far more than empty, hollow rhetoric, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. President.
"The federal law, commonly known as the FACE Act, prohibits physically obstructing or using the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking reproductive health services."
Been going on for years. Why hasn't the law been enforced heretofore?
"The law also prohibits damaging property at abortion clinics and other reproductive health centers."
What good is law when it is not enforced?
"Justice Department officials have also been in contact with U.S. attorneys in Texas and the FBI field offices in the state to discuss enforcing the federal provisions. “The department will provide support from federal law enforcement when an abortion clinic or reproductive health center is under attack,” Garland said. “We will not tolerate violence against those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services, physical obstruction or property damage in violation of the FACE Act.”
Time to get up off your ass and enforce the law. Uphold the U.S. Constitution including the Bill of Rights. To date, you bastards have done a piss-poor job. Egregiously failed to challenge the nazi element destroying our formerly great country. In reality, a de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only.
NBC News reports:
"Hours after Texas’ restrictive abortion law went into effect Wednesday, Blair Wallace took to Houston’s Tranquility Park with some 60 other people in protest. “It’s not a surprise to me that the Republican leadership at the Texas Legislature would allow something like this to go through,” said Wallace, a policy and advocacy strategist with the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas. “We know the brunt of this will fall on our Black and brown communities and our poor communities the most.”
... As clearly intended by the nazi element in the Republican Party.
"Wallace is one of many critics of Senate Bill 8, which bans abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy and allows anyone to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps someone get the procedure after the time frame."
Kangaroo justice in a de facto fascist police-state.
"Wallace, who worked with the ACLU of Texas to halt the bill, and others say it will make getting an abortion in Texas nearly impossible and disproportionately affect poor people who give birth, especially Black and Latino residents. People would have to drive 248 miles on average to undergo the procedure out of state, up from 12 miles in state, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization that researches reproductive rights. People with money could fly out of state to get abortions. But for those with lower incomes, work obligations, lack of transportation, and financial struggles could make it far more difficult to leave Texas. As many as 8 of 10 people who seek abortions could be forced to continue their pregnancies, according to the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Policy Evaluation Project. Marsha Jones, executive director of the Afiya Center, which partners with abortion centers and provides people with resources to access safe abortion services, said laws like Texas’ only perpetuate poverty for poor and Black and Latino people. “When systems are in place that force folks to have children that they cannot take care of and there’s no system in place to assist them with taking care of those children, nothing but a system that penalizes our parenting, you’re creating generational poverty,” Jones said."
As intended by the nazi element in the Republican Party. A matter of control. Not to neglect to mention domination by the top of the food chain.
"Texas Republicans maintain that the abortion legislation is intended to save lives."
Delusionally, think so? Consider the following:
"Research shows that unintended pregnancies hold people back from completing their educations and getting and keeping jobs and even lead to poor health and economic outcomes for the children. People denied abortions are more likely to live in poverty, with economic instability and poor physical health."
How many lives are lost due to this disparity that Republican national socialists, fascists deliberately impose to maintain their status at the top of the food chain?
Get this:
"A string of Republican-led measures that would disproportionately affect poor people around the country. Last year, President Donald Trump was voted out of the White House after months of historic anti-racism and police brutality protests. This year, in many states, Trump’s party has regrouped and enacted tough new laws about subjects ranging voting rights and Medicaid to education and abortion rights. By May, Republicans had introduced at least 253 restrictive voting bills in 43 states, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law. As of last month, eight states had passed election laws that opponents say make it harder for people, placing restrictions on in-person voting to mail-in voting. Officials have said the restrictions would silence Black voters and other voters of color, who are credited with powering Joe Biden’s presidential win. And as oppressed groups battle voter suppression, they must also contend with GOP efforts to limit Medicaid. At least 12 states, including Texas, Florida and Georgia, have refused to expand Medicaid, deciding to stick with Trump-era restrictions that allow work requirements and funding caps on health care for low-income recipients."
Sadly, the following is abundantly clear:
“Poverty is a policy choice. It all seems very intentional,” said organizer and activist Johnathan Perkins, who co-hosts “Black&,” a podcast about identity and racism. “There’s no reason that there should be people starving to death in the wealthiest nation to ever exist. And the people who are in power benefit. “The GOP has made these wedge issues, so they have to come up with laws and enforce them against the people they see as their enemies or not going to vote for them — i.e. Black people, poor people,” Perkins said. “That’s why gerrymandering is a thing.” Gerrymandering has been a major concern for organizers and Democrats throughout this redistricting cycle. This year’s is the first redistricting process since the Supreme Court gutted key federal voting rights protections against discriminatory maps in 2013 and, in 2019, decided to allow partisan gerrymandering. As a result, advocates have warned that in states where they control the legislatures, Republicans could draw boundaries that would diminish the power of Black and Latino communities. A separate Texas law banning homeless encampments throughout the state went into effect Wednesday. The bill makes it a class C misdemeanor to camp in unapproved public spaces. The move comes shortly after the city of Austin reinstated its public camping ban, which voters approved this year, making it a class C misdemeanor punishable by an up to $500 fine."
How do you successfully loot offenders $500 when they can't afford housing? They'll wind up laying it out in jail at taxpayer expense.
"Organizers across the country who have worked to combat the GOP-led bills said they would only make life more difficult for poor people. Organizers have launched crusades against Republican-backed anti-protest bills and gerrymandering attempts and laws that would harm and criminalize unhoused people. It is this organizing that Perkins maintains is key to combating legislation that would disproportionately affect poor people. “What we do is look to the people that are doing the good work on the ground of organizing,” Perkins said. “In order to combat what the GOP is doing, we have to trust, support and follow the Black and brown women who are doing the hard work.”
NPR reports:
"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is again under fire for his state's restrictive new abortion law, after falsely claiming it does not force victims of rape or incest to give birth even though it prohibits abortions at about six weeks — which is before many people even know they're pregnant. At a bill signing for a different piece of legislation Tuesday, Abbott was asked about forcing a rape or incest victim to carry their pregnancy to term. He misleadingly replied that the law does not require that and went on to say that the state will "work tirelessly" to "eliminate all rapists." "Obviously, it provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion and so, for one, it doesn't provide that," Abbott said. "That said ... Rape is a crime, and Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets."
Think so? Get this:
"In fact, the countdown for those six weeks starts from the first date of a person's last period (not the "expected" period that was missed), leaving many with only about 1-2 weeks to end the pregnancy, if that, under the new law.
"Reporter: Why force a rape or incest victim to carry a pregnancy to term?
"Gov.
Greg Abbott (R-TX): "It doesn't require that at all, because obviously
it provides at least 6 weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion."
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"Abbott's latest comments are drawing a fresh round of criticism from opponents of the law, which bans abortion as soon as cardiac activity is detectable. Many people don't yet know they're pregnant at that stage, and those who do would have just days to make a decision, attend the state's requisite two clinic visits and undergo the procedure. "Oh please," tweeted Planned Parenthood Action PAC, response to a video of Abbott's comments. "If you don't understand many people don't even know they're pregnant until after 6 weeks, then you shouldn't be restricting their options." (Planned Parenthood has said only about 10-15% of Texans who obtain abortions in the state are fewer than six weeks into pregnancy.)"
Sadly, congenital lying seems to be a problem for nazis in the Republican Party.
"Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York slammed Abbott in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, saying he lacks basic knowledge of biology. "I'm sorry we have to break down Biology 101 on national television, but in case no one has informed him before in his life, six weeks pregnant means two weeks late for your period," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And two weeks late on your period ... can happen if you're stressed, if your diet changes, or for really no reason at all. So you don't have six weeks."
"He speaks from such a place of deep ignorance, and it's not just ignorance. It's ignorance that's hurting people."
"Democratic
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Texas's GOP Gov. Abbott for defending
the state's abortion law by saying he's working to "eliminate all rapists."
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Sad, isn't it, the Governor remains so determinedly ignorant?
"As the 19th News puts it, "Six weeks of pregnancy does not mean six weeks to get an abortion." It explains further: "Gestational age begins at the end of a previous period, and the first sign of pregnancy is often missing one's period. A typical menstrual cycle lasts 28 days, or about four weeks. A person cannot get pregnant until after they have ovulated, which generally happens halfway through the cycle." So if someone has a regular menstrual period, they may know they are pregnant as soon as four weeks into their pregnancy, leaving them two weeks to arrange an abortion. People with irregular periods may not know until later, or should take a test — and many tests can't detect pregnancy before a missed period. Plus, not all people are actively monitoring to see if they're pregnant, The 19th adds, with almost half of all pregnancies unplanned.
"Ocasio-Cortez also took issue with Abbott's comments on rape, noting that the majority of people who are raped and sexually assaulted are assaulted by someone that they know. The anti-sexual violence nonprofit RAINN says 8 out of 10 rapes are committed by someone known to the victim. "These aren't just predators that are walking around the streets at night. They are peoples' uncles, they are teachers, they are family friends, and when something like that happens it takes a very long time, first of all, for any victim to come forward," Ocasio-Cortez added. "And second of all, when a victim comes forward, they don't necessarily want to bring their case into the carceral system."
Ocasio-Cortez isn't the only one highly critical of our Governor:
"Democratic Rep. Lizzie Fletcher of Texas told MSNBC that Abbott's talk of eliminating rape is "magical thinking," saying his actions and priorities say otherwise. She pointed to the state's backlog of untested rape kits. However, Abbott did sign legislation in 2019 to tackle that backlog, which one of its Democratic sponsors said this year has reduced that number by 80%. State lawmakers passed several bills this year related to rape kit funding and reform. The Texas Association Against Sexual Assault shared information on how sexual assault survivors can find a crisis center in their area, noting that extensive coverage of the new abortion law "has left many survivors feeling scared, vulnerable, and confused."
"Dear
sexual assault survivors in Texas:
"The
extensive media coverage surrounding the new abortion law has left many
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Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve. Forfeiture of liberty. At the hands of outrageously corrupt and abusive government.
9-3-21
The nazi element in the Republican Party in Texas delusionally believes it owns your uterus, ladies. Does it? The Associated Press reports:
"A Texas law banning most abortions in the state took effect Wednesday, with the Supreme Court silent on an emergency appeal to put the law on hold."
Expect better of the six Republican nazis on the court? Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
"If allowed to remain in force, the law would be the most far-reaching restriction on abortion rights in the United States since the high court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion across the country in 1973. The Texas law, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in May, prohibits abortions once a heartbeat can be detected in a fetus, usually around six weeks and before most women know they’re pregnant. In a statement after the law took effect, President Joe Biden said it “blatantly violates the constitutional right established under Roe v. Wade and upheld as precedent for nearly half a century.” And he said the law “outrageously” gives private citizens the power “to bring lawsuits against anyone who they believe has helped another person get an abortion.”
Raw nazism. Kangaroo justice in all its 'glory.' A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, you nazi bastards in the Republican Party. Readers are reminded abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms as our formerly great country continues to nazify. A de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only. Courtesy of Republican national socialists, fascists, nazis.
"In a phone call with reporters early Wednesday, Marc Hearron, a lawyer for the Center for Reproductive Rights, said that “as of now, most abortion is banned in Texas.” Hearron said the abortion providers his group represents were still hoping to hear from the Supreme Court. They have said the law would rule out 85% of abortions in Texas and force many clinics to close. Planned Parenthood is among the abortion providers that have stopped scheduling abortions beyond six weeks from conception. Abortion rights advocates say the Texas law will force many women to travel out of state for abortions, if they can afford to do so and also navigate issues including childcare and taking time off work. It is also expected to increase the number of women seeking to self-induce abortions using pills obtained by mail. At least 12 other states have enacted bans on abortion early in pregnancy, but all have been blocked from going into effect."
Kangaroo justice in a de facto fascist police-state:
"What makes the Texas law different is its unusual enforcement scheme. Rather than have officials responsible for enforcing the law, private citizens are authorized to sue abortion providers and anyone involved in facilitating abortions. Among other situations, that would include anyone who drives a woman to a clinic to get an abortion. Under the law, anyone who successfully sues another person would be entitled to at least $10,000. Abortion opponents who wrote the law also made it difficult to challenge the law in court, in part because it’s hard to know whom to sue. Late into the night Tuesday before the ban took effect clinics were filled with patients, said Amy Hagstrom Miller, CEO of Whole Women’s Health, which has four abortion clinics in Texas. Twenty-seven women were still in the waiting room after 10 p.m. at one clinic, leaving doctors crying and scrambling over whether they would see all of them in time, she said. The last abortion at one of her clinics finished at 11:56 p.m. in Fort Worth, where Hagstrom Miller said anti-abortion activists outside shined bright lights in the parking lot after dark looking for wrongdoing, and twice called police. “This morning I woke up feeling deep sadness. I’m worried. I’m numb,” she said. On the other side, Republican state Rep. Shelby Slawson wrote on Facebook after the ban took effect that it was “with great sadness that I relate to you that late into the night, some in Texas were scrambling to end as many unborn lives as they could before the clock struck midnight.” Her colleague, Republican state Rep. Jeff Leach wrote on Twitter after the ban went into effect that “LIFE is winning in America ... and Texas is leading the way!”
Raw nazism. These fascist traitors delusionally believe they own your uterus, ladies. Do they? They delusionally force their perverse ideological and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
NPR reports:
"With the U.S. Supreme Court mum, a new law went into effect in Texas that bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. That's well before many women even know they are pregnant. The law allows private citizens to sue abortion providers and anyone else who helps a woman obtain an abortion — including those who give a woman a ride to a clinic or provide financial assistance to obtain an abortion. Private citizens who bring these suits don't need to show any connection to those they are suing. The law makes no exceptions for cases involving rape or incest. It bans abortion as soon as cardiac activity is detectable. That's around six weeks, which is before a lot of people know that they're pregnant. Other states have tried to do this, but those laws have been challenged by abortion-rights groups and blocked by federal courts again and again. Groups who oppose abortion rights have pushed for this Texas law, hoping that it will be harder for federal courts to knock it down. Instead of requiring public officials to enforce the law, this law allows individuals to bring civil lawsuits against abortion providers or anyone else found to "aid or abet" illegal abortions."
That's called kangaroo justice.
"Anyone who successfully sues an abortion provider under this law could be awarded at least $10,000. And to prepare for that, Texas Right to Life has set up what it calls a "whistleblower" website where people can submit anonymous tips about anyone they believe to be violating the law."
Raw nazism.
Get this. An egregious lie perpetrated by the nazi element:
"These lawsuits are not against the women," says John Seago with Texas Right to Life. "The lawsuits would be against the individuals making money off of the abortion, the abortion industry itself. So this is not spy on your neighbor and see if they're having an abortion."
No more than a delusional crock of shit by this nazi and others who think like him and are desperate to force their perverse ideological and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"In a federal lawsuit challenging this, a coalition of abortion providers and reproductive rights groups said the law "places a bounty on people who provide or aid abortions, inviting random strangers to sue them." While Texas doctors say they will comply with the new law, they must address patients' concerns and questions, including about how to get an out-of-state procedure. Dr. Bhavik Kumar, a family medicine doctor who works for Planned Parenthood in Houston, says the law creating a lot of uncertainty for patients and providers. But Kumar insists he will comply. The ban, though, will likely mean a lot of questions from patients about how they can get an abortion outside of Texas, Kumar said. "I know that there are many people who don't have the ability to make it out of state ... The logistics and ability to do so is not an option for them," he said. "So I'm really concerned about what's going to happen to people."
... Hear the rumble?
"If the federal courts ultimately allow this law to stand, it's very likely that other conservative states will move to pass similar laws. Seago, with Texas Right to Life, said his organization is working with activists in multiple states who are eager to replicate this model if it succeeds in blocking access to most abortions in Texas. "It is still a bit untested. We're still working on what these lawsuits are going to look like if the industry decides to break the law," Seago said. "So it is a new model that we're still testing out." Multiple court challenges to the law are underway, including several lawsuits in state court in Texas targeting anti-abortion-rights groups including Texas Right to Life. Abortion rights groups are also organizing protests and demonstrations in Texas in opposition to the law. A spokeswoman for Texas Right to Life told NPR that no lawsuits against abortion providers are imminent, and abortion providers say they will comply with the law as long as it is in effect."
The Associated Press reports:
"President Joe Biden on Thursday lambasted the Supreme Court’s decision not to block a new Texas law banning most abortions in the state and directed federal agencies to do what they can to “insulate women and providers” from the impact. Hours earlier, in the middle of the night, a deeply divided high court allowed the law to remain in force in the nation’s biggest abortion curb since the court legalized the operation nationwide a half-century ago. The court voted 5-4 to deny an emergency appeal from abortion providers and others but also suggested that their order likely wasn’t the last word and other challenges can be brought. Biden said his administration will launch a “whole-of-government effort to respond to this decision” and look at “what steps the federal government can take to ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions as protected by Roe.” He said women should be protected from “the impact of Texas’ bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement to private parties.” Biden, who has come under pressure from Democrats to expand the size of the Supreme Court, has ordered a review of the court that is due next month."
About time. What took so long?
"The Texas law, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in May, prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks and before many women know they’re pregnant. It is the strictest law against abortion rights in the United States since the high court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 and part of a broader push by Republicans nationwide to impose new restrictions on abortion. At least 12 other states have enacted bans early in pregnancy, but all have been blocked from going into effect. The high court’s order declining to halt the Texas law came just before midnight Wednesday. The majority said those bringing the case had not met the high burden required for a stay of the law. “In reaching this conclusion, we stress that we do not purport to resolve definitively any jurisdictional or substantive claim in the applicants’ lawsuit. In particular, this order is not based on any conclusion about the constitutionality of Texas’s law, and in no way limits other procedurally proper challenges to the Texas law, including in Texas state courts,” the unsigned order said. Chief Justice John Roberts dissented along with the court’s three liberal justices. Each of the four dissenting justices wrote separate statements expressing their disagreement with the majority. Roberts noted that while the majority denied the request for emergency relief “the Court’s order is emphatic in making clear that it cannot be understood as sustaining the constitutionality of the law at issue.” The vote in the case underscores the impact of the death of the liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last year and then-president Donald Trump’s replacement of her with conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Had Ginsburg remained on the court there would have been five votes to halt the Texas law. Justice Sonia Sotomayor called her conservative colleagues’ decision “stunning.” “Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of Justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand,” she wrote. Texas lawmakers wrote the law to evade federal court review by allowing private citizens to bring lawsuits in state court against anyone involved in an abortion, other than the patient. Other abortion laws are enforced by state and local officials, with criminal sanctions possible. In contrast, Texas’ law allows private citizens to sue abortion providers and anyone involved in facilitating abortions. Among other situations, that would include anyone who drives a woman to a clinic to get an abortion. Under the law, anyone who successfully sues another person would be entitled to at least $10,000. In her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan called the law “patently unconstitutional,” saying it allows “private parties to carry out unconstitutional restrictions on the State’s behalf.” And Justice Stephen Breyer said a “woman has a federal constitutional right to obtain an abortion during” the first stage of pregnancy."
United Press International reports:
"The Supreme Court late Wednesday declined to block a controversial Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks into pregnancy. The high court voted 5-4 against abortion providers in the state who had filed an emergency application for relief against the law that went into effect Wednesday. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three liberal judges in dissent. The majority in its unsigned opinion said applicant Whole Woman's Health raised "serious questions" about the law's constitutionality but its application "presents complex and novel antecedent procedural questions" they did not not answer. "In reaching this conclusion, we stress that we do not purport to resolve definitively any jurisdictional or substantive claim in the applicants' lawsuit," the majority wrote. "In particular, this order is not based on any conclusion about the constitutionality of Texas' law, and in no way limits other procedurally proper challenges to the Texas law, including in Texas state courts." The majority said because of how the law is written, it is unknown if it will ever be enforced. Roberts, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, wrote in his dissent that the law before them is "not only unusual but unprecedented."
Kangaroo justice.
"The Republican-led law, SB8, which was passed by Texas lawmakers and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in May, outlaws abortions when a heartbeat is detectable, which is about six weeks into a pregnancy and often before one knows they are pregnant. It will deny the procedure to at least 85% of patients who seek it in the state. The ban is enforced by members of the public who are able to sue anyone who provides or is involved in aiding and performing abortions after a heartbeat in the fetus is detected. Roberts said the reasoning for putting enforcement of the law upon the public is to "insulate the state from responsibility for implementing and enforcing the regulatory regime." He said he would have granted the injunction prior to the law going into effect so courts could have considered whether a state can shift responsibility for enforcing its laws to the public. "We are at this point asked to resolve these novel questions -- at least preliminarily -- in the first instance, in the course of two days, without the benefit of consideration by the District Court or Court of Appeals," he wrote, adding that they are expected to rule on the issue without briefings and oral arguments. Breyer, in another written dissent, said the law delegates private individuals the power to prevent women from having an abortion during the first stage of pregnancy, despite women having the constitutional right to do so. "This court's order is stunning" Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in another dissent. "Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand." Sotomayor said the state didn't attempt tp argue that the law was constitutional as there is no way it could. "Taken together, the act is a breathtaking act of defiance -- of the Constitution, of this court's precedents and of the rights of women seeking abortions throughout Texas," she wrote, adding that the majority's decision tells the nation that the state's "gambit" to evade federal judicial scrutiny worked. "The court should not be so content to ignore its constitutional obligations to protect not only the rights of women, but also the sanctity of its precedents and the rule of law," she concluded. President Joe Biden condemned the high court's decision in a statement Thursday. "The Supreme Court's ruling overnight is an unprecedented assault on a woman's constitutional rights," he said. "It unleashes unconstitutional chaos and empowers self-anointed enforcers to have devastating impacts. "This law is so extreme it does not even allow for exceptions in the case of rape or incest." Biden said he has instructed his administration to respond to the law. "I am directing that [the Gender Policy Council] and the Office of the White House Counsel to launch a whole-of-government effort to respond to this decision, looking specifically to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice to see what steps the federal government can take to ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions ... and what legal tools we have to insulate women and providers from the impact of Texas' bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement to private parties," he said."
Time to do far more than just talk, Mr. President.
Ladies? There is something you can immediately do about this. Decline all sex under any and all circumstance until this atrocious law is removed. Cut off your men. No quicker way to force desperately-needed change.
Far more on this atrocity in coming editions of this publication.
... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms as our formerly great country continues to deteriorate to a de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only.
8-27-21
Liberty? All but dead in a de facto fascist police-state. United Press International reports:
"A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas state ban on a common method of abortion used during the second trimester of a pregnancy, stating that the district court who ruled it unconstitutional committed "numerous, reversible legal and factual errors."
Unadulterated bullshit by a Republican-owned nazi federal appeals court. A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, you fascist bastards. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
"The U.S. Appeals Court for the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday in a case concerning Senate Bill 8, a law the Texas Senate passed in 2017 that has yet to go into effect to ban dilation-and-evacuation abortions and punish doctors who violate the prohibition with felony charges."
Who the hell are you fascist bastards to impose your perverse religious and ideological views on the rest of us? Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"Last year, a district court issued a permanent injunction against S.B.8, ruling it "unduly burdens a woman's constitutionally protected right to obtain a pre-viability abortion" while also forcing abortion providers "to act contrary to their medical judgment." The appeals court on Wednesday vacated that injunction, saying the district court was incorrect to view S.B.8 as a burden on women as "doctors can safely perform D&Es and comply with S.B.8 using methods that are already in widespread use."
Who the hell are you nazi bastards on the court to dictate medical procedures? In a blatant attempt to impose your perverse religious views on the rest of us?
What a blatant crock of shit by a court abusing its power:
"The plaintiffs have failed to carry their heavy burden of proving that S.B.8 would impose an undue burden on a fraction of women," the judges said in their ruling."
Aryan arrogance. Raw nazism.
"The case is expected to eventually end up before the Supreme Court and is one of several concerning laws that seek to limit or outright ban abortions in Republican-controlled states."
Raw nazism by an increasing fascist judiciary.
"The Guttmacher Institute, a sexual and reproductive health and rights organization, said this form of abortion is safe and accounts for the majority of second-trimester abortions in the United States, and has come under attack in an effort to limit access to abortion. "By restricting the most common method of second-trimester abortion, policymakers hostile to abortion would take a significant step forward in their campaign to eliminate abortion access in the United States," the institution said. "As with most abortion restrictions, the consequences would fall hardest on those already struggling to obtain access to abortion."
Certainly, the intent of the nazi element in our formerly great country. Liberty? What's that?
"The ruling was made as another Texas law that effectively bans most abortions after six weeks of gestation, often before one knows they are pregnant, is set to go into effect in September. Amy Hagstrom Miller, president of Whole Woman's Health, one of the plaintiffs in the case, framed S.B.8 as a way to prohibit access to abortions. "As the six-week ban is looming, it's even more apparent that these abortion laws are about making abortion completely inaccessible," she said in a statement. "Texas lawmakers are coming at us from both ends and will not stop until abortion is illegal."
... Hear the rumble?
"Dr. Bhavik Kumar, an abortion provider with Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, condemned the Wednesday decision as it "threatens the safety of my patients and punishes doctors for using our best medical judgement, training and expertise." "I see the real-life consequences of these politically motivated restrictions. I know firsthand that any time healthcare is restricted, people suffer -- and their families and communities are also irreparably harmed," Kumar said. However, Elissa Graves legal counsel for the conservative Christian nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom, said the court "was on solid ground" when it reversed the lower court's decision. "Texas has the right to respect the life of unborn children," she said in a statement calling the form or abortion gruesome. "The law is both humane and constitutional."
What a crock of shit. You have no right to force you perverse religious views on the rest of us in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion. Nothing more than raw nazism.
NPR(AP) reports:
"A Texas law outlawing an abortion method commonly used to end second-trimester pregnancies has been upheld by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. The 2017 law in question has never been enforced. It seeks to prohibit the use of forceps to remove a fetus from the womb without first using an injected drug or a suction procedure to ensure the fetus is dead. Abortion rights advocates argued that the law, known as SB8 in court records, effectively outlaws what is often the safest method of abortion for women in the second trimester of pregnancy. The procedure is medically known as dilation and evacuation. They also argued that fetuses cannot feel pain during the gestation period affected by the law."
The nazi element can't, won't be confused by the truth. Sadly, they're bound and determined to force their perverse ideological and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"Texas legislators banned the procedure with a law that describes it as "dismemberment abortion." Abortion rights supporters argued in court that one alternative provided in the law, using suction to remove a fetus, also results in dismemberment. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked enforcement of the law last year. But Texas was granted a re-hearing by the full court, and a majority of the 14 appellate judges who heard arguments in January (three of the court's 17 active judges were recused) sided with Texas on Wednesday. The opinion, by judges Jennifer Walker Elrod and Don Willett, said "the record shows that doctors can safely perform D&Es and comply with SB8 using methods that are already in widespread use."
Amazing how these 'judges' think as non-medical professionals they (the 'judges') are qualified to make such a medical assessment. Aryan arrogance. Nazis determined to force their perverse religious and ideological views on the rest of us. Direct abrogation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"Concurring in the result were judges Priscilla Owen, Edith Jones, Jerry Smith, Catharina Haynes, James Ho, Kurt Engelhardt and Cory Wilson. Judge James Dennis wrote a dissent, joined by judges Carl Stewart and James Graves. A separate dissent was written by Judge Stephen Higginson, joined by Gregg Costa. Dennis said the Texas law, "under the guise of regulation, makes it a felony to perform the most common and safe abortion procedure employed during the second trimester." The Center for Reproductive Rights is analyzing the decision and considering all legal options, said its president and CEO, Nancy Northup. "Texas has been hellbent on legislating abortion out of existence, and it is galling that a federal court would uphold a law that so clearly defies decades of Supreme Court precedent," Northup said. "At a time when the health care needs of Texans are greater than ever, the state should be making abortion more accessible, not less. There is no question that today's decision will harm those who already face the greatest barriers to health care."
The nazi element in the Republican Party couldn't care less.
"Texas Right to Life applauded the ruling."
Bet they did. What nazi wouldn't? Readers are reminded abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
"If the abortion industry appeals today's decision, the Supreme Court must answer the case's dynamic legal question: 'Is a dismemberment abortion inhumane enough to warrant legal prohibition?'" the anti-abortion group's statement said. "The evident answer to this targeted question directly undermines some of the Supreme Court's central premises in their abortion jurisprudence, such as the misconception that pre-viability abortions are more ethical than those that occur after viability."
The above a moot issue, based on a false premise, since the fetus is incapable of feeling pain at the time of such second trimester abortions. Not only that, it ignores the right of a woman to do with HER uterus as she damn well pleases. The Nazi Right clearly delusionally believes it owns your uterus, ladies. Does it?
"Texans celebrate today's long-awaited victory," Texas Right to Life Director of Media and Communication Kimberlyn Schwartz said in the release. "Anyone can see the cruelty of dismemberment abortions, ripping a child's body apart while her heart is still beating. We're grateful the judges recognized this horror."
Hyperbolic bullshit. Determined to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus. A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, you national socialist, fascist, nazi bastards.
Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve. Forfeiture of liberty. At the hands of outrageously corrupt and abusive government.
8-6-21
Who the hell is the Nazi Right to force its perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion? NBC News reports:
"The coronavirus had started to shut much of the country down in March 2020 when Larada Lee found out she was six weeks pregnant. She wanted to end her pregnancy and decided that instead of a surgical abortion, she would use medication, a process she could complete at home. This, she thought, was her best chance of limiting her exposure to Covid-19. But Lee, then an Ohio State University student, was still forced to make a series of in-person doctors’ visits before she could get access to the drugs — all while grappling with the frightening new pandemic reality. Even then, she was still required to pick up the two-pill regimen at a health clinic, taking the first, mifepristone, there and the second, misoprostol, at home 24 hours later. “Accessing abortion feels like one of the worst games of Tetris,” she said. “I am working full time and in school and I have hopes and aspirations for myself that would not be attainable if I was a parent.” Women facing stay-at-home orders in other states have had an easier time getting prescriptions — through telehealth appointments. In an effort to expand access, the Food and Drug Administration temporarily eased long-standing in-person dispensing requirements for mifepristone — first in July 2020 in response to a court order that was later reversed by the Supreme Court, and again in April — so that women could order the pills by mail for the duration of the pandemic. The agency's move, along with the explosive growth in telehealth services and increase in self-managed medication abortions, sparked a flurry of legislative activity in Ohio and other Republican-led states. They further limited access to the pills, adding to restrictions on their use already in place in dozens of states around the nation."
Raw nazism. Imposed by these fascist bastards.
“Over the past year, we've seen states really target medication abortion in a way that we hadn't seen," said Elizabeth Nash, state director for the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights group. "And so it's particularly concerning because this is a method that is safe and effective and can be easily provided through telehealth." This year alone, a half dozen states have passed laws targeting medication-induced abortion, according to Nash, and several others are advancing legislation. Arkansas, Arizona and Oklahoma enacted laws banning the mailing of mifepristone for abortions. Montana approved a measure effectively banning telehealth services for such abortions, as did Ohio, whose law is being challenged by Planned Parenthood in court. Indiana passed legislation mandating that a patient take the first dose in the presence of a physician. The law also says abortion providers must tell patients that medication abortions can be reversed with progesterone — a claim the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says is unsupported by science. That law is also being challenged by Planned Parenthood and other advocacy groups. The Texas Legislature, which passed a fetal “heartbeat bill” in May, is now expected to consider a bill to limit medication abortions once it reconvenes with a quorum for its special session. That measure also would ban the mailing of abortion pills and require doctors to examine a woman in person and ensure she’s no more than seven weeks pregnant before prescribing the medication. Some of the recently passed measures also require women seeking medication abortions to receive pregnancy tests, ultrasounds and counseling. Meanwhile, about 20 states have laws preventing telehealth appointments for abortion pill prescriptions, and more than 30 restrict the health care providers who can write them, requiring they be doctors rather than physician assistants or nurses. Oklahoma state Sen. Julie Daniels, who authored the medical abortion legislation, said at the time that the FDA's moves to relax requirements for the pills prompted her to act. In addition to banning the mailing of abortion pills, the legislation would require a health care provider to handle any medical complications from their use and direct the state to develop certification requirements to prescribe the drugs. “The abortion industry is pushing the federal government to abandon those safeguards and for the FDA to cease to monitor or regulate the use within the state,” she said. “So we're scrambling to put together a regulatory framework so we in Oklahoma can track the use of these drugs, make sure they're used appropriately and track any complications of the women who use them.”
What a crock of shit. Imposed by the nazi element in our formerly great country:
"The Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group, has been working with Republicans at the state level to craft these laws. Sue Liebel, the group’s state policy director, said that her organization has been monitoring the “meteoric rise” of what she termed “chemical abortions.”
It's none of your goddamned business. Don't want an abortion? Don't have one. Don't, however, force your perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us.
Raw nazism:
“The pandemic itself gave the abortion industry an opportunity to try to move into that telemedicine space, and that's where we've really been on the offense and the defense ever since,” she said. “States are also very aware that the FDA is looking to remove some restrictions that may actually cause the states to have to pick up the pieces."
It's none of your goddamned business and not based on reality:
"Liebel and other anti-abortion activists contend that mifepristone is not safe for women to take unsupervised at home and argue that it’s led to many rushing to emergency rooms. But of nearly 4 million women who have taken the drug since 2000, the FDA said, there were reports of 24 associated deaths as of 2018, including two cases of ectopic pregnancy and several cases of severe sepsis. Those deaths, however, could not be causally linked to the drug with certainty because of the patients' use of other drugs or receipt of medical or surgical treatments, or their co-existing medical conditions and information gaps about their health status, the agency said. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood offers abortion pills through telehealth appointments in about 20 heavily Democratic states where it's legal to do so and says there's no medical reason to require prescriptions be given in person. Under the Biden administration, the FDA is reviewing whether to permanently lift the in-person dispensing requirement for the bills, which it could decide by December. But that move would have little impact on access for women in a huge swath of the nation because of the state-level statutory restrictions, advocates say. “If a state law said that mifepristone must be dispensed and ingested in a physician's office, then, you know, for all practical purposes, the FDA's revised regulations would not make a difference for patients in those states,” said American Civil Liberties Union attorney Julia Kaye, who is involved in lawsuits challenging the FDA requirements. In Missouri, which has just one remaining abortion clinic because laws targeting the procedure made it more challenging for providers to stay open, women have lost access to medication abortions. Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer of the clinic, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, said that either women can get procedural abortions in her state or travel to Illinois, where abortion services are much more expansive. Women who choose to get a procedural abortion in Missouri have to make two trips to the clinic — one for paperwork and the second for the abortion — which must be done at least 72 hours apart. So, most just make the 15-mile trip across the border to Illinois, where McNicholas operates another clinic, so they can get telemedicine appointments for abortion pills or whatever procedure they want done the same day, she said. “Mifepristone is the only medication that they require you to receive in the clinic, but then you can self administer it at home. That doesn't make any medical sense,” she said of the FDA requirements under review. “If it is safe for you to take it home, it should also be safe for you to receive it at home and then consume it at home.” In January, Lee, the student in Ohio, moved to California because she transferred to a different college, and found out in June that she was pregnant again. She decided to get another abortion, again choosing the medication option. She felt more comfortable with the political environment in her new home than she did in Ohio, where anti-abortion advocates protested outside her clinic — and she was now more comfortable with the process. “Obviously everyone's situation is different,” she said. “I will say that, for me, it was good enough for me to do it twice. It was a very safe process.”
Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve. Forfeiture of liberty. At the hands of outrageously corrupt and abusive government.
5-28-21
Raw nazism. Direct abrogation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion. ABC News(AP) reports:
"The bright pink building in an eclectic neighborhood of Mississippi's capital goes by different names. To the anti-abortion protesters whose demonstrations have sparked a noise ordinance, it is an “abortion mill.”
How is it that when the clinic is only open three or four days a week?
"To those who work and volunteer there, the facility known as the “pink house” provides the last safe haven in Mississippi for women who choose to have an abortion. Now, the only abortion clinic in Mississippi is facing what could be its biggest challenge. The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear arguments this fall over a Mississippi law that would limit abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy — a case designed to test how far a court remade under former President Donald Trump is willing to go to restrict the right to an abortion."
Readers are reminded abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy.
"The 2018 Mississippi law has been on hold because of the court fight. If justices allow it to take effect, that wouldn't have a huge impact on who can get an abortion in Mississippi. Health care providers at Jackson Women's Health Organization don't perform abortions after 16 weeks. But clinic director Shannon Brewer said upholding the ban would prompt lawmakers in conservative states to push to more restrictions. “They’ll steadily chip away at it. And then once they know they can, they’re going to constantly do it,” Brewer said Tuesday."
Forget? The nazi way.
"As states have enacted stricter laws and the number of clinics has declined, thousands of women have crossed state lines for abortion. A 2019 analysis by The Associated Press found at least 276,000 women terminated pregnancies outside their home state between 2012 and 2017. In pockets of the Midwest, South and Mountain West, the number of women terminating a pregnancy in another state rose considerably, particularly where a lack of clinics meant the closest provider was in another state or where less restrictive policies made it easier and quicker to have an abortion there."
Yet, women who had no transportation, or couldn't afford to travel, were out of luck courtesy of the nazi element desperate to impose its perverse ideology and religious views on all.
"With no doctors in Mississippi willing to do abortions, five out-of-state doctors rotate through Jackson. Some patients travel hours from small towns in one of the poorest states of the country — first for counseling and then 24 hours later for the abortion."
-- Patronizing, condescending bullshit to make it that much more difficult to obtain an abortion. Raw nazism. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
"One woman who has ended two pregnancies at the clinic said she has never had a moment's regret over those decisions. At the time, she was in her 30s and did what was best for herself and her young child, she said. While at the clinic, she and the other women talked to each other as they waited. She recalled their stories: One had been raped by her own father; another had been raped by her boss; another was in medical school. “I want women to understand that it’s OK and it’s not something that you have to feel guilty about,” she said. She spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because she’s in a court dispute with her child’s father and she believes speaking publicly about her abortions could hurt her in that case."
Here's the problem. It's called raw nazism imposed by insane fascists:
"Outside the clinic, anti-abortion protesters face off against volunteer escorts. Demonstrators often try to block cars from entering the clinic parking lot. Some pray, sing or hold posters with graphic photos of aborted fetuses. Others climb ladders to look over a fence that surrounds the clinic, yelling at the volunteer escorts who call themselves “pink house defenders” and the patients they accompany inside."
Who the hell are these nazis to try to impose their perverse ideological and religious views on those seeking medical services? It's none of their goddamned business.
"Doug Lane, president of Pastors for Life, is a frequent presence in front of the pink building where he tries to persuade women and girls to forgo abortion. He said he and other protesters are exercising their free-speech rights and they sometimes change women's minds, directing them to a nearby crisis pregnancy center that offers ultrasounds and baby clothing."
It's not 'free speech,' you disingenuous, lying son of a bitch. What it is remains harassment:
“We have a right to be heard, even by people who disagree with us and object to us,” Lane said."
Wake up, you disingenuous, lying son of a bitch. It is not free speech. It is harassment. If law enforcement was properly doing its job, you and your cohorts would be arrested, jailed, and prosecuted. Sadly, not possible in a de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only.
"The protests outside the clinic have become a flashpoint in its Jackson neighborhood. Two restaurants sit directly across a street from the building. Some days, protesters are silent or pray quietly to themselves. Other times, they use bullhorns that can be heard inside the restaurants, even with doors closed. Cars driving by honk in support or admonishment. On a recent day, families at one of the restaurants ate outside at a cluster of tables no more than 20 feet (6 meters) from two children sitting silently holding signs saying, “We are ambassadors of Jesus Christ.” A woman passed back and forth praying under her breath and holding a sign: “Pray to end abortion.”
Insanity.
"In 2019, the Jackson City Council enacted an ordinance to limit noise outside medical facilities. Some council members said their action was in response to complaints about activity outside the abortion clinic, but the city backed down and repealed the ordinance a year later after a lawsuit challenged the rule."
Pathetic. No more than legalization of harassment.
"Nathan Glenn co-owns the two restaurants across from the clinic. He said his family has been in business there about 20 years, and when the restaurants opened he didn’t know they were near an abortion clinic. He said he respects people’s right to protest but they block the entrance to the restaurants and yell at diners."
How is all that legal? How?
"Clinic director Brewer said all the restrictions and protests aren't going to stop abortions in Mississippi — they just serve to make it more dangerous. She said the people who oppose abortion pretend to care about the women and their future children but if they really cared, they'd spend more time taking care of children once they're born by paying for things like better health care or child care."
Not how the nazi element operates in our formerly great country.
“It’s not going to stop abortions in Mississippi. Abortions were going on in Mississippi before Roe v. Wade,” Brewer said. “So I think that they’re not thinking it through, or they just really don’t care.”
If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all.
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5-21-21
Nazi element forces its perverse religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion. CBS News reports:
"Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed into a law a bill outlawing abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy, joining at least a dozen other states that have enacted measures designed to prohibit the procedure early in a patient's pregnancy. But unlike the other so-called "heartbeat" bills, Texas's has a provision that would allow private citizens to file civil lawsuits against doctors, staff, or even a patient's family or friends who "aid and abet" in such procedures."
Raw nazism. In a de facto fascist police-state. Democratic republic in name only.
"Our Creator endowed us with the right to life," Abbott said at Wednesday's bill signing. "And yet millions of children lose their right to life every year because of abortion. In Texas, we work to save those lives."
Who the hell are you and your fellow fascists in the Legislature to force your perverse religious and ideological views on the rest of us, Governor?
"Abortion rights groups say the law is unconstitutional and in violation of Roe v. Wade, which prohibits states from banning abortion before fetal viability, which generally happens around 24 weeks into a pregnancy. In a statement to CBS News, Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson said the Texas bill was among the "most extreme in the country." "It is appalling that in defiance of public opinion and public health, state politicians remain committed to controlling our bodies," Johnson said. "The goal is clear: to relentlessly attack our reproductive rights until abortion is a right in name only."
In the upcoming Supreme Court session, the 6-3 Republican nazi majority will get a chance to revoke Roe v. Wade via another case it recently agreed to review.
Here's the problem regarding the new Texas law:
"Unlike other state laws that seek to outlaw abortion, the legislation, Senate Bill 8, doesn't task the state of Texas with enforcing the ban. Instead, according to the bill's text, it creates a "private civil right of action" that allows anyone to bring civil action against medical professional who performs an abortion in violation of the law as well as those who "knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion, including paying for or reimbursing the costs of an abortion through insurance or otherwise."
Raw nazism imposed by fascists in the GOP. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
"Critics of the law say that could include clinic staff, counselors or clergy who offered guidance, a friend who drove the patient to their appointment, or even a parent who paid for the procedure. "This bill essentially opens the floodgates to allow anyone who is hostile to abortion to sue doctors and clinics, consuming their resources and forcing them to shut down," said Nancy Northup, the head of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a law firm that challenges anti-abortion regulations globally. "We will pursue all legal options to prevent this law from taking effect." Those found in violation of the law could face penalties starting at $10,000 per instance. An amendment added last week bars someone who impregnated the patient through rape or incest from suing, but did not clarify that family members or friends of that individual would be barred as well. Under the law, patients themselves cannot be sued. "The Texas Heartbeat Act is the strongest Pro-Life bill passed by the Legislature since Roe v. Wade," said Rebecca Parma, the senior legislative associate at Texas Right to Life, an anti-abortion rights group, in an interview with The Associated Press."
... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. Too deaf to hear? ... Or, too aggressively stupid.
"The law is slated to take effect this September. Texas's "heartbeat" ban comes amid a particularly active state legislative session for the issue nationwide, experts say. According to an analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, more than 500 abortion restrictions, including 146 bans, had been introduced by state lawmakers as of April 30. Among those, 61 have been signed into law. "The year 2021 is well on its way to being a defining one in abortion rights history," said Lauren Cross and Elizabeth Nash, the authors of the report. Many of those measures have been blocked by federal courts, but their supporters say that's the point. Buoyed by a conservative majority at the Supreme Court, states have passed dozens of anti-abortion restrictions with the hopes that they will reach the high court and give the justices an opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade."
If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all.
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1-15-21
Violation First Amendment Establishment Clause. NPR reports:
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a Trump administration request to reinstate restrictions for patients seeking to obtain a drug used to terminate early pregnancies. The decision, issued over a dissent from the court's liberal judges, reinstates a requirement for patients to pick up the drug, mifepristone, in person. Three lower courts had blocked the Food and Drug Administration's in-person pick-up requirement for mifepristone during the coronavirus pandemic, citing the risks of contracting COVID-19 at a doctor's office or a hospital. It's the first abortion-related decision since last year's swearing in of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, whose presence on the high court bench ensured a new conservative majority. Abortion-rights advocates have been fearful of what a conservative majority could do to chip away at legal protections for abortion. Julia Kaye, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project, called the court's decision "chilling" and one that "needlessly" endangers "even more people during this dark pandemic winter." She added that people of color, like Black and Latinx patients, are at particular risk for health risks posed by COVID-19. Requiring them to go to a doctor's office in person to pick up the drug threatens the health and lives of those patients, she said. A spokeswoman for the anti-abortion-rights group Susan B. Anthony List called the decision a "major" victory. The organization believes abortion rights advocates "sought to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to push abortion by mail, promoting DIY abortion at home, upping the risk of serious complications. The ACLU sued the federal government to challenge the FDA rule. Their case was limited and focused solely on ending that in-person requirement during the pandemic."
Disingenuous bullshit:
"Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority in the 5-4 decision, said the court was not faced with deciding whether "the requirements for dispensing mifepristone impose an undue burden on a woman's right to an abortion as a general matter." Rather, judges were tasked with weighing in on whether the lower courts properly ordered the FDA to lift requirements for in-person collection of mifepristone because of the risks posed by the pandemic, he said. "I do not see a sufficient basis here for the District Court to compel the FDA to alter the regimen for medical abortion," Roberts said."
Here's the problem:
"Medical abortions involves taking two prescription drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, which together induce the equivalent of an early miscarriage. Telemedicine is the only way many women who live in remote areas of the U.S. can access the abortion pills. A handful of states have only one clinic that provides abortions, forcing patients to drive hundreds of miles to obtain one. But the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights, says 18 states prohibit doctors from prescribing abortion pills remotely, adding further obstacles for patients in obtaining them. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissent, wrote, "This country's laws have long singled out abortions for more onerous treatment than other medical procedures that carry similar or greater risks." The FDA's rules "imposes an unnecessary, irrational, and unjustifiable undue burden on women seeking to exercise their right to choose," she wrote. "One can only hope that the Government will reconsider and exhibit greater care and empathy for women seeking some measure of control over their health and reproductive lives in these unsettling times." Abortion-rights advocates are holding out hope the administration of President-elect Joe Biden could walk back the FDA's requirements to take the pill in person. Kaye with the ACLU said, "The Biden-Harris administration must right this wrong on day one and hold firm to its commitment to support both evidence-based regulations and reproductive freedom."
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1-8-21
State of Massachusetts stands tall. NPR reports:
"The Massachusetts state Senate joined the state House of Representatives Tuesday in passing legislation that enshrines abortion rights in state law and expands access to 16-year-olds. The move by the two chambers overrides Gov. Charlie Baker's veto of the measure last week. The ROE Act, as it's called, will allow abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy in cases with a fatal fetal anomaly and in instances when a physician deems it necessary "to preserve the patient's physical or mental health." It also lowers the age at which individuals can seek an abortion without the consent of a parent or a judge from 18 to 16. Sen. Harriette Chandler, who was behind one of the bills, said she was proud of the legislature's actions to secure "reproductive freedoms" for residents. "Pregnant people who once faced near-insurmountable barriers accessing abortion care can now seize the right to control their own bodies," Chandler said in a tweet Tuesday."
Who the hell is the Nazi Right to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus? To force their perverse religious beliefs on others?
"The ROE Act Coalition, which coordinated a statewide effort to pass the new law, celebrated the Senate vote, calling it a victory and a major milestone. "With the ROE Act provisions now law, most young adults seeking abortion will be able to access the care and support they need without navigating the court system, and pregnant people facing a fatal fetal diagnosis later in pregnancy will be able to access abortion care here in Massachusetts, with a provider they know and trust, rather than traveling across the country for care," organizers said in a statement."
What took so long?
Time for the Governor to wake up.
"Gov. Baker vetoed the bill on Christmas Eve after the legislature rejected his revisions. In a letter to lawmakers, the Republican governor said he "strongly" supports the right to access reproductive health care, including the provision in the bill that would make abortions available after 24 weeks of pregnancy if the fetus would not survive after birth, State House News Service reported. He also agreed that a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion is unnecessary. However, he objected to revisions to the law that removed legal barriers for minors seeking to terminate a pregnancy. "I cannot support the sections of this proposal that expand the availability of later term abortions and permit minors age 16 and 17 to get an abortion without the consent of a parent or guardian," Baker wrote."
Not your body. Not your uterus, Governor.
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11-27-20
We're moving backwards. Ass backwards. CBS News reports:
"Technically, abortion is legal in South Dakota. But for all but one day of the month, it might as well not be. For decades, patients seeking an abortion have faced barriers in South Dakota — a state that's home to dozens of restrictions and only one clinic — but the coronavirus proved to be an obstacle too much to overcome. After years of flying out-of-state doctors to its lone health center in Sioux Falls, Planned Parenthood halted abortion services there in March, citing travel concerns caused by the virus. For seven months this year, abortion wasn't available in South Dakota, marking the longest a state has gone without the procedure since it was legalized nationwide nearly 50 years ago. Abortion services resumed in October, but only for one day a month. Sarah Stoesz, who leads the clinic, says there aren't enough appointments for everyone that's called to request one. Instead, they've had to tell patients to wait until the next month or go out of state. She says she's sure that not everyone who wants an abortion in South Dakota is able to get one."
Outrageous, isn't it? Who the hell are these nazis to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus, force their perverse religious views on all?
"People assume that Roe v. Wade is the law of the land and that means that if they need help they can get help, but that's not true in places like South Dakota," said Stoesz in a telephone interview. It wasn't a specific law that halted abortion services in South Dakota, but the culmination of state-level restrictions that have nearly regulated the procedure out of existence, Stoesz said. In 1973 the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nationwide, but subsequent rulings gave states broad authority to regulate the procedure as they saw fit. Decades later, hundreds of restrictions and regulations mean that how, when or whether patients have access to abortion varies drastically from state to state."
Raw nazism:
"South Dakota has been on the forefront of those laws, passing regulations years before they become mainstream in the anti-abortion rights movement, according to Elizabeth Nash, who tracks abortion regulations at the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive research group that supports abortion rights. Since Roe v. Wade, lawmakers in the Mount Rushmore state have enacted 38 restrictions, many of which were authored and championed by South Dakota state senator Jeff Monroe. "I like babies, and I like them alive, not dead," Monroe said in a telephone interview."
Who the hell cares what you like or don't like, Senator. This is one sick fascist son of a bitch more than willing to force his perverse religious views on the rest of us, abrogate his oath of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and a whole variety of other issues. Has for quite some time. Nothing quite like the present, however.
Raw nazism:
"The state now has the strictest abortion regulations that courts have allowed to be implemented. The procedure isn't available after 20 weeks in a pregnancy, the point at which doctors are able to detect fatal fetal abnormalities. The state also mandates a 72-hour waiting period, requiring patients to make two trips to the Sioux Falls clinic. South Dakota is the only state that prohibits Medicaid and other government-funded insurance plans from covering abortion for victims of rape and incest. Only when the patient's life is in danger is public funding available. Insurance plans offered on the state's health exchange under the Affordable Care Act are also barred from covering abortion services except in cases of life endangerment or severely compromised physical health. "We've had great success in South Dakota," said Brad Lindwurm, a local anti-abortion rights activist. The combination of all those restrictions whittled abortion access in the state to Planned Parenthood's one clinic in Sioux Falls, which Lindwurm and his group, 40 Days, gather to pray outside of every day. In a little more than a decade, the number of abortions performed in the state has fallen by more than half, from 848 in 2008 to 414 in 2019, according to the South Dakota Department of Health's annual "induced abortion" report."
We now have a Republican nazi U.S. Supreme Court more than willing to force its perverse religious views on the rest of us in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"Prior to the coronavirus, abortions were performed once a week on Thursdays by a small group of out-of-state doctors who would fly in for the day to see patients. Snowstorms in the winter regularly delayed flights, disrupting the clinic's schedule and sometimes forcing Planned Parenthood to cancel appointments. The pandemic threw a wrench into the already tenuous system. "It was a really, really hard decision to suspend services, and really painful for us, especially after decades of working so hard to keep services open," said Stoesz, the local Planned Parenthood president. "But we just couldn't overcome the coronavirus." Unlike other clinics that had abortion services interrupted due to the pandemic, South Dakota's shutdown was not imposed by the state. In Texas, for example, a state-mandated month-long suspension of abortion services this spring prompted a legal back-and-forth that pushed services to resume. But in South Dakota, because there was no restriction that suspended services, there was no legal recourse."
Women in Texas needing an abortion at that time displayed Uncommon Valor:
"When abortion services were shuttered in Texas, patients broke stay-at-home orders and crossed state lines to get the procedure, data from Planned Parenthood shows. Clinics in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada saw 129 patients from Texas between March 23 and April 14, a more than 700% increase from the month prior. During the same period in 2019, those clinics saw 14 patients from Texas. South Dakota patients have been similarly undeterred. So far this year, the South Dakota Access for Every Woman, a small group run by a pair of sisters in their seventies that helps patients pay for their procedure, has helped more than 150 women. That's slightly more than usual, said Evelyn Griesse, who runs the fund with her sister Ann. With abortion services unavailable in their own state, they've also helped patients navigate the logistics of out-of-state travel and local abortion restrictions against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic."
Uncommon Valor.
"[Our clients] thought they knew that abortion was legal and available, but they didn't have any idea how to go about getting one. And when they realized how hard it was, it turned their world upside down," said Griesse. This year's interruption of abortion services in the state was personal, she said. In the early 1970s prior to Roe v. Wade, Griesse, unable to get a legal abortion in South Dakota, traveled to New York to have the procedure. It was an easy trip to make if you had some money, she said, but impossible if you didn't. The experience prompted her to start the fund nearly 50 years ago."
Hat's off, Madam. Uncommon Valor.
"With Roe coming up in the Supreme Court, I felt I really owed people for the work they had done in places like New York and California to keep it safe and legal. I needed to pay it forward," Griesse said. For many of Griesse's clients, money isn't enough. Nearly two-thirds of patients seeking abortion in South Dakota are already a parent, making childcare an issue when traveling out-of-state for an abortion. Another hurdle: Many patients don't have their own car. To help, Griesse works with volunteers from across the state to arrange elaborate, multi-point travel schemes for patients to get to their appointments, no matter how far. A new abortion-rights group in the state, Justice Empowerment Network, started earlier this year to help address those problems. "It's legality versus access," said Kim, one of the co-founders of J.E.N., who requested her last name not be used out of fear of harassment. "It doesn't matter if it's legal if there's no doctor within five hours of you and you don't have a car."
No question. The following is outrageous:
"Today, South Dakota is one of five states — along with Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, and West Virginia — that have a single abortion provider. For 27 U.S. cities with more than 50,000 people, there is no abortion provider within 100 miles. "Of course Roe matters, but in some parts of the country Roe is functionally irrelevant," said Stoesz. "It's no longer a hypothetical to get rid of abortion, it's real, and it's real today for women in South Dakota." Even as coronavirus cases surge, Stoesz said there won't be any interruption of services at the Sioux Falls clinic moving forward due to the virus. But how long the clinic can remain financially viable is a looming problem, Stoesz said."
The following is not only pathetic, it presents an exigent threat to a country, a formerly great country, that remains a democratic republic in name only:
"Today, more than a dozen abortion-related cases are one step away from the Supreme Court. A handful directly challenge Roe v. Wade, including Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban. If the court reverses the landmark decision, 10 states, including South Dakota, have so-called "trigger" bans in place, laws that automatically prohibit abortion in the event the landmark decision is overturned. South Dakota's is the strictest of all: Not only would abortion be prohibited, but so would assisting patients in obtaining the procedure, making the work the Griesse and Kim do illegal. Kim said even if that happens, she won't back down. "Take me to court, fine," Kim said. "Good luck prosecuting that."
Uncommon Valor. Hat's off.
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10-23-20
Abortion waiting period struck down. United Press International reports:
"A federal judge in Tennessee has struck down the state's 2015 law requiring patients to wait 48 hours after visiting a clinic to have an abortion performed, calling the rule "gratuitously demeaning to women" who have chosen to undergo the medical procedure."
Why did it take five years?
"Judge Bernard Friedman ruled Wednesday in favor of state reproductive health providers and their patients who argued the mandatory waiting period was unconstitutional as it violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment. "Defendants' suggestion that women are overly emotional and must be required to cool off or calm down before having a medical procedure they have decided they want to have, and that they are constitutionally entitled to have, is highly insulting and paternalistic -- and all the more so given that no such waiting periods apply to men," Friedman, a President Ronald Reagan appointee, said in his ruling. The Memphis Center for Reproductive Health and others had filed the complaint in June 2015 against the law requiring a patient seeking an abortion to receive information in-person from an attending physician and then wait at least 48 hours before undergoing the procedure."
Outrageous, isn't it? Who the hell is the Nazi Right in our formerly great country to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus? Indeed, encouraging to see it was a Reagan appointee who struck down the ruling. -- Reagan? ... Likely spinning in his grave. LOL.
"The defendants, named as Tennessee's Attorney General Herbert Slatery III, argued the waiting period was legal as it neither constituted "a substantial obstacle" or "an undue burden" on women, pointing to a 1992 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of a 24-hour wait period in Pennsylvania as precedent."
Jesus Christ. Give me a break. The judge would have none of it:
"Friedman wrote that unlike the Supreme Court case, plaintiffs in this case clearly demonstrated how the mandatory waiting period is a substantial obstacle before those seeking the medical procedure. "Plaintiffs in the present case have proven with overwhelming evidence that the 48-hour waiting period (in addition to serving no legitimate purpose) severely burdens the majority of women seeking an abortion," he wrote in his harshly worded 136-page ruling. "As noted above, the waiting period has this effect because it significantly delays this time-sensitive medical procedure, and also makes it so time-consuming, costly and inconvenient to obtain that the predominantly low-income population seeking the service must struggle to access it, if they can access it at all."
... Sounds more like a Democrat than a nazi Republican, doesn't he? LOL.
"He added that the rule was especially burdensome for low-income women who are the vast majority seeking the medical procedure while undermining the doctor-patient relationship. Rebecca Terrell, executive director of CHOICES Memphis Center for Reproductive Health, cheered the decision Wednesday in a statement. "We are so glad that we can now schedule our patients for care in a manner that centers their needs, not the political vagaries of our state government," Terrell said. Samantha H. Fisher of the attorney general's office said in a statement they are "disappointed" in the ruling and evaluating next steps, including filing an appeal. Will Brewer, legal counsel and legislative liaison for Tennessee Right to Life, said the law was drafted with the constitution in mind. "We have no doubt that the Sixth Circuit will swiftly overturn Judge Friedman's ruling," he said in a statement."
Sad, isn't it?
"The Center for Reproductive Rights, which represented the plaintiffs in the case, said it is challenging waiting period laws in Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma and North Carolina. "We hope today's decision serves as a wake-up call to lawmakers trying to interfere with patients' personal medical decisions," Autumn Katz, senior counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement. "Patients do not need politicians to dictate their decision-making process. Patients should be trusted to make decisions about their own families and healthcare." According to research and policy organization the Guttmacher Institute, 26 states have mandatory wait periods before an abortion can be performed."
