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3-29-24

Abortion activism. The Washington Post reports:

"Abortions outside medical system increased sharply after Roe fell, study finds. Researchers report that volunteer-led networks distributing abortion pills helped drive a rise in ‘self-managed’ abortions."

How about that?

"The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according to the most comprehensive examination to date of how many people have ended their pregnancies outside of the formal medical system since the ruling. Nearly 28,000 additional doses of pills intended for “self-managed” abortions were provided in the six months after the fall of Roe v. Wade — more than quadrupling the average number of abortion pills provided that way per month before the decision and suggesting that many women have turned to medication abortion to circumvent state bans. The research — published in JAMA on Monday, the day before the highly anticipated Supreme Court arguments on a challenge to a key abortion drug — highlights the importance of abortion pills in post-Roe America. Before the ruling legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, women seeking abortions were forced to find someone to perform an illegal surgical procedure, leading to thousands of deaths. Today, the process for accessing abortion is far easier and safer, with a rapidly expanding online and community-based network of pill suppliers sending pills through the mail into states with strict bans. Other studies have estimated that approximately 32,000 fewer abortions occurred at licensed brick-and-mortar and telehealth clinics in the six months following the fall of Roe. But the jump in self-managed abortions offsets nearly that whole figure."

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.

2-29-24

Perverse religious and ideological views of Republican nazis trump life and/or quality thereof here in Texas. Think not? Wake up. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

The Washington Post reports:

"An ectopic pregnancy put her life at risk. A Texas hospital refused to treat her. The 25-year-old woman and her mother blame the state’s abortion ban for a delay in care that doctors say put her “in extreme danger of losing her life.”

Matters not to the nazi element in the Republican Party. They couldn't care less:

"Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz tried not to cry as the doctor in the emergency room delivered one of the most frightening diagnoses a pregnant woman can receive. The 25-year-old college senior was told she likely had an ectopic pregnancy, a highly dangerous condition where the embryo implants outside of the uterus. Without immediate treatment, the fallopian tube can rupture — and the patient can die."

Matters not to a Republican nazi. Ideology and forcing that perverse ideology on others certainly does.

"The law that has prohibited abortions in Texas since Roe v. Wade was overturned now explicitly allows doctors to treat ectopic pregnancies. But when doctors at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital evaluated Norris-De La Cruz last week, they refused to terminate the pregnancy, saying there was some chance the pregnancy was still viable, Norris-De La Cruz recalled. Instead, they advised her and her mother to go home and wait, according to medical records reviewed by The Washington Post."

She could have died.

"Norris-De La Cruz ultimately received emergency surgery about 24 hours later at a different hospital in the area, at which point her ectopic pregnancy had already started to rupture. The OB/GYN who performed the procedure said that, if Norris-De La Cruz had waited much longer, she would have been “in extreme danger of losing her life.” “I was scared I was going to ... lose my entire reproductive system if they waited too long,” Norris-De La Cruz said in an interview two days after her surgery. “I knew it could happen at any moment.”

Time to wake up. Here's the problem:

"Her case highlights a chilling reality of post-Roe America: Medical exceptions to abortion bans have not stopped doctors from turning away patients with significant pregnancy complications, often with harrowing consequences. Their stories underscore the messy collision between abortion laws and medical diagnoses — and the struggles of doctors and hospitals to navigate what many say are inadequate legal protections to treat women with life-threatening conditions. In the nearly two years since Roe fell, dozens of women have come forward with stories of medical care denied because of abortion bans, with the changes in treatment bringing some close to death or affecting patients’ future fertility. Several dozen women across the country who experienced pregnancy complications have challenged their state abortion bans in court. Two friends were denied care after Florida banned abortion. One almost died."

Republican nazis simply don't give a shit.

Interestingly, get this:

"The Post learned of Norris-De La Cruz’s case when her mother, seeking advice, called a Houston reproductive health clinic when a reporter was present. To corroborate Norris-De La Cruz’s account, The Post reviewed dozens of pages of medical records, sonogram images, photos and text messages, and conducted interviews with many of the people involved in the case. Four OB/GYNs who reviewed Norris-De La Cruz’s medical records for The Post, with Norris-De La Cruz’s permission, said she should have been offered emergency surgery. They said they suspected Texas’s abortion ban played a role in how she was advised. “That should have been a bread and butter slam dunk diagnosis,” said Clayton Alfonso, an OB/GYN at Duke University. “It doesn’t make sense to me that they would send her away, unless they had a fear that the surgery … could be perceived as causing an abortion.”

The following certainly does not appear to be true:

"Kimberly Walton, the director of media relations for Texas Health, said the hospital’s top priority is “providing our patients with safe, high-quality care.”

That so?

“Treatment decisions are individualized based on a patient’s clinical condition and we believe the care provided to the patient in this case was appropriate,” she wrote in a statement."

That right?

"Walton did not answer a written question about whether the delay in Norris’s care was related to the abortion law."

Why not? Either it was or it wasn't. Why no transparency? What are you afraid of? The truth?

"The doctors who sent Norris home did not respond to requests for comment."

Surprised? Couldn't be they were covering their sorry, gutless asses, could it?

The following couldn't be disingenuous, gutless, Republican bullshit, could it?

"A Republican state senator who has spearheaded much of Texas’s antiabortion legislation said he was surprised and frustrated to hear about Norris-De La Cruz’s case."

Couldn't be that is exactly what you and your fellow Republicans expected, could it, Senator? Time for the endless bullshit and double talk to end:

“I don’t know what the excuse would be for a Texas doctor not treating an ectopic pregnancy, because that’s not the law,” said Sen. Bryan Hughes, who sponsored a law last year specifying that Texas doctors are permitted to treat ectopic pregnancies, a follow-up to Texas’s abortion ban meant to prevent cases like this one."

Wake up, Senator. They're afraid Republican nazi prosecutors will continue to bastardize the law, distort reality, and falsely charge doctors. There is no trust. Why would there be any, Senator? Republican fascist bastards emulating Adolf Hitler continue to take a raucous hard dump on liberty. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. Pointedly? We're tired of Republican fascist bastards dictating what our religious beliefs and ideologies ought to be, Senator. They intentionally, determinedly, traitorously infringe on liberty. Remain un-American. Shamelessly nazi. To say the very least, unconstitutionally violate the Establishment Clause. Worse? Democrats have gutlessly failed to effectively stand up to this exigent Republican threat to liberty.

"But many doctors consider even Hughes’s follow-up law, which took effect in September, to be an inadequate tool for treating patients like Norris-De La Cruz amid a complicated post-Roe landscape. Ectopic pregnancies in the fallopian tube, which never survive to term, can be hard to diagnose on an ultrasound with 100 percent certainty, several doctors said — and if the diagnosis is wrong, a doctor might fear potential legal repercussions for terminating a viable pregnancy."

Don't understand that, Senator? Clueless? Determinedly out to lunch?

"After the first of two OB/GYNs at Arlington Memorial refused to treat Norris-De La Cruz, her mother, Stephanie Lloyd, immediately thought about Texas’s abortion ban. “Does this have anything to do with the abortion law?” she remembered asking the doctor. When he didn’t answer, Lloyd recalled, she had to restrain Norris-De La Cruz as her daughter tried to launch herself at him. “Whenever I f---ing rupture,” Norris-De La Cruz said, “I’m giving my lawyers your f---ing name.”

That's precisely the way to handle this. A lawsuit. No violence. Needs to cost gutless doctors dearly financially. Physicians need to stand tall. Not remain determinedly gutless.

Sadly, get this:

"Norris-De La Cruz had not wanted to lose her pregnancy. When she got a positive test in early January, she said, she and her boyfriend immediately started to imagine who their child might become. “We made jokes all the time like, ‘Maybe he’ll be a competitive chess player,’” Norris-De La Cruz said. “We thought the possibility of creating something that was a unity of us was really beautiful." It was just one week later that Norris-De La Cruz started to cramp and bleed. She went straight to the emergency room on Jan. 14, where doctors measured her pregnancy hormone levels, performed an ultrasound and told her to return in 48 hours. By her second appointment two days later, her pregnancy hormone levels had dropped precipitously, according to medical records — leading the doctors to suspect a “failed early pregnancy,” although they acknowledged in the records that they could not entirely rule out the possibility of an ectopic. Over the next few weeks, Norris-De La Cruz said, she still didn’t feel well — experiencing bouts of abdominal pain so severe that she struggled to stand. Thinking she might have appendicitis or a urinary tract infection, she went to the health center on her campus at the University of Texas at Arlington, around noon on Feb. 12, where a nurse told her to go straight to the emergency room. Then came the frightening diagnosis at the Arlington Memorial ER. After her confrontation that day with the OB/GYN, Norris-De La Cruz spoke with a different doctor on call who specialized in emergency medicine and had also reviewed her tests and ultrasound scans. He disagreed with the OB/GYN’s decision to discharge her, according to medical records."

This doctor stood tall:

"While he said he was not permitted to do the surgery himself — that required an OB/GYN — he recommended she remain in the hospital overnight. “I do not feel comfortable discharging her home and do not think that is in her best interest,” the emergency room doctor wrote in her records. The following morning, Norris-De La Cruz was turned away by a second OB/GYN, who determined that there was “no operation warranted,” according to records. The OB/GYN discharged her and told her to follow up in 48 hours. As Norris-De La Cruz prepared to leave the hospital around 10 a.m. on Feb. 13, her mother was standing outside in the parking lot, begging a woman at a New Mexico abortion clinic over the phone to help terminate her daughter’s ectopic pregnancy. The woman seemed confused, Lloyd said. “Texas should be able to help you,” Lloyd recalled the clinic staff member saying. “Why do you want to come here?” She gave Lloyd the number for another office — a former abortion clinic in Houston that provides ultrasounds and out-of-state referrals. But they didn’t know what to say, either. “You could come to a Houston hospital but they might tell you the same thing,” Marjorie Eisen, a patient advocate at Houston Women’s Reproductive Services, told Lloyd when she called, in an exchange observed by The Post. “We’ve had luck with our county hospitals sometimes and sometimes not.”

Why should a woman have to go through this shit? All courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Houston Women’s Reproductive Services has consulted with three other patients in similar situations since Jan. 1, said Kathy Kleinfeld, the clinic’s administrator — all women who she said have been turned away from hospitals with ectopic pregnancies. Eisen suggested Lloyd talk to a doctor she knew in Dallas. “I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this,” Eisen said. “It’s a nightmare.” Lloyd started to panic, pacing back and forth as she tried to figure out what to do next. Her daughter was going to die, she recalled thinking to herself: Why wouldn’t anyone help her?"

The answer to that question is achingly simple. Republican nazi ideology and religious views trump the lives of women who are in danger of losing theirs.

"Back inside the hospital, Norris-De La Cruz got a call from her best friend, Monica Perez, whom she’d been texting with updates throughout the night. “I’m on my way to my OB/GYN,” Perez recalled saying as she drove to one of her regular appointments. “Do you want me to tell the nurses and see if they can squeeze you in?” Norris-De La Cruz immediately texted her friend a picture of her sonogram, hoping the image would be enough to convince them. Perez called back 20 minutes later. “They can see you at 2 o’clock,” she said. As soon as Perez’s OB/GYN, Jeffery Morgan, reviewed Norris-De La Cruz’s ultrasound scans, he immediately identified an ectopic pregnancy. All the textbook signs were there, he said in an interview a week after the consultation: A large mass on the right side of her pelvis. Elevated levels of pregnancy hormone with no visible pregnancy inside the uterus. Fluid in the abdomen. “There are times when it’s really early in the process when it can be hard to know if it’s ectopic — but that honestly would have been weeks before where she was in the pregnancy,” Morgan said, adding that he was 98 percent sure Norris-De La Cruz had an ectopic when he initially examined her. At his clinic, Morgan told Norris-De La Cruz and her mother that he recommended surgery as soon as possible. As soon as they heard that, they both started to sob. “Wow,” Norris-De La Cruz recalled thinking as she looked up at the doctor. “I don’t have to make my case. You see it. You understand that this is an emergency.” Norris-De La Cruz was scheduled for surgery at Medical City hospital in Arlington three hours later. Morgan was able to remove the ectopic pregnancy, according to records."

Here's the problem:

"But the mass had grown so large he also had to take most of her right fallopian tube, a loss that could affect her future fertility. That outcome was likely inevitable, according to most of the OB/GYNs consulted for this story. Norris-De La Cruz probably would have lost her tube even if she had been treated immediately at Arlington Memorial, they said. Morgan said he never considered delaying or withholding treatment because of the abortion ban, which he says clearly allows Texas doctors to treat ectopic pregnancies. He said he was shocked to learn that Norris-De La Cruz had been turned away. “Honestly, it baffles me,” Morgan said. “Any kind of ectopic, anything like that is excluded.” In the days since the surgery, Norris-De La Cruz and Lloyd have thought a lot about Texas’s abortion law, which they both believe factored into the delay in Norris-De La Cruz’s care. When Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, the two had argued fiercely about what a near-total abortion ban would mean for women in the state — with Norris-De La Cruz fearing a loss of personal freedoms, and Lloyd welcoming new protections for babies who couldn’t speak up for themselves. Initially, Lloyd said, she thought the Texas abortion law would only affect people who decided they didn’t want to be pregnant — never imagining it could prevent women from accessing lifesaving care. Now, she said, she has completely changed her mind about abortion bans. “I didn’t realize how far it had gone,” she said. “But it has happened to my life now, with my daughter." “Her life has been in danger and affected by someone who was too afraid to help.”

That's precisely right. The truth. Without question, The Washington Post is providing quite a public service:

"Tracking abortion access in the United States: Since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the legality of abortion has been left to individual states. The Washington Post is tracking states where abortion is legal, banned or under threat. Alabama embryo ruling: The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are people and someone can be held liable for destroying them, a decision that reproductive rights advocates say could imperil in vitro fertilization (IVF). Here’s what the Alabama embryo ruling means for IVF across the U.S. Abortion and the 2024 election: Voters in a dozen states in 2024 could decide the fate of abortion rights with constitutional amendments on the ballot in a pivotal election year. The Biden administration announced new steps intended to ensure access to contraception, abortion medication and emergency abortions at hospitals. Here’s what the moves on reproductive health mean for consumers. See where the 2024 presidential candidates stand on abortion bans. Abortion pills: The Supreme Court will decide this term whether to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Oral arguments are likely to be scheduled for the spring, with a decision by the end of June. For now, full access to mifepristone will remain in place."

For over 25 years this publication, Liberty In Peril, has provided a public service no matter the personal cost. Will continue to do so.

2-2-24

The following loss of constitutional rights and liberties, resulting horrendous consequences, is directly due to the nazi element in the Republican Party. -- A party desperate to force its perverse ideological and religious beliefs on the rest of us. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

CBS News reports:

"Warning: This story contains graphic language and content that some may find disturbing. When Brittany Watts woke up at her Warren, Ohio, home on Sept. 22, 2023, she knew she was miscarrying. Her 22-week-old fetus had been declared nonviable by doctors several days prior. Bleeding and in pain, she spent a total of 19 hours in the hospital over a span of two days, begging to be induced. But an ethics group at Mercy Health - St. Joseph Warren Hospital had concerns about Ohio's abortion laws and how they applied to Watts' case, ultimately resulting in hours of delayed care."

Surprised? Time to wake up.

"Watts, frustrated with the lengthy wait times, said she left the hospital both days against medical advice. She said she miscarried alone in her own bathroom."

Gets worse. Get this:

"When Watts returned to Mercy Health for medical care following the miscarriage she says a nurse rubbed her back and told her everything would be okay before calling the police at the direction of the hospital's risk management team and asking them to go to her home to find the fetus."

Nothing quite like goddamned hypocrisy, is there?

"As Watts recovered in her hospital bed, officers from the Warren City Police Department searched her home. They eventually found the fetus, lodged in the traps of the toilet. Watts was charged with abuse of a corpse – a felony charge that was ultimately dismissed earlier this month after an Ohio grand jury declined to indict her."

What the hell were the jackbooted bastards in blue thinking? How they get their cookies off?

"CBS News reviewed more than 600 pages of medical records as well as 911 transcripts and police records to understand what happened, and why Watts believes doctors, police and the state of Ohio failed her. "I don't want any other woman to go through what I had to go through," Watts told CBS News in an exclusive interview. Brittany Watts is 34 and has lived in Warren, Ohio, her entire life. The former steel town sits about 15 miles northwest of Youngstown and is home to nearly 40,000, according to 2020 U.S. Census Bureau data. The soft-spoken medical receptionist describes herself as quiet and mild-mannered, "most of the time just minding my own business." After learning she was pregnant, she kept the news to herself, fearing she'd disappoint her mother, with whom she is very close. So when Watts began leaking fluid on Sept. 19, 2023, she immediately went to see her doctor who confirmed her water had broken. She didn't know the events that occurred over the next four days would consume her next four months. "I went to my OBGYN once I started bleeding. And so I'm thinking something's not right," Watts said. "She got me on the table and started examining me, and she said 'I can feel the baby's head.'" Watts' doctor informed her that the fetus was unviable, and sent her to Mercy Health – St. Joseph Warren Hospital, just across the parking lot from her office. Despite it being a short, walkable distance, she required Watts to travel by ambulance. That's when it really set in for Watts that the situation was very serious."

Outrageously, the foot-dragging continued unabated.

"I waited in the hospital, waiting for the doctor to come in or call. And I kept asking whoever would come in to check my vitals – I said, 'Have you heard anything?' And they were like, 'Oh, well, we're still waiting, we're still waiting." Medical records show Watts was monitored for about eight hours in the hospital. But after becoming frustrated with the long wait and what she felt was a lack of answers, Watts left the hospital, despite doctors warning her of potentially fatal complications, including risk of hemorrhage, sepsis and death. "I was frustrated," Watts said. "I felt ignored. And I left against medical advice. And then I returned the next day thinking that there was going to be an induction or something." Watts returned to the hospital the next day, where she received care for about 11 hours. Medical records show she was given an IV and was waiting to be induced – but that never happened. Watts says she was unaware that doctors were waiting to hear back from the hospital's ethics committee before induction due to concerns about Ohio's abortion laws."

She could have died. Think this good, acceptable medical care?

"Records show that around the same time, a different doctor at the hospital examined Watts, and confirmed she had an abruption and premature rupture of membrane. Her white blood cell count was more than twice what it had been in the past, doctors said, and she needed immediate treatment before she found herself "on death's door." "Because of this, mom is at great risk if she completely abruption in terms of hemorrhaging and dying. It does not make sense to me to wait till mom has bleeding to death before we deliver a nonviable pregnancy despite the fact that there is a heartbeat," the doctor wrote. He continued, "I feel we would be endangering the mother by waiting for hemorrhage and/or sepsis or her to stop to the fetal heartbeat." According to medical documents, staff at Mercy Health - St. Joseph Warren Hospital had also become concerned about Watts' use of the phrase "abortion."

Clearly, this woman's medical best interests came second to hospital and hospital staff best interests:

"A note from the clinical ethics committee consultation, issued around 3:30 p.m. local time, reads in part, "Extensive conversation with [REDACTED] re: staff concerns about Brittany's verbalization to staff that she wishes to terminate the pregnancy and continues to mention she feels strongly that she is getting or consenting to an abortion. To clarify, ethics supports induction of this patient if it is the professional judgment of the physicians that Brittany is at high risk of bleeding and or serious infection that could lead to death. To be clear with Brittany, if induction occurs, there should be a well documented conversation with her (informed consent) that the procedure is only to prevent harm to her, and is not intended to terminate a potentially viable pregnancy." Ohio law bans abortions after 22 weeks, with exceptions for life-saving care. Watts, according to records, was 21 weeks and six days pregnant. "While the legislative environment has placed an increased focus on the necessity and importance of ethical reviews, our mission compels us to provide compassionate care to all," Mercy Health said in a statement to CBS News."

Clearly, 'compassionate care' was not provided this woman.

"According to The National Library of Medicine, hospital ethics committees or consultation services exist in nearly every hospital in the U.S. and are tasked with addressing ethical issues in patient care. The groups are typically made up of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, case managers, social workers, professional bioethics, chaplains, clergy, and patient and community representatives. They generally report to administrative leadership or the board of directors of the institution. Watts says she was never told the ethics committee was involved at all, and she was unaware of why the process was taking so long. Three hours after the committee issued its consultation report, she still had not been induced, according to the records. Records also show there was a flurry of calls to the ethics committee around 6 p.m. local time to try to iron out any remaining issues. But by 6:40 p.m. Watts had become frustrated, and told a nurse that she could be waiting at home instead. The nurse told her they were awaiting only had one more call, but Watts had had enough. By 7:20 p.m., reports show she had left her hospital room and checked out. Watts returned to her home, where she says she had dinner with her mother, who noticed she was in pain. Watts told her she had a stomach ache, and wanted to rest. She tried to distract herself by watching TV before going to bed."

The following is horrendous.

"On Sept. 22, just before 6 a.m. local time, Watts said she felt something happening. "I get up, and I go to the bathroom. I sit down on the toilet and I'm just, I'm doubled over. And then that's when I hear 'splash.'" Watts looked down, and saw the toilet was filled to the brim with blood and tissue. She immediately began cleaning herself up – using disinfecting wipes and her shower to wash off the blood. "I tried to make an appearance of the bathroom being clean. I grabbed a plunger because the toilet was kind of to the top," she said. "I grabbed a bucket and I just tried to scoop out water and tissue and all the matter. And then I take the bucket outside and I dump the bucket." "All while thinking, 'Wow, did that really just happen?' in my mind. I'm like, 'No, this is a dream. I'm dreaming.' But it really happened. Like I'm really awake right now. This is really what life is like now." After cleaning up, Watts tried to go about her day. She went to a previously scheduled hair appointment, but as the hairdresser began perming her hair, she noticed Watts was uncomfortable and expressed concern for her health. Watts told her she was "just menstruating," but the hairdresser insisted that she see a doctor and arranged a ride to the hospital. When she arrived, Watts was given immediate medical attention. She was given an IV – dehydrated after losing so much blood."

She could have died. Yet, that clearly meant nothing to the hospital and hospital staff.

"The nurse comes in and she's rubbing my back and talking to me and saying, 'Everything's going to be okay. You're going to be okay,'" Watts said. "Little do I know, there's a police officer that comes into the room a short time later. And I'm wondering, 'Why is a police officer coming in here? I don't recall doing anything wrong.' And little do I know the nurse comforting me and saying that everything was gonna be okay was the one who called police." The call to police was made at the direction of the hospital's risk management team. CBS News obtained the 911 call, in which the nurse tells the dispatcher that she was treating a "mother who had a delivery at home and came in without the baby." "She says the baby's in her backyard in a bucket," the nurse told the dispatcher. "And I need to have someone go find this baby or direct me on what I need to do." The nurse told the dispatcher she believed the bucket was near Watts' trash. "Oh, I'm going to be sick," the dispatcher responded. "Did she say if the baby was alive or not?" "She said she didn't wanna look," the nurse said. "She said she didn't want the baby, and she didn't look." Watts told CBS News she never said that she didn't want her baby. "I said I did not want to look. I never said I didn't want my baby. I would have never said something like that. It just makes me so angry that somebody would put those type of words in my mouth to make me seem so callous. And so, so hateful."

No shit.

"Dispatchers for the Warren Police Department called the nurse back for more information. "It's evident she did give birth. We still have a retained placenta and she was our patient here on Wednesday – pregnant and left," the nurse said. "We re-admitted her and we were talking her through everything and then she just disappeared." "Okay," the dispatcher said. "We have officers on the way to the residence first." "If they find it, can they please bring it to us?" the nurse asked. "Because we can dispose of it properly, like through the Ohio Department of Health." A Warren Police Department officer went to Watts' hospital room, and interviewed her for over an hour. Other officers went to her home to search for the fetus. Watts was alerted they were at her home by the doorbell camera. At first, police said they couldn't find it. It wasn't in the bucket. Watts' attorney, Traci Timko, tells CBS News that an officer finally submerged his hand into the toilet and felt the fetus. "The testimony was, 'felt feet in the trap of the toilet,'" Timko said. "That's where the fetus was. Brit didn't know where the fetus was. She was never able to see it." Watts confirmed she never saw the fetus. In order to send the remains to the coroner's office, police had to remove the entire toilet."

Gets worse. Get this:

"After being discharged from the hospital, Watts returned home to rest and recover. On Oct. 5, she says she was asleep when her mother got the phone call from police. "She comes in my room and she's in a panic. And I'm thinking something happened to a loved one or a family friend or something," Watts said. "And she's saying, 'Can I bring her down to the station? Can I bring her down to the station?' I'm like, 'Bring who down to the station?' And she gets off the phone and she said, 'There's a warrant out for your arrest.' And I said, 'For what?'" Watts says the police officer who had interviewed her at the hospital came to her house, put her in handcuffs, and took her down to the police station. Watts was arrested by the Warren Police Department and charged with abuse of a corpse – a felony carrying up to a $2,500 fine and up to one year in prison. She pleaded not guilty in court."

Outrageous bullshit. What could the jackbooted bastards possibly been thinking?

"Watts says she left the police station the same day she was charged, and returned home where she tried to process the charges, and the idea of going to prison. Ohio law defines "abuse of a corpse" as the treating of a human corpse in a way that would outrage reasonable family or community sensibilities. Her attorney says it's a very rare charge and that she struggled to understand why police were involved at all given that the corpse in question was fetal remains."

No question.

"In the course of representing her, I was met time and time again with, 'You can't flush a fetus,'" Timko said. "And I would say, 'What do you want her to do with it?' To which there's no response."

Not surprising.

"The Warren police department did not return CBS News' request for comment."

Surprised? Not possible to credibly defend the indefensible.

"Timko says the heart of the legal issue involves the definition of a corpse. "Fetal remains are defined as a product of human conception. Under Ohio law, they are disposed of as medical waste," she said. "Legally speaking, there's no definition of the term corpse directly. So we had to go in a roundabout way to establish a corpse does not include fetal remains. The state defining corpse in a clearer way would take the ability for prosecutors away to criminalize a pregnancy outcome in this manner." Watts says the Warren City Prosecutor's Office accused her in court of disregarding the fetus and simply going on about her day, citing her hair appointment. "What do you want me to do in that situation?" Watts said, referring to the prosecutor's argument. "Don't you go about your day? I mean, yes, you seek medical attention, but miscarriages happen all the time. Whether you're at home, whether you're at work, whether you're out in the general public, or at the store, you never know when things like this are going to happen. So who are you to say that I went on about my day? You don't know what I did. You don't know where I was. You just know that I went and got my hair done, but do you know where I was after that? No. You don't."

No shit.

"The Warren Municipal Court sent the case to the Trumbull County Prosecutor's Office on Nov. 14. Trumbull County Prosecuting Attorney Dennis Watkins says his office had no choice but to send the case to a grand jury, which was tasked with determining whether to return an indictment on the felony charge. On Jan. 11, the Trumbull County grand jury declined to indict Watts."

Surprised?

"Watkins issued a statement reading in part, "After a careful evaluation of both sides' positions, interviewing witnesses, and researching and applying the law, believe that Brittany Watts did not violate the Ohio Criminal Statue of Abuse of a Corpse as alleged in the complaint. We respectfully disagree with the lower court's application of the law." A rally had been planned that day outside of the courthouse as a show of support for Watts. After the charge was dismissed, the rally turned into a celebration. "I'm truly honored and grateful that all of you have come to support me. And we are not done fighting," Watts told the crowd of about 150 people. Watts says her focus now is getting to work on making sure the laws are changed and people are educated on what to do during miscarriages. "As the old saying goes," she said, "history repeats itself. I don't want it to happen in this case."

11-17-23

Abortion lawsuit against State of Texas growing in plaintiffs. NPR reports:

"Cristina Nuñez's doctors had always advised her not to get pregnant. She has diabetes, end-stage renal disease and other health conditions, and when she unexpectedly did become pregnant, it made her extremely sick. Now she is suing her home state of Texas, arguing that the abortion laws in the state delayed her care and endangered her life. Nuñez and six other women joined an ongoing lawsuit over Texas's abortion laws. The plaintiffs allege the exception for when a patient's life is in danger is too narrow and vague, and endangered them during complicated pregnancies. The case was originally filed in March with five patient plaintiffs, but more and more patients have joined the suit. The total number of patients suing Texas in this case is now 20 (two OB-GYN doctors are also part of the lawsuit). After a dramatic hearing in July, a district court judge agreed with the plaintiffs that the law needed to change, but the state immediately appealed her ruling directly to the Texas Supreme Court. That move allows Texas' three overlapping abortion bans to stand."

Nazi justice in a de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only. -- You don't own your uterus, ladies. State of Texas does. ... Or, so the Texas Attorney General and his goons believe. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"In the July hearing, lawyers for the Texas Attorney General's office argued that women had not been harmed by the state's laws and suggested that their doctors were responsible for any harms they claimed."

Aryan arrogance at its very worst. Surprised?

"For Cristina Nuñez, after she learned she was pregnant in May 2023, her health quickly worsened, according to an amended complaint filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the organization bringing the case. Nuñez had to increase the amount of time she spent in dialysis, and suffered from painful blood clots. She told an OB-GYN that she wanted an abortion, but was told that was not possible in Texas. She called a clinic that provides abortion in New Mexico, but was told she could not have a medication abortion because of her other health conditions. Her health continued to deteriorate as the weeks went on and her pregnancy progressed. In June, when one of her arms turned black from blood clots, she went to a Texas emergency room. She was diagnosed with a deep vein thrombosis, eclampsia and an embolism, but the hospital would not provide an abortion. She worried she would die, the complaint says. She finally received an abortion 11 days after going to the E.R., only after finding a pro-bono attorney that contacted the hospital on her behalf. Also joining the lawsuit is Kristen Anaya, whose water broke too early. She developed sepsis, shaking and vomiting uncontrollably, while waiting for an abortion in a Texas hospital. The other new plaintiffs are Kaitlyn Kash, D. Aylen, Kimberly Manzano, Dr. Danielle Mathisen, and Amy Coronado, all of whom received serious and likely fatal fetal diagnoses and traveled out of state for abortions. The Texas Supreme Court is set to consider the Center's request for a temporary injunction that would allow abortions in a wider range of medical situations. That hearing is scheduled for Nov. 28."

11-10-23

Abortion rights supporters win big. NBC News reports:

"Abortion rights keep winning and winning at the ballot box — and on Tuesday, winning some more. Nearly 17 months after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the hot streak enjoyed by candidates and ballot measures backing abortion rights continued in a collection of states in very different places across the political spectrum. In Ohio, the state constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights won by double digits, a year after Republicans swept the statewide offices that were up in the midterm elections. In Kentucky, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear won re-election after having made support of abortion rights a key message of his campaign in the deep red state. And in Virginia, Democrats kept their majority in the state Senate and flipped the state House — a substantive rebuke of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who’d put a 15-week abortion ban at the center of his campaign to help the GOP win full control of government in what has become a blue-leaning state over the last decade. The results are yet more evidence that heading into 2024, abortion rights remain a major political force for Democrats and a vulnerability for Republicans across the country, political strategists from both major parties said. “Democrats have a message on abortion that’s more salient than Republicans’,” Republican strategist Alex Conant said. “And Republicans need to figure out a way to talk about abortion that can win independent voters in the center.” Democratic strategist Jesse Ferguson said it's not "a question of Republicans retooling their message or finding a new slogan or trying to sell people on something that people don’t want." “We now have the 2022 midterms, the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, the other ballot measures, Kansas and tonight’s results,” Ferguson continued, rattling off the list of victories by abortion-rights supporters since Roe was overturned. “This is not some referendum on the status quo. This is people showing they’re worried about the consequences that come from extremism … in red states like Kentucky, purple states in Virginia and everything in between."

The Republican nazis on the U.S. Supreme Court are finally getting theirs. Indeed, tough shit. Doesn't your heart bleed for the fascist bastards? Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

9-15-23

The nazi element in Alabama remains determinedly out of control. 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:

"Dr. Heather Skanes’ team at the Oasis Family Birthing Center in Birmingham, Alabama, started turning away patients this spring as state officials cracked down on alternative childbirth options. The center had offered patients with low-risk pregnancies a place to deliver their babies outside of a hospital, where cesarean sections weren’t performed, epidurals weren’t administered and midwives took the lead. Some women labored in an inflatable aqua birthing pool, in what Skanes saw as a more supportive environment in which Black women in particular would feel more comfortable and heard. But in March, officials with the Alabama Department of Public Health told Skanes that they considered the previously unregulated facility to be a hospital that didn’t have proper permission to be open, according to her attorneys. Only patients who were in their third trimesters when the clampdown occurred could still have their babies at Oasis. Everyone else would have to go elsewhere."

Liberty? What's that? Doesn't exist in 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.

“Many of them felt that their voice in their choice had been taken from them,” Skanes said."

No question. It has. Government now owns your uterus, ladies. Raw nazism. Dictates where you can and cannot receive care. Worse? What care you can and cannot receive. Should your fetus die in utero you're out of luck. Many physicians refuse to provide an abortion to save your life, fearing lawsuit and/or prosecution. Thank the nazi element in the Republican Party. Thank the cowards in the Democratic Party, including Biden, for not standing up to these fascist bastards. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. Think we haven't lost our country?

"The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the state Public Health Department on behalf of Skanes over what it has called a “de facto ban” on freestanding birth centers. The court battle is unfolding as the agency is weeks away from implementing licensing regulations for the facilities. Alabama has an alarming record on keeping expectant and new mothers alive, with a higher share of residents dying in pregnancy and during or shortly after childbirth than almost any other state. More than a third of counties in Alabama lack hospitals with labor and delivery units or practicing obstetric providers, according to a report last year from the March of Dimes."

Thank the racist nazi element in this country for this outrageous bullshit. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The new rules could drastically change how some birth centers, including Oasis, are staffed and whether they can operate at all. Midwives, who are trained to assist in out-of-hospital births, wouldn’t be able to take the lead unless they also met certain nursing qualifications. The rules would also require birthing centers to secure agreements with local hospitals to transfer patients if needed. And the centers would be allowed to open only within a 30-minute drive of hospitals with obstetricians on staff — a significant hurdle in a state where many communities lack nearby options."

Wouldn't want to confuse the nazi element with the truth, would we? Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. Democrats? No better. Have gutlessly failed to effectively stand up to the nazi element in our country.

Think gutless physicians aren't part of the problem? Wake up. Get this:

"A spokesperson for the Medical Association of the State of Alabama said the physicians group did not take a position on the rules."

Think the following isn't a serious problem?

"Advocates say the need for such care goes beyond making sure those who are expecting have access to doctors and transportation to appointments; it’s also about making sure that patients who are particularly vulnerable, like Black women, have access to spaces where they feel respected. Black women of all economic backgrounds, including people as high-profile as Serena Williams, have shared experiences of having to fight to be listened to by medical staff members, sometimes under life-threatening conditions. Nationally, the maternal mortality rate for Black women is almost three times the rate for white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And Alabama’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee found that more than half of deaths that the group assessed that occurred in 2016 and 2017 were preventable."

How about that? Think racist nazism isn't a problem in Alabama? Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

6-9-23

In follow-up to last week's edition, NPR reports:

"Hundreds of Indiana doctors are coming to the defense of Caitlin Bernard, the obstetrician/gynecologist who was recently punished by a state licensing board for talking publicly about providing an abortion for a 10-year-old rape victim. In public statements, doctors across a range of specialties are speaking out against the board's decision, and warning that it could have dangerous implications for public health. "I hate to say, I think this is completely political," says Ram Yeleti, a cardiologist in Indianapolis. "I think the medical board could have decided not to take this case."

What it's doing is forcing it's perverse religious views on the rest of us. Raw nazism. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. The nazi element in the Republican Party cannot, will not be confused by the truth. Readers are reminded abortion was indeed illegal in both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

"In March 2020, as hospitals everywhere were starting to see extremely sick patients, Yeleti was leading a medical team that had cared for the first Indiana patient to die from COVID. At a press conference alongside Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, Yeleti tried to warn the public that the coronavirus was real and deadly. "I want to explain how real this is," Yeleti said after he stepped up to the microphone to explain the news that day in 2020. "How real this is for all of us." He and others provided a few basic details: The patient was over 60, had some other health issues, and had died from the virus earlier that day in Marion County, Ind. "There was a sense of high sense of urgency to get the word out as immediately as possible," Yeleti says now, reflecting on that time. "I think we needed to make it real for people." So he was alarmed when Indiana's Medical Licensing Board concluded last week that Bernard had violated patient privacy laws by speaking publicly about her unnamed patient."

What did the nazi element in the Republican Party expect a ten-year-old girl to do? Continue the pregnancy? That's the issue here, -- not the disingenuous anger expressed by the Attorney General:

"Last summer, days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Bernard told The Indianapolis Star she'd provided an abortion for a 10-year-old rape victim who'd had to cross state lines after Ohio banned abortion. Indiana's Republican Attorney General, Todd Rokita, expressed anger at Bernard after she spoke out about the case."

She provided no personal information of this 10-year-old, -- none:

"Her employer, Indiana University Health, conducted its own review last year and found no privacy violations. But the licensing board took up the case after Rokita complained, and voted to reprimand Bernard and fine her $3000."

To enforce its perverse religious views.

"In an open letter signed by more than 500 Indiana doctors, Yeleti asks the board to reconsider its decision, saying it sets a "dangerous and chilling precedent." The letter is set to be published Sunday in The Indianapolis Star. Indiana's Medical Licensing Board has not responded to requests for comment."

The fascist bastards remain hopelessly gutless. Raw nazism. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. The nazi element in the Republican Party cannot, will not be confused by the truth.

"Another doctor who signed the letter, Anita Joshi, is a pediatrician in the small town of Crawfordsville, Ind. She says speaking in general terms about the kinds of cases she's seeing is often part of helping her patients understand potential health risks. "I very often will say to a mom who is, for example, hesitant about giving their child a vaccine, 'Well, you know, we have had a 10-year-old who has had mumps in this practice,' " Joshi says. But now she worries she could get into trouble for those kinds of conversations. So does Bernard Richard, a family medicine doctor outside Indianapolis. He says it's part of his job to educate the public, just like Dr. Caitlin Bernard did. "Due to this incident, I had patients who said to me, 'I had no idea that someone could even get pregnant at the age of 10,' " Richard says. "You can easily see how that might be important when someone is making decisions about controversial issues such as abortion. This information matters."

Indeed. It does. Ignorance is not bliss. Nowhere near.

"Dr. Tracey Wilkinson, who teaches pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine, shares that concern. "These stories are devastating. They're heartbreaking. I wish that they never existed, but they do," Wilkinson says. "And I think part of the public's lack of belief that this could happen, or did happen, is because there's not enough people talking about it."

Without question.

"Wilkinson, who describes herself as a "dear friend" of Dr. Bernard, signed Yeleti's open letter. She also co-wrote an opinion piece published in Stat News by founding members of the Good Trouble Coalition, an advocacy group for healthcare providers. The coalition issued its own statement supporting Bernard, and noting that the American Medical Association code of ethics says doctors should "seek change" when laws and policies are against their patients' best interests. "As a physician in Indiana, everybody is scared. Everybody is upset," Wilkinson says. "Everybody is wondering if they could be next."

Expect better of the national socialist element so desperate to force its perverse religious views on the rest of us? Raw nazism. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. The nazi element in the Republican Party cannot, will not be confused by the truth.

6-2-23

Carefully consider the following. The Associated Press reports:

"An Indiana board decided Thursday night to reprimand an Indianapolis doctor after finding that she violated patient privacy laws by talking publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from neighboring Ohio. The state Medical Licensing Board voted that Dr. Caitlin Bernard didn’t abide by privacy laws when she told a newspaper reporter about the girl’s treatment in a case that became a flashpoint in the national abortion debate days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer. The board, however, rejected accusations from Indiana’s Republican attorney general that Bernard violated state law by not reporting the child abuse to Indiana authorities. Board members chose to fine Bernard $3,000 for the violations, turning down a request from the attorney general’s office to suspend Bernard’s license. The board issued no restrictions on her practice of medicine."