Outrageous, isn't it? Who the hell is the Nazi Right to dictate what a woman can and cannot do with HER uterus?
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8-14-20
Pence remains clueless, out to lunch, oblivious to the truth, divorced from reality. NBC News reports:
"Vice President Mike Pence said in an interview airing Thursday that Chief Justice John Roberts has let down conservatives by siding with the Supreme Court's liberal justices in several recent decisions. "We have great respect for the institution of the Supreme Court of the United States, but Chief Justice John Roberts has been a disappointment to conservatives whether it be the Obamacare decision or whether it be a spate of recent decisions," Pence said in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody, who released a clip of this portion of the interview Wednesday night."
Conservatives? The late Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater was a conservative. No so present-day Republican nazis. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
"Pence said that Roberts' rulings are a reminder "of just how important this election is for the future of the Supreme Court."
With extremely rare exception, the current Supreme Court is run and owned by five Republican partisan nazis. Wake up, Mr. 'Vice President.'
"The vice president specifically criticized Roberts for siding with the high court's liberals in striking down a restrictive abortion law in Louisiana. Pence noted that the law required doctors working in abortion clinics “to have admitting privileges at local hospitals." "That's a very modest restriction on abortion providers, but a narrow majority in the Supreme Court still said it was unacceptable," he said. "I think it's been a wake-up call for pro-life voters around the country who understand, in a very real sense, the destiny of the Supreme Court is on the ballot in 2020."
Jesus Christ. Our national socialist, achingly fascist 'Vice President' remains hopelessly clueless. It's not just doctors suffering from arbitrary, unneeded restrictions designed and imposed by anti-abortion 'religious' nazis in our formerly great country. It is women in desperate need of an abortion who are forced to travel hundreds of miles for the medical procedure. Ferociously pointedly, who the f--k are nazi Republicans and their sick sycophants in the 'religious' community to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus? Raw nazism. Readers are reminded abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy.
"Roberts also cast the deciding vote by joining liberal justices in a 5-4 decision that blocked the Trump administration from shutting down DACA, which allows young people known as Dreamers to remain in the U.S. In a 6-3 decision, Roberts also joined the majority in ruling that federal law does not allow job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status."
Roberts is apparently not as Far Right nazi in his ideology as the four other Republican nazis on the Court. Pence clearly wants all of them to march in goose step with their fuhrer, the Trump nazi:
"Pence reiterated in the interview that President Donald Trump plans to release a list of candidates that he could draw from for future appointments to the Supreme Court."
The Washington Post reports:
"Trump frequently touts his appointments of federal judges — including Supreme Court Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh — as among his first-term accomplishments. Last month, the Senate confirmed Trump’s 200th federal judicial nominee, a milestone that reflects the breakneck speed at which he and fellow Republicans have moved to create a legacy that will endure regardless of the outcome of this year’s elections."
The nazi element in our formerly great country fails to understand the danger, exigent threat to a democratic republic their outrageously fascist ideology presents. -- A democratic republic that currently remains a democratic republic in name only. In reality, a de facto fascist police-state. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms.
"Besides the Louisiana abortion case, Roberts also dismayed conservatives in recent weeks by finding that federal anti-discrimination law protects gay, bisexual and transgender workers and by stopping the president from ending the federal program that protects undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. In a 2018 rejoinder to Trump, Roberts notably said that “we do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.”
Clearly, Roberts remains concerned about the exigent threat raw nazism poses to what is supposed to be a democratic republic.
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8-14-20
A nazi 'court' does the bidding of Trump, his henchmen, and his rabid supporters. United Press International reports:
"A federal appeals court has dissolved an injunction on four Arkansas laws imposing new requirements to obtain an abortion. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday vacated District Judge Kristine Baker's injunction put in place in 2017. Baker's ruling blocked four laws: one that bans the second-trimester abortion procedure dilation and evacuation; a second that requires doctors to notify law enforcement when anyone 16 or younger obtains an abortion; a third that requires doctors to review a woman's medical records to ensure she isn't using the procedure as a form of sex selection if she knows the fetus's sex; and a fourth that requires a patient to notify a partner or family regarding disposal of abortion remains."
Nazi justice in Nazi America.
"The American Civil Liberties Union and the national Center for Reproductive Rights said the ruling won't take effect for 21 days, allowing the four laws to remain blocked until Aug. 28. "If allowed to take effect, these restrictions would completely block many people from obtaining abortion care, and would eventually leave the state with even more limited abortion care," the ACLU said in a statement."
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8-14-20
Aggressive stupidity displayed by out of control, national socialist, fascist, Republican nazis running Texas ass backwards. NBC News reports:
"Several Texas clinics say they saw an uptick in women seeking abortions later in their pregnancies this spring, after the state temporarily halted most abortions amid the coronavirus pandemic. Hundreds of abortions were canceled after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed an executive order on March 22 banning all nonessential medical procedures, and the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, said in a statement that the ban included abortions, unless a woman’s health was at risk. The executive order was intended to help preserve hospital space and personal protective equipment for the care of COVID-19 patients."
The hell it was. Any goddamned excuse to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus.
Goddamned disingenuous bullshit:
“For years, abortion has been touted as a ‘choice’ by the same groups now attempting to claim that it is an essential procedure,” Paxton said in a statement at the time."
Paxton's bullshit backfired:
"After a monthlong legal fight, and what doctors describe as confusion and uncertainty among their patients as the rules about who could receive an abortion kept changing, Texas clinics were allowed to resume offering abortions on April 22 — and they soon saw an influx of women who had planned to terminate their pregnancy weeks earlier. Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center in Dallas reported a 57 percent jump in second trimester abortions in the month after the ban was lifted compared to the month leading up to it, said Dr. Robin Wallace, the center’s co-medical director. The clinic declined to release the raw numbers. “It’s infuriating because you can't just turn on and off health care,” Wallace said. “The hardship incurred when patients upon arrival were told that the courts just made a new decision and their appointment was now canceled — it was heartbreaking for patients and our staff.”
Gets worse. Get this:
"By the time the executive order expired, many patients were no longer able to receive a medication abortion, which is only offered in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy in Texas, and instead could only receive a surgical abortion, according to several clinics."
At increased risk and expense. All due to Republican nazis.
"Planned Parenthood Center for Choice in Houston recorded a 28 percent increase in abortions after 10 weeks of pregnancy once the ban was lifted — an average of 51 weekly patients seeking these later abortions in the three weeks after April 22, compared to about 40 patients per week prior to the ban. “At the first visit, folks had expressed wanting to do a medication abortion, but then so many people weren't able to come back for several weeks, which put them out of the window when they would have been able to access that care,” said Dr. Bhavik Kumar, medical director for primary and trans care at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. “We were ready, capable and able to do what we needed to do to take care of our patients, but we legally weren't able to do that,” he said."
All due to Republican nazis and their supporters determined to force their perverse religious views on others. Raw nazism. Readers are reminded abortions were illegal in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy.
"At Whole Woman’s Health in Austin, the number of surgical abortions nearly doubled in the three weeks after April 22 — there were 60 total during those three weeks — compared to the three weeks before the ban. Soraya Dadras, the clinic director, said many patients were upset when they learned they were no longer eligible for a medication abortion. “The idea of having an in-clinic procedure was more daunting for them than having a medication abortion in the safety of their home with their partner,” she said."
All due to Republican nazis and their perverse religious views.
"When Paige, 21, found out she was pregnant in late March, she knew she wasn’t ready to have a child. At first she worried about the cost of an abortion, but then realized she might not be able to receive an abortion in Texas at all. “I felt like I was being punished in some way for getting pregnant,” said Paige, a Houston resident who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect her privacy. “I felt like I was on an emotional and physical roller coaster.” After traveling from Houston to Dallas for an appointment that was later canceled, Paige said she couldn’t keep waiting. She flew to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and had an abortion there. When she returned to Texas, a sense of relief washed over her. “I was back in the comfort of my own space, where I knew COVID couldn’t get me, and I was finally able to lay down and breathe, because I didn't feel like I was breathing through any of it,” she said."
All due to the nazi element running government.
"While abortion access has returned to normal in Texas, doctors are watching the state’s COVID-19 surge warily, concerned that they could be forced to close their doors again. “There has been so much back and forth with the state, and as a provider in Texas, I know I need to be prepared for another instance when I am forced to stop providing essential care to my patients due to the harmful orders from our state leaders,” Kumar said. “My patients deserve better, and I demand better for them.”
... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms.
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7-17-20
Abortion rights upheld. The Associated Press reports:
"A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked Georgia’s 2019 “heartbeat” abortion law, finding that it violates the U.S. Constitution. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled against the state in a lawsuit filed by abortion providers and an advocacy group. Jones had temporarily blocked the law in October, and it never went into effect. The new ruling permanently enjoins the state from ever enforcing House Bill 481. Georgia’s measure sought to ban abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” was present, with some limited exceptions. Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women realize they’re pregnant, according to a legal challenge. The bill narrowly passed the Georgia General Assembly amid intense lobbying for and against. Those who challenged the lawsuit said the ruling proves their contention that the measure was unconstitutional. Lead plaintiff SisterSong, an Atlanta-based group that fights abortion restrictions on behalf of African American and other women of color, called it a “huge win for bodily autonomy.” “No one should have to live in a world where their bodies and reproductive decision making is controlled by the state,” SisterSong Executive Director Monica Simpson said in a statement. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who has supported the restriction, immediately vowed an appeal. “We will appeal the court’s decision,” Kemp said in a statement. “Georgia values life and we will keep fighting for the rights of the unborn.” The prospects of an appeal are uncertain, though, considering the U.S. Supreme Court last month struck down other abortion restrictions from Louisiana."
Who the hell are you, Governor, and your fellow nazis in the Republican Party to force your perverse ideological and religious views on others? In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. Ferociously pointedly, who the f--k are you nazis to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus? Raw nazism. Adolf and Benito would have been proud of you fascist bastards. Think they're not wildly cheering on their fiery perches, you clueless son of a bitch?
The Associated Press reports:
"A federal judge agreed Monday to suspend a rule that requires women during the COVID-19 pandemic to visit a hospital, clinic or medical office to obtain an abortion pill. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland concluded that the “in-person requirements” for patients seeking medication abortion care impose a “substantial obstacle” to abortion patients and are likely unconstitutional under the circumstances of the pandemic. “Particularly in light of the limited timeframe during which a medication abortion or any abortion must occur, such infringement on the right to an abortion would constitute irreparable harm,” the judge wrote in his 80-page decision. Chuang’s ruling will allow healthcare providers to arrange for mifepristone to be mailed or delivered to patients during the public health emergency declared by the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone to be used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol, to end an early pregnancy or manage a miscarriage. “By causing certain patients to decide between forgoing or substantially delaying abortion care, or risking exposure to COVID-19 for themselves, their children, and family members, the In-Person Requirements present a serious burden to many abortion patients,” Chuang wrote."
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7-3-20
Clear victory for abortion rights and the United States Constitution First Amendment. Freedom from religion. United Press International reports:
"The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals was unconstitutional. At issue, was Act 620, Louisiana's "Unsafe Abortion Act," which would require admitting privileges at a hospital no further than 30 miles from location where abortion is performed."
An outrageous, unnecessary impediment to abortion imposed by the Nazi Right to force its perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us.
"The case, June Medical Services vs. Russo, had been tied up in legal battles since doctors first sued the state in 2014. The case was brought before the Supreme Court after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law. A narrowly divided Supreme Court, which began oral arguments in March, ruled 5-4 Monday in favor of June Medical Services, which operates Hope Clinic, an abortion provider in Shreveport, La., against Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Interim Secretary Stephen Russo. Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts ruled in favor of the medical services company, and in effect was the swing vote in the politically divided decision. The court found that the Louisiana abortion law was unconstitutional based on Supreme Court precedent in a 2016 Texas case, where similar admitting privileges abortion law was struck down. The court found that the Texas law placed an "undue burden" on patients' rights to an abortion as half the state's abortion clinics closed."
Raw nazism courtesy of national socialists, fascists in the Republican Party.
"Justice Stephen Breyer, who wrote the majority opinion, said that he agreed with the district court that the Louisiana law offered "no significant health benefit," and placed a "substantial obstacle" on women seeking abortion. Breyer was joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan. Julie Rikelman, a lawyer for the Center for Reproductive Rights, had argued on behalf of June Medical Services, that the Texas case, Whole Woman's Health vs. Hellerstedt, set a precedent that should be followed. Rikelman also said the admitting privilege requirement would force abortion clinics in Louisiana to close and cause similar "undue burden" on patients. Roberts, who said that the 2016 precedent in Texas "was wrongly decided," still agreed in a separate opinion with Rikelman that the justices must adhere to the Texas precedent in the Louisiana case, joining the four liberal justices in the decision. "This is a big win that vindicates what we've said all along, which is that the Louisiana admitting privileges law is unconstitutional," the Center for Reproductive Rights said in a statement. "We won an identical case four years ago in Whole Woman's Health vs. Hellerstedt, and the fact that we had to fight so hard again goes to show that nothing should be taken for granted when it comes to protecting abortion rights. Indeed, the court did not speak with a clear majority opinion which could muddy the waters when clarity is needed to protect abortion rights." The four other conservative justices wrote separate dissents. Associate Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the main dissent, argued that he would return the case to the district court. And he would require "a plaintiff whose own rights are at stake," to join the suit instead of June Medical, which he argued "wants to rely on the rights of third parties."
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5-22-20
Joining forces to fight back against the nazi element abrogating the constitutional right to abortion. The Associated Press reports:
"Conservative lawmakers in Alabama last year tried to enact the nation’s most stringent abortion ban, but the attempt to outlaw the procedure may have had one ironic twist."
Did it ever. LOL. The nazi element got the surprise of a lifetime. LOL. Get this:
"An Alabama-based abortion rights group used a flood of donations that poured in from across the country after the ban to purchase the state’s busiest abortion clinic to ensure it stays open."
How about that? LOL.
"Yellowhammer Fund — a group founded to help low-income women access abortion — announced the purchase of West Alabama Women’s Center on Friday, the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Alabama ban. “I said this a year ago. What they didn’t anticipate they would do is help us increase abortion access in Alabama,” said Amanda Reyes, executive director of Yellowhammer Fund. Reyes said the flood of donations helped the group purchase the clinic from the owner who was looking to retire."
The nazi element in our formerly great country is certainly doing all it can to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus:
"Energized by new conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion opponents in several conservative states are launching direct legal challenges to the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationally. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey last year signed into law legislation that would make performing an abortion at any stage of pregnancy a felony punishable by up to 99 years or life in prison for the abortion provider. A federal judge blocked the Alabama law from taking effect while a challenge plays out in court. International attention on the Alabama ban prompted an outpouring of donations as celebrities shared information on their social media accounts about the group and the fight in Alabama. “It was like a deluge. It was literally like a deluge of grassroots donations,” Reyes said."
How about that? What is sad is the fact liberty is under such ferocious attack in our formerly great country.
"Gloria Gray, who has owned the clinic since 1993, said in a statement issued through Yellowhammer that she was looking to retire but had been concerned about keeping the clinic doors open. “I’ve been waiting years, holding out until I could sell my interest in the company without affecting the clinic, without preventing women from being able to get abortions in Alabama,” Gray said. Yellowhammer did not disclose the purchase price. There are three clinics in Alabama that perform abortions. West Alabama, with its proximity to Mississippi, is the busiest. The clinic in 2017 performed about half of all abortions in the state, according to statistics from the Alabama Department of Public Health. Reyes said it is particularly important to keep the Tuscaloosa clinic open in “a region that is particularly abortion-hostile.” “The stars just aligned in a kind of way where we had the resources at the right time. Now we are going to be able to more robustly fulfill our mission,” Reyes said."
Courageously standing up to the nazi element in our formerly great country. Uncommon Valor.
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5-15-20
A national socialist, fascist, nazi federal 'judge' forces his perverse religious views on the aggrieved. United Press International reports:
"A federal court on Thursday denied a motion to block an Arkansas directive preventing patients from receiving abortion care. The ruling came in response to a lawsuit by Arkansas abortion providers and the American Civil Liberties Union seeking to block the directive restricting access [to] procedural abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Brian S. Miller said the directive should be upheld on the grounds that it was related to preventing the spread of COVID-19 and was "not beyond all question, a plain, palpable invasion of a woman's right to an abortion." Miller added the decision was "agonizingly difficult" in part because it affects four specific women named in the case as well as other women seeking abortions. "There is a strong urge to rule for them because they are extremely sympathetic figures, but that would be unjust," he wrote."
Have you lost your mind, 'Judge?'
Think not? Wake up. Get this:
"Under the directive, patients are not permitted to obtain a procedural abortion unless they test negative for COVID-19 within 48 hours. Jennifer Dalven, director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, noted the state's sole provider of procedural abortions, Little Rock Family Planning Services, said patients have been unable to obtain testing and the directive is "outright barring people who have decided to have an abortion from getting one and instead forcing them to stay pregnant and have a child against their will." "A state should never prevent people from making a decision about a pregnancy that is best for themselves and their families. But doing so during the pandemic, when people are losing their jobs and doing everything they can to keep their families healthy and make ends meet, is beyond cruel," Dalven wrote."
Nazi justice in Nazi America.
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5-1-20
Abbott feels the heat. CNN News reports:
"Abortions in Texas can resume following a legal battle over a governor's order that was interpreted as restricting the procedure to preserve personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. A new executive order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott loosens limits put in place last month. It allows elective medical procedures to resume if a health care facility agrees to "reserve at least 25% of its hospital capacity for treatment of COVID-19 patients" and "not request personal protective equipment from any public source throughout the pandemic." Both points must be certified in writing to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) under the new order, which took effect Wednesday. Abbott in late March had ordered all procedures that weren't medically necessary to be postponed, and Texas' attorney general clarified that the rule included abortions that were "not medically necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother." The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals this week upheld the original order and ruled it included abortion. Abortion providers sought an injunction. As the second executive order took effect, abortion providers said they meet its criteria, and the attorney general's office did not dispute that in a court filing Wednesday. "All the Plaintiff abortion clinics have submitted certifications, and HHSC has acknowledged receipt of those certifications," the state wrote, adding the providers have "no legal basis" for an injunction because there is no longer an issue. The attorney general's office did not immediately respond to CNN's request Wednesday night for comment."
What could they say? Pressure had to have been enormous, -- and growing.
"Finally, women in Texas can get the time-sensitive abortion care that they are constitutionally guaranteed. Women never should have had to go to court to get essential health care," Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which represents some of the providers, said in a statement. "We will be vigilant in ensuring there are no future interruptions to services, including by assessing the appropriate next steps to take in the case," the statement said."
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4-24-20
Texas women are indeed overcoming egregious abrogation of the right to abortion by our nazi Governor and Texas Attorney General. NPR reports:
"Planned Parenthood clinics in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada are reporting an influx of patients from Texas, after an order from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suspending most abortions in that state during the coronavirus pandemic. New data provided to NPR by Planned Parenthood show a more than sevenfold increase in patients traveling from Texas to clinics across the Southwest for abortions since the order took effect in late March. "It clearly shows that when individuals aren't able to access abortion care in their own state, they will travel — or at least the patients who have the means to travel will travel," said Dr. Kristina Tocce, medical director at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, in an interview with NPR."
Goddamned right. F--k the nazi element. Who the hell are these fascist bastards to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus? Republican national socialists don't seem to understand reproductive freedom is more than a man keeping it in his pants, a woman with her panties on, legs crossed.
"According to Planned Parenthood, clinics in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada saw 129 patients from Texas between March 23 and April 14, compared with 16 Texas patients during the entire month of February, a 706% increase. During the same period in 2019, a Planned Parenthood official said those clinics saw 14 patients from Texas. Tocce said she recently saw a patient who traveled 16 hours for a procedure. She said some patients are flying or making long drives at a time when travel is being discouraged because of the pandemic. "This really is frustrating as a provider because it seems to be putting patients at additional risk of being exposed to COVID themselves as they travel and risk them getting an infection, versus them possibly unwittingly transmitting COVID if they are an asymptomatic individual who's positive," Tocce said."
National socialists, fascists, nazis in the Republican Party are congenital liars, -- just like theirfuhrer, the Trump nazi:
"Republican state officials and organizations opposed to abortion rights have argued that the procedure should be treated as nonessential during the pandemic, in order to preserve medical supplies for coronavirus patients, and to reduce the risk of exposure at clinics."
Unadulterated horse shit. These fascist bastards are desperately trying to force their perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of the population. Raw nazism. Democrats have done nothing to effectively combat this rise of fascism in Republican circles. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
"Tocce said her health centers are taking steps to mitigate those risks, including screening patients for symptoms, having patients wear masks at clinics and relying on technologies like telemedicine when possible. Major medical groups say delaying abortion can be harmful to pregnant women. Abortion-rights groups have challenged bans in several states and have succeeded in scaling them back or blocking them, but some patients seeking the procedure have been turned away. A federal appeals court recently ruled that medication abortions could continue in Texas, along with surgical procedures for patients approaching the state's 22-week cutoff."
United Press International reports:
"A federal judge in Tennessee ruled that the state's stay-at-home order can't block abortions because they're "time-sensitive procedures." District Judge Bernard Friedman said Gov. Bill Lee's order barring non-emergency medical procedures amid the coronavirus pandemic must not infringe on women's constitutional rights to an abortion. "Abortion is a time-sensitive procedure," the ruling issued Friday said. "Delaying a woman's access to abortion even by a matter of days can result in her having to undergo a lengthier and more complex procedure that involves progressively greater health risks, or can result in her losing the right to obtain an abortion altogether." Lee issued a stay-at-home order March 31, shutting down non-essential businesses and banning elective, non-emergency medical procedures, and urging residents to remain at home whenever possible. A group of abortion advocacy groups and individuals -- CHOICES Memphis Center for Reproductive Health, Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health, Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, Adams & Boyle P.C., and Dr. Kimberly Looney -- sued the state over the restrictions on abortions, which Lee's order considered elective. "We thank our hard working dedicated lawyers and the judge's level-headed verdict protecting women's constitutional rights to bodily autonomy ... even and especially during this pandemic," the Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health said in response to the ruling. Several other states, including Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Alabama, have faced similar legal battles over whether abortions should be allowed during COVID-19-related shutdowns."
The following is a press release from the Office of the Texas Attorney General:
"AG Paxton: Fifth Circuit Once Again Upholds Governor’s Order Halting Unnecessary Medical Procedures, Including Abortion
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"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today applauded the ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which once again upheld Gov. Greg Abbott’s Executive Order GA-09. That order requires all health care facilities and professionals to postpone medical procedures that are not immediately medically necessary in order to preserve precious medical supplies for those combating the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The court ruled that the district court’s second temporary restraining order on Executive Order GA-09, which granted abortionists an exception to the rule, was legally erroneous. The Fifth Circuit’s ruling recognized that states have the authority to take action during public health emergencies, and that federal judges cannot usurp that authority.
“I am pleased that the Fifth Circuit once again ruled in favor of the health and safety needs of our communities and hardworking medical professionals during this unprecedented medical crisis. Without exception, Texans must continue to work together to stop the spread of COVID-19,” said Attorney General Paxton. “Governor Abbott’s order ensures that hospital beds, supplies and personal protective equipment remain available for the medical professionals on the frontlines of this battle.”
Like his fuhrer, the Trump nazi, our attorney general remains a congenital liar determined to impose his perverse ideological and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
A raucous, boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, Mr. Attorney General? Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
The Associated Press reports:
"Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s attempt to ban abortions during the coronavirus pandemic cannot be enforced, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Charles Goodwin issued a preliminary injunction late Monday after abortion providers sued Stitt over the ban. The injunction replaces a temporary restraining order that the same judge issued last week that allowed most abortions to continue. The injunction ensures that abortions can be performed in Oklahoma while the case continues in federal court. Stitt’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but a spokesman for Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter said he intends to appeal the decision. Stitt attempted to ban abortions in Oklahoma as part of a prohibition on elective surgeries aimed at preserving personal protective equipment, such as surgical masks, gowns and gloves, during the public health crisis. Governors across the country have issued executive orders halting nonessential medical surgeries to free up hospital staff, space and equipment, and Republicans have said abortions should be included under those mandates. Those bans, including Oklahoma’s, have been challenged in courts by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Reproductive Rights and local lawyers in each state. “Abortion is essential, time-sensitive medical care that should not be caught in the crosshairs of political agendas, especially during a public health crisis,” Brandon Hill, president and CEO of Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, said in a statement."
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4-17-20
The fight for the right to abortion continues in Nazi America. ABC News reports:
"A federal judge has ordered that Texas abortion clinics may continue to perform abortions in some cases, either those using medication or those involving patients for whom delays would pose an essential ban. The ruling came in a 16-page opinion filed Thursday by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel of Austin and appears to fly in the face of an appeals court ruling that upheld a ban imposed by Gov. Greg Abbott last month. In an executive order, Abbott last month had banned all but essential medical procedures during the emergency caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and abortions were among the procedures banned. Yeakel had put the total ban on hold, but enforcement of the order was upheld by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Planned Parenthood and other clinics then asked Yeakel to allow abortions in some cases, including medication abortions and abortions in which a delay would push a pregnancy past the state's legal cutoff of 22 weeks, making the procedure illegal. Such a delay would constitute "an absolute ban on abortion," which the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed unconstitutional, Yeakel concluded in his opinion."
Goddamned right. Who the hell are national socialist, fascist Republicans to force their perverse ideology and religious views on the rest of us in direct violation of The First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion? Readers are reminded abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
"Abbott’s original March 22 order was to expire April 21 but can be extended. Similar legal fights are being waged in Alabama, Ohio, Oklahoma and Iowa."
Fail to stand up to nazi tyranny, get precisely what you deserve. Loss of liberty. Too bad the rest of us have to suffer from your gutlessness.
"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton lashed out against Yeakel's latest order, saying it “defies” the appeals court ruling and “demonstrates a lack of respect for the rule of law.” He vowed, "We will once again ask the Fifth Circuit to uphold Governor Abbott’s decision to stop all elective medical procedures during the COVID-19 crisis.”
Republicans in Texas have no respect for the rule of law or the United States Constitution. Aryan arrogantly do as they please. Democrats are gutless. Refuse to stand up to the growing nazism embraced by GOP fascists. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
NPR reports:
"Governors across the country are banning elective surgery as a means of halting the spread of the coronavirus. But in a handful of states that ban is being extended to include a ban on all abortions. So far the courts have intervened to keep most clinics open. The outlier is Texas, where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit this week upheld the governor's abortion ban. Four years ago, Texas was also the focus of a fierce legal fight that ultimately led to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in which the justices struck down a Texas law purportedly aimed at protecting women's health. The court ruled the law was medically unnecessary and unconstitutional. Now Texas is once again the epicenter of the legal fight around abortion. In other states--Ohio, Iowa, Alabama, and Oklahoma--the courts so far have sided with abortion providers and their patients. Not so in Texas where Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order barring all "non-essential" medical procedures in the state, including abortion. The executive order was temporarily blocked in the district court, but the Fifth Circuit subsequently upheld the governor's order by a 2-to-1 vote, declaring that "all public constitutional rights may be reasonably restricted to combat a public health emergency."
That's called nazism. Hard to believe a Texas Governor could embrace a national socialist, fascist philosophy.
"No more elective medical procedures can be done in the state because of the potential of needing both people ... beds and supplies, and obviously doctors and nurses," said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in an interview with NPR."
The Attorney General remains a disingenuous liar. Does he truly delusionally believe the majority of Texans believe his bullshit?
People are beginning to courageously stand up to this pernicious, growing abrogation of all civil and constitutional rights and liberties:
"Nancy Northrup, CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, sees things very differently. "It is very clear that anti-abortion rights politicians are shamelessly exploiting this crisis to achieve what has been their longstanding ideological goal to ban abortion in the U.S.," she said. Paxton denies that, saying Texas "is not targeting any particular group." The state's "only goal is to protect people from dying," he said."
Paxton, like his fuhrer the Trump nazi, remains a congenital liar.
"Yet the American Medical Association just last week filed a brief in this case in support of abortion providers, as did 18 states, led by New York, which is the state that has been the hardest hit by the coronavirus. They maintain that banning abortion is far more dangerous, because it will force women to travel long distances to get one. A study from the Guttmacher Institute found that people seeking abortions during the COVID-19 outbreak would have to travel up to 20 times farther than normal if states successfully ban abortion care during the pandemic. The AMA also notes that pregnant women do not stop needing medical care if they don't get an abortion. Northrup, of the Center for Reproductive Rights, sees this as more evidence that the ban is a calculated move by the state: what "puts the lie to this is the fact that they're trying to ban medication abortion as well; that's the use of pills for abortion. "Those do not need to take place in a clinic and they can be done, taken effectively by tele-medicine. So it shows that the real goal here, tragically, is shutting down one's right to make the decision to end the pregnancy, not a legitimate public health response."
No foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element presents a greater threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than all levels and branches of government.
"Affidavits filed in the Texas case tell of harrowing experiences already happening as the result of the Texas ban. One declaration was filed by a 24-year-old college student. The week she lost her part-time job as a waitress, she found out she was pregnant. She and her partner agreed they wanted to terminate the pregnancy, and on March 20 she went to a clinic in Forth Worth alone; because of social distancing rules, her partner was not allowed to go with her. Since she was 10 weeks pregnant, still in her first trimester, she was eligible for a medication abortion. Under state law, she had to wait 24 hours before getting the pills at the clinic, but the night before her scheduled appointment, the clinic called to cancel because of Abbott's executive order."
Raw nazism. Deliberate abrogation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"Her partner was with her and we "cried together," she wrote in her declaration. "I couldn't risk the possibility that I would run out of time to have an abortion while the outbreak continued," and it "seemed to be getting more and more difficult to travel." She made many calls to clinics in New Mexico and Oklahoma. The quickest option was Denver--a 12-hour drive, 780-mile drive from where she lives. Her partner was still working, so her best friend agreed to go with her. They packed sanitizing supplies and food in the car for the long drive and arrived at the Denver Clinic on March 26, where she noticed other cars with Texas plates in the parking lot, according to the affidavit. At the clinic, she was examined, given a sonogram again, and because Colorado does not have a 24-hour waiting requirement, she was given her first abortion pill without delay and told she should try to get home within 30 hours to take the second pill. She and her friend then turned around to go home. They were terrified she would have the abortion in the car, and tried to drive through without taking breaks. But after six hours, when it turned dark they were so exhausted they had to stop at a motel to catch some sleep. The woman finally got home and took the second pill just within the 30-hour window. She said that despite the ordeal she was grateful she had the money, the car, the friend, and the supportive partner with a job, to make the abortion possible. Others will not be so lucky, she wrote. But "I was desperate and desperate people take desperate steps to protect themselves."
Paxton remains determinedly clueless. A shill for our nazi Governor:
"Paxton, the Texas attorney general, does not seem moved by the time limitations that pregnancy imposes, or the hardships of traveling out of state to get an abortion. He told NPR "the narrative has always been 'It's a choice' ... that's the whole narrative. I'm a little surprised by the question, given that's always been the thing."
It's a choice to you, you fascist son of a bitch. Not to this woman and others like her. On the contrary, it is your choice to embrace nazism that is the issue, Mr. Attorney General. To impose your perverse ideology and religious views on fellow Texans is traitorous, treasonous, direct abrogation of your falsely sworn oath of office. To protect and defend, uphold the United States Constitution that makes you and others who think like you an exigent threat. To life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
"On Thursday abortion providers and their patients returned to the district court in Texas instead of appealing directly to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Fifth Circuit's ruling from earlier this week. The district court judge, who originally blocked the governor's ban, instead narrowed the governor's order so that medical abortions--with pills--would be exempt from the ban, as well as abortions for women who are up against the state-imposed deadline. Abortions in Texas are banned after 22 weeks. In the end, though, this case may well be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. And because of the addition of two Trump appointees since 2016--the composition of the court is a lot more hostile to abortion rights."
Our formerly great country is coming apart at the seams. An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. ... Hear the rumble? Time to wake up before too late.
A nazi appeals court quickly reversed the lower court ruling. Texas women are again denied their constitutional right to abortion. CBS News reports:
"A federal appeals court again allowed most parts of Texas' near-total ban on abortion to continue on Friday, striking down a lower court ruling from less than 24 hours ago that would have allowed some procedures to continue. It's the latest decision in a legal battle over abortion access that many say will reach the United States Supreme Court. For a brief moment, some abortion services were allowed to resume Friday morning after a district judge granted Texas' abortion providers the ability to perform some abortion services despite the state's near-total ban on the procedure. Per Thursday evening's order, clinics could offer medication abortion as well as surgical abortions to patients who would be past the legal gestational limits by April 22, when the ban is set to lift. In his decision, Judge Lee Yaekel wrote, "A ban within a limited period becomes a total ban when that period expires. As a minimum, this is an undue burden on a woman's right to a previability abortion." But Friday afternoon's decision out of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reverses part of that decision. Medication abortion must again be halted, but patients who would be past the legal gestational limit can still seek the procedure. A three-judge panel — including Judge Kyle Dennis, Judge Kyle Duncan and Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod — granted Texas officials a writ of mandamus, which effectively appeals the lower court's decision and allows the near-total ban to resume."
Nazi 'judges' who have repeatedly abrogated their falsely sworn oaths of office to uphold the United States Constitution. Repeatedly denied women their constitutional right to abortion. Need to be impeached, convicted, and removed from office. Remain an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
This ruling is an egregious example of raw nazism:
"Having already painstakingly explained those standards in our opinion, we reiterate our holding: [W]hen faced with a society-threatening epidemic, a state may implement emergency measures that curtail constitutional rights so long as the measures have at least some "real or substantial relation" to the public health crisis and are not "beyond all question, a plain, palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law," the judges wrote in their decision."
Goddamned nazi 'judges.' Traitors. Clearly, we are no longer a democratic republic. In name only. In reality, a fascist police-state.
"Judge Kyle Dennis, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, dissented in part, disagreeing that any of Thursday's lower court ruling should be reversed. "Once again, Texas women cannot access abortion—with the important exception of those close to the legal limit," Nancy Northup, the president and chief executive officer of the enter for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement to CBS News on Friday. "The court is unjustifiably forcing women to wait until the eleventh hour to get the time-sensitive, essential healthcare that they are constitutionally guaranteed." The Center for Reproductive Rights, along with Planned Parenthood and the Lawyering Project, are challenging Texas' suspension of abortion services amid the coronavirus outbreak on behalf of the state's abortion providers. For nearly three weeks, the vast majority of abortion services in Texas have been mostly unavailable. On March 23, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued guidance that abortion services would be included in the Governor's suspension of "non-essential" medical procedures amid the coronavirus pandemic. The order included all pregnancy termination "not medically necessary to preserve the life or health" of the patient. Doctors who violate the order face "penalties of up to $1,000 or 180 days of jail time. An email to the Texas Attorney General's Office was not immediately returned. Attorneys on both sides of the issue expect the case will eventually lead to the United States Supreme Court. In an exclusive interview with CBS News, Attorney General Paxton said that if the courts were to block the state's ban, he'd appeal the decision all the way up to the high court. Texas is among five states facing legal battles over restricting abortion access during the pandemic, and the one furthest along in the judicial process. In a sweep of legal filings, a coalition of abortion rights groups challenged similar bans in Alabama, Iowa, Ohio and Oklahoma. So far, judges have ordered bans to be at least partially lifted everywhere but Texas. "We are in a time of crisis - and the state of Texas is sowing fear, confusion, and chaos about whether people can access health care," Alexis McGill Johnson, the acting president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood, said in a statement to CBS News. "This is a nightmare inside of a nightmare."
If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. The nazi element in the Republican Party does not seem to understand that reproductive freedom is far more than a man keeping it in his pants, a woman with her panties on, legs crossed. An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and many, many other issues. ... Hear the rumble?
Planned Parenthood reports:
"April 11, 2020 - Today, Texas abortion providers — represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Lawyering Project, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America — asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take emergency action to restore essential, time-sensitive medication abortion services while the case proceeds. This comes after Gov. Greg Abbott tried to block virtually all abortion services through his COVID-19 order. The emergency request comes after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals granted most of the state’s request to stay a federal district court’s second temporary restraining order. Under the 5th Circuit’s latest ruling, only patients who will be over the state’s gestational age cutoff by April 22 (the day after Gov. Abbott’s executive order lifts) can access an abortion procedure.
"For almost three weeks, providers — including Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, Planned Parenthood Greater Texas Surgical Health Services, Planned Parenthood South Texas Surgical Center, Whole Woman’s Health, Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center, and Austin Women’s Health Center — have had to cancel appointments for hundreds of patients while Gov. Abbott continues to exploit a pandemic in order to score political points.
"Meanwhile, leading medical experts, including the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology told the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that abortion should not be delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Doing so, they said, only creates a greater strain on the hospital system during this global public health crisis.
"Statement of Alexis McGill
Johnson, acting president and CEO, Planned Parenthood Federation of America:
“The past few weeks have
been untenable for Texans in need of time-sensitive abortion procedures.
We’ve heard patients grow increasingly more desperate for care. Gov. Abbott
has blocked abortion access for mothers who have lost their jobs because
of COVID-19, people quarantined with abusive partners, and patients with
fatal fetal diagnoses. Now is the time to be making abortion more accessible,
not less. Medical professionals everywhere are being trusted to make necessary
but difficult decisions about if and when to treat patients. Doctors who
provide abortions are asking to do the same — because they, not politicians,
know what’s best for their patients. This is a matter of health care, not
political opinion.”
"Statement from Rupali
Sharma, senior counsel and director, Lawyering Project:
“Texans who seek abortion
care deserve dignity and compassion — particularly during a public health
crisis. Instead, they’ve been thrown into a tailspin of uncertainty, unsure
if and when they'll be able to obtain essential, constitutionally protected
healthcare. These extraordinary circumstances require urgent intervention.
That’s why we're asking the Supreme Court to step in and stop Texas from
blocking abortion access as its residents contend with unprecedented challenges.”
"Statement from Nancy
Northup, president and CEO, Center for Reproductive Rights:
“It is vital that the
Supreme Court step in and protect the health, lives and futures of Texas
women. This is an extraordinarily difficult time, but this is an easy case.
Texas is blatantly abusing its emergency power to obliterate Roe v. Wade.
This tactic of using bogus health and safety justifications to close clinics
is nothing new. In fact, we have another case before the Supreme Court
right now challenging a different sham law designed to shut down clinics.
These thinly veiled attempts to end abortion must stop.”
"Already, courts in Alabama, Ohio and Oklahoma are allowing abortion providers, just like all other doctors, to decide when to provide essential abortion care while conserving needed resources during this pandemic. Texas should be no different. In fact, forcing people to carry their pregnancies to term against their will only creates a heavier burden on a hospital system that’s already stretched thin caring for COVID-19 patients.
"Texans already have to navigate a long list of restrictions that force patients to have medically unnecessary face-to-face contact with providers, and for some, push abortion out of reach altogether. These harmful restrictions include state-mandated in-person counseling and a mandatory 24-hour waiting period. For many people, traveling out of state or waiting weeks for their procedure will mean they won’t be able to access an abortion at all.
"The Texas plaintiff abortion providers are represented by attorneys from Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Lawyering Project and the Law Offices of Patrick J. O’Connell PLLC. "
The Associated Press reports:
"The coronavirus outbreak has fueled attempts to ban abortions in some states, but providers where the procedure remains available report increased demand, often from women distraught over economic stress and health concerns linked to the pandemic. “The calls we’ve been getting are frantic,” said Julie Burkhart, who manages clinics in Wichita, Kansas, and Oklahoma City. “We’ve seen more women coming sooner than they would have because they’re scared they won’t be able to access the services later.” Some clinics are seeing patients who traveled hundreds of miles from states such as Texas, which has banned abortions during much of the pandemic on grounds they are nonessential. Dr. Allison Cowett of Family Planning Associates in Chicago said one recent patient was a teen who drove from Texas with her mother. In Atlanta, Dr. Marissa Lapedis said her clinic accommodated a woman who received her initial abortion consultation in Texas but flew to Georgia when the Texas ban postponed a second visit to receive the abortion pill. An influx of women from Texas contributed to the upsurge of abortions at Burkhart’s clinic in Wichita. She said it performed 252 abortions in March, up from 90 in March 2019. Dr. Jen Villavicencio, an abortion provider in Michigan, predicts that demand for abortions will continue to increase during the pandemic. “I hear it in my patient’s voices and questions daily,” she said via email. “They’re worried about how they will make their rent, feed their family, access a ventilator if the need arises.”
As the struggle against the Nazi Right continues, Uncommon Valor by those fighting for liberty:
"The pandemic has prompted Planned Parenthood, the national’s largest abortion provider, to make adjustments. In New York City, the epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S., Planned Parenthood has modified medication abortion procedures to minimize travel and potential COVID-19 exposure for patients and staff. Dr. Meera Shah is chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, which serves New York’s northern suburbs. She says her staff is expanding telemedicine as they see an uptick in patients seeking abortions, often convinced that “having a child right now isn’t best for them.” “We provided a medication abortion to an EMT while she was sitting in her ambulance,” Shah said. “We provided abortion care to a mother who was at home with her children running around behind her.” Dr. Anne Davis, an OB-GYN at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, said all services at her hospital are under stress and COVID-19 patients are numerous. In most cases, her team refers women seeking abortions to non-hospital clinics. She cited one patient who had wanted to be pregnant but requested an abortion when it became clear her medical condition would require multiple hospital visits. Davis said the woman had received comparable treatment during her first pregnancy but decided this time that the hospital wouldn’t be as safe."
Sad the Republican nazi element is forcing the following:
"The push for new bans has added urgency to a campaign providing information about relatively safe options for do-it-yourself abortions. Already, many abortions are induced at home with a two-drug combination, under the guidance of a health professional. Advocacy groups say home abortions using one of the drugs — misoprostol — can be done without professional oversight. Misoprostol is available only by prescription in the U.S. but is available online from some countries where it sells over the counter. Attorney Jill E. Adams, executive director of If/When/How, supports that option and urges prosecutors not to target women who use this method. “More people will need abortions during this pandemic,” she said. “Targeting people who end their pregnancies at home is wrong as a matter of law and dangerous as a matter of public health.” Amid debate about whether abortion is an essential service, anti-abortion protesters have mobilized outside numerous clinics — in some cases triggering confrontations with police over whether they’re violating social-distancing rules. In North Carolina, eight of about 50 protesters were arrested April 4 after refusing to disperse outside a clinic in Charlotte. Even as many businesses close temporarily, anti-abortion pregnancy centers remain open. Virginia-based Care Net, which oversees about 1,100 centers, evoked the pandemic in a fundraising appeal, noting that unplanned pregnancies may rise during isolation and “our centers need to find creative ways to serve these parents and empower them to choose life.”
Adolf and Benito would have been proud of Abbott and Paxton.
CBS News reports:
"A federal judge on Sunday ruled that Alabama cannot ban abortions as part of the state's response to coronavirus. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson issued a preliminary injunction sought by clinics to prevent the state from forbidding abortions as part of a ban on elective medical procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thompson said abortion providers can decide whether a procedure can wait. "Based on the current record, the defendants' efforts to combat COVID-19 do not outweigh the lasting harm imposed by the denial of an individual's right to terminate her pregnancy, by an undue burden or increase in risk on patients imposed by a delayed procedure, or by the cloud of unwarranted prosecution against providers," Thompson wrote in an opinion. The ruling was a victory for abortion rights advocates who are fighting efforts in Texas, Ohio, Alabama and other states to prohibit abortion services during the COVID-19 pandemic. States have argued they need to conserve medical equipment and potential hospital beds during the pandemic.
"A lawyer representing clinics praised the decision. "Preventing someone from getting an abortion doesn't do anything to stop the COVID-19 virus, it just takes the decision whether to have a child out of their hands," said Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project."
The Associated Press reports:
"A federal appeals court panel ruled that medication abortions, in which pills are taken to terminate a pregnancy, can be provided in Texas during the coronavirus pandemic. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order last month that bars non-essential medical procedures so that health resources can go to treating coronavirus patients. Texas’ Republican attorney general has said that providing abortions other than for an immediate medical emergency would violate the order. In a ruling Monday, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that medication abortions can go forward. In a concurrence, Judge James L. Dennis wrote that Texas’ move to ban medication abortions “is a strong indication that the enforcement is pretextual and does not bear a ‘real or substantial relation’ to the public health crisis we are experiencing.” Over the weekend, Texas abortion clinics asked the Supreme Court to step in to allow medication abortions. Such an abortion involves taking one pill at a clinic, then taking a second pill 24 to 48 hours later, typically at home. Clinics have argued that medication abortions do not require personal protective equipment like masks, gloves and gowns that might be needed for coronavirus patients. “Now it’s time for Gov. Abbott to end his exploitation of this pandemic to ban all abortion access,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. “None of it is medically justified, all of it is unconstitutional, and women are being thrown into a state of fear and uncertainty.”
Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve. Forfeiture of liberty. At the hands of outrageously corrupt and abusive government.
4-10-20
Thanks to nazis in Texas state government, women are denied convenient access to a constitutional right. CBS News reports:
"The average patient seeking an abortion in Texas must now travel more than 20 times farther than usual because of the state's temporary ban on the procedure, according to a new study from the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights research organization. For some, it puts the procedure out of reach entirely."
Exactly as intended by Republican nazis desperate to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all. Currently, the Governor and Attorney General have denied access to abortion other than to save the life of the woman. Goddamned nazi bullshit. Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion:
"Abortion services across Texas have been suspended since last Monday, when the Attorney General declared that the procedure must be temporarily halted as part of the state's ban on "non-essential" and "elective" medical procedures amid the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, hundreds of patients have had their appointments canceled, leading some to travel to nearby states for the procedure despite stay-at-home orders."
Outrageous bullshit. The nazi element truly believes it has the right to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus. Liberty? What's that? No longer truly exists in a de facto fascist police-state. Why should women have to put up with this shit? Get this:
"Though abortion services are already limited in Texas and patients ordinarily face long travel times to receive care — the state is home to 21 clinics for its 6 million women of reproductive age — the temporary ban has made the situation more difficult, increasing travel distances from an average of 12 miles to 243 miles, a 1,925% increase, according to Guttmacher."
Nazis on the Right cheer this shit. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms as our formerly great country continues to come apart at the seams. Time to wake up. Before too late.
"The greater the increase in travel distance, the greater the hardship it causes, and the more likely it becomes that some individuals will not be able to obtain the care they need," said Rachel Jones, Guttmacher's principal research scientist and one of the authors of the study, in a statement shared with CBS News on Thursday ahead of the report's release."
Exactly as intended by our nazi Governor and Attorney General. Both of whom have repeatedly directly abrogated their falsely sworn oaths of office to uphold the United States Constitution.
"Forcing people to overcome these challenges in the middle of a global pandemic places unconscionable burdens on them, and the consequences fall hardest on people who are already struggling to make ends meet and those who are marginalized from the health care system."
The Republican nazi element in our formerly great country couldn't care less. Democrats refuse to walk out the Senate in protest. Neither party is worth a shit.
Republicans are lying. Using the current pandemic crisis to deny a constitutional right. Like their fuhrer, the Trump nazi, they're congenital liars:
"In what officials say is an effort to preserve personal protective equipment for medical professionals, states across the Midwest and South have included abortion services in directives to suspend "non-essential" medical procedures. But abortion rights groups, as well as major medical professional organizations, say that abortion is essential healthcare, and by nature of pregnancy, time-sensitive."
No question. -- Don't want an abortion, don't have one. Don't, however, force your perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us.
"In Guttmacher's report, the research group found that in every state that has limited abortion access amid the coronavirus outbreak, patients have faced increased travel times to receive the procedure, ranging from a 58% increase in distance in Kentucky to nearly 2,000% in Texas. For some, the increase in travel time and the costs associated with travel put the procedure out of reach. Guttmacher warned that those impacted the most by states' temporary bans on abortion will likely be low-income women and single mothers who won't be able to afford the time off work or travel costs."
Republican nazis are cheering like hell. Worthless Democrats, again, not walking out the U.S. Senate, Texas House, Texas Senate in protest. Sad, isn't it?
"Under ordinary circumstances, the burdens of extended travel—including taking time away from work, lost wages, finding childcare, securing lodging, and arranging transportation — can be incredibly difficult for people seeking abortion care," said Jones. "While we face the COVID-19 pandemic, all of these conditions are amplified as many individuals are dealing with lost jobs, concerns about exposure and, in some cases, various travel restrictions." Texas's suspension of abortion services is currently at the center of a high-profile lawsuit that will likely dictate whether other states will be allowed to continue their bans on the procedure. On Tuesday, a three-judge panel reversed a lower court's decision, allowing the ban to be reinstated until further review by the court. Until then, abortion services are not available in the state."
Raw nazism.
Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve. Forfeiture of liberty. At the hands of outrageously corrupt and abusive government.
4-3-20
Out of control nazis in our formerly great country doing all they can to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus. United Press International reports:
"The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood Federation of America filed a lawsuit Monday against Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' order halting abortions amid the coronavirus pandemic. Pat Garrett, a spokesman for Reynolds, told the Des Moines Register Friday that the governors' proclamation earlier this week to suspend "non-essential" medical procedures through mid-April included surgical abortion."
The fascist bastards are shamelessly forcing their perverse religious and ideological views on the rest of us in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"The lawsuit filed in Johnson County District Court against Reynolds and other state officials "asks the court for an emergency injunction to block the Governor's Proclamation as it applies to abortions," an ACLU of Iowa statement said Monday. The suit was filed on behalf of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, which offers services at health centers in Iowa and Nebraska, its medical director Jill Meadows, and the abortion clinic called Emma Goldman Clinic, based in Iowa City. "Abortion is an essential, time-sensitive medical procedure," Planned Parenthood's Iowa Executive Director Erin Davison-Rippey said in a statement. "We are in a critical moment for our state when we must come together to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, not politicize health care services that are constitutionally protected. Iowans are doing all they can to protect their families and communities during this pandemic and Planned Parenthood is focused on providing our patients with crucial services they need." The Iowa Constitution grants women a fundamental right to abortion, according a recent Iowa Supreme Court ruling, which the lawsuit cites."
Sadly, the nazi element is too damned stupid to have a clue:
"Reynolds has been a vocal pro-life advocate for years and in 2018 signed one of the most restrictive state abortion bans in the nation into law, known as the "heartbeat" bill, banning the procedure after six weeks. The pro-life governor has defended her position and said it is not because of her ideology, but part of plan to deal with national shortage in medical equipment during the pandemic."
The Governor, just like her fuhrer the Trump nazi, is a goddamned liar.
"However, the lawsuit says the governor calling abortions non-essential procedures "flagrantly defies clear and binding constitutional precedent," showing "protected liberty interest in terminating an unwanted pregnancy." Officials in Texas, Ohio and Mississippi have also halted abortion procedures amid the pandemic."
In follow up to the last edition of this publication, CNN News reports:
"The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is allowing a controversial Texas executive order that blocks elective abortions during the coronavirus pandemic to remain in effect for now. The case tees up a battle between supporters of abortion rights and a handful of conservative states arguing that bans on elective abortions and other medical procedures are necessary to help preserve medical supplies."
They're liars deliberately imposing their perverse religious and ideological views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion. Are deliberately, concertedly abrogating their oaths of office to uphold the United States Constitution.
"A divided panel of the appellate court on Tuesday put on hold a lower court opinion that blocked Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order -- requiring that health care providers "postpone all surgeries and procedures that are not immediately medically necessary" to preserve a patient's life or condition -- from applying to elective abortions. The lower court had published its opinion on Monday. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had specified that "any type of abortion that is not medically necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother" was included in the order, prompting a challenge from state abortion providers and national abortion rights groups last week."
The Governor and Texas Attorney General remain national socialists, fascists imposing their perverse religious and ideological views on all. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
The following is abject bullshit coming from the two nazis on the appeals court that voted for this outrageously unconstitutional decision:
"In Tuesday's 2-1 decision, the appeals court said it wants to give itself "sufficient time" to consider an emergency petition filed by Paxton. Judge Jennifer Elrod, a George W. Bush appointee, and Judge Kyle Duncan, a Donald Trump appointee, voted to freeze the lower court opinion."
Two treasonous nazis more than willing to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus.
"Judge James Dennis, a Bill Clinton appointee, dissented from the order. He noted that the lower court had already concluded that "irreparable harm would flow" from allowing the executive order to go into effect as it applies to abortions."
Goddamned right. These outrageously fascist 'judges' remain unfit to sit on the bench. Highly reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, -- where abortion was indeed illegal in both national socialist dictatorships.
More abject bullshit:
"The court has ordered more briefings in the case. Paxton praised the court's ruling on Tuesday, asserting that the temporary stay "justly prioritizes supplies and personal protective equipment for the medical professionals in need."
You're a congenital liar just like your fuhrer, the Trump nazi, Mr. Attorney General. Why do you keep delaying your own day in court, Mr. Paxton? Extraordinarily hypocritical of you, sir, isn't it? Why is it the top of the food chain can do as it pleases usually with impunity while the bottom and middle class get the shaft rammed hard up the ass by Aryan arrogant fascist assholes like you, sir? Called nazi justice, Mr. Attorney General.
"But supporters of abortion rights accused Texas of playing politics. "Let's be clear, it is never the right time to play politics, but doing so in the wake of Covid-19 is a despicable low," Aimee Arrambide, the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, said in a statement."
Expect better of the nazi element in our formerly great country, madam?
"Texas' case is the first such challenge to a coronavirus state order to reach the appeals court, but several others may follow."
Sue the living shit out of the nazi element. Expose them for precisely whom and what they truly are. National socialists, fascists, nazis. All three labels interchangeable.
"In addition to in Texas, federal judges in Alabama and Ohio also blocked state orders on Monday banning nonessential medical procedures from limiting abortion access during the outbreak after state abortion providers and abortions rights groups filed challenges earlier that day."
Good to see we still have judges willing to stand up to the nazi element.
"A similar challenge filed Monday awaits judicial consideration in Oklahoma, and other states, including Mississippi and Kentucky, that have also opted to issue such orders could face challenges."
Expose these treasonous, traitorous bastards for precisely whom and what they are. Fascists.
"Not all clinics have clashed with their state's governor in court. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky said they would comply with Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb's executive order to postpone or cancel all elective or non-urgent procedures, including abortions, to conserve medical equipment. Holcomb said Tuesday that he would leave it up to a doctor to determine if postponing or canceling any of those procedures would cause harm to the patient."
Will prosecutors do the same? Certainly, be harm if a pregnant woman is forced to bring her pregnancy to term. Called nazism.
"Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky CEO Chris Charbonneau said the group would comply with the governor's directive but noted that their top priority is "ensuring that every person can continue accessing essential health care, including abortions."
Abject bullshit. Galling double talk. You're turning your backs on the women you serve, placing trust in government which is clearly unwarranted.
Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve. Forfeiture of liberty. At the hands of outrageously corrupt and abusive government.
3-27-20
Republican nazis in Ohio and Texas are taking advantage of the pandemic to restrict access to abortion. The Associated Press reports:
"Orders by the governors of Texas and Ohio to stop all non-essential surgeries in those states have unleashed a new battle over access to abortions during the coronavirus pandemic. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide order Sunday to curb the use of medical supplies hospitals will need as they prepare for escalating infections in the spreading of COVID-19. The order bars hospitals from performing surgeries unless the patient faces an immediate risk for “serious adverse medical consequences or death, as determined by the patient’s physician.” An Abbott spokesman confirmed that would cover abortion in most cases while the order is in place until April 21. Texas anti-abortion activists hailed the move amid the COVID-19 crisis. “The abortion industry has been consuming and hoarding medical supplies that are in desperate need around the state including masks, gloves, and other protective gear for medical professionals,” Texas Right to Life said in a statement Monday."
-- Goddamned bullshit and any excuse at all to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion. ... National socialist, fascist nazis like Hitler and Mussolini who banned abortion in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
"Clinics in Ohio received letters from Republican Attorney General Dave Yost on Friday ordering them to cease all “non-essential” surgical abortions. Yost wrote that the procedures violate a March 17 order issued by the state health director. Clinics, abortion rights groups and some state lawmakers pushed back, saying abortions are both essential and time-sensitive. “During an emergency, there is always a chance of government overreach under the guise of ‘security’ or adherence to ‘law and order,’” the Ohio Democratic Women’s Legislative Caucus said in a statement. “In times of national crisis, we have seen egregious acts that have circumvented our freedoms before. And make no mistake – we are seeing them today.”
Goddamned right. Nazi America. Courtesy of national socialist Republicans and the failure of gutless Democrats to stand up to the nazi element in our formerly great country.
CBS News reports:
"The Texas Attorney General's office on Monday ordered all clinics that provide abortion to immediately stop providing the procedure in order to comply with the state's temporary suspension of surgeries that are not deemed "medically necessary," according to a statement from the office shared with CBS News. Texas is the latest state to halt abortion services amid the COVID-19 outbreak. According to the Attorney General's office, "any type of abortion that is not medically necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother" must be suspended. Those in violation will face "penalties of up to $1,000 or 180 days of jail time."
Raw nazism in a de facto fascist police-state. Courtesy of Republican nazis.
"On Sunday evening, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order "to expand hospital bed capacity as the state responds to the COVID-19 virus." On Monday afternoon, the state's Attorney General, Ken Paxton, clarified that abortion services would need to be suspended as part of that directive. "No one is exempt from the governor's executive order on medically unnecessary surgeries and procedures, including abortion providers," Paxton said in a statement shared with CBS News on Monday afternoon. "Those who violate the governor's order will be met with the full force of the law."
Raw nazism in a de facto fascist police-state. ... How is it, Mr. Attorney General, you've managed to indefinitely stall your day in court? Undue influence on the judiciary, sir? Finest lawyers money can buy?
"At the time of publication, it was not immediately clear whether or not the state's 22 health clinics that offer the procedure would comply with the order. A spokesperson for Planned Parenthood said the organization was reviewing the order, and did not clarify whether its three health clinics in Texas would stop offering all abortion services. "The priority of all Planned Parenthood health centers in Texas is the health and safety of our patients and staff, and ensuring that Texans can access essential health care, including abortion," said Ken Lambrecht, Melaney A. Linton, and Jeffrey Hons, the respective heads of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast and Planned Parenthood South Texas, in a statement shared with CBS News. Amy Hagstrom Miller, the president of Whole Woman's Health, which operates three health centers in Texas that offer abortion, said abortion was "essential healthcare, and... a time-sensitive procedure." "Emergency actions during a global pandemic should advance health and safety for us all, not force people to delay much-needed care and possibly exacerbate their health situations by doing so," Miller said in a statement to CBS News on Monday. "Patients cannot wait until this pandemic is over to receive safe abortion care." A spokesperson for Whole Woman's Health did not specify whether the clinics planned to comply with Paxton's order."
Need to challenge this in court.
"Texas joins Ohio in ordering the suspension of abortion service as part of state-wide directives to preserve personal protective equipment and other medical resources for those treating coronavirus. Over the weekend, Ohio's attorney general issued guidance that any abortion procedure requiring the use of personal protective equipment, which includes things like gloves and masks, must stop as part of the state Health Department's directive to discontinue "non-essential" surgeries."