Raw nazism. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. The nazi element in the Republican Party cannot, will not be confused by the truth:

"Bernard has consistently defended her actions, and she told the board on Thursday that she followed Indiana’s reporting requirements and hospital policy by notifying hospital social workers about the child abuse — and that the girl’s rape was already being investigated by Ohio authorities. Bernard’s lawyers also said that she didn’t release any identifying information about the girl that would break privacy laws."

The doctor did indeed stand tall:

"The Indianapolis Star cited the girl’s case in a July 1 article that sparked a national political uproar in the weeks after last summer’s Roe v. Wade decision put into effect an Ohio law that prohibited abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Some news outlets and Republican politicians falsely suggested Bernard fabricated the story, until a 27-year-old man was charged with the rape in Columbus, Ohio. During an event at the White House, President Joe Biden nearly shouted his outrage over the case."

Justifiably so. What did the nazi element in the Republican Party expect a ten-year-old girl to do? Continue the pregnancy? That's the issue here. Certainly not the following disingenuous, hypocritical bullshit:

"Medical board President Dr. John Strobel said he believed Bernard went too far in telling a reporter about the girl’s pending abortion and that physicians need to be careful about observing patient privacy. “I don’t think she expected this to go viral,” Strobel said of Bernard. “I don’t think she expected this attention to be brought to this patient. It did. It happened.”

What a crock of shit. Why are these fascist bastards so eager to force their perverse religious views on the rest of us? Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Bernard’s lawyer Alice Morical told the board Thursday that the doctor reported child abuse of patients many times a year and that a hospital social worker had confirmed with Ohio child protection staffers that it was safe for the girl to leave with her mother. “Dr. Bernard could not have anticipated the atypical and intense scrutiny that this story received,” Morical said. “She did not expect that politicians would say that she made the story up.” Amid the wave of attention to the girl’s case last summer, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, who is stridently anti-abortion, told Fox News he would investigate Bernard’s actions and called her an “abortion activist acting as a doctor.”

What a crock of shit. Disingenuous bullshit expressed by a shyster with an agenda. Expect better of the nazi element in this country? Readers are reminded abortion was indeed illegal in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

"Deputy Attorney General Cory Voight argued Thursday that the board needed to address what he called an “egregious violation” of patient privacy and Bernard’s failure to notify Indiana’s Department of Child Services and police about the rape. “There’s been no case like this before the board,” Voight said. “No physician has been as brazen in pursuit of their own agenda.”

Isn't this precisely what you and the attorney general are doing, sir? Your hypocrisy is stunning.

"Voight asked Bernard why she discussed the Ohio girl’s case with the newspaper reporter and later in other news media interviews rather than using a hypothetical situation. “I think that it’s incredibly important for people to understand the real-world impacts of the laws of this country about abortion,” Bernard said. “I think it’s important for people to know what patients will have to go through because of legislation that is being passed, and a hypothetical does not make that impact.”

Goddamned right. The nazi element in this country cannot, will not be confused by the truth. Their national socialist agenda comes first. So does imposition of their perverse religious views on the rest of us. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Board member Dr. Bharat Barai opposed finding that Bernard violated privacy laws, saying that she released no direct protected identifying information such as the girl’s name or address. He disagreed with the board majority’s view that the combination of information about the rare instance of a pregnant 10-year-old girl could have exposed her identity. “We are trying to suppose that yeah this could have been done and maybe somebody could have discovered it,” Barai said."

No kidding. LOL.

"During Thursday’s hearing lasting some 13 hours, Rokita’s office kept up a running commentary on its official Twitter account, with one post saying: “When Bernard talked about the high priority she puts on legislation and speaking to the public, she did so at the expense of her own patient. This shows where her priorities are as an activist rather than a doctor.”

That's a crock of self-serving shit, sir. What it does is expose your insane agenda to determinedly force your perverse religious views on the rest of us.

"Bernard objected to Voight saying her choice to publicly discuss the case led to the misconduct allegations. “I think if the attorney general, Todd Rokita, had not chosen to make this his political stunt we wouldn’t be here today,” Bernard said."

That's right. No question. Nothing quite like the truth.

"Lawyers for the attorney general’s office repeatedly raised questions about whether the policy of Bernard’s employer, Indiana University Health, to report suspected child abuse to authorities in the state where the abuse occurred complied with Indiana law. Officials of IU Health, which is the state’s largest hospital system, testified that the Indiana Department of Child Services has never objected to the hospital policy."

Shysters cannot, will not be confused by the truth. Their agenda comes first.

Here's the problem with raw nazism:

"The Indiana board — with five doctors and one attorney present who were appointed or reappointed by Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb — had wide latitude under state law allowing it to issue reprimand letters or suspend, revoke or place on probation a doctor’s license."

Raw, concerted abuse of power. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Ohio’s law imposing a near-ban on abortion was in effect for about two months, before being put on hold as a lawsuit against it plays out. Indiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature approved a statewide abortion ban weeks after the Ohio girl’s case drew attention, but abortions have continued to be permitted in the state while awaiting an Indiana Supreme Court decision on the ban’s constitutionality. Bernard unsuccessfully tried to block Rokita’s investigation last fall, although an Indianapolis judge wrote that Rokita made “clearly unlawful breaches” of state confidentiality laws with his public comments about investigating the doctor before filing the medical licensing complaint against her."

Nothing quite like a double standard, is there? The hypocrisy reeks. Expect better of the nazi element? Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

1-6-23

Egregious fallout from the six Republican nazis on the U.S. Supreme Court. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. Seatbelts on. NPR reports:

"Kaitlyn and Landon Joshua were worried for Kaitlyn's health when she started to bleed heavily and had labor-like pains early in her pregnancy. But two different emergency rooms she went to wouldn't confirm she was miscarrying or explain her treatment options."

How about that? No problems with this? None?

"When Kaitlyn Joshua found out she was pregnant in mid-August, she and her husband, Landon Joshua, were excited to have a second baby on the way. They have a 4-year-old daughter, and thought that was just the right age to help out with a younger sibling. At about six weeks pregnant, Joshua, 30, called a physicians' group in Baton Rouge. She wanted to make her first prenatal appointment there for around the eight-week mark, as she had in her first pregnancy. But Joshua says the woman on the line told her she was going to have to wait over a month. "They specifically said, 'We now no longer see women until they're at least 12 weeks,'" Joshua recalls. "And I said, 'Oh Lord. Is this because of what I think? And they said, 'Yes.'" She remembers the woman on the phone saying that since the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and with what the woman called a gray area in Louisiana's law, the group was delaying the first prenatal appointment with patients."

Wake up. Women are being denied access to necessary medical care ultimately due to the perverse religious views of the nazi element in our formerly great country.

"Joshua remembers her saying that many women miscarry in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and they didn't want to be liable for an investigation."

How about that? No problems with this? None?

"Louisiana's near-total abortion ban, which took effect on Aug. 1, has raised fears among physicians that they could potentially be investigated for treating a miscarriage, since the same treatments are also used for abortion."

Who the hell is the nazi element in our formerly great country to force its perverse religious views on the rest of us?

"During those early weeks of pregnancy, Joshua experienced symptoms she hadn't dealt with in her first pregnancy: mild cramping and spotting. Without access to a doctor, though, Joshua felt like she had nowhere to go for answers. "How in the world can we have a viable health care system for women, especially women of color, when they won't even see you for 12 weeks?" she says."

Good question. Time to wake up.

"Joshua, who works as a community organizer, knew pregnancy can be dangerous, especially for Black women like herself. She also knew about Louisiana's dismal maternal health statistics: The state has one of the highest maternal death rates in the country, and Black women are at higher risk than white women, according to reports from the state's health department."

Surprised?

"So Joshua booked an appointment weeks away with one of the few OB-GYNs she could find who was a woman of color. Then, when she was between 10 and 11 weeks pregnant, she started bleeding heavily, passing clots and tissue. She says the pain was worse than when she'd given birth. Her husband was at work, so Joshua drove herself to the emergency room at Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge. There, staff took her vitals, drew blood, performed a physical exam, and gave her an ultrasound. They told her the ultrasound showed that her fetus had stopped growing, she recalls. It was measuring seven or eight weeks gestation, not 10 or 11 weeks. Her medical records show her pregnancy hormone levels to be abnormally low. She recalls being told her fetus had only a faint heartbeat. Joshua understood that she was miscarrying. But hospital staff wouldn't definitively confirm it and didn't explain what treatment options she'd have if she was having a miscarriage. Joshua remembers one nurse telling her: "'It appears that you could be having one. But we don't want to say that's what it is. So let's just keep watching it. You can continue to come back. Of course, we're praying for you.'"

How about that? No problems with this? None?

"Joshua is Christian. She spends Sunday mornings at church. But she says the comment felt like an insult. "Folks need answers, not prayers. And that's exactly what I was looking for in that moment," she says. The next day, her bleeding and pain were worse. Landon, her husband, was afraid for her life. By the evening, Joshua was pacing her bathroom floor, bleeding and cramping, when she felt more blood and tissue come out of her body. "It literally felt like I had almost birthed a child," she says. "And so I was like, 'No, I have to go somewhere, like now.' " She didn't want to return to the first ER, so she called her mother and husband and told them to meet her at Baton Rouge General in nearby Prairieville. There, a security guard put her in a wheelchair. Her jeans were soaked through with blood. Staff gave her another ultrasound, and the technician told her she'd lost a lot of blood. A doctor came in to talk about the ultrasound results. She told Joshua it looked like a cyst, not a pregnancy, and asked if she was positive she'd been pregnant — a question that made Joshua angry. Joshua remembers the doctor then said that if she was indeed miscarrying, she should go back home and wait, then follow up with her OB-GYN in two to three days. Joshua asked the doctor for treatment to alleviate her pain and speed up the process. There are two standard options for managing a confirmed miscarriage, other than letting it pass on its own: a procedure called dilation and curettage, to remove pregnancy tissue; or medication, which can help clear the uterus more quickly. Both of the latter treatments are also used for abortions. The doctor told her, "'we're not going to do that,'" Joshua recalls. "I just remember her saying, 'We're not doing that now.'"

Gets worse. Get this:

"The doctor also said she wouldn't refer Joshua somewhere else for miscarriage treatment, Joshua recalls, nor give her discharge papers stating she was having a miscarriage, known in medical terminology as a spontaneous abortion. "She stated that they're not going to put anywhere 'spontaneous abortion' because that would then flag an investigation on them," Joshua says. Landon Joshua, Kaitlyn's husband, says he had the impression that the doctor was afraid to confirm his wife's miscarriage. "She would not look me in the eye to tell me what was happening," Kaitlyn says. Frustrated and scared, the Joshuas went home. Both Women's Hospital and Baton Rouge General said in statements to NPR that their pregnancy care has not changed since Louisiana's abortion ban passed. Baton Rouge General said its care of Kaitlyn Joshua was appropriate. NPR contacted the provider who Joshua originally called for a prenatal appointment, and it denied that it had changed the timing of first appointments. Although she couldn't comment directly on Joshua's situation, Dr. Jenny Villavicencio, a D.C.-based OB-GYN, says that delaying a first prenatal visit until the 12-week mark, while not outside the recommended window for care, is later than ideal."

Think the following tolerable in what is supposed to be a free country that believes in liberty?

"In September, at a Louisiana Department of Health meeting, Dr. Joey Biggio, the chair of maternal and fetal medicine with Ochsner Health, Louisiana's largest health system, said some OB-GYN doctors were afraid to provide routine care. "There has now been such a level of concern created from the Attorney General's office about the threat to them both criminally and civilly and professionally, that many people are not going to provide the care that is needed for patients, whether it's ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, ruptured membranes, you know, hemorrhage," Biggio said. "And we need to figure out a way to be able to provide some clear, unequivocal guidance to providers, or we're going to see some unintended consequences of all of this."

That's right. Women denied necessary care will die for no reason.

"Miscarriages can be dangerous – they can cause hemorrhaging and infections that lead to sepsis – and it makes sense that patients would seek answers and treatment options from health care providers, says Monica McLemore, a registered nurse and the interim director for the Center for Anti-Racism in Nursing at the University of Washington. Miscarriage treatment is also time-sensitive, McLemore added. She says that, ideally, a patient like Joshua would have had OB-GYN care even before she got pregnant so that she had more consistent care, which could have helped give her more autonomy over how to treat her miscarriage. "As a health care provider, I feel very strongly that we need to apologize for the harms that we've committed. It's really sad that the care that she sought for herself was not provided to her," McLemore says.

"Ellie Schilling, a lawyer with Lift Louisiana, a reproductive justice organization that challenged Louisiana's law in state court, says that while the law allows for miscarriages to be treated, it is written in legal language that doesn't translate easily into medicine, or necessarily line up with an individual patient's set of circumstances. And this puts doctors in a very difficult situation. "They're trying to interpret specific language and pair it up to specific patients to do some sort of calculation about, you know, have we reached this threshold yet? Or have we not?" she says. Doctors also have to consider whether someone else might later disagree with their decision, she adds. "How is somebody else going to interpret that later? How is law enforcement or a prosecutor potentially going to interpret that later?" She argues that the law needs to be clarified. "It puts providers and patients in a really dangerous situation," she says. "And to abdicate all responsibility for making the laws, before drafting the laws in a way that will work for physicians on the ground, is just irresponsible."

Clearly, matters not to the nazi element in our formerly great country.

"In the week after Joshua's last ER visit, the heavy bleeding and piercing pains continued. While mourning the loss of what would have been her new baby, she remained worried for her own health. She feared getting worse and wondered how bad she would need to get in order to get treatment. Her overall feeling from both ER visits was that she hadn't been taken seriously. "Just complete and total abandonment and just completely being written off by physicians that we saw," she says. Joshua blames Louisiana's anti-abortion law for the care she received. "For me to have to navigate so many different channels to get health care should not be happening," she says. "This has to change. There needs to be clarity within the abortion ban" so that physicians are not confused or afraid to provide care and support. Joshua also wondered how much being a Black woman had impacted her care. "I was just wondering if white women get turned away like this," she says. Monica McLemore, the nurse who researches racism and maternal health at the University of Washington, says research shows that Black patients are less likely to be listened to and believed. "So you can't tell me that that's not always in the mix, because it is," McLemore says. And that can fuel distrust of the health system. People who don't like how they were treated during pregnancy can be less willing to seek care in the future, she added."

Here's the bottom line:

"It took weeks, but Joshua was able to pass the pregnancy at home. If she had been given a choice, she would have chosen care that made the experience faster, less painful, less scary, and less risky, especially as a Black woman. "This experience has made me see how Black women die. Like this is how Black women are dying," she says. It also has made Kaitlyn and Landon Joshua rethink their plans for more children. "I love my kid. And so, she constantly makes me want another her. But in this moment, it's just too dangerous to get pregnant in the state of Louisiana," Kaitlyn says. "I don't think it's worth risking your life for a baby right now." She wonders how many other women in Louisiana are now feeling the same."

Time to wake up. We now live 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.

11-11-22

The Associated Press reports:

"Abortion rights supporters won in the four states where access was on the ballot Tuesday, as voters enshrined it into the state constitution in battleground Michigan as well as blue California and Vermont and dealt a defeat to an anti-abortion measure in deep-red Kentucky. In all, it was a dramatic illustration of how the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June to eliminate the nationwide right to abortion has galvanized voters who support women’s right to choose. The court’s June decision has led to near-total bans in a dozen Republican-governed states. The Kentucky result repudiated the state’s Republican-led Legislature, which has imposed a near-total ban on abortion and put the proposed state constitutional amendment on the ballot. The outcome echoed what happened in another red state, Kansas, where voters in August rejected changing that state’s constitution to let lawmakers tighten restrictions or ban abortions. “As we saw in Kansas earlier this year, and in many other states last night, this is not a partisan issue,” said Nancy Northup, president the Center for Reproductive Rights, in a statement. “People are energized and they do not want politicians controlling their bodies and futures.” Nationally, about two-thirds of voters say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of over 90,000 voters across the country. Only about 1 in 10 say abortion should be illegal in all cases. About 6 in 10 also say the Supreme Court’s abortion decision made them dissatisfied or angry, compared with fewer who say they were happy or satisfied."

Get this:

"Some originally thought the Kentucky ballot measure would drive more conservative voters to the polls. But after the Roe decision, abortion-rights supporters raised nearly $1.5 million to fight it. In Michigan, supporters of the push to protect abortion rights collected more signatures than any other ballot initiative in state history to get it before the voters. It puts a definitive end to a 1931 ban on abortion that had been blocked in court but could have been revived. On Michigan State University’s campus, junior Devin Roberts said students seemed “fired up” and that he had seen lines of voters spilling out of the school’s polling places throughout the day. The ballot measure was one of the main drivers of the high turnout, he said. “I think students want to have the same rights that their parents had when they were younger,” Robert said."

Far more to come as final results of the 2022 Midterm Elections are reported.

10-7-22

Pressure on the judge must have been enormous. LOL. NBC News reports:

"A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton must testify in an abortion lawsuit just a week after a court filing said he fled his home to avoid a subpoena seeking his appearance at a hearing in the case."

How about that? LOL. What a gutless piece of crap. LOL.

"U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ordered Paxton, a Republican, to testify in a suit that seeks to block state prosecutors from going after abortion providers for offering financial and other aid to Texans seeking abortion services out of state."

What took so long?

"Pitman's order was a reversal of his previous ruling, which had granted Paxton's request to quash a subpoena in the lawsuit several nonprofit Texas abortion funds and an OB-GYN brought against Paxton and local district attorneys in August. A process server said last week that Paxton fled his home in a truck driven by his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, to dodge being served a subpoena to appear at a hearing in the case. In a series of tweets, Paxton said he was avoiding a “stranger lingering outside my home” out of concern for his family’s safety."

What a crock of crap. Readers are reminded Paxton had indeed received the guy's business card. Could have called law enforcement. Instead, chose to gutlessly run.

"According to the judge's order, Paxton had initially challenged the subpoena on the basis that as a high-ranking government official, he could not be compelled to testify in a hearing, especially at the "eleventh-hour." But Pitman said he was compelled to change his mind when abortion-rights groups filed a new motion last week citing the various attempts they had made to serve him, including repeated emails that went unanswered ahead of the scheduled hearing. “Because the Court was forced to decide Paxton’s motion to quash on a very limited timeframe, without the benefit of Plaintiffs’ response, and because the Court relied on Defendant’s representations as accurate depictions of when Paxton had been served and notified of his expected testimony, the Court issued its ruling on incomplete facts,” Pitman wrote Tuesday."

The pressure on this judge had to have been enormous. LOL. Certainly, made him look like he was either in the pocket of the Attorney General or had been played for a fool by the AG when he learned Paxton had indeed gutlessly run like hell. LOL.

"Abortion-rights groups in the case have accused Paxton and others in court filings of efforts to “chill their First Amendment rights to speak about and fund abortion care,” arguing that statements made by Paxton have constrained their ability to facilitate out-of-state abortions. The groups called on Paxton to testify after they argued that his efforts to dismiss their lawsuit led him to contradict some of his earlier statements in news releases, tweets and media interviews about his desire to pursue civil penalties and assist in criminal prosecutions against those involved in performing or attempting abortions. Pitman ordered the parties to agree on the details of Paxton's testimony by next Tuesday. Paxton, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, has been under indictment on securities fraud charges for seven years and has also faced an FBI probe of allegations by former top aides that he abused his office. In both instances, he has denied any wrongdoing."

10-7-22

Planned Parenthood stands tall. NPR reports:

"With a growing number of patients in states that now prohibit abortion traveling for the procedure, Planned Parenthood says it will soon open its first mobile abortion clinic in the country, in southern Illinois. "Our goal is to reduce the hundreds of miles that people are having to travel now in order to access care...and meet them where they are," said Yamelsie Rodriguez, President of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, said in an interview with NPR. The mobile clinic will begin offering consultations and dispensing abortion pills later this year. It will operate within Illinois, where abortion remains legal, but will be able to travel closer to neighboring states' borders, reducing the distance many patients travel for the procedure. "It gives us a lot of flexibility about where to be," Rodriguez said."

Certainly, provides a public service to desperate women who can't afford the travel expense. Particularly significant at a time when the female half of the population is no longer free courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party which now dictates what a woman can and cannot do with HER uterus. Clear violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion. While the nazi element is certainly entitled to its perverse religious views, it has no right to force these views on the rest of us. One reason of many why we now live in a 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.

"Planned Parenthood opened the Fairview Heights Health Center in Fairview Heights, Illinois, in 2019, anticipating a surge in patients from across the region. That surge is quickly materializing. Illinois has become a hub for people from other parts of the Midwest and South who've become unable to get abortions in their home states as a result of this summer's U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade."

The six Republican nazi partisans on the Court are directly responsible for this egregious loss of liberty.

"Anticipating that possibility, Planned Parenthood opened a large clinic in 2019 in Fairview Heights, Illinois, just across the state line from St. Louis. Missouri had some of the nation's strictest abortion laws even before the court released the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, and state officials moved almost immediately to implement abortion bans in response to it."

Raw nazism. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. ... Hear the rumble? One reason of an exponentially increasing list why an unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms.

"The Fairview Heights clinic is projected to receive about 14,000 patients traveling from across the region each year, an increase that "is materializing much, much faster than we anticipated," Rodriguez said. "We just need more access points."

No question. While no woman should ever be denied medical care for a pregnancy she wishes to bring to term, by the same token, no one should be forced to endure an unwanted pregnancy. Certainly, not in a democratic republic that supposedly lives by and embraces a First Amendment that supports not only freedom of religion, but freedom from it as well.

"The mobile facility – set up inside of an RV – will include a small waiting area, laboratory, and two exam rooms. It initially will provide medication abortion up to 11 weeks gestation, officials said. It eventually will offer surgical abortions, likely beginning sometime next year. Patients seeing healthcare providers at the mobile clinic will follow the same protocol as those visiting a permanent Planned Parenthood facility, said Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood in the region. They take mifepristone - the first in a two-drug protocol approved by the Food and Drug Administration - on-site. They're offered counseling about the other drug, misoprostol, which is taken later. "The only thing that will change is the fact that now they might only have to drive five hours instead of nine hours," she said."

Indeed, a public service at a time when liberty has been egregiously abrogated by the nazi element in the Republican Party.

"One of the first tasks will be to determine the best routes for the mobile clinic. The organization is reviewing data to determine where patients are coming from and looking at healthcare facilities, churches, and other locations as potential stopping-off points. Another important consideration will be safety and security for patients and staff, McNicholas said. Officials say they may expand to additional mobile units in the future. If the mobile clinic concept succeeds, it could be part of a larger strategy to find new ways to reach patients seeking abortions post-Roe. An organization called Just the Pill also recently announced it would be providing mobile clinic-based medication abortion care to patients in the Western and Midwestern United States. "We are all trying to work together to meet the exponential increase in the number of patients that are traveling from banned states to what we're calling 'haven states' for abortion care," Yamelsie Rodriguez said. "It's an all-hands-on-deck moment."

Indeed, Uncommon Valor at a time where liberty is under assault by the nazi element in the Republican Party. Democrats? Egregiously incapable of effectively challenging the nazi element in the Grand Old Party.

"Planned Parenthood says between June, when the Dobbs decision was issued, and August, it saw nearly a four-fold increase in patients coming from outside Missouri or Illinois to its Fairview Heights clinic. The organization also is preparing to open a new family planning clinic in Rolla, Mo., in early November. Rodriguez said it's part of a larger push to expand services including contraception, STI screening, and transgender care, and to provide reproductive healthcare in underserved, rural parts of the state. The overturning of Roe has set up likely battles between states with a patchwork of different abortion laws. Earlier this year, a Missouri state lawmaker unsuccessfully proposed allowing people to file lawsuits against those who help Missouri residents get abortions out of state - which she deemed "abortion tourism." That proposal failed, but legal experts say it's unclear how clashes between state laws will be resolved in the future."

... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on an exponentially increasing list of issues.

9-30-22

The following can be used by law enforcement to track and prosecute women seeking an abortion in a state where it is illegal to a state where it is indeed legal:

What took so long? Tracking by the jackbooted bastards in blue has been a problem for years. In follow-up to an earlier edition of this publication, The Associated Press reports:

"Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies’ ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow people’s whereabouts, including back years in time, and sometimes without a search warrant."

There is no greater threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than out of control law enforcement.

"Concerns about police use of the tool known as “Fog Reveal” raised in an investigation by The Associated Press published earlier this month also surfaced in a Federal Trade Commission hearing three weeks ago. Police agencies have been using the platform to search hundreds of billions of records gathered from 250 million mobile devices, and hoover up people’s geolocation data to assemble so-called “patterns of life,” according to thousands of pages of records about the company."

A fascist police-state. A 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.

"Sold by Virginia-based Fog Data Science LLC, Fog Reveal has been used since at least 2018 in criminal investigations ranging from the murder of a nurse in Arkansas to tracing the movements of a potential participant in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The tool is rarely, if ever, mentioned in court records, something that defense attorneys say makes it harder for them to properly defend their clients in cases in which the technology was used."

Precisely, what the fascist bastards intend. Justice? What's that?

“Americans are increasingly aware that their privacy is evaporating before their eyes, and the real-world implications can be devastating. Today, companies we’ve all heard of as well as companies we’re completely unaware of are collecting troves of data about where we go, what we do, and who we are,” said Sen. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat."

Time for you to do something about this, -- other than empty, hollow, meaningless rhetoric.

"Panelists and members of the public who took part in the FTC hearing also raised concerns about how data generated by popular apps is used for surveillance purposes, or “in some cases, being used to infer identity and cause direct harm to people in the real world, in the physical world and being repurposed for, as was mentioned earlier, law enforcement and national security purposes,” said Stacey Gray, a senior director for U.S. programs for the Future of Privacy Forum."

No question. Presents an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

Readers will recall:

"Fog Reveal was developed by two former high-ranking Department of Homeland Security officials under former President George W. Bush. It relies on advertising identification numbers, which Fog officials say are culled from popular cellphone apps such as Waze, Starbucks and hundreds of others that target ads based on a person’s movements and interests, according to police emails. That information is then sold to companies like Fog. Federal oversight of companies like Fog is an evolving legal landscape. Last month, the Federal Trade Commission sued a data broker called Kochava that, like Fog, provides its clients with advertising IDs that authorities say can easily be used to find where a mobile device user lives, which violates rules the commission enforces. And a bill introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden that is now before Congress seeks to regulate the way government agencies can obtain data from data brokers and other private companies, at a time when privacy advocates worry location tracking could be put to other novel uses, such as keeping tabs on people who seek abortions in states where it is now illegal."

... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on an exponentially growing list of issues.

“It wasn’t long ago that it would take high-tech equipment or a dedicated group of agents to track a person’s movements around the clock. Now, it just takes a few thousand dollars and the willingness to get in bed with shady data brokers,” said Wyden, an Oregon Democrat. “It is an outrage that data brokers are selling detailed location data to law enforcement agencies around the country — including in states that have made personal reproductive health decisions into serious crimes.”

Raw nazism. As government and law enforcement are out of control, remain an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Because of the secrecy surrounding Fog, there are scant details about its use. Most law enforcement agencies won’t discuss it, raising concerns among privacy advocates that it violates the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure. Advocates on both sides of the aisle should be concerned about unrestricted government use of Fog Reveal, said former Virginia Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who previously served as U.S. House Judiciary Chairman. “Fog Reveal is easily de-anonymized tracking of Americans’ daily movements and location histories. Where we go can say a lot about who we are, who we associate with, and even what we believe or how we worship,” said Goodlatte, who now works as a senior policy advisor to the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability. “The current political climate means that this technology could be used against people left, right and center. Everyone has a stake in curbing this technology.”

Get this:

"The New York Police Department used Fog Reveal at its Real Time Crime Center in 2018 and 2019, a previously undisclosed relationship confirmed by public records. A spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the NYPD used Fog on a trial basis, “strictly in the interest of developing leads for criminal investigations and lifesaving operations such as missing persons.” The department did not say if it was successful in either scenario. Two nonprofits that have supported privacy rights cases in New York City said the tool exploited consumers’ personal data and was “ripe for abuse,” according to Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Executive Director Albert Fox Cahn. “The lack of any meaningful regulation on the collection and sale of app data is both a consumer and privacy crisis,” Legal Aid Society Staff Attorney Benjamin Burger wrote in a recent post. “Both federal and state governments need to develop policies that will protect consumer data.”

9-30-22

The following is highly indicative of precisely how gutless the nazi element in the Republican Party remains vis a vis the right of a woman to seek an abortion in a state where abortion is indeed legal:

Think our out of control Texas Attorney General isn't gutless? Didn't run like hell to avoid a subpoena? The Associated Press reports:

"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ran out of his house and jumped into a truck driven by his wife, a state senator, to avoid being served a subpoena to testify Tuesday in an abortion access case, according to court documents."

What a gutless piece of shit. LOL.

"A process server wrote in an affidavit that he was attempting to deliver the federal court subpoena Monday at Paxton’s home and ultimately had to leave the document on the ground. He said the Republican avoided him for more than an hour from inside his house, then dashed toward the truck and the couple drove off. Paxton, who is facing a variety of legal troubles as he seeks to win a third term in November, said he avoided the server out of safety concerns and said the news media should be ashamed for reporting on what happened."

Jesus Christ. For what? Reporting the truth? That you're a gutless piece of shit? That you, as Texas Attorney General, ran from a subpoena?

“It’s clear that the media wants to drum up another controversy involving my work as Attorney General, so they’re attacking me for having the audacity to avoid a stranger lingering outside my home and showing concern about the safety and well-being of my family,” Paxton wrote on Twitter Monday night."

That's goddamned bullshit, Mr. Attorney General. A lie, Counselor. The process server identified himself. Provided a business card. You could have called law enforcement. Think the public buys your bullshit, sir? Emulating the congenital liar Trump nazi? Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. Wake up. The media is not drumming up any controversies, sir. You're doing that all on your own.

Could the 'judge' be bought and paid for? Get this:

"On Tuesday, a judge hearing the lawsuit by nonprofit groups that want to help Texans pay for abortions out of state granted Paxton’s request to quash the subpoena. The attorney general wrote in court documents that he and his wife were “accosted” by the process server and the judge also granted Paxton’s request to seal the affidavit, which had been publicly accessible for hours. Ernesto Martin Herrera said in the affidavit that he arrived at Paxton’s home in the Dallas suburb on McKinney Monday morning and knocked on the front door, which had a window in it. Paxton could initially be seen approaching the door but then turned back. Republican Sen. Angela Paxton opened it, telling the process server her husband was on the phone, according to the court document, which was first reported by The Texas Tribune. More than an hour later, the affidavit says, Paxton walked out of the garage but then turned around and ran back inside when Herrera walked up the driveway and called his name. A few minutes after that, Angela Paxton allegedly came out, opened the rear driver-side door of a truck in the driveway, got in the driver’s seat and started the truck. “A few minutes later I saw Mr. Paxton RAN (sic) from the door inside the garage towards the rear door behind the driver side,” Herrera wrote, adding that Paxton ignored his calls that he was there to serve the attorney general legal documents. Herrera said he left the subpoena on the ground beside the truck but the couple drove off without taking it."

How about that? LOL.

Readers will recall:

"Paxton was indicted in 2015 on state securities fraud charges but is yet to face trial amid long delays over where the felony case should be heard and payment for the special prosecutors. The FBI is investigating Paxton over allegations of corruption that eight of Paxton’s own deputies leveled at him two years ago. The Texas state bar has also brought a lawsuit seeking to discipline Paxton for allegedly misleading the U.S. Supreme Court in his suit seeking to challenge Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election."

Amazingly, amusingly:

"Paxton has broadly denied wrongdoing and remained popular among GOP voters. He faces Democratic challenger Rochelle Garza, a first-time candidate and former ACLU attorney, in the November election. “Texans deserve an AG who will uphold the law, not run from it,” Garza wrote on Twitter Tuesday."

No kidding. LOL.

NBC News reports:

"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home in a truck driven by his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, on Monday to avoid being served a subpoena, a process server said in an affidavit filed in federal court. Paxton was being subpoenaed to testify at a hearing Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by abortion rights groups aimed at preventing state prosecutors from going after them for providing financial and other aid to Texans seeking abortion services out of state. In his sworn affidavit, process server Ernesto Martin Herrera said he knocked on the front door of Paxton’s home Monday morning and a woman identifying herself as Angela opened the door. After he said he was there to serve the state attorney general with legal documents, she said Paxton was on the phone and in a hurry to leave, Herrera wrote. Herrera said he offered to wait and left his business card with her. After he had been waiting in his car for about an hour, a black Chevrolet Tahoe pulled up to the driveway, he said. About 20 minutes later, Paxton left the house and Herrera approached him on the driveway. “I walked up the driveway approaching Mr. Paxton and called him by his name," Herrera wrote. "As soon as he saw me and heard me call his name out, he turned around and RAN back inside the house through the same door in the garage." Angela Paxton then left the house, got inside a different Chevrolet truck in the driveway and started it, leaving the driver's side rear door open. “A few minutes later I saw Mr. Paxton ran from the door inside the garage towards the rear door behind the driver side," Herrera wrote. "I approached the truck, and loudly called him by his name and stated that I had court documents for him. Mr. Paxton ignored me and kept heading for the truck." Herrera said he stated that he would leave the documents on the ground beside the truck. Both vehicles then left, leaving the documents where he had placed them on the ground.

"The subpoena to Paxton comes months after he sued the Biden administration in July over a directive from the Department of Health and Human Services to offer abortions in emergency situations. In the guidance, Secretary of Health Xavier Becerra said a 1985 law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act protects providers offering emergency abortion services, even if a state law outlaws it. The HHS guidance followed President Joe Biden’s executive order in July to ensure access to abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade."

9-23-22

In follow-up to last week's edition of this publication, NBC News reports:

"The Supreme Court returns to action next month amid a backlash to its contentious ruling that eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, sparking debate even among the justices themselves about whether an institution that relies on the public perception of its legitimacy could be losing the trust of the people."

The trust is gone. Six Republican nazis on the court are responsible. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Liberal Justice Elena Kagan has several times over the summer warned that the court risks being seen as an outcome-oriented political branch of government. Chief Justice John Roberts, one of the court’s six conservatives, pushed back against some of the criticism in a recent public appearance, saying people should not question the court’s legitimacy just because they disagree with its rulings. Fellow liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor has echoed some of Kagan's sentiments."

For damned good reason. Roberts' head, figuratively, remains securely lodged up his ass. Zero credibility.

"The Supreme Court’s authority, uniquely among the three branches of government, rests on how its rulings are received by the people, including elected officials tasked with enforcing the law, because it does not have the power to unilaterally enforce them itself. As Founding Father Alexander Hamilton wrote in 1788 about the role of the judiciary, courts "have neither force nor will, but merely judgment." That makes the public perception of how the Supreme Court operates vitally important. “The court’s legitimacy comes down to whether the public thinks the court is doing law, not politics,” said Sherif Girgis, a professor at Notre Dame Law School who was a law clerk for conservative Justice Samuel Alito. It is important that the public think the justices are reaching decisions in good faith based on the law, Girgis said. “It’s bad for the system if the public doesn’t think that’s what they are doing,” he added."

Clearly, it's not. It's doing the will of its fuhrer, the Trump nazi. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"An NBC News poll found that the court’s favorability rating dropped in the wake of the abortion ruling, with more Americans saying they had low confidence than those who said they [had] high confidence in the court for the first time since 2000. There are also signs the ruling has given Democrats a boost heading into the midterm elections in November that will determine control of Congress. Kagan, who dissented in the abortion decision and other major rulings, has said at public appearances that legitimacy can be undermined in various ways, among them the court’s taking a cavalier approach to long-standing precedent. The three liberal justices in their joint dissent in the abortion case were particularly critical of the majority’s approach to jettisoning Roe v. Wade after almost 50 years. “When courts become extensions of the political process, when people see them as extensions of the political process, when people see them as just trying to impose personal preferences on society, irrespective of the law, that’s when there’s a problem,” Kagan, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, said at an appearance Wednesday in Chicago. What makes the court legitimate is “doing something that is recognizably law-like, and that’s when a court will build up some reservoir of public confidence and goodwill,” she added. Sotomayor said at an event in California on Thursday that “there’s going to be some question about the court’s legitimacy” if people think the justices are acting based on politics, according to a Courthouse News Service report."

No question. Precisely, what's happened.

"In his appearance Sept. 9 at a judicial conference in Colorado, Roberts, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, accepted that people had a right to criticize the court’s rulings while pushing back against the idea that its legitimacy should be questioned."

Called double talk. Time to wake up, 'Justice' Roberts. Criticism and legitimacy go hand in hand. Lack of legitimacy results from ferocious criticism.

“So obviously people can say what they want, and they are certainly free to criticize the Supreme Court. And if they want to say the legitimacy is in question, they are free to do so. But I don’t understand the connection between opinions people disagree with and the legitimacy of the court,” he said. Noting that justices themselves often disagree with the majority’s decisions, he added that “simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for questioning the legitimacy of the court.”

Clueless. Achingly, clueless. One of the reasons why an unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms.

"The Supreme Court has faced questions about its legitimacy at various points in history, including in 1857, when it issued its notorious Dred Scott ruling, which said that slaves were not citizens and not protected by the Constitution, a decision that helped pave the way for President Abraham Lincoln’s administration and the Civil War. Conversely, in 1954, Southern states resisted enforcing the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which ended segregation in public schools. In Arkansas, President Dwight Eisenhower ultimately summoned U.S. troops to ensure that Black students could desegregate a high school in Little Rock, illustrating the court's lack of power to enforce its rulings. In a notable clash between the president and the court, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt unsuccessfully sought to expand the number of justices after the court repeatedly struck down elements of his New Deal economic plan."

In the past, so many have stood tall at great personal cost. Time for history to repeat itself.

"Even before the recent abortion ruling, progressive activists had been raising the alarm about what they viewed as a court out of step with the nation, with the 6-3 conservative majority made possible only because Republican President Donald Trump was able to fill three vacancies in a single four-year term. One of the vacancies, created by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, dated to the Obama administration, and Trump was able to fill it only because the Republican-led Senate refused to take action on Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, now the attorney general. Liberals also point to the fact that Republican presidents have appointed six of the nine justices despite having lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections. “There’s a real minority-rule component to the way the court is constituted that is somewhat unique historically, which affects its legitimacy,” said Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, who clerked for Breyer. Under pressure from progressive activists who want to expand the court, Biden last year appointed a commission to study potential changes. The commission, which was not tasked with making recommendations, wrapped up in December with members divided over court expansion while acknowledging it was a contentious idea. The commission was more receptive to imposing term limits so justices would serve fixed terms instead of having lifetime appointments, which could make the court’s composition more reflective of electoral outcomes."

No question. Not only that, aging presents problems all its own. On top of that, a lifetime appointment often leads to narcissism resulting in abuse of power.

"Adam White, a conservative scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who served on the commission, said there are ways for the court to amend its practices now to fend off some of the recent criticism. White highlighted the court’s increasing reliance on an expedited process dubbed the “shadow docket,” in which cases of significance are decided quickly and without full oral arguments and briefings, as an area the justices could change course on. He added that the justices could also exercise more restraint in deciding which appeals to hear and take more care in what they write in their opinions. “I think the court needs to think hard about the way it goes about its work,” he said."

While indeed a good start, the court needs to do far, far more than that.

9-16-22

Chief 'Justice' defends U.S. Supreme Court. ABC News(AP) reports:

"Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday defended the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions."

That's a crock of shit. Six of the Republican nazis on the Court routinely impose their religious and national socialist ideological views on the rest of us in direct abrogation of their falsely sworn oaths of office to uphold the United States Constitution and rule of law. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"When asked to reflect on the last year at the court in his first public appearance since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Roberts said he was concerned that lately some critics of the court’s controversial decisions have questioned the legitimacy of the court, which he said was a mistake. He did not mention any specific cases or critics by name."

That's goddamned gutless, Chief 'Justice.'

“If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function of interpreting the constitution, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle. You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide about what the appropriate decision is,” Roberts said while being interviewed by two judges from the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at its conference in Colorado Springs."