Not all are taking this shit lying down:
"But at least five of Ohio's six surgical providers say abortion is essential and time-sensitive. Because of that, they say there won't be any interruption of services. "Planned Parenthood's top priority is ensuring that every person can continue accessing essential health care, including abortion. We know your health care can't wait," said Iris E. Harvey and Kersha Deibel, the respective heads of Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio and Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, in a statement provided to CBS News. "Abortion is an essential, time-sensitive medical procedure."
It is. Who the hell are national socialist, fascist Republicans to force their perverse religious and ideological views on others in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion?
"In Texas, access to abortion is already limited, according to data from the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion-rights research organization. Patients seeking the procedure must undergo state-directed counseling designed to discourage them from having an abortion. Doctors are also not allowed to perform an abortion after 20 weeks post-fertilization, or 22 weeks after a patient's last menstrual cycle unless the patient's life was in jeopardy, they faced "severely compromised physical health," or the fetus faced "lethal anomaly," according to Guttmacher."
... Hear the rumble?
Subsequent to the above, Planned Parenthood quickly sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in federal court for his recent ban on abortion. More on this in the next edition.
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3-20-20
If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. Republican national socialists, fascists delusionally believe they get to dictate what a woman can and cannot do with HER uterus. CBS News reports:
"All six women in the Utah Senate walked out in protest and refused to vote before the chamber passed a bill mandating that a woman be shown an ultrasound before receiving an abortion. Republican Sen. Deidre Henderson said the walkout late Tuesday was a spontaneous decision to underscore concerns about the "invasive nature" of the bill. The six women lawmakers - two Republicans and four Democrats - would not have changed the outcome. Five Republican men voted against the measure that passed 16-7. Henderson said she opposes abortion but the mandatory ultrasound proposal went too far. It would require showing a pregnant woman images and making the fetal heartbeat audible, if possible."
Who the hell is the Nazi Right in our formerly great country to force its perverse religious views on all? First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"Women now get an ultrasound before abortions, but providers aren't required to show them the results. Under the bill, doctors could be fined $100,000 or more if they perform the procedure without showing an ultrasound. "It was sisterhood coming together, so that's what it is," Democratic Sen. Luz Escamilla told CBS affiliate KUTV. "We felt really concerned about how invasive that is."
None of the government's business what a woman does or doesn't do with HER uterus before or after she's impregnated. Republican nazis can't seem to understand this. Haven't a clue. Their perverse ideological and religious beliefs blind them to a basic tenet of liberty, -- the right to determine whether one's uterus will or will not be used to bring a pregnancy to term. Called freedom.
"Republican Sen. Curtis Bramble, who is sponsoring the bill in the Senate, said a woman could look away from the images or not listen to the heartbeat."
Who the hell is an Aryan arrogant Republican nazi to force his perverse ideological and religious views on another?
"If you are going to take the life of a child, if you are willing to terminate that life through an abortion, it seems appropriate that you get the best information about the development, the stage of development, heart beat - we are talking about a human being," Bramble told the Deseret News."
Who the hell are you, Senator, to ignorantly, condescendingly assume a woman does not know precisely what she is and isn't doing when she has an abortion? Time for the nazi element to figuratively remove its head from its ass. No one is forcing assholes who think like you to get an abortion. No one. Mind your own goddamned business. Ferociously pointedly?
Where is your opposition to the fact the law enforcement community murders innocent, unarmed civilians with near impunity throughout our formerly great country? Embraces a 'shoot first, ask questions later' mentality. The hypocrisy of the Nazi Right in our failed nation is staggering. Moreover, your collective gutless silence vis a vis such de facto legalized murder perpetrated by police with near impunity speaks volumes. How do you fascists sleep nights?
"Before the vote, Henderson successfully added an amendment prohibiting a transvaginal ultrasound, a procedure she called "incredibly invasive." The bill now returns to the House for consideration of the amendment. Three medical organizations have asked Republican Gov. Gary Herbert to veto the proposed ultrasound mandate, and a fourth has taken a neutral position, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Democratic Senate Minority Leader Sen. Karen Mayne said she was sad that women had to tell their own life stories as they spoke against the bill, and yet their male colleagues didn't appear to believe the proposal was too invasive. "Why do we have to explain to you why this is not right? Why?" she said."
... Hear the rumble? As our formerly great country continues to deteriorate, an unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. Time to wake up. Before too late.
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2-14-20
No separation of church and state in Trump regime. United Press International reports:
"The Department of Health and Human Services is threatening to withhold healthcare funds from California unless it meets a deadline this month to stop requiring health insurance plans to cover elective abortions."
None of their goddamned business. Not only is it not their uterus, there is church-state separation in this country, that is, the First Amendment Establishment Clause.
"State officials have vowed to fight the move."
Need to. Vigorously.
"On Jan. 24, the HHS Office of Civil Rights notified California that state mandates requiring universal abortion coverage violate federal conscience statutes and that it has 30 days to comply with the law. The notice stemmed from two complaints alleging California engaged in unlawful discrimination when in 2014, the state's Department of Managed Health Care said health plan issuers must offer coverage for elective abortion. HHS says the requirement violates the Weldon Amendment, which bars federal programs and agencies and state and local governments from receiving certain funds if they discriminate against healthcare entities that do not provide, pay for, provide coverage of or refer for abortions."
Outrageously unconstitutional regulation of a constitutional right. Who the hell is the Nazi Right to force its perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us?
"California has deprived over 28,000 people of plans that did not cover elective abortion, but now must cover abortion," the Office of Civil Rights said in a news release. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a news release that the Trump administration is making baseless allegations of violations and that President Donald Trump "is using the official levers of government to advance his political agenda."
Shamelessly, so.
"In California, we will continue to protect our families' access to healthcare, including women's constitutional right to abortion," the release says. "Nothing changes." Other officials backed up Becerra. Gov. Gavin Newsom told Trump in a tweet that "you sicken me" with his threat to hold up billions of dollars. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., tweeted that Trump has created a hostage situation. "The cruelty has no bounds," Speier tweeted. "Women and the most vulnerable are the casualties. We won't stand for it!"
Sue the living shit out of the bastards.
"The HHS complaints were filed by the Missionary Guadalupanas of the Holy Spirit, a Catholic organization in Los Angeles, and Skyline Wesleyan Church in La Mesa, which is in the San Diego area. Each organization also filed a lawsuit -- the Missionary Guadalupanas in state court and Skyline in federal court. After those suits were dismissed at the trial court level, both appealed. The California Court of Appeal upheld the trial judge's decision in the Missionary Guadalupanas case. Skyline took its case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard arguments on Nov. 6. A decision is pending."
Four decades since Roe v. Wade. Should long since been settled.
The following is distortion of reality:
"Churches and other employers should be free to operate according to their beliefs "and not be forced to fund something that goes against their conscience," said Denise Harle, legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian nonprofit organization that represents Skyline."
Churches are not funding this benefit. It is the labor of their hired help that does so.
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1-10-20
Republican nazis in Congress are lobbying their fellow Republicans on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. CBS News reports:
"Over 200 members of Congress asked the Supreme Court to consider overturning Roe v. Wade, which guarantees the right to an abortion, in a brief urging the court to uphold a Louisiana law severely restricting abortion. The 39 senators and 168 House members submitted the amicus brief in the case of June Medical Services LLC v. Gee, which the Supreme Court will consider this spring. June Medical Services challenged a Louisiana law, passed in 2014 and currently not in effect, which required doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital within 30 miles of the facility where the abortion is performed. If the law is allowed to be implemented, all of Louisiana's abortion clinics would close, as first reported in October by CBS News."
According to the medical profession, totally unnecessary for two reasons. First, there are hardly ever complications requiring hospitalization. Second, the patient could simply be transported to the hospital and placed under medical care of another physician.
Also, doctors who perform abortions are routinely denied admitting privileges to hospitals or have their requests gutlessly ignored. Republican nazis are doing all they can to make access to abortion as difficult as possible.
Who the hell are these fascist bastards to force their perverse religious views on the rest of us? Who the f--k are they to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus? That is, for these Aryan arrogant sons of bitches to rule that the woman must forfeit her right to liberty so that the pregnancy is forced to conclusion.
"The federal district court issued a preliminary injunction on the law, which was lifted by the 5th Circuit Court on appeal. The Supreme Court restored the injunction. In 2016, while the lawsuit by June Medical Services was ongoing, the Supreme Court decided in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt that a similar Texas law was unconstitutional."
Matters not to Republican nazis.
The following is horse shit. Simply, not true. Bold faced lie:
"Lawmakers argue in the brief that the Supreme Court should uphold the 5th Circuit decision, which found that the law did not place an "undue burden" on women seeking an abortion."
Day is night, night is day, and shit smells perversely sweet to these assholes in the Republican Party. All ass backwards from reality.
Here's the phony parsing of language these clueless national socialists engage in:
"In their brief, the members of Congress also maintain that Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt led to "confusion among Congress and state legislatures alike as to which laws might withstand constitutional scrutiny," and they say that the decision by the 5th Circuit court should be upheld. The brief also says that the famous 1992 decision Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, which upheld the right to abortion, caused confusion with its new "undue burden" standard. This standard means that state laws that place an "undue burden" on a "large fraction" of women seeking an abortion are unconstitutional. The court said that an "undue burden" exists if there is a "substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion before the fetus attains viability." "Amici respectfully suggest that the Fifth Circuit's struggle to define the appropriate "large fraction" or determine what "burden" on abortion access is "undue" illustrates the unworkability of the "right to abortion" found in Roe v. Wade ... and the need for the Court to again take up the issue of whether Roe and Casey should be reconsidered and, if appropriate, overruled," the brief says. "Amici" refers to the signatories of the brief."
Sophistry. Blatant. The nazi element in our formerly great country poses an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. All in an effort to force its perverse ideological and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"All 39 of the senators who signed the brief were Republicans. Another Republican senator, Josh Hawley, had previously submitted a separate amicus brief. Only two of the 168 House members who signed the brief were Democrats — Dan Lipinski and Collin Peterson. Lipinski has been singled out by abortion rights groups for his opposition to abortion, and is facing a primary from the left."
Every one of these nazi bastards needs to be defeated at the polls. All present an exigent threat to a democratic republic.
"Of the 13 Republican senators who did not sign the brief, eight are up for reelection in 2020: Susan Collins, Dan Sullivan, Martha McSally, Shelley Moore Capito, Cory Gardner, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and David Perdue. Collins, McSally and Gardner in particular are considered vulnerable to being unseated by Democrats."
All need to go. Not one of them is worth a shit. All present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
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1-3-20
Right to abortion remains under ferocious attack by the national socialist, fascist element in the Republican Party. NPR reports:
"On a recent Saturday morning at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., Kathaleen Pittman was preparing for a day of procedures, as a couple dozen patients sat quietly in the waiting area. Her clinic is challenging a law passed by Louisiana's state legislature in 2014, which requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital in case of an emergency. The case, June Medical Services, LLC v. Gee, is scheduled to go before the U.S. Supreme Court next year, and the court's decision has the potential to chip away at existing precedent protecting abortion rights."
Out of control raw nazism now embraced by the national socialist, increasingly fascist GOP. Determined to force its perverse religious views on all. Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"The whole process of trying to obtain privileges is crazy," Pittman says. "It's time-consuming. It could be a process of a few months to actually years. There are no guarantees." Pittman has been working here since the early 1990s, when she started as a part-time counselor. Pittman says if the law stands, it would leave few doctors in Louisiana who perform abortions. The clinic currently has two doctors performing abortions — one who has admitting privileges, and one who does not. Pittman says the other doctor has been trying for years to get admitting privileges, without success. She believes concerns about the politics and stigma around abortion have made getting privileges difficult. "We have discovered that not all hospitals will just outright deny privileges," Pittman says. "They just won't take any action, which is the same thing. But it's not in writing. So what do you do?"
Madam, nazis in the Republican Party expect you to goose step along with their national socialist, fascist ideology.
"Not only are admitting privileges hard to get, but the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that requiring doctors who perform abortions to obtain them doesn't provide any substantial medical benefit to patients, but it does put a major hurdle in the way of patients seeking abortions. In its 2016 opinion, Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the court said a Texas law, which included a hospital admitting privileges requirement, "poses a substantial obstacle to women seeking abortions, and constitutes an 'undue burden' on their constitutional right to do so."
With a five-four Republican nazi majority currently on the Supreme Court, all bets are off. Precisely, what our fuhrer, the Trump nazi, his henchmen, and their fellow national socialists in the GOP demand and want.
"What's on the line is the continued protection by the Supreme Court of access to abortion services," says Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing the Hope clinic. "And what's on the line is the Supreme Court's integrity, because nothing has changed since they rendered their decision in 2016." What has changed is the makeup of court since that 5-to-3 decision in 2016. Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the swing vote on abortion, has retired, and President Trump has named two justices — Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — to the bench."
-- Two unabashed fascists who falsely claim to be 'conservatives.' ... Shamelessly abrogate their falsely sworn oaths of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution.
"Northup warns that the law could force most of the state's few remaining clinics to shut down, and "open the floodgates" for similar rules elsewhere."
Precisely, what Republican fascists demand, want, and perniciously intend. Raw nazism. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
"At a crisis pregnancy center in Slidell, outside New Orleans, Cindy Collins counsels women against abortion and offers free baby clothes, diapers, and other assistance to new and expectant mothers. Collins says she had several abortions as a young woman in the 1970s, experiences that inspired her to become an opponent of abortion rights. Collins testified in favor of the hospital admitting privileges bill when it was working its way through Louisiana's state legislature in 2014. "Women deserve [for their doctors to have] emergency admitting privileges, even if it's just one woman," Collins says. "...I believe it's very important. [It] would bring up a level of accountability."
Disingenuous bullshit. A ruse. Simply, not true:
"But several major medical groups say hospital admitting privileges are not necessary for abortion providers and provide virtually no medical benefit to patients. In a friend-of-the-court brief earlier this month, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and others, say abortion is a safe procedure, and that there's no medical reason to require doctors who perform abortions to have privileges. "It is a very rare instance where a patient would have a complication — and even more rare in a case where they would need to be hospitalized," says Dr. Maureen Phipps, ACOG's CEO. In such cases, Phipps, says, a woman should go to the nearest hospital for treatment.
"The case is set to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 4, with a decision expected just months before the 2020 election."
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12-13-19
Assault on abortion rights. CBS News reports:
"The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case challenging a Kentucky abortion law from 2017 that requires people seeking the procedure to first undergo an ultrasound where a technician is required to provide a detailed description of what they see. The court rejected the case, without comment or dissent, leaving the law in place."
A national socialist, fascist, nazi highest court of the land.
"A similar law exists in Louisiana where CBS News spent a week on the ground reporting on the state of abortion access. At the Hope Clinic in Shreveport, one of the state's last three abortion providers, the clinic administrator said it was one of the more emotionally taxing regulations they're required to follow, and patients often cover their ears or turn their head away so as not to see. Planned Parenthood said in a statement that the Supreme Court "continued to chip away at abortion rights" by allowing the law to take effect."
No question. A nazi highest court of the land.
"This is the court's latest action taken against abortion, signaling a troubling road ahead for the fight to preserve abortion access across the country now that Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch have joined the bench and just months before oral arguments in a Louisiana abortion case," the statement said."
No question. ... As our formerly great country continues to transition from the de facto fascist police-state we've lived in since 9/11 to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.
"Jeanne Mancini, the president of March for Life, celebrated the court's decision on Monday. "Women facing an unexpected pregnancy deserve to have as much medically and technically accurate information as possible when they are making what could be the most important decision of their life," the statement said."
Disingenuous bullshit. Who the hell are you and your fellow nazis to impose your perverse religious and ideological views on all? Who the hell are you nazis to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus?
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11-22-19
Ladies? Think you own your uterus? Certainly, not in Texas. Nazis in the Republican Party Aryan arrogantly believe they do. NPR reports:
"Over the past few years, abortion providers in Texas have struggled to reopen clinics that had closed because of restrictive state laws. There were more than 40 clinics providing abortion in Texas on July 12, 2013 — the day lawmakers approved tough new restrictions and rules for clinics. Even though abortion providers fought those restrictions all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, and managed to get the restrictions overturned in 2016, most of the affected clinics remain closed."
Nazis in the Republican Party certainly got their wish. Freedom? Liberty? What's that? Ladies, these fascist bastards delusionally believe they own your uterus. That is, they own you.
"Today, there are just 22 open clinics in a state that is home to 29 million people."
Goddamned pitiful. ... Hear the rumble?
"Although abortion providers won the legal battle, they appear to be losing the ground war. Most clinics are clustered in the major cities of Dallas, Houston and Austin, while women who live in smaller cities and towns that once had clinics now have to travel long distances to get an abortion."
Freedom? Liberty? What's that? Ladies, these fascist bastards delusionally believe they own your uterus. That is, they own you.
"Abortion providers in Texas eventually sued the state. But as the legal challenge worked its way through the courts, many of the clinics were forced to stop providing services. At one point, Texas had only 17 clinics, says Kari White, an investigator with the Texas Policy Evaluation Project at the University of Texas, Austin. She says women living in rural Texas were affected the most. "What we saw is that [in] West Texas and South Texas, access was incredibly limited," White says, "and women living in those parts of the state were more than 100 miles — sometimes 200 or more miles — from the nearest facility."
... As intended by the nazi element. Did all they could to deny a constitutional right. To impose their outrageously perverse religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"White's research team conducted surveys and interviews with women who were seeking abortions as clinics were shutting down. A 19-year-old woman told the researchers she considered giving up because it was so hard to find an open clinic. "It was a very hard thing to do, like to keep calling and calling and calling," the woman told researchers. "I almost was like, you know, 'Well, forget it.' ... But then, because I knew at the end of the day it was something that I had to do, it was like I don't care how many people I have to call or how far I have to go. I have to do it." That woman eventually found a clinic 70 miles away and was able to get the abortion. But in some other cases, women had to carry unwanted pregnancies to term."
In effect, enslavement. Raw nazism. Aryan arrogant attitude of these achingly clueless, determinedly fascist Republican bastards: Don't want to get pregnant? Keep your legs crossed, panties up.
"Under Texas law, women have to have two appointments with an abortion provider. After an initial appointment at a clinic, the women must wait 24 hours before getting the procedure. That means they often have to make a long trip at least twice, or pay for a hotel nearby. The waiting period is only waived if a woman lives more than 100 miles away from the closest clinic."
Egregious abuse of power by the nazi element in the Republican Party.
"One 23-year-old woman from Waco, a married mother of two, told researchers she made appointments to get an abortion at two different clinics. But both appointments were canceled after the clinics were forced to close. She was unable to end the pregnancy. "I was pretty upset, but I just decided that I guess I'll have to just ride it out," she told researchers. "I didn't know what else to do, who else to call." Eventually, in the summer of 2016 — three years after H.B. 2 passed — the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the tough new restrictions on clinics. But most of the clinics never reopened. "There hasn't been this rush of clinics reopening following the Supreme Court decision," White says. "So there are still just clinics concentrated in the major metropolitan areas of Texas."
Nazi justice. ... Hear the rumble? An wanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms as the de facto fascist police-state we've lived in since 9/11 transforms to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, Mr. 'President?
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11-15-19
Democratic wins in Kentucky and Virginia were a plus for abortion rights advocates in both states. CBS News reports:
"For Democrats, Tuesday's election was considered a major win, apparently ousting the Republican Governor of Kentucky and capturing all three branches of government in Virginia. But Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion rights activists say the election results in Kentucky and Virginia signaled something even bigger: voters across party lines support candidates that support abortion access."
About time. Who the hell is the Nazi Right to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus? The problem, however, with Democratic wins in Virginia and elsewhere is the fact these bastards will do all they can to eviscerate the Second Amendment, the last best defense against outrageously corrupt, abusive, murderous government.
"Voters made their voices heard loud and clear that when politicians fail to stand up for our rights — including abortion access — we will take that fight straight to the ballot box," Kelley Robinson, executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes, said in a statement to CBS News on Wednesday. "The stakes for reproductive health care have never been higher, but these victories show that there is an unstoppable momentum for our cause and we have the wind at our backs."
Hopefully, that's true. If not, hear the rumble?
"Just this year, Kentucky passed four anti-abortion restrictions, including a so-called "heartbeat" ban, which outlaws the procedure after about six weeks into a woman's pregnancy. A federal judge blocked that law in March, but Governor Matt Bevin had said he would appeal the decision, the potential first steps in a multi-year journey to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. But Andy Beshear, Kentucky's attorney general, says he supports Roe v. Wade and has rejected the state's abortion restrictions, which are among the strictest in the country. Kentucky is home to just one abortion clinic, Louisville-based EMW Women's Surgical Center, a facility that's spent years in court to stay open."
Goddamned outrageous.
"Planned Parenthood took an active role in Kentucky's gubernatorial election. For the race, the state's political action group, Planned Parenthood Action Kentucky UCC, launched its first "direct voter contact program," an initiative that combined door-knocking, digital ads and direct mail — all highlighting Bevin's anti-abortion politics. Tamarra Wieder, public affairs and policy director for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Indiana and Kentucky, said it was the first time the organization had invested in the state's governor race. "Kentuckians showed up to defend their reproductive freedom this election, reaffirming that the majority of people here want increased access to reproductive care, including abortion," Wieder said in a statement to CBS News on Tuesday."
Encouraging to see they're getting the funding to challenge the nazi element in the Republican Party:
"Tuesday's success comes less than a month after Planned Parenthood announced its plan to spend at least $45 million ahead of the 2020 elections, the most it has ever spent during an election cycle. "Yesterday's victories show that there is an unstoppable momentum for our cause, and we're confident we will carry this energy into more victories for reproductive health champions in 2020 and beyond," Robinson said."
Here's the problem:
"With a newly conservative Supreme Court, access to abortion has come under fire across the South and Midwest, where state lawmakers have raced to pass laws that ban the procedure in hopes of overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that effectively legalized the procedure. So far this year, state politicians have introduced 300 bills restricting access to abortion, according to data compiled by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization. Twelve states, including Kentucky, have passed abortion bans, none of which are currently in effect."
Rabid nazis. Readers are reminded abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Who the hell is the national socialist, fascist element in the Republican Party to force its perverse religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion?
"Planned Parenthood Virginia PAC, the organization's state political arm, spent more than $1 million on the election, knocking on 68,000 doors to support candidates that supported abortion access. "Tonight's results also make it clear that the misleading, fear-mongering attacks on abortion from Republicans in Kentucky and Virginia failed because voters overwhelmingly support the right for people to make their own health care decisions without politicians getting in the way," Robinson said."
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11-1-19
Alabama abortion ban temporarily blocked. CBS News reports:
"Alabama's near-total ban on abortion has just been blocked from implementation. The ban, dubbed the "Human Life Protection Act," was set to take effect on November 15. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the ban on Tuesday morning, effectively halting the law from taking effect while the lawsuit challenging the ban continues. Steve Marshall, Alabama's attorney general, said the decision "was not unexpected," noting that the point of the law was to potentially overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide."
Who the hell are these goddamned nazis to force their perverse religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion?
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10-25-19
Trump's war against women is doing damage. Having its intended effect. Evisceration of liberty. ... You don't own your uterus, ladies. -- Not according to the Nazi Right. They do. NBC News reports:
"Nearly 900 women's health clinics nationwide have lost federal funds after the Trump administration implemented a "domestic gag rule" to a federal family planning program known as Title X, according to an estimate by Power to Decide, an organization that works to prevent unplanned pregnancies. Women of color make up more than half, and Latinas over a third of all Title X patients. The lack of funding could affect access to reproductive health services, including breast cancer screenings, HIV tests and birth control for over 8.7 million women living in 390 counties in the U.S."
Trump's war against women.
"Paloma Zuleta, director of media relations at Power to Decide, told NBC that any changes in the way reproductive health clinics do business will mainly affect low-income women of color — defeating the purpose of the family planning program known as Title X, which was created to help low-income women. “If clinics can no longer open early anymore or they can no longer keep late hours because their funding is so different or if they have to lay people off,” Zuleta said, “it's a deterrent for women to be able to access the health care that they need."
Forget? Trump's intention.
"The Trump administration instituted the gag rule two months ago, stating that health clinics can’t receive funds under Title X if abortions are performed at the facility or if specialists refer patients to centers where they can get an abortion. The administration issued the ruling despite the fact that since 1976, federal funds cannot be used to directly pay for abortions under the Hyde Amendment, which excludes abortion from the health care services provided to low-income people by the federal government."
Direct violation of freedom of speech. First Amendment. Who the hell is this goddamned nazi to abrogate a constitutional right?
"Ginny Ehrlich, chief executive of Power to Decide, said the gag rule imposed an “ethical dilemma” on clinics providing quality care, leaving some counties "with no clinic that has Title X funds to support women's needs.”
All, courtesy of the Nazi Right which is determined to impose its outrageously perverse religious views on all.
"Clinics had to choose between halting family planning consultations or services that include abortion as a viable option and keep receiving Title X funds or, like Planned Parenthood, withdraw from the federal family planning program and continue to offer full services at their facilities while looking for alternate sources of funding such as donations or private grants."
Nazi America. Courtesy of those desperate to force their ersatz morality, perverse religious views on all.
"All clinics receiving Title X funding in Vermont, Maine, Utah, Oregon and Washington walked away from the federal program, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Power to Decide. The five states currently lack Title X clinics. Over 26 other states have seen drops in the number of clinics using Title X programs, including Florida, California and New York, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation and Power to Decide. Reproductive justice advocate Estefany Londoño worries that cuts resulting in fewer preventive services such as cervical cancer screenings could be detrimental to Latinas, who have the highest rate of cervical cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Another ripple effect Londoño anticipates is that costs for services may go up as health centers have to make up for the lost federal funds. “Clinics will become more expensive for low-income women," she said, and women may face longer waits for appointments if clinics contract services."
Aggressive stupidity at its very worst:
"While the administration seeks to reduce access to abortion, reproductive health experts have found that one of the main factors driving a steep decline in abortions from 2008 to 2011 was the expansion of women’s access to better birth control and contraceptive services under programs like Title X."
Nazi Right, in effect, stupidly, figuratively shot itself in the ass.
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9-27-19
Violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause is dearly costing the states. The Washington Post reports:
"In the past four years, taxpayers in states trying to restrict abortion access have paid almost $10 million in attorney fees for abortion providers. That price tag is likely to keep growing as more abortion restrictions are challenged, including three in federal courts today. In an effort to overturn Roe v. Wade, these states are passing laws that severely limit or prohibit abortion, hoping that the courts will uphold them. But when, instead, those new laws are thrown out, the state has to pay the legal expenses for the abortion advocates. That puts taxpayers in the position of having to pay for the attorneys on both sides of abortion battles that often last for years. This is the result of a special provision that allows the courts to order reimbursement to people who successfully challenge laws that violate civil rights. The most recent — and by far largest — recent reimbursement was ordered by a federal judge in Texas last month, awarding $2.3 million to the lawyers who successfully blocked a state law to limit abortions. When abortion limits are overturned, the courts can order states to pay the lawyers for the other side. The figures below don’t include fees for the state’s legal team.
"Although the Center for Reproductive Rights was part of the legal team that received the $2.3 million reimbursement award in Texas, senior staff attorney Jenny Ma said the money should be going elsewhere. “The saddest part is that these states are spending hard-earned taxpayer money defending lawsuits,” Ma said, “when they could be using those funds to support their citizens.”
Who the hell is the Nazi Right to force its outrageously perverse religious views on the rest of us in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion? Wake up.
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9-27-19
The following is egregiously un-American. Right wing nazi. The Trump regime has once again disgraced itself and the United States. NPR reports:
"The Trump administration is calling on U.N. member nations to oppose efforts to promote access to abortion internationally, a move immediately criticized by reproductive rights groups seeking greater access to the services globally. At a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar spoke on behalf of the U.S. and more than a dozen other countries stating that abortion is not an international human right. "We do not support references to ambiguous terms and expressions such as 'sexual and reproductive health and rights' in U.N. documents, because they can undermine the critical role of the family and promote practices like abortion in circumstances that do not enjoy international consensus and which can be misinterpreted by U.N. agencies," Azar said. The remarks came at a U.N. summit focused largely on climate change and health care. Azar was joined by representatives from countries including Brazil, Poland and Iraq in making the statement, which was signed by a total of 19 countries including the United States. "There is no international right to an abortion, and these terms should not be used to promote pro-abortion policies and measures," Azar added. "Further, we only support sex education that appreciates the protective role of the family in this education."
This traitorous nazi does not speak for the majority of Americans who do believe in abortion rights. This fascist piece of human excrement has abrogated his oath of office to uphold the United States Constitution. Specifically, the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"The United States is isolated. Their position is extreme," Kowalski, of IWHC, said in an interview with NPR. "They read their statement in conjunction with countries like Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain — which are hardly champions of women's rights. And if they're the countries that the U.S. is aligning themselves with, then I think we're right to dismiss that they have any moral stake in this battle."
No kidding. Moreover:
"Caitlin Horrigan, director of advocacy at Planned Parenthood Global, released a statement saying, in part, "It should come as no surprise the Trump-Pence administration is lobbying other countries to join them in working to undermine sexual and reproductive rights on a global scale at the United Nations. From day one, the Trump-Pence administration has tried to take away access to birth control and safe, legal abortion."
Without question. Moreover:
"Horrigan noted that one of Trump's early acts after his inauguration in 2017 was to reinstate what's known as the "Mexico City" policy, which prohibits U.S. federal dollars from going to organizations that provide or "promote" abortions overseas. The administration has taken similar steps domestically, issuing new rules earlier this year barring federal family planning funds from being granted to organizations that provide or refer patients for abortion."
Who the hell are Republican nazis, including the Trump nazi and his henchmen, to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus? Aryan arrogance. Raw nazism. Adolf and Benito? Wildly cheering on their fiery perches.
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9-20-19
The Nazi Right is at it again. CBS News reports:
"It hasn't been a good year for anti-abortion activists in Illinois."
Tough shit. Who the hell are these narrow minded fascists to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus?
"While other states across the Midwest and South were busy passing abortion bans this spring, Illinois went the other direction. Over Memorial Day weekend, lawmakers in Springfield passed the "Reproductive Health Act," a more than 100-page piece of legislation that expands access to abortion and codifies the procedure into law as a "fundamental right." When Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the legislation on June 12, he said the abortion protections in the law made the state a "national leader in protecting reproductive rights."
About time legislators stood up for liberty. Instead of desperately trying to impose their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on others by statute.
"Not everyone is happy about that."
Tough shit.
"Mary Kate Knorr, the executive director for Illinois Right to Life, told CBS News that she's "disgusted" by the new laws and that they've made Illinois the "abortion capital of the Midwest."
Horse shit. Unadulterated hyperbole. Don't want to abort? Don't. Don't, however, force your outrageously perverse religious views on others by statute. -- That's what's truly disgusting, Ms. Knorr.
"That's why she's embarking on an over 20-event tour of intimate, fireside chats around the state. She's hoping to unify and strengthen activists who oppose abortion in Illinois and ultimately repeal the law."
This outrageously clueless, achingly fascist element in our formerly great country, needs to be soundly defeated. Liberty demands it.
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9-20-19
More of the same. Only, worse. CBS News reports:
"Violence against abortion clinics hit a record high last year. Doctors say it's getting worse."
Comes as no surprise, does it? The Nazi Right in our formerly great country remains hell bent on forcing its perverse ideological and religious views on all. Raw nazism in a de facto fascist police-state since 9/11, quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.
"For one of the last abortion doctors in Missouri, harassment, stalking and death threats are a part of regular life. But this year, it's been worse than ever. Colleen McNicholas, the chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, is one of many providers who told CBS News they've seen an uptick in violence this year, both against themselves and their clinics. They say the increased harassment has coincided with newly enacted state laws restricting legal abortion and polarizing rhetoric surrounding the procedure."
These laws are outrageously unconstitutional. First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion. If these fascist bastards can't end abortion by statute, apparently, they're more than willing to do it through violence:
"The National Abortion Federation has been tracking violence against abortion providers and clinics since 1977. The Very Reverend Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, an Episcopal priest and interim president & chief executive officer of the organization, said the violence that providers face today is "beyond anything we've ever seen before." "We're seeing a dramatic increase in violence and disruption against clinics," she said in an exclusive interview with CBS News. In 2017, violent acts against abortion providers more than doubled from the year prior, according to data compiled by NAF. The group recorded 1,081 violent acts, the most since the group began tracking these incidents. Last year, the group recorded another new record high: 1,369 reported violent acts, including 15 instances of assault and battery, 13 burglaries, 14 counts of stalking and over a thousand episodes of illegal trespassing. In interviews with nearly one dozen clinics, including McNicholas's St. Louis Planned Parenthood, providers say the situation is getting worse. In August alone, three young men were arrested for threatening mass shootings against Planned Parenthood facilities. At the home of one of the suspects, authorities seized 15 rifles, 10 semi-automatic pistols, and 10,000 rounds of ammunition during a raid."
Government has created this problem by doing all it can to deny women their constitutional right to abortion as affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade in January, 1973. Consequently, law enforcement needs to protect these clinics, employees, and women who seek their services. Clearly, this is not happening.
"As Missouri has emerged on the front lines of the nation's debate over abortion access, McNicholas has become the face of that battle. She's been a staple at nearly every protest, courtroom hearing and press conference. But becoming a vocal defender of abortion access in Missouri has made her a target. Protesters have followed her coming to and from work. In the midst of fighting a very public battle to keep the clinic in operation, McNicholas told CBS News that she was advised to increase the security protocols at her home. She declined to give specifics for safety reasons. Security protocols at the clinic are constantly under review, said a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood."
Law enforcement needs to step up. Do its job.
"Ragsdale and the providers interviewed by CBS News said they've seen a direct correlation between the rise in violence and the wave of anti-abortion legislation passed this year. So far in 2019, lawmakers in the South and Midwest have passed 58 restrictions, nearly half of which would ban the vast majority of abortions in their respective states, according to data compiled by the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights and reproductive health research organization."
The nazi element in our formerly great country has no clue what liberty means. If a woman is not free to do with HER uterus as she damn well pleases, she is not free. Neither are any of the rest of us. What's next? Who's next? Wake up.
"Julie Burkhart, the founder and chief executive officer of Trust Women, a network of abortion clinics, knows firsthand the potential danger that abortion providers face. Ten years ago, her mentor, Dr. George Tiller, was assassinated at church by an anti-abortion extremist. At the time, Tiller was a high-profile abortion doctor, known nationally for providing the procedure later into women's pregnancies. In an interview with CBS News, Burkhart said today's anti-abortion environment feels similar to that of 2009. "I'm just so unsettled and fearful that we're going to see people hurt," she said. "My boss was murdered. I fear that we're going to have the same horrible outcome."
If law enforcement won't do its job, clinics will have to hire well-armed, highly-trained security personnel:
"Ragsdale said anti-abortion violence tends to go hand in hand with anti-abortion legislation, adding that "you can pretty much always draw a line from public rhetoric to violence." Inflammatory language — like referring to abortion as "infanticide" and doctors as "baby killers" — can be a "dog whistle" to anti-abortion extremists and can push them into action, Ragsdale said."
Apparently, that's precisely the intent of nazi Republican legislators.
"At Whole Women's Health, a network of seven abortion clinics across Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Texas and Virginia, anti-abortion protesters are a constant, said Amy Hagstrom Miller, the group's chief executive officer and president. But earlier this year, as states were passing abortion bans and federal lawmakers considered the "Born-Alive" bill, the situation worsened, Miller said in an interview with CBS News. "These aggressive bills that keep getting introduced have a tone to them that's incredibly fringe and introduces violent language," Miller said, noting that in Alabama's legislation for a near total ban on abortion, lawmakers compared the procedure to the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge "killing fields," and other modern genocides."
Nazis in the Republican Party seem to have conveniently ignored, and/or forgotten abortion was indeed illegal in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy.
"This spring, protesters scaled her clinic's fences, blocked clients from entering the parking lots and even stopped patients from closing their cars' doors as they tried to leave, Miller said. In April, her clinic in McAllen, Texas, was the target of an arson attack, something Miller believed to be directly related to President Trump's comments on the Senate's failed "Born-Alive" bill, legislation that would require doctors to resuscitate infants born after a "botched abortion."
Where is law enforcement? Shirking its responsibilities? Too busy killing innocent, unarmed civilians?
"However, as many abortion rights advocates pointed out at the time, the instance described in the bill "virtually doesn't happen." Even if it did, it's already covered: a bill passed in 2002 already requires physicians to provide that care."
Matters not to the nazi element in the GOP. -- Anything to make it more difficult and/or impossible to exercise a constitutional right. Shameless, traitorous, treasonous nazis.
"At the time of the vote, in a pair of tweets, Mr. Trump said, "the Democrat position on abortion is now so extreme that they don't mind executing babies AFTER birth."
Jesus Christ. Give me a break. LOL. Trump is a congenital liar. Has no credibility. No principles. No morality. No honor. No more than a self-serving, narcissistic fascist. Wake up.
"When you put something like that out there, it can motivate anti-choice people to act," Senator Mazie Hirono, a Democrat from Hawaii, said in an interview with CBS News. "That's what happens when you call a whole bunch of people 'baby killers.' The rhetoric is very, very harmful." Hirono spoke out strongly against the legislation and her position — and subsequent vote against the bill — earned her "hundreds" of threatening voicemails and emails, some of which were death threats that required her to increase her office's security, Hirono told CBS News. "I'm really afraid that this kind of language will motivate people to do something harmful and violent," Hirono said."
This is precisely why the Second Amendment is so extremely precious. When government is out of control, hopelessly corrupt, abusive, murderous, it indeed remains the last best defense of liberty. As intended by the Founders.
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9-20-19
Austin continues to do what it can to peacefully resist nazis in the Republican Party vis a vis abortion restrictions. NPR reports:
"Austin is about to become the first city in the U.S. to fund groups that help women who seek abortions pay for related logistical costs, such as a babysitter, a hotel room or transportation. The move is an effort to push back against a new Texas law that went into effect Sept. 1. The state law bans local governments from giving money to groups that provide abortions — even if that money doesn't pay for the actual procedure."
Raw nazism. Courtesy of national socialists, fascists in the Republican Party who remain hell bent on dictating to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus.
"Last week, the Austin City Council approved a line item for the city's latest budget that, as of Oct. 1, sets aside $150,000 to pass along to nonprofits led by abortion rights activists that provide "logistical support services" for low-income women in the city. Supporters of the new city budget item describe it as a unique workaround to the state's law, because none of these groups actually provide abortions. "The city has to find creative ways to help vulnerable communities in our city, and I see this as just another way," says Councilwoman Delia Garza, Austin's mayor pro tem. John Seago, the legislative director for Texas Right to Life, says that though Austin is not violating the letter of the state law, its leaders are clearly violating "the principle" behind it."
Uncommon Valor. Exceptional courage to resist the nazi element in our formerly great country. To these traitorous delusional fascists, 'liberty' perversely remains the 'freedom' to do what you're told. ... What they tell you to do.
... What they determine to be moral, ethical. -- As dictated by outrageously unconstitutional statutes callously designed to abrogate the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion. Welcome to Nazi America.
"The Legislature did not believe that it is ethical to use taxpayer dollars to benefit the abortion industry," Seago says."
Who the hell are goddamned 'legislators' to force their outrageously perverse religious views on the rest of us by statute in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is freedom from religion?
"So whether it is the clinic itself, whether it is paying for the procedure itself, there is an industry built around that that we don't want to use taxpayer dollars to benefit."
Tough shit. You, and those who 'think' like you don't get to make that call. Outrageously, unconstitutional.
"Shortly after the city's budget was passed last week, former Austin Councilman Don Zimmerman sued the city in an effort to block the funding. In his lawsuit, filed in a Travis County district court, Zimmerman claimed "this expenditure of taxpayer money violates the state's abortion laws." Supporters of Austin's effort say the budget item is on solid legal ground. They also say it's an important step in ensuring that low-income women, at least locally, can obtain legal abortions in a state that has been steadily scaling back access to the procedure in the past decade."
Shamefully, so. Direct abrogation of their oaths of office these fascist bastards took as 'legislators.'
"Erika Galindo, an organizer with the Lilith Fund, told the Austin City Council during a meeting this summer that Austin should take a stand as some cities pass all-out bans on abortion. In fact, earlier in the summer, Waskom — a small city in East Texas — banned the procedure and declared itself the state's first "sanctuary city for the unborn." "The city of Austin has an opportunity to set a new standard for creative and equitable solutions for communities at a time when state lawmakers and local governments like Waskom's city council have turned their backs on low-wage workers and women of color," Galindo said."
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9-13-19
Trump and his henchmen continue to wage a ferocious attack on the First Amendment. Freedom of Speech. Freedom From Religion. NPR reports:
"Clinics that take federal Title X family planning funding are adjusting to a new set of rules that limit what health care providers can say to their patients about abortion. Though Planned Parenthood pulled out of the program in August rather than comply with the rules, thousands of other clinics continue to use grants from the federal program for family planning and sexual health services. These clinics are now under pressure to make sure their staff comply. The new regulations prohibit doctors in Title X-funded primary care clinics from referring pregnant patients for abortions, and also state that health care providers cannot "perform, promote, or support abortion as a method of family planning." Though the Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance that the regulations are not a "gag rule" and that doctors are still allowed to provide information about abortion, organizations that represent physicians are concerned that the ambiguity of the language in the rules will leave some doctors forgoing conversations about abortion entirely. And some physicians worry the rules set a precedent that the federal government can regulate doctors' speech in the exam room — a precedent that may erode the doctor-patient relationship. "By restricting providers from delivering accurate information to their patients, including abortion referrals, the new Title X rule represents an inappropriate intrusion in the patient-physician relationship," American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists president Ted Anderson said in a statement. Family physician Elliot Goodenough works at a community health center in Philadelphia that doesn't provide abortions but uses funding from Title X to help pay for family planning services like birth control and HIV testing. He sees almost entirely low-income children and adults. His job, he says, is to help them sort through their care choices and provide them with accurate medical information. Now Goodenough worries that he won't be able to speak as freely. "The role of the doctor is under question here," Goodenough says. "Medical professionals are generally esteemed providers of information. That's our main job."
Who the hell are national socialist, fascist, nazi Republicans to force their outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on anyone? Why are gutless Democrats refusing to stand up to these fascist bastards? Won't even hold a formal vote in the House to conduct an impeachment investigation?
NPR reports:
"A European doctor who prescribes abortion pills to American women over the Internet is suing the Food and Drug Administration in an effort to continue providing the medications to patients in the United States. The lawsuit being filed Monday in federal court in Idaho names several federal officials, including U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. In the lawsuit, Rebecca Gomperts says she believes federal officials have seized between three and 10 doses of abortion drugs she has prescribed through her organization, Aid Access, since March. It also says Gomperts believes the government has blocked Aid Access from receiving payments from some patients. Gomperts' attorney, Richard Hearn, said the goal of the lawsuit is to force the FDA to stop those actions, and to prevent Gomperts or her patients from being prosecuted under federal law. Hearn argues that for many women who live long distances from the nearest clinic, abortion pills ordered online are the only practical way to exercise their legal right to an abortion. "Some women in the United States can exercise that right just by going down the street if those women happen to live in New York or San Francisco or other major metropolitan areas on either one of the coasts," Hearn said in an interview with NPR. "But women in Idaho and other rural states, especially conservative states ... cannot exercise that right."
Who the hell is nazi government to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus?
"Since March of 2018, the lawsuit says, 37,000 women from all 50 states in the U.S. have contacted Aid Access. Gomperts, who divides her time between Austria and the Netherlands, prescribed the medication to more than 7,000 U.S. patients seeking to end first-trimester pregnancies during that time, according to the lawsuit. The drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, are both approved by the FDA to induce abortion under a doctor's direction. The World Health Organization recommends a protocol that involves taking the two drugs in tandem. Mifepristone is especially heavily regulated in the U.S. and cannot be obtained at a commercial pharmacy, making it difficult for many women to obtain the drug."
Outrageous bullshit courtesy of nazi government.
"Gomperts uses telemedicine to consult with patients online, writes a prescription and provides instructions on how to request the medication from an exporter in India, Hearn said. The pills are then shipped to patients' homes. In March, the FDA issued a warning letter accusing Aid Access of violating federal law by misbranding and facilitating the improper distribution of the drugs. The letter said that "the sale of misbranded and unapproved new drugs poses an inherent risk to consumers who purchase those products." The agency ordered Aid Access to stop distributing the medications in the United States or face repercussions, including the seizure of the drugs, without notice."
Legalized theft by nazi government determined to impose its perverse ideological and religious views on women in direct violation of the First Amendment.
"Gomperts stopped prescribing the medications to U.S. patients for about two months, from roughly mid-March to mid-May, before resuming, according to her attorney. "The FDA is a huge institution. It's very powerful, and it's a form of intimidation that is quite severe," Gomperts said in an interview with NPR. "I would say a form of bullying. And so I think it's very important to stand up against it."
Without question.
Get this:
"Gomperts said she charges the equivalent of about $90 for patients in the United States, which covers the consultation, prescription and medication. She said patients who cannot afford that amount are asked to pay what they can.
"FDA officials declined to comment on any potential or pending regulatory actions against Gomperts and Aid Access. Asked if patients who purchase abortion pills could be prosecuted, officials said in a statement emailed to NPR that it is usually illegal to import drugs for personal use but that the FDA "generally does not take enforcement action against individuals" who do so. The statement added, "FDA remains very concerned about the sale of unapproved mifepristone for medical termination of early pregnancy on the Internet or via other channels for illegal importation, because this bypasses important safeguards designed to protect women's health." Gomperts said she believes patients can safely self-induce what is essentially an early miscarriage, provided they have proper information and support. "What I think is very important is to really understand that women have been dealing with miscarriages forever," Gomperts said. "And a medical abortion, abortion with pills, is very similar."
So what's the problem? ... Other than nazi government determined to dictate what a woman can and cannot do with HER uterus?
"Abigail Aiken, a public affairs professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has been studying Aid Access and its patients. In a recent study published in the journal BMJ, Aiken examines some of the reasons women seek abortion drugs online, including increased restrictions on the procedure in many states. "There is certainly interest, and it appears to be becoming more intense," Aiken said in an interview with NPR. Aiken said some patients also prefer to take pills privately, at home, rather than going to a clinic. Others face obstacles such as ultrasound requirements, long waiting periods and cost, she said. "There are some folks who would like to get to an abortion clinic, but they're not able to," Aiken said. "And this is especially pronounced in states that have restrictive abortion policies."
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8-30-19
Temporary relief from a nazi law. CBS News reports:
"Missouri's eight-week abortion ban was temporarily blocked from being implemented by a federal judge on Tuesday. The regulation was scheduled to go into effect on Wednesday. State legislators in May passed the "Missouri Stands for the Unborn," act, a sweeping piece of anti-abortion legislation. In addition to banning the procedure after eight weeks into a woman's pregnancy, the legislation includes a "trigger law" and a ladder of less-restrictive time limits ranging from 14 to 20 weeks, depending on what the courts find to be constitutional. In late July, Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Paul Weiss LLP — the law firm that successfully fought to legalize gay marriage — challenged the law, arguing that Missouri's ban on abortion after eight weeks is in violation of Supreme Court precedent that protects access to abortion. Tuesday's injunction only covers the state's pre-viability abortion bans and not the law's ban on abortions based solely on race, sex or a "prenatal diagnosis, test, or screening indicating Down Syndrome or the potential of Down Syndrome."
Raw disingenuous bullshit:
"Like Attorneys General who came before him, Attorney General Eric Schmitt is tasked with defending the laws of the state and is dedicated to protecting Missourians, born and unborn," Chris Nuelle, spokesperson for the Missouri Attorney General, said in a statement provided to CBS News on Tuesday. "We're currently reviewing the judge's ruling and are deciding on next steps."
Here's the problem:
"If Missouri's eight-week ban were to be implemented, it "would prohibit more than two thirds of [Planned Parenthood of St. Louis] patients from obtaining abortions," U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs wrote in his written decision Tuesday. That clinic is the last remaining abortion provider in the state. Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood's acting president and CEO, said the judge's decision "blocks a harmful law that bans abortion before many know they're pregnant." "What little abortion access in Missouri is left, will stay in place for the time being. In the meantime, we cannot ignore the part of this law that remains in place, which allows politicians to interfere with the patient-provider relationship," Johnson said in a statement to CBS News. "Let's be very clear: these severe restrictions on abortion access do nothing to address disability rights or discrimination. They only stigmatize abortion and shame the people who seek that care."
Precisely, the intention of the Nazi Right. -- In a desperate attempt to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all by statute:
"In an unprecedented flood of anti-abortion legislation, state lawmakers introduced over 300 bills restricting access to the procedure in the first half of 2019, according to data compiled by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization. Six states, including Missouri, passed so-called "heartbeat" bans, laws that would prohibit abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected in the early weeks of pregnancy. Alabama went a step further, passing a law that bans the procedure in nearly all cases."
The damage to women, infringement on all civil and constitutional rights and liberties have been horrendous. Right Wing Nazi.
"Planned Parenthood and the ACLU have been on the front lines, bringing legal challenges to those laws. Federal judges in every state have granted preliminary injunctions to block the laws from implementation with the exception of Georgia, where the court has yet to make a decision. In Missouri, abortion access is already difficult, even without the eight-week ban in place. Women seeking an abortion are required to undergo a 72-hour waiting period and receive state-mandated counseling designed to dissuade them from receiving an abortion. Various other regulations have closed all but one clinic in the state: a lone Planned Parenthood in St. Louis."
NPR reports:
"Portions of a Missouri law banning abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy were blocked by a federal judge just a day before the legislation was to go into effect. U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs issued the order halting the law, whose provisions also call for physicians who perform an abortion after eight weeks to face possible prison time and have their license suspended or revoked. "While federal courts should generally be very cautious before delaying the effect of state laws, the sense of caution may be mitigated when the legislation seems designed, as here, as a protest against Supreme Court decisions," Sachs wrote in his opinion. Sachs denied a full preliminary injunction on technical grounds, but his ruling achieved what he called the "desired result" sought by Planned Parenthood for now. He left in place — at least for now — prohibitions on abortion for reasons of race, sex or a suspected diagnosis of Down syndrome in the fetus. The legislation that Republican Gov. Mike Parson signed in May has an exception for medical emergencies, but not for victims of rape or incest."
Raw nazism.
"Planned Parenthood filed suit to halt the law last month, and its lawyers told the court that the legislation would mean "patients will be subject to significant and irreparable constitutional, medical, emotional, and other harms for which no adequate remedy at law exists." In a statement, Kristan Hawkins of the anti-abortion rights group Students for Life called Tuesday's ruling "a travesty of justice and an insult to the democratic process." Alexis McGill Johnson, acting president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement: "Today's decision blocks a harmful law that bans abortion before many know they're pregnant. What little abortion access in Missouri is left, will stay in place for the time being. In the meantime, we cannot ignore the part of this law that remains in place, which allows politicians to interfere with the patient-provider relationship." Sachs' ruling follows several other federal court decisions that have barred restrictive abortion laws from being implemented in states such as Ohio and Mississippi. Many of those laws criminalize the procedure as soon as heartbeat activity can be detected — as early as six weeks, which is before many women even know they're pregnant."
Here's the issue:
"Anti-abortion-rights activists are hoping that legal challenges to one of the state laws will reach the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion established by the landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade. In its July lawsuit, the clinic, Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, said the Missouri law would "directly violate long-standing Supreme Court precedent," calling it "Missouri's unrelenting campaign to deny patients the health care they seek and to which they are entitled." The state's law was written with an eye toward banning the procedure as early as the courts will allow it. If an eight-week ban is thrown out, the law includes a cascading series of 14-, 18- and 20-week abortion bans that could take effect instead. "The hostility to, and refusal to comply with, the Supreme Court's abortion jurisprudence is most obviously demonstrated in the attempt to push 'viability' protection downward in various weekly stages to 8 weeks," the judge wrote, referring to the way the state crafted the law. In a separate process, the fate of the last remaining clinic that provides abortions in Missouri remains uncertain. Parson's administration says the clinic is not meeting state health regulations. Planned Parenthood officials say they have done all they can to comply but that the rules are being arbitrarily enforced for political reasons. A hearing in that matter is planned for October."
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8-23-19
Think the following couldn't happen here as our formerly great country continues to abrogate the constitutional right to abortion? CNN News reports:
"A young rape survivor who'd been accused of inducing an abortion and previously sentenced to 30 years in prison was acquitted of all charges by an El Salvador judge Monday at the conclusion of a retrial. Evelyn Hernández, 21, was found innocent after the judge said there was not enough evidence to convict her, according to Hernández's defense team. El Salvador has an extremely strict abortion ban. In April 2016, Hernández was found on the floor of her bathroom drenched in blood. She was taken to a local emergency room in her hometown of El Carmen, roughly 40 kilometers (about 25 miles) east of the capital by her mother and a neighbor. Doctors who examined her saw signs of a delivery but no baby and reported her to the authorities. When local officials arrived at her home five hours later, they found the newborn dead in a septic tank. In 2017, Hernández was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing the child. Prosecutors at the time claimed she had induced an abortion and left the baby for dead. She served 33 months of her initial 30-year sentence and was freed last February after her legal team presented an appeal before the Supreme Court and requested her retrial. At the end of the retrial on Friday in Ciudad Delgado, prosecutors asked the court to impose an even longer sentence of 40 years. Hernández had always attested to her innocence, saying that she did not even know she was pregnant until the delivery. Speaking to reporters last month, she said, "Had I know I was pregnant, I would have awaited the baby with pride and joy." Hernandez's case has drawn an international spotlight onto the country's abortion laws, some of the strictest in the world. Terminations are illegal in El Salvador under any circumstance, including when the pregnancy poses a risk to the mother or in cases of rape."
Think the above couldn't happen here as Republican national socialists, fascists continue to nazify our formerly great country? Democrats do nothing to rein in these nazi bastards?
"Prosecutors had asked for the longer sentence during her retrial, even after evidence of a stillbirth was presented by their witnesses. Guillen said she expects the prosecution to appeal Monday's sentence."
Delusionally believe could never happen here?
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7-26-19
Assault on liberty never ends. NBC News reports:
"A federal judge blocked three new abortion restrictions from taking effect Wednesday in Arkansas, including a measure that opponents say would likely force the state's only surgical abortion clinic to close. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker granted a 14-day temporary restraining order shortly before midnight Tuesday. The 159-page order blocks the state from enforcing the new laws, including a measure prohibiting the procedure 18 weeks into a woman's pregnancy. They also included a requirement that doctors performing abortions be board-certified or board-eligible in obstetrics and gynecology. An official with a Little Rock clinic that performs surgical abortions says it has one physician who meets that requirement, but he only works there a few days every other month. Baker also blocked a law prohibiting doctors from performing an abortion if it's being sought because the fetus was diagnosed with Down Syndrome. The laws are being challenged by Little Rock Family Planning Services, the state's only surgical abortion clinic, and Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood only offers medication-induced abortions at its Arkansas facilities. Planned Parenthood earlier this month stopped providing medication-induced abortions at its Fayetteville facility while it looks for a new location, but is still providing the procedure at its Little Rock center. The challenge was filed on behalf of the plaintiffs by ACLU of Arkansas. Its spokeswoman, Holly Dickson, said ACLU attorneys were poring over the order and will have a statement later Wednesday. For now, "We are so relieved that these bans and restrictions have been temporarily blocked from taking effect. And we are determined to see them blocked for good," she said."
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7-19-19
Another egregious violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause by a 'judge' imposing her perverse religious views from the bench. CBS News reports:
"In a ruling that pro-abortion rights advocates called "rogue," an Oklahoma judge upheld a state law on Friday that banned the most common abortion method for women at least 14 weeks into a pregnancy. Oklahoma County District Judge Cindy Truong declined to strike down the 2015 ban on dilation and evacuation abortions, a method considered to be the "standard of care" for women seeking an abortion in the second trimester, according to Julie Rikelman, Litigation Director at the Center for Reproductive Rights, the group that challenged the state law. Once a final order is issued by the courts, the law will take effect immediately, though Rikelman said her group plans to immediately appeal the decision to the state's Supreme Court. "There really is no other standard method of care for women at that point in their pregnancy," Rikelman said in a telephone interview with CBS News on Friday. "It really puts doctors and women in an impossible situation." Prior to Friday's ruling, Oklahoma already had substantial regulations and restrictions in place impacting a woman's ability to receive an abortion, according to data provided by the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion access research organization. Women are required to undergo a 72-hour waiting period before receiving an abortion and private insurances are generally only allowed to cover the procedure in cases of life endangerment, according to the group."
Nazi justice.
"A handful of other states — including Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky and Texas — have passed similar bans on the specific procedure method, but all have been struck down by judges, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. In June, the Supreme Court decided not to review a lower court's ruling that struck down an identical ban in Alabama that prohibited dilation and evacuation abortions. "It is unconscionable to think that we would allow this practice to continue. Judge Truong is to be commended for declaring this legislation constitutional," Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter said in a statement Friday. "Today is a major victory for basic human decency in Oklahoma."
What it is is no more than the nazi element forcing its outrageously perverse moral and/or religious views on the rest of us. Do you and other nazis who think like you truly believe you fascist bastards own a woman's uterus, Mr. Attorney General?
"Hunter's office did not immediately return a call requesting further comment."
What could he say? How could the fascist bastard justify the unjustifiable?
"At Trust Women, a network of women's healthcare clinics and one of Oklahoma's three abortion providers, the dilation and evacuation abortion method is "absolutely the most common" protocol for women seeking the procedure in their second trimester, said Julie Burkhart, the co-founder and chief executive officer of the clinic network. The method is the default choice for doctors at Trust Women because it's the least invasive, safest, most efficient choice, Burkhart told CBS News on Friday. "This ruling substantially interferes with our doctors' relationship with their patients and allowing our physicians to determine what's the best, safest form of treatment," Burkhart said. "It's so frustrating to have that decision making power taken away from these physicians who have gone through medical school and become highly trained in their fields." Once the final decision is signed, Burkhart said her clinic will be forced to stop providing the procedure. "It's frustrating because I know, and all of us who work in abortion care know, that is not some sort of abstract exercise," Burkhart said. "This is reproductive healthcare, service delivery, and medicine that everyday people need, request and come to our clinic in hopes of receiving."
Raw nazism.
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7-12-19
Federal judge stands tall. CBS News reports:
"A federal judge temporarily blocked an Ohio law Wednesday that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, allowing clinics to continue to provide the procedure as a legal faceoff continues. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett halts enforcement of the so-called heartbeat bill law that opponents argued would effectively ban the procedure. That's because a fetal heartbeat can be detected as early as six weeks into pregnancy, before many women know they're pregnant."
Republican nazis, nonetheless, remain desperate to force their perverse ideological and religious views on all by statute in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"Barrett said Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics represented by the American Civil Liberties Union that sued to stop the law "are certain to succeed on the merits of their claim that (the bill) is unconstitutional on its face." Barrett joined the court in 2006 after being nominated by Republican President George W. Bush."
Imagine that. A Republican judge standing up for the United States Constitution. The way it used to be.
"Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the Ohio law in April, after predecessor John Kasich, a fellow Republican, twice vetoed it. Ohio is among a dozen states that have considered similar legislation this year, as abortion opponents have pursued a national anti-abortion strategy to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. Freda Levenson, legal director for the ACLU of Ohio, said in an emailed statement the decision "upheld the clear law: women in Ohio (and across the nation) have the constitutional right to make this deeply personal decision about their own bodies without interference from the state."
Precisely, the substance of Roe v. Wade. Yet, Republican nazis, with rare exception, continue to delusionally believe they own your uterus, ladies. Do they?
"Ohio Right to Life, the state's oldest and largest anti-abortion group, called the judge's decision disappointing but not surprising. "The heartbeat bill has the potential to be the vehicle that overturns Roe v. Wade," Mike Gonidakis, the group's president, said in a statement. "We know that this temporary restraining order is just a step in the process to finally seeing Roe reconsidered."
If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. Reproductive freedom is far, far more than a man keeping it in his pants, a lady keeping her legs crossed, panties on and up.
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7-5-19
Georgia abortion providers step up fight. NPR reports:
"Abortion providers have filed a lawsuit seeking to block Georgia's controversial new law that bans abortions when heartbeat activity is detectable, typically about six weeks into a pregnancy — before many women know they're pregnant. "This is a constitutional challenge" to the law, the plaintiffs say in the lawsuit, which was filed in a U.S. district court in northern Georgia Friday. The suit was backed by the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood Southeast."
What took so long?
"This law is an affront to the dignity and health of Georgians," reads the suit, which calls the abortion restriction an attack that is particularly aimed at low-income residents, people of color and those who live in rural areas. Those groups, it states, "are least able to access medical care and least able to overcome the cruelties of this law." The lawsuit also notes that black women in Georgia face one of the highest rates of pregnancy-related death in the U.S. Georgia's new abortion law is set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2020. The plaintiffs are asking a federal court to stop that from happening. When asked for a response, the office of Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said Friday that it cannot comment on pending litigation. The legal challenge comes more than a month after Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed the measure into law — a move that was welcomed by conservatives but that triggered protests."
These bastards are not 'conservatives.' They're national socialists, fascists, nazis. A conservative wants as little government as possible. A fascist thrives on it.
"We must protect life at all stages. We must remember our higher calling," Kemp said when he signed the bill. He also thanked his allies whom he said "rejected the status quo" by pushing to impose new limits on abortion."
Who the hell are you and those who think like you to force your outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on the rest of us by statute? You nazi assholes delusionally believe you own a woman's uterus?
"But Georgia's law has also resulted in calls to boycott the state — which could have wide effects and endanger Georgia's thriving film and TV production business."
Exactly, what needs to happen. Hit 'em where it hurts most, the pocketbook.
"Georgia is one of at least seven states that recently adopted restrictive abortion laws, including Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri and Alabama."
Any state that does this, engages in this activity, needs to suffer the financial consequences of its pernicious embrace of nazism.
"On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Alabama's bid to revive its 2016 ban on a procedure often used in second trimester abortions. The court said it will not review a decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that struck down Alabama's ban on the procedure known as dilation and evacuation."
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6-28-19
More of the same. The Washington Times reports:
"Officials at Planned Parenthood of St. Louis, Missouri’s last facility able to provide legal abortions in the state, said in an interview Wednesday they will defy a state-mandated second pelvic exam, claiming it’s “assault.”
Precisely, what it is. Courtesy of the Republican Nazi Right.
"Missouri state law mandates that two pelvic exams are to be done before an abortion is completed, which the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says is “unwarranted, invasive, and not supported by evidence.” “We are choosing to provide the best quality, patient-centered care that we’ve always provided at Planned Parenthood and that includes doing things that are driven by science, by evidence, and by what’s medically appropriate,” said Dr. David Eisenberg, the clinic’s medical director, to CBS News. “Over the last few weeks, I have new evidence to say that 100% of the patients who I’ve taken care of who’ve undergone this inappropriate, medically unnecessary, unethical pelvic exam have been harmed by that,” said Dr. Eisenberg. “Because to do so, in my opinion, is just assault.”
Sexual assault.
The Washington Post reports:
"A panel of federal appeals court judges ruled on Thursday that a Trump administration family planning “gag rule” that could cut as much as $60 million in Title X funds from Planned Parenthood could go into effect immediately."
Raw, unbridled nazism.
"The decision is a major setback for the women’s health-care provider and for 21 state attorneys general who filed lawsuits shortly after the policy was published in March, arguing it would undermine the patient-provider relationship and endanger the health of millions of women. Leana Wen, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, called the news “devastating” for the millions of women who rely on Title X for services such as cancer screenings, HIV tests and birth control, and said the organization would immediately appeal. “Planned Parenthood will not let the government censor our doctors and nurses from informing patients where and how they can access health care,” she said. The new rule would make clinics ineligible to receive funds if they provide abortions or referrals for them."
Raw nazism.
"Judges Edward Leavy, Consuelo M. Callahan and Carlos T. Bea — all appointed by Republican presidents — wrote that the government is likely to prevail with its argument that the lower courts erred in concluding the rule probably violated the Administrative Procedure Act. They noted the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a similar HHS regulation in its 1991 Rust v. Sullivan decision that prohibited federally funded clinics from counseling about abortion, which “largely foreclosed any attempt to argue that the Final Rule was not a reasonable interpretation” of what Congress intended when it established the Title X program."
Raw nazism.
"Planned Parenthood, which is by far the largest recipient of Title X funds, has been a target of social conservatives in the administration who hope to shift the money to faith-based organizations with a focus on abstinence and fertility awareness. Parts of the rule, such as no longer being able to provide abortion referrals, would go into effect immediately. Other requirements, such as physically separating abortion services from non-abortion services, would have to be completed by March 4, 2020. Critics of the HHS rule were quick to say this was not the final decision on the rule and that the legal battle is far from over. “This rule is yet another example of the Trump administration’s overreach that could make it harder for women to access health care,” Michelle Kuppersmith, director of Equity Forward, said in a statement. “Secretary Alex Azar and the unqualified ideologues who are responsible for this action should be held accountable for their conduct.”
Raw nazism. Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. To say nothing of freedom of speech.
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6-21-19
Uncommon Valor. There are some who stand tall no matter what. No matter the odds. No matter the opposition. No matter the personal danger. These are the true heroes in life. Planned Parenthood is certainly one of them. CBS News reports:
"Planned Parenthood is building the stage for another possible fight over abortion in Alabama: a large women's clinic that's under construction despite the state's passage of a near-total ban on abortions."
Another example of Uncommon Valor. The Nazi Right, all across our formerly great country, delusionally believes it owns YOUR uterus, ladies. Does it?
"Located beside an interstate highway in downtown Birmingham, the 10,000-square-foot structure is now nothing but a steel frame and roof. Workers under the constant watch of security guards appear to be installing electrical wiring, plus heating and cooling units."
Incredible, isn't it? In our formerly great country, security guards necessary to protect construction workers! Who'd 'a 'thunk' it? Workers, doing all they can to stand up for a constitutional right. The right of a woman to do as she pleases with HER uterus. Jesus Christ. Where did we lose ourselves? When? If there is no freedom for women to do as they please with THEIR uterus, there is no freedom at all.
Who the hell is next? Who next to be victimized, deprived of their civil and constitutional rights and liberties by the achingly fascist assholes on the Right? Why are these pieces of human excrement doing this? Quite simple. Remain delusionally determined to inflict, impose, force their outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all. No more complicated than that. Bottom line, indeed simple.
Do as we say. Do what WE dictate by law. Nazi America. Adolf and Benito would have been proud. Abortion, illegal, in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy. The fascist assholes in our formerly great country remain bound and determined to repeat history. Not good enough for this human excrement to follow its own beliefs without imposing them on the rest of us. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded, second American revolution catastrophically looming as our formerly great country continues to come apart at the seams.
Forget? If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. The nazi element cannot, does not understand this. Zero comprehension. These delusional pieces of human excrement seem to believe reproductive freedom is for women to cross their legs, keep their panties on and up. For men, keep it in their pants. F--k these assholes. Forget? This element has no personal issue with dumping the wife when she ages, not quite as attractive as she once was.
Hypocrisy, stunning. Forget? These are the very same assholes who beat the living shit out of their children to keep them in line. Treat their pets like crap. Pray on bended knee each Sunday, perversely thanking the Lord for their good fortune. While hypocritically shitting on others in their pathetically shallow lives. Charity? Meaningless to these self-serving clueless pieces of crap. -- Who place themselves above and over others. No more complicated than that.
"The new facility could be complete around November, which is the same time the new state law will take effect unless blocked by courts. Abortion critics vow to oppose the opening, but a spokeswoman for the women's health organization said neither the new law nor opponents were a factor in the project. "We are a doctor that Birmingham has counted on for decades, and we are committed to continuing to provide that care," said Barbara Ann Luttrell, a spokeswoman for the Atlanta-based Planned Parenthood Southeast."
Way it should be. Way things need to continue.
"Construction began in January and is continuing despite the Republican-controlled Legislature's passage of a near-ban on abortion. Gov. Kay Ivey signed the law in May, making it the most restrictive anti-abortion measure passed in the United States since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. The legislation — dubbed the "Human Life Protection Act" — bans all abortions in the state except when "abortion is necessary in order to prevent a serious health risk" to the woman, according to the bill's text. It criminalizes the procedure, reclassifying abortion as a Class A felony, punishable by up to 99 years in prison for doctors. Attempted abortions will be reclassified as a Class C felony penalty, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The legislation makes no exceptions for victims or rape or incest. It is one of several bills restricting abortion passed in Republican-controlled states in recent months."
These achingly fascist assholes remain hell bent, cluelessly determined to force their outrageously perverse religious views on all. Goddamned, un-American. Adolf and Benito? 'High-fiving' on their fiery perches.
"The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood filed suit at the end of May to challenge the near-ban. But no court hearing is set, so abortion opponents say they hope the opening will be blocked by some combination of the new law, public pressure and a state agency. Regardless of the law, abortion opponents aim to convince the Alabama Department of Public Health to deny a license for the facility and they've tried to convince construction contractors to refuse work on the building through phone calls and emails, said Rev. Terry Gensemer of Metro Birmingham Life Forum."
Who the f--k are you, Pastor, to force your outrageously perverse religious views on the rest of us? Should this stand, time for liberty-loving citizens to leave the not-so-great State of Alabama. Not only is Alabama known for its racism, but for this as well. Called nazism. Plain and simple.
"It was surprising when we found out that they were going to build this," said Gensemer. "My question is after the bill passage, why are they continuing to be so aggressive when the possibility exists that they won't be able to be in business?"
Wake up, Pastor. They're standing up for liberty, Reverend. The right of a woman to do as she pleases with HER uterus, not yours, you clueless fool.
"Alabama has a long history of passing laws to restrict abortion and Luttrell said there was "absolutely no slowdown due to the legislative session" or the new law."
If one believes in liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties, Alabama is no fit place to live.
"The only work delays so far may be linked to a rainy spring, she said and Planned Parenthood is complying with all laws "so there should be no reason we would not be granted a license."
If denied, take it to court. Fight the fascist bastards. Expose them for precisely whom and what they are.
"The new clinic will be located on a lot that records show the organization purchased last year for $430,600. It would replace the current Planned Parenthood clinic in Birmingham, where opponents say abortions haven't been performed regularly since 2017. Luttrell says the current clinic takes appointments for the procedure when it can find a doctor to perform abortions."
Incredibly sad, isn't it, the country has gone so goddamned nazi there is difficulty finding a doctor to provide a constitutional right? Nazi America.
"Luttrell said Planned Parenthood hopes courts block the new law by the time the new clinic is ready to open. Aside from abortion, it will offer birth control, cancer testing and screenings for sexually transmitted diseases, she said."
A necessary, vital, public service. Desperately denied by the yellow-bellied Nazi Right. A raucous, boot-clicking, goose-stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, you achingly fascist bastards?
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6-14-19
The Hyde Amendment. CBS News reports:
"The Hyde Amendment has taken center stage this week in the Democratic presidential field, with former Vice President Joe Biden announcing Thursday night he no longer supports it — a reversal of his long-held position. So what is the Hyde Amendment, and why is it so controversial? The Hyde Amendment restricts federal funding from supporting abortions except in instances of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. Congress passed the first iteration of the Hyde Amendment in 1976, just a few years after Roe v. Wade, attaching it to Medicaid appropriations. The amendment effectively barred federal Medicaid funds from being used for abortion except for instances in which the woman's life would be endangered by carrying out the pregnancy. The amendment must be passed, attached to Health and Human Services appropriations, each year. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the amendment in 1980."
Despite the fact it violates the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. Another example where the Court continues to bastardize the Constitution.
"Most Democratic presidential candidates in the 2020 race have made it clear they don't support the Hyde Amendment, like Biden said he did up until this week. Earlier this week, the Biden campaign insisted he still supported the amendment, before the former VP announced Thursday night he no longer does with the right to abortion "under attack." "I can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability ... to exercise their constitutional protected right," Biden said at a Democratic National Committee fundraising gala in Atlanta Thursday night. Biden had been under pressure to change his position, with other Democrats blasting his support for the amendment. Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, also running for president, on Thursday compared Biden's position to supporting American troops but not being willing to pay for them."
Here's what's so interesting about Biden's change of heart:
"Biden was sworn into the Senate in 1973, the same year the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, and long said he personally opposed abortion, citing his Catholic beliefs. "I accept my church's position on abortion as a what we call de fide doctrine," Biden said during a 2012 vice presidential debate. "Life begins at conception. That's the church's judgment. I accept it in my personal life. But I refuse to impose it on equally devout Christians and Muslims and Jews. I just refuse to impose that on others."
-- Unlike Republican nazis who remain determined to impose their perverse religious and ideological views on all.
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6-14-19
Alabama has again disgraced itself. NPR reports:
"The University of Alabama's board of trustees has voted to return a $21.5 million gift from Hugh Culverhouse Jr. — the school's biggest donor — and take his name off its law school. The move comes after Culverhouse urged businesses and prospective students to boycott the university and the state over Alabama's new abortion law."
For damned good reason. An outrageously unconstitutional law that denies the right of a woman to do as she pleases with HER uterus. Alabama delusionally believes it owns YOUR uterus, ladies. Does it?
"The school says the transaction to return the funds was processed Friday morning and that it will also return any accrued interest. Last fall, Culverhouse pledged to donate a total of $26.5 million over four years."
This is precisely the way to confront nazi government and its shills. Hit 'em hard in the wallet. Make it as costly to the nazi element as possible. These fascist bastards are determined to force their perverse ideological and religious views on all by statute. Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. F--k these traitorous, treasonous assholes.
Achingly lame, bogus bullshit:
"The action taken by the Board today was a direct result of Mr. Culverhouse's ongoing attempts to interfere in the operations of the Law School," the university's vice chancellor for communication, Kellee Reinhart, said Friday. "That was the only reason the Board voted to remove his name and return his money."
Culverhouse did precisely the right thing. Stuck it to the nazi element. Should consider donating the returned funds to Planned Parenthood and/or other charities fighting for the right to abortion.
"Culverhouse issued a statement Friday in which he renewed his call for students "to protest and reconsider their educational options in Alabama."
Here, here. Precisely, what should be done. Resist the nazi element.
"I expected this response from UA," he said. "I will not allow my family's name to be associated with an educational system that advocates a state law which discriminates against women, disregards established Federal law and violates our Constitution."
Precisely, the issue. F--k the treasonous, traitorous nazi element. If great evil is not courageously stood up to, great evil triumphs. Life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties remain in jeopardy courtesy of the nazi element in our formerly great country.
"I want to make clear that I never demanded that $21.5 million be refunded and wonder if the University is attempting to silence my opinions by their quick response. I will not be silenced."
None of us should be. Takes courage to stand up to these traitors. No matter the personal cost. Had Italians done so at the rise of Mussolini, Germans at the rise of Hitler, the world could have been spared all the death and destruction.
"The president of the university, Stuart Bell, said in a statement, "This decision was made for reasons of academic and institutional integrity. I appreciate the actions of the Chancellor and our Board of Trustees and their unwavering support of these intrinsic values."
These 'intrinsic values' are no more than national socialism, fascism, nazism. Your university has disgraced itself.
"Culverhouse, a Florida lawyer and investor whose father was a longtime owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, made the largest donation in the school's 187-year history last September when he committed to give $26.5 million. The school had not yet received the remaining $5 million. But months after the donation was announced, Culverhouse joined those calling for a boycott of Alabama after the governor signed a restrictive abortion law, which outlaws nearly all abortions and does not include exceptions for cases of rape or incest. Culverhouse's attorney, Lawrence Kellogg, was quoted last month by Florida Politics as saying, "Sixty-six percent of the students at Alabama pay out-of-state tuition. A boycott by them could certainly be effective."
This needs to occur across the country.
"While the university has acknowledged having a dispute with Culverhouse, it insists the decision about his donation is related only to concerns about matters at the school, not at the statehouse."
Horse shit. Unadulterated. Colleges and universities are about the pursuit of truth, determined, relentless embrace of reality. Not gutless capitulation to a national socialist, fascist, nazi ideology.
"University officials say the school had nothing to do with the abortion law and that there was an ongoing dispute with Culverhouse over how his donation would be used," NPR's Debbie Elliott reports. "Culverhouse says he thought it had been resolved and believes the trustees' vote is in retaliation for his position on the abortion ban." The university says Culverhouse had previously requested the return of $10 million and that he was also making demands about how the money was spent. Last week, University of Alabama System Chancellor Finis St. John recommended to the board that it return Culverhouse's $21.5 million donation to the law school."
Clearly, someone's lying. Culverhouse needs to release all documentation and other evidence supporting his claims. So should the university. Let the public decide, on the basis of the evidence who the hell is lying, who is telling the truth. Bottom line here remains the same, however. These returned funds should go to Planned Parenthood, and/or other charities supporting and defending the right to abortion. Again, f--k the nazi element.
"On Friday, St. John spoke to the board again as it prepared to vote on the issue. He reiterated his earlier position, saying Culverhouse's expectations for how his gift would be used are "inconsistent with the essential values of academic integrity and independent administration" of the university and its law school. When Culverhouse committed to making the unprecedented gift last fall, the university decided to rename its law school after him. But within hours of Friday's action by the board, university workers began the process of dismantling Culverhouse's name from the signage outside the law school. The university's business school is named for his father, Hugh Sr. Culverhouse went to college in Florida — but he was born in Alabama, and both of his parents went to the University of Alabama and were involved in athletics there. His previous gifts to the school have included more than $2 million to support women's golf scholarships in honor of his mother, who played golf for the Crimson Tide."
Obviously, this dispute is going to cost the university dearly financially.
Clearly, however, and for both sides, principle trumps money:
"But in the current dispute, Culverhouse also mentioned his family's social and political legacy. "My father was an officer of Planned Parenthood in Jacksonville, Florida, during the 1950s," Culverhouse said in May, according to Florida Politics. Referring to the abortion law, he added, "This is a civil rights issue that has been important to my family for many years."
Hat's off. Continue to stand tall. F--k the bastards.
More of the same. No resolution. NPR reports:
"The University of Alabama has released a series of internal emails regarding mega-donor Hugh Culverhouse, Jr., saying the documents back the university's contention that its rejection of Culverhouse's $21.5 million gift had nothing to do [with] his stance against Alabama's strict abortion law. Culverhouse had also called for prospective students to boycott the school. "Our decision was never about the issue of abortion," the university said as it released emails that are from, to and about Culverhouse. Instead, the school said, the decision was "about ending the continued outside interference by the donor." In response to the university's release of the email records, Culverhouse said he's glad they emerged — and he contends that the emails back his claim that the university disagreed with his political stance."
More to come as it becomes available. Still no resolution.
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6-14-19
The following is an example of Uncommon Valor in the business community. ... A business community suffering from all the abortion bans passed recently. ABC News reports:
"A hotel in small-town Michigan is offering free accommodation to any woman traveling to the state to have an abortion. Shelley O'Brien, manager of The Yale Hotel in the tiny town of Yale, Michigan, made the offer in a post on the hotel's official Facebook page last month, following a spate of sweeping abortion bans passed in a number of states.
"Dear sisters that live in Alabama, Ohio, Georgia, Arkansas, Missouri, or any of the other states that follow with similar laws restricting access, we cannot do anything about the way you are being treated in your home-state," O'Brien wrote. "But, if you can make it to Michigan, we will support you with several nights lodging, and transportation to and from your appointment."
"The Facebook post has been shared more than 3,000 times."
Way to go. Stand tall. F--k the nazi element in our formerly great country.
"O'Brien later added an update to the May 16 post, saying she's received telephone numbers of people willing to help drive women to the hotel, which is located about 65 miles north of Detroit. "We've got some amazing people in our village," she wrote. "We've got your backs."
Someone has to. The Nazi Right in our formerly great country delusionally believes it owns YOUR uterus, ladies. Does it?
Republican national socialists, fascists, nazis are out of control. Democrats are all talk, no action. End result is women are being f--ked over by these traitorous, treacherous, treasonous assholes:
"More than 350 pieces of legislation that would restrict abortion access have been introduced in states across the country this year, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research group that was initially started as part of Planned Parenthood, but officially separated in 2007 and has been operating independently ever since. So far in 2019, 17 bans on abortion have been signed in 10 states -- but none have gone into effect because they are all facing a legal challenge or have delayed starts. For now, abortion remains legal in every state. Last month, Michigan's Republican-controlled House of Representatives and Senate both voted to ban second-trimester abortion procedures and make it a felony for doctors to perform them, except to save a woman's life. But Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, has vowed to veto any legislation that restricts abortion access."
... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on this, and many, many other issues. As our formerly great country transitions from a de facto fascist police-state to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.
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6-7-19
Think exceptions for rape or incest vis a vis access to abortion are the answer? Wake up. The following quotes are from an editorial written by Cazembe Murphy Jackson. CBS News reports:
"Louisiana on Thursday became the most recent addition to a dishonorable list of states imposing abortion restrictions so draconian that they don’t include an exemption in cases of rape or incest. The laws trample on the beliefs of most Americans, who overwhelmingly support exceptions in abortion restrictions, including a sizable 45 percent of Republicans who think abortion should be legal in cases of medical necessity, rape and incest. These extreme abortion bans have caused outrage among even some anti-abortion leaders and politicians. But if Americans really want to ensure that those who have suffered rape or incest, as I did, are able to terminate the pregnancies that result from these crimes, they need to realize that adding a few words for exceptions to laws otherwise prohibiting abortions doesn’t actually protect these victims. If the state has dramatically limited access to other abortions, they will face dramatically limited access as well."
The above is beside the point. Who the hell are Republican nazis to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus? Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. Why does the GOP nazi element in our formerly great country insist on forcing its national socialist, fascist ideology and religious views on the rest of us by statute? It's un-American. Traitorous. Treasonous. Outrageously unconstitutional.
"The process to get an exemption is completely unrealistic for most individuals who have been raped and found out they’re pregnant; it can be confusing, bureaucratic, onerous and challenging to find information, and policies vary in each state. Perhaps worst of all, rape exceptions do additional harm to survivors like me by placing the burden of proof on us and implicitly questioning whether our version of events can be believed. It imposes a time-consuming, emotional ordeal at a juncture when we just need to get to the nearest clinic."
The above is true, currently, for ANY woman pregnant and desperately seeking an abortion. Why should ANY woman seeking an abortion have to put up with this shit? Why? Republican fascists and anyone else who support a ban on the right to an abortion present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Our formerly great country is a democratic republic in name only.
... No more than a de facto fascist police-state since at least 9/11, dating back in reality to January 20, 1969 when Richard Nixon took office. When the fascist son of a bitch began dismantling all gains made during the Sixties vis a vis civil and constitutional rights and liberties. With rare exception, was all downhill from that point. Greed trumped principle. Precisely, why we've fought undeclared war after undeclared war to line the pockets of the unbridled corporate management suite.
We see the fruits of this now, as our formerly great country remains frighteningly divided. As unbridled, ineffectively regulated, essentially laissez-faire capitalism has turned into a zero-sum, winner-take-all achingly cruel, increasingly vicious game. Where the top of the food chain owns its bought and paid for shills in government, all branches, all levels. As the middle class becomes an endangered species. As both major political parties place partisanship ahead of principle. As an unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on an increasing number of issues.
The following is some pretty rough stuff. Seatbelts on.
"I say this as someone who did everything society instructed me to do after my rape nearly two decades ago, when I was a 20-year-old college junior in small-town Texas. I was on financial aid, going to class diligently and working hard so I could graduate. One evening during finals, while walking home from the library, I was raped by four men. At the time, I identified as a lesbian (now, I identify as a transgender man). I was wearing masculine clothes, and the men decided to violate me because of my gender expression and sexual orientation. “Corrective rape,” as it’s sometimes called, is sexual violence perpetrated against queer-identifying people as punishment for living as our most authentic selves. More than 60 percent of transgender people are estimated to have experienced sexual assault, while another one in eight lesbians have. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics, sexual assault among queer people is as high or higher than the rate among heterosexual people. This is one of the many reasons why abortion is a queer-health issue. Following the rape, I told my mom and I reported it to the police. I thought the police would support me, but instead I felt dismissed. It comes as no surprise to me that, given the degree of skepticism rape claims receive from the police, it’s estimated only four in 10 rapes are reported and, of those, two-thirds go unsolved."
Equally to the point, why is there no follow-up vis a vis unprocessed rape kits all across our formerly great country? Why has law enforcement dropped the ball on this problem?
"About six weeks after the rape, I found out I was pregnant. I immediately knew I should get an abortion; all I wanted was to finish school, and the thought of continuing the pregnancy instead made me want to die. Thankfully, it was legal for me to get the procedure done in Texas at that time. I was forced to take out a payday loan with a high interest rate to cover the $300 cost, but that made my abortion possible. A few days later, I underwent the procedure. I was “lucky” in that I was able to legally get an abortion, scrape together the funds to do so and — had I needed to prove that I was a victim of rape to receive the procedure — was able to go to the police. But rape exemptions don’t take into account those of us who don’t want to call the police because the police are often not helpful, particularly to survivors from communities of color. And what happens when the police are the rapists?"
The above is a problem all across our formerly great country. Not only to the LGBTQ community and people of color, however. Across the board.
"Exemption laws that make it the survivors’ responsibility to prove that a rape has occurred by filing a police report, among other reporting requirements that vary by state, place tremendous added pressure on someone already dealing with the emotions from the rape and the subsequent pregnancy. And to have to handle all of this within days of a missed period, often at a very young age? It’s a violation all over again to have to prove what happened and why we need an abortion. No one should be violated while exercising their rights."
Again, this is true across the board. All women. The nazi element in our formerly great country delusionally believes it owns your uterus, ladies.Does it? Don't want an abortion? Don't have one. Don't force your views on others by statute.
"As Michelle Alexander asked in her moving New York Times column, how would a survivor who doesn’t have evidence or didn’t want to report it access an abortion if they were required to prove they’d been raped to get one? And what about others who want to end the cycle of violence created by the prison industrial complex by not engaging with the police? I have come to embrace this approach, since as a Black trans man, going to the police is rarely an option — I simply don’t feel safe. I expect to be treated as a perpetrator rather than a survivor. How does everyone like this get an abortion after a rape?"
This remains an exigent issue for all in this country, not just people of color. Not just the LGBTQ community. Law enforcement cannot be trusted to do the right thing. Not only vis a vis sexual assault, but across the board.
"Exemptions also create a hierarchy of reasons for an abortion, making rape-qualifying abortions the “good abortions” and relegating those who don’t meet that standard to pursuing less safe or even criminalized methods while the stigma on them increases."
That's right. If the nazi element in our formerly great country has its way, there'll be a return to back alley abortions, coat hangers, unsafe, botched abortions, -- and dead women. Wake up.
"The truth is, abortion bans harm all those who need to end pregnancies, even those who theoretically are protected by exemptions. Exceptions are nothing but an empty idea; they’re not a practical way to ensure survivors receive health care. If Americans want survivors like me to be able to terminate their pregnancies — and the vast majority of the population does — abortion needs to be available to everyone."
... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on this, and many, many other issues. Wake up.
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6-7-19
Judge stands tall. Missouri Planned Parenthood receives reprieve. NPR reports:
"A Missouri judge has blocked the state's attempt to close down Missouri's last abortion provider. Missouri Circuit Court Judge Michael Stelzer granted a request to temporarily prevent state officials from revoking the license of a clinic operated by a St. Louis Planned Parenthood chapter, as the the state's health department had sought to do. Missouri had been at risk of becoming the first state without a clinic providing abortions since the procedure became legal 45 years ago. Planned Parenthood, Stelzer wrote in his order, "demonstrated that immediate and irreparable injury will result" if Missouri refused to renew the clinic's license. He added that the temporary restraining order "is necessary to preserve the status quo and prevent irreparable injury." Stelzer issued his ruling Friday, hours before a midnight deadline. The judge set a June 4 hearing on the matter."
No question, this judge stood tall. Did the right thing. Stood up to raw nazism.
"This is a victory for women across Missouri, but this fight is far from over. We have seen just how vulnerable access to abortion care is in Missouri — and in the rest of the country," said Leana Wen, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood."
Indeed. Republican national socialists, fascists, nazis pose an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties as our formerly great country transitions from a de facto fascist police-state to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.
"In a lawsuit seeking to keep the clinic open, Planned Parenthood had warned that closing the facility could force some women to "turn to medically unsupervised and in some cases unsafe methods to terminate unwanted pregnancies." Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, who recently signed one of the country's most restrictive abortions laws, has maintained state officials need to complete an investigation into a patient complaint before the clinic's license is renewed. Missouri officials have not revealed details about that complaint."
Why not? If this is indeed not political as the Governor disingenuously claims, why not reveal all details about the complaint?
"During a press conference earlier this week, Parson argued that the attempt to not renew the clinic's license is not political."
You're a liar, Governor.
"This is not an issue about the pro-life issue at all. This is about a standard of care for women in the state of Missouri," Parson said. "Whether it's this clinic or any other clinic or any other hospital, they should have to meet the same standards."
Disingenuous bullshit. You're a liar, Governor. No more, no less. A congenital liar, -- just like your fuhrer, the Trump nazi. You falsely impose obstacle after obstacle after obstacle to make it impossible for this facility to operate. To impose your perverse ideological and religious views on others. Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"In March, state officials cited a number of deficiencies in their inspections of the clinic as part of the annual license renewal process. One problem they noted was that not all of the staff had participated in a fire drill. Then in April, Missouri officials announced an investigation of an unspecified complaint from a patient. State officials asked to interview seven physicians associated with the clinic, some of whom who were employed by Washington University Medical School and not part of the clinic's full-time staff. Because of that relationship, the clinic argues it cannot force the doctors to be interviewed. It also says the state has not revealed the scope of the questioning, which the clinic's legal team says could include criminal referrals. Legal wrangling ensued over the interviews, with the clinic saying it did everything in its power to make the sessions happen and state officials countering that the clinic was getting in the way of the interviews."
Kangaroo justice. An achingly phony, manufactured crisis by the nazi Governor and his henchmen. Fascist police-state. Nazi America. Clearly, the Governor and his henchmen ignore the fact abortion remains legal in this country.
"Jamie Boyer, the attorney for Planned Parenthood, said in the suit that Missouri "is simply wrong in insisting it is entitled to refuse to act on Planned Parenthood's application for license renewal." But Parson says that because of the audit and investigators' inability to complete the investigation into the patient complaint, the clinic's license cannot be renewed."
Bullshit Catch-22. So the Governor and his henchmen can force their perverse ideological and religious views on all. Direct abrogation of their oaths of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution, First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"Ahead of the ruling, clinics in states surrounding Missouri, meanwhile, told NPR there were real worries about a wave of patients traveling across state lines from Missouri. It would be a natural response, they said, to the looming prospect of abortions being inaccessible to patients statewide. "Missouri is already in what's considered an abortion desert where the majority of Missourians live over 100 miles from a clinic," Michele Landeau, board president of the Gateway Women's Access Fund, told NPR member station St. Louis Public Radio. The fund helps women pay for abortions. "Closing clinics is just going to make that distance even worse," she said. Supporters of the St. Louis clinic praised the judge's ruling, but said the struggle for access to abortions in Missouri continues. "While temporary, we celebrate today, and tomorrow we go back to work to ensure access to abortion does not go dark at the last health center that provides abortion in Missouri," said Dr. Colleen McNicholas, an abortion provider at Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region. "While Governor Parson abandoned our patients, we will not."
F--k the nazi element in our formerly great country. They're traitors. Present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
CBS News reports:
"A St. Louis circuit judge sided with Planned Parenthood on Tuesday afternoon, granting the clinic a preliminary injunction and ruling that the testimony of non-employees was an "undue burden" and the state's subpoena to interview them "should be quashed." The testimonies are the lynchpin of an impasse between Planned Parenthood of St. Louis, which operates Missouri's last abortion clinic, and the state health officials, as first reported by CBS News. Missouri's Department of Health & Senior Services "refused to renew" the clinic's license, which was set to expire on May 31, unless it could interview those physicians as part of an ongoing investigation into the clinic's compliance with state mandated regulations. "The non-parties have shown that compliance with the subpoenas would present an undue burden and hardship on [the non-Planned Parenthood physicians] and that the subpoenas should be quashed," Judge Michael Stelzer wrote on Tuesday. The judge also issued Planned Parenthood a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, which will allow the clinic to perform abortions without the state's license. If the clinic had lost its license, Missouri would have become the first state to not have a legal abortion clinic since Roe v Wade was decided in 1973."
What the state is disingenuously perpetrating is no more than a direct attack on a constitutional right, the right to obtain an abortion.
"Planned Parenthood sued the state last week after officials "refused to renew" its license to perform abortions. Missouri health officials said that it would not renew the license unless it could interview five residents in training who had worked at the clinic but were not employed by Planned Parenthood regarding an ongoing investigation into the clinic compliance with state regulations. While Planned Parenthood offered interviews with all of its own employees, the five physicians in question declined to be interviewed. The state indicated that the result of those interviews could be "board review" in addition to "criminal proceedings," Bonyen Lee-Gilbert, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood said. The department had not given the clinic any indication what the investigation was regarding, said Dr. Colleen McNicholas, a Planned Parenthood physician in St. Louis. "We are 100 percent committed to the best care that we can provide for patients. So certainly if there is an issue with the care we're providing we want to know about it," she said. "We want to be able to address that. But we can't do that when we're being attacked."
It's all bogus. A bogus attack on a constitutional right. In Nazi America.
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5-31-19
... Hear the rumble? CBS News reports:
"Missouri's last abortion clinic could be shut down this Friday, meaning it would become the first state to effectively end all legal abortion services since Roe vs. Wade was established back in 1973. Missouri's health department is refusing to renew its license, an effort that Planned Parenthood CEO Dr. Leana Wen called an attempt by the state to "weaponize" abortion clinic inspections with the aim of outlawing the practice."
Raw nazism. In a de facto fascist police-state since at least 9/11, quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. ... As our formerly great country moves closer and closer to an unwanted, dreaded second American revolution.
"This comes just days after Missouri's governor signed a bill into law banning abortion after eight weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape or incest. The law, which would go into effect in August, makes performing an abortion a felony, punishable up up to 15 years in prison. Missouri is one of six states to pass similar laws this year although none have taken effect yet."
Republican national socialists, fascists, nazis delusionally believe they own your uterus, ladies. Do they?
"This is a real public crisis that's happening right now," Dr. Leana Wen told "CBS This Morning." "Because we could face a situation where by the end of the week more than 1.1 million women in Missouri will not have abortion accessible in their own state."
Back to butchers, back alley abortions, coat hangers. Nazi America.
"Planned Parenthood is suing to keep providing abortions at that clinic, with an emergency court hearing Wednesday. "We hope that the court will see exactly what's happening, which is that over the last 10 years the state of Missouri has imposed regulation upon regulation that has no basis in medicine," Wen said. "We've complied with all of them because we want to keep our health center open. These are things like making our hallways extra wide, forcing women to wait 72 hours – even having unnecessary, invasive pelvic exams."
Called legalized sexual assault. All courtesy of Republican nazis desperate to force their perverse religious and ideological views on the rest of us. Traitorous direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"On May 20, the Missouri's health department notified Planned Parenthood of three issues that could impact its license renewal, according to documents reviewed by CBS News and provided by Planned Parenthood. On May 22, Planned Parenthood said it would address two of them: adjusting who at the clinic provided the state-mandated counseling and adding an additional pelvic exam for abortion patients. Wen called some of the measures requested by the state "traumatizing for women," especially those who have suffered sexual abuse. She said that staff at the St. Louis clinic have "seen this coming for years." "Because they've been on the front lines of having all these requirements imposed upon them that they've had to meet. And now this is coming. This is a warning to everyone in the country that this is not a drill," she said."
Republicans are truly evil. Democrats no better. All talk, no action. ... Hear the rumble?
"For Wen, the Missouri health center in question holds personal meaning. "I was a medical student at Washington University in St. Louis. I volunteered at that health center and I've seen for myself the women who already travel hundreds of miles to access essential health care and now to see that health care literally being taken away that will endanger women's lives, in particular women with low income, women who have to travel from rural areas. This is what's happening around the country. This is the real impact of these terrible laws that are being passed."
All courtesy of Republican nazis. Democrats ineffective. Not worth a shit. As all civil and constitutional rights and liberties are eviscerated by the nazi element in our formerly great country.
"CBS News reached out to Gov. Parson and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, but they did not provide a comment."
What could these goddamned gutless cowards possibly say to 'defend' the indefensible, 'justify' the unjustifiable. Raw nazism.
NBC News reports:
"Doctors in Missouri may only have a few more days to perform abortions, but they insist their care for patients who want to terminate a pregnancy won't end anytime soon. "Despite what happens on Friday, we will continue to help our patients access care when they need it,” Dr. Colleen McNicholas, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, said on a call with reporters today. That includes helping women who are seeking to end a pregnancy find help in other states. “We will make sure Missourians who need abortion care will be able to get it, whether that be with us or with another provider,” McNicholas said. McNicholas said the center takes care of several thousand women seeking an abortion each year. She and clinic director Dr. David Eisenberg spoke with NBC News on Friday, the day Missouri’s governor signed into law a bill that would prohibit abortions after eight weeks gestation. “This is a government intrusion into the practice of medicine,” Eisenberg said."
No question. All courtesy of Republican nazis who have no respect, no regard for the United States Constitution. Do all they can to eviscerate all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
"The Planned Parenthood Federation of America said Missouri’s health department is threatening not to renew the St. Louis Planned Parenthood’s license to provide abortions. The clinic is the only one in the state that offers abortion services. If the license is not renewed by May 31, doctors at the Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region will no longer be able to perform abortions, though they will still provide other medical care. That would leave more than 1 million women of childbearing age without access to abortion in the state."
Courtesy of Republican nazis. Democrats, no better. Have certainly failed to effectively combat this fascist takeover of our formerly great country.
"Doctors who perform abortions in Missouri were already grappling with how to handle that state's newly signed law banning abortions after eight weeks gestation, except in cases in which they are "medically necessary." Doctors say that creates a huge problem, particularly in circumstances that require snap medical decisions. “How do I know what I think is a medical emergency will be viewed as such by the attorney general?” McNicholas asked. “What a terrible place we are putting physicians in, a totally untenable ethical position where they have to choose between providing the appropriate care for their patient, or potentially going to jail or losing their medical license,” she added. Some states’ new abortion bans have been referred to as “heartbeat” bills by politicians, and mean that abortions would be prohibited after a “fetal heartbeat” is detected. But doctors say what physicians are hearing at six to eight weeks gestation isn’t a true heartbeat; it’s just electrical activity. “At six weeks, we’re talking about essentially two tubes that are aligned by some cardiac cells that can do some vibration,” McNicholas said. She says equating that electrical activity with a fully functioning heart is simply medically inaccurate."
Doesn't matter to hopelessly ignorant Republican nazis. All that matters to these goddamned fascists is evisceration of this most precious constitutional right.
"Jennifer Box says ending her pregnancy with a fetus with a rare and deadly chromosomal abnormality was the most compassionate choice for the baby, as well as her two older children. Babies with trisomy 18 often have heart defects, difficulty eating and breathing, and are susceptible to serious infections. “I made a decision in consultation with multiple doctors, genetic counselors and different hospitals. We made a medical choice as parents for our daughter,” Box said. She and her husband, Jake, found out the fetus was a girl, and named her Libby Rose. “It was heartbreaking, but I can’t imagine giving birth to a child only to know that she would suffer indefinitely until she would die,” Box said. “I believe my greatest act of love as her mother was to suffer myself instead.”
... Hear the rumble?
"Meanwhile, physicians at the St. Louis Planned Parenthood say they will continue to provide assistance to women. “When abortion is safe and accessible, it’s the safest medicine that’s provided,” Eisenberg said. “The fact is, it’s basic health care for women.”
Not to the Republican nazi element in our formerly great country. Democrats, egregiously ineffective in combating this fascist takeover of our formerly great country.
CBS News reports:
"Missouri will not renew Planned Parenthood's license to perform abortions unless the clinic fully complies with the state's requests, said Governor Mike Parson during a press conference Wednesday. The clinic is the last one performing abortions in the state and its license is set to expire at the end of this week. The governor claimed, "Planned Parenthood has been actively and knowingly violating state law on numerous occasions." "Regardless of if you support abortion or not, Planned Parenthood should be able to meet the basic standards of health care under the law," Parson said. "They should not receive any exceptions because they are one clinic."
The Governor is a goddamned liar. More on this as the story develops.
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5-24-19
Nazi Alabama will certainly pay a high price for its deliberate attack on the right to abortion. NBC News reports:
"The phones began ringing at the clinic not long after the Alabama governor signed a bill that would ban nearly all abortions in the state, including in cases of rape and incest. The desperate women calling the POWER House, home of Montgomery’s only abortion clinic, all wanted to know the same thing. “They’re asking: ‘Can we still come in? Are you still open?’” said volunteer Bianca Cameron-Schwiesow. “They’re in a panic and they’re scared. And we say that is fine, you can still come in, because they don’t realize that this is going to stay open for the next six months.” If not longer. The law is supposed to go into effect in six months, but likely legal challenges from the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood mean it could be years before the controversial Alabama law is enforced, experts have said. “They are still terrified though,” said Margot Heartline, who also volunteers at POWER (People Organizing for Women’s Empowerment and Rights). They fear “they’re going to be thrown in jail if they go to a clinic.” Cameron-Schwiesow said the message they want to get across is that women seeking abortions still have a safe place to go and so do the doctors who serve them. “We are here for the patients, to protect them,” she said. “We try to cover them as much as we can. We are there to comfort and make sure they feel safe and secure, and we’re also here for the doctors to make sure they are safe as well, too.”
Raw nazism. Republican nazis in our formerly great country delusionally believe they own your uterus, ladies. Do they?
"Alabama legislators passed the bill after denying an amendment that would have made exemptions in cases of rape or incest. The bill’s sponsor, House Rep. Terri Collins, R-Ala., told NBC News on Tuesday that legislators wanted to keep the language streamlined specifically to address the language in Roe v. Wade, and hopefully revisit the question on whether a fetus in the womb can be considered a person."
Raw nazism. The bastards responsible for this are not conservatives. They're fascists. A conservative wants as little government as possible. A fascist thrives on it.
"Kathy Vincent, however, said she was adamantly opposed to this law. “I’m horrified that it passed and I’m concerned about what it does for the image of the state of Alabama,” Vincent said. “It was blatantly an attempt to get the Supreme Court to overturn Roe V. Wade, which would be a travesty in the country.” “In their hearts, there are a lot of women who know that this is a very backwards step for women’s rights,” she added. Vincent's husband, Paul, said the legal fight over this law is going to cost Alabama a bundle. “We’re going to violate the Constitution, and the taxpayers end up paying for it,” he said."
Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this, and many, many other issues as our formerly great country transitions from a de facto fascist police-state since at least 9/11 to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.
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5-24-19
'Don't do as I do, do as I say,' right, Sen. Cruz? The Washington Times reports:
"Sen. Ted Cruz issued a tweet Monday blasting “vicious” and “angry” actor Jim Carrey for posting a cartoon of Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey being aborted."
Hey, Teddy? Wake up. What is indeed 'vicious' and 'angry' is you GOP national socialists, fascists, nazis denying a woman the right to do with HER uterus as she damn well pleases. Who the hell are you bona fide fascists to impose your perverse religious views on others? Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
“This is not OK,” Mr. Cruz wrote. “Today’s Left: vicious, angry & consumed by hate. Instead of insults & dehumanizing rage, we should return to civility."
Jesus Christ. Give me a break. Kettle calling the pot black. Goddamned hypocrisy. Look in the mirror, you clueless piece of crap.
“I disagree w/ Carrey’s politics, but believe we should respect his humanity nonetheless. I wish he could reciprocate. #LoveIsStrongerThanHate,” the Republican senator added."
What a crock of shit. Unadulterated. You nazis present an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties, then expect no blowback? Wake up. ... So afraid of ferocious dissent, you or one of your henchmen took this publication off your mailing list months ago? LOL.
"Mr. Carrey, a comedic actor turned artist and political activist, tweeted a cartoon on Saturday that envisioned Ms. Ivey, a Republican, as a fetus giving a thumbs up as she’s being aborted. The “Ace Ventura” star added, “I think If you’re going to terminate a pregnancy, it should be done sometime before the fetus becomes Governor of Alabama.”
Have no appreciation of satire, Senator? What are you and others who think like you so afraid of? The truth?
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5-17-19
The following is a glaring example of sick religion. Raw nazism. Deliberate encouragement of the violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion by the Vice President of the United States. The Washington Times reports:
"Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday elevated President Trump as a defender of religious freedom and told Liberty University graduates to muscle through criticism from the “secular left” as they live out their Christian faith, saying they’ll “be blessed” for it."
What he is apparently encouraging them to do is force their perverse religious views on others through evisceration of abortion rights, bigotry against the LGBTQ community, etc..
"Speaking to a friendly commencement crowd in Lynchburg, Virginia, Mr. Pence criticized the Obama administration for forcing nuns who care for the elderly to fight birth-control rules in court. And he slammed the “bevy of Hollywood liberals” who’ve promised to boycott Georgia as the state passes strict pro-life legislation."
Tough shit. A healthcare license is clearly, without question, not a right. Remains a privilege. Can't do your job due to religious objections? Do what's honorable and leave the profession. Who the hell are you, Mr. Vice President, to force your perverse religious views on the rest of us? Think you, and others who think like you, own a woman's uterus? You don't. Don't want to abort? Don't. Don't force your perverse views on those who don't agree. Any state who denies a woman the right to do as she pleases with HER uterus, needs to be boycotted. Deserves it.
"He got personal, too, pointing to those who criticized his wife, Karen, for returning to teach at a Christian elementary school that’s been criticized for its stance on homosexuality."
It's homophobic bigotry, Mr. Pence. Ignorantly, Aryan arrogantly, egregiously, hypocritically most un-Christlike. Then again, what does a nazi truly know about Christianity, Mr. Pence?
“Some of the loudest voices for tolerance today have little tolerance for traditional Christian beliefs. So as you go about your daily life, just be ready,” he said."
Jesus Christ. What a crock of shit. Has nothing to do with traditional Christian beliefs. Nothing at all. Where in the Four Gospels did the Head Honcho of your bastardized religion instruct His followers to shit on the LGBTQ community? On women? Where?
"The Trump White House has a close connection to Liberty University. The school’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr., is an evangelical leader who strongly supported Mr. Trump on the campaign trail."
Supported the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. That Christlike? Christian? Think so? Delusionally believe so?
"Mr. Trump gave his first commencement speech as president to Liberty students in 2017."
Glaring hypocrisy. Especially, in light of the following and much, much more:
"Critics say it’s rich for Mr. Trump, who’s been married three times and accused of paying hush money to a porn star and a Playboy model to cover up affairs — allegations the president denies —to cast himself as a defender of Christian values. Yet his administration has thrilled conservative evangelicals with his policies."
Called sick religion.
"He’s rolled back Obama-era rules that compelled faith-based nonprofits to insure birth control, drafted policies that support pro-life initiatives — including conscience protections for health workers — and appointed conservative judges."
All in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. Did so to advance his national socialist, fascist, nazi political agenda. Yet, his sick sycophants bought his bullshit hook, line, and sinker. What does that make them?
"Mr. Pence touted those judges at Liberty, and reminded the crowd that “America stands with Israel.”
Those 'judges' are not 'conservative.' They're fascists. A conservative wants as little government as possible. Conversely, a fascist thrives on it. Not all of us stand with the Israeli aggressor, Mr. Pence. The aggressor continues to murder innocent Palestinians protesting its Nazi tactics, continues to steal Palestinian land the Israelites rightfully lost generations ago. This matter has been extensively covered in this publication. Click on the Israeli Aggressor 1 icon for more.
"He also said students are graduating at a great time, citing the robust jobs market under Mr. Trump’s tenure. “The American economy is soaring,” he said."
For the top of the food chain. Not the long-sufferiing middle class, -- and certainly not the bottom of the food chain.
"Most of his remarks focused on shifting attitudes in the U.S. “Throughout most of American history, it’s been pretty easy to call yourself a Christian. It didn’t even occur to people that you might be shunned or ridiculed for defending the teachings of the Bible,” he said."
You're not following the teachings of the Bible, Mr. Pence. You and others who think like you bastardize the Bible to advance your political agenda. That's precisely why the Nazi Right is increasingly, ferociously opposed.
"He said it’s far harder now, and that students will [be] asked to “bow down to the idols of the popular culture.”
You mean to figures like you and your fuhrer, the Trump nazi?
"Mr. Pence told students to fight, because the administration has their back."
That's frightening, Mr. Pence. Your fuhrer is a congenital liar, engages in highly questionable business practices to be exceptionally kind, is doing all he can to eviscerate all civil and constitutional rights and liberties in direct violation of his oath of office. To impose his national socialist, fascist, achingly nazi agenda. List can go on and on.
“As President Trump said at this very podium two years ago, on our watch, 'No one is ever going to stop you from practicing your faith or from preaching what is in your heart.’ That’s a promise,” he said. “And we will always stand up for the right of Americans to live, to work, and to worship God according to the dictates of their conscience.”
That's not, and never has been an issue, -- or in contention. It's your Aryan arrogant practice of forcing your perverse religious views on the rest of us by statute, in the courts, etc., that is, and will continue to be, ferociously resisted.
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5-17-19
Filmmakers in Georgia stand tall on abortion rights. CBS News reports:
"Filmmakers are vowing to boycott Georgia after the governor signed a controversial abortion bill into law earlier this week. While many people might not think of Georgia as a booming place for film production, more top-grossing films are produced there than anywhere else in the world, according to the state's website."
Hit the fascist bastards where it truly hurts, -- the pocketbook. F--k the nazi element in our formerly great country. Dictating to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus is direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"At least three prominent production companies said they will no longer shoot their films in the state. Christine Vachon's Killer Films, which is responsible for the Oscar-nominated movie "Carol," and the Oscar-Winning film "Still Alice," will no longer shoot in Georgia," the filmmaker tweeted Thursday. David Simon said his Blown Deadline Productions will no longer consider the state as a shooting location. Simon is responsible for "The Wire" and HBO's "The Deuce." "Add my company to the list," Neal Dodson of CounterNarrative Films tweeted shortly after Vachon and Simon announced their boycott. Several other people in the film and TV industry praised the production companies, and urged others to follow."
Here, here! Way to go. Stand up to this blatant nazism.
"Killer
Films will no longer consider Georgia as a viable shooting location until
this ridiculous law is overturned.
—
Christine Vachon (@kvpi) May 9, 2019
"Can
only speak for my production company. Our comparative assessments of locations
for upcoming development will pull Georgia off the list until we can be
assured the health options and civil liberties of our female colleagues
are unimpaired. https://t.co/WTb0tj95zH
—
David Simon (@AoDespair) May 9, 2019
"Don’t
give your business to Georgia. Will you pledge with me not to film anything
in Georgia until they reverse this backwards legislation?
—
Mark Duplass (@MarkDuplass) May 9, 2019"
They're courageously putting their money where their principles stand.
"The filmmakers are outraged by the state's "fetal heartbeat bill," which Governor Kemp signed into law Tuesday. The law appears to violate Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that protects a woman's right to an abortion up until when the fetus is viable, which typically happens between 24 and 25 weeks.
"Several states have passed laws restricting abortion access. Georgia, however, is the only state that is now losing a major industry because of it."
Tough shit. Far more need to courageously stand up to the nazi element in our formerly great country. Fight this growing cancer.
"The state is attractive to filmmakers because productions shot in Georgia receive a 30% tax credit. Since this tax law was passed in 2008, the state's film industry has taken off. "That's a bit of an understatement, actually. Georgia went from being one of the film locations in the world to being the #1 film location in the world," Georgia's official website reads."
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5-17-19
What took so long? Time to figuratively stick it to the nazis opposing abortion rights where it hurts most, -- the bedroom. LOL. ... Too bad the rest of us will have to suffer for it. LOL. NBC News reports:
"Actress Alyssa Milano ignited social media with a tweet Friday night calling for women to join her in a sex strike to protest strict abortion bans passed by Republican-controlled legislatures."
About time. LOL. -- A bird in the hand worth two in the bush? LOL. Men are about to find out. LOL.
"The former star of "Charmed" and "Melrose Place" urged women in her tweet to stop having sex "until we get bodily autonomy back." Her tweet came days after Georgia became the fourth state in the U.S. this year to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected — about six weeks after a last menstrual period and before many women know they're pregnant. "We need to understand how dire the situation is across the country," Milano told The Associated Press on Saturday. "It's reminding people that we have control over our own bodies and how we use them." She noted that women have historically withheld sex to protest or advocate for political reform. She cited how Iroquois women refused to have sex in the 1600s as a way to stop unregulated warfare. Most recently, she noted that Liberian women used a sex strike in 2003 to demand an end to a long-running civil war."
No stronger incentive than sex, -- or lack thereof. LOL.
"Milano received support from fans and fellow actress Bette Midler joined her in also calling for a sex strike with her own tweet. But both liberals and conservatives also lampooned her idea, with conservatives praising her for promoting abstinence and liberals saying she was pushing a false narrative that women only have sex as a favor to men. Milano said the criticism didn't bother her and that her tweet was having her desired effect, "which is getting people to talk about the war on women."
It is a war on women. Republican national socialists, fascists, nazis delusionally believe they own YOUR uterus, ladies. Do they?
"She said she fears one of the laws could eventually be decided by the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court, which Republicans hope will overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion."
No question. Moreover, these assholes are not conservatives. They're fascists. Forget? A conservative wants as little government as possible. A fascist thrives on it.
"That is absolutely horrifying to me," Milano said. "Anyone who is not completely and totally outraged by this and doesn't see where this is leading, I think is not taking this threat seriously."
Raw nazism. Direct threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
"Milano said people have to determine for themselves how long the sex strike should last. For her part, she hasn't decided yet how long she will forgo sex. "I mean I don't know," she said. "I sent a tweet last night I haven't really thought much past that this morning."
Not to worry. These hopelessly ignorant assholes, ahem, will be literally forced to take 'matters into their own hands,' so to speak, to pleasure themselves. Sans their long-suffering partners. LOL.
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5-17-19
The State of Alabama has once again treasonously, traitorously, treacherously disgraced itself. CBS News reports:
"The Alabama State Senate passed a near-total abortion ban in a 25 to 6 vote on Tuesday night. The legislation provides no exceptions for rape or incest. The bill is the most restrictive anti-abortion measure passed since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. The bill now heads to Governor Kay Ivey, a Republican. If she signs it, the bill will become law. Up until Tuesday she has withheld public comment on the legislation. The legislation -- House Bill 314, "Human Life Protection Act" -- bans all abortions in the state except when "abortion is necessary in order to prevent a serious health risk" to the woman, according to the bill's text. It criminalizes the procedure, reclassifying abortion as a Class A felony, punishable by up to 99 years in prison for doctors. Attempted abortions will be reclassified as a Class C penalty. "It's a sad day in Alabama," said Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton in the debate leading up to the vote. "You just said to my daughter, you don't matter, you don't matter in the state of Alabama."
National socialist, fascist, nazi Republicans in Alabama delusionally believe they own your uterus, ladies. Can dictate to you what you can and cannot do with YOUR uterus.
"After the bill passed, Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth voiced his support for the measure. "With liberal states approving radical late-term and post-birth abortions, Roe must be challenged, and I am proud that Alabama is leading the way," Ainsworth tweeted on Tuesday night."
A raucous, boot clicking, goose stepping, traitorous, treacherous, treasonous Seig Heil!, you nazi son of a bitch. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on this, and many, many other issues.
Subsequent to the above, the bill was signed into law. The court battle begins.
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5-10-19
Egregious violation of Roe v. Wade. CBS News reports:
"Georgia Gov. Kemp has signed into law the state's "fetal heartbeat bill," a piece of legislation that would prohibit abortion after a heartbeat is detected in an embryo. That is something that usually happens between five and six weeks into a women's pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant. Abortion rights advocates have called the bill an effective ban on abortion in the state."
Republican nazis remain intent in forcing their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all by statute. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"The bill appears to be a violation of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that protects a woman's right to an abortion up until when the fetus is viable, which typically happens between 24 and 25 weeks. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights have promised to challenge the legislation long before it goes into effect in January 2020. "This law is bafflingly unconstitutional," said Elisabeth Smith, chief counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, in an email to CBS News on Tuesday morning. "Bans like this have always been blocked by courts. We will be suing Georgia to make sure this law has the same fate."
"Emboldened by the addition of conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, states have introduced and passed more anti-abortion access legislation than ever before, said Elizabeth Nash, a senior state issues manager at Guttmacher. "The surge in attempts to ban abortion in the earliest stages of pregnancy underscores that the end goal of anti-abortion politicians and activists is to ban all abortion — at any point during pregnancy and for any reason," Nash said in an email to CBS News Monday. This year alone, state lawmakers have introduced more than 250 bills restricting abortion access, according to a study conducted by Planned Parenthood and Guttmacher last month. And six-week abortion bans, like Georgia's, are up by 62 percent, according to the study."
... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. As all civil and constitutional rights and liberties remain under ferocious attack by national socialists, fascists, nazis in the Republican Party. As gutless Democrats continue to do nothing but talk.
"Many of those restrictions have been blocked by federal judges, the first step in a long legal battle to get the legislation in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, said Nash. States can then appeal the decision, and if they're denied again they can submit another appeal to the Supreme Court, which can choose whether or not they want to take the case, according to Nash. For conservative lawmakers interested in overturning or eroding abortion access, this appellate path is the only way to substantively chip away at Roe v. Wade, which is protected by the U.S. Constitution."
These psychotic pieces of crap are not conservatives. They're fascists. A conservative wants as little government interference as possible. A fascist thrives on it.
"Georgia's bill has been the target of intense scrutiny by Hollywood. A petition started by Alyssa Milano last month, who at the time was in Atlanta shooting for the Netflix show "Insatiable," was signed by more than 100 celebrities, including Amy Schumer, Alec Baldwin and Judd Apatow. Milano wrote that if the bill passed, "we cannot in good conscience continue to recommend our industry remain in Georgia."
Goddamned right. Boycott any state that does the same. F--k the nazi element. Ladies? These pieces of human excrement perversely believe they own your uterus. Can dictate what you can and cannot do with it.
"The letter also noted that if members were to boycott filming in Georgia, "the cost would be most deeply felt by the residents of Georgia — including those who directly work in the film and television industry, and those who benefit from the many millions of dollars it pours into the local economy."
Tough shit. If Georgians fail to stand up to this shit, get precisely what they so richly deserve. Hit 'em hard in the pocketbook. Make it cost them dearly:
"At an event in March, Kemp said the entertainment industry employs 200,000 Georgians and generated more than $60 billion of economic activity for the state. Prior to Tuesday's legislation, Georgia politicians have already passed a host of anti-abortion access laws, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Women in Georgia are required to wait 24 hours between requesting and obtaining an abortion in the state and minors are required to notify their parents."
Raw nazism. These pieces of human excrement are reminded abortion was indeed illegal in both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. History is indeed repeating itself in Nazi America.
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5-3-19
More push back. NPR reports:
"A federal judge in Washington state has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's overhaul of the federal reproductive health care program known as Title X. The nationwide preliminary injunction puts a stop — at least for now — to new regulations that were set to take effect on May 3. Among other changes, the rules would prohibit any organization that offers or refers patients for abortion from receiving Title X funds to cover services like contraception and STD screenings for low-income patients. Reproductive rights activists cheered the ruling, issued Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Bastian in the Eastern District of Washington state.
"A federal judge in Oregon also said earlier this week that he plans to issue an injunction blocking the rules, though he has not yet specified the scope of his ruling. The judge, Michael McShane, described the rule as a "ham-fisted approach to public health policy," The Oregonian reported. That suit was brought by a coalition of more than 20 state attorneys general, Planned Parenthood and the American Medical Association. Planned Parenthood officials have said if the changes to Title X are allowed to take effect, the organization, which serves about 40% of the program's 4 million patients, would no longer be able to participate. Supporters of the Trump administration's regulations argue that no federal funds should go to any group involved in abortion."
You fascist bastards on the Nazi Right have no right to force your perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. You're goddamned nazis.
CBS News reports:
"A federal judge on Thursday blocked a Trump administration "gag order" rule that would have restricted some health clinics — including Planned Parenthood — from referring patients to abortion providers. The proposed changes were set to go into effect next week. Judge Stanley Bastian in the Eastern District of Washington orally issued an injunction to temporarily halt controversial changes proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services to Title X, the federal program that provides birth control, cancer screenings, and other reproductive health related services to low-income women. "The potential harm of the domestic gag rule is enormous," said Kinsey Hasstedt, a senior policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive research organization, in a statement. "We are relieved the court has recognized the potentially devastating harms of the domestic gag rule and halted its implementation." In a tweet, the Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson called the decision a "major victory" and said the injunction would be applied nationally."
Who the hell are these goddamned Republican fascists to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us? Why aren't Democrats standing up to these out of control nazis? Democrats are all talk. No action. Neither major political party is worth a crap. For totally different reasons.
"When it was proposed, Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Dr. Leana Wen called the changes "unconscionable and unethical." "This rule compromises the oath that I took to serve patients and help them with making the best decision for their own health," Wen wrote in a statement in February. "Patients expect their doctors to speak honestly with them, to answer their questions, to help them in their time of need."
Called honesty. Candor. The truth. Concepts the Nazi Right, now embedded in the Republican Party, cannot comprehend. Clearly, lacks the intellectual capacity.
"Since Title X was enacted in 1970, its funds have always been prohibited from paying for abortion services."
Clear violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion. Yet, this shit continues. Promulgated by Republican fascists.
"While health clinics that provide abortions are eligible for the funds, the specific Title X money isn't allowed to go toward anything related to providing the procedure."
Outrageously unconstitutional. Ladies? These fascist assholes delusionally believe they own YOUR uterus.
"The full written injunction is expected to come out early next week, said a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood."
Excellent. About time.
"Washington's case is one of 21 that have challenged the changes proposed to Title X funding. On Tuesday evening, a judge in Oregon said he planned to block the order as well, calling the proposal a "ham-fisted approach to public policy." He said he would issue a written opinion to clarify the scope of his decision, according to a Planned Parenthood spokesperson."
No woman should be forced to carry her fetus to term. Your uterus belongs to you, ladies. Not the assholes on the Nazi Right. Time to stand up to nazism. Remains a direct threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. The constitutional rights of the pregnant woman take precedence over any rights the nazi element is desperately attempting to grant her fetus. If the state, in effect, owns a woman's uterus through proscription of abortion, she is no longer free. She's owned by the state.
Trump, his henchmen, and the Republican Party present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Democrats remain all talk. No action. These are exceptionally perilous times for our formerly great country. Liberty, under direct assault. A madman occupies the Oval Office. Republicans blindly march in goose step. This nation is precisely where Nazi Germany was when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor in 1933. Worst, yet to come. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.
NPR reports:
"The Kansas Constitution protects a woman's right to an abortion, the state's Supreme Court ruled Friday. The landmark ruling now stands as the law of the land in Kansas with no path for an appeal. Because it turns on the state's constitution, abortion would remain legal in Kansas even if the Roe v. Wade case that established a national right to abortion is ever reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court."
Called freedom. A concept the Nazi Right has no grasp of, regard for.
"The decision turbo-charged efforts among conservatives in the Kansas legislature to ask voters to add an abortion ban to the state constitution. Lawmakers return to Topeka next week."
These are not conservatives. They're fascists. A conservative wants as little interference from government as possible. A fascist thrives on it.
"The decision, in which one of the seven justices dissented, cites in its first sentence the first section of the Kansas Constitution's Bill of Rights: "All men are possessed of equal and inalienable natural rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The decision continues: "We are now asked: 'Is this declaration of rights more than an idealized aspiration? And, if so, do the substantive rights include a woman's right to make decisions about her body, including the decision whether to continue her pregnancy? We answer these questions, 'Yes.'" The court continued that "this right allows a woman to make her own decisions regarding her body, health, family formation, and family life — decisions that can include whether to continue a pregnancy." "The State may only infringe upon the right to decide whether to continue a pregnancy," the ruling continued, "if the State has a compelling interest and has narrowly tailored its actions to that interest."
None of the government's goddamned business. None of the business of the Nazi Right.
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5-3-19
The Nazi Right is aggressively pushing the limit in Alabama. CBS News reports:
"Alabama's House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a near-total abortion ban, a piece of legislation that the bill's sponsor called a "direct attack" on Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that protects a woman's right to an abortion. Politicians in the statehouse voted against adding an amendment that would have added an exception for victims of rape and incest. After several hours of contentious debate Tuesday evening, Alabama politicians overwhelmingly passed House Bill 314, the "Human Life Protection Act," 74 to 3, pushing the bill forward to the state Senate. Of the state's 105 representatives, 28 refused to vote after Republicans blocked the rape and incest amendment. If passed into law, the legislation would criminalize abortion, classifying it as a Class A felony in Alabama. That means that a doctor caught performing abortions in the state would face up to 99 years in prison under the proposed law."
The idea of the Republican nazi element in Alabama is to get the matter before the U.S. Supreme Court where five Republican fascist 'justices' own the majority. In order to eviscerate Roe v. Wade.
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4-19-19
Continued attack on abortion rights. ABC News reports:
"Abortion rights advocates have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to summarily strike down a controversial Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The court in February, by a 5-4 vote, temporarily put the law on hold – hours before it was set to take effect -- pending an expected appeal from the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing a Louisiana abortion clinic and two physicians. The organization is challenging a decision by the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upholding the Louisiana law. “The stakes in this case are high for the rule of law, and the real world consequences for women in Louisiana could be dire,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights. “Abortion access in the state is already hanging by a thread. The number of clinics has already fallen from 11 in 2001 to just 3 today.”
Who the hell is the nazi element in our formerly great country to force their perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us? Here are the consequences:
"Kathaleen Pittman, clinic administrator at one Louisiana abortion provider, said health care workers are already seeing an uptick in cases of attempted “self-abortions” because of shrinking options for women. “We do anticipate a rise in self-abortions. We’ve seen it reported to us, especially from women coming to us from Texas, of trying alternative means,” Pittman said. “Women are going to have abortions, the question is: will they be illegal and unsafe, or legal and safe?” Louisiana authorities have 30 days to file a response with the Supreme Court. While it is possible the justices could grant their petition this term, it’s more likely they do so during the October term, the parties said."
3-29-19
Once again, the United States forces its perverse ideological and religious views on the world community. Pompeo nazi leads the charge. CBS News reports:
"Secretary of State of Mike Pompeo announced refinements to the administration's Mexico City policy, a ban on federal funding for organizations that provide abortion services, in order to "protect the least amongst us." While the State Department will continue to refuse to provide assistance to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO's) that "perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning," Pompeo said Tuesday that the State Department is also making clear "we will refuse to provide assistance to foreign NGOs that give to other foreign groups in the global abortion industry." "American taxpayer dollars will not be used to underwrite abortions," Pompeo urged."
Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. This government has no business promulgating religious views, perverse or otherwise. On anyone. Here or abroad.
"Under the Bush administration, this rule did not apply to funding for HIV/AIDS programs. Now it does, and the policy will now also apply to programs that provide tuberculosis, malaria and nutrition services. Asked if he this new policy risked cutting care for the nearly a million people who died from HIV/AIDS last year, Pompeo said the U.S. provides more funding for that than any country in the world and "one need not perform abortions in order to protect people from HIV."
Disingenuous bullshit, -- and the Secretary of State knows it. People will die as a result. ... How did you ever graduate West Point, Mikey?
"Pompeo added, "This administration has shown that we can continue to meet our global health goals while refusing to subsidize the killing of unborn babies."
Not your call, Mikey. Neither is it the call of our national socialist, fascist, nazi government, -- which is certainly no longer a democratic republic.
"The State Department has also moved to defund an arm of the Organization of American States (OAS) that has allowed for abortion lobbying, both for and against. "The institutions of the OAS should be focused on the crisis in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, not advancing the pro-abortion cause," Pompeo admonished."
How about focusing on the national socialist, fascist, nazi police-state we now live in since 9/11 in our formerly great country, Mikey? You and your nazi fuhrer have egregiously abrogated your oaths of office to uphold the United States Constitution.
"Abortion rights groups have long opposed the policy, and presidents have rescinded and restored it, depending on their political leanings, since 1984. Then-President Bill Clinton revoked it in January 1993 upon taking office because "these excessively broad anti-abortion conditions are unwarranted," he wrote in his memorandum, adding that the policy had "undermined efforts to promote safe and efficacious family planning programs in foreign nations." Eight years later, George W. Bush reinstated it when he took office. Barack Obama later rescinded it once again in 2009, making the same argument as Clinton had. Pompeo said on Tuesday that Mr. Trump "boldly" expanded the policy "which now protects every human life impacted by the nearly $9 billion dollars of foreign aid we spend on global health programs each year, and in turn, protects more unborn babies than ever before." "This is decent, this is right and I'm proud to serve in an administration that protects the least amongst us," Pompeo added."
The hell it does, Mikey. You and your fuhrer line your pockets off the bottom and middle class. If you and the nazi in the Oval Office truly cared about the 'least among us,' you wouldn't be shamelessly ripping them off to line your bottomless pockets. Didn't they teach you that in church, you achingly clueless, fascist piece of crap?
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3-29-19
Egregious infringement of abortion rights. Raw nazism. CBS News reports:
"Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Thursday signed one of the strictest abortion laws in the nation — a measure that bans most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, about six weeks into pregnancy. The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights called the measure "cruel and clearly unconstitutional" and said it would sue Mississippi to try to block the law from taking effect on July 1. Bryant's action came despite a federal judge's decision last year striking down a less-restrictive law limiting abortions in the state. After a bill signing ceremony at the state Capitol, Bryant told reporters that he's not worried about lawsuits. "They don't have to sue us. It's up to them," Bryant said. "If they do not believe in the sanctity of life, these that are in organizations like Planned Parenthood, we will have to fight that fight. But it is worth it."
Governor, you have egregiously failed to uphold your oath of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution. Particularly, the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"Mississippi is one of the states across the country that has a so-called "trigger law" in place if Roe v. Wade is overturned. In 2007, the state enacted a law that would ban abortion if the Supreme Court hands down such a ruling except in the event that the mother's life is at risk and in cases of rape if criminal charges have been filed. A federal judge in 2018 struck down a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, saying it is unconstitutional. "Lawmakers didn't get the message," Hillary Schneller, staff attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement Thursday. "They are determined to rob Mississippians of the right to abortion, and they are doing it at the expense of women's health and taxpayer money. This ban — just like the 15-week ban the governor signed a year ago — is cruel and clearly unconstitutional."
Doesn't matter to a national socialist, fascist, clearly nazi Governor.
NPR reports:
"A law making it harder for women in North Carolina to get an abortion after 20 weeks is unconstitutional, a federal judge has declared. The law, which had been on the books since 1973, banned abortion after 20 weeks with only certain exceptions to protect the life of the mother. A 2015 amendment tightened those exceptions, criminalizing abortion unless the woman's life or a "major bodily function" were at immediate risk. Pro-abortion rights groups challenged the law, and on Monday U.S. District Judge William Osteen sided with them. The Supreme Court has rejected laws that tie abortion rights to a specific week in a woman's pregnancy, but this is the first time a judge has struck down the 1973 law. "The Supreme Court has clearly advised that a state legislature may never fix viability at a specific week but must instead leave this determination to doctors," Osteen wrote. The ruling simply reaffirms the current law banning abortion restrictions tied to certain weeks, ACLU attorney Andrew Beck, one of the lawyers challenging the dated law, told The Washington Post. But it also gives abortion rights groups hope that courts will restrain some of the Republican-led state laws that have imposed new restrictions on abortion in recent months and years. "Given that there is so much anticipation that the [Supreme Court] will undermine or overturn Roe v. Wade, it is reassuring to see the North Carolina 20-week abortion ban struck down," Elizabeth Nash, a state issues manager at the Guttmacher Institute, told The Post. The ruling will go into effect in 60 days, giving the state time to appeal or propose different legislation. A spokeswoman for the state attorney general's office said it was reviewing the decision."
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3-22-19
Trump and his henchmen are bound and determined to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views worldwide. The Washington Post reports:
"Valerie Huber, a top Health and Human Services Department official, was the special guest at a New York City event Tuesday that included representatives of dozens of nations in town for a key women’s rights conference. The gathering featured a screening of the film “Strings Attached,” which takes aim at the West’s “ideological colonization” of Africa through interviews with women who experienced side effects from contraception or who regretted having abortions, according to two attendees. Huber used her spotlight to emphasize the Trump administration’s commitment to “protecting life” in global health assistance."
Crock of shit. Especially, considering Trump's egregious ignorance of human rights. Both here and abroad.
"Huber’s appearance at the event — sponsored by C-Fam, a think tank with Catholic ties whose mission is “to defend life and family at international institutions,” and Nigeria, which generally supports comprehensive family planning — is part of a bold new effort by the Trump administration to build an international coalition to restrict access to abortion and promote traditional values about the family."
Trump, his henchmen, and the Nazi Right determinedly ignore the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. Why are taxpayers forced to pay for this? Get this:
"Over the past few months, Huber and other U.S. officials have traveled the world inviting other nations to join the cause. In meetings, according to people privy to the discussions who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the negotiations, Huber, who previously founded an abstinence-only sex education group, has explained that “health and rights mean different things to different people.” The first test of the coalition comes this week as U.S. negotiators seek to excise references to “universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights” — which they argue promotes abortion and normalizes sexual activity among youth — in an annual document about empowering women by the U.N.’s Commission on the Status of Women. They also want to replace “gender-responsive” with “family-centered” in calls for more-inclusive public services. And they’re pushing to add a section recognizing that “women’s contribution to the home, including through unpaid care and domestic work, which is not adequately recognized, generates human and social capital.”
Who the hell is the nazi element in our formerly great country to force its perverse ideological and religious views not only domestically, but internationally?
"Civil society groups focused on women’s rights expressed dismay at the efforts. They accused the United States of putting unfair pressure on poor countries that depend on U.S. foreign aid, and also of aligning with countries with poor human rights records. Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity, a Washington-based advocacy group, said the U.S. plan amounts to “bullying.” Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, vice president of programs for PAI, which works on universal access to reproductive health care globally, said such a coalition would allow countries “with more draconian laws about women’s rights or sexual minorities to skirt their obligations under international mechanisms.” “The U.S. stance this time enables other bad actors at the U.N. negotiation table,” Dunn-Georgiou said.HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley said that the United States under President Trump “unequivocally supports the empowerment of women and girls, including health promotion for women and girls across the life course.” However, she said the meaning of sexual and reproductive health “has unfortunately evolved in the multilateral setting to include abortion.”
Tough shit. It's none of your goddamned business. You have no right to force your outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on anyone, domestically or overseas.
"As a pro-life administration, the Trump administration does not support abortion,” Oakley said."
This is direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. Raw nazism.
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3-15-19
Women are beginning to fight back. Against the Republican nazis who are doing all they can to dictate to women what they can and cannot do with THEIR uterus. CBS News reports:
"A representative in the Georgia Statehouse is drafting a rather blunt response to legislation that would dictate when a woman could get an abortion. It's called the "Testicular Bill of Rights," and state Rep. Dar'shun Kendrick said her legislative package is all about turning the tables on her male counterparts seeking to impose laws on a woman's reproductive rights."
Stick it to the nazi bastards. What took so long?
"The move comes after a Georgia House committee approved legislation last week to outlaw abortion after a fetus' heartbeat can be detected, which is before many women know they are pregnant. Women in Georgia can currently seek an abortion within the first 20 weeks of a pregnancy. A heartbeat is generally detectable by medical professionals at around six weeks. "HB-481 [The 'Heartbeat Bill'] inspired me to see what the reaction would be from some males and male legislators if the tables were turned and we started to talk about their reproductive rights and organs," Kendrick told CBS News on Tuesday."
Go for it. LOL. Stick it to the bastards.
"Ggggooooodddd morning! Introducing my "testicular bill of rights" legislative package. You want some regulation of bodies and choice? Done! pic.twitter.com/5E8HBRSc9l
— Dar'shun Kendrick (@DarshunKendrick) March 11, 2019
"Kendrick announced her "bill of rights" package on Twitter Monday. It includes, among many male-focused proposals, legislation requiring men to obtain permission from their sex partner before they get a prescription for any erectile dysfunction medication, allowing men who have sex without a condom to be charged with aggravated assault, and imposing a 24-hour "waiting period" for men who want to purchase any pornography or sex toys in the state of Georgia."
LOL. Way to go.
"While the bills are currently being drafted and have not yet been officially proposed, Kendrick said that her overall objective was met. "It has started the conversation about the absurdity of regulating women's bodies and right to choice and instead focused on men and their rights," she said."
Force the the bills into law. Do it. Republican nazis have been getting away with this shit for decades. Time to stick it to the Aryan arrogant fascist bastards.
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3-8-19
Think the following can't, won't happen in our formerly great country? Should Republican national socialists, fascists, bona fide nazis ultimately be successful? That is, in their outrageously perverse attempt to dictate what someone can and cannot do with HER uterus? Wake up. The Washington Post reports:
"An 11-year-old rape victim gave birth in Argentina on Tuesday after she was apparently denied an abortion by authorities, infuriating women’s rights advocates in the country who have fought to legalize the procedure. The girl, referred to as “Lucia” to protect her identity, underwent a Caesarean section Tuesday in the 23rd week of her pregnancy, the Guardian reports. Lucia, whose baby is not expected to survive, had previously begged officials to “remove what the old man put inside me.”
Wake up. Gets worse:
"That man is the 65-year-old partner of Lucia’s grandmother — who took custody of Lucia and her siblings in 2015, after her two older sisters were reportedly abused by their mother’s partner, the Guardian reported. Lucia attempted to commit suicide twice upon learning of her pregnancy Jan. 23. She was hospitalized and later placed in state care as a result of apparent self-inflicted lesions, the outlet said."
This, what you goddamned Republican nazis want here? Where are the Democrats? Why are they allowing these fascist bastards to eviscerate abortion rights? Freedom? What's that? 'Liberty' to do what you're told? What the nazi element in our formerly great country dictates?
"The birth of Lucia’s child Tuesday was widely condemned by women’s rights activists in the country, who say Lucia and her mother repeatedly asked for her to have an abortion — a request that was delayed by nearly five weeks, according to the BBC. Debate over who the girl’s guardian was complicated the planned abortion, and several doctors refused to perform the procedure because of their personal beliefs, the outlet said."
Why haven't their licenses to practice medicine been revoked? A license to practice medicine is not a right. It's a privilege. Can't provide a desperately needed medical procedure? Then, get the hell out of the profession. You have no business being there.
"As The Washington Post has reported, Argentine law allows abortion in instances of rape, when the mother is mentally disabled or if there is a serious risk to her health. In any other instance, a woman could be imprisoned for up to four years for undergoing the procedure."
Raw nazism. Are you Republican national socialists, fascists, nazis aware abortion was illegal in both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy?
"In Lucia’s case, officials ordered a hospital director to “continue with procedures necessary to attempt to save both lives” — a mantra also used by antiabortion advocates — citing a decision made by a family judge, according to the BBC. That court has since indicated it gave no instruction to save two lives. Moreover, the Guardian reports, a doctor warned in court that Lucia faced “high obstetric risk” if her pregnancy was allowed to continue."
NOT YOUR UTERUS. Belongs to her. Who the hell are you fascist bastards to dictate to her what she can and cannot do with HER uterus?
"A doctor who performed the procedure said she managed to save Lucia’s life after the girl had been “tortured for a month by the provincial health system.” “For electoral reasons they [the authorities] prevented the legal interruption of the pregnancy and forced the little girl to give birth,” Cecilia Ousset told reporters, according to the Guardian. “My legs trembled when I saw her, it was like seeing my younger daughter. The little girl didn’t understand completely what was going to happen.” Women’s rights advocates agreed with Ousset’s assertion that Juan Manzur, governor of Tucuman, used Lucia to push his political agenda. Journalist and self-described feminist activist Mariana Carbajal wrote in a tweet that Tucuman had treated Lucia “like a receptacle, like an incubator,” according to the Guardian."
Precisely, what Republican nazis are attempting to impose right here, right now, in our formerly great country. If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. Reproductive freedom is far more than a woman keeping her panties up, legs crossed; a man keeping it in his pants.
"Soledad Deza, of the Women for Women Association, reminded news outlets that Lucia’s abortion would have been legal, considering health risks and the fact she was sexually abused, the Guardian reports. She likened the girl’s experience to “the worst type of cruelty.”
What it is is raw nazism.
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3-8-19
States suing Trump over abortion rule. CBS News reports:
"California and 20 other Democratic-led states announced they were challenging the Trump administration's effort to set up obstacles for women seeking abortions, including barring taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from referring patients to abortion providers. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Monday that the state filed its own federal lawsuit in San Francisco that aims to block a new family planning rule from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department. Opponents of the rule say it would shift millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood to faith-based family planning organizations. Twenty states and Washington, D.C., said they would sue separately Tuesday. The states are: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin. Washington's Democratic attorney general also previously said the state would challenge the rule."
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2-15-19
U.S. Supreme Court rises to the occasion. The Washington Post reports:
"Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined with the Supreme Court’s liberals Thursday night to block a Louisiana law that opponents say would close most of the state’s abortion clinics and leave it with only one doctor eligible to perform the procedure. The justices may yet consider whether the 2014 law — requiring doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals — unduly burdens women’s access to abortion. The Louisiana law has never been enforced, and the Supreme Court in 2016 found a nearly identical Texas law to be unconstitutional. “The Supreme Court has stepped in under the wire to protect the rights of Louisiana women,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which represented the law’s challengers. “The three clinics left in Louisiana can stay open while we ask the Supreme Court to hear our case. This should be an easy case — all that’s needed is a straightforward application of the court’s own precedent.”
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2-15-19
Terrorists in the anti-abortion fringe are at it again. NPR reports:
"The names of 14 Planned Parenthood workers and others will remain sealed during the trial of two anti-abortion activists who are charged with secretly recording them, a California judge ruled Monday."
Damned good reason for it.
"The order by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Christopher Hite came in a preliminary hearing in the prosecution of David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress. Hite said that he would punish anyone discovered to have published the names of the workers, which were already ordered to remain secret when Daleiden and Merritt were first charged in California in 2017. The judge's order came after an anti-abortion website published the names over the weekend."
Nazis in the Religious Right present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. These fascist bastards are determined to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all. Have become a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini.
"California prosecutor Johnette Jauron said it was necessary to keep the workers' names confidential because "they are in fear of bodily harm." Prosecutors offered an affidavit by one Planned Parenthood worker who said that Daleiden sent a text to her phone number in 2016 and said, "I know a lot has happened in the past year, and maybe I'm the last person you want to hear from. But if there's anything I can do to help you, please let me know."
Jesus Christ. How about that? Galling psychotic Aryan arrogance of the yellow-bellied Nazi Right. ... As our formerly great country transitions from the de facto fascist police-state we've lived in since 9/11 to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.
"Daleiden and Merritt have pleaded not guilty and say that they are citizen journalists whose activities are protected under the Constitution."
Not if it involves terroristic threat and/or breaking the law.
"They are accused of secretly recording videos in 2005 purporting to show that Planned Parenthood workers were agreeing to sell fetal tissue for profit, a practice the group denies. Planned Parenthood says the videos were deceptively edited and that it had only charged medical researchers for the costs of shipping, or other expenses tied to donating the tissue. Planned Parenthood says it has since stopped asking for reimbursements for shipping costs. Planned Parenthood has made the unusual legal demand to join the state's prosecution of the anti-abortion activists. The organization says it is worried about the workers' safety and wants its lawyers to be able to object to defense lawyers' questions that might identify the workers. Daleiden and Merritt each face 14 counts of invasion of privacy. Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit against the Center for Medical Progress in 2016. Last year a federal judge barred the release of some of the videos."
These national socialist, fascist, nazi bastards have no right to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on others.
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2-15-19
Rep. Conaway has no clue what liberty means. In his most recent newsletter, the Congressman writes:
"Gradually, though no one remembers exactly how it happened, the unthinkable becomes tolerable. And then acceptable. And then legal. And then applaudable." - Joni Eareckson Tada
"There is nothing more sacred, and no greater gift from God, than life. But across the country, we're seeing exactly that happen, through attacks on the sanctity of life. New York recently passed a law allowing doctors to perform abortion at any point in the pregnancy when there is "an absence of fetal viability," which includes abortions well after the child has a heartbeat, is capable of feeling pain, and can survive outside the womb."
Not your uterus, Congressman. You and others who think like you have no right to force your outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on others by statute. None of your goddamned business. To Republican national socialists, fascists such as yourself, sir, liberty is no more than the freedom to do what you're told. That's intolerable horse shit.
"In Congress, we're working on over a dozen pieces of legislation to protect life. This week, we introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which requires immediate medical attention for a baby born alive during an attempt to abort. We've also introduced legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, prohibit abortion in cases where a fetal heartbeat is detectable, and stop Planned Parenthood from sending aborted children's remains to landfills. And we will keep fighting to protect life, because there is nothing more important."
Congressman, you're a goddamned liar. Where is your concern for those who have been executed, at least some of whom were innocent? Ferociously pointedly, where is your concern for innocent, unarmed civilians who are gutlessly murdered by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who follow a 'shoot first, ask questions later' mentality and policy?
Who the hell are you and other fascists who think like you to force your views on others? It's un-American. Right Wing Nazi. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
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2-8-19
Draconian abortion law temporarily blocked. CBS News reports:
"The Supreme Court is temporarily keeping a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics on hold. Justice Samuel Alito said in a brief order Friday that the justices need more time to review arguments for and against the law, which requires doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital."
Amazing coming from a Republican nazi 'justice' usually more than willing to legislate his outrageously perverse ideological and religious views from the bench.
"The law, originally enacted in 2014, was set to take effect Monday, though clinics have asked the high court to block its enforcement. The clinics say at least one and maybe two of Louisiana's three abortion clinics would have to close if the law is allowed to take effect."
Precisely, what the nazi writers of the law intend. Shamelessly dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus. Nazi Aryan arrogance Hitler and Benito would have been so eminently proud of.
"A judge in the federal district court in Louisiana struck down the law in 2017, but it was upheld by a federal appeals court in September. The appeals court said it's not clear that any clinic would close."
Horse shit. Unadulterated. Another nazi appeals court more than willing to legislate its perverse ideological and religious views from the bench, -- in support of its national socialist, fascist, nazi base in the Republican Party.
"The Supreme Court struck down a similar law in Texas in 2016, with Justice Anthony Kennedy as the deciding vote in the 5-3 decision. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative jurist whom many Republicans hope will help shift the court to the right, has since replaced Kennedy."
Kavanaugh is no 'conservative.' Barry Goldwater, Bill Buckley were conservatives. Kavanaugh's a goddamned national socialist, fascist, nazi. This bastard presents an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Will legislate his outrageously perverse ideological and religious views from the bench.
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2-1-19
More of the same. At least, one judge stood tall. ABC News reports:
"A controversial law in Iowa that sought to ban women from getting abortions after a fetal heartbeat was detected has been ruled unconstitutional by a state judge. The so-called "heartbeat bill" never went into effect in Iowa because it faced legal challenges ever since Gov. Kim Reynolds signed it into law in May 2018. Opponents noted that a fetal heartbeat can sometimes be detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, at which point some women may not know that they are pregnant, and it shortens the window by which a woman could have a legal abortion in the state. The latest decision, issued on Jan. 22 in the Polk County District Court, deemed it unconstitutional in the face of the state's laws. The decision concluded that the parameters set in the law are "violative of both the due process and equal protection provisions of the Iowa Constitution as not being narrowly tailored to serve the compelling state interest of promoting potential life."
Who the hell are these goddamned hypocritical religious nazis to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us by statute?
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1-25-19
Continued attack on reproductive freedom. NPR reports:
"On Friday, as they have for decades, anti-abortion rights activists are marching through Washington, D.C., to the U.S. Supreme Court – a location that symbolizes the long-held goal of reversing the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized the procedure nationwide in 1973. Vice President Mike Pence phoned into the rally Friday morning, thanking attendees for "standing for life" and calling on them to "be prepared to defend life."
By imposing your outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all? Raw nazism. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.
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12-14-18
A good day for Planned Parenthood. NBC News reports:
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left lower court victories intact for Planned Parenthood in a legal battle with states over access by Medicaid patients to the group's services. The dispute did not involve abortion, but the action by the justices keeps a hot-button political issue off the docket. Three of the court's conservatives said the court should have taken the case. After an anti-abortion group released videos in 2015 that purported to show officials from Planned Parenthood talking about selling fetal tissue, several states immediately terminated Medicaid provider agreements with the group's affiliates. The videos were largely discredited, but the states involved said they found the allegations troubling. Medicaid patients in Kansas and Louisiana, two of the states that took action against Planned Parenthood, claimed the states violated Medicaid's requirement that patients must be free to seek their health care from any qualified and willing provider. They sued, and lower federal courts found in their favor, entering injunctions that ordered those states to lift their bans. In declining to take up the states' appeals, the Supreme Court's action on Monday leaves those lower court victories for the Medicaid patients in place."
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11-30-18
A step in the right direction. Personal freedom. NPR reports:
"A federal judge in Mississippi has permanently blocked one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country — a ban on the procedure after 15 weeks of gestation. The law was signed by Republican Gov. Phil Bryant in March, but a court quickly imposed a temporary block, which was extended several times. The order was set to expire Monday. "The ban's lawfulness hinges on a single question: whether the 15-week mark is before or after viability," District Judge Carlton W. Reeves wrote in his Tuesday ruling. "The record is clear: States may not ban abortions prior to viability; 15 weeks [since a woman's last menstrual period] is prior to viability," he wrote.
"Reuters reports the ruling effectively blocks a similar ban on abortions after 15 weeks gestation in Louisiana, which was set to take effect if the Mississippi law survived. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat, said he knew the law would be difficult to defend in court. "We know that bans below 20 weeks have been struck down," he said in March. "We expect an immediate and expensive legal challenge." "The State chose to pass a law it knew was unconstitutional to endorse a decades-long campaign, fueled by national interest groups, to ask the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade," Reeves wrote. "This Court follows the commands of the Supreme Court and the dictates of the United States Constitution, rather than the disingenuous calculations of the Mississippi Legislature." "The Mississippi Legislature's professed interest in 'women's health' is pure gaslighting," he wrote in a citation. "Its leaders are proud to challenge Roe but choose not to lift a finger to address the tragedies lurking on the other side of the delivery room: our alarming infant and maternal mortality rate."
"Our victory today means that women in Mississippi will maintain the ability to make their own decisions about whether and when to terminate a pregnancy," said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of Jackson Women's Health Organization, the last remaining abortion clinic in the state. "Today's decision should be a wake-up call for state lawmakers who are continuously trying to chip away at abortion access. Such bans will not stand in a court of law," she said in a news statement."
If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. Who the hell are Republican national socialists, fascists, nazis to impose their outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all? These goddamned nazi sons of bitches remain too clueless to understand reproductive freedom is far more than a man keeping it in his pants, a woman with panties up and legs crossed.
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11-16-18
Once again, Republican national socialists, fascists are determined to dictate what women can and cannot do with THEIR uterus. CBS News reports:
"Two states voted Tuesday to add anti-abortion language to their constitutions in what some opponents say is preparation for a potential overturn of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court."
These goddamned nazis are hell-bent, determined to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all. Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
"Voters in Alabama and West Virginia approved state ballot measures that addressed the question of abortion and sought to ban public Medicaid funding of the procedure. Both measures stated their state's constitution did not protect a woman's right to an abortion and their state would not provide funding for the procedure, except in the case of rape, incest and medical emergency, as is required by federal law."
National socialism, fascism, raw nazism. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. military personnel died fighting this scourge. Second World War European Theater.
"It basically paves the way to ban abortion in all instances," Shante Wolfe-Sisson, the campaign manager for Alabama for Healthy Families, a group that opposed the initiative, said Wednesday in an interview with CBS News. "In practice, it will sit in the Alabama constitution as a standing law so in the event that Roe v. Wade is overturned, it will automatically become law."
Raw nazism. Who the hell are these fascist bastards to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all?
"In Alabama, voters agreed to amend the state constitution to include that its policy was to protect "the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children, including the right to life" and its official stance on abortion was to "ensure the protection of the rights of the unborn child in all manners and measures lawful and appropriate." Wolfe-Sisson says these changes would effectively outlaw pregnancy-ending procedures in the event Roe v. Wade gets overturned. Alabama State Rep. Mike Fridy, who sponsored the amendment, did not immediately return a call and email seeking comment."
Goddamned nazi. Again and ferociously pointedly, hundreds of thousands U.S. military personnel died fighting this outrageous cancer in Europe. Second World War. Hitler's Third Reich now resurrected by the Trump nazi, his henchmen, and nazis in the Republican Party. Trump's Fourth. Traitors. Direct assault on liberty. All civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
"In 1973, the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade prohibited states from banning abortion prior to fetus viability, securing a woman's right to access the procedure throughout the U.S. In recent years, a number of states have enacted measures such as waiting periods and restrictions on clinics that effectively reduce access to abortion without explicitly outlawing it."
All in an outrageously shameless effort to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all. Nazis. Traitors. Goddamned un-American.
"However, with a Republican White House and increasingly conservative Supreme Court, some believe that the days of Roe v. Wade may be numbered. During a 2016 presidential debate, then-candidate Donald Trump said he foresaw the ruling being overturned if he were elected because he planned to appoint pro-life judges. He stressed the issue again in a speech before the 2018 midterm elections."
A nazi Court dominated by five Republican national socialists, fascists, nazis. If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. The nazi element remains too goddamned stupid, hopelessly ignorant to understand this. 'Can fix ignorant, can't fix stupid.' ... Right, Mr. 'President?'
"So far, the Supreme Court has not agreed to hear a direct challenge to Roe. But if it eventually does so, and if a majority of the justices vote to overturn that precedent, it would be up to individual states to determine whether to restrict or outlaw abortion within its borders. Measures like the ones seen in Alabama and West Virginia are essentially preemptive, said Wolfe-Sisson; in the event that Roe v. Wade is dismantled, abortion will automatically become illegal in Alabama."
Nazi Alabama. Nazi America. Revolution doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. Direct assault on all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Fascist police-state quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.
"West Virginians voted for language that said the state constitution does not "secure or protect" a woman's right to abortion. The state ballot measure also outlawed the use of Medicaid dollars to pay for abortion except in the case of rape, incest and life endangerment, said Patricia Puertas Rucker, a Republican state senator in West Virginia and lead sponsor of the amendment."
Another Republican nazi. These clueless national socialists present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Traitors. Blatant, direct, concerted attack on liberty. Un-American. Right Wing and nazi.
"I believe that that's something that people who have conscious objection shouldn't have to pay for," Rucker told CBS News. Medicaid is jointly funded by states and the federal government. Federal law doesn't allow states to bar Medicaid funding for abortions in cases of rape, incest or if the mother's life is in danger."
If by the above reasoning taxpayers should not be forced to fund abortions, then why the hell should they be forced to line the pockets of corporate war profiteers? Every goddamned war since Korea was waged to line the pockets of the corporate management suite. Blood money.
Even Afghanistan could have been avoided had the State Department conducted full background checks on the 9/11 terrorists and heeded warnings of the flight schools the bastards wished only to learn how to fly straight and level, not take off and land. Ferociously pointedly, why should those of us who object to this bullshit be forced to fund it, required to finance these very same war profiteers who line their pockets off the blood of our troops? Why? Goddamned blood money. Nazi America. Yet, it's okay for religious fascists to use the very same bogus excuse to deny women the right to do with THEIR uterus as they damn well please? Unadulterated horse shit. Bogus double standard.
"In a written statement, Dawn Laguens, the executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, called the latest state efforts an "unprecedented effort to insert politics into health care."
Far, far worse than that. No more than a blatant, deliberate, concerted, naked attempt by the nazi element in our formerly great country to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us who strongly object to their goddamned traitorous nazism.
"West Virginia currently has laws on the books criminalizing abortion, attaching a penalty of three to 10 years of jail time for either performing or receiving the procedure. However, the laws are not in effect because both federal and state courts have found the state code to be unconstitutional."
Goddamned right. Worse? Treasonous. Direct concerted assault on all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Raw nazism.
Yet, not all in our formerly great country are goose stepping along with the nazi element:
"Meanwhile in Oregon, voters on Tuesday went the other direction, rejecting a proposal that would have cut state insurance funding for low-income women seeking abortions."
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10-5-18
More of the same. Continued attack on abortion rights. CBS News reports:
"In a victory for abortion-rights supporters, a federal judge struck down a Kentucky law that had put the state's last abortion clinic at risk of closing when Gov. Matt Bevin's administration cited it in a licensing fight with the facility. U.S. District Judge Greg Stivers, in a long-awaited ruling, said Friday that the two-decade-old law violates constitutionally protected due process rights. The law required Kentucky's abortion clinics to have written agreements with a hospital and an ambulance service in case of medical emergencies. Stivers said the so-called transfer agreements "do not advance a legitimate interest" in promoting the health of women seeking abortions."
Not so cleverly designed by Republican national socialists to impose their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on women.
"The court has carefully reviewed the evidence presented in this case and concludes that the record is devoid of any credible proof that the challenged regulations have any tangible benefit to women's health," Stivers wrote in his 60-page ruling. "On the other hand, the regulations effectively eliminate women's rights to abortions in the state. Therefore, the challenged regulations are unconstitutional."
They are. Republican nazis will likely appeal. Aryan arrogance. Unbridled ignorance.
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9-14-18
Small victory. Texas Standard reports:
"U.S. District Court Judge David A. Ezra issued a permanent injunction on Texas’ law that requires the burial of fetal remains after abortions, but Texas has a chance to appeal and it’s doing so on the grounds that it’s protecting the dignity of human life."
Delusionally believe the State protects the 'dignity of human life' when it executes the innocent? When a jackbooted bastard in blue murders an innocent unarmed civilian? Does so with impunity?
True agenda of the nazis running Texas government? Anything at all to make it more difficult and expensive to get an abortion. In a determined, concerted effort to impose their outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
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7-20-18
Things do change occasionally. NPR reports:
"Evangelical minister Rob Schenck was once a militant leader of the anti-abortion movement, blockading access to clinics to prevent doctors and patients from entering. But after more than 20 years in the movement, Schenck experienced a change of heart. Though firm in his evangelicalism, he has disavowed his militant anti-abortion stance. "I live with regret," he says of some of his former tactics. "I remember women — some of them quite young — being very distraught, very frightened, some very angry. Over time, I became very callous to that." Schenck now sees abortion as a moral and ethical issue that should be resolved by "an individual and his or her conscience" — rather than by legislation."
Precisely, what the pro-choice side has been saying for decades.
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7-20-18
Republicans remain desperate to force their outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all. The following is a quote from Congressman Mike Conaway from the Conaway Chronicle:
"There is no life more vulnerable than the life of an unborn child. Unfortunately, many individuals disagree with this belief, and babies are suffering as abortions run rampant in this country. I feel very strongly that no federal dollars should go to any organization that performs abortions, and we're fortunate to have an Administration led by President Trump who agrees. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently proposed a new rule that would prevent Title X funding from going to any organization that performs abortions, including Planned Parenthood. The rule is currently open for public comment, where any citizen can share their thoughts with HHS and President Trump about the proposed rule before it is officially issued. If you'd like to weigh in on this important issue, you can do so here."
Ladies? The Congressman clearly believes you have no right to do with YOUR uterus as you damn well please. Readers are reminded no tax dollars go to Planned Parenthood or any other organization for abortions. Remains against federal law.
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7-13-18
The Trump nazi plans to make his nomination of the fifth Republican national socialist, that is, fascist, to the U.S. Supreme Court a prime time media extravaganza. Imagine that. Can't wait, can we? Not only will a woman's right to do with HER uterus as she damn well pleases be in jeopardy, so will all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
The Washington Post reports:
"by Nancy Northup July 8 at 2:08 PM
"The writer is president and chief executive of the Center for Reproductive Rights.
"On Monday, President Trump is expected to announce his nominee to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Given the president’s promise to appoint justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, it’s widely understood that his nominee will pose a clear danger to women’s reproductive rights. What most don’t realize is that everyone’s personal-liberty rights are on the line.
"The constitutional framework of Roe is about far more than abortion. It’s about rearing our children without unwarranted government interference. It’s about choosing whom we want to marry. It’s about deciding with whom we want to create a home. It’s about the right to use contraception. It’s about what the Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey explained is the “promise of the Constitution that there is a realm of personal liberty which the government may not enter.”
The presumptive Nazi 5 on the Court intend a frontal assault on all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. These pieces of crap are not 'conservatives.' They're fascists. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
"In deciding Roe, the court looked to cases in the 1920s on the right of parents to educate their children according to their values and ideas, and the justices drew a line to landmark decisions affirming the right to use contraception and, in 1967’s Loving v. Virginia, the right to marry someone of a different race."
Precedent is, and remains, key to jurisprudence.
"That line led to the conclusion, enshrined in Roe and elaborated on in Casey, that liberty cannot exist if we are not free to make decisions about our lives, bodies and health free from government interference."
Cornerstone of liberty. Not so to Republican nazis, however. To them, liberty is having the freedom to do what you're told. ... What they tell you to do.
"Just as Roe rested on past liberty decisions, it became the basis for future ones — including outside the area of women’s reproductive rights. The court cited Roe and Casey’s reasoning in a broad range of subsequent cases. Those include landmark decisions protecting liberty rights, as in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which held that the government cannot criminalize intimate sexual conduct between same-sex partners, and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), guaranteeing same-sex couples the right to marry. This line of precedent protects us all, and a post-Kennedy Supreme Court could not sever it without threatening to destroy our “realm of personal liberty.” Overturn Roe, and that protected realm vanishes."
Precisely, the intention of Republican nazis who remain hell bent on imposing their outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all.
"The short-term impact would bring a drastic reduction in access to reproductive health care for millions of women. If Roe fell tomorrow, as many as 23 states could immediately ban abortion. As in the days before Roe, the harm would fall hardest on young and low-income women, women of color and anyone unable to travel out of state to seek access to abortion care that was once available closer to home. The long-term harm would not be limited to women who need abortion care. Invite the government to exert control over a woman’s body, and invite tyranny over our most intimate and personal life decisions."
Trump's Fourth Reich. As an unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. ... Hear the rumble?
"That’s why it’s time to stop talking about Roe as a stand-alone case. The Supreme Court can’t just negate a woman’s right to abortion without unraveling protections for all. You can have either the president’s promise about overturning Roe or the Constitution’s promise of a realm of personal liberty. You can’t have both."
As expected, Trump has nominated a bona fide national socialist who will certainly legislate his outrageously perverse ideological and religious views from the bench. Sadly, nominated to the seat vacated by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. NPR reports:
"President Trump has chosen Brett Kavanaugh to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. If confirmed, Trump's choice would solidify the high court's conservative majority and continue the president's push to shift the federal bench to the right."
These nazis on the Court are not 'conservatives.' They're fascists. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.
Kavanaugh is well to the right of Kennedy, who in the last year has joined the four other Republican nazis on the Court in nearly all their decisions. Certainly, was no swing vote in the last session.
"At 53, Kavanaugh is relatively young. The president has said he wants a nominee who could serve on the high court for decades. He is a connected Washington insider with roots in politics and has written more than 300 opinions in the 12 years he has been on the D.C. Circuit."
His political connections will certainly enable the Trump nazi and other Republicans to make sure this fascist son of a bitch continues to march in goose step with Trump's transition from the de facto fascist police-state we now live in to the Fourth Reich.
Not surprisingly, Kavanaugh accepted the nomination lying like hell:
"My judicial philosophy is straightforward," he said. "A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law. A judge must interpret statutes as written and a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent."
Precisely, what no Republican nazi currently on the Court to date has done. Not one of them. None of them are independent. Determinedly legislate their perverse ideological and religious views from the bench. Ignore, bastardize, distort history, tradition, precedent in a concerted effort to eviscerate liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
Ignore the fact, the Founders intended the Constitution to be a living, breathing template for our democratic republic. Precisely, why they gave the judiciary discretion to interpret this template, created all branches and levels of government as a check and balance on one another. The Founders did this knowing they could not anticipate how circumstances would change long after they were gone.
Instead, the Republican nazis on the Court choose to narrowly interpret this template in as restrictive fashion as possible to impose their perverse ideological and religious views on all. To eviscerate liberty. March in goose step as our formerly great country has progressively embraced fascism with the rise of McCarthyism in the 50s, demise of the Warren Court in the 60s, progressive nazification of the Court under Nixon, up through Ford, then Reagan, both Bush presidents, and now this nazi son of a bitch currently occupying the Oval Office. While Democrats were effectively out to lunch.
During the last six decades, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties have been under vicious attack. Women have had their right to do with their uterus as they damn well please progressively infringed on by the nazi element in our formerly great country. 'Right to work' laws eviscerated organized labor. Consequently, the middle class remains nearly extinct. Winner-take-all. Zero-sum game.
Under a solid 5-nazi Republican majority on the Court, expect the right to abortion further eviscerated. Gay rights and the LGBTQ community will certainly suffer a loss in gains made. Ability to get into court to sue will be further abrogated, eviscerated as the cost of legal counsel continues to be further and further out of reach for most of us.
Expect the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue to continue shaking down, abusing, murdering innocent unarmed civilians with impunity. There's little redress now in the system. Expect even less as the Court continues to nazify with five solid Republican national socialists, fascists on the bench.
Think Trump didn't choose this bastard for a highly personal reason? Wake up. NPR reports:
"The Starr Report to Congress "outlined information that potentially constituted grounds for the impeachment of President Clinton," as the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary notes. And yet, Kavanaugh wrote this in 2009 in the Minnesota Law Review about presidential investigations, which is sure to please President Trump:
"Even the lesser burdens of a criminal investigation — including preparing for questioning by criminal investigators — are time-consuming and distracting. Like civil suits, criminal investigations take the President's focus away from his or her responsibilities to the people. And a President who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as President."
Far, far more to come as this pending catastrophe progresses.
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7-13-18
Delusionally believe taxpayers haven't been looted in the ongoing abortion court fight by indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton? Texas Standard reports:
"The State of Texas is currently facing lawsuits over some of its abortion laws. Those that have been challenged include House Bill 2, which restricts access to abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, and requires abortion clinics to maintain the same medical facilities as hospitals. The state is also being sued over the Fetal Burial Law, which requires clinics to bury remains from abortions and miscarriages."
Think there won't be more?
"To defend these laws, the Texas attorney general has paid anti-abortion advocates $500,000 to serve as expert witnesses in federal court. But the state has gotten very little bang for those taxpayer bucks, according to an analysis by The Houston Chronicle’s Alejandra Matos."
They're not experts.
"Matos says it isn’t abnormal for both sides of the abortion debate to use expert witnesses. But Paxton’s picks show up consistently in abortion cases, and they are usually marked by vehement anti-abortion views."
Imagine that. Paid to aid Paxton in imposing his perverse ideological and religious views.
“They often aren’t medical doctors,” Matos says. “They’re ethicists, or lawyers, and they’re people who have very strong personal views and have voiced them in the public.”
Couldn't be, could it?
"While Matos notes that bias is likely to arise from testimony on both sides, what sets the attorney general’s experts apart is the testimony they give. Matos says that the anti-abortion experts are offering mostly giving their opinion as testimony, rather than scientific expertise."
What are these bastards doing on the stand? Why are taxpayers looted to pay for this shit?
“On seven of the experts we know for sure that they completely disregarded or gave extremely little weight to their testimony,” Matos says. “There was one expert, a philosopher, who was talking about the benefits of burying fetal remains, and Judge [Sam] Sparks stopped him in the middle and said, ‘look, this is a philosopher, this isn’t going to fly in my court.’”
Sparks is indeed the very same judge who found that a rape had indeed occurred in the Llano County Jail about 21 years ago, but awarded no cash damages due to sovereign immunity statutes. Consequently, the former Sheriff, Jailers, and the taxpayers were off the hook. No justice in Nazi Llano County.
"This approach has not helped the attorney general, as he defends the state in court. Usually, much of this testimony is not taken into consideration when the case is decided. Matos reached out to the attorney general’s office and found that his staff is confident in its choices, saying that their experts are highly qualified and that abortion-rights-supporting experts are biased."
Question to be asked is when is the indicted Attorney General finally going to trial?
Above quotes are courtesy of a most gifted, insightful writer, Kevin Wheeler.
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6-29-18
Two more national socialist Republican-based U.S. Supreme Court rulings. Both, dire threat to a democratic republic, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. NPR reports:
"In a 5-4 ruling that gave broad leeway to presidential authority, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump's travel ban, which barred nearly all travelers from five mainly Muslim countries."
Raw nazism from a deeply divided, pathetically fascist U.S. Supreme Court. Not a good day for liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. What this ruling does is rubber stamp actions of an out of control nazi dictator following in the footsteps of his mentors, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini. Sadly, just the beginning.
"The president's proclamation was "squarely within the scope of Presidential authority under the INA,'" the court wrote in its majority opinion, referring to the Immigration and Nationality Act."
Appalling rubber stamp of Trump's Fourth Reich.
"Today's Supreme Court ruling is a tremendous victory for the American People and the Constitution," President Trump said in a statement."
The hell it is. Quite the opposite. A victory for a nazi dictator quickly transitioning the de facto fascist police-state we already live in to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. ... As the revolution doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.
As our formerly great country continues to deteriorate, comes apart at the seams. As all civil and constitutional rights and liberties come under ferocious, vicious attack by the increasingly insidious cancer overtaking this nation. Nazism ala Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, circa 1933. Worst yet to come as this cancer continues to insinuate itself.
"The Supreme Court has upheld the clear authority of the President to defend the national security of the United States. In this era of worldwide terrorism and extremist movements bent on harming innocent civilians, we must properly vet those coming into our country."
The words of this lunatic nazi remain chillingly reminiscent of Adolf Hitler shortly before and after he took power in Germany. Far worse is yet to come. Wake up. Just the beginning. Great evil unleashed.
"This ruling is also a moment of profound vindication following months of hysterical commentary from the media and Democratic politicians who refuse to do what it takes to secure our border and our country."
More horse shit coming from a lunatic unfit for office. This country is under no dire threat from immigrants. They enter this country and engage in less criminal activity than American citizens. Trump remains a congenital liar. What he says is simply not true.
"As long as I am President, I will defend the sovereignty, safety, and security of the American People, and fight for an immigration system that serves the national interests of the United States and its citizens. Our country will always be safe, secure, and protected on my watch."
Wake up, readers. Direct opposite has occurred. Greatest threat to this country is no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element. It is all branches and levels of government. Out of control government that's bastardized the Constitution, eviscerated all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. You're no longer free. Free to do what you're told.
Looted to line the pockets of your corporate masters who in turn line the pockets of their bought and paid for government lackeys. Egregiously f--ked hard in the ass without the Vaseline, K-Y. Yet, remain too stupid to understand profound depth of this concerted, determined ass f--king.
Your ignorance, profound cowardice is appalling.
"Sonia Sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent, and reaction to the ruling was swift. "This ruling will go down in history as one of the Supreme Court's great failures," said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, in a statement. "It repeats the mistakes of the Korematsu decision upholding Japanese-American imprisonment and swallows wholesale government lawyers' flimsy national security excuse for the ban instead of taking seriously the president's own explanation for his actions. "It is ultimately the people of this country who will determine its character and future. The court failed today, and so the public is needed more than ever. We must make it crystal clear to our elected representatives: If you are not taking action to rescind and dismantle Trump's Muslim ban, you are not upholding this country's most basic principles of freedom and equality."
The Washington Post reports:
"Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a stinging rebuttal, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And she read part of it in a dramatic moment on the bench. She highlighted the president’s campaign statements calling for a “complete and total shutdown” of entry into the United States by Muslims. She noted the anti-Muslim videos the president shared on Twitter, including one titled “Muslim destroys a statue of Virgin Mary!” “Take a brief moment and let the gravity of those statements sink in,” she said. “And then remember,” Sotomayor added, that the statements and tweets were spoken or written “by the current president of the United States.”
A nazi following in the footsteps of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini. Exigent threat to a democratic republic. All civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
"Sotomayor repeatedly called out the president by name in her lengthy statement and said the majority’s decision “repeats the tragic mistakes of the past” and “tells members of minority religions” in the United States that “they are outsiders.” The court, she said, “blindly accepts the government’s invitation to sanction an openly discriminatory policy” and is essentially “replacing one gravely wrong decision with another.”
Raw nazism.
"Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Elena Kagan also dissented. In her passionate dissent, Sotomayor compared the decision to Korematsu v. United States, in which the Supreme Court in 1944 upheld the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II."
Great evil.
In a second ruling, the Supreme Court again shit on the right of women to do with their uterus as they damn well please. NPR reports:
"The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision upholding a California law requiring anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers to more fully disclose what they are."
Nazis on the Court clearly have no issue with deception practiced by religious zealots desperate to force their perverse ideological and religious views on others.
"The case pitted the right to know against the right of free speech. On one side are self-identified "crisis pregnancy centers" that seek to prevent abortions and on the other side is the state of California, which enacted a 2015 law to ensure that these centers do not intentionally or unintentionally mislead the women who walk through their doors."
Nazis on the Court desperate to impose their perverse religious views on all clearly value lies over truth when it comes to 'truth in advertising' vis a vis "crisis pregnancy centers."
"In a 5-4 ruling, the court said the centers are likely to succeed in their claim that the law violates the First Amendment. That overturns an earlier decision by the Ninth Circuit upholding the law and sends the case back for further consideration."
What this Court has effectively done is affirm the right of religious nazis to lie like hell, determinedly manipulate and deceive those entering "crisis pregnancy centers."
"Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas said the law "targets speakers, not speech, and imposes an unduly burdensome disclosure requirement that will chill their protected speech."
That is, the right to lie like hell to those entering "crisis pregnancy centers." No more than legalized 'deceptive trade practices.' LOL.
"Supporters of the California law called the state's effort nothing more than seeking "truth in advertising." But anti-abortion pregnancy centers saw the law as unconstitutional, compelling speech that turns them into mouthpieces for a government message they disagree with."
That is, they now have the right, courtesy of the nazi Supreme Court, to lie like hell to those who are pregnant and enter one of their facilities. Nazi justice in a de facto fascist police-state quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.
"Reacting to the high court ruling, NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue said in a statement that the court "turned its back on women" and highlighted the high stakes for future decisions. "One vote made all the difference today, and it could also be the only thing between upholding Roe or outlawing legal abortion in America," Hogue said. "Fake women's health centers, with the rest of the well-funded and well-connected anti-choice movement, have been working towards this moment for decades. They have carefully put the pieces together — passing radical and unconstitutional abortion bans, stacking the lower courts — because they are counting on Trump's Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade. Roe is at greater risk than ever before."
It is. So is an unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. ... Hear the rumble? If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. The nazi element in our formerly great country cannot understand reproductive freedom is far more than a lady keeping her panties on, legs crossed. A man keeping it in his pants. What we're seeing coming from this Court is raw nazism.
Coup de grace? LOL. Get this:
"Abortion-rights opponents praised the decision as a victory for free speech."
Appalling, galling horse shit. What it is is the freedom to lie like hell to someone pregnant, seeking an abortion. Nazi America. A Supreme Court infested with Republican nazis. Too bad Democrats have lost themselves since November 22, 1963. Liberty? What's that?
The Washington Post reports:
"Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote the dissent for the court’s liberals, and read parts of it from the bench. He said the court has repeatedly upheld state laws that provide a script for doctors when they are counseling women who seek abortion. “If a state can lawfully require a doctor to tell a woman seeking an abortion about adoption services, why should it not be able, as here, to require a medical counselor to tell a woman seeking prenatal care or other reproductive healthcare about childbirth and abortion services?” Breyer wrote. “As the question suggests, there is no convincing reason to distinguish between information about adoption and information about abortion in this context,” Breyer wrote. He was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. The California legislature said some centers trick women into thinking they provide contraceptive services, including abortion, and sometimes delay a woman until it is too late to schedule an abortion."
Nazi Right continues to take over our formerly great country. All civil and constitutional rights and liberties in dire jeopardy. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.
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6-22-18
Think Republican nazism isn't preventing women from obtaining an abortion? ABC News reports:
"The legal restrictions for getting an abortion in certain states are getting tighter and tighter, but new laws aren’t the only obstacle women face when they are looking to end a pregnancy. Across the country, there are simply fewer places for them to go."
Thanks to Republican nazis who are more than willing to dictate to women what they can and cannot do with their uterus.
"Seven states now have only one abortion clinic: West Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Arkansas, thanks to the Supreme Court's decision not to reverse the lower court’s ruling there. That means women seeking abortions may need to drive hours to be able to access care."
Nazi America. Where Republican fascists dictate to the 'little lady' what she can and cannot do with HER uterus.
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6-22-18
Good news. Texas Standard reports:
"A group of women’s clinics called Whole Woman’s Health Alliance and six nonprofits providing abortion-related services says that Texas’ restrictions on abortion availability violate women’s due process rights under the Constitution. They filed suit in federal court on Thursday against state officials, citing Texas’ licensing, parental notification, waiting period, ultrasound and other requirements. Amy Hagstrom Miller is the founder and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, which is leading this court challenge. She says a 2016 case her group won at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 paved the way for the new suit. “In the majority decision…a new standard was set, where the Supreme Court says that the government needs to be able to prove any restrictions that they put on women’s access to abortion are backed up by scientific fact and medical evidence,” Hagstrom Miller says."