Disingenuous bullshit, Chief 'Justice.' Time for the six nazi Republican partisans on the Court to resign in disgrace. If not, impeached, convicted, and removed from office. Won't happen anytime soon with the nazi element in the Republican Party dominating Congress. You have no credibility. Have a national socialist agenda you shamelessly impose on the rest of us. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Roberts described the last year as an unusual and difficult one, pointing to the public not be allowed inside the court, closed in 2020 because of the pandemic, as one hardship. He also said it was “gut wrenching” to drive into the Supreme Court that was surrounded by barricades every day."

What did you expect, Chief 'Justice?' The nazi Republican element on the Court imposed its national socialist ideology on an unwilling public. The nazi element delusionally believes it owns the uterus of the female half of the population. Can dictate what women can and cannot do with their uterus. That's goddamned bullshit, Chief 'Justice.'

"The barriers were installed in May when protests erupted outside the court and outside the homes of some Supreme Court justices after there was an unprecedented leak of a draft opinion indicating the justices were planning to overturn Roe v. Wade, which provided women constitutional protections for abortion for nearly 50 years. The barriers are gone and the public will be allowed back inside when the court's new session begins in October but an investigation into the leak ordered by Roberts continues."

You have zero credibility, Chief 'Justice.' Neither do the other five Republican nazis on the Court.

"Speaking at the same conference Thursday, Justice Neil Gorsuch said it is “terribly important” to identify the leaker and said he is expecting a report on the progress of the investigation, “I hope soon.” Gorsuch condemned the leak, as have other justices who have addressed it publicly. “Improper efforts to influence judicial decision-making, from whatever side, from whomever, are a threat to the judicial decision-making process," Gorsuch said."

So are the six Republican nazis on the Court. Time to wake up, 'Justice' Gorsuch.

A concerted, deliberate abrogation of liberty for the female half of the population:

"The leaked draft was largely incorporated into Justice Samuel Alito's final opinion in June that overturned Roe v. Wade in a case upholding Mississippi's law banning abortion after 15 weeks. The ruling paved the way for severe abortion restrictions or bans in nearly half of U.S. states."

The following is little comfort and beside the point. Readers are reminded the Chief 'Justice' has not been a reliable advocate of all civil and constitutional rights and liberties since his appointment:

"In June's ruling, Roberts, appointed to the court in 2005 by former President George W. Bush, voted to uphold Mississippi's law but he did not join the conservative justices in also overturning Roe v. Wade, as well as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to end a pregnancy. He wrote that there was no need to overturn the broad precedents to uphold the state law, saying he would take “a more measured course.”

Mattered not, however, to his five fellow Republican nazis on the Court.

"Roberts has spoken out repeatedly about the importance of the judiciary’s independence and to rebut perceptions of the court as a political institution not much different than Congress or the presidency."

You can't credibly rebut the truth, Chief 'Justice.' Sadly, figuratively, your head remains securely lodged up your increasingly clueless ass, sir.

"Opinion polls since the leak and the release of the final abortion decision, though, have shown a sharp drop in approval of the court and confidence in the institution."

For damned good reason. The six Republican nazis on the Court present an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

The following is meaningless and highly indicative of determined, growing ignorance of reality among the current nine on the Court:

"When asked what the public might not know about how the court work[s], Roberts emphasized the collegiality among the justices and the court's tradition of shaking hands before starting conferences or taking the bench. After the justices might disagree about a decision, everyone eats together in the court's dining room where they talk about everything but work, he said. He said it's not borne out of “fake affection” but a respect that comes from the push and pull of explaining ideas and listening to the responses to them. “We have a common calling and we act like it,” he said."

Clueless. Achingly, so. As the U.S. Supreme Court deliberately, determinedly eviscerates civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Turning a democratic republic into a 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.

8-26-22

Judicial Aryan arrogance. NPR reports:

"A Florida court effectively blocked a pregnant, parentless 16-year-old from getting an abortion, saying she is not mature enough to make that decision despite her own acknowledgment that "she is not ready for the emotional, physical, or financial responsibility of raising a child."

Think the court knows best? Or, is it simply desperate to force its perverse ideological and religious views on all?

"News of the case blazed a trail of shock and anger across social media this week, the latest high-profile example of a pregnant person being denied access to abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade. But it also points to another complicated, longer-standing issue: the legal and logistical challenges facing adolescents seeking abortions, especially those without parental support. Nearly every state requires some form of parental involvement in a minor's decision to obtain an abortion, though to different degrees (Florida is one of just six states that require parents to be notified of their child's intent as well as their consent to the procedure itself)."

Goddamned outrageous. Patronizing, condescending bullshit.

"Through what's known as a judicial bypass procedure, minors can seek court approval to get an abortion without the consent of their parents. To succeed, they must prove "by clear and convincing evidence" that they are "sufficiently mature" to make that decision. It's a fairly vague determination that judges have the freedom to make based on factors like the minor's age, emotional development, overall intelligence and ability to accept responsibility."

Conveniently, as well, enables the 'judge' to impose his or her religious and/or ideological views. No problem with that?

"In this case, a circuit court ruled there was not enough evidence to prove that the teenager was sufficiently mature to make the decision to end her pregnancy, though left the door open to reevaluating at a later hearing. An appeals court upheld that ruling in an opinion issued on Monday. Nancy Dowd, a professor emeritus of family law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, says the process of making the decision and obtaining approval to seek an abortion has always been fraught for teenagers, even during the half-century when Roe was in place. Such consent requirements stem from concerns about parental rights, but have proven difficult to balance in practice. "For teenagers, this has always been a challenging minefield to walk through if they're in the situation where they, for whatever reasons, feel that they cannot tell their parents, or would make a decision differently if they did tell their parents," Dowd explained to NPR in a phone interview. Dowd says the unnamed teenager's case isn't substantially exacerbated by the reversal of Roe, except for the fact that she now has fewer options in terms of seeking care in other states (and, as NPR has reported, the end of Roe could spell the end of judicial bypass in abortion ban states). But that doesn't mean it's not significant. "This would appear like, 'Here's another terrible consequence of this new scenario,' and it's really, 'No, this is what the landscape has looked like for most of the past 50 years if you were a teenager."

This remains a problem across the board. Laws and judicial rulings have gotten so incomprehensibly convoluted and complex on an exponentially increasing list of subject matters that you're effectively 'free' to do what you're told. -- What they tell you to do. Truly, liberty no longer exists.

The following is appalling:

"The opinion issued by Florida's First District Court of Appeal on Monday refers to the girl at the center of the case as "Jane Doe 22-B," and describes her as "almost seventeen years old and parentless." Doe lives with a relative but has an appointed guardian, who she says "is fine with whatever [she] wants to do," according to court documents. She is pursuing a GED and is involved with a program that aims to provide counseling and educational support to young women who have experienced trauma. The court notes that Doe experienced renewed trauma in the form of a friend's death shortly before deciding to seek an abortion. Doe petitioned the Escambia County Circuit Court for a waiver when she was 10 weeks pregnant, citing several reasons: The father is unable to assist her, she is "not ready to have a baby," doesn't have a job and is still in school."

The 'judge' clearly ignored the facts presented by the young lady:

"Judge Jennifer Frydrychowicz denied that petition, though said Doe "may be able, at a later date, to adequately articulate her request, and the Court may re-evaluate its decision at that time." Doe challenged that decision, but the appeals court upheld it. Dowd says that's not surprising — because there is such a "deferential standard of review," the higher court would have had to see some sort of "abuse of discretion" by the lower court in order to reach a different conclusion."

-- One reason of so many as to why the judiciary remains a massive failure.

"The three-judge appellate panel wasn't in complete agreement, however. In a partial dissent, Judge Scott Makar agreed with the overall conclusion but argued they should have ordered the case back to the lower court. Even without that, Dowd says Doe could still return to the lower court to make her case again. "The hope would be that somehow there's enough communication with this teenager that she understands she can come back to the court and [be] heard again and that this isn't a closed case," she says. "Her other alternative, frankly, is to go out of state, to go to another jurisdiction where she could make this decision and be entitled to terminate her pregnancy." Citing the lower court's hearing transcript and written order, Makar wrote that the first judge "apparently sees this matter as a very close call." He took care to note that the judge displayed concern for Doe's situation during the hearing, asking questions "in a compassionate manner" and moving quickly to prepare her "thoughtful" written order so she could hand Doe a copy immediately after the hearing."

The 'judge' is delusional. The following rings hollow:

"The transcript shows Doe was knowledgeable about the relevant considerations, having considered the pros and cons, done research online and read a pamphlet from a medical clinic about her medical options and their consequences, Makar added. The judge described Doe as credible and forthcoming with her answers, and acknowledged her "valid concerns about her ability to raise a child." "Indeed, the minor 'showed, at times, that she is stable and mature enough to make this decision,'" Makar added, quoting the lower court. So why didn't it grant her request? "Reading between the lines, it appears that the trial court wanted to give the minor, who was under extra stress due to a friend's death, additional time to express a keener understanding of the consequences of terminating a pregnancy," Makar wrote. "This makes some sense given that the minor, at least at one point, says she was open to having a child, but later changed her view after considering her inability to care for a child in her current station in life." Dowd says that while the circuit court's ruling may seem harsh, Makar's opinion suggests that the judge was trying to be conscientious given the sensitivities of the case and Doe's circumstances. Perhaps she wanted to give Doe a bit more time and distance — even if just a matter of days — from her friend's death to make such a major decision, she adds. "This sounds as if it's a young woman who's already had a significant amount of trauma in her life, who is trying to make her life better, but on the day that she was in front of this judge a best friend had died," Dowd says. "It appears that there was concern that that might be affecting her state of mind on the day she was making this decision."

That's nothing more than condescending, patronizing bullshit on the part of the 'judge.' -- As well as Dowd. They've clearly ignored the fact the clock is ticking. There is no more time to waste delaying what this young lady desperately wants and needs, an abortion. Not their uterus. It's hers.

8-5-22

The fight is on. NBC News reports:

"The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that Idaho's near-total abortion ban violates federal law — the Biden administration’s first legal action to protect abortion access since the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in late June. In making the announcement at DOJ's headquarters, Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters that Idaho’s ban violates a federal law that requires medical providers to offer emergency medical treatment. Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), every hospital in the U.S. that receives Medicare funds must provide "necessary stabilizing treatment to patients who arrive at their emergency departments while experiencing a medical emergency," the 17-page complaint reads. In some circumstances, the necessary medical treatment is an abortion. "This may be the case, for example, when a woman is undergoing a miscarriage that threatens septic infection or hemorrhage, or is suffering from severe preeclampsia," Garland said. Idaho's law, which is set to take effect on Aug. 25, "will make it a felony to perform an abortion in all but extremely narrow circumstances," the complaint said, including when doctors provide emergency medical treatment required by federal law. The suit seeks a declaratory judgment stating that Idaho's law violates the Constitution's Supremacy Clause and is preempted and conflicts with federal law. It also seeks a judgment that Idaho may not initiate a prosecution against or attempt to revoke the professional license of any medical provider who performs an abortion authorized under federal law. The department also called for a preliminary and permanent injunction against the state of Idaho to prohibit enforcement of its abortion ban when it conflicts with federal law. "In the days since the Dobbs decision, there have been widespread reports of delays and denials of treatment to pregnant women experiencing medical emergencies," Garland said. "Today, the Justice Department’s message is clear — it does not matter what state a hospital subject to EMTALA operates in. If a patient comes into the emergency room with a medical emergency, jeopardizing the patient’s life or health, the hospital must provide the treatment necessary to stabilize that patient. This includes abortion, and that is the necessary treatment."

Get this. Appalling. Raw nazism:

"Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, who leads the department's reproductive rights task force, said during the announcement Tuesday that Idaho's law places the burden on doctors to prove at trial, following arrest and indictment, that they are not criminally liable. "Physicians can only do so by proving that the abortion they performed was necessary for one of two reasons: to prevent the death of a pregnant woman, or in response to a case of rape or incest that was previously reported to the police or in the case of a minor to Child Protective Services. Physicians who do not meet this burden face two to five years imprisonment and revocation of their medical license," Gupta said."

Raw nazism. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The legal action comes several weeks after Garland said the department would be advising federal agencies on their authorities when it comes to protecting access to abortions, bringing litigation and entering into lawsuits on the side of private parties with amicus briefs and statements of interest. "The Justice Department is going to use every tool we have to ensure reproductive freedom," he told reporters. He also said that his office would file a motion to dismiss a Texas lawsuit challenging guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services requiring medical providers offer abortions in emergency situations. The federal law on which the guidance is based "requires hospitals to provide stabilizing care for a patient who comes in with a medical emergency that seriously jeopardizes their life or their health," Garland said. "And where that stabilizing treatment is abortion, they must provide the abortion. They must do so notwithstanding a state law that is so narrow that it doesn't even protect a woman's life or health." On Friday, Garland, Gupta and other DOJ officials convened a meeting of private law firms, law professors, bar associations and public interest groups at the White House to discuss legal representation for patients, providers and third parties lawfully seeking or offering reproductive health care services throughout the country. The department is "working relentlessly to protect access to reproductive services" in recognition of "the crisis that it is," Garland said. "It will take all of us — government lawyers, private pro bono attorneys, bar associations, public interest organizations — to do all we can to protect access to reproductive health care and to provide vigorous legal representation of patients, providers and third parties in need," he said. Meanwhile, voters in Kansas will decide Tuesday on a constitutional amendment that will determine the future of abortion rights in their state — the first time anywhere in the U.S. that voters will cast ballots on abortion since the Supreme Court reversed Roe."

... Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. Too deaf to hear?

8-5-22

Clerics stand tall. Uncommon Valor. Seatbelts on. The Washington Post reports:

"When the Rev. Laurie Hafner ministers to her Florida congregants about abortion, she looks to the founding values of the United Church of Christ, her lifelong denomination: religious freedom and freedom of thought. She taps into her reading of Genesis, which says “man became a living being” when God breathed “the breath of life” into Adam. She thinks of Jesus promising believers full and abundant life. “I am pro-choice not in spite of my faith, but because of my faith,” Hafner says. She is among seven Florida clergy members — two Christians, three Jews, one Unitarian Universalist and a Buddhist — who argue in separate lawsuits filed Monday that their ability to live and practice their religious faith is being violated by the state’s new, post-Roe abortion law. The law, which is one of the strictest in the country, making no exceptions for rape or incest, was signed in April by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), in a Pentecostal church alongside antiabortion lawmakers such as the House speaker, who called life “a gift from God.” The lawsuits are at the vanguard of a novel legal strategy arguing that new post-Roe abortion restrictions violate Americans’ religious freedom, including that of clerics who advise pregnant people. The cases are part of an effort among a broad swath of religious Americans who support abortion access to rewrite the dominant modern cultural narrative that says the only “religious” view on abortion is to oppose it."

Uncommon Valor. Hat's off. About time. What took so long?

“I think the religious right has had the resources and the voices politically and socially to be so loud, and frankly, they don’t represent the Christian faith,” Hafner told The Washington Post. “Those of us on the other side, with maybe a more inclusive voice, need to be strong and more faithful and say: ‘There is another very important voice.’ “Look biblically; Jesus says nothing about abortion. He talks about loving your neighbor and living abundantly and fully. He says: ‘I come that you might have full life.’ Does that mean for a 10-year-old to bear the child of her molester? That you cut your life short because you aren’t able to rid your body of a fetus?”

Uncommon Valor. Hat's off. About time. What took so long?

"The five lawsuits seek to invalidate the Florida law, which went info effect July 1 and bans abortions after 15 weeks, except in cases when the mother could face serious injury or death or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality. It also makes it a felony to “participate” in an abortion, which the suit charges could include counseling someone to have one."

An outrageous law. 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.

“Since time immemorial, the questions of when a potential fetus or fetus becomes a life and how to value maternal life during pregnancy have been answered according to religious beliefs and creeds,” say the suits, which use identical language except when describing each plaintiff’s faith. The new law, the suits read, sets “a pernicious elevation of the legal rights of fetuses while at the same time it devalues the quality of life and the health of the woman or girl who is pregnant. It is in direct conflict with Plaintiff’s clerical obligations and faith and imposes severe barriers and substantial burdens to their religious belief, speech and conduct.” The cases are unusual in that they frame major liberal values through the lens of religious-liberty law. For years, religious conservatives have successfully argued in high-profile Supreme Court cases that their beliefs should allow them to open churches during a global pandemic, discriminate against LGBTQ people and decline to give employees contraception, among other cases."

A Republican nazi-dominated U.S. Supreme Court callously bought the bullshit. Consequently, forfeited all credibility.

"A lawsuit similar to the clergy members’ was filed in June by a Florida rabbi, who argued the abortion law violates his practice of Judaism. Jewish views on abortion are complex across the ideological spectrum, but law and tradition do not ban it, sometimes appear to require it and do not recognize an unborn fetus as a full legal person. According to that lawsuit, filed last month in Leon County Circuit Court, Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor of Boynton Beach argues that the new law “prohibits Jewish women from practicing their faith free of government intrusion and … violates their privacy rights and religious freedom.”

No question. Sad, isn't it? All courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party.

"Abortion patients and health-care providers who support abortion access have made similar arguments in Indiana, where they are challenging that state’s requirement that fetal tissue from abortions and miscarriages be buried or cremated. That suit, which was filed in 2020, said a group of 2016 laws, signed by then-Gov. Mike Pence (R), compel women “to act in accordance with the State’s view of personhood irrespective of their own beliefs about the status of developing human life” and violate freedom of speech, the separation of church and state, and the requirement for equal protection under the law."

No question.

"At the federal level, the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has ruled more than 81 percent of the time in favor of “religion,” compared with about 50 percent for all previous eras since 1953, according to a study published in April. Still, given the court’s conservative view on abortion, some religious-liberty experts are skeptical that the court will support faith-based arguments for reproductive access."

Sadly, the U.S. Supreme Court is right wing Republican nazi. One of the reasons why an unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. We now live in a fascist police-state that is no longer a democratic republic but in name only. Sad, isn't it? Where we're now 'free' to do what we're told. What the autocratic nazi element dictates. Raw nazism. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

8-5-22

Big Win For Abortion Rights In Kansas. The Associated Press reports:

"Kansas voters on Tuesday sent a resounding message about their desire to protect abortion rights, rejecting a ballot measure in a conservative state with deep ties to the anti-abortion movement that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten restrictions or ban the procedure outright. It was the first test of voter sentiment after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June that overturned the constitutional right to abortion, providing an unexpected result with potential implications for the coming midterm elections. While it was just one state, the heavy turnout for an August primary that typically favors Republicans was a major victory for abortion rights advocates. With most of the vote counted, they were prevailing by roughly 20 percentage points, with the turnout approaching what’s typical for a fall election for governor.

"The Kansas vote also provided a warning to Republicans who had celebrated the Supreme Court ruling and were moving swiftly with abortion bans or near-bans in nearly half the states. “Kansans bluntly rejected anti-abortion politicians’ attempts at creating a reproductive police state,” said Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity. ”Today’s vote was a powerful rebuke and a promise of the mounting resistance.”

8-5-22

Payback. Of the sweetest kind. To a Republican nazi. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. NPR reports:

"Political activist Olivia Julianna, 19, was publicly shamed by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz after the congressman said women who are fat or ugly don't need to worry about getting pregnant or having an abortion."

What a goddamned piece of shit. Adolf and Benito would have been proud of this clueless asshole.

She fought back. Uncommon Valor. Stuck it royally to this piece of human excrement:

"She started raising money for abortion funds across the country after Gaetz attempted to humiliate her, and has since raised over $700,000."

Hat's off. Way to go.

"Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz attempted to humiliate a teenage girl after arguing that overweight and unattractive women don't need to worry about getting pregnant or needing abortions. That same girl has since raised over $700,000 for abortion care. Nineteen-year-old political activist Olivia Julianna thanked Gaetz for his attack, which she credits for the wave of donations, and offered to send him a bouquet of flowers; one for every $100,000 raised."

How sweet it is. Stick it to the son of a bitch. LOL. Well-deserved.