About time. Stick it to the nazi bastards.
"Attorney General Ken Paxton said the restrictions Whole Woman’s Health is challenging are “common sense measures that protect women’s lives and reproductive health.”
The AG is no more than a disingenuous liar. Pointed question. When the hell is this indicted piece of human excrement finally going to trial?
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6-8-18
The following is another appalling ruling by a nazi U.S. Supreme Court. CBS News reports:
"The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration over the American Civil Liberties Union in the case of a pregnant immigrant teen who was able to obtain an abortion after filing a lawsuit. After months of inaction on the case, the court Monday vacated a lower court decision favoring the teen, who was held in government custody after illegally entering the country. The justices ruled that was the proper course because the case became moot after the teen obtained an abortion. Government lawyers had complained that ACLU lawyers didn't alert them that the teen's abortion would take place earlier than expected. The administration said that deprived its lawyers of the chance to ask the Supreme Court to block the procedure, at least temporarily. The ACLU has defended its attorneys."
A crock. Here's the problem. The Washington Post reports:
"The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a lower court’s decision that allowed an undocumented immigrant teenager to obtain an abortion over the protests of the Trump administration. The action, which came in an unsigned opinion without noted dissents, throws out a precedent that might allow other teenagers in the same circumstance to obtain an abortion. But the court did not agree with a request by the president’s lawyers that American Civil Liberties Union lawyers who represented the girl be disciplined for their actions in the case."
The Court got it half right.
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6-8-18
More Nazi Right bullshit debunked. NBC reports:
"Abortions don’t cause depression, although women who have depression and anxiety may be more likely to have abortions, researchers reported Wednesday."
Forget? There's a stark difference between correlation, -- and cause and effect.
"The study is the latest to show no evidence that abortion causes depression. Policies that cite damage to mental health as a reason to restrict access to abortion are not based in fact, the researchers wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s JAMA Psychiatry. “The repercussions of abortion for mental health have been used to justify state policies that limit access to abortion in the United States,” the team, led by Dr. Julia Steinberg of the Department of Family Science at the University of Maryland, wrote."
Anything at all to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus.
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6-8-18
A good day for abortion rights. NBC reports:
"A judge agreed Friday to temporarily block the most restrictive abortion law in the country from taking effect in Iowa next month under an agreement between lawyers for the state and abortion rights groups. Attorneys for the state and Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds said during a court hearing that they agreed to prevent the law from taking effect on July 1 after discussions with the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, Planned Parenthood Federation of American and the Emma Goldman Clinic. The advocacy groups argue the law is unconstitutional and have filed a lawsuit to block the law, which bans most abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected. An attorney representing the state said the goal now is to quickly get the case before a judge so the state can argue the law is constitutional."
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6-1-18
U.S. Supreme Court again disgraces itself. CBS News reports:
"The Supreme Court is allowing Arkansas to put in effect restrictions on how abortion pills are administered. Critics of a challenged state law say it could effectively end medication abortions in the state."
Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"The justices did not comment Tuesday in rejecting an appeal from the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Arkansas that asked the court to review an appeals court ruling and reinstate a lower court order that had blocked the law from taking effect. The law says doctors who provide abortion pills must hold a contract with another physician who has admitting privileges at a hospital and who would agree to handle complications. The law is similar to a provision in Texas law that the Supreme Court struck down in 2016. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the court order barring enforcement of the law, but put its ruling on hold while Planned Parenthood appealed to the Supreme Court. The legal fight over the law is not over, but the state is now free to enforce the law at least for the time being."
The Court is kowtowing to the Trump nazi, his henchmen, and the goddamned Nazi Right in our formerly great country.
"Planned Parenthood has said that if the law stands, Arkansas would be the only state where women would not have access to a pair of drugs that end pregnancies: mifepristone, which makes it difficult for a fetus to attach to the uterine wall, and misoprostol, which causes the body to expel it, similar to a miscarriage. The organization offers pills to end pregnancies at clinics in Fayetteville and Little Rock but says it cannot find any Arkansas obstetrician willing to handle hospital admissions. Preventing women from obtaining medication abortions would create an undue burden on their right to an abortion, Planned Parenthood says. Undue burden is the standard set by the Supreme Court to measure whether restrictions go too far in limiting women who want an abortion."
NPR reports:
"The Supreme Court rejected an appeal of a restrictive abortion law in Arkansas that puts heavy limits on medication abortions. The Supreme Court sent it back down to a lower court. With no dissenters — and the law being similar to a Texas one the court struck down — NPR's Nina Totenberg points out this is likely not the end of the line for this case. Planned Parenthood brought the case and can still appeal to a federal judge to block the law. "Arkansas is now shamefully responsible for being the first state to ban medication abortion," Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement. "This dangerous law also immediately ends access to safe, legal abortion at all but one health center in the state. If that's not an undue burden, what is? This law cannot and must not stand. We will not stop fighting for every person's right to access safe, legal abortion." The law requires providers of medication abortions to have an agreement with a doctor with hospital admitting privileges. Planned Parenthood says doctors in Arkansas who provide medication abortions have been unable to obtain those privileges."
Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. Forget? If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. Nazis on the Right seem to have gutlessly forgotten reproductive freedom is far more than a man keeping it in his pants, women keeping their panties on, legs crossed.
"The law was initially blocked by a federal district court judge in Arkansas, but a three-judge panel at the court of appeals in St. Louis vacated the decision. If the ban permanently goes into effect, two of the state's three facilities that perform abortions would very likely close and surgical abortion would be the only option for women in the state."
Consider the following insanity, abject lie:
"This is very good news for people who care about the safety of women in Arkansas," said Family Council Executive Director Jerry Cox in a statement, adding, "This is a pro-life victory not only for the women of Arkansas, but for women across the nation. I'm sure other states will be looking at Arkansas and considering following our example."
What example? Raw nazism? State ownership of a woman's uterus? A medication abortion is safer than a surgical abortion. A surgical abortion is far safer than undergoing childbirth. Cox is a goddamned deluded liar.
"The group notes that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has to make the law binding before it goes into effect. "It is my understanding," Cox said, "that opponents of the law can hurry to Federal Court and ask Judge Christine Baker, the federal judge who initially declared the law unconstitutional, to issue some type of injunction barring enforcement of the law. This could delay enforcement, but likely not prevent it."
Are you religious nazis deliberately trying to provoke the unthinkable? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming?
The Washington Post reports:
"The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a challenge to a restrictive Arkansas law that for now will end the use of medication abortions in the state and could close two of the state’s three abortion clinics. The law requires doctors who provide medication abortions to have a contract with a specialist who has hospital admitting privileges. Abortion providers say the requirement is burdensome and unnecessary because complications are extremely rare from the two-pill regimen that is used in the first nine weeks of pregnancy, and any that do arise can be handled by a local emergency room or hospital."
-- Anything to successfully dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus. Raw nazism.
“As attorney general, I have fully defended this law at every turn and applaud the Supreme Court’s decision against Planned Parenthood today,” said Attorney General Leslie Rutledge. “Protecting the health and well-being of women and the unborn will always be a priority. We are a pro-life state and always will be as long as I am attorney general.”
Wake up, Counselor. You have egregiously, traitorously failed to uphold the United States Constitution, First Amendment Establishment Clause. You determinedly place women with unwanted pregnancies in great danger. Remain so deluded, imbued with phony religious zeal, you ignore the fact childbirth is far more dangerous than abortion, either drug-induced or performed surgically. Again, anything to impose your phony religious and ideological views on all. Dictate to the 'little lady' what she can and cannot do with HER uterus.
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5-25-18
Gag rule revisited. NPR reports:
"The White House will announce Friday that it is reviving a rule similar to one proposed during the Reagan administration barring groups that provide abortions or refer patients for the procedure from receiving federal funding, a Trump administration official speaking on background tells NPR. The proposed regulation would apply to Title X, the federal program that provides at least $260 million annually for contraception, screenings for sexually transmitted diseases and other reproductive health services to millions of low-income people, according to the official, who asked not to be named."
Once again, the Republican Nazi Right is determined to force its perverse religious views on all.
"The new rule, expected to be announced by the Department of Health and Human Services, would also bar federal funds for any group that refers patients for abortions. Abortion-rights supporters have described the proposal as a "gag rule" and say it would undermine reproductive health care for low-income patients."
Nazi Right couldn't care less.
"On NPR's Morning Edition on Friday, Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood, told Steve Inskeep: "I think, really, the chilling thing about what they're proposing now is it removes the guarantee that women in particular are getting full and accurate information about their health care from their doctor. This is absolutely extraordinary that we would now be gagging doctors and health care providers from giving women their legal information and even referring them for potentially livesaving health care."
The Republican way. Raw nazism. Where the hell are the Democrats?
"She said the rule change would mean that if a pregnant women with cancer came in, "her health care provider could refuse to tell her that abortion is legal, that it's even an option." In a statement from Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the group said it would not "stand by while our basic health rights are stripped away." "This is an attempt to take away women's basic rights, period. Under this rule, people will not get the health care they need. They won't get birth control, cancer screenings, STD testing and treatment, or even general women's health exams," Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens said. "Everyone has the right to information about their health care — including information about safe, legal abortion, and every woman deserves the best medical care and information, no matter how much money she makes or where she lives. No matter what. They won't get it under this rule," she said."
Not in Nazi America. Trump's Fourth Reich.
"However, anti-abortion-rights groups praised the proposed change. Students for Life of America, which says it has members on more than 1,200 U.S. university and high school campuses, said in a statement: "These changes are long overdue as abortion is not healthcare or birth control and many women want natural healthcare choices rather than hormone-induced changes," the group's president, Kristan Hawkins, said. "The Trump Administration has every right to require that Title X programs focus on healthcare, not abortion, and to keep such programs aimed at helping women make a plan for a family outside of the facilities designed to making sure women don't have a family at all."
These bastards speak for you, ladies? Know what's best for the "'lil' woman?"
"The rule, similar to one first proposed during the Reagan era, was hit by legal challenges from Planned Parenthood and other groups and never fully implemented. It was later rescinded by President Bill Clinton. Abortion-rights groups are likely to take to the courts again in efforts to stop the latest change, if the proposal goes forward."
Sue the living shit out of these goddamned Aryan arrogant nazis.
"This 'gag rule' is not only unconscionable, but it undermines medical ethics by forcing health care professionals to withhold accurate and timely medical information from patients," Dr. Jenn Conti, a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health, said in a statement Thursday."
The Republican Nazi Right element cannot, will not, be confused with the truth. Too damned stupid.
CBS News reports:
"Abortion is a legal medical procedure. Doctors' groups and abortion rights supporters say a ban on counseling women trespasses on the doctor-patient relationship. They point out that federal family planning funds cannot be currently used to pay for abortion procedures."
Nazis can't, won't be confused with the truth.
"Abortion opponents say a taxpayer-funded family planning program should have no connection whatsoever to abortion."
Why not? Forget? A religious issue, not a medical one. Who the hell are these bastards to force their perverse religious views on others? Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"The notion that you would withhold information from a patient does not uphold or preserve their dignity," said Jessica Marcella of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, which represents family planning clinics. "I cannot imagine a scenario in which public health groups would allow this effort to go unchallenged." She said requiring family planning clinics to be physically separate from facilities in which abortion is provided would disrupt services for women across the country."
No question. Precisely, the intention of the Nazi Right.
NBC reports:
"The Trump administration moved forward with a proposal Friday that would effectively ban Planned Parenthood and similar organizations from providing abortion and related services under the same roof as operations funded by federal family-planning grants, according to an administration official.
"We thank President Trump for taking action to disentangle taxpayers from the abortion business," Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, a group that provides political support for candidates who oppose abortion. "This is a major victory which will energize the grass roots as we head into the critical midterm elections.The proposed rule change — which was submitted to the Office of Management and Budget by the Health and Human Services Department Friday morning — will drop a requirement that Title X grant recipients provide abortion counseling to patients. But it will stop short of giving abortion foes one provision they sought: a gag rule prohibiting recipients from discussing abortion with pregnant women.
"The proposed rule could hit many of the front-line health providers for the nation’s poorest. About two-thirds of people who visit family planning services are below the federal poverty level, according to the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association."
Forget? The Republican way. Again, where are the Democrats? Neither party is worth a shit.
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5-18-18
What took so long? NPR reports:
"Less than two weeks after Iowa adopted a law banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU of Iowa have filed suit, seeking to prevent the law from taking effect. Scheduled to take effect on July 1, Iowa's law is one of the most restrictive abortion measures in the U.S. The measure was signed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on May 4, days after it was approved by the state legislature. As member station Iowa Public Radio has reported, the legislation imposes a ban on "most abortions after about six weeks into a pregnancy, with some exceptions for rape, incest, fetal abnormalities, and to save the life of the mother." Critics say that the law would make abortions illegal in cases where women may not yet have realized that they're pregnant. Iowa's current law allows most abortions up to 20 weeks into a pregnancy."
Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"Not only is this law blatantly unconstitutional — it's extremely harmful to women," Planned Parenthood said in a statement about the lawsuit. The group says that Iowa's legislature ignored the legal rights guaranteed in the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, as well as Iowa's own constitution."
Nazi America.
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5-11-18
Nazism remains alive and well in the not-so-great state of Iowa. NPR reports:
"Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed one of the country's most restrictive abortion bills into law on Friday."
What nazi wouldn't?
"The so-called "heartbeat" legislation bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat has been detected, at about six weeks of pregnancy. Exceptions are made in cases of rape, incest or medical emergency."
'Generous' of these nazi's, isn't it?
"Republican state lawmakers worked late into the night this week to push the measure forward. During Tuesday's debate in the Statehouse, Rep. Sandy Salmon said, "A baby has become something we can throw away. This bill says it's time to change the way we think about unborn life."
Time for you goddamned nazis to stop imposing your outrageously perverse religious views on the rest of us by statute.
"I understand that not everyone will agree with this decision," Reynolds said in a written statement. "But if death is determined when a heart stops beating, then doesn't a beating heart indicate life? For me, it is immoral to stop an innocent beating heart."
What is immoral, Governor, is forcing your outrageously perverse religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"No Democrats voted for the bill. "This unconstitutional bill is nothing but a thinly veiled attack on Iowa women's most basic rights and freedoms — every woman deserves the fundamental right to make decisions about her own body with her doctor," Democratic National Committee women's media director Elizabeth Renda said in a written statement."
Raw nazism. Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini. Think these bastards aren't wildly cheering on their fiery perches? Delusionally believe abortion was legal in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy?Wake up.
"At a rally on Friday at the Iowa State Capitol, Suzanna de Baca, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, said the organization would file a lawsuit against the governor if she signed the bill. The organization tweeted, "We will fight like hell with everything we have." The American Civil Liberties Union also announced plans to sue with the Planned Parenthood Action Fund."
Republican nazis remain an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
"Reynolds knew that her signature would be incendiary. "I understand and anticipate that this will likely be challenged in court and that courts may even put a hold on the law until it reaches the Supreme Court," she said in the statement. "However, this is bigger than just a law. This is about life. I am not going to back down from who I am or what I believe in."
This is about raw nazism. Determined abrogation of liberty in the concerted effort to impose one's outrageously perverse religious views on all. Sadly, this Governor and others who think like her are an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. When she placed her hand on the Bible to take the oath of office to uphold the United States Constitution, she lied.
ABC News reports:
"America's abortion clinics experienced a major upsurge in trespassing, obstruction and blockades by anti-abortion activists in 2017, according to an annual survey by an industry group. The National Abortion Federation report chronicled a litany of actions that ranged from coordinated trespassing efforts by abortion opponents, repeated brick-throwing at windows of a Cleveland clinic and an attempted bombing in Illinois. The report found that there was an overall decrease in acts of vandalism against clinics but a significant increase in activities aimed at disrupting services and intimidating patients and providers. Acts of trespassing increased from 247 in 2016 to 823 in 2017, instances of obstruction tripled to 1,704 and threats of death or other harm nearly doubled to 62."
Don't these goddamned hypocritical assholes claim to be Christians?
"The protesters are feeling emboldened by the political environment and seeing what they could get away with," said the federation's president, Vicki Saporta. "They want to make it more difficult to provide care, without going to very extreme forms of violence." The federation based its findings on monthly reports filed by its members who make up the vast majority of abortion clinics nationally. Many clinics across the U.S. routinely are targeted by legal picketing near their premises. But in some cases, the protests escalated and led to intervention by federal and law enforcement agencies."
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5-4-18
Trump's determined effort to force his outrageously perverse religious views vis a vis abortion are falling flat in Kenya. NPR reports:
"On January 23, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order that bans U.S. aid to any health organization in another country that provides abortions, advocates or makes referrals for the procedure.
"But health groups that aren't complying with the policy are already feeling the effects. The U.S. has pulled the plug on funds that had been previously allocated but not yet spent prior to the Trump order. "Marie Stopes can talk about its own sad stories of programs that have had to close," says Newman-Williams. Its outreach services, which were funded by USAID in countries like Uganda, Kenya, Senegal, Madagascar, Pakistan and Myanmar, have already stopped, she says.
"That's the case for Family Health Options Kenya (FHOK), Kenya's oldest provider of sexual and reproductive health services. FHOK disagreed with the terms of the "Mexico City" policy, which has been reinstated by every Republican president since Reagan first issued it.
Rather than comply with the Trump nazi, a Kenyan clinic is walking away from $2 million. Think there are no dire consequences?
"Though abortion is legal under Kenyan law, some pregnant women and girls who now lack access to medical care because of the funding cuts are resorting to unsafe measures out of desperation. They visit "curtain clinics," she says — secret spaces run by people who aren't nurses or doctors — or use household items like crochet needles to terminate their pregnancies. The loss of funding has also jeopardized essential services which are unrelated to abortion — like cancer screening of reproductive organs, treatment for HIV, post-natal care and vaccinations for diseases."
Think this isn't aggressive stupidity on the part of the Trump nazi and his fellow Republican national socialists who support this bullshit? Get this:
"The funding policy — called the "global gag rule" by its critics — is meant to discourage abortion. But a Stanford University study makes the case that restricting family planning funds can lead to more abortions. Researchers analyzed survey data in 20 African countries between 1994 and 2008 and found that rates of induced abortions rose sharply in countries that were most affected by the rule. A report by Population Action International found that when the policy was in effect between 1984 to 1992, "there was no evidence that the policy reduced the incidence of abortion."
Why would it?
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5-4-18
More of the same. Good to see lawsuits are being filed to fight the Trump nazi and his henchmen. NPR reports:
"Three national reproductive rights groups are suing the Trump administration, arguing that changes to the federal Title X program will put the health of millions of low-income patients at risk by prioritizing practices such as the rhythm method over comprehensive sexual health services. The two lawsuits being filed on Wednesday — one by Planned Parenthood and another by the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association and American Civil Liberties Union — focus on guidance issued in February by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Population Affairs."
We're returning to the cave. Courtesy, of the Trump nazi and his fellow Republican national socialists.
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4-27-18
Republican nazis continue to present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. -- While goddamned achingly useless Democrats remain out to lunch since November 22, 1963.
The Washington Post reports:
"A big Republican-wave election in 2010, after the election of Barack Obama, sharply increased GOP and conservative clout in states that remains today."
They're not 'conservative.' Goldwater was conservative. Not present-day Republicans. They're goddamned nazis. ... Right, Mr. 'President?'
"Since then, 33 states have passed laws to limit abortion."
In direct violation ofRoe v. Wade and the United States Constitution. Determined abrogation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. The Republican nazi element doesn't seem to understand if there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom of all.
Worse, GOP nazis remain too goddamned aggressively stupid to understand reproductive freedom is far, far, far more than a woman keeping her panties up and legs crossed. Supremely demonstrative of precisely how haughty, condescending, and patronizing the GOP nazi element determinedly remains. Ladies?
These goddamned fascists truly believe you're too damned stupid to make reproductive decisions for yourself. They'll make them for you. Wake up. Smarten up. Cut off your men until this shit ends. Let them 'pole vault' around until they smarten up. Join ranks. Force the issue. No longer tolerate this bullshit. ... Otherwise, get what you deserve. Forget? Stupidity and cowardice are always amply 'rewarded.'
"In Texas, an increasingly hostile environment for abortion providers contributed to the closures of 20 clinics, abortion rights groups said, about half those in the state. In the Republican strongholds of Mississippi and Kentucky, only one clinic is left."
Goddamned unconstitutional. Time to stand up to these hopelessly ignorant, achingly fascist, Republican assholes.
"In certain parts of the country, “It is unequivocally much harder now to access abortion care than any year since Roe v. Wade,” Northup said."
As intended by Republican nazis. In Texas and elsewhere, women seeking an abortion are forced by statute to endure a highly invasive trans-vaginal ultrasound. Doctors state it's medically unnecessary and consider it sexual assault they're forced by statute to impose on women seeking an abortion. Democrats continue to remain gutlessly out to lunch, -- since November 22, 1963.
"Elizabeth Nash, the state policy analyst at Guttmacher, said abortion services are increasingly out of reach for many women because of the distance they would have to travel to a clinic and cost. Women in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and other states have a far harder time than those in West Coast and in many parts of New England, where ending an unwanted pregnancy is easier and cheaper."
As precisely intended by Republican nazis. Exactly, why Adolf and Benito are 'high-fiving' from their fiery perches. Raw nazism in a goddamned de facto fascist police-state quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Wake up.
"About 75 percent of women who seek abortions are poor or have a low income, according to Guttmacher. “Roe has already fallen in the practical sense for many women,” said Copeland of the abortion rights group in Ohio. “They are forced to continue pregnancy, sometimes even if it’s not what is best for their health, because they cannot get past the travel and financial hurdles.”
As clearly intended by Republican nazis. ... Right, Mr. 'President?'
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4-20-18
Resistance. To insanity. NBC reports:
"Kentucky’s new law banning a common procedure for second-trimester abortions was temporarily put on hold when a federal judge signed an order setting the stage for another courtroom battle between the state and the American Civil Liberties Union. Under the joint consent order signed late Thursday, state officials agreed to take no action to enforce the law pending a ruling on the ACLU’s request for a preliminary injunction."
-- A fight against Republican nazis hellbent on forcing their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all. ... In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
“This brings immediate relief to women across Kentucky who have had their appointments canceled and care delayed if not pushed entirely out of reach,” Andrew Beck, senior staff attorney for the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, said Friday. “In the meantime, we’ll continue to fight this law and look forward to seeing the state in court.”
Nazism must be fought. Tooth and nail.
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4-13-18
When there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. According to the hopelessly ignorant, aggressively stupid Nazi Right, reproductive freedom is no more than ladies keeping their panties up, legs crossed. No longer flies in Nazi Mississippi, however. They're fighting back. Determined to stand up to this goddamned bullshit. NPR reports:
"Abortion-rights advocates are challenging dozens of Mississippi's abortion restrictions in federal court. The state's Republican governor, Phil Bryant, recently signed the most restrictive abortion law in the country, banning abortion after 15 weeks' gestation. Last month, in response to a suit from the Center for Reproductive Rights, a judge quickly moved to temporarily block the 15-week abortion ban in the state. A newly expanded lawsuit filed by CRR, the Mississippi Center for Justice and other local attorneys challenges what advocates say are unconstitutional barriers to Mississippi women seeking abortions. In the lawsuit, advocates call the new law "only the most recent salvo in what has been a 25-year legislative campaign to eliminate women's constitutional right to access abortion in Mississippi."
Outrageously, unconstitutional. Nazis forcing their perverse ideological and religious views on all by statute. Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"Among the restrictions named in the suit are a 24-hour waiting period for women seeking the procedure; a ban on physicians using telemedicine to provide abortion consultation or dispense medication abortions; and rules known as "TRAP" laws that abortion-rights attorneys say place unnecessarily cumbersome health and safety regulations on facilities that provide abortions (in 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down similar rules in Texas). The suit's lead plaintiff is Jackson Women's Health Organization, the only clinic providing abortions in Mississippi. Speaking with reporters by phone, clinic owner Diane Derzis said women are forced to make repeated trips to her facility to obtain the procedure. "These laws are designed for one purpose only, and that's to put us out of business as well as removing a woman's right to decide her future," Derzis said."
That's right. Precisely, the intention of these goddamned nazis.
"In a press release, CRR President and CEO Nancy Northup says there is a "coordinated strategy to undermine or eliminate women's constitutional rights to legal abortion with deceptive laws and unnecessary regulations" in Mississippi."
Not only there, but here in Nazi Texas as well. Elsewhere throughout our formerly great country. Raw nazism. Concerted attack on reproductive freedom by nazis determined to force their fascist religious views on all by statute.
"In Bryant's 2014 State of the State address, he announced a goal "to end abortion in Mississippi." When he signed the 15-week ban last month, Bryant tweeted, "I am committed to making Mississippi the safest place in America for an unborn child."
This man is no more than an outrageously haughty nazi determined to force his outrageously perverse religious views on all. This fascist son of a bitch is out of uniform. No swastika armband.
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3-23-18
The Nazi Right continues to shamelessly lie about efficacy and safety of abortion procedures in a desperate attempt to force its outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all. Think not? Wake up. NPR reports:
"Abortions in the United States are safe and have few complications, according to a landmark new study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine."
Religious fascists falsely claim otherwise in a desperate attempt to impose their perverse religious views on all.
"The report, called "The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States," examined the four major methods used for abortions — medication, aspiration, dilation and evacuation, and induction — and examined women's care from before they had the procedure through their follow-up care. "I would say the main takeaway is that abortions that are provided in the United States are safe and effective," says Ned Calonge, the co-chair of the committee that wrote the study. He's an associate professor of family medicine and epidemiology at the University of Colorado and CEO of The Colorado Trust. Calonge says the researchers found that about 90 percent of all abortions happen in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. And complications for all abortions are "rare," the report says."
The Right falsely claims otherwise. Restrictions imposed by Republican fascists, practicing medicine without a license, endanger women:
"But the report did find that state laws and regulations can interfere with safe abortions. "Abortion specific regulations in many states create barriers to safe and effective care," the report says. Calonge says those rules often have no basis in medical research."
They're based on the religious views of nazi legislators determined to impose their perverse ideological and religious views on all. Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"There are some requirements that require clinicians to misinform women of the health risks, that say you have to inform a woman that an abortion will increase her risk of breast cancer," he says. There is no evidence that breast cancer follows abortion, for example, but five states require doctors to tell women there is a link, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that focuses on reproductive and sexual health."
Doctors are forced to lie by nazi legislators determined to force their religious views on all in direct violation of their oaths of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution. Traitors.
"There are policies that mandate clinically unnecessary services like pre-abortion ultrasounds, separate inpatient counseling. There are required waiting periods," Calonge says."
All to make it as difficult and expensive as possible to obtain an abortion.
"According to Guttmacher, 27 states make women wait at least 24 hours for an abortion and 11 states require women to have an ultrasound before they can terminate their pregnancy."
Doctors object to transvaginal ultrasounds for two major reasons. First, they're unnecessary. The nazi element delusionally, condescendingly, patronizingly believes if a woman sees the image of the unborn child she will decline the abortion. Horse shit. They know exactly, precisely why they want the abortion before arriving. Have thought about it hard and long before seeking the procedure. Many refuse to view the image. Second, doctors object to these unnecessary ultrasounds because they are invasive, amount to sexual assault since they are not necessary.
"And there are state laws that dictate who can perform abortions and where they can do them. Some require all abortions to happen in the equivalent of a hospital or surgery center. Others require a doctor to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital."
All unnecessary. All imposed to make it as difficult and expensive as possible to obtain an abortion.
"The National Academies report says waiting periods and requirements for unnecessary tests can result in long delays because women may have to travel to get care and have trouble getting appointments. "Delays put the patient at greater risk of an adverse event," the report says."
Wouldn't want to confuse condescending, patronizing, goddamned Republican nazis with the truth, would we?
"Hal Lawrence, the CEO of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says the report settles the debate over abortion-restricting laws and regulations. "Those sorts of laws have been totally debunked," he says. He says the study shows most of those laws do nothing to improve women's health. "Abortion is safer when it's performed earlier in gestation," Lawrence says. "And so delaying and making people wait and go through hoops of unnecessary, extra procedures does not improve the safety. And actually by having them delay, can actually worsen the safety."
So when a religious nazi does all he or she can to abrogate the right to abortion, know full well it's not based on science, but on warped religion.
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3-23-18
Nazism is alive and well in Mississippi. In follow up to a recent edition, CBS News reports:
"Mississippi's governor has signed the nation's tightest abortion restrictions into law. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1510 on Monday afternoon. It becomes law immediately and bans most abortions after 15 weeks' gestation. Bryant has frequently said he wants Mississippi to be the "safest place in America for an unborn child."
This goddamned nazi and his equally fascist compadres remain more than willing to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"The law's only exceptions are if a fetus has health problems making it "incompatible with life" outside of the womb at full term, or if a pregnant woman's life or a "major bodily function" is threatened by pregnancy. Pregnancies resulting from rape and incest aren't exempted."
Re-read the last quote. Get raped and impregnated by anyone including a family member such as your father or brother, guess what? The nazi element in the Republican Party will force you to carry it to term in Nazi Mississippi.
"Abortion rights advocates are calling the law unconstitutional because it limits abortion before fetuses can live outside the womb. The owner of Mississippi's only abortion clinic opposes the law and has pledged to sue."
Wake up, ladies. Need to cross your legs in Mississippi, cut off your men until this insanity ends.
In follow up, CBS News reports:
"A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a new Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks' gestation -- the most restrictive abortion law in the United States. The law took effect as soon as Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed it Monday. The state's only abortion clinic, Jackson Women's Health Organization, quickly sued the state, arguing the law is unconstitutional because it bans abortion weeks before a fetus can survive outside the womb. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves heard arguments Tuesday before granting the clinic's immediate request for a temporary restraining order that would block the law during the legal fight."
Great news.
"The Supreme Court says every woman has a constitutional right to 'personal privacy' regarding her body," Reeves wrote in a brief decision that quoted previous legal rulings on abortion. "That right protects her choice 'to have an abortion before viability.' States cannot 'prohibit any woman from making the ultimate decision' to do so." Reeves said in court that the "ultimate question" is whether a state can ban abortion before viability. He asked: "Does the state have the right to trump the woman's right to have control over her decisions, over her body?" Reeves did not rule from the bench but granted the temporary restraining order about an hour later, noting that lawyers for the clinic said a woman who is at least 15 weeks pregnant was scheduled to have an abortion Tuesday afternoon."
More to come as this story develops.
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3-23-18
More of the same, only worse. NPR reports:
"After a federal judge put the brakes on Ohio's latest abortion restrictions, a group of Republican lawmakers is trying to take a step even further: banning all abortions in Ohio. Under a bill introduced Monday, HB 565, the state would prohibit abortions even in cases of rape, incest or danger to a woman's life. The proposal would allow criminal charges against both doctors and pregnant women seeking abortions and would characterize an "unborn human" as a person under Ohio's criminal code regarding homicide. That means abortions could be punishable by life in prison or even the death penalty."
All courtesy of nazi Republicans in the not-so-great state of Ohio.
"NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio criticized the proposal, calling it an obvious attempt to give the U.S. Supreme Court a chance to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision providing the right to have an abortion. "Anti-choice extremists from the Ohio Statehouse to the White House are lining up their dominoes to topple Roe v. Wade and punish those who seek or provide abortion care," said executive director Kellie Copeland in a press release. The measure was sponsored by state Reps. Ron Hood and Nino Vitale, and 18 more House Republicans signed on."
A raucous, boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Sieg Heil!, you nazi bastards. You're out of uniform. Where are your swastika armbands? Traitors.
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3-16-18
Moving backwards in Nazi Mississippi. NBC News reports:
"Mississippi lawmakers on Thursday passed what is likely to be the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, making the procedure illegal after 15 weeks of pregnancy."
Shameless nazis determined to force their outrageously perverse religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"The House voted 75-34 in favor of the measure, and Gov. Phil Bryant has said he will sign it."
Direct violation of their oaths of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution.
"The owner of Mississipi's only abortion clinic has said she'll sue if the bill goes into law — a move lawmakers not only know to expect, but seem to be encouraging, in hopes of eventually getting the nation's highest court to revisit its rulings and allow states to begin restricting abortion earlier in pregnancy. "It seems like a pretty simple bill designed to test the viability line that the Supreme Court has drawn," said David Forte, a law professor at Ohio's Cleveland State University."
If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom. Freedom to do what you're told is no freedom at all. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.
"An appeals court in 2015 struck down efforts in North Dakota to ban most abortions after six weeks, when a fetus develops a detectable heartbeat, and in Arkansas after 12 weeks. Abortion rights supporters are dubious that the outcome in Mississippi would be any different. "The Supreme Court has said and resaid again and again that states cannot prohibit women from obtaining abortions prior to viability, which is what a 15-week ban would do," said Hillary Schneller, staff attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights. The New York-based group, which advocates for free access to abortion, called the bill unconstitutional and “medically unsound.”
It is. Not only that, the nazi U.S. Supreme Court seems to have conveniently ignored the fact a woman owns HER uterus, not the goddamned state. Ferociously pointedly, who the hell is this government to force a woman to bring an unborn fetus, that is, a baby to term? Egregious display of unbridled Aryan arrogance by the nazis on the Supreme Court to presume they have the right to do precisely that.
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3-2-18
Growing dissent on the Far Right. Couldn't be, could it? LOL. The Statesman reports:
"Bishops direct Catholic churches and schools to refrain from working with Texas Right to Life. Group conducts misleading attacks on politicians, misrepresents Catholic positions, bishops’ directive says. Exposing a deep and widening rift in the state’s energetic anti-abortion movement, the Catholic bishops of Texas have directed churches across the state to refrain from working with Texas Right to Life, which bills itself as the “oldest and largest statewide pro-life organization.”
Stunning, isn't it? Clearly, trouble in paradise. LOL.
"According to a written directive, Texas Right to Life has engaged in misleading attacks against political candidates, lied about the Catholic Church’s position on legislation at the state Capitol and opposed church-supported bills by arguing that they don’t go far enough to limit abortions. “We’ve asked our pastors, parishes and Catholic schools to refrain from asking (Texas Right to Life representatives) to come onto our premises because their teachings don’t always align with what the Catholic Church teaches regarding certain life issues,” said Bishop Joe Vásquez, head of the 25-county Diocese of Austin. The one-page written advisory from the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, which sets policy for the parishes serving the state’s 8.3 million Catholics, was released Thursday and distributed across the Austin Diocese on Friday."
Apparently, the Nazi Right has taken national socialism a bit too far to the right, -- even for the Catholic Church. LOL.
For those who believe women have the right to do with THEIR uterus as they damn well please, the following is indeed encouraging:
"On one side are Texas Right to Life and its close associate, Empower Texans. Fueled by social and religious conservatives, the groups have adopted a take-no-prisoners approach at the Capitol, particularly when it comes to attacking organizations and politicians that oppose or decline to fully support their priorities. Both groups have targeted House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, who is retiring, and other centrist Republicans, saying they have blocked abortion limits and other favored legislation for too long. On the other side are groups that Right to Life and Empower Texans have denigrated as “fake pro-life organizations” — including the Catholic Conference of Bishops, Texas Alliance for Life and the Texans for Life Coalition."
When nazis fight among themselves, makes it far, far more difficult for them to eviscerate the Constitution.
"Kyleen Wright, president of the Texans for Life Coalition, said the bishops’ decision to call out Right to Life for its bullying tactics was a watershed moment for the movement. “This is really big,” Wright said. “It’s very, very unfortunate that it came to this. But for our organization, and me personally, to be maligned and slandered for several years, and for our candidates and people who work in good faith to advance good policy down in Austin to be unfairly and maliciously attacked, that hasn’t been good for our movement, either. “It’s very difficult, this type of family war,” she said."
Hopefully, this will weaken the nazi movement in our formerly great country. Give the public more time to fully understand the exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties posed by the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. All this is much more than just a 'culture war.' Direct threat to freedom.
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3-2-18
Trump and his henchmen have again put perverse GOP religious and ideological views ahead of their oaths of office to uphold the United States Constitution. ABC News reports:
"The Trump administration has adopted a new strategy for how it issues tens of millions of dollars in federal family-planning grants, giving preference to groups that stress abstinence and making it harder for Planned Parenthood to do business."
Clearly, Republican nazis delusionally believe unwanted pregnancy preferable to safe family planning by medical providers.
"Major reproductive health organizations are voicing serious concerns about changes that the president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on Monday described as turning "back the clock on women's health."
Dangerously quaint, isn't it?
"Dr. Haywood Brown depicted the shift as part of the administration's "continued move away from scientific, evidence-based policies and toward unscientific ideologies."
Voodoo 'science' courtesy of the Nazi Right firmly planted on the GOP tit.
"The catalyst for the criticism was an announcement Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services of its guidelines and priorities for the next round of Title X grant applications, projected to total about $260 million. The new HHS document makes repeated favorable mention of "natural family planning" — which encompasses the rhythm method and other strategies for avoiding pregnancy without using contraceptives like the birth-control pill. According to HHS, of 100 couples each year that use natural family planning methods, up to 25 women may become pregnant."
Back in the day, used to be called 'Catholic Roulette.' Yet, nazis on the Right won't be confused with the truth, right, Mr. 'President?'
"Planned Parenthood, which currently serves about 1.6 million of the 4 million beneficiaries of Title X, expressed concern that the guidelines were crafted to reduce or eliminate its role in the program."
Trump, his henchmen, and fellow nazis in the GOP present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
"It reads as them trying to stack the deck against any specialized reproductive health provider," said Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Erica Sackin."
No question, that's the aim. Return to the cave. By national socialists in the Republican Party.
"Planned Parenthood has been the target of repeated attempts by the administration and congressional Republicans to cut off its federal funding and weaken its nationwide operations because it provides abortions."
Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
Women and girls deliberately placed at risk by a deliberately imposed religious agenda:
"Clare Coleman, CEO of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, expressed concern that HHS might be shifting priorities in a way that would disrupt the steady progress in reducing the U.S. rate of teen pregnancies and unintended pregnancies. "We know different administrations have had different approaches," she said. "But if this announcement indicates a deliberate shift away from Title X being strongly focused on increasing access to contraceptive care to a model more focused on behavior change ... that would be a significant concern to public health." Haywood Brown said his obstetrician/gynecologists group had hoped the Trump administration would adhere to long-established, evidence-based Title X practices. Instead, he said, the changes "will effectively block Title X patients from the qualified providers of their choice, steering them toward organizations or providers singularly focused on abstinence and fertility awareness methods — political interference at its worst."
Raw nazism.
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2-23-18
The American Civil Liberties Union has stepped up. In follow up to a story covered here and elsewhere, NPR reports:
"The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio filed a complaint Thursday on behalf of several abortion providers seeking to block a state law that bans abortions "because an unborn child has or may have Down Syndrome." Governor John Kasich signed House Bill 214 into law late last year, although it is not scheduled to take effect until March 23, 2018. The legislation makes it a felony for a provider to perform an abortion or try to when there is any "reason to believe that an unborn child has Down syndrome," including a prenatal test. The physician could also have his or her medical license revoked under the law."
None of the goddamned government's business. Nor is it the business of the Nazi Religious Right. Forget? Not their uterus. Not their call to dictate what a woman can and cannot do with HER uterus.
"The lawsuit, filed on behalf of abortion providers including Preterm Cleveland and Planned Parenthood, says the legislation is unconstitutional, violating "the very heart of the Fourteenth Amendment right to privacy and autonomy." It says the legislation also undermines the mission of physicians "to honor and support the decisions their patients make." The plaintiffs are asking the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to issue a permanent injunction."
Nazism has to be stood up to. Ferociously, but peacefully, resisted.
"The anti-abortion rights group Ohio Right to Life, which campaigned for the bill, says, "While elective abortion is never the right choice, it's particularly egregious that unborn children can be denied life simply due to the presence of a disability."
Not your uterus. None of your goddamned business. Who the hell are you hypocritical nazi bastards to force your achingly perverse religious and ideological views on the rest of us? Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, this is, freedom from religion.
"But Freda Levenson, legal director for the ACLU of Ohio says the ban is "a thinly-veiled attempt to criminalize abortion in Ohio."
That's exactly what it is.
"If Ohio politicians wanted to proactively take a stance for people with disabilities, they should improve access to health care, education, or other services," she said in a statement."
Precisely, what the problem is with nazis in the Republican Party. They're extremely quick to force their goddamned outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all. Line the pockets of their corporate masters who in turn line theirs. Fervently cut back and/or eviscerate social programs designed to help the bottom and middle class.
Yet, when it comes to mandating a livable wage by law that would ameliorate the need for such programs, the hypocritical, achingly gutless bastards run the other way. Depend on slave labor to line the pockets of their masters in the corporate management suite and the top of the food chain, who in turn, line theirs.
In a related matter, NPR reports:
"The mother-daughter pair spent an entire Saturday holed up at a local high school talking about relationships, love and, yes, sex. The five-hour seminar called Linking Families and Teens, or LiFT, included group discussions and role-playing to help parents and kids get comfortable talking about dating and sex. "It was almost instantly that I felt that I could talk to my daughter in a different way, without automatically jumping to assumptions or, you know, just cutting her off and being angry or being embarrassed," Liles says. LiFT is the only sex education program available in her rural community of Shelton, Wash., she says. But come July, LiFT will be gone. The Trump administration cut off the grant funding for it when the Department of Health and Human Services eliminated the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program."
Amazing, isn't it? What's the Trump nazi's agenda? More teen pregnancy?
"LiFT is sponsored by Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands, one of 84 organizations losing federal funding that was supposed to last until 2020. Now the Planned Parenthood chapter, along with eight other groups, is suing HHS, saying it acted unlawfully when it canceled their five-year grants midstream and with no explanation. The organizations — which include city and county health departments, universities, hospitals and nonprofit organizations — operate across the U.S. providing sex education and health information to more than a million teens. The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program has been lauded by watchdogs as an example of good government at work. The program grants 80 percent of its budget to groups that implement pregnancy prevention programs that have been shown to be effective. The remaining 20 percent is dedicated to trying new strategies. The efforts are focused on African-American and Hispanic teens, who have higher pregnancy rates, and those in low-income and rural areas. And the organizations are required to measure whether their programs are effective in reducing pregnancy, delaying teen sex or increasing contraception use. The plans was to scale up the projects that work and eliminate the ones that don't. "There's a list of proven effective programs that has been developed over time specifically through a lot of these grants," says Carrie Flaxman, counsel for Planned Parenthood."
Can't have that, can we? Trump and his fellow nazis in the Republican Party delusionally believe in abstinence-only:
"Trump's budget proposal instead has $75 million for abstinence education programs. Research has shown that "abstinence-only education rarely has a positive effect on teen sexual behavior," according to a 2014 analysis of sex education. Teen pregnancy rates have plummeted in the three decades from about 60 births per 1,000 girls ages 15 to 19, to just 24 in 2014. Still, the U.S. has a far higher teen pregnancy and birthrate than most developed countries."
'Can fix ignorant, can't fix stupid.' ... Right, Mr. 'President?'
This is no more than egregious abrogation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
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1-26-18
Trump has once again disgraced himself and our formerly great country. ABC News reports:
"President Donald Trump's dramatic expansion of a ban on U.S. funding to foreign organizations that promote or provide abortions has left impoverished women around the world without treatment for HIV, malaria and other diseases, health groups say, calling it "devastating" because Trump went where no administration had gone before."
What nazi hasn't?
"Trump in his first working day in office revived the so-called global gag rule. He expanded on previous versions so that for the first time foreign NGOs that even discuss abortion as an option are barred not only from about $575 million in U.S. family planning funds but also an estimated $8.8 billion in U.S. global health aid. And they must certify that none of their non-U.S. funding goes for abortion-related activities."
Trump and his sick sycophants don't believe you own your own uterus, ladies. They do. Both here and abroad.
Not only that, the nazi in the Oval Office intends to protect health providers who deny you services because of their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views. NPR reports:
"Health care workers who want to refuse to treat patients because of religious or moral beliefs will have a new defender in the Trump administration. The top civil rights official at the Department of Health and Human Services is creating the Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom to protect doctors, nurses and other health care workers who refuse to take part in procedures like abortion or treat certain people because of moral or religious objections."
This achingly ignorant asshole seems to have conveniently forgotten providing health care is not a right, but a privilege.
"Never forget that religious freedom is a primary freedom, that it is a civil right that deserves enforcement and respect," said Roger Severino, the director of HHS's Office for Civil Rights, at a ceremony to announce the new division."
Horse shit. Got it ass backwards, fool. You have absolutely no clue or regard for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. None.
Contrast the above with the following. Took uncommon valor. Certainly, back in the day. NPR reports:
"The sign said, 'Pregnant? Don't Want to Be? Call Jane.' And a phone number," Willis remembers. "So, I called." "If you really care about something, you have to act on it." "Jane" was an underground network in Chicago that counseled and helped women who wanted to have abortions. The service was launched in 1965 by Heather Booth, then a 19-year-old student at the University of Chicago. Her friend's sister was pregnant and desperately wanted an abortion. Booth found a doctor who was willing to perform the procedure secretly."
Sad, isn't it? -- That it was indeed illegal back in the day to be master of your own uterus. Precisely, what Republican nazis are so desperate to return to.
"More calls started coming in. "By the third call, I realized I couldn't manage it on my own," Booth says. "So I set up a system. We called it 'Jane.' "At first, Jane connected women with doctors. But eventually, the group's members started performing abortions themselves. With time, Jane grew into an all-women network with dozens of members, ranging from students to housewives."
Jesus Christ. Sounds remarkably similar to what nazi Republican legislators do in the Texas Legislature, doesn't it? That is, practice medicine without a license. Certainly, legislatively instruct doctors what they can and cannot do vis a vis abortion procedures. These outrageous fascist bastards in the Legislature certainly believe they know what's best for the 'lil lady,' don't they?
"Martha Scott was 28 at the time and a stay-at-home mom with four children under the age of 5. She was motivated to join Jane because she felt women who wanted an abortion deserved to have a safe and inexpensive option. The fact that it was illegal did not deter her. "I just thought, if you really care about something, you have to act on it," Scott says."
Must really irk Republican nazis in the Legislature who truly wish to keep the 'lil lady' barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen. -- Remarkably, to this very day. LOL.
"The dangers faced by women seeking abortions in the pre-Roe v. Wade era are well-documented. In 1930, abortion was listed as the official cause of death for almost 2,700 women in the United States, though there were likely many more unrecorded mortalities. After antibiotics were introduced in the 1940s, the number of women dying from illegal abortions dropped dramatically. However, every year, thousands of women continued to be admitted to hospitals nationwide for complications of illegal abortions."
The Trump nazi, his henchmen, and others in the Republican Party desperately want a return to yesteryear, the days of the back alley abortion.
"The women of Jane ran a finely tuned operation. "It was very clandestine and secretive," according to Leslie J. Reagan, a professor of history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the author of When Abortion Was a Crime. When women called Jane, they would hear an answering machine message asking for their phone number, name and the date of their last period. A member of Jane would then call them back and set up a meeting to discuss the procedure. "There were lots of points along the way where they could have said, 'No, I change my mind,' " says Scott. "I don't think anyone chooses to have an abortion lightly."
No woman wanting an abortion should ever be denied the services of licensed healthcare providers in a safe setting. Republicans desperately want the opposite.
"In the seven years Jane was active, the group performed approximately 11,000 first- and second-trimester abortions. No deaths were ever reported of women who had abortions through Jane."
Stunning, isn't it? Why would Republicans ever want to return to those days?
"For years, Jane operated under the radar of the Chicago police. But in 1972, two Catholic women walked into a police station, reporting that their sister-in-law was planning to have an abortion. "To them, 1) it was a sin, and 2) they didn't want a child killed. That's how they felt," says Ted O'Connor, the then-31-year-old homicide detective who was put on the case."
It was none of their goddamned business.
"O'Connor and his partner tracked Jane to an apartment in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood. Scott vividly remembers when the police arrived. "They came in and looked around and said, 'Where's the doctor?' Looking for the guy, but there wasn't any guy, there was just us," she says. The policemen took all the women into custody, and they were charged with 11 counts of abortion and conspiracy to commit abortion."
Clearly, the women knew the risk. Took a chance helping their sisters abort. Willingly, paid the price. The true crime was not an unlicensed provider and illegal abortion, it was the fact abortions were against the law.
"Looking back, O'Connor has no qualms about arresting the women, who were breaking the law. But he says he can see both sides of the issue. "My side is I don't want to see a life destroyed. That life is helpless, it has no choice in this. And that angers me," he says. "On the other hand, I've never been pregnant. And never will be. It's a tough issue."
First, this officer demonstratively epitomizes an exigent 'police mentality' sadly in existence to this very day. -- Despite the fact he is most unusual in the fact he acknowledges he has no clue what it's like to be pregnant. LOL. Second, the woman's right to do as she pleases with HER uterus trumps the non-existent rights of the fetus, that is, unborn child. If not, there is no liberty. No more than a facade. The freedom to do what you're told, -- which is no liberty at all.
"The arrests occurred while abortion laws were being debated on the national stage. Beginning in 1970, Alaska, Hawaii, New York and Washington repealed their anti-abortion laws. Six months after Jane was busted, on Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in the United States with their decision in Roe v. Wade. The charges against Jane were dropped. Ultimately, Roe vs. Wade brought an end to Jane because women then had access to legal abortion providers."
At least, these women at Jane apparently knew what they were doing. Unlike during the days of the coat hanger 'abortion' era. A return to those days of the back alley abortion will never be tolerated in this country. No question, the Nazi Right will lose this fight.
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12-29-17
Once again, another nazi Republican governor has disgraced himself.
NBC News reports:
"Ohio is prohibiting doctors from performing abortions based on a diagnosis of Down syndrome, joining other states with similarly strict legislation."
Direct violation of Roe v. Wade by Republican nazis desperate to impose their outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"Republican Gov. John Kasich signed the legislation into law on Friday. Lawmakers had sent the bill to him earlier this month, in one of their last acts of the year."
Deliberate violation of the woman's right to do with her uterus as she damn well pleases.
"The legislation, which cleared the GOP-led Legislature with some Republican opposition, makes it a crime for a doctor to terminate a pregnancy based on knowledge of Down syndrome, a genetic abnormality that causes developmental delays and medical conditions such as heart defects and respiratory and hearing problems."
Why are these goddamned religious nazis practicing medicine without a license?
"It makes performing an abortion in such cases a fourth-degree felony and requires the state medical board to revoke the physician's license if convicted. Pregnant women involved in such procedures won't be penalized."
No, they'll just be denied the right to abort, period. So Republican nazis can impose their religious views on all. In a goddamned de facto fascist police-state, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.
"Kasich's action was a victory for the anti-abortion group Ohio Right to Life, which argued it will prevent discrimination based on misinformation."
It's none of their goddamned business. Not their uterus. Who the hell are these religious nazis to force their outrageously perverse religious views on anyone other than themselves? Here is the Aryan arrogance of these goddamned nazis in all its 'glory':
"Now that the Down Syndrome Non-Discrimination Act is law, unborn babies prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome are given a shot at life" the group's president, Mike Gonidakis, said in a statement Friday."
Not their call:
"Abortion rights groups argued the law would be another blow to women's constitutional right to legal abortion."
Precisely, the intention of Republican nazis.
"The executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, Kellie Copeland, said the law does nothing to support families taking care of loved ones with Down syndrome but instead "exploits them as part of a larger anti-choice strategy to systematically make all abortion care illegal."
Exactly, right. Their intention is to dictate to the 'little lady' what she can and cannot do with HER uterus. Nazi America.
"This law shames women and will have a chilling effect on the conversations between doctors and patients because of the criminal penalties that doctors will face," Copeland said. A statement from the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio on Friday said Kasich signed a "blatantly unconstitutional bill." The civil rights group said it is coordinating with its legal staff and coalition partners to determine the next steps."
Continue to sue the living shit out of the nazi bastards. Fight them every step of the way. Only alternative? Unthinkable. An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. Hear the rumble?
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12-22-17
Once again, the Trump nazi and his henchmen have taken a hard dump on the constitutional right to abortion.
"A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to allow two pregnant immigrant teenagers in U.S. custody to obtain abortions. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said the Republican administration can't prevent the 17-year-old girls from exercising their right to an abortion. Hours later, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to block one of the abortions."
Roe v. Wade is abundantly clear. Trump is again abrogating his falsely sworn oath to protect and defend the United States Constitution.
"Both girls arrived in the country as unaccompanied minors and are being held in federal shelters, though it is not known precisely where. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) went to court on behalf of the two girls, as it did in the case of another 17-year-old girl who was able to obtain an abortion in October following a high-profile court fight."
The public is entitled to know precisely where these women are being held. Public information. No secret gulags in a supposed democratic republic.
"The judge's decision is a reminder that both the law and justice are on our side. We've already seen the courts rule in favor of Jane Doe, and today justice prevailed for two more young women like her," Brigitte Amiri, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, said in a statement after Chutkan's decision. "Unfortunately, the Trump administration has shown no indication that they'll abandon their cruel and dystopian crusade to block abortion access for some of the most marginalized people in our country. We're prepared to keep fighting for as long as we need to."
Never, ever, never give up. Direct abrogation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"The current controversy stems from the Trump administration's opposition to abortion and its decision to change the policy of the Obama administration concerning minors who are detained trying to enter the country. Earlier this year, the office in the Health and Human Services Department that oversees the shelters prohibited them from taking steps to facilitate an abortion without its direct approval. The cases intersect two of the most controversial issues for the Trump administration — abortion and illegal immigration. One teen is about 10 weeks pregnant, and the other is now about 22 weeks pregnant. The girl "is quickly approaching the limit for abortion in the state where she is being detained," the ACLU argued in its lawsuit."
What we have in the Oval Office is a nazi fuhrer who falsely believes he is a law unto himself.
"Scott Lloyd, the head of the HHS office that oversees the shelters, said in an email that facilities under HHS "should not be supporting abortion services pre or post-release," but rather "life-affirming options counseling."
Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, as well as Roe v. Wade.
"Chutkan said the HHS office continues to claim "ultimate authority to unilaterally veto the reproductive choices of the unaccompanied minors in its custody."
The nazi son of a bitch does not have the authority to violate the First Amendment as well as Roe v. Wade.
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12-22-17
The Trump nazi and his henchmen are also waging war on the right to contraception. CBS News reports:
"A federal judge in Philadelphia on Friday ordered the Trump administration not to enforce new rules that could significantly reduce women's access to free birth control. Judge Wendy Beetlestone issued the injunction, temporarily stopping the government from enforcing the policy change to former President Barack Obama's health care law. The law required most companies to cover birth control at no additional cost, though it included exemptions for religious organizations. The new policy would allow more categories of employers, including publicly traded companies, to opt out of providing free contraception to women by claiming religious or moral objections. Beetlestone, appointed to the bench by Obama, wrote in her ruling that the rule "conjured up a world where a government entity is empowered to impose its own version of morality on each one of us. That cannot be right."
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12-1-17
Republican nazis in Texas lost another round in court. NPR reports:
"A federal judge in Texas has overturned a ban on a commonly used second trimester abortion procedure, dealing another blow to efforts to restrict abortion in that state."
Excellent. Who the hell is the state to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus?
"U.S. District Court Judge Lee Yeakel's ruling followed a temporary injunction issued in August preventing Texas from outlawing the procedure known as dilation and evacuation, often referred to as "D&E." That injunction came on the day before the ban was to have gone into effect."
About time.
"The Texas law, known as Senate Bill 8 and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this year, was challenged in a lawsuit brought by abortion providers. They argued that the ban would require women seeking to terminate their pregnancies to undergo additional "unnecessary, invasive, and potentially painful medical procedures, in order to access their constitutional right to an abortion," before beginning a D&E procedure."
Ladies? These bastards truly believe they own YOUR uterus.
"The court is unaware of any other medical context that requires a doctor — in contravention of the doctor's medical judgment and the best interest of the patient — to conduct a medical procedure that delivers no benefit to the woman," Judge Yeakel wrote."
Indeed. Raw nazism. The ruling will be appealed by the Paxton nazi. Galling, isn't it?
11-10-17
Highly reminiscent of Llano County prosecutors, Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following. It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly great country once stood for. No longer.
Apparently, the 'Justice' Department disingenuously believes it was hoodwinked by the ACLU. Remains willing to at least falsely accuse ACLU of duplicity to continue its unconstitutional war on the constitutional right to abortion affirmed by Roe v. Wade. CBS News reports:
"The Justice Department has filed a petition to the Supreme Court alleging that lawyers representing Jane Doe, an undocumented minor in federal custody, misled the government over the timing of her abortion procedure. The Justice Department in court documents argues lower court judgments in the case should be vacated, and discipline may be warranted against Jane Doe's attorneys."
Would be laughable if it were not for the fact the Trump nazi and his Attorney General stooge, the Sessions nazi are doing all they can to take a raucous hard dump on a legally settled constitutional right affirmed by Roe v. Wade. Carefully consider the following highly convoluted 'reasoning' of the 'Justice' Department in this fiasco. Certain indication these nazis remain desperate to eviscerate this 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision:
"In the brief, the Justice Department alleges that on the evening of October 24, Doe's representatives told the government that her counseling appointment would be moved to the morning of October 25, pushing the abortion procedure to the 26. Based on this, the government says it told the Supreme Court clerk's office that it intended to file a motion to stay the abortion the following day, October 25."
She had already had that mandated 'counseling' session days earlier. Had already met the terms of this outrageously unconstitutional Texas statute.
"At that point, by their own account, Ms. Doe's representatives did three things: they secured the services of Ms. Doe's original physician (who had provided counseling the previous week), moved her appointment from 7:30 to 4:15 a.m. on the morning of October 25, and changed the appointment from counseling to an abortion," the Justice Department alleges.
"Although Ms. Doe's representatives informed the government of the change in timing, they did not inform the government of the other two developments—which kept the government in the dark about when Ms. Doe was scheduled to have an abortion."
No question, growing desperation of these nazis to eviscerate the constitutional right to abortion remains achingly striking.
"The government also alleges that Doe's representatives did not notify the government or the shelter of the change in the nature of her appointment. "Efforts to reach respondent's counsel were met with silence, until approximately 10 a.m. EST, when one of her lawyers told the government that Ms. Does had undergone an abortion." Department of Justice spokesman Devin O'Malley said, "The ACLU misled the United States as to the timing of Jane Doe's abortion. After informing Justice Department attorneys that the procedure would occur on October 26, Jane Doe's attorneys scheduled the abortion for the early morning hours of October 25, thereby thwarting Supreme Court review."
Pitiful. Egregious convolution of reality. In a desperate attempt to abrogate the constitutional right to abortion. All in an effort to impose their perverse ideological and religious views in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"The Justice Department also specified the remedies it seeks. "In light of that, the Justice Department believes the judgment under review should be vacated, and discipline may be warranted against Jane Doe's attorneys."
For what? Standing up to nazis in the 'Justice' Department desperate to abrogate the victim's constitutional right to an abortion affirmed by Roe v. Wade?
"ACLU Legal Director David Cole issued the following statement:
"The Trump administration blocked Jane Doe from getting constitutionally protected care for a month and subjected her to illegal obstruction, coercion, and shaming as she waited. After the courts cleared the way for her to get her abortion, it was the ACLU's job as her lawyers to see that she wasn't delayed any further — not to give the government another chance to stand in her way."
"Our lawyers acted in the best interest of our client and in full compliance with the court orders and federal and Texas law. That government lawyers failed to seek judicial review quickly enough is their fault, not ours."
You think?
The Washington Post reports:
"The government is asking the court to vacate the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that said she was entitled to an abortion."
Why? Roe v. Wade affirms this precious right, the right of a woman to do with her uterus as she damn well pleases. If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. Nazis on the Right patronizingly, condescendingly advise the 'little lady' to keep her legs crossed, panties up. None of their goddamned business.
“The government recognizes that respondent’s counsel have a duty to zealously advocate on behalf of their client, but they also have duties to this court and to the bar,” the filing says. “It appears under the circumstances that those duties may have been violated, and that disciplinary action may therefore be warranted. At the least, this court may wish to seek an explanation from counsel regarding this highly unusual chain of events.”
Apparent to whom? Nazis desperate to impose their perverse ideological and religious views in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion?
"ACLU Legal Director David Cole said in a statement the government’s charges were “baseless.” “This administration has gone to astounding lengths to block this young woman from getting an abortion,” Cole said. “Now, because they were unable to stop her, they are raising baseless questions about our conduct. Our lawyers acted in the best interest of our client and in full compliance with the court orders and federal and Texas law. That government lawyers failed to seek judicial review quickly enough is their fault, not ours.”
The crux of the matter is the Trump regime is falsely claiming it was hoodwinked. To cover its ass. Placate the Nazi Right backing the Trump nazi and his henchmen:
"The Justice Department has been criticized by some for failing to take the issue to the Supreme Court quickly enough to prevent the abortion, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week blamed the girl’s lawyers."
... Hey, Jeff? Can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit? When that fails, gutlessly blame someone else? Jesus Christ. You're pathetic. Look in the mirror to see whose responsible for this goddamned ongoing outrageously unconstitutional fiasco:
"Lawyers who practice at the Supreme Court said that they could not remember a similar request to the court, and some theorized that the solicitor general’s office was feeling political heat from not moving faster to try to get the high court to step into the fight before it was too late."
If true, doesn't your heart bleed?
Here's the history and bottom line:
"A federal district judge ordered the abortion to proceed, but a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit stopped the process, and said it was preferable that the government find a sponsor for the girl, which would take the government out of helping her receive an abortion.
"The full circuit reversed that decision in a 6-to-3 ruling, followed a few hours later by a new order from the district judge. And that started the race that Tuesday night. For the solicitor general’s office, it was to get the issue before the Supreme Court. For lawyers for the girl, it was to get her the abortion. She was 15 weeks pregnant at the time.
"Texas law requires medical counseling at least 24 hours in advance of an abortion by the same physician who performs the procedure. The 17-year-old underwent counseling on Oct. 19, allowing her to have the abortion any time after lower courts issued the order in her favor, depending on the doctor’s availability.
"The ACLU said the procedure was done in “full compliance with Texas law.”
The Trump nazi and his henchmen had no legitimate 'dog in this fight.' Was none of their goddamned business. The president again failed to carry out his oath of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution. Did all he could to abrogate the constitutional right to abortion affirmed by the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. At worst, the 'Justice' Department got figuratively caught with its pants down. Tough shit.
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11-3-17
In follow up to the last edition, the Trump regime is indeed placing undocumented pregnant women seeking a pharmaceutical abortion in danger. -- By refusing them access to the second pill required to complete the procedure. The Texas Standard reports:
"ORR is the federal agency that has custody of unaccompanied minors who enter the U.S. without documentation. According to court documents filed last week in Garza v. Hargan, another case of an unaccompanied minor seeking an abortion, ORR officials told this particular shelter not to give the young woman the second pill. “That is extremely dangerous because a woman can become septic from leftover tissue in her uterus,” says Hays, who helps minors in Texas seeking abortions through a group called Jane’s Due Process. “And sepsis can kill you.” "Hays says she was tipped off to the incident shortly after the young woman was denied the second pill required to complete the abortion."
Amazing this can go on despite the constitutional right to abortion affirmed by Roe v. Wade in 1973. Apparently, the Trump nazi and his henchmen are not only denying these ladies their right to an abortion, but placing them in great physical danger by not allowing completion of the abortion.
"According to court documents in Garza, what stood between the young woman and that second pill was a memo written on March 4. The memo was written by Ken Tota, the acting director of ORR at the time. In addition to directing the shelter not to give the young woman the pill, Tota’s memo directed the shelter to take her to a local hospital. He wrote: This memorandum directs ORR to bring the UAC to the emergency room of a local hospital in order to determine the health status of the UAC and her unborn child. If steps can be taken to preserve the life of the UAC and her unborn child, those steps should be taken. If it is confirmed that the unborn child has already expired due to the beginning of the abortion procedure, steps can be taken to safely remove the body of the unborn child."
Gets worse:
"That Sunday, Hays says, the shelter followed the directions and subjected her to a gynecological exam. “That was not a necessary medical examination,” Hays says. “It was not one she could have possibly consented to, because she wasn’t told the purpose.” Hays says the shelter opened itself to possible litigation."
You think?
“A medical exam without consent is assault. A gynecological exam without consent is rape. And the federal government did that to that Jane,” she says, referring to the legal name Jane Doe given to minors in these situations. Cases involving minors are often sealed."
Convenient cover up of the government's duplicity.
Direct abrogation of the constitutional right to an abortion:
"The most sweeping aspect of that March 4 memo, though, is that it outlined a new policy for ORR: With the exception of emergency medical situations, when a UAC may be involved in an abortion, grantees [shelters] must immediately inform the director of the Division of Unaccompanied Children’s Services (DUCS or DCS) in ORR of the situation, must respond to DUCS’ requests for information, and are prohibited from taking any action that facilitates an abortion without direction and approval from the Director of ORR."
Say what? This goddamned government does not have the authority to abrogate a constitutional right. The right to abortion as affirmed by Roe v. Wade.
"In short, the new policy was that a shelter could not facilitate an abortion without the director’s approval. “And that is not only not the law — not the real policy – it violates a whole list of existing laws and rules including constitutional laws,” Hays says. According to court documents, the teenager finally got that second pill. But the new internal policy at ORR remains a big problem, she says. That’s why a federal court last week heard the Garza case, which involves a 17-year-old seeking an abortion at a shelter in Brownsville, Texas. On Tuesday, the court told the Trump administration to let her get the procedure."
This continues to be a problem. A big problem:
“The ACLU believes there are hundreds of pregnant [unaccompanied minors] in custody at any given time,” she says. “Hundreds. How many do we think have had abortions this year with Scott Lloyd running that office? Zero.” ORR declined to comment on how many abortions have been approved this year. Instead, officials from the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the umbrella agencies for ORR, said in a statement: “For however much time we are given, the Office of Refugee Resettlement and HHS will protect the well-being of this minor and all children and their babies in our facilities, and we will defend human dignity for all in our care.”
Jesus Christ. Direct abrogation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. Any doctor who conducted a medical exam without the consent of these young women should be prosecuted for assault. Any who conducted a gynecological exam without consent needs to be charged and prosecuted for rape.
"In Garza v. Hargan, the ACLU and others are asking a federal court to issue an injunction against these new policies – including forced gynecological exams and required visits to crisis pregnancy centers, among other things."
11-3-17
Abortion rights remain under attack by the nazi element. ABC News reports:
"A federal judge has permanently blocked Alabama laws that tried to restrict abortion clinics near schools and to ban a common second-trimester procedure. The decision by U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson came in 148-page ruling issued Thursday in which he prevented the state from enforcing the statutes. The decision made permanent a temporary ruling issued by Thompson a year ago; the state already is appealing that decision. The American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama called Thompson's decision a "great victory" for women. "Despite the state's continued attempts to restrict access to abortion, the courts have definitively held that access to an abortion is a constitutional right," Randall Marshall, executive director of the Alabama ACLU, said in a statement. Mike Lewis, a spokesman for Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, said the state will appeal Thompson's ruling."
Nazi bullshit, assault on all civil and constitutional rights and liberties never ends.
10-27-17
In follow up to the last edition, nazism remains alive and well in the judiciary. Ongoing, deliberate trampling of civil and constitutional rights and liberties. NPR reports:
"A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has ruled that a detained teenage immigrant may not obtain an abortion until a government-approved sponsor can be secured by the end of the month. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit split 2-1 on the ruling."
An outrageous ruling by a nazi court. Why should this young woman have to wait? Roe v. Wade is abundantly clear. This goddamned court is bastardizing the 1973 ruling. Doing so to allow the Trump nazi and his henchmen to at least temporarily, but effectively impose their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on this young woman in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
"The case involves a 17-year-old who is referred to in court documents only as "Jane Doe." She came to this country illegally, discovered she was pregnant, and is seeking to terminate her pregnancy while she is detained in Texas in a private facility for unaccompanied minors supervised by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement. Lawyers for the government argue that it isn't obligated to help her get an abortion because the administration wants to promote child birth and fetal life."
Disingenuous bullshit for two reasons. First, they have not been asked to pay or transport her to get that abortion. Have been asked to temporarily release her so she can indeed get the abortion. Second, this goddamned government doesn't have the constitutional authority to "promote child birth and fetal life" by forcing these views on someone wishing to exercise the constitutional right to abort as affirmed by Roe v. Wade.
"The attorneys told the court that the government isn't interfering with the minor's right to obtain an abortion which is guaranteed by the 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade. But HHS officials have refused to transport her or release her into the custody of her guardian to obtain the abortion."
Called double talk.
Blatant bullshit. Effectively, falsely claiming its high noon,
-- when in reality 12 midnight.
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"The federal appeals
court has indicated that the young woman has a right to get an abortion
and the court is giving the Department of Health and Human Services until
October 31 to approve a sponsor so that the government need not facilitate
the procedure."
That's also called bullshit. The appeals court is effectively denying this woman the right to immediately access medical care to facilitate an abortion.
"If a sponsor is secured and J.D. is released from HHS custody to the sponsor, HHS agrees that J.D. then will be lawfully able, if she chooses, to obtain an abortion on her own pursuant to the relevant state law," the judges wrote."
What this court is doing is impeding this woman's constitutional right to abort. No more complicated than that. Desperately trying to placate the Trump nazi, his henchmen, and the rest of the Republican Nazi Right that wishes to impose its outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all.
"But they added if a sponsor is not secured and the minor is not released to a sponsor by Oct. 31, then the matter will return to the courts."
The two nazis on this three-judge panel are deliberately dragging their feet, denying this woman her right to quick access to medical care to facilitate her constitutional right to abort.
"There are no winners in cases like these," said Judge Patricia Millet said in a 10-page dissenting opinion. "But there sure are losers. As of today, J.D. has already been forced by the government to continue an unwanted pregnancy for almost four weeks, and now, as a result of this order, must continue to carry that pregnancy for multiple more weeks," she added."
This judge is exactly right. Remains appalling the judiciary refuses to immediately honor the constitutional right of this young woman to have an abortion.
"In a statement, American Civil Liberties lawyer Brigitte Amiri said, "Justice is delayed yet again for this courageous and persistent young woman. She continues to be held hostage and prevented from getting an abortion because the Trump administration disagrees with her personal decision."
Goddamned right. No more than transformation of the de facto fascist police-state we already live in to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.
A raucous, boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Sieg Heil!, Mr. 'President?' You're out of uniform, sir. Where is your brown shirt, swastika armband, Mr. 'President?'
"The ruling comes after the appeals panel temporarily blocked a lower court ruling allowing the minor to seek an abortion "without delay." The lower court ruling basically endorsed a Texas state judge's decision to allow the minor to seek an abortion. The procedure is to be paid for by the minor or her supporters."
Yet, this woman is being stonewalled in her demand to exercise a constitutional right by the nazis in government. Coup de grace? Galling hypocrisy? Get this:
"The Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released this statement:
"For however much time we are given, the Office of Refugee Resettlement and HHS will protect the well-being of this minor and all children and their babies in our facilities, and we will defend human dignity for all in our care."
Jesus Christ. A crock of shit. Denying and/or delaying this woman's constitutional right to abort does not protect her well-being, quite the opposite. What it does is intentionally impose the religious and/or ideological views of government lackeys in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause. Denies her human dignity, in fact, abrogates it. Worse, if the state does not find a sponsor by the end of the month and the court removes the block, the goddamned state could again appeal. Nazi justice.
In follow up, CBS News reports:
"Attorneys for a pregnant teen being held in a Texas immigration facility are asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision not to order the government to let her obtain an abortion. Lawyers for the 17-year-old on Sunday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to hold another hearing before all the judges on the court. A three-judge panel ruled against the teen Friday, giving the government until Oct. 31 to find a sponsor to take in the teen so she could get an abortion on her own. Her lawyers have accused federal officials of unlawfully restricting the teen's rights. But the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says it has a policy of "refusing to facilitate" abortions for minors in its care."
In follow up, CBS News reports:
"A federal appeals court on Tuesday has cleared the way for a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant held in custody in Texas to obtain an abortion. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 6-3 that new dates should be set for the teen to obtain the procedure. The decision overruled a ruling by a three-judge panel of the court that at least temporarily blocked her from getting an abortion."
About time.
"Lawyers for the Department of Health and Human Services, which is responsible for sheltering children who illegally enter the country unaccompanied by a parent, have said the department has a policy of "refusing to facilitate" abortions and that releasing the teenager would require arranging a transfer of custody and follow-up care. The teenager's lawyers have said all the government needed to do was "get out of the way." An attorney appointed to represent the teen's interests has said she could transport her to and from appointments necessary for the procedure, and the federal government would not have to pay for it."
Not good enough for the Trump nazi and his henchmen:
"CBS News' Paula Reid reports that the Trump administration is expected [to] appeal the latest decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. The dispute raises the question whether illegal immigrant women have the same rights to an abortion -- as established by the Supreme Court -- as U.S. residents. Reuters news agency reports that Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the D.C. court wrote in dissent that the court has embraced "a new right for unlawful immigrant minors in U.S. government detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand."
Jesus Christ. Have these nazis no shame?
CBS News reports:
"The undocumented teen who sought an abortion in the U.S. had her abortion this morning -- CBS News' Paula Reid reports -- before the Justice Department could appeal Tuesday's decision clearing the way for the teen to have the abortion."
Not clear yet whether the Trump nazi and his henchmen gave up, -- or simply did not have time to file the appeal.
"The teen, known as "Jane Doe," said in a statement that she had come to the U.S. to make a better life for herself. "My journey wasn't easy, but I came here with hope in my heart to build a life I can be proud of," she said in a statement released through her guardian. "I dream about studying, becoming a nurse, and one day working with the elderly." She went on to say that when she was detained, she had been placed in a shelter for children, where she was first told she was pregnant. "I knew immediately what was best for me then, as I do now – that I'm not ready to be a parent," she wrote. The group Jane's Due Process helped present her case to a judge, who gave her permission to end her pregnancy without her parents' consent. Though she was nervous about appearing in court, "I was treated very kindly," she wrote."
Her body. Her uterus. Her decision. Not that of nazi government determined to impose its outrageously perverse ideological and religious views in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. To say nothing of the constitutional right to abort guarantied by Roe v. Wade.
CNN reports:
"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement, "Today's loss of innocent human life is tragic."
Not your call, Counselor. Her body. Her uterus. Not yours, sir. Your hypocrisy? Stunning. How about all the innocent unarmed civilians murdered by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue with impunity all across our formerly great country, Counselor? How about all those innocent executed for crimes they did not commit, sir? Your silence? Gutless. How about all those who have lost their lives on the battlefield to line the pockets of corporate war profiteers?
"Paxton said the abortion "may have been avoidable," citing what he called "long standing Supreme Court precedent on the rights of an unlawfully present person." "This ruling not only cost a life," he said. "It could pave the way for anyone outside the United States to unlawfully enter and obtain an abortion. Life and the Constitution are sacred. We lost some of both today."
You continually take a raucous hard dump on the Constitution, Bill of Rights, then lament when a court rightfully orders government to stand out of the way, enforces Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to an abortion? Your egregious inconsistency, laughable. Nazi bastards like you have for generations done all they could to bastardize the Constitution, Bill of Rights to impose your brand of nazism, Counselor. Deliberately taken a raucous hard dump on all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Then, sir, get caught with your hand in the cookie jar, do all you can to delay going to trial on a felony indictment? Give me a break.
NPR reports:
"Responding to the news, Kristan Hawkins, president of the anti-abortion rights group Students for Life, called it "a tragedy" and said, "The U.S. should not become the abortion capitol of the world."
Non-sequitur. Abject bullshit. Distortion of reality by a lunatic talking out the ass.
"It's the worst form of patriarchy to tell a young woman that without an abortion, she can't accomplish great things," Hawkins said, "and we hope that [the] Trump administration will continue to fight to protect the lives of all on U.S. soil."
Say what? Who the hell told her that? Or, anyone else for that matter? More talk out the ass to impose your outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on others.
The Washington Post reports:
“Justice prevailed today for Jane Doe. But make no mistake about it, the administration’s efforts to interfere in women’s decisions won’t stop with Jane,” said Brigitte Amiri, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project which represented the teen. The ACLU is continuing its broader challenge to the administration’s new policy on behalf of what the organization says are hundreds of undocumented pregnant teenagers in federal custody."
More on this in the next edition.
"Lawyers for the Department of Justice had been considering whether to ask the Supreme Court to put the D.C. Circuit order on hold, which would have brought the volatile issue of abortion to the high court in a very personal and real-life challenge. But they may have miscalculated how quickly the girl could receive an abortion. Texas law requires counseling from a doctor at least 24 hours in advance of an abortion, but the teen underwent counseling last week allowing her to go forward once Chutkan issued her order. The government lawyers did not immediately ask for a hold on the D.C. Court opinion after the Tuesday ruling. By the time the Supreme Court opened Wednesday, it appears there was no issue left for the justices to decide."
As stated earlier above, be interesting to see just how this all went down. Not clear yet.
10-20-17
The following is appalling. A portend of what's to come as our formerly great country transforms from a fascist police-state to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. An egregious violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. NPR reports:
"Attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union are asking a federal court in Washington, D.C., to force the Trump administration to allow a young, undocumented immigrant woman in Texas to obtain an abortion. The ACLU said the 17-year-old unaccompanied minor from Central America is being held at a private shelter that contracts with the federal Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, and federal officials will not release her to obtain the procedure. The suit seeks an emergency order asking the court to block the federal government from obstructing the girl's access to abortion."
Clearly, the Trump nazi, his henchmen, and the Republican Party are intent on creating a theocracy. Trump is forcing his outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all in direct violation of his falsely sworn oath of office.
"Brigitte Amiri, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, calls the government's action "outrageous" and "unprecedented." "The government is completely out of bounds by banning abortion for this young woman," Amiri said. "It is blatantly unconstitutional and it is inhumane." Under Texas law, minors need parental consent or a judge's permission to obtain an abortion. In a previous legal filing, the ACLU said the girl, known as Jane Doe in the case to protect her privacy, has obtained that permission, but the government has blocked her from leaving the shelter for that purpose. The ACLU said federal officials required the girl to undergo counseling and an ultrasound at a crisis pregnancy center, an anti-abortion organization that does not provide abortion services."
An outrageous abrogation of his oath of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution. Sadly, treasonously, the 'President' and his henchmen present an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
Moreover, the Nazi Right is truly insane, hell-bent on imposing its outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause:
"Anti-abortion-rights groups have praised the Trump administration's action in the case. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the anti-abortion-rights group Susan B. Anthony List, said in a statement: "This young girl deserves compassion and quality health care. Abortion is not health care and the ACLU is taking advantage of a young woman in a desperate situation." She called the suit a "ploy" to turn Texas into a "sanctuary state for abortion."
Jesus Christ. This woman has lost her mind. She and those who think like her are a direct threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. These achingly sick nazis are traitors.
"In an amicus brief earlier this week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked a federal judge in San Francisco to deny the young woman's request. Paxton argued that allowing the girl to obtain an abortion would have "far-reaching and dire consequences."
So does an indicted Texas Attorney General doing all he can to delay going to trial on felony charges.
"For example, Paxton argued that allowing an abortion could open the door to other rights for undocumented immigrants, writing, "it is hard to imagine why she could be denied any other constitutional rights — such as the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms."
Anyone under U.S. jurisdiction, no matter their immigration status, should be afforded the protections of the United States Constitution. The Nazi Right does not believe so. Bought and paid for Republicans in the judiciary certainly don't think so. The Constitution has been concertedly bastardized since ratification by those determined to abrogate its protections.
"The San Francisco judge said on Wednesday that the government cannot block the girl from getting the procedure. But the judge declined to issue an order requiring the government to allow her to leave the facility in Texas, saying that the suit was not filed in the right court. That decision prompted the latest filing by the ACLU."
Someone has to challenge our nazi oppressors in court. Only alternative? Unthinkable. An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. As the revolution doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight.
"Amiri, with the ACLU, declined to say how far along the undocumented teenager in Texas is in her pregnancy but noted that delays bring increased health risks and legal barriers to obtaining the abortion as the pregnancy progresses. Amiri said the case could have implications for other undocumented immigrant women. "Since the Trump administration has taken over, we have seen a pattern of this happening to other women, and we are fearful that it will happen to other women in the future if the court does not intervene," Amiri said."
Nazi America. A fascist police-state. The Fourth Reich.
In follow up, The Washington Post reports:
"A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. government to allow an undocumented teenager in its custody to have an abortion, after saying she was “astounded” the Trump administration was trying to prevent the procedure."
Direct violation of Roe v. Wade.
"Lawyers for Attorney General Jeff Sessions signaled to U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in Washington that the 17-year-old, who crossed the border from Mexico illegally last month, did not have a constitutional right to an elective abortion in federal custody, unless it was a medical emergency."
Jesus Christ. These callous sons of bitches bastardize a Supreme Court decision to impose the Trump nazi's perverse religious views.
"Chutkan, an Obama administration nominee, said the government appeared to be presenting the teenager identified in court papers as “Jane Doe” with two options: Voluntarily return to a nation she fled to procure an abortion, or carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. “I am astounded by that position,” Chutkan said in a 40-minute hearing that was mostly consumed by a back-and-forth between the judge and Scott Stewart, a deputy assistant attorney general."
Indeed.
"She ordered the government to transport the teenager to have the procedure — or allow her guardian to transport her — “promptly and without delay.” Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the girl, asked Chutkan for an emergency restraining order to prevent the government from blocking the girl’s plan to have an abortion. They also sought a preliminary injunction to protect others seeking abortions. The judge said she would issue a ruling by 5 p.m."
Unbelievable this shit could be going on almost 45 years after Roe v. Wade.
"ACLU lawyer Brigitte Amiri argued that it was “out of any sort of constitutional bounds” for the U.S. government to block the teenager’s legal right to an abortion, which is preserved in the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade ruling. A federal magistrate judge in California agreed with the ACLU earlier this month but said she could not rule in the case because the girl is detained in South Texas. But Stewart told the judge that pregnant undocumented minors from other countries are not entitled to abortions, and said in court records that opening the door to that right “would significantly infringe on the government’s interests in preserving life and protecting national boundaries.”
A crock of shit. No more than a blatant attempt by the Trump nazi and his henchmen to impose their perverse religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
“I respectfully disagree that she’s entitled to an abortion” facilitated by the government, he said, noting that the girl’s case was not a medical emergency. In court filings, the government said it has “strong and constitutionally legitimate interests in promoting childbirth, in refusing to facilitate abortion, and in not providing incentives for pregnant minors to illegally cross the border to obtain elective abortions while in federal custody.”
Unf--king believable. Direct violation of Roe v. Wade.
"Chutkan countered that the teenager does not need a medical emergency to exercise her right to an abortion. She said the girl had followed state and federal rules: She obtained permission from a state judge in Texas to have an abortion and would cover the expenses herself or with help through her court-appointed guardian. All the government had to do, the judge said, is process the paperwork to let the girl visit the clinic, just as they would if she needed to have her tonsils removed. Stewart said the girl could also voluntarily leave the United States and find another way to have an abortion, and said the girl had chosen to remain in federal custody instead of returning home. That claim appeared to irk the judge, who pointed out that the federal workers took the girl, against her wishes, to a Christian pregnancy facility for counseling and also informed her mother about the abortion. Both steps potentially violated the girl’s constitutional right to privacy and other protections, Chutkan said. “The government certainly had no problem taking her against her will to receive pregnancy counseling, which was designed to change her mind,” Chutkan said. “The government didn’t seem to have any problem facilitating that.”
Nothing quite like hypocrisy, is there?
"The judge and Stewart also sparred over whether some aspects of the law remain undisputed. Chutkan asked Stewart if he thought illegal immigrants had constitutional rights and if he believed that Roe v. Wade, which guarantees a woman’s right to an abortion, is still the “law of the land.” Stewart acknowledged the Supreme Court’s ruling but said the government views this case differently because the teenager is an undocumented immigrant in federal custody. He also said undocumented immigrants have “minimal” protections in this country. “I’m not going to give you a concession on that your honor,” he said. The judge laughed. “This is remarkable,” she said." During the hearing, Chutkan also answered her own questions, saying the girl’s legal status was “irrelevant” and that “despite the fact that she’s in this country illegally, she still has constitutional rights.”
No question.
... Subsequent to the above, an appeals court has temporarily stayed the order. More in the next edition.
10-13-17
This cancer is deeply entrenched. Systemic. CBS News reports:
"Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, introduced the "The Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act" to the Senate Thursday after its passage in the House Tuesday. "At the end of the day what we are trying to do is stop the practice of abortion on-demand at 20 weeks, and believe it or not, it is a problem," Graham said at a press conference Thursday. The House voted 237-189 to pass the measure. The proposed legislation would make performing or attempting to perform an abortion illegal after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for life-threatening circumstances for the mother as well as cases of rape, which Graham qualified as being "rare." Twenty states have similar bans in place. Under the measure, abortion providers would face penalties including a potential fine, up to five years in prison, or both."
Goddamned Republican nazis. Wouldn't know freedom, liberty if it figuratively bit them hard on their national socialist, achingly fascist asses.
Texas Rep. Mike Conaway opines in his latest newsletter:
"There is no life more vulnerable than the life of an unborn child. Medical professionals have reached a consensus that at 20 weeks, a child in utero can feel pain and physical suffering. This week, the House passed The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which ensures that no child capable of feeling pain will be subjected to the cruelty of an abortion."
It's nazis on the Right like you Congressman who dictate to doctors what they can and cannot do vis a vis how abortions are performed and what medications are used. Your claim is achingly disingenuous since doctors are not allowed to administer a lethal injection to the fetus which would eliminate any possibility of pain. Nazis like you dictate by statute medical procedures to impose your achingly perverse religious and ideological views on all.
"The majority of Americans support a ban on abortions after 20 weeks, yet the United States is one of just seven countries that allows elective abortions after 20 weeks- along with countries like North Korea and China who are known to dispose of babies with defects. It's time we stand as a country in support of the unborn children who are counting on our protection."
Outrageously haughty of you and other nazis who think like you to impose your outrageously perverse religious and ideological views by statute on those who strongly disagree with them. Achingly, un-American. Worse? Traitorous. Nazi.
Abortion care continues to be denied in our formerly great country. NPR reports:
"Dr. Graham Chilies has delivered hundreds of babies. But when a woman comes into his family medicine practice in Waive, Hawaii, seeking an abortion, he can only advise her to buy a plane ticket. "There are no abortion providers on our island," Chelius said, "so if one of my patients wants to end her pregnancy, she has to fly to a different island 150 miles away to get this care."
Nazi America. Determined abrogation of a constitutional right.
"Chelius is a plaintiff in a new lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union that's seeking to expand access to medication abortions, which can be used during the first 10 weeks of a pregnancy. The suit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Hawaii, challenges a longstanding U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulation allowing the abortion pill, Mifeprex, to be dispensed only at a medical facility under the care of a certified provider. Among other requirements, those providers must pre-register with the drug manufacturer, keep the medication in stock, and be capable of providing a surgical abortion if complications arise. Chelius argues those rules are unnecessary and cumbersome. Hawaii has one of the nation's highest poverty rates, and the delays and expenses are sometimes insurmountable barriers, Chelius said. The case could have implications beyond Hawaii."
Hopefully.
"The FDA restrictions create delays that often push medication abortion out of reach of my patients," he said. "And some of my patients are simply unable to make this trip and instead have been forced to carry a pregnancy to term against their will."
Precisely, the will of the Nazi Right to deny women their constitutional right to abort.
"Julia Kaye, a staff attorney with ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, argues that it's time for the FDA to allow women to fill those prescriptions at pharmacies – a move that could substantially expand access to medication abortions. She notes that the abortion pill is considered safe by most medical professionals, and many women prefer it. "It feels more natural to them, like a miscarriage. It allows them to pass the pregnancy in the privacy and comfort of their homes surrounded by their loved ones," Kaye said. "It allows a woman to end her pregnancy on her own terms."
Can't have that in a fascist police-state soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich:
"Anti-abortion groups have long opposed the abortion pill, along with other methods of ending pregnancy."
To impose their outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all by statute.
9-29-17
Abortion rights remain under vicious attack. ABC News reports:
"Kelly Kuhns rejected Down syndrome testing the first three times she got pregnant; the 36-year-old nurse from Ohio always knew she'd never terminate a pregnancy."
Certainly, her right. Has no right, however, to force her views on anyone by law. Precisely, her goal, -- her son has Down Syndrome.
"Kuhns went to her home in rural central Ohio that day and cried for hours. [After testing confirmed Down Syndrome] But Oliver, her 2-year-old son with Down syndrome, ultimately has led "a pretty normal life." That's why Kuhns is fighting for an Ohio bill that would ban abortions in cases where a pregnant woman has had a positive test result or prenatal diagnosis indicating Down syndrome."
While this woman is entitled to do as she pleases with HER uterus, has no right to impose those views, HER views on others.
"Physicians convicted of performing an abortion under such circumstances could be charged with a fourth-degree felony, stripped of their medical license and held liable for legal damages. The pregnant woman would face no criminal liability."
Raw nazism. In a fascist police-state soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.
"Several other states have considered similar measures, triggering emotional debate over women's rights, parental love, and the trust between doctor and patient."
To the Nazi Right, freedom is having the right to do what you're told. What they tell you.
"The Ohio bill's chief Senate sponsor, Republican Sen. Frank LaRose, said GOP lawmakers accelerated the measure after hearing a mid-August CBS News report on Iceland's high rate of abortions in cases involving Down syndrome. The report asserted Iceland had come close to "eradicating" such births."
It's none of your goddamned business, Senator. Who the hell are you to force your perverse religious views on others by statute? Where is your swastika armband, you nazi son of a bitch?
"Iceland is one of several European countries where Down syndrome diagnoses lead to abortion at least 90 percent of time. Others include Denmark and Britain. The rate in the United States is lower — probably between 67 and 85 percent, according to one of the most recent studies, a 2012 analysis in the journal Prenatal Diagnosis."
It's the woman's uterus, HER choice. Not that of a religious nazi desperate to impose his or her perverse religious views on others in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, church-state separation, freedom from religion.
Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.
9-29-17
Another judge has stood tall vis a vis abortion rights. CBS News reports:
"A federal judge permanently struck down provisions of an Indiana law passed last year that would have banned abortions sought due to fetal genetic abnormalities and required that aborted fetuses be buried or cremated. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt's decision, issued Friday, found that those two provisions and a third one are unconstitutional. She granted an order permanently blocking all three from being enforced and granted summary judgment in favor of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, which had sued the state in April 2016 after then-Gov. Mike Pence signed the provisions into law."
Indeed, encouraging to see at least some in the judiciary willing to stand up to these egregious laws clearly abrogating a woman's right to do with HER uterus as she damn well pleases.
"The three restrictions violate women's due process rights under the Constitution and conflict with rulings by numerous courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, upholding a woman's right to seek an abortion before a fetus could viably survive outside the womb, Pratt wrote in her ruling. "The challenged anti-discrimination provisions directly contravene well-established law that precludes a state from prohibiting a woman from electing to terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability," the judge wrote. Pratt's order makes permanent her preliminary order issued in June 2016 -- a day before the law was set to take effect -- that temporarily blocked the provisions from being enforced."
What about up to the moment of birth? How dare the state dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus up to and including viability? Force her to carry to term? HER uterus. HER body. Whatever happened to liberty? No more than the 'freedom' to do what you're told? ... Which is no freedom at all.
"Indiana is now permanently barred from enforcing a restriction that would have banned abortions sought because of a fetus' genetic abnormalities, race, gender or ancestry. Pratt's order also permanently blocks a requirement that abortion providers tell women that Indiana prohibits such abortions, and another provision that would have required that aborted fetuses be buried or cremated. As for the fetal disposal provision, Pratt wrote that she could find no legal basis for Indiana to require health care providers "to treat fetal remains in the same manner as human remains." "Stated otherwise, if the law does not recognize a fetus as a person, there can be no legitimate state interest in requiring an entity to treat an aborted fetus the same as a deceased human," she wrote."
Should the fetus be declared a person as demanded by the Nazi Religious Right, not only will they have successfully created an outrageously unconstitutional de fact theocracy, will have effectively obliterated liberty. Sadly, Pratt's order will be appealed.
Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.
8-18-17
Consider the following. NBC News reports:
"Michelle Zavala is one of a startlingly high number of women in Texas who have died after childbirth. The state has the highest number of pregnancy-related deaths not just in the United States — but in the entire developed world. Texas' maternal mortality rates are 35.8 per 100,000 live births as of 2014, according to a study in Obstetrics and Gynecology. By comparison, the maternal mortality in Japan was 5 per 100,000 live births, according to UNICEF's 2015 data. In Poland, it was just 3."
Why? Especially, since Republicans in Nazi Texas have become so proficient at dictating to the 'lil' lady what she can and cannot do with HER uterus.
8-4-17
Some semblance of sanity. CBS News reports:
"A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing four new abortion restrictions, including a ban on a common second trimester procedure and a fetal remains law that opponents say would effectively require a partner's consent before a woman could get an abortion."
Outrageous infringement of a constitutional right.
"U.S. District Court Judge Kristine Baker issued a preliminary injunction late Friday night against the new restrictions, three of which were set to take effect Tuesday. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights had challenged the measures, suing on behalf of Dr. Frederick Hopkins, a Little Rock abortion provider."
All civil and constitutional rights and liberties are under vicious attack by the Nazi Right.
"The laws include a ban on a procedure known as dilation and evacuation. Abortion-rights supporters contend it's the safest and most common procedure used in second-trimester abortions. Similar bans are in effect in Mississippi and West Virginia and have been blocked by court rulings in Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. A ban approved in Texas will take effect in September and is also being challenged in court. The groups said the ban would have a devastating impact, while the state argued that alternative procedures are available."
Clearly, Republican nazis embrace an outrageously perverse conception of liberty, worse, have no regard for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
NBC News reports:
"A federal judge has struck down Alabama's one-of-a-kind law that enabled judges to put minors seeking abortions through a trial-like proceeding in which the fetus could get a lawyer and prosecutors could object to the pregnant girl's wishes."
These 'Christian' nazis have apparently lost their minds.
"Alabama legislators in 2014 changed the state's process for girls who can't or won't get their parents' permission for an abortion to obtain permission from a court instead. The new law empowered the judge to appoint a guardian ad litem "for the interests of the unborn child" and invited the local district attorney to call witnesses and question the girl to determine whether she's mature enough to decide."
What a crock of shit. Shamelessly blatant attempt to impose their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views. Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. Clueless nazis.
"U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Russ Walker sided Friday with the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, writing that the law unconstitutionally and impermissibly imposes "an undue burden on a minor in Alabama who seeks an abortion through a judicial bypass," and violates the girl's confidentiality by potentially bringing other people from her life into the process."
Precisely, the intention of the 'Christian' nazis responsible for this appalling, atrocious law.
"Every state requiring parental consent for abortions involving minors must also have a "judicial bypass" procedure so that girls can get a judge's approval in a way that is effective, confidential, and expeditious, the ACLU said."
Think these nazi bastards are playing with a full deck? Consider the following:
"The ACLU filed the lawsuit in 2014 in federal court in Montgomery on behalf of Reproductive Health Services, a Montgomery abortion clinic. It is unclear how many such proceedings have happened since the law was enacted. Walker noted that a district attorney this summer opposed the abortion request of a 12-year-old girl who had been raped by an adult relative, and said it was the first case she was aware of that was decided under the new law. The girl was 13 weeks pregnant and had just completed fifth grade when she went before a family court judge, according to a court record. The judge approved the abortion on June 27, and the district attorney appealed the same day, arguing that the girl was too immature to make an informed decision. The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals on July 12 ruled in favor of the girl."
8-4-17
Other countries are stepping up. NPR reports:
"An effort to help global sexual health charities losing support under the Trump administration has reached a new milestone: $300 million in fundraising.
"The fundraising effort began after President Trump reinstated the "Mexico City policy." That's a rule that says U.S. foreign aid cannot be sent to any organization that provides or "promotes" abortion, which can include providing information about abortion."
7-28-17
The constitutional right to abortion is under severe attack all across our formerly great country. The worst at the moment appears to be in Kentucky. ABC News reports:
"Political pressure has intensified since the Kentucky GOP took control of state government and moved quickly to pass new restrictions on abortions. And Republican Gov. Matt Bevin makes no apologies for waging a licensing fight against a Louisville clinic that is the last remaining facility performing abortions in the state."
Direct determined concerted abrogation of a constitutional right.
"Another battle-tested participant joins the fight this weekend. Operation Save America, a Christian fundamentalist group, plans to mobilize hundreds of activists to protest against EMW Women's Surgical Center. The group's leaders state their purpose unequivocally: to rid Kentucky of its last abortion clinic. Some of the group's followers were arrested during a protest outside EMW in the spring. The group has said it won't use those same tactics in the coming days, but a federal judge on Friday ordered the creation of a "buffer zone" to keep protesters out of an area in front of the clinic. The pre-emptive move was requested by federal prosecutors to prevent protesters from blocking access to the surgical center."
Desperate to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all.
"We have never been under siege like this," Dr. Ernest Marshall, a co-founder of the clinic open since the early 1980s, recently told The Associated Press. "We have never had any question as to whether we would exist."
No longer in Nazi Kentucky.
"As a volunteer whisked another woman past a handful of protesters, a demonstrator clutching a rosary told the patient's male companion: "Men don't kill their babies. Man up." The man turned and glared but said nothing."
Should have told the nazi bastard to go f--k himself.
"The demonstrator, Chuck Jones, defended his harsh words. "This is the last chance we'll get to talk to them before they go in," the retired sheet-metal worker from Indiana said."
Who the hell are you to do so? None of your goddamned business. Not your uterus.
"I just wanted him to think about what he's doing. If anybody believes in God, they can't be for abortion, in my opinion."
That's the problem. That's all it is. An opinion. Like an asshole, everyone has one. At least the asshole, however, serves a useful bodily function.
"The 66-year-old Marshall — the father of three grown children and grandfather of eight — said he attends church every Sunday and is a former Sunday school teacher. He said abortion protesters don't have a "monopoly on morals." He condemned their tactics as "very harassing, very judgmental," taking a toll on patients and staff. "Some of the things I see out in front of our clinic, to me, by the pro-life people, don't represent good Christianity," Marshall said. "I just don't think Jesus would harass people or name-call people or call doctors murderers."
Wouldn't want to confuse the nazi element with the truth, would you, Doctor?
"The number of protesters is expected to surge this weekend when Texas-based Operation Save America converges on Louisville for a weeklong vigil, with the long-term goal of making Kentucky a national model in its push to end abortion. The group urges state officials to ignore the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 that legalized abortion."
Raw nazism.
"The Supreme Court has found that access to an abortion must be guaranteed, but it remains to be seen whether eliminating every clinic in a single state would pass that test. "I can't imagine being a female and being ... forced to have a baby that I didn't want," Marshall said."
A nazi can't see that far. Too myopic.
7-21-17
Despite best efforts of Republican nazis to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with her uterus, the outcome is not what they expected it to be. Texas Standard reports:
"For years, Texas Republicans have pointed to defunding Planned Parenthood as a way to reduce abortions. But a new study says those measures have backfired."
Wouldn't want to confuse the nazi element with the truth, would we?
"Miami University Economics Professor Analisa Packham studied how family planning cuts impacted teenagers specifically. She found that in the three years following the 2011 cuts to Texas’ family planning budget, the teen abortion rate rose 3.1 percent. It also found that teen births rose three-point-four percent."
Then again, 'can fix ignorant, can't fix stupid.' ... Right, TB?
"The 2011 cuts slashed public funding for family planning by about two-thirds, resulting in the closure of more than 80 womens’ health clinics."
Direct intentional blatant abrogation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. The nazi element is determined to force its perverse ideological and religious views on all by statute.
7-21-17
Not only that, the Abbott nazi is determined to intrude on the privacy of those seeking an abortion. Texas Standard reports:
"The governor says requiring the gathering more information about complications encountered during abortions will make the procedures safer. Critics believe the goal is to restrict abortion access further."
Abortion is far safer than carrying the baby to term. The Governor knows this. Doesn't matter to the nazi. Remains intent on dictating to the 'lil' lady what she can and cannot do with her uterus. To force his perverse ideological and religious views on all. No question, the intent of the Nazi Republican Right.
"During the regular legislative session, Texas lawmakers passed new reporting requirements for abortion providers. Gov. Greg Abbott wants them to pass even tougher requirements during the special session that starts Tuesday."
It's none of the goddamned government's business. These GOP nazis are doing this to make it as difficult and intrusive as possible for a woman to do as she pleases with her uterus. ... Right, Greg?
"Senate Bill 8, which Abbott signed into law last month, includes a measure moving basic abortion data collection to an online database that doesn’t exist yet. It also puts the onus on physicians to report the data within a certain time period. Blake Rocap, legislative counsel for NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, said the measures could hurt physicians. “[It] both could endanger the physician’s confidentiality,” he said, “and targets the physician for regulatory harassment for paperwork – basically what amounts to paperwork errors, not patient care errors.”
Certainly, the intention of Republican nazis. Do all they can to abrogate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. In direct violation of their falsely sworn oath to protect and defend the United States Constitution. ... Right, Governor?
"Rocap said no one is opposed to the idea of better reporting. “We are not opposed to good neutral health care data collection, but we are opposed to doing it in such a way that puts targets on physicians,” he says. “And I mean that literally.” Rocap said the push for these reporting requirements is a reaction to a Supreme Court ruling last year striking down a Texas abortion law that placed onerous requirements on abortion providers, like having to perform the abortion in a surgical suite instead of a clinic room. The requirements were reportedly made in the name of safety, but the court ruled the state could not prove those additional safety measures were needed."
Has nothing to do with safety. Nor concern for women's health. What it is remains no more than nazi Republicans desperately trying to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
... Freedom from our nazi oppressors in the Republican Party as well. Where are the Democrats? Out to lunch? Clearly, neither party serves the best interests of the public. Only itself. Both pay lip service to liberty while shamelessly lining their pockets.
Get their cookies off abrogating liberty, whether from the Extreme Right for Republicans, or what's left of the Extreme Left for Democrats. Either way, liberty is not well-served, deliberately abrogated. Perversely, in the name of 'freedom.' Catch-22.
6-9-17
Ever wonder why the rate of teenage pregnancy is as high as it is in Texas? NPR reports:
"In Texas every year, about 35,000 teens and young women get pregnant before they turn 20. And while rates of teen pregnancy are on the decline nationwide, in Texas the rate of decline is slower."
Forget? This is Bible Belt Country. Think abstinence-only works? Truly believe so?
"Research shows teens everywhere are having sex, with about half of high school students saying they've had sexual intercourse. Gwen Daverth, CEO of the Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, says the high numbers in Texas reflect policy, not promiscuity."
Yet, high school students are receiving abstinence-only sex education, -- if any sex education at all. Worse? No easy access to contraceptive services.
"What we see is there are not supports in place," Daverth says. "We're not connecting high-risk youth with contraception services. And we're not supporting youth in making decisions to be abstinent." The state needs to emulate more progressive policies in other states, she says."
That's not likely to happen any time in the near future. Sick religion, the greatest obstacle.
"Texas makes it hard for teenagers to get reproductive health care, Daverth says. In Texas, if a 17-year-old mom wants prescription birth control, in most cases she needs her parents' permission. "Only us and Utah have a law that if you're already a parent, you are the legal medical guardian of your baby but you cannot make your own medical decisions without the now-grandma involved," Daverth says. That's part of the reason, she notes, that Texas has the highest rate of repeat teen pregnancies in the country."
Wouldn't want to confuse clueless Republican nazis with the truth, would we?
6-9-17
The following is yet another example of the consequences of achingly sick religion. Madeline Runkles is an exceptionally gifted high school student who wrote the following editorial in The Washington Post:
"I’m only 18 years old, and I’m about to have a baby boy in the fall as a result of my deliberate failure to adhere to a pledge of chastity I signed at my school.
"Until this year, I was an ordinary high school student at Heritage Academy, a Christian school in Hagerstown, Md. I was the president of the student council and vice president of the Key Club. I played soccer, had a 4.0 GPA, and ate ice cream and watched movies with my best friends on the weekends. My Christian faith is also extremely important to me, so I involved myself at my church working in the nursery, helping out with Vacation Bible School and helping my mom with meals for church bus drivers on Sunday mornings.
"But in January, all that changed. What I thought was the flu was actually the very beginning of my pregnancy. This wasn’t the way it was supposed to be. I was going to graduate in a few months with very good grades and then in the fall I was going to head off to Bob Jones University in South Carolina.
"I am a born-again Christian, one who made a mistake with a very visible consequence. Even though I grew up knowing abortion was wrong, I also knew that it would make things easier for me — no one would know what I had done, and I could get on with my life. I had seen women being forgiven who admitted to having abortions, while women who kept their babies seemed to be harder to forgive. But the more I thought about abortion, the more I knew I couldn’t go through with it. In my view, abortion is taking a life. And I couldn’t do that.
"I told the baby’s father first. I didn’t know how to tell my parents, because even though they were very involved in both my brother’s life and mine, telling my parents I was pregnant at 18 wasn’t at the top of my list of things I thought I would ever do.
"Finally, I broke down in a grocery store parking lot with my mom, and I cried as I told her the truth. She looked at me and said: “I’m not mad at you, I’m not upset with you. You’re gonna be fine, and we’re gonna make it through this.” I still had to work up the courage to tell my dad, but when I finally did — the day I received my acceptance letter to Bob Jones — he reacted just like my mom: “It’s going to be okay, sweetie,” he said, “God is in this somewhere, we just need to find where He is in all of this.”
"Unfortunately, my school didn’t feel the same way.
"My dad was, at the time, the president of the board at Heritage Academy. He called an emergency board meeting to explain my situation. I was not allowed to attend school as my principal and the board decided if I would be allowed to return at all, and I would be stripped of all leadership positions. I wasn’t allowed to attend sports games to watch my brother play basketball or baseball, and I wouldn’t be allowed on campus until after the baby was born. I would be allowed to receive my diploma, but I would have to take all my classes at home, and wouldn’t be allowed to walk at graduation.
"This felt overly harsh to me and my parents, so my dad asked the principal and the board to reconsider. He argued that the only difference between me and other seniors who had broken the school’s moral code in various ways was that I was pregnant, and they were trying to hide me away because they were embarrassed by my visible sin. My principal and the board finally changed their decision: I would be allowed back to finish the year with my classmates, but I couldn’t be in any leadership positions in school clubs, and I still couldn’t walk at graduation.
"On top of all of this, my principal called an assembly of the entire high school, and invited school families, to tell everyone what had happened. He told me I didn’t need to be there, but I volunteered to tell them myself. I was a senior and a campus leader, so I felt like I should stand there myself and tell them what I did.
"In front of the whole school, I got up and started to read a statement that I wrote, explaining that I had broken the rules, that I was repentant and that I asked for forgiveness. But I couldn’t get through it. My dad had to read some of it while I composed myself. It was one of the hardest things I ever did, and I’m so sorry, not for myself, but for any girl in that audience who will get pregnant in the future and may consider abortion because of what I had to go through.
"After that, I got involved with Students for Life of America, as I wanted to use my story to help other girls like me. Part of their mission is to help pregnant girls and teenage mothers on campuses like myself who are treated unfairly. They had seen similar situations and after trying to persuade the school privately, which was unsuccessful, we decided to take my story to the media in hopes to create a national conversation about how girls like me should be treated.
"When girls like me who go to pro-life schools make a brave pro-life decision, we shouldn’t be hidden away in shame. The sin that got us into this situation is not worth celebrating, but after confession and forgiveness take place, we should be supported and treated like any other student. What we are going through is tough enough. Having to deal with the added shame of being treated like an outcast is nothing that any girl should have to go through.
"Many of the people in my town and at my school who had supported me and my family have turned on us since I went public, feeling that all the scrutiny was hurting Heritage Academy’s reputation. We started getting nasty emails, angry posts on social media and rude remarks in person. People who had been supportive before are now telling me to shut up, suck it up and grow up. Because of the volume of anger from the community, my parents have decided to keep my brother and me at home for the rest of the school year.
"I’m still not allowed to walk at graduation this month, but I still wouldn’t change my decision to keep my baby — a boy, who I want to name Greyson. Even though it’s been hard losing support in my town, even though my school has drawn out my punishment over months, I want other girls in my position to know you don’t have to give in to pressure or fear of judgment.
"My school could have made an example of how to treat a student who made a mistake, owned up to it, accepted the consequences, and is now being supported in her decision to choose life. But they didn’t. It is my hope that the next Christian school will make the right decision when the time comes."
"Madeline Runkles"
Think this young lady doesn't have quite a future ahead of her? This is yet another egregious example of sick religion. Perpetrated by haughty, galling, self-righteous nazis. Think the Head Honcho of their religion would have treated her like these pieces of shit did? Pregnant young women must be supported whether they choose to carry the baby to term, -- or abort. The choice is theirs. The hypocrisy of religious nazis reeks.
4-28-17
The State of Virginia, like all others, believes it owns your body womb to tomb. To say nothing of the federal government. Liberty? What's that? No longer exists in the fascist police-state we now live in. In follow up to an earlier edition of this publication and elsewhere, The Washington Post reports:
"The police brought cadaver dogs to search the small redbrick rancher in this suburban community south of Richmond. On that March day more than a year ago, they were seeking “any evidence associated with the delivery and death of a newborn child whether alive or deceased,” according to the affidavit for the search warrant. What they found buried in the back yard — the skeletal remains of a fetus — led to the indictment last month of a 43-year-old woman who lived there. Michelle Frances Roberts is accused of self-aborting in the third trimester of her pregnancy. She was arrested March 29 this year on felony charges of “producing abortion or miscarriage.” The rarely invoked law, written in 1950, prohibits giving a pregnant woman a drug or taking any action “with intent to destroy her unborn child.”
What the hell business is it of our goddamned nazi government to dictate what a woman can and cannot do with her uterus?
"Roberts, who remains in jail in Chesterfield, has denied the charges. According to the police, she told investigators she gave birth to a baby boy in the house, but he died afterward, and she buried him in the back yard. Police and prosecutors have revealed little about the evidence that led to the unusual charge against Roberts, who court records show has a history of drug use."
Where is the evidence against this woman? Why are the jackbooted bastards in blue sitting on it? Could it be they indeed have shit squat? Get this:
"Commonwealth Assistant Attorney Shawn Gobble refused to comment on the case. Roberts’ defense attorney, H. Pratt Cook III, also declined to talk about the charge his client is facing. She is scheduled to appear in court Monday for a status hearing on the case, which has alarmed women’s rights advocates in Virginia."
As well it should. Women no longer have the right to do with their uterus as they damn well please all over this country. Republican nazis in state legislatures have determinedly infringed on the constitutional right to abort. Done so to impose their goddamned perverse ideological and religious views on all by statute. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
“It is unclear from the questionable, selective release of information by the Chesterfield police exactly what happened here,” said Gail Deady, the Secular Society Women’s Rights legal fellow for the Virginia ACLU. “But it appears that this is another example of overreach and targeting of a pregnant woman in an attempt to shame and punish her for her circumstances.”
Appears to be egregious abuse of power by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue and prosecutors. Forensic examination of the corpse should have determined whether or not it was stillborn, died of natural causes after birth, or was murdered. Why are the assholes in government sitting on this information?
"But a neighbor who saw the police cars arrive on their street said the discovery of the remains near a big tree in the back yard sent chills through her body: “It wasn’t right. She should have gone to a doctor. If you don’t want the baby, you go to the doctor.”
It's her uterus, her body, not yours. Not that of this goddamned overbearing government. Who the hell are you to judge her? Moreover, is this goddamned government effectively accusing her of practicing medicine on her body without a license? Is that what this is about? If so, then why wasn't she so charged? Liberty? What's that? The 'freedom' to do what you're told?
"The law has been used at least once before by Virginia authorities to charge a woman with harming her unborn child, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. In 2005, a Suffolk woman was prosecuted for shooting herself in the abdomen on her due date and then blaming her injury on a man. But a circuit court judge dismissed the charge, saying the law was not intended to punish expectant mothers. It was aimed at the actions of others."
Wouldn't want to confuse the Nazi Right with the truth, would we?
"Repeated efforts by state legislators to pass a law making it a crime for a pregnant woman to self-abort were unsuccessful."
As well they should have been. Our bodies do not belong to this goddamned nazi government. Why shouldn't we be able to self-treat? Practicing medicine without a license on another person is indeed quite a different matter. Certainly, the woman would have been well advised to have sought professional medical care. Not the point, however. It's her body. Does not belong to the goddamned Republican Nazi Right.
"Deady said she is concerned about the repercussions of the Roberts prosecution. “It could mean anyone who has a miscarriage could be subjected to an investigation by police and thrown in jail,” she argued."
Exactly, precisely, the problem with this outrageous, egregious governmental overreach. Be interesting to see how this case is resolved. No more than concerted, determined, pernicious abrogation of all civil and constitutional rights and liberties by GOP 'law and order' national socialists, fascists, nazis determined to impose their achingly perverse religious and ideological views on all by statute. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is freedom from religion.
4-14-17
Here is the take of Planned Parenthood on confirmation of the Gorsuch nazi:
Dear Tim,
They did it. It took an unprecedented blockade of President Obama's highly qualified nominee. It took undoing Senate rules and dismantling decades of American democratic tradition. It meant ignoring the clear threat to our fundamental rights. But President Trump's allies in the Senate did it: They just voted to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court by a razor-thin vote.
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Over the next few years, the Supreme Court could rule on laws that undermine access to basic health care, target the LGBTQ community for discrimination, and deny the essential right to safe and legal abortion. Justice Gorsuch has a history of going to extraordinary lengths to interfere with reproductive health and rights, and his alarming record and judicial philosophy leave no doubt that he will vote to restrict access to abortion.
But I promise you this: Planned Parenthood will not back down in the face of an increasingly hostile Supreme Court. We'll be there for every fight, and we'll do whatever it takes to defend the patients who are counting on us.
Tim, I'm asking you to be there, too. Chip in now with an emergency gift to help make sure we're ready for whatever comes next.
It's bad enough that the Supreme Court will now have one more justice who does not believe the Constitution protects a woman's right to safe, legal abortion. But this isn't just about the Supreme Court. Now, lawmakers in Congress and state legislatures will be emboldened to pass even more extreme laws targeting birth control, abortion, and other essential care.
These renewed attacks will be a strain on our resources — but together, we can stand strong. Please, make your emergency gift now.
I have been so proud to
stand with the more than 100,000 Planned Parenthood supporters who spoke
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as we do that this fight isn't over yet. Thank you for standing with us,
today and always.
Sincerely,
Cecile Richards, President
Planned Parenthood Federation
of America
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4-7-17
The Trump nazi and his henchmen will never be confused with the truth. NBC News reports:
"The Trump administration's decision to pull support from a United Nations family planning agency hurts some of the world's most desperate women and girls, advocates said Tuesday. The State Department announced late Monday that it was yanking money from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), which focuses on family planning, help for pregnant women and new babies."
Thought Republican nazis were the party of the family? Clearly, not.
"Republican presidents, backed by conservatives, have routinely stopped funding the UNFPA, while Democratic presidents, most recently the Obama administration, provide the cash. At issue is whether the UNFPA supports some of the actions taken by China in the past as part of its one-child-per-family policy, including forced abortions and sterilizations. Jalan said there is no evidence the UNFPA has supported the policy and added that the agency has in fact worked with the Chinese government to help reverse it. "We were really pushing for a factual review based on evidence and we didn't see that," she said. "We were not surprised that the Trump administration would move to defund UNFPA. However, we were incredibly surprised that the administration would do so without any evidence."
Par for the course for GOP nazis. The problem is these fascist bastards are determined to force their perverse religious and ideological views on all. Across the universe. Not just here in Nazi America.
"Just days after he was inaugurated, Trump also reinstated the Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, stopping funding for any group involved in any way with abortions. This is also a policy that's gone back and forth depending on the party holding the White House."
Readers are reminded the Trump nazi was for abortion rights before he was against them. Amazing what difference running for office can make in one's long held principles, isn't it?
"Foreign policy should be rooted in evidence and results, not ideology and the politics of punishment," said Shannon Kowalski of the International Women's Health Coalition."
Not to Republican nazis. Too damned aggressively stupid, hopelessly ignorant.
3-31-17
While Nazi Texas failed to prosecute, California hasn't made the same mistake. CBS News reports:
"California prosecutors on Tuesday charged two anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood with 15 felonies, saying they invaded the privacy of medical providers by filming without consent. State Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the charges against David Daleiden of Davis, California, and Sandra Merritt of San Jose. The two operate the Irvine-based Center for Medical Progress."
The viciousness of the Nazi Right once again raises its ugly head.
"The allegations say the pair filmed 14 people without permission between October 2013 and July 2015 in Los Angeles, San Francisco and El Dorado counties. One felony count was filed for each person. The 15th was for criminal conspiracy to invade privacy. Becerra says they used a fictitious bioresearch company to meet with women’s health care providers and covertly record them."
This psychotic shit never seems to end. Hopefully, this time they'll finally get their comeuppance. Didn't stop the bastards from making the same goddamned phony excuses:
"Daleiden, in an email to The Associated Press, said the “bogus” charges are coming from “Planned Parenthood’s political cronies.” “The public knows the real criminals are Planned Parenthood and their business partners,” Daleiden said."
The real criminals are you nazi sons of bitches who insist on imposing your achingly perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us.
Think these very same pieces of shit haven't done this before? Wake up:
"Daleiden and Merritt had previously been indicted in Texas on similar charges in January of 2016, but all of the charges were eventually dropped by July as prosecutors said a grand jury had overstepped its authority. The grand jury had originally been convened to investigate Planned Parenthood, but after finding no wrongdoing turned around and indicted Daleiden and Merritt instead."
A Texas Grand Jury exonerated Planned Parenthood of any criminal wrongdoing. Yet, the Nazi State of Texas refused to prosecute these two pieces of human excrement who were indicted. Denied Planned Parenthood justice. Selective prosecution. No equal treatment. No justice. Nazi Texas.
3-31-17
Texas GOP fascists have certainly been emboldened by the Trump nazi and his henchmen. Texas Standard reports:
"Wednesday, the Texas Senate gave preliminary approval to a measure that would require women to purchase separate health coverage for abortion. Senate Bill 20 passed the upper chamber with a vote of 19-10. The bill would still allow health plans to cover abortions that are deemed medically necessary – but it doesn’t include coverage for women who have been victims of rape or incest."