"The money is being raised through Gen Z for Change, the nonprofit where Julianna serves as a political strategy specialist, but ultimately will be dispersed evenly to 50 abortion funds across the US."

Excellent.

Get this:

"During his speech at the Student Action Summit in Tampa, Fla., Saturday night, Gaetz said, "Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions?" "Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb," he told the crowd."

"Gaetz: "Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb." pic.twitter.com/0qqvun3Pf8
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2022

Is this, now, what the nazi element in the Republican Party has resorted to?

"Julianna responded to the congressman's words in a Twitter post. "It's come to my attention that Matt Gaetz — alleged pedophile — has said that it's always the 'odious ... 5'2 350 pound' women that 'nobody wants to impregnate' who rally for abortion," Julian wrote. "I'm actually 5'11. 6'4 in heels. I wear them so the small men like you are reminded of your place."

"Its come to my attention that Matt Gaetz — alleged pedophile— has said that it’s always the “odious.. 5’2 350 pound” women that “nobody wants to impregnate” who rally for abortion. "I’m actually 5’11. 6’4 in heels. I wear them so the small men like you are reminded of your place
— Olivia Julianna ?? (@0liviajulianna) July 24, 2022"

Truer words never spoken. LOL. Stick it to the nazi bastard.

Clearly, this piece of shit hasn't smartened up. Couldn't leave well enough alone. Get this:

"Gaetz returned fire, sharing a photo of Julianna and suggesting he had struck a nerve.

"Dander raised… https://t.co/3KkGN3fMdB pic.twitter.com/DX7SVf884X
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) July 25, 2022"

Pitiful, isn't it? Delusionally think the nazi element in the Republican Party hasn't lost itself? Isn't emulating Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini?

"Julianna said she started raising money for abortions funds in response to the public attack. And though the two have both directly and indirectly exchanged blows over Twitter all week — including some posts that have since been shared thousands of times — the young activist has managed to blast through one fundraising goal after another. As of 2:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, she had raised more than $725,000 for abortions. Meanwhile, Gaetz has been criticized for his actions. Once more, the incident drew unwanted attention to an ongoing investigation from 2020 involving the congressman and a series of allegations involving sex with an underage girl. Gaetz has denied the allegations made against him."

Think this guy has any credibility? Any at all?

8-5-22

Turn around is, indeed, fair play. The Washington Post reports:

"A new political ad targeting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) starts with a scene that could unfold in any hospital across the country — a doctor delivering gutting news to an expectant couple: “Your baby has a catastrophic brain abnormality.” If she were to make it to full term, he continues, the baby girl would die just hours after birth. “She will suffer,” the doctor adds, before telling the tearful parents that a decision will have to be made on terminating the pregnancy — a choice that “only one person can make.” “And that person is Greg,” the doctor explains, revealing a portrait of Abbott. The ad released Monday by political action committee Mothers Against Greg Abbott criticizes Texas abortion laws. Even before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Texas’s “heartbeat act” — which banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy — was among the most restrictive in the country, relying on ordinary citizens to report suspected violations. A “trigger law” banning abortions, with few exceptions, is set to take effect next month. As a result, clinics in the state have shut down, health providers are wary of providing certain medical interventions and some mothers have been left feeling “like a walking coffin” after suffering miscarriages, The Washington Post has reported. The group’s video struck a chord nationally and quickly went viral, garnering about 7 million views across Twitter, Instagram and YouTube within three days of its release."

Surprised?

'The abortion ad mixes distress with dark humor, positing that reproductive health choices in Texas are now up to the state, leaving the parents-to-be utterly confused. “Greg?” the woman in the ad says. Who’s Greg?! her partner asks, using a slightly more profane turn of phrase when the physician tells them only Greg can decide the next steps. Then the doctor, wielding a red phone with a direct line to Abbott, has a brief conversation with the governor. With a shrug, the doctor proceeds to tell the parents: “Yeah, that’s going to be a no. Best of luck to you.” The ad ends with a close-up of the stunned couple and a question splashed on the screen: “Whose choice should it be?”

No shit.

"Though sardonic in essence, the scene portrayed in the ad has resounded with some doctors. Jennifer Gunter, an OB/GYN and New York Times contributor, posted when sharing the video that she once called a state legislator for permission to perform an abortion in the 1990s. “This is not a hypothetical people,” she added. This Texas teen wanted an abortion. She now has twins."

8-5-22

Academic freedom on the line. NPR reports:

"Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has told George Washington University that he won't be returning to teach at its law school this fall. The decision followed student protests over the Supreme Court's vote to overturn Roe v. Wade."

A gutless decision by Thomas. What is he so afraid of? Being forcefully challenged in class by students vis a vis his determined, concerted, achingly clueless embrace of nazism? Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

Equally pointedly, what are students so afraid of? The consequences of ferociously challenging his nazi ideology? Academic freedom is indeed on the line. Both the 'Justice' and students don't seem to understand academic freedom means the courage and willingness to confront thought the observer finds highly offensive personally.

"Thomas told the school he will not be available to give a constitutional law seminar which he was expected to co-teach. He had been teaching the course at the Washington, D.C., law school since 2011. "The students were promptly informed of Justice Thomas' decision by his co-instructor who will continue to offer the seminar this fall," GWU spokesperson Joshua Grossman said Thursday in a statement to NPR."

Both Thomas and the students are indeed losers as a result of his gutless decision to run the other way. Both miss the opportunity to grow intellectually. ... Which supposedly is the point of education, isn't it?

"Thomas faced backlash from some GWU law students after he voted with the Supreme Court's conservative majority to overturn the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which deemed abortion a constitutional right for Americans."

-- Backlash he certainly richly deserved. It's how he gutlessly responded to that backlash that remains the problem. ... Not to neglect to mention student demand he be terminated and his seminar cancelled.

"We can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want," Thomas told a group largely comprised of lawyers and judges at the 11th Circuit Judicial Conference in Atlanta in May, NBC News reported."

As Americans, we can certainly ferociously challenge your nazi ideology, sir. Indeed, a constitutional right. First Amendment Freedom of Speech. A right enjoyed from the bottom of the food chain to the very top. Don't like it? Tough shit.

"Since the court ruling, "we have heard from members of our community who have expressed feelings of deep disagreement with this decision," GWU Provost Christopher Alan Bracey and law Dean Dayna Bowen Matthew wrote in an email to the university community. The university received calls to terminate Thomas and cancel the seminar he teaches, they wrote. "Justice Thomas' views do not represent the views of either the George Washington University or its Law School," Bracey and Matthew said. "Additionally, like all faculty members at our university, Justice Thomas has academic freedom and freedom of expression and inquiry." "The law school faculty additionally cited the school's academic freedom guidelines, which say the university should not shield its students from "ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive."

No question. At the same time, however, this nazi jurist has to be courageously willing to tolerate ferocious challenge of his nazi ideology. Clearly, he gutlessly ran the other way.

8-5-22

Nazi Aryan arrogance of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. 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:

"Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mocked prominent figures around the world, including Prince Harry and outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for speaking out against the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In what appeared to be his first public comments since the decision was handed down last month, Alito dismissed criticism from the British pair, as well as from French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He was delivering the keynote speech at a conference on religious liberty in Rome last week that was hosted by the Notre Dame Law School. The speech was only posted online by the school Thursday."

First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion, means nothing to this nazi jurist who determinedly ignored it in his obliteration of Roe. Clearly, imposed his perverse religious views on the rest of us. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Alito, who authored the argument overturning the landmark ruling that enshrined the right to an abortion in the United States, condemned the global figures for weighing in on "American law."

They have every right to condemn your outrageously un-American nazi decision, sir.

Aryan arrogance of this achingly fascist 'justice:'

“I had the honor this term of writing, I think, the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders — who felt perfectly fine commenting on American law,” Alito said, prompting laughter from the crowd. “One of these was former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but he paid the price,” he joked, appearing to reference Johnson's decision to step down as prime minister amid domestic scandals and widespread criticism of his leadership from within his own Conservative Party."

Don't flatter yourself, Mr. Alito. Adolf and Benito must be wildly cheering your nazi ideology on their fiery perches.

His Aryan arrogance grows insufferably worse:

“But what really wounded me — what really wounded me — was when the Duke of Sussex addressed the United Nations and seemed to compare the decision, whose name may not be spoken, with the Russian attack on Ukraine,” Alito said, referring to Harry. Harry described 2022 as a "painful year in a painful decade," during the speech July 18. He said the world was "witnessing a global assault on democracy and freedom," pointing to the "horrific war in Ukraine to the rolling back of constitutional rights here in the United States," among other global events as examples."

No question, Mr. Alito. He's absolutely right, sir. Spot on. Time to figuratively remove your head from your ass, sir.

"Johnson, meanwhile, had criticized the decision as a "big step backwards." A spokesperson for Johnson's office didn't have anything to add to his remarks. Harry and Johnson were far from alone, with Macron tweeting that abortion was “a fundamental right for all women” that “must be protected," while Trudeau branded the decision “horrific,” saying: “No government, politician, or man should tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body.” Others, including global women's health groups, also joined the criticism."

Rightfully, so.

"During his address in Rome last week, Alito said that "despite this temptation, I’m not going to talk about cases from other countries."

Big of him. LOL. -- Especially, since his credibility remains non-existent.

"All I’m going to say is that, ultimately, if we are going to win the battle to protect religious freedom in an increasingly secular society, we will need more than positive law," he said."

Jesus Christ. Time to wake up, sir. Smell the coffee, you fascist son of a bitch. Your evisceration of Roe is a most ironic example of the direct opposite problem, -- and far more pressing issue. That is, freedom from religion, The Establishment Clause. Your obliteration of the right to an abortion is a classic example of a religious nazi determined and hell bent to not only force but enforce his perverse religious views on the rest of society. Should be ashamed of yourself, you goddamned nazi. You've deliberately abrogated your oath of office to uphold the United States Constitution. While you are certainly entitled to your personal views, you're not entitled to force them on the rest of us.

Disingenuous bullshit:

"Alito also lauded U.S. efforts to protect religious liberty around the world, saying: "Religious liberty is an international problem, but I do think that we Americans can take special pride in our country's contribution to the development of a global consensus at least on the level of international agreements in support of this fundamental right."

Alito not-so-slyly masks hypocritical imposition of his own perverse religious views on the rest of us vis a vis abortion, falsely labeling and calling it "religious liberty," while in fact it is the direct opposite to those who oppose it.

More bullshit and outrageous double talk:

"Religious liberty is under attack in many places because it is dangerous to those who want to hold complete power," he said, adding: "It also probably grows out of something dark and deep in the human DNA, a tendency to distrust and dislike people who are not like ourselves."

LOL. ... Precisely, what you, yourself have done, -- callously forced your perverse religious views on the rest of us vis a vis obliteration of the right to abortion. Your hypocrisy is stunning and expected from a narrow-minded fascist. You clearly cherry-picked the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." That is, deliberately chose to emphasize the latter phrase while conveniently ignoring the former to impose your perverse religious views on all in our formerly great country.

CBS News(AP) reports:

"While justices routinely engage in pointed exchanges with their colleagues in dueling opinions, they rarely respond to outside critics. That's especially true when talking about foreign leaders in an appearance outside the U.S., said Neil Siegel, professor of law and political science at Duke Law School. "His tone can be quite dismissive and scathing. It's as if he simply doesn't care that there are tens of millions of people in this country and abroad who disagree with him profoundly," he said. "I think the most important thing is that this is not how our justices are supposed to behave." Yet there is no prohibition on justices discussing cases publicly once they are decided, said Akhil Reed Amar, professor of constitutional law at Yale Law School. Alito's comments weren't about the underlying issue of abortion, but rather about foreign dignitaries weighing in on American law without necessarily being well versed in the subject, he said. Johnson, for example, may have been seeking to draw attention away from his own domestic issues, Amar said.'

Isn't that precisely what Alito himself was doing? LOL.

"The justice's speech drew criticism Friday from U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who wrote in a tweet the remarks were politicized and said they "should be alarming to anyone."

No question. Certainly, demonstrates the Aryan arrogance of this achingly fascist 'jurist.' Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The speech comes amid a sharp increase in the portion of Americans who say their confidence in the Supreme Court is eroding. A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research this week found 43% of Americans have "hardly any confidence" in the court, up from just 27% percent three months ago."

For damned good reason.

"Alito's speech was dedicated primarily to praising religious liberty, another area in which conservatives prevailed at the Supreme Court in cases involving tax dollars for religious schools in Maine and a football coach's right to pray at the 50-yard line. He has been a justice since 2006, appointed by President George W. Bush. Four years later, attending President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech, Alito was caught on camera mouthing the words "not true" in response to Obama's criticism — also unusual — of another major, conservative-driven court decision, the Citizens United case that opened the floodgates to corporate and union spending in federal election campaigns. Alito has never addressed that controversy in public, but it seems clear from the questions he posed when the court heard arguments that he objected to Obama saying the ruling reversed a century of law. Alito has never again attended the State of the Union address."

Expect better from a Republican nazi?

7-29-22

Liberty? What's that? In a fascist police-state, doesn't exist. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. NPR reports:

"An Indiana doctor says she has faced harassment after the story of one of her patients — a 10-year-old Ohio girl who became pregnant as a result of rape — captured the nation's attention as a flashpoint in the debate over abortion rights. In the weeks since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Dr. Caitlin Bernard has become a household name, with her face shown on right-wing television and her work criticized by public officials, including Indiana's attorney general, Todd Rokita. She has worried about her own safety and the safety of her family, Bernard said Tuesday in an interview with NPR's Sarah McCammon. And she said the actions of Rokita, an anti-abortion Republican who has called for an investigation into Bernard and suggested without providing evidence that she neglected to follow Indiana state reporting requirements for abortion providers, amounted to "harassment." "It's honestly been very hard for me, for my family," Bernard said. "It's hard to understand why a political figure, a prominent figure in the state, would want to come after physicians who are helping patients every single day in their state."

Expect better of a goddamned nazi?

"Yet asked if she thought the attacks on her by prominent conservatives would have a chilling effect on other abortion providers around the country, Bernard said it would do the opposite. "What I've heard from my colleagues in Indiana and around the country is that we have been silent for too long, that we have not spoken out enough," she said. "So, no. I don't see that it will stop physicians. I think it will motivate them."

Readers will recall:

"Bernard came under the heat of the national spotlight after she treated a 10-year-old Ohio girl who had been a victim of rape. On June 24, the Supreme Court overturned decades of abortion-rights precedent when it handed down its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. More than a dozen so-called "trigger bans" restricting abortion went into effect around the country — including in Ohio, where nearly all abortions after six weeks are banned, even in cases of rape and incest. Soon after, the girl's family discovered that she was pregnant. They traveled across state lines to Indiana, where abortion has remained legal. Bernard administered the girl's medication abortion. The story generated widespread attention and controversy after Bernard told the Indianapolis Star about her patient. The girl's plight was cited by President Biden as an example of the fallout from Dobbs. Prominent conservatives questioned the story, including Ohio's attorney general and the Wall Street Journal editorial board — until a 27-year-old man was charged with raping the girl."

Wouldn't want to confuse the nazi element in the Republican Party with the truth, would we?

"In Tuesday's interview with NPR, Bernard declined to comment on the 10-year-old's case, citing patient privacy laws. But the sexual assault of children is not uncommon, she said. "Every OB-GYN can tell you the youngest patient that they have taken care of, whether that's providing abortion care or delivering their baby," she said. Bernard would not say if she regretted speaking publicly about the 1o-year-old, or whether she would have handled it differently had she known the story would have become such a political flashpoint. But she did say she had received an "immense outpouring" of support from medical professionals in Indiana and across the country."

For damned good reason.

"I think people realize how important our voice as physicians as advocates for access to care can be. I hope it will be inspiring and not deterring," she said. After the 10-year-old's story caught the attention of advocates on both sides of the abortion debate, Rokita called for an investigation into Bernard. The Republican Indiana attorney general has claimed — without providing evidence — that Bernard had a history of failing to follow state reporting requirements for abortion providers."

Couldn't be the son of a bitch is a goddamned liar, could it?

"Then Indiana health officials released a document indicating she had, in fact, reported providing a medication abortion for a 10-year-old rape victim in the days after the Dobbs decision allowed Ohio's abortion ban to take effect. Bernard has threatened to sue Rokita for defamation. Last week, her lawyer sent a notice to Rokita's office, an important step that lays the groundwork for a potential lawsuit under Indiana law."

Sue the living shit out of the son of a bitch.

"In a statement provided to NPR, Rokita criticized Bernard's decision to bring the case of the 10-year-old to the attention of the media. He vowed to see his investigation "through to the very end." "The recent tort claim is not just an attempt to distract, but it's also an attempt to intimidate, obstruct, and stop my office's monumental progress to save lives," Rokita said. "It will take a lot more than that to intimidate us." Bernard said Tuesday that she had not decided yet whether to proceed with a defamation suit. Rokita's office has not contacted Bernard about his investigation, she said. "One of us is the state attorney general, and one of us is a physician — and it's very clear who is being intimidated in this situation," Bernard said. "I will continue to provide access to safe legal care to the best of my ability, and I can't say what he will do." "I think it's important for us as providers to feel safe working in the state of Indiana. I think it's important for physicians to know that when they follow the law and when they take care of patients in need of care, that they can do so free of persecution, free of harassment," she continued."

... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and many, many other issues. Too deaf to hear? Or, too goddamned aggressively stupid to give a shit.

"For now, abortions remain legal in Indiana. The state currently allows abortion until 20 weeks after fertilization, though women seeking the procedure must receive in-person counseling then wait at least 18 hours."

Goddamned outrageous.

"But that access could soon end. Indiana state lawmakers are currently in the midst of a special legislative session focused in part on abortion. The leading proposal would prohibit nearly all abortions except in cases of rape, incest or in which a pregnant woman's life is endangered. Indiana's governor is a Republican, and the party controls both chambers of the state legislature. The bill has drawn mixed reviews, even from opponents of abortion rights; some groups say the bill is poorly drafted and would not do enough to prevent abortions. The proposal is being closely watched because Indiana is surrounded on three sides by states where abortion rights are in question: Ohio, where abortion is already severely restricted, and two states, Kentucky and Michigan, where strict bans are currently on pause and under review by courts. Should it pass, the Indiana law would be "very dangerous," Bernard said. "We're going to see women dying. We're going to see not only abortion care affected, but care for miscarriages, care for complications of pregnancy, infertility care, contraception. Really, the list is endless," she said. "We're going to see physicians harassed, persecuted. We're going to see patients being forced to continue unsafe pregnancies and die because of those pregnancies."

Clearly, the nazi element in the Republican Party couldn't care less. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"No matter what happens with the legislation, Bernard says she remains committed to providing health care in the state. "I came to work in Indiana to provide comprehensive, compassionate, evidence-based care to to women in Indiana. And I intend to continue to do so," she said."

Indeed, Uncommon Valor. Hat's off, Doctor.

7-22-22

Think the nazi element in the Republican Party thought through the unwanted medical consequences of their ban on abortion? 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:

"A sexual assault survivor chooses sterilization so that if she is ever attacked again, she won’t be forced to give birth to a rapist’s baby. An obstetrician delays inducing a miscarriage until a woman with severe pregnancy complications seems “sick enough.” A lupus patient must stop taking medication that controls her illness because it can also cause miscarriages. Abortion restrictions in a number of states and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade are having profound repercussions in reproductive medicine as well as in other areas of medical care. “For physicians and patients alike, this is a frightening and fraught time, with new, unprecedented concerns about data privacy, access to contraception, and even when to begin lifesaving care,” said Dr. Jack Resneck, president of the American Medical Association."

Gets worse. Get this:

"Even in medical emergencies, doctors are sometimes declining immediate treatment. In the past week, an Ohio abortion clinic received calls from two women with ectopic pregnancies — when an embryo grows outside the uterus and can’t be saved — who said their doctors wouldn’t treat them. Ectopic pregnancies often become life-threatening emergencies and abortion clinics aren’t set up to treat them. It’s just one example of “the horrible downstream effects of criminalizing abortion care, said Dr. Catherine Romanos, who works at the Dayton clinic."

Clearly, the nazi element in the Republican Party couldn't care less.

"Dr. Jessian Munoz, an OB-GYN in San Antonio, Texas, who treats high-risk pregnancies, said medical decisions used to be clear cut. “It was like, the mom’s life is in danger, we must evacuate the uterus by whatever means that may be,” he said. “Whether it’s surgical or medical — that’s the treatment.” Now, he said, doctors whose patients develop pregnancy complications are struggling to determine whether a woman is “sick enough” to justify an abortion."

How many women will die as a result, -- courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party determined to force its perverse religious and ideological views on all of us?

"With the fall of Roe v. Wade, “the art of medicine is lost and actually has been replaced by fear,” Munoz said. Munoz said he faced an awful predicament with a recent patient who had started to miscarry and developed a dangerous womb infection. The fetus still had signs of a heartbeat, so an immediate abortion — the usual standard of care — would have been illegal under Texas law. “We physically watched her get sicker and sicker and sicker” until the fetal heartbeat stopped the next day, “and then we could intervene,” he said. The patient developed complications, required surgery, lost multiple liters of blood and had to be put on a breathing machine “all because we were essentially 24 hours behind.’’

Courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party. Democrats? No better. Failed to end the threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties imposed by the nazi element in our formerly great country. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"In a study published this month in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, doctors at two Texas hospitals cited the cases of 28 women less than 23 weeks pregnant who were treated for dangerous pregnancies. The doctors noted that all of the women had recommended abortions delayed by nine days because fetal heart activity was detected. Of those, nearly 60% developed severe complications — nearly double the number of complications experienced by patients in other states who had immediate therapeutic abortions. Of eight live births among the Texas cases, seven died within hours. The eighth, born at 24 weeks, had severe complications including brain bleeding, a heart defect, lung disease and intestinal and liver problems."

Courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Chicago diversity executive Sheena Gray survived a harrowing pregnancy-ending experience last year, when doctors discovered she had an embryo in a fallopian tube and an eight-week fetus in her womb. They removed the embryo along with the affected fallopian tube, and told her they needed to abort the other fetus to save her life. The decision to proceed with treatment was hers — abortion is still legal in Illinois. In fact, the state provides greater access to abortion than most others, and has been flooded with patients seeking abortions following the recent Supreme Court decision. Gray said she’s heard about similar care being denied or delayed in other states, and fears the high court ruling will force other patients to face the same fate. “No one should make these choices for a woman, period,” she said."

Goddamned right. Nobody's business but the woman's herself.

"Her story has a much happier ending: Gray became pregnant again and gave birth July 8 to healthy identical twin girls."

Currently, the greatest threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties is the nazi element in our formerly great country. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Julie Ann Nitsch, a sexual assault survivor and community college trustee in Austin, Texas, is among many women in states with restrictive abortion laws who are taking drastic steps. Nitsch says she chose sterilization at age 36 rather than risk getting pregnant by another rapist. “I ripped my organs out” to avoid that, she said. Nitsch said she “saw the writing on the wall” after Texas enacted a law last year banning most abortions after six weeks, even in cases of rape or incest. She said she sensed that Roe v. Wade would be overturned, so she had surgery to remove her fallopian tubes in February. “It’s sad to think that I can’t have kids, but it’s better than being forced to have children,” Nitsch said."

All courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Dr. Tyler Handcock, an Austin OB-GYN, said his clinic has heard from hundreds of patients seeking sterilization since the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision. Many choose this route because they fear long-acting birth control or other contraceptives could also become targets, he said. His clinic scheduled a July 9 group counseling session to handle the surge, and every one of the 20 patients who showed up to hear about the risks and ramifications of fallopian tube-removal made an appointment to have the surgery. Some physicians are reluctant to perform the surgery on young women with many reproductive years left, fearing they will change their minds later. Handcock said he heard from one 28-year-old woman who said six OB-GYNs declined to sterilize her."

Goddamned outrageous. Not their call. It's up to the woman herself.

"Handcock said the choice should be up to patients. “I will protect my patients and their rights however I can,” he said."

For a physician to do otherwise is an egregious example of Aryan arrogance.

"Becky Schwarz, of Tysons Corner, Virginia, found herself unexpectedly thrust into the abortion controversy even though she has no plans to become pregnant. The 27-year-old has lupus, an autoimmune disease that can cause the body to attack tissue surrounding joints and organs, leading to inflammation and often debilitating symptoms. For Schwarz, these include bone and joint pain, and difficulty standing for long periods of time. She recently received a notice from her doctor saying she’d have to stop taking a medication that relieves her symptoms — at least while the office reviewed its policies for methotrexate in light of the Supreme Court ruling. That’s because the drug can cause miscarriages and theoretically could be used in an attempt to induce an abortion. “For me to have to be essentially babysat by some policy, rather than being trusted about how I handle my own body ... has made me angry,” she said."

No question. All courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The Arthritis Foundation and American College of Rheumatology have both issued statements of concern about patients’ access to the drug. Steven Schultz of the Arthritis Foundation said the group is working to determine how widespread the problem is. Patients having trouble getting the medication can contact the group’s helpline, he said."

Why should anyone have to go through all this bullshit? All courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Many abortion laws are vague and they vary by state. That can leave physicians in a quandary. “We’ve asked some legislators, ‘How are medical providers supposed to interpret the laws?’” said Dr. Dana Stone, who is based in Oklahoma, a state that recently banned almost all abortions. “They say, ‘They’ll figure it out,’” she said."

Time to wake up. Vote the nazi element out of office. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. Too deaf to hear? Or, too aggressively stupid to give a shit.

7-22-22

Highly reminiscent of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, 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.

Uncommon Valor. CBS News reports:

"Seventeen members of Congress were among those arrested Tuesday during an abortion rights demonstration outside the Supreme Court, according to the U.S. Capitol Police. U.S. Capitol Police said they made a total of 35 arrests for crowding, obstructing or incommoding, which included 17 members of Congress. Protesters had perched themselves on First Street NE near the Capitol building, blocking the street. Capitol Police said they issued their standard three warnings before beginning the arrests. A spokesperson for Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts also confirmed multiple arrests of members of Congress, and said Pressley was among those arrested. Pressley's communications director Ricardo Sánchez said her arrest was an act of "non-violent civil disobedience." Rep. Katherine Clark, the Democratic assistant speaker of the House, was also arrested. Rep. Carolyn Maloney's office also announced she was among the Democratic Women's Caucus members arrested near the Supreme Court."

Truer words never spoken:

"There is no democracy if women do not have control over their own bodies and decisions about their own health, including reproductive care," Maloney said in a statement after arrest, according to her office. "I have the privilege of representing a state where reproductive rights are respected and protected — the least I can do is put my body on the line for the 33 million women at risk of losing their rights. The Republican Party and the right-wing extremists behind this decision are not pro-life, but pro-controlling the bodies of women, girls, and any person who can become pregnant. Their ultimate goal is to institute a national ban on abortion. We will not let them win. We will be back."

Hat's off, Congresswoman.

"A spokesperson for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confirmed she was among those arrested. Abortion rights supporters — and those opposed to abortion rights — have been demonstrating near the Supreme Court since the court's decision to strike down abortion protections under Roe nearly a month ago. The court ruled that abortion is not a constitutional right. Democrats are hoping to enshrine abortion access protections into law, but such a measure lacks support in the Senate under current rules."

Sadly, we now live in a fascist police-state where life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties are under assault by the nazi element in our formerly great country. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

7-22-22

Think Biden a man of principle? Or, is expediency front and center? NBC News reports:

"President Joe Biden is abandoning his plans to nominate anti-abortion lawyer Chad Meredith to be a federal judge in Kentucky, the White House told NBC News on Friday."

That's right. Biden had intended to nominate an anti-abortion shyster to the bench in a failed deal with the Republican leader in the Senate, -- ol' Mitch "The Bitch" McConnell.

"The president's initial plan, reported June 29 by the Louisville Courier Journal, was part of an apparent deal with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that later sparked a firestorm among Biden supporters, particularly due to the heightened focus on abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in late June."

What could Biden possibly been thinking? Political expediency trumps principle? Makes no sense, however, since the majority of Americans are outraged Roe was overturned by the 6-3 Republican nazi majority on the U.S. Supreme Court.

The following also makes no sense. Get this:

"White House spokesman Andrew Bates said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., did not sign off on the nomination by returning a so-called blue slip, a courtesy granted to home state senators on district judgeships like the one Meredith was under consideration for. “In considering potential district court nominees, the White House learned that Senator Rand Paul will not return a blue slip on Chad Meredith,” Bates said. “Therefore, the White House will not nominate Mr. Meredith.” Paul’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on why he didn’t support the Meredith nomination. The news, first reported by The New York Times on Friday, comes as Biden seeks to navigate the shifting politics of abortion rights and a Democratic base that — along with a majority of the country, according to polls — vehemently opposes the Supreme Court's decision to eliminate the constitutional right to an abortion."

Considering his adamant pro-life stance, it is indeed quite surprising Paul would not support the nomination of an anti-abortion shyster to the judiciary.

"Meredith's prospects of being confirmed were already uncertain in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, told NBC News earlier this week that if Biden were to nominate Meredith, “I’m a no.” He said that if Biden wanted his advice, he'd tell the president he wasn't sure how many Democrats would vote for the Kentucky lawyer, who works for the law firm Squire Patton Boggs and previously defended a state abortion law in federal court."

CBS News(AP) reports:

"Sen. Rand Paul on Monday accused Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of cutting "a secret deal with the White House that fell apart," blaming a lack of communication by his fellow Kentuckian for the failure of a federal judicial nomination. Further exposing long-simmering tensions between the state's two Republican senators, Paul commented on his own role in sinking the nomination last week of anti-abortion lawyer Chad Meredith for a federal judgeship in Kentucky. The White House abruptly abandoned the nomination on Friday, pointing to the home-state resistance from Paul, who is seeking a third term in the U.S. Senate in this year's elections. McConnell, a key player in putting conservatives on the federal bench during Donald Trump's presidency, told The New York Times last week that the White House intended to honor its commitment to name Meredith until Paul objected. McConnell told the newspaper that Paul's position was "just utterly pointless." Paul responded Monday that he supports Meredith and thought the conservative lawyer would make a good judge, but pointed to the process as the problem. "Unfortunately, instead of communicating and lining up support for him, Senator McConnell chose to cut a secret deal with the White House that fell apart," Paul said in a statement. McConnell has insisted there was no deal over a Meredith nomination, pointing instead to his longstanding personal relationship with President Biden. In another dig at Paul, McConnell told the Times that the Democratic president "would not have been taking a recommendation from Rand Paul, I can assure you." McConnell's office did not respond to Paul's statement when contacted Monday evening. Mr. Biden had intended to nominate Meredith for a district court judgeship in eastern Kentucky. The plan, first revealed by The Courier Journal of Louisville, had languished for weeks. The potential nomination drew resistance from Democrats from Kentucky to Washington. Meredith, a well-known conservative in Kentucky, defended the state's anti-abortion laws in court. He also successfully defended a state law that stripped Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear of his emergency power to implement COVID-19 restrictions."

None of this makes any sense. Had to have been a deal that went south.

"Abortion-rights supporters applauded the collapse of Meredith's nomination."

Rightfully, so.

"In a statement Friday, NARAL Pro-Choice America President Mini Timmaraju said: "We're pleased that the Biden administration made this decision — it's the right call. With abortion rights and access on the line in Kentucky and across the country, it is absolutely essential that all judges defend and uphold our fundamental rights and freedoms, including reproductive freedom."

7-15-22

Roe v. Wade obliteration. Doctors in Europe are indeed rising to the occasion. NBC News reports:

"A little-known European medical team is poised to become one of the most important groups in the shifting landscape of U.S. abortion bans. Aid Access, an online-only service run by a Dutch physician, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, began shipping abortion pills to Americans from abroad four years ago. The organization’s team consists of about four doctors supervising about 10 medical staff members, and they’re difficult for U.S. authorities to reach because all are outside the country and they ship pills from a pharmacy in India. Opponents of abortion rights have so far largely found themselves powerless to stop Aid Access from mailing abortion pills even to the most conservative corners of the country, at least while the organization’s opponents don’t control the White House. That has transformed Aid Access nearly overnight from an obscure overseas group into an essential part of the effort to keep abortion accessible nationwide. “It’s the only clinically supported service that mails to states where telehealth for abortion is banned,” said Ushma Upadhyay, an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Gomperts, who founded Aid Access in 2018, said she has no intention of changing her work now that the Supreme Court has overruled Roe v. Wade. Aid Access has been receiving 4,000 requests a day since Roe v. Wade was overturned, she said, up from 600 to 700 a day previously."

Certainly, not surprising, is it?

"Last year, after Texas banned abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, orders from the state tripled in the weeks after the law took effect, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. “We will continue to serve women who need it. We’re not going to stop,” Gomperts said in a phone interview, adding, “We are expanding again our capacity, so we can help with all the requests that we get.” The steps are relatively straightforward: Potential patients visit the Aid Access website and answer a series of questions, including how long they’ve been pregnant and whether anyone is forcing them to seek abortions. The medical team reviews the answers and may write prescriptions that get sent to pharmacies. For pills coming from India, the process may take a couple of weeks. Gomperts said the organization is prioritizing people who are pregnant over those who want to stock pills for the future. Around 25 people work on a help desk to answer questions from patients, with three people on at any given time, Gomperts said. Aid Access charges $110 to $150 depending on where the patient is. The ease of the process makes Aid Access yet another example of how a global internet can frustrate and subvert local law enforcement — at least so far. James Bopp, the general counsel of the National Right to Life Committee, said that without control of the presidency or a new federal law, there’s little his organization or its allies who oppose abortion rights could do against a group based outside the U.S. “The reality is state laws have limited extraterritorial effects,” he said. “There’s no question that the federal government has much more authority, and we hope to get them on our side to make these state laws much more effective.”

Hopefully, that won't happen. If it does, hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"A medication abortion generally involves five pills of two different drugs. Women take one pill of mifepristone, followed a day or two later by four pills of misoprostol. The pills became easier to obtain during the pandemic, when first a federal judge and then the Biden administration allowed patients to get them without visiting clinics in person. Medication abortions accounted for 54% of U.S. abortions in 2020, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research institute that supports abortion rights. In 2011, the share was 24%. But even before Roe was overturned, 19 states had banned the use of telemedicine for medication abortions or required the physical presence of the prescribing physician, according to KFF, a nonprofit organization for health information. Now, more than 20 states have banned or restricted abortions, according to an NBC News tracker of state laws."

Women are now second class citizens courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party. Ladies, you no longer own your uterus. These fascist bastards in the GOP claim ownership of your uterus. Is that tolerable? Will you put up with it?

"Gomperts said Aid Access is hearing confusion and fear from women in the U.S. “The people who are affected are poor women in red states that have these trigger laws,” she said. “There’s so much social injustice being done — again and again and again, to the most vulnerable part of the population.” Other online pharmacies will ship abortion pills to states where abortion is banned, according to the website of Plan C, an advocacy group, but experts said Aid Access is different because it’s based outside the U.S., has staff members available to answer questions and has cooperated with outside researchers. “We know it’s safe, because it’s one of the options for self-managed abortion that we’ve been able to study,” said Dr. Abigail Aiken, a physician who is an associate professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, who has done research on Aid Access. About 96% of those who used abortion pills from Aid Access reported successfully ending their pregnancies without surgical intervention, according to research Aiken published this year. About 1% reported they received treatment such as antibiotics or blood transfusions, and there were no reported deaths. “They really are a humanitarian nonprofit, not a business the way an online pharmacy is,” Aiken said. Gomperts founded Aid Access in response to tightening U.S. laws around abortion access. She had already been running a similar service, called Women on Web, in other countries, and Aid Access received 57,506 requests from people in the U.S. in its first two years. “It was clear in the last few years that access in the U.S. was getting harder and harder and harder. We started off mostly with helping service women in the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, in South Korea and Japan,” she said, because U.S. service members in those countries had limited access."

Indeed, a public service. Providing desperately needed medical care.

"Gomperts’ résumé has made her a hero within the abortion rights movement; she has performed abortions in international waters off Portugal and other countries where abortion was restricted, and she has used drones to deliver pills in Northern Ireland in defiance of authorities there. Time magazine named Gomperts one of its 100 most influential people of 2020, and in a tribute in the magazine, Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, called her “one of the bravest people I know.” “She is living her ethical and moral duty as a physician to ‘do no harm,’” said Dr. Emily Godfrey, an associate professor of family medicine and of obstetrics and gynecology with the University of Washington School of Medicine. “The problem is when nonmedical people restrict access to medical care, to licensed qualified medical care, people are more prone to seek unsafe abortion — and that’s what kills, unsafe abortion.”

Get this:

"Aid Access already faced down one hostile U.S. presidency. In March 2019, under then-President Donald Trump, the Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter asking Aid Access to cease operations. Aid Access refused and sued the FDA to block any potential action. The agency never followed through on its request. Last week, an FDA spokesperson had no immediate comment on what plans the agency has, if any, with regard to Aid Access."

Interesting, isn't it? This woman and her organization stand tall. Willing to take on the nazi element in our formerly great country. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The agency’s stance could change if an opponent of abortion rights were to become president. But on the state level, said Dr. Richard Hearn, a physician and lawyer in Idaho who has represented Aid Access, regulators and prosecutors might have as difficult a time barring the organization as their counterparts did stopping the import of alcohol during Prohibition in the 1920s."

Hopefully, that's the case.

“No state like Texas or Idaho is going to be able to do anything to Aid Access in Amsterdam or Austria. They’re not going to have jurisdiction, and the Netherlands isn’t going to extradite,” he said, emphasizing that he was speaking for himself, not the organization. Complicating state-level legal efforts is the fact that Attorney General Merrick Garland has said states can’t enforce bans on abortion pills because the FDA has approved the regimen, which pre-empts state action. The issue is already being litigated in federal court in Mississippi, where a generic maker of mifepristone is suing to block state restrictions. It’s not clear whether any state or federal prosecutor plans to pursue action against Aid Access directly. The Mississippi attorney general’s office, which argued the case that led to last month’s Supreme Court ruling, didn’t respond to a request for comment. “It’s just futile to try to stop mifepristone and misoprostol. They’re perfectly safe, especially early on,” Hearn said. Nonetheless, abortion rights opponents have proposed even harsher penalties aimed at online prescriptions of abortion pills. The National Right to Life Committee published a model state law on its website that would, if states adopt it, make it a felony to maintain a website giving instructions for self-managed abortions, but enforcement would remain a challenge. One of the few things limiting the reach of Aid Access is that it’s still not well known. Gomperts criticized social media apps such as Instagram and Facebook for removing posts about abortion services. “The freedom of speech is one of the key constitutional rights in the U.S., but because of these laws, even that right is under stress because people are so afraid,” she said. The lack of awareness is something that abortion rights advocates and some physicians hope will change, even if Aid Access becomes a lightning rod similar to Planned Parenthood. Gomperts said her goal is for Aid Access to eventually become unnecessary. “It shouldn’t have to be a foreign organization,” she said. “What should happen in the end is that the states like New York and California, liberal states, they should just make it possible for the doctors and providers there to ship the pills to the other states.”

Time to stand up to raw nazism, and the egregious loss of liberty.

7-8-22

Catholicism driven anti-Roe Supreme Court decision. The Associated Press reports:

"The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority. That’s not a coincidence. Nor is it the whole story. The justices who voted to overturn Roe have been shaped by a church whose catechism affirms “the moral evil of every procured abortion” and whose U.S. bishops have declared opposition to abortion their “preeminent priority” in public policy. But that alone doesn’t explain the justices’ votes. U.S. Catholics as a whole are far more ambivalent on abortion than their church leaders, with more than half believing it should be legal in all or most circumstances, according to the Pew Research Center."

Comes as no surprise.

"Notable Catholics who support abortion rights include President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, both Democrats. Democratic-appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a Catholic, dissented in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe. But the justices in the Dobbs majority aren’t simply cradle Catholics. Several have ties to intellectual and social currents within Catholicism that, for all their differences, share a doctrinal conservatism and strong opposition to abortion. “It’s not simply choosing Catholics,” said Steven Millies, professor of public theology at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and author of “Good Intentions: A History of Catholic Voters’ Road from Roe to Trump.” “It is because they are particular kinds of Catholics, traveling in particular Catholic circles that not everyone in your local parish is identifying with,” Millies said."

Fascinating, isn't it?

"In Dobbs, five justices voted to overturn Roe — Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas. A sixth, Chief Justice John Roberts, balked at overturning Roe but voted to uphold the Mississippi abortion restrictions in question. All six were raised Catholic."

Frightening, isn't it? LOL. For that reason alone all should have recused themselves. Were not qualified to sit in judgment.

"Most went to some combination of Catholic high schools, colleges or graduate schools. The one exception, Dobbs author Alito, has fondly described growing up in a home where “church and the family” were preeminent. Five of the six justices still identify as Catholic, while Gorsuch has attended an Episcopal church more recently."

Get this:

"The Supreme Court was dominated by Protestant justices for much of its history. The majority have been Catholic since the 1990s, and for several years in the last decade, the court had six Catholic justices, three Jews and no Protestants. ( Newly sworn-in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson identifies as Protestant.) But religious identity has mattered less of late than ideology, which is why conservative evangelicals have cheered on the Republican-nominated Catholics, said Nomi Stolzenberg, a University of Southern California Law School professor focusing on law and religion. In fact, eight of the last nine Republican nominees to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, from the Reagan to the Trump presidencies, have had Catholic pedigrees."

Readers are reminded abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Both dictators considered themselves religious. Ideology and religion became one and the same to both bastards. History is repeating itself here and now. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

7-8-22

Standing tall. Speaking out. NPR reports:

"For the first time in her life, Marine Corps Capt. Meleah Martin is refusing to wear American flag attire this Independence Day. Instead, she told her family that she will only wear pride colors and apparel. Not because she's unpatriotic – she's spent approximately 16 months deployed overseas as an F-18 pilot. But because she believes her constitutional rights are under attack."

Uncommon Valor.

"Martin said it's been disheartening to witness liberties such as the right to protest or to cast a ballot come under attack in recent years. Those frustrations turned to devastation for her with the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, stripping away the constitutional right to an abortion. Martin hopes to someday start a family, but as someone who identifies as a lesbian, she's scared her right to marry and have children may also be in danger. As a result of these fears and frustrations, she said she doesn't look at the American flag the way she used to. "We swear an oath, 'To support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic' ... Well, it's time to start worrying about the domestic, because clearly we have more of a problem here than we do anywhere else," Martin said, noting that her views are her own, and not a reflection of her unit or the Marine Corps. "It's really disappointing when something like this happens, because, like, how do I defend that?"

The First Amendment guaranties her right to freely speak out and express her opinion.

"And she's not alone. The American military and its more than 1 million active-duty troops is traditionally seen as apolitical. But in the wake of a historic Supreme Court term that has shifted the nation to the right on everything from the Second Amendment and abortion, to the separation of church and state, service members and veterans on both sides of the political divide are finding it increasingly difficult to remain quiet."

... Nor should they. They put their lives on the line fighting for that right. Not only for the rest of us, but themselves as well.

"For some, the shifts brought on by the court are cause for celebration. For others, their sentiments amount to a loss of trust and confidence in political leaders, and growing frustration with the country they are sworn to defend. Victor LaGroon is a chairman for the Black Veterans Empowerment Council, which works to better the lives of Black veterans across the country. He's worked with veterans and their communities to help protect their right to vote. Before serving as a chairman for the Black Veterans Empowerment Council, Victor LaGroon served as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army. His job at the time was to help gather information so that commanders could make methodical choices on the battlefield. He uses the skills he acquired in the Army to better work with politicians in hopes of achieving equal access to benefits and protecting the rights of Black veterans. One of the campaigns he's passionate about is ensuring that Black veterans, as well as their families and communities, have the right to vote. He feels his work is more important than ever, given the growing number of states that have moved to restrict voter access since the 2020 election."

... Courtesy of the traitorous, treasonous nazi element in the Republican Party. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"To have lost soldiers and sailors and Marines and airmen securing other people's right to vote, and then to come home and have your own government obstruct your right to vote is beyond repulsive. It is shameful. It's hateful, it should be illegal," LaGroon said. "We should not allow anyone American who wants to vote, who's qualified to vote, to not be voting. It is a part of the core of who we are." LaGroon spoke about his grandfather, who was given one piece of advice after returning from World War II: "Don't get caught in that uniform in the South, because they'll hang you." Historically speaking, LaGroon said, Black service members have time and again been willing to sacrifice their lives in defense of a nation that doesn't care about them. "If we're a nation of freedoms, why is it some freedoms are more valuable than others? That's the question," LaGroon said. "I'm saddened by what we've become. Because I know we're capable of being better."

Sadly, incomprehensibly, long past due.

"Martin has never been one to draw attention to herself. As an active duty member of the military, she's always been careful about sharing her political beliefs with the public in order to maintain her image as an officer. However, she said the Supreme Court's decision to do away with federal abortion protections was the tipping point for her, and compelled her to speak out. Over the years many people have asked her what it's like to be a woman in military aviation, a profession historically dominated by men. But that's never bothered her, because she's always seen her fellow pilots as family. But in the wake of the court's abortion ruling last month, she said can't shake the feeling that she is on uneven ground. "I've truly felt extremely equal to my peers and I've had a wonderful time in the military, but now, you know, I do I have one less right," Martin said. "And it is a right that has to do directly with my personal body." When it comes to talk of the future, she and her girlfriend often discuss marriage and raising children. And though her partner already has a daughter, the two talk about artificial insemination and who would carry their child. But now she's concerned about what that could look like should a pregnancy put her or her partner's life at risk. Martin is scared she may find herself at a duty station in a state where abortion is outlawed. If she and her partner needed to travel to have an abortion, Martin would need to have a leave request approved by her commanding officer, who might have differing views on the issue. "I'm not saying that commanders don't have the interests of their sailors and Marines and soldiers in mind. But on, say the worst-case scenario, right, that commander has a very strong belief and is very much against abortion and knows what you're trying to do to take leave, they can just deny your leave without repercussion," she said. "I understand that that is like a very, very severe estimate, right? Or like, that is the worst-case scenario. But it's not necessarily out of the cards." An additional fear that weighs on Martin is whether she and her partner will be able to get married in the not-too-distant future. In a concurring opinion to the Supreme Court's abortion ruling, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the court's legal rationale in overturning Roe could also be applied to overturn other major cases, including the court's decision to legalize gay marriage. His words shook members of the LGBTQ+ community, including Martin, who now worry that the conservative majority on the high court could strike down their right to marry."

7-1-22

Raw nazism reigns supreme in a 6-3 Republican nazi-owned U.S. Supreme Court. 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:

"The Supreme Court on Friday ended constitutional protections for abortion that had stood in America for nearly a half-century. The decision by the court’s conservative majority overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling and is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states. The ruling, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by an emboldened right side of the court that has been fortified by three appointees of former President Donald Trump. Both sides predicted the fight over abortion would continue, in state capitals and in Washington, and Justice Clarence Thomas, part of Friday’s majority, called on the court to overturn other high court rulings protecting same-sex marriage, gay sex and the use of contraceptives."

Clearly, sadly, the nazi element in the Republican Party is doing all it can to provoke an unwanted, dreaded second American revolution. With increasing violence throughout the country instigated by these Republicans and their supporters, Democrats need to reconsider their opposition to the Second Amendment and a well-armed citizenry. Sadly, the last best defense to outrageously corrupt and abusive government is the right to bear arms.

"Abortion foes cheered the ruling, but abortion-rights supporters, including President Joe Biden, expressed dismay and pledged to fight to restore the rights. “It’s a sad day for the court and for the country,” Biden said at the White House. He urged voters to make it a defining issue in the November elections, declaring, “This decision must not be the final word.”

Neither major political party is worth a shit. For totally different reasons. Yet, the nazi element in the Republican Party presents a far greater exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than the Democrats. The electorate needs to wake up. Return enough Democrats to the Senate and House to ensure not just a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, but a two-thirds majority to ensure the six Republican nazis on the Supreme Court are impeached, convicted, and removed from the bench. With the loss of abortion rights, the female half of our population is no longer free. Ladies, the nazi element in our formerly great country now owns your uterus, dictates what you can and cannot do with it. That's certainly not liberty. It's enslavement and unsustainable. Moreover, if the female half of the population is no longer free, effectively neither is the male half.

"Alito, in the final opinion issued Friday, wrote that Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to abortion, were wrong the days they were decided and must be overturned. “We therefore hold that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. Roe and Casey must be overruled, and the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives,” Alito wrote, in an opinion that was very similar to the leaked draft. Authority to regulate abortion rests with the political branches, not the courts, Alito wrote."

Alito in his 'reasoning' sounds exactly as his autocratic, national socialist, achingly fascist forebears, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Readers are reminded abortion was indeed illegal in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Moreover, determined Republican gerrymandering throughout this country renders Alito's claim "authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives” achingly moot and fraudulent in Republican-owned anti-abortion states.

"The ruling is expected to disproportionately affect minority women who already face limited access to health care, according to statistics analyzed by The Associated Press. Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department “will work tirelessly to protect and advance reproductive freedom.” He said in a statement that in addition to protecting providers and those seeking abortions in states where it is legal “we stand ready to work with other arms of the federal government that seek to use their lawful authorities to protect and preserve access to reproductive care.” In particular, Garland said that the federal Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Mifepristone for medication abortions. “States may not ban Mifepristone based on disagreement with the FDA’s expert judgment about its safety and efficacy,” Garland said. More than 90% of abortions take place in the first 13 weeks of pregnancy, and more than half are now done with pills, not surgery, according to data compiled by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights."

NBC News reports:

"In a scathing dissent to the Supreme Court’s ruling Friday that overturned Roe v. Wade and wiped out the constitutional guarantee of abortion rights, the justices on the bench’s liberal wing slammed the “draconian” opinion as a decision that will undeniably curtail women’s rights and turn back “their status as free and equal citizens.” The lengthy joint dissent written by Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan repeatedly slammed the court’s “cavalier” conservative majority for exercising “hypocrisy” in the way they interpret the Constitution. The justices predicted myriad terrible — and possibly deadly — consequences for women, particularly low-income women and women of color, in need of abortion care. Frequently, and with searing language, they concluded that the court’s majority had deemed that women are not deserving of equal protection under the law. “The majority would allow States to ban abortion from conception onward because it does not think forced childbirth at all implicates a woman’s rights to equality and freedom,” the justices wrote. “Today’s Court, that is, does not think there is anything of constitutional significance attached to a woman’s control of her body and the path of her life.” “Whatever the exact scope of the coming laws, one result of today’s decision is certain: the curtailment of women’s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens,” they wrote. Later in their dissent, the justices were more concise, summing up the majority opinion: "It says that from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of." At another point in their opinion, the justices highlighted what the decision will mean for women who will have to carry pregnancies due to abortion restrictions. “As of today, this Court holds, a State can always force a woman to give birth, prohibiting even the earliest abortions. A State can thus transform what, when freely undertaken, is a wonder into what, when forced, may be a nightmare,” they wrote. “With sorrow — for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection — we dissent,” they concluded in the last, blistering line of their dissenting opinion."

This is raw nazism imposed by the 6-3 Republican nazi element on the Supreme Court in direct violation of their oaths of office to uphold the U.S. Constitution and rule of law.

"The court’s ruling does not make abortion illegal nationwide, but with access to the procedure no longer deemed a constitutional right, states can now move to ban it. About half the states have already indicated they would move to ban or restrict the procedure. Nodding to some of those laws, the court’s liberal justices laid out how state legislatures could now effectively force women to endure pregnancies that could kill them or make them carry terminally sick babies to term. “Enforcement of all these draconian restrictions will also be left largely to the States’ devices,” they wrote. “They have passed laws without any exceptions for when the woman is the victim of rape or incest. Under those laws, a woman will have to bear her rapist’s child or a young girl her father’s — no matter if doing so will destroy her life,” they wrote. “So too, after today’s ruling, some States may compel women to carry to term a fetus with severe physical anomalies — for example, one afflicted with Tay-Sachs disease, sure to die within a few years of birth.” They warned that, without a constitutional protection to hold them back, many states will surely go further — and could eventually target women receiving care, not just the doctors providing it, in legislation. “A State can of course impose criminal penalties on abortion providers, including lengthy prison sentences. But some States will not stop there. Perhaps, in the wake of today’s decision, a state law will criminalize the woman’s conduct too, incarcerating or fining her for daring to seek or obtain an abortion,” they wrote. The justices also lamented how the ruling will more dramatically affect low-income women, who may not be able to afford to travel for necessary out-of-state abortion care. “Today’s decision, the majority says, permits ‘each State’ to address abortion as it pleases,” they wrote. “That is cold comfort, of course, for the poor woman who cannot get the money to fly to a distant State for a procedure.” They also warned that some legislatures could move to block women from traveling out of state to receive an abortion or abortion medication. “Those without money or childcare or the ability to take time off from work — will not be so fortunate. Maybe they will try an unsafe method of abortion, and come to physical harm, or even die. Maybe they will undergo pregnancy and have a child, but at significant personal or familial cost,” they wrote. “At the least, they will incur the cost of losing control of their lives. The Constitution will, today’s majority holds, provide no shield, despite its guarantees of liberty and equality for all.”

Raw nazism. Adolf and Benito likely wildly cheering on their fiery perches. Hundreds of thousands of our best and brightest died fighting this goddamned cancer. Second World War European Theater.

"In another section of their dissent, the court’s liberal wing took aim at what they called the majority’s “cavalier approach to overturning” precedents — explaining that they have only selectively overturned past rulings on issues that appeal to political and social conservatives. “Either the mass of the majority’s opinion is hypocrisy, or additional constitutional rights are under threat. It is one or the other,” they wrote. And in a final pointed stab, the dissenting justices wrapped their opinion with a seeming personal criticism of the court’s majority, comparing the justices — unflatteringly — to some of their conservative predecessors and suggesting that the court has become irreversibly political. “The American public, [past conservative justices] thought, should never conclude that its constitutional protections hung by a thread — that a new majority, adhering to a new ‘doctrinal school,’ could ‘by dint of numbers’ alone expunge their rights,” they continued. “It is impossible to conclude that anything else has happened here,” they said. “In overruling Roe and Casey, this Court betrays its guiding principles.”

NBC News reports:

"In searing remarks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday criticized the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade and suggested that Trump-appointed justices lied when they told lawmakers during their confirmation hearings that they respected the precedent of the 1973 ruling. "How about those justices coming before the senators and saying that they respected stare decisis, the precedent of the court, that they respected the privacy in the Constitution of the United States," Pelosi said at a news conference Friday. "Did you hear that? Were they not telling the truth, then?" Democrats have increasingly questioned the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, fueled by the push by Republicans to block a nominee by President Barack Obama and then to name a justice in the final months of President Donald Trump's term. Pelosi echoed that criticism, calling it a "Trumpian" court that is pushing the interests of Republicans. Pelosi appeared to refer to Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh who, during their confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, said they believed the landmark ruling that guaranteed abortion access across the country was "precedent." Gorsuch and Kavanaugh joined their fellow conservative justices in upholding a Mississippi law that banned most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and overturning Roe. Gorsuch told senators in March 2017 that Roe was "a precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court" that has been reaffirmed. Kavanaugh told senators in September 2018 that Roe was "settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court, entitled the respect under principles of stare decisis," a legal doctrine that means “to stand by things decided” in Latin. Pelosi criticized the court and Republicans in stark, emotional terms, pinning the blame on former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for laying the groundwork for the end of Roe. "Today, the Republican-controlled Supreme Court has achieved their dark, extreme goal of ripping away women’s right to make their own reproductive health decisions,” Pelosi said. “Because of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Party and their supermajority on the Supreme Court, American women today have less freedom than their mothers.” “With Roe and their attempt to destroy it, radical Republicans are charging ahead with their crusade to criminalize health freedom,” Pelosi added, ripping into what she called a "Trumpian Supreme Court" and appearing to urge supporters of reproductive freedom to vote in the November midterm elections. “In the Congress — be aware of this — Republicans are plotting a nationwide abortion ban,” she said. “They cannot be allowed to have a majority in the Congress, but that’s their goal.” In especially impassioned remarks, Pelosi said the ruling was an “insult” to women across the country, appearing to fight back tears. “It’s a slap in the face to women about using their own judgment, to make their own decisions about their reproductive freedom,” Pelosi said."

The Speaker is strongly, caustically reminded the last best defense to outrageously corrupt and abusive government is indeed the Second Amendment, that is, the right to bear arms:

"Pelosi also contrasted the court's decision on abortion rights with a major ruling Thursday holding that the Constitution provides a right to carry a gun outside the home, handing a crucial victory to gun rights groups. "Such a contradiction," she said. "Yesterday, they say the states cannot make laws governing the constitutional right to bear arms. And today, they’re saying the exact reverse — that the states can overturn a constitutional right — for 50 years a constitutional right — for a woman having the right to choose. The hypocrisy is raging, but the harm is endless."

The Associated Press reports:

"The Supreme Court’s decision Friday to overturn the constitutional right to abortion has only further fractured an already deep division between the states, where contentious legal battles are almost certain to erupt as legislatures and attorneys general grapple with the new landscape of abortion access. Even before the opinion, lawmakers, activists and legal scholars were arguing over whether Republican-led states can enforce abortion bans beyond their borders and target providers, people who provide assistance and the women seeking abortions. That speculation could soon become reality as abortion opponents become more emboldened to try novel approaches to prevent women from crossing state lines to terminate a pregnancy. Meanwhile, Democrats are shoring up what remaining protections they have left in order to shield women who travel to get an abortion and ensure patients do not face penalties back home. Washington is barring the state from acting against doctors who perform such abortions, while California and Illinois are considering similar measures. Shortly after the decision was announced Friday, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican who has said he supports a woman’s right to choose, signed an executive order prohibiting state agencies from assisting another state’s investigation into people or businesses that receive or deliver reproductive health services that are legal in Massachusetts. The order also protects Massachusetts providers who deliver reproductive health care services from being disciplined based on potential out-of-state charges. In a statement, Baker said it was important to ensure that health care workers in the state can provide services “without concern that the laws of other states may be used to interfere with those services or sanction them for providing services that are lawful in the Commonwealth.” Connecticut enacted a law earlier this year to stymie lawsuits or criminal cases from other states over legal abortions for out-of-state residents. Its attorney general, William Tong, called overturning Roe “a very grave risk to women and patients across the country” and said he would be the first to sue if Republicans gain control of Congress and the presidency and enact a nationwide abortion ban. “This decision carves our nation in two — states that trust the personal and professional decisions of women and doctors, and states where craven politicians control and criminalize those choices,” said Tong, a Democrat. “Connecticut is a safe state, but we will need to be vigilant, aggressive and proactive to defend our rights.”

Goddamned right.

Far worse yet to come. The Associated Press reports:

"The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision allowing states to ban abortion immediately stirred alarm Friday among LGBTQ advocates, who feared that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections for gay relationships, including the right for same-sex couples to marry. In the court’s majority opinion overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Justice Samuel Alito said the decision applied only to abortion. But critics of the court’s conservative majority discounted that statement. And in a separate concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas said the court should review other precedents, including its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, a 2003 decision striking down laws criminalizing gay sex and a 1965 decision declaring that married couples have a right to use contraception. “Let’s just be clear. Today is about this horrifying invasion of privacy that this court is now allowing, and when we lose one right that we have relied on and enjoyed, other rights are at risk,” said Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in the landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, who is now running as a Democrat for the Ohio House.

“And to ensure that our decision is not misunderstood or mischaracterized, we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right,” Alito wrote. “Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” Still, said Paul Dupont, a spokesman for the conservative anti-abortion American Principles Project, conservatives are optimistic about the potential for future victories on cultural issues, though getting more states to ban abortion is “a huge enough battle.” “If there is a thought that this could apply elsewhere, you know, they’re not going to say it here, and we’re just going to have to see,” Dupont said."

... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. Too deaf to hear? Or, too goddamned aggressively stupid.

"Many abortion opponents insist that overturning