Anything to make it more difficult, more expensive to exercise the constitutional right to abort. These goddamned Republican nazis do all they can to impose their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all by statute. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
3-24-17
No one provides care like Planned Parenthood. Think not? Wake up. GOP nazis are bamboozling you. CBS News reports:
"Last summer, Texas gave $1.6 million to an anti-abortion organization called the Heidi Group to help strengthen small clinics that specialize in women’s health like Planned Parenthood but don’t offer abortions. The goal was to help the clinics boost their patient rolls and show there would be no gap in services if the nation’s largest abortion provider had to scale back."
A miserable failure, Republican fascists remain too gutless to concede.
"The effort offered a model other conservative states could follow if Republicans make their long-sought dream of defunding Planned Parenthood a reality under President Donald Trump. Several states are already moving to curtail the organization’s funds."
To unconstitutionally impose their achingly perverse ideological and religious views by statute. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. Hear the rumble?
"But eight months later, the Heidi Group has little to show for its work. An Associated Press review found the nonprofit has done little of the outreach it promised, such as helping clinics promote their services on Facebook, or airing public service announcements. It hasn’t made good on plans to establish a 1-800 number to help women find providers or ensure that all clinics have updated websites."
Where's the $1.6 million? Where's the criminal investigation?Where?Who lined their pockets? Thought you GOP nazis were conservatives.
"Neither the group nor state officials would say how many patients have been served so far by the private clinics."
Why not? Where's the transparency? Accountability, for obviously misused taxpayer funds?
"The Heidi Group is led by Carol Everett, a prominent anti-abortion activist and influential conservative force in the Texas Legislature."
Why isn't this woman and her group being criminally investigated? Where's the accountability? Yet, Republican nazis in the Legislature remain gutlessly, hypocritically, deafeningly silent.
"The Heidi Group is an evangelical nonprofit that started in the 1990s and is best known for promoting alternatives to abortion. It operates with a relatively small budget, taking in about $186,000 in grants and donations in 2015, according to tax records, and had not been doing patient care."
Then, why did GOP nazis give them $1.6 million? Why?
3-10-17
The GOP plan also defunds Planned Parenthood. The Washington Times reports:
"Planned Parenthood has firmly rejected a proposal by President Trump offering to preserve federal funding for the women’s health organization if it stopped providing abortion services."
The Trump nazi and his henchmen simply can't accept the fact abortion is a constitutional right as affirmed by the Supreme Court. The Trump nazi, his henchmen, and fascists in the Republican Party remain hell bent on eviscerating the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. In direct violation of their oaths of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution.
"Mr. Trump reportedly confirmed Monday to The New York Times that an informal proposal was made to Planned Parenthood offering to maintain federal funding — about $500 million each year — if the organization ended abortion procedures. Sources told the newspaper that White House officials even suggested there could be an increase in that funding if they accepted the deal."
Mr. Trump remains an achingly delusional, duplicitous nazi. What else would be expected of this goddamned misogynist fascist?
"Dawn Laguens, Planned Parenthood’s executive vice president and chief brand officer, told The Times that no federal funds are used to pay for abortions. “Offering money to Planned Parenthood to abandon our patients and our values is not a deal that we will ever accept,” she said. “Providing critical health care services for millions of American women is nonnegotiable.”
F--k the nazi Republican Party. National socialists, fascists. Remain an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. ... Right, TL?
Have to admire Planned Parenthood for indeed standing tall against the Trump nazi:
“Planned Parenthood is proud to provide abortion—a necessary service that’s as vital to our mission as birth control or cancer screenings,” she tweeted. “We won’t back down in the face of threats or intimidation, or turn our backs on the patients who count on us. Not today, tomorrow, not ever.”
Indeed.
"In a longer statement, Ms. Richards said, “The White House proposal that Planned Parenthood stop providing abortion is the same demand opponents of women’s health have been pushing for decades, as a part of their longstanding effort to end women’s access to safe, legal abortion. Planned Parenthood has always stood strong against these attacks on our patients and their ability to access the full range of reproductive health care. We are glad that the White House understands that taking away the preventive care Planned Parenthood provides is deeply unpopular and would be a disaster for women’s health care.”
"Fact:
Federal funds do not pay for abortion. At Planned Parenthood, we don’t
agree with this harmful policy—but it’s the law & we follow it.
—
Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) March 6, 2017"
Never, ever, never confuse the Trump nazi, his henchmen, and fascists in the Republican Party with the truth. Remain too damned aggressively stupid, hopelessly ignorant. -- Not that the goddamned Democrats are any better, however. Where the hell have they been since the assassination of JFK? Where?
Interesting quote from Fox News:
"In a response to the report of the proposal, Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards says the group "will always stand for women's ability to make decisions about their health and lives, without interference from politicians."
Indeed. Quite amazingly, the Trump nazi was for abortion rights before he was against them.
2-24-16
Another interesting court loss for the State of Texas. Texas Public Radio reports:
"U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks ruled Tuesday afternoon that Texas clinics affiliated with Planned Parenthood can continue to care for patients under the state’s Medicaid program, a phew-worthy victory for reproductive rights advocates and a loss for the state's GOP leaders. In his ruling, Sparks wrote that the state's arguments in the case were "the building blocks of a best-selling novel rather than a case concerning the interplay of federal and state authority through the Medicaid program." "After reviewing the evidence currently in the record, the Court finds the Inspector General, and thus HHSC, likely acted to disenroll qualified health care providers from Medicaid without cause," the ruling read. "Such action would deprive Medicaid patients of their statutory right to obtain health care from their chosen qualified provider."
The Texas Attorney General, himself under criminal indictment and about to be tried, intends to appeal the Sparks ruling.
2-10-17
Republican national socialists in Arkansas have certainly been emboldened by the Trump nazi. Get this. CNN reports:
"A new Arkansas law will let a husband sue a doctor to stop his wife from getting an abortion. And it makes no exception for cases of spousal rape."
... Hey, TL? Fits right in with psychotic GOP fascists insanely believing they own the "'lil' lady," doesn't it? No more than human chattel, right? After all, don't Republican nazis also believe they own a woman's uterus? Isn't that why these achingly clueless bastards do all they can to deprive women of the constitutional right to abortion? After all, she's too damned stupid to decide for herself, isn't she? You guys haughtily know what's 'best,' don't you? More than willing to dictate to her what she can and cannot do, right?
"The law, called the Arkansas Unborn Child Protection From Dismemberment Abortion Act, was passed and signed by Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and goes into effect later this year. It prohibits dismemberment abortion, the most common procedure used in second-trimester abortions."
Who the hell are these Republican nazis to, in effect, practice medicine without a license? To force their outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all? In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is church-state separation, freedom from religion.
"A clause in the law states that the husband of a woman getting the abortion can sue the doctor to stop his wife's abortion. The husband has to be the father of the child. And because there's no exemption in the law for rape or incest, a woman's rapist could theoretically file suit to stop the abortion."
How about that? Sick religion. Imposed by psychotic Republican nazis.
"The ACLU of Arkansas claims the law is unconstitutional and plans to challenge it in court before it goes into effect."
Excellent. Go for it. ... Hey, ladies? Should this atrocious law go into effect, know what to do? Cut the bastard off cold turkey. No sex until repeal.
2-3-17
The following carefully annotated passage from a recent Cruz Newsletter illustrates precisely the fanaticism of not only Cruz, but the Trump nazi and the rest of the Republican Party:
"Sen. Cruz released the following statement in recognition of the March for Life, where millions of Americans will gather in D.C. and across the nation in defense of policies at all levels of government that defend innocent life:
... But first, does the Senator mean all the innocent executed in Nazi Texas for crimes they did not commit? All the soldiers killed in action since the end of the Second World War to line the bottomless pockets of corporate war profiteers and their shareholders? All innocent unarmed citizens murdered by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue with impunity? The list can go on and on. Yet, nazis like "Screws Loose" Cruz couldn't care less.
“As millions of Americans gather in D.C. and cities all across the country today to recognize the fundamental right to life, we mourn and remember the 57 million innocent, unborn lives that have been ended by abortion since Roe v. Wade was decided 44 years ago. I want to thank all who are marching today and all who are fighting tirelessly to rectify this injustice and defend the unborn."
The Senator does not recognize "the fundamental right to life." If he did, he'd condemn the State of Texas for executing innocent citizens, all the wars fought only to line corporate coffers and the pockets of shareholders, all the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who murder on the job with impunity. This nazi piece of shit cannot grasp the fact he and his fellow lunatics have no right to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with her uterus. That it's egregiously un-American to force his outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on others through the force of law.
"Their heroic efforts continue to speak the truth in love and make great strides in restoring the sanctity of life throughout the 50 states."
"Heroic?' How is it "heroic" to force your haughty beliefs on others, Senator? Who's "truth"? That of a nazi who has no clue what "love" is? Only how to abrogate all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. In direct violation of your oath of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution including the Bill of Rights. This piece of shit clearly has no idea what the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is church-state separation, freedom from religion truly means.
"I stand with you all and remain firmly committed to efforts that will minimize and, hopefully one day, put an end to the scourge of abortion upon our society."
The true "scourge", Senator, is your determination, and those of others who 'think' like you, to eviscerate church-state separation guarantied by the First Amendment, that is, force your perverse ideological views and religious beliefs on the rest of us. Your determination to dictate what a woman can and cannot do with her uterus is achingly haughty, unbecoming a United States Senator.
"With your efforts we can bring a light of hope and restore a culture of life in America. Each life is a gift from God. Without life, there is no liberty."
Conveniently forget, Senator? Millions of U.S. military personnel have died on the battlefield defending the very same civil and constitutional rights and liberties you remain so desperate to eviscerate. Including the constitutional right to abort.
"So today, and every day, we stand united for life, and we resolve to always cherish and defend it."
Senator, like the Trump nazi, you remain a goddamned liar. You gutlessly ignore all the murders committed on the job by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, all the needless deaths on the battlefield to line corporate coffers of war profiteers and their shareholders, to say nothing of all the innocent executed in the not-so-free State of Nazi Texas. Defense of innocent life? You haven't a clue you nazi son of a bitch.
"Sen. Cruz has been a leader in efforts to defend life throughout his career. Earlier this week, he joined with colleagues to reintroduce the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, sponsored by Sen. Ben Sasse, which requires that a child born alive as a result of an abortion must be given the same degree of health care as any other child born alive at that gestational stage."
What are you talking about Senator? Take your head out of your ass. Ignorance is unbecoming. Conveniently forget? Partial birth abortion procedures were performed because clueless fascist bastards like you were all too ready to indict doctors performing abortions with murder. You and your fellow goddamned nazis do all you can to deny woman the constitutional right to an abortion.
"He also advocated last Friday in a Senate resolution to reinstate the Mexico City policy to ensure that American taxpayer dollars are not spent to promote abortion in foreign countries."
As in our formerly great nation that used to believe in liberty, it's none of your goddamned business to dictate to women in other countries what they can and cannot do with their uterus, Senator.
"After years of not being enforced under the Obama Administration, President Donald Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy via executive order earlier this week."
Proof positive the Trump nazi, just like "Screws Loose" Cruz, has intentionally abrogated his oath of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution including the Bill of Rights. ... What does it feel like to be a traitor, Senator?
"In the U.S. Senate, Sen. Cruz has led efforts to take away taxpayer dollars from Planned Parenthood and advocated for an investigation into abortion practices in the U.S. to put a stop to facilities and doctors illegally performing late term abortions and infanticide."
More unadulterated bullshit, egregious distortion of reality. Cruz, like the Trump nazi, is a congenital liar. What he claims is simply untrue. Perpetrated to force his perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us.
"As Solicitor General of Texas he led the charge on behalf of 13 states to successfully defend a federal law that bans partial birth abortion before the U.S. Supreme Court."
... A determinedly national socialist, fascist Supreme Court dominated by the Scalia nazi at the time and his equally national socialist compadres.
2-3-17
Further proof of the above? GOP nazis in Arkansas are again stupidly, figuratively shooting themselves in the ass. ABC News reports:
"Arkansas is poised to become the third state to ban a commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure under restrictions lawmakers approved Thursday that are expected to face a legal challenge. The majority-GOP Senate voted 25-6 to ban the procedure known as dilation and evacuation, which abortion-rights supporters contend is the safest and most common procedure used in second-trimester abortions. The legislation now goes to the desk of Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who said he will sign it into law as soon as Thursday afternoon."
These goddamned Republican nazis never seem to tire of forcing their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, church-state separation, freedom from religion. These haughty GOP self-righteous fascist bastards insist on practicing medicine without a license. Yet, keep getting returned to office.
1-27-17
The Trump nazi has begun the assault on abortion rights both here and abroad. NBC News reports:
"With the stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump reinstated a controversial rule that blocks foreign aid for family planning services."
Once again the Trump nazi has clearly demonstrated his profound ignorance and that of the Republican Party. These fascist pieces of shit continue to drag their knuckles, give Neanderthals a bad name.
"Known as the "Mexico City policy" or the "Global Gag Rule," the policy bars foreign aid or federal funding for international programs that provide abortions — or even information about the procedure."
The Nazi Right wishes not only to impose their perverse ideological and religious views on the American public, but foreigners as well.
"Under the rule, USAID would be unable to provide funds to non-governmental organizations that provide referrals or counseling for abortion services, or advocate for the same. NGOs that provide abortions — except in the case of rape, incest or life endangerment — would also be ineligible for aid."
This is no more than Evangelical Nazism. Achingly, un-American. If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. A Republican nazi ignorantly believes reproductive freedom is men keeping it in their pants, flies up. Women keeping their panties on and legs crossed.
"Pro-choice groups see the law's return as a step backwards after years of progress. Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equality, said that in addition to reducing women's access to contraceptives and safe abortions, the measure could hamper HIV prevention efforts abroad and force health clinics in developing countries to close their doors."
... And then these GOP nazis claim to believe in freedom? Give me a goddamned break. The hypocrisy reeks.
In another article, NBC News reports:
"The sweeping new anti-abortion policy signed by President Donald Trump Monday may have the opposite effect to what's intended, leading to many more abortions, aid groups say. It could also mean more young women will die in childbirth, and years of progress in fighting HIV will be lost, they said."
All to force perverse GOP national socialist ideological and religious views on all in the universe. Haughty, isn't it? Aryan arrogant, as well.
"The enactment of the Global Gag Rule will cut off much-needed U.S. funds to international providers of family planning," said Serena Jiwani of the United Nations Foundation. "When the policy was last enacted under President Bush, health care clinics in many countries were forced to close and outreach services for the hardest to reach populations were eliminated, leaving many of the world's poorest people without access to critical services, such as maternal and child health care, HIV testing and counseling, and contraceptives, including condoms."
Eminently 'Christian' of the Trump nazi, his henchmen, and sick sycophants in the Republican Party, isn't it?
Bottom line?
"Trump's Global Gag Rule will only lead to increases in unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions, maternal and newborn deaths. This harmful policy undermines American democratic values of free-speech and imposes an anti-woman agenda," said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights."
Republican fascists have no shame. Too damned aggressively stupid.
1-20-17
Another egregious abrogation of the right to abortion. The Washington Post reports:
"A Tennessee woman is seeking $1.5 million from law enforcement officials in a federal lawsuit that claims she was denied access to abortion while incarcerated in a county jail."
Sue the living shit out of the bastards. Being incarcerated does not give authorities the right to abrogate all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
"Kei’choura Cathey found out she was pregnant in August 2015, about two weeks after she was arrested in Maury County, about 50 miles outside of Nashville. According to a complaint filed in a Tennessee federal court in late December, Maury County Sheriff Bucky Rowland told Cathey that his department would not pay to transport her to a clinic unless the abortion is medically necessary or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest."
This piece of law enforcement human excrement does not get to make this judgment.
"Through her attorney, Cathey, who was arrested on robbery and murder conspiracy charges, sought to lower her bond. But by the time she was able to pay her bond in January 2016, she was more than halfway into her pregnancy, the complaint said. Abortion past the second trimester is illegal. Cathey ended up giving birth in April."
Authorities need to be forced to pay for the care of her child up to the age of majority.
"The lawsuit claims that denying Cathey’s request inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on her — a violation of the Eighth Amendment. It also alleges violation of Cathey’s right to choose to get an abortion protected under the 14th Amendment. Rowland, the sheriff’s department and Maury County, which are all named as defendants, showed “deliberate indifference to a serious medical need” by failing to establish policies regarding inmates’ access to abortion, the complaint said."
The only thing the nazi bastards understand is money. Legally, loot the living shit out of them.
1-13-17
The nazi State of Kentucky is determined to shit on all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. The Washington Times reports:
"Republican lawmakers in Kentucky used their new majority in the state Legislature to pass bills targeting labor unions and abortion on Saturday over the shouts of hundreds of protesters that packed the cavernous Capitol."
This is precisely what's called for. Ferocious, but peaceful, protest.
"With chants of “we will remember in November” seeping through the closed doors of the state Senate, lawmakers gave final passage to a bill saying employers cannot force workers to pay dues to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining. They also repealed a law guaranteeing higher wages for construction workers on publicly financed projects. And they voted to require a woman seeking an abortion to first undergo an ultrasound and listen to the fetal heartbeat."
Those aggrieved, should this legislation be signed into law, need to find an attorney and sue the living shit out of the nazi bastards.
As in nazi Texas, the Kentucky Legislature is practicing medicine without a license. CNN reports:
"House Bill 2 requires a physician or technician to perform an ultrasound, describe and display the ultrasound images to the mother, and provide audio of the fetal heartbeat to the mother before she may have an abortion."
All medically unnecessary. Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, church-state separation, freedom from religion.
12-30-16
Nazi Republicans in Texas will not be confused by the truth no matter what. Carefully edited, deliberately contrived videos against Planned Parenthood were exposed for what they were: duplicitous phony distortion of reality. Didn't stop the nazis in government, however, from using them against this fine organization that serves the best interests of the public. The Statesman reports:
"State officials have made good on a promise made more than a year ago to oust Planned Parenthood from Medicaid after they said undercover videos of fetal tissue practices showed that the organization was unsafe and professionally incompetent. The same justification was stated in a letter Tuesday that gave the organization final notice of removal from the Medicaid program."
All phony. Discredited bullshit. No more than an egregiously unconstitutional effort by GOP nazis in Texas to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all in direct violation of The First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is freedom from religion. Wouldn't want to confuse these Republican nazis with the truth, would we? Get this:
"Planned Parenthood was cleared of any wrongdoing in court, and officials vowed Wednesday to continue in a lawsuit filed pre-emptively to fight the cuts."
Good for them. Good for the public. Good for liberty. Nazism must be peacefully, but ferociously resisted.
"Texans deserve to decide where to receive their health care, and for more than 80 years they have counted on Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas for that care. In the days ahead, we will take every step necessary to ensure Medicaid patients can continue to count on Planned Parenthood for quality, accessible health care," said Ken Lambrecht, president of the Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, which serves Austin."
Nazi Republicans don't think so. The Governor supports this atrocity against the public he and his fellow nazis are imposing. -- The readership is reminded this is the very same fascist son of a bitch, who as Texas Attorney General, refused to answer a complaint filed by this writer against the criminals at Wells Fargo. How much were you bribed, Governor? How much do you receive in corporate financial support?
"In January, a Harris County grand jury cleared the organization of any unlawful practices as alleged in the videos and instead indicted two abortion opponents involved with shooting the undercover videos--David Daleiden, founder of the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress, and Sandra Merritt--for tampering with a governmental record. Daleiden was also indicted on a misdemeanor charge related to his attempt to buy human tissue in the video. All charges against the pair were eventually dismissed."
This is the problem. The government got it half right. There needs to be a criminal investigation as to whether or not the Nazi Right bought off 'prosecutors' to secure dismissal of all charges against the two criminals responsible for the fiasco.
12-30-16
Amazing how rabid the anti-choice national socialist crowd has become. ABC 6 out of Meridian, Idaho reports:
"Planned Parenthood is suing Stanton Healthcare after they claim the pro-life clinic invited people to harass patients and employees at the Meridian clinic. The two clinics share a parking lot in Meridian. Planned Parenthood alleges people are blocking patients and employees from getting out of their cars, photographing their license plates, protesting and directing them away from Planned Parenthood and toward Stanton Healthcare's mobile services bus. Founder and CEO of Stanton Healthcare, Brandi Swindell, says the claims in the lawsuit are slanderous and false."
Someone is clearly lying. Both sides can't be telling the truth. Guess who? This shit is going on all over the country. Be interesting to see what happens with the suit.
12-23-16
In follow up to the last edition, federal Judge Sam Sparks in Austin put a stay on the Governor's new rules requiring an aborted fetus be buried or cremated until he (the Judge) has the chance to conduct a hearing shortly. The Statesman reports:
"The regulation was set to go into effect Monday. Sparks suspended it until Jan. 6, by which time he will have heard two days of testimony and made a decision about whether to block the rule permanently, as lawyers representing abortion providers have asked him to do."
Amazing how the Nazi Right continues to deliberately shit on the First Amendment Establishment Clause.
"Sparks initially requested the state to voluntarily delay implementing the rule until he could make a ruling, and he appeared agitated at the state's refusal to do so. "This is the first time the state of Texas has ever said it was going to go ahead (with implementing a regulation) when there's a suit of substance before" a federal court, Sparks said from the bench."
Not surprising, is it? Republican nazis have been emboldened by the election of the nation's first national socialist, fascist 'President.'
"David Brown, a lawyer for the Center for Reproductive Rights who argued the case for the abortion providers, said the fetal remains rule was a political response to the Supreme Court's decision and had little to do with the agency's mission of health services."
Indeed, appears to be the case. Highly indicative of the concerted nazification of our formerly great state. -- A state where our national socialist Governor, then Attorney General, failed to do anything about the criminal activity of Wells Fargo. Again, Governor, did the criminals at Wells Fargo bribe you?
"The rule is intended to send a message to the Supreme Court that Texas is going to defy them and to send a message to women that the state's ideology is more important than women's liberty," Brown said."
Indeed, a theme that has been repeated over and over and over again in this publication.
12-16-16
In follow up to the last edition, Texas is about to be sued vis a vis its latest restrictions on abortion. NBC News reports:
"Women's rights groups said they would file a court challenge Monday to the latest attempt by Texas legislators to restrict access to abortion."
This is indeed good news. These nazi bastards in the Republican Party are forcing their outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all in direct violation of the Establishment Clause First Amendment, that is, church-state separation, freedom from religion.
"Under a law that takes effect December 19, embryonic and fetal tissue resulting from abortions must be buried or cremated, regardless of the woman's religious beliefs or personal wishes."
Who the hell are these goddamned nazis to force their views on women?
"The state's Republican governor, Greg Abbott, approved the legislation. He said fetal tissue remains should not be "treated like medical waste and disposed of in landfills." But the Center for Reproductive Rights, and other groups, in announcing they would file the legal challenge, said the rules were designed "to restrict a woman's right to access safe and legal abortions by increasing the cost of reproductive health care services and the shame and stigma surrounding abortion and pregnancy loss."
The Governor and his equally national socialist, fascist compadres in the Republican Party are forcing their outrageously perverse views on all. The GOP remains an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. The Democrats are just as bad. They've done nothing to impede the rise of fascism perpetrated by the GOP as well as Republican efforts to impose The Fourth Reich. They haven't even recently walked out of the Legislature in protest.
12-16-16
Nazism is alive and well in the not-so-great state of Oklahoma. ABC News reports:
"Oklahoma plans to force hospitals, nursing homes, restaurants and public schools to post signs inside public restrooms directing pregnant women where to receive services as part of an effort to reduce abortions in the state."
A direct violation of the constitutional right to an abortion.
"The State Board of Health will consider regulations for the signs on Tuesday. Businesses and other organizations will have to pay an estimated $2.3 million to put up the signs because the Legislature didn't approve any money for them."
No more than another unfunded mandate forced on businesses by Republican nazis desperate to impose their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.
12-16-16
Another direct attack on reproductive freedom. CNN reports:
"Ohio Gov. John Kasich vetoed a measure that would have outlawed abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected while approving a law that prevents them after 20 weeks of pregnancy."
The nazi son of a bitch at least got it half right. Who the hell is the state to dictate when a woman can and cannot have an abortion? It's her uterus. Not theirs. Why are these nazis forcing their outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on women in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion?
12-9-16
This is what what you get when you mix church and state. The Statesman reports:
"A Tennessee woman who is accused of trying to abort her fetus at 24 weeks with a coat hanger last year is facing new felony charges, in a case that has raised concerns among some abortion-rights advocates over strict abortion laws as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office."
If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all.
"The case concerning the woman, Anna Yocca, 32, has wound its way through the courts in Rutherford County for nearly a year, seesawing between multiple charges in three indictments as she has continued to sit in a central Tennessee jail."
Kangaroo justice in Nazi America.
"On Monday, Yocca was arraigned on fresh charges: aggravated assault, an attempt to procure a miscarriage and an attempted criminal abortion. She entered a plea of not guilty, The Daily News journal reported."
Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. Justified by determined perversion and bastardization of the latter. The above quotes are originally from Christine Hauser of The New York Times.
12-9-16
More of the same. The Statesman reports:
"Medical facilities in Texas will be required to cremate or bury aborted and miscarried fetuses starting Dec.19."
Hopefully, the courts will intervene. Republican nazis are doing all they can to deny and/or make it as difficult, expensive as possible to obtain an abortion. Deliberately abrogating a constitutional right to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all.
12-9-16
At the very same time, the very same GOP nazis are imposing Medicaid cuts, -- for disabled children. The Statesman reports:
"Millions of dollars of cuts to Medicaid therapy services will take effect Dec.15. The move comes after the Texas Supreme Court decided in September that it would not hear a lawsuit filed to block the cuts. The court didn't explain its decision at the time."
Conveniently gutless, no? Not only are these GOP nazis denying women easy access to abortion, should they bring a disabled kid to term, guess what? They're denying them funds for therapy. -- The 'Christian' thing to do, no doubt?
"Last year the Legislature approved $350 million in Medicaid cuts spread over two years--$150 million in state money and $200 million in matching federal funds--to therapy providers, primarily those serving children."
-- No question, you'll know them by their colors. ... Hopelessly, achingly self-serving, supposedly 'Christian,' national socialist fascist pieces of profoundly greedy shit. Nazi justice in a fascist police-state, little more than a would-be 'Christian' theocracy. Direct violation of The Establishment Clause First Amendment, that is, church-state separation, also known as freedom from religion.
12-9-16
Insanity perpetrated by the State of Texas continues unabated. CBS News reports:
"A Texas state agency has released a new edition of a booklet for women considering an abortion that suggests there may be a link between terminating pregnancies and increased risks of breast cancer and depression. The Texas Department of State Health Services issued the new edition of “A Woman’s Right to Know” on Monday."
Have a problem with this? You should. It's discredited bullshit. Simply, untrue. Phony propaganda perpetrated by the nazis in office.
"Unchanged in the latest version is language saying giving birth, rather than having an abortion, makes women “less likely to develop breast cancer in the future.” “Research indicates that having an abortion will not provide you this increased protection against breast cancer,” it reads. But the American Cancer Society refutes that on its website, saying “scientific research studies have not found a cause-and-effect relationship between abortion and breast cancer.”
More bullshit:
"The booklet also says women can become depressed or have thoughts of suicide after an abortion."
Still more unadulterated bullshit with no basis in reality:
"It also says that “we know babies develop the ability to feel pain while in the womb,” and, in a section that’s new this year, adds the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature in 2013 banned abortion after 20 weeks due to “consideration of the potential for fetal pain.” Peer-reviewed medical studies say fetal pain is likely not felt until closer to 30 weeks into pregnancy."
Republican nazis have an agenda. Remain desperate to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all.
12-9-16
Rabid nazis in the Republican Party are doing all they can to eviscerate reproductive freedom. Can't seem to understand if there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. That reproductive freedom is far more than a man keeping it in his pants. A woman keeping her panties up and legs crossed. CNN reports:
"Ohio lawmakers have passed a controversial "Heartbeat Bill" that would ban abortions in that state from the moment the heartbeat of a fetus can be detected -- which usually occurs about six weeks into a pregnancy. What happens next for the bill, which would prohibit such abortions even in cases of rape or incest, depends on Republican Gov. John Kasich."
Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon.
12-9-16
The Nazi State of Texas and the Governor, as well as national socialists in the GOP including Trump and his henchmen, remain staunchly anti-choice. So much so, nazis here in Texas intend to make it as difficult and expensive as possible to abort. CNN reports:
"The Governor says they are "giving voice to the unborn." Critics say they are a naked attempt to shame and financially burden Texas women seeking abortions. They are controversial new rules in Texas which will require abortion clinics to bury or cremate fetal remains."
The Governor is a goddamned liar. He is desperately trying to force his outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all. More on the above shortly. -- This may still be challenged in court before it goes into effect.
"After a few months of fairly evenly-split debate consisting of tens of thousands of comments (31 groups were in favor of the rules, while 26 opposed them), the Texas Department of State Health Services rules are slated to take effect later this month."
12-2-16
Planned Parenthood asked supporters to share in what amounts to text format why they support this organization. The response from this publication should come as no surprise to readers. Planned Parenthood matters to me because...If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all.
11-25-16
Four states are considering a radical change in how abortion medication is distributed. CNN reports:
"At a time when access to abortion is being restricted on many fronts, advocates say being able to terminate a pregnancy through telemedicine and mail-order drugs would provide a welcome new option for women."
Indeed. About time. Especially, with Republicans waging war on a woman's right to do as she pleases with her uterus.
"Opponents of abortion find the concept dangerous and deeply disturbing."
It's none of their goddamned business. "Dangerous" for whom? Certainly, not for women desperately seeking an abortion. These religious nazis are caustically reminded it's not their uterus. Don't wish to abort? Don't. Don't, however, force your outrageously perverse religious views on others.
Sending this medication by mail saves women an enormous amount of money. Not only that, they avoid rabid religious nazis desperate to force their perverse religious and ideological views on women seeking an abortion at a clinic.
"The idea builds on a trend that is helping women obtain birth control more easily. A growing number of smartphone apps and websites now make it possible to get prescription contraceptives without visiting a doctor's office first. The pills Marie and the other women received through the study are not allowed for sale in pharmacies and are usually available only at hospitals and abortion clinics."
This needs to change. Especially, as the rabid Nazi Right makes it increasingly difficult for a woman to do as she pleases with her uterus.
"The study Marie participated in is being conducted in four states -- Hawaii, New York, Oregon and Washington. It is being funded and organized by Gynuity Health Projects, a nonprofit research group focused on reproductive health services that seeks to improve women's access to medical abortions. The FDA has allowed the experiment. Women learn about it when contacting the abortion clinics in the study and other health providers who are aware of the trial and the website telabortion.org."
This is certainly a step in the right direction.
"Access to abortion has been declining steadily in the United States as dozens of clinics have been forced to close under new state restrictions. In Texas, the number of clinics fell to 18 in 2015 from 41 in 2012. Five states have just one clinic that offers abortions."
The last quote is precisely why this study is so extremely important to women. Alternative? A return to back alley butchers? The coathanger? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon? Forget? If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all.
Republican nazis can't seem to understand reproductive freedom is far, far, far more than a man keeping it in his pants, a woman keeping her panties up and legs crossed.
These drugs need to be made immediately available in pharmacies. The only reason they aren't? Wake up. Republican national socialists desperate to force their outrageously perverse religious and ideological views on all by statute.
11-18-16
Evisceration of Roe v. Wade could trigger the unthinkable. An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon. Think not? Think again. If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. NPR reports:
"Trump's election could have a profound impact on access to abortion. He has said he'll nominate Supreme Court justices who would be likely to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized the procedure. And he's set to take office with one opening on the court, since Republican senators have refused to consider President Obama's nominee to fill the vacancy created after Justice Antonin Scalia died earlier this year."
His determined further nazification of the Supreme Court will be resisted. Tooth and nail. Protest? The fascist hasn't seen anything near what protest will be as our former great country continues its nazification under the Trump Regime, imposition of The Fourth Reich.
"In a statement, Nancy Northup, president of the advocacy group Center for Reproductive Rights, said, "Our country now stands perilously close to a return to the dark days when women were forced to put their own lives at risk to get safe and legal abortion care."
Will not stand, not be tolerated.
11-11-16
Sen. Ted "Screws Loose" Cruz remains on the warpath against Planned Parenthood. The fascist son of a bitch grows shriller. Knows he's lost the argument. Doesn't stop the clueless bastard from trying, however. Get this. It's from the latest Cruz Newsletter:
"Sen. Cruz and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick recently penned an op-ed for the Houston Chronicle highlighting Texas’ continued leadership in the fight for life and calling on Congress to end taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood. Sen. Cruz and Lt. Gov. Patrick make the case that Congress should protect the lives of unborn children and the well-being of their mothers."
This is abject bullshit and beside the point. No taxpayer dollars are spent on abortion. Should be, but are not. It's against the law. The Senator and his equally ignorant henchmen remain ignorant of this fact, -- or, are deliberately lying. The Senator seems to miss the point protecting the lives of mothers of unwanted unborn children includes allowing these women to decide for themselves whether or not to continue a pregnancy.
Not national socialists such as himself and his ilk who insist on dictating what women can and cannot do with their uterus. Not his. Not his hopelessly fascist compadres who think as perversely as he does. Remain so goddamned intent on forcing their perverse religious and ideological views on others through the force of law. In direct violation of the First and Fourth Amendments.
“Planned Parenthood’s callous disregard for human life stands as a stark reminder that one of our highest ideals - that all people are endowed by God with the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - remains unfulfilled,” Sen. Cruz and Lt. Gov. Patrick wrote. “Planned Parenthood believes that unborn babies who are unwanted are undeserving of life. Fortunately, most Texans disagree. The people of Texas have embraced the truth that is written on every human heart - that children are a God-given blessing who not only bring joy and fulfillment but, perhaps most important, who teach us to love unconditionally.”
This piece of national socialist shit has no regard for all those innocents out there who have been murdered by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. To say nothing all those who have been falsely convicted and await execution in the increasingly Nazi State of Texas. To say nothing of those who were innocent and already executed in the increasingly Nazi State of Texas.
To say nothing of how sadly perverse, achingly lacking, his last statement truly is. Especially, in light of the fact he clearly couldn't care less the carnage reeked by the jackbooted bastards in blue has destroyed nearly all faith and trust in law enforcement. He and those like him are too damned aggressively stupid, hopelessly ignorant to fully understand, truly appreciate the damage done by the Nazi Right to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties in our formerly great country.
11-4-16
Women are apparently second class citizens in Maine and elsewhere throughout our formerly great country. At least, when it comes to abortion. Think women aren't discriminated against vis a vis Obamacare? Wake up. They are. Think not? NPR reports:
"Abortion is the only service under the Affordable Care Act that is explicitly allowed to be banned, says senior policy analyst Laurie Sobel of the Kaiser Family Foundation. Twenty-five states ban it, she says, and "six of the remaining states that have no ban on abortion coverage did not have any plans that offered coverage in 2016."
This is outrageously unconstitutional. Consequence?
"The largest provider of health coverage on the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace in Maine has dropped coverage of elective abortion services."
Certainly, not 'elective' to a woman who does not wish to be pregnant. Makes no difference to the goddamned corporate management suite and its bought and paid for lackeys in our bought and paid for government.
"Community Health Options, an insurance co-op, decided to eliminate the coverage as it tries to dig itself out of a $31 million financial hole that it accumulated in 2015. (It's one of six co-ops remaining of the 23 initially created by the Affordable Care Act.)"
Another indication Obamacare is headed for extinction.
"This decision was really driven by economic considerations," says CEO Kevin Lewis, "as well as the construction of the Affordable Care Act and how it regards essential health benefits in the individual marketplace."
The hell it was. More excuse making. Unadulterated bullshit. Proof positive women remain second class citizens as The Fourth Reich continues to be implemented.
"Elective abortions aren't considered an essential health benefit under the federal health care law. Neither is adult vision care, which Community Health Options also dropped. Both services were included in all of the 56,291 policies the co-op sold on the individual market in 2015."
Nothing quite like f--king policyholders to line corporate coffers. Ensure the corporate management suite receives millions to line the pockets of the top 1% of the food chain.
"While Community Health Options describes the change in abortion coverage as one piece of an overall strategy to contain costs, abortion services providers in Maine are calling it a major decision that erects barriers to women's health care."
Which is exactly what Republican fascists desperately want across our formerly great country. To line their pockets. Force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all.
"It further stigmatizes a normal procedure that we're trying to help people understand is part of the comprehensive experience of women's health care," says Andrea Irwin, executive director of the Mabel Wadsworth Health Center in Bangor, one of three main providers of abortion services in the state."
Wouldn't want to confuse the aggressively stupid, hopelessly greedy, perversely f--ked up national socialists in the Republican Party with the truth, would we?
"Though Community Health Options says it provides coverage for birth control above and beyond the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, Irwin says sometimes birth control doesn't work and women need another option. Most people buying insurance in the online marketplace "are by definition working people with low to moderate income who need help buying health coverage," she says."
Then again, Obama, his Regime, and the Democratic Party knew all this was going to be an issue. Failed to insist wording of the law be carefully written to avoid this bullshit. This is just one more indication Obamacare is sooner or later doomed to failure. Is not sustainable.
"A spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Nicole Clegg, says she appreciates the financial issues Community Health Options is facing but is skeptical that cutting coverage of abortion services will do much to help buoy the co-op. The cost for a first trimester abortion is about $550, she says. Community Health Options says 33 women in Maine used their elective abortion coverage in 2015."
The fact only 33 women used their elective abortion coverage last year is proof positive abortion coverage was not removed for financial reasons. Could not have been. Had to be goddamned national socialists, fascists determined to force their perverse ideological and religious views on the 'lil lady.' Goddamned nazis. Psychotic pieces of sick shit.
Again:
"Abortion is the only service under the Affordable Care Act that is explicitly allowed to be banned, says senior policy analyst Laurie Sobel of the Kaiser Family Foundation. Twenty-five states ban it, she says, and "six of the remaining states that have no ban on abortion coverage did not have any plans that offered coverage in 2016."
Goddamned unconstitutional. Sick religion at work. A direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is church-state separation, forced on the rest of us by the national socialist, fascist, not-so-'Christian' Right. Championed by the Republican Party. The not-so-'Christian' GOP.
9-9-16
If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. In the not-so-great nazi State of Indiana, Purvi Partel, 35, was imprisoned for aborting her fetus, that is, unborn child. Her uterus. Her body. Not, however, according to the nazis who run and own Indiana. The Statesman recently reported:
"An Indiana woman whose feticide conviction for a self-induced abortion was overturned in July walked out of prison Thursday, a day after a judge resentenced her to less time than she had already served and ordered her immediate release."
Sounds like Nazi Texas, doesn't it? Where the fascist bastards who run and own the goddamned state falsely and haughtily believe they own a woman's uterus. Can dictate what she can and cannot do with her uterus.
"Patel was convicted in 2015 of killing her premature infant by taking abortion-inducing drugs and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. She appealed her feticide and child neglect convictions and the Indiana Court of Appeals vacated both convictions in July, finding the state's feticide law wasn't meant to be used to prosecute women for their own abortions."
Think the goddamned court made it right? Think again. They continued the f--king. Hear the rumble?
"The appeals court ruled instead that Patel should be resentenced on a lower-level charge that carries a maximum three-year sentence."
This is nazi justice in Nazi America. A goddamned fascist police-state. The Fourth Reich. Where the national socialist GOP, falsely claiming to be Christians, has haughtily forced its perverse ideological and religious views on the masses through egregiously unconstitutional statutes rubber stamped by their equally nazi shills ensconced on the bench.
"The state's attorney general decided not to appeal the ruling, and on Wednesday, a St. Joseph County judge resentenced Patel to 18 months."
Nazi justice in Nazi America. Hear the rumble? Ladies, you're no longer free. The goddamned government owns you and your uterus. You are beholden to these pieces of shit. National socialist shit. The Republican Party.
"Patel was arrested in July 2013 after she sought treatment at a hospital for profuse bleeding."
What does this tell you, ladies? Wake up. There is no medical privacy. The healthcare system is beholden to the goddamned fascists in law enforcement. This is not equivalent to someone presenting with a gun shot or stab wound. Even under those circumstances the victim could have refused to talk to police. This is a woman who desperately tried to induce an abortion on her body. Forget? Her body.
The goddamned assholes in the Republican Party have turned it into a crime. Don't forget this when it is time to vote, ladies. -- Not that you have any viable alternative in either "Hump The Rump" Trump or "Pilloried Hillary." You can vote, however, for other Democrats and Independents running for office to send the goddamned Republicans a clear message.
The nazi bastards in Indiana claimed the fetus had just reached the moment of viability. So what? It's still the woman's uterus right up to birth. If she does not wish to give birth, who the hell is this goddamned government to dictate otherwise? It's none of their business. Certainly, not in a supposedly free country.
8-26-16
Why has the national socialist government of Texas awarded an anti-abortion rights lobbyist organization named the Heidi Group a state grant of $1.6 million? Why? Did so while kicking Planned Parenthood out of the state women's health program back in 2011. Readers should understand Planned Parenthood never received a dime for any abortions provided. Not a dime. Forget?
It is not legal for taxpayer money to be used for abortions. This is no more than a direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion. The goddamned national socialists who run and own Texas government, that is the Republican Party, have no problems granting $1.6 million to an anti-abortion group, however. This is egregiously unconstitutional bullshit.
These pieces of national socialist human excrement in the GOP are not only legislating their perverse religious and ideological views from the bench, they're doing it through outrageously unconstitutional statutes rubber stamped by national socialist courts. They continue to practice medicine without a license. Force unwilling doctors to effectively sexually assault women receiving an abortion by requiring a medically unnecessary highly invasive trans vaginal ultrasound.
Then, they line the pockets of an anti-abortion group to the tune of $1.6 million in funds to perniciously advise against abortion and deny women the right to do with their uterus as they damn well please. If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. These nazi pieces of Right Wing shit don't seem to understand reproductive freedom is far more than a woman keeping her panties up and legs crossed. Or, a man keeping it in his pants.
Instead, they must somehow perversely believe the Creator has died and appointed them God. They'll dictate to the 'little woman' what they think best. What their perverse religious beliefs dictate. Horse shit. It's an egregious violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause. Freedom from religion. These perverse trolls hypocritically and insanely believe abortion is murder.
... While conveniently ignoring innocent prisoners executed by the State, military personnel needlessly killed in battle to line the coffers of the corporate management suite. To say nothing of all the innocent murdered by the jackbooted bastards in blue. Regarding all this, these pieces of GOP shit remain gutlessly silent. It's outrageously unconstitutional and abject cowardice. ... Not that the goddamned Democrats are any better. Or, worse? Doing anything effective to combat the national socialist fascists in the Republican Party.
8-5-16
The fascist Republican bastards who run and own our formerly great state believe in publishing false information to further inflict their perverse religious and ideological views on women seeking an abortion. Get this. The Statesman has reported:
"The new version of a booklet that Texas produces for women considering an abortion is being criticized for suggesting that terminating pregnancies can lead to heightened risks for breast cancer and depression."
Both claims are blatantly false. So is the phony claim abortion can cause future fertility problems. Research says otherwise. Do women a disservice. The fascist bastards know they're lies. Still promulgate all three as truth. Why are the taxpayers looted to provide this booklet? All these restrictions are blatantly unconstitutional. Violate church-state separation as mandated by the First Amendment Establishment Clause. Freedom from religion.
Republicans truly believe women are too damned stupid, ill-informed to decide what they can and cannot do with their uterus. They'll decide for them. Also, are quite willing to practice medicine without a license. Require unwilling doctors to sexually assault those seeking an abortion by requiring an unnecessary highly invasive trans vaginal sonogram.
Ludicrously, doctors are required by law to inform women of the above, that is, phony claims by the Nazi Right that are simply blatantly false. They are allowed, however, to then tell the women they're treating the truth. Imagine that. Day is night, night is day, and shit smells perversely sweet in the world of the Republican fascists who run and own our formerly great state.
7-22-16
The following is from the most recent Rep. Mike Conaway, 11th District Newsletter:
"Preventing Pro-Life Discrimination
"Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the Conscience Protection Act, which protects health care providers who chose to decline any involvement in abortion services. Right now, President Obama and his administration have decided that their beliefs stand above the many Americans who are pro-life and against the loss of innocent children. No health care provider should be forced to perform an abortion, and the government should not be allowed to discriminate against those who have a conscience and moral objection to abortion. It is important that we come together to protect the many men and women who provide tremendous healthcare to those in their communities, and simply wish to continue doing so without the government interfering with their beliefs."
The Congressman doesn't seem to understand providing medical care is not a right, but a privilege. Seems healthcare personnel don't seem to understand this either. If you cannot provide a constitutionally protected medical service in good conscience, get the hell out of the business. You're not qualified. Find something else to do.
7-15-16
Not surprisingly, exceptionally impatient Texas Republican national socialists running our formerly great state are not waiting for the next Legislature to continue harassing those performing abortions as well as women desperately needing them. About a week ago, The Statesman reported officials proposed new rules that would require abortion fetal remains to be either buried or cremated. -- Aren't all medical, surgical, biological waste such as body parts incinerated anyway?
The new rules were posted in the Texas Register on July 1st with no notice, and apparently any need for legislative approval. This was reportedly done at the behest of national socialist Republican Governor Greg Abbott who is thus himself now in the business of effectively legislating, passing, imposing, and executing law as Texas Governor. Sans the Texas Legislature. Remarkable, isn't it?
In follow up, an editorial published 7-12-16 by The Statesman reported this is just the beginning of additional efforts by GOP nazis to harass women seeking an abortion and their providers with additional unnecessary punitive restrictions to make an abortion as difficult as possible to obtain. -- A goddamned constitutional right these nazi bastards are deliberately abrogating.
Ladies, remember this when you go to the polls. Republicans remain desperate to force their perverse ideological and religious views on all by statute. If you value reproductive freedom, you need to boot the nazi bastards from office. If you support both the right to an abortion and the Second Amendment as many of us do, you're out of luck.
There's no one viable outside both major parties to vote for. Sad, isn't it? Nazi Texas. Nazi America. The Fourth Reich. Where Republican nazis impose their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all by statute. Goddamned unconstitutional. Aryan arrogant national socialists who have created and imposed a fascist police-state.
To line their pockets, get their cookies off abusing power, and most importantly? To please their corporate masters who have bought and paid for their corporate-owned GOP fascist shill bastards. A raucous, boot clicking, goose stepping, treacherous, treasonous, traitorous Sieg Heil!?
Must not be forgotten Republican national socialists in the Legislature as well as in the Governor's Office routinely practice medicine without a license. Have forced unwilling doctors to effectively sexually assault women seeking an abortion by requiring by statute a highly invasive, medically unnecessary trans vaginal ultrasound before an abortion. Again, ladies, remember these nazis when considering whom to vote for at the polls. They continue to haughtily deny your constitutional right to do with your uterus as you damn well please.
7-1-16
Looks like there may be yet another 'religious liberties' case that will ultimately find its way to the Supreme Court. The Washington Times reports:
"By funding Catholic bishops who won’t perform abortions in their service to immigrant minors, the American Civil Liberties Union says the federal government is breaking the law.
"The group filed a lawsuit Friday against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, claiming the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops must perform abortions in order to be eligible for federal funding to care for minors caught crossing the border.
“When a teen has endured unthinkable tragedy — violence, rape, a terrifying journey to an unfamiliar place — and she arrives here afraid and alone, the last thing we should do is deny her the care she needs,” ACLU senior staff attorney Brigitte Amiri said in a press release. “Our taxpayer dollars should not be used to authorize organizations to violate the law and impose their religious beliefs on these young women and deny them care they desperately need.”
Here, here. 'Religious liberties,' my ass. It's church-state separation as prescribed by the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion that's truly at stake here. Religious fascists don't seem to understand being a charitable group is not a right, but a privilege. If the Church and other religious groups on the Right can't or won't provide constitutional medical services, they need to get the hell out of the business.
7-1-16
The number of back alley abortions, botched abortions, improperly administered drug induced abortions will certainly continue to rise in Nazi Texas. -- A goddamned fascist police-state where Republican national socialist legislators and a nazi Governor continue to practice medicine without a license. Force their perverse religious and ideological views on all by statute. Indeed, The Fourth Reich.
NPR reports training of medical personnel to provide abortion care has been limited by these Republican national socialists:
"Abortion is one of the more common procedures performed in the U.S., more common even than appendectomy. But as clinics in Texas close, finding a place in the state where medical residents training to be OB-GYNs can learn to do abortions is getting harder.
"There are places in Texas where there are OB-GYN residents who can't get anywhere to be trained," said a senior doctor at one Texas clinic who is also a medical school professor. The physician asked not to be named to avoid backlash from anti-abortion groups and politicians."
This is goddamned pitiful. Un-American. National socialist. Hopelessly, fascist and unconstitutional. Nazis in the Republican Party are abrogating their oaths of office and forcing their perverse ideological and religious views on others by statute. Women are being forced to pay the price for the nazism imposed by these Republicans. Are not receiving the care they desperately need. Remember this ladies, -- when it comes time to vote.
While Obamacare needs to be repealed, Republican national socialists offer no viable alternative. In a recently released 'alternative,' these shameless nazis only offer more of the same old tired GOP bullshit. That is, further lining of the pockets of providers at the expense of consumers. The American Way. F--k the bottom 99% to line the pockets of the top 1%. ... Right, TL? Ben? Tim?
Subsequent to writing the above, the United States Supreme Court dealt Texas Republican national socialists a severe blow. Struck down a 2013 nazi law restricting a woman's right to an abortion, forcing closure of a number of clinics. Falsely claiming they were doing it to protect the health of women. The medical community rightfully protested this claim is bullshit. Indeed, it is.
-- Nothing more than a blatant, naked attempt to end the right to abortion. Despite the fact abortion is indeed a constitutional right, Roe v. Wade 1973. In a 5-3 decision, Justice Breyer wrote:
"We agree with the District Court that the surgical center requirement, like the admitting-privileges requirement, provides few, if any, health benefits for women, poses a substantial obstacle to women seeking abortions, and constitutes an 'undue burden' on their constitutional right to do so."
Nazis on the Right, led by Republican national socialists, have been falsely, disingenuously lying for years abortion is dangerous and causes mental problems in women who have one. Unadulterated bullshit. No more than an appalling effort to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with her uterus. Force their perverse, phony religious and ideological views on all by statute. In direct violation of church-state separation guarantied by the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.
The fascist Republican nazi bastards in Austin, including our national socialist Governor and his equally nazi Republican compadres in the Legislature, intend to carefully scrutinize the ruling line by line and introduce new legislation. Hard to believe it would stand up considering Breyer's definitive ruling partially quoted above. The rest of the decision is just as definitive. Won't stop the nazi bastards from desperately trying, however.
Remember the above, ladies, when it comes time to vote. These GOP national socialists, that is, nazis, fascists intend to continue to do all they can to dictate what you can and cannot do with your uterus. Continue to shamelessly abrogate all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on all by statute.
In direct violation of their falsely sworn oaths to protect and defend the United States Constitution. Where? Wake up. Where else? Nazi Texas. Nazi America. The Fourth Reich.
Must also not be forgotten this ruling does not remove all egregious restrictions on abortion imposed by Republican national socialists who insist on practicing medicine without a license. To unconstitutionally impose their exceptionally perverse religious and ideological views on all by statute. Worse? Far worse?
GOP nazis, by law, force unwilling doctors to sexually assault unwilling women seeking an abortion. How? Wake up. By requiring an unnecessary highly invasive trans vaginal ultrasound before an abortion procedure. To make it as difficult and intolerable as possible for women seeking an abortion to exercise their constitutional right to have one. No more complicated than that.
These fascist bastards, indeed, impose their religious views on all by statute. Church-state separation as prescribed by the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion is callously ignored by these nazi pieces of crap. Again, ladies, remember that when it comes time to vote. Republicans truly believe you're too damned stupid to decide for yourselves what to do or not do with your uterus.
Women are also forced by statute to endure a waiting period before an abortion. Again, Republican national socialists believe women are too stupid to decide for themselves. Make their own decisions. The haughty fascists do as much as they can to make that decision for you. ... Right, Governor? Lt. Governor?
Women are also forced by law to bring an unwanted fetus to term after 20 weeks of gestation. Again, these nazi bastards are forcing their outrageously perverse religious views on all by statute. No more complicated than that. These sons of bitches truly believe they own your uterus, ladies. You, don't. Fascist government does. Haughty Republican misogynist nazi bastards.
Many, if not most, of these closed abortion clinics will likely not re-open. All due to an outrageously unconstitutional law knowingly, intentionally imposed by Republican fascists. Fascists, who are protected by sovereign immunity statutes that prevent them from suffering any consequences. The only way to stick it to them is not return the bastards to office. Snow ball's chance, -- as is impeaching, convicting, and removing the goddamned nazis from office.
Sadly, they've egregiously f--ked us all. Yet, will pay no consequences. Protected. If you truly believe in liberty, choice, remember these GOP nazi bastards when you vote. Kick the fascist sons of bitches out of office at the polls. Otherwise, you deserve the f--king they've imposed. Closed clinics will likely not re-open since staff has moved on. Re-opening would also force them to deal with all the bullshit regulation they went through when first licensed. Re-equip and find new housing for the clinics. All, a nearly insurmountable obstacle to re-opening. As intended by Republican nazis.
Sadly, if you believe in the right to an abortion and the Second Amendment, you have no one to vote for President. No one. You're out of luck. -- Other than third party. Snow ball's chance. Precisely, one reason both major political parties have egregiously failed the public they clearly don't serve. Only themselves and theirextremist ideologies.
What ever happened to the Center? Vanished. Both extremes quite capable and more than willing to impose their perverse ideologies by statute. On the unwilling. What term best describes this perverse combination of a dual f--king imposed by both extremes? Wake up. The nazi nanny-state. Indeed, a pernicious, psychotic hybrid. The achingly evil blend of the highly prevalent Extreme Right and what's left of the Extreme Left. Aren't we lucky? Truly blessed?
6-17-16
NPR reports:
"More and more young women from Texas are walking across the international bridge for risky, do-it-yourself medical abortions with misoprostol that lack the second drug, mifepristone, and also lack the guidance and supervision by a doctor that the women would get in the U.S.."
You think? This is a direct result of national socialists in the Texas Legislature and Governor's Office desperately trying to impose their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on women seeking an abortion. In direct violation of church-state separation mandated by the First Amendment Establishment Clause.
These nazi bastards have done all they could to close abortion clinics by imposing standards the medical profession declares unnecessary. They lied to constituents by falsely claiming they were imposing these restrictions leading to clinic closing for the sake of women's health. That's patently false. Abject bullshit. A phony crock. The direct opposite is, and has been, the case.
Now, women in Texas are not only not getting sufficient access to abortion, but to routine gynecological services as well. Due to the closing of Planned Parenthood clinics. Ladies, never forget Republican national socialists, that is, these goddamned GOP nazis, fascists are directly responsible for this fiasco.
These bastards in government insist on practicing medicine without a license to impose their perverse ideological and religious views on others by unconstitutional statute. Remember that when you go to the polls. Hold these fascist national socialist nazi bastards responsible. The Republican Party.
5-27-16
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, normally quite 'pro-life,' vetoed a bill, 5-20-15, that would have made it a felony to perform an abortion. Never would have held up in court. Roe v. Wade is settled law. Would take a reversal by the U.S. Supreme Court. Should that happen, an unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon could sadly become reality.
National socialists on the Right, that is nazis, can't seem to understand if there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. Clearly, fascists on the Right also remain clueless that reproductive freedom is far more than a man keeping it in his pants, and a woman keeping her panties up and legs crossed.
4-22-16
No end to the nazism emanating from the U.S. House. ... As well as additional outrageously egregious bills further dictating to women what they can and cannot do with their uterus. H.R. 4924 is the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA). This goddamned national socialist bill is racist as well as anti-choice. Guess who recently held a hearing on this abomination? The all male House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
These fascist bastards wouldn't know the United States Constitution and/or civil justice if it figuratively bit them hard on the ass. They're too damned aggressively stupid, hopelessly ignorant. They are, however, quite proficient at imposing their exceptionally perverse religious and ideological views on all through the force of law. In direct violation of the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments at the very least.
This bill deliberately imposes further restrictions on a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. Ostensibly, this bill bans sex selective and race-based abortions. What it is really intended to do is force physicians to racially profile. Question a woman's motivation and reasons for seeking an abortion. This is none of the goddamned doctor's business or that of our outrageously intrusive government.
It's a blatant naked attempt by the Nazi Right in our formerly great country to prevent women from exercising their constitutional right to abort. It's none of their goddamned business what her reasons are for seeking medical care. None at all. They have no right to impose their outrageously perverse and convoluted religious and ideological views on others through the force of law. That's called fascism.
These racist nazi bastards consider minority women too damned stupid to decide for themselves whether or not to have an abortion. It's yet another attack on women by misogynists desperate to dictate to the 'little lady.' Doctors and nurses would be expected to inform authorities if they believe an abortion is being sought for gender and/or racial reasons. This is goddamned bullshit. Indeed, coming from a goddamned fascist police-state. The Fourth Reich. Nazi America. The GOP has become no more than a national socialist, nazi, fascist organization. Right, Sheriff? TL?
4-15-16
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and his office are getting an earful from women appalled at a new abortion bill the nazi governor signed into law. This outrageous law was covered in the next to last edition of this publication, v.455. The Washington Post reports women have been calling his office en masse:
To one suburban mother in Indiana, the burial provision crossed the line into absurdity. She created a Facebook page called Periods for Pence 10 days ago.
“Any period could potentially be a miscarriage without knowledge,” she wrote. “I would hate for any of my fellow Hoosier women to be at risk of penalty if they do not ‘properly dispose’ of this or report it. Perhaps we should contact Governor Pence’s office to report our periods. We wouldn’t want him thinking that thousands of Hoosier women are trying to hide anything, would we?”
In a generally conservative and antiabortion state, the Facebook page has picked up more than 30,000 likes and has provoked a heavy influx of calls to the governor’s office. The creator of the page says this law crossed a line that bothered even Christian and Republican women.
One woman subsequently and consequently called the Governor's office and reported: “Hello, everything is flowing nicely this month, little heavier than normal.”
Another said: “My vagina and I had an amazing weekend.”
Yet another: “I just wanted to inform the governor that things seem to be drying up today.”
Right on, ladies. Stick it to this goddamned clueless nazi bastard and his perversely ill shills. Republican national socialists, that is, nazis are out of control. They have no right to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with her uterus. Or force their outrageously perversely convoluted religious and ideological views on others in violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause. Or practice medicine without a license. These nazis, goddamned fascists, remain an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. ... Right, TL?
4-1-16
Trump has a severe problem with instability. On 3-30-16, the national socialist fascist bastard stated abortion should be banned and women who obtain one punished. When pointedly challenged, retracted the statement. The right to an abortion is indeed settled law. Been so courtesy of Roe v. Wade since January 1973. Take a Supreme Court reversal to change this.
The bastards on the Right are already unconstitutionally accomplishing the very same by needlessly making it extremely difficult to get an abortion. Which will shortly be challenged in an 8 member Supreme Court. Consequently, nothing will change any time in the near future. If the right to abort, however, is successfully overturned in the future by a nazi Supreme Court, it is highly likely the unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon would sadly become reality. Conveniently, gutlessly forget? If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all.
Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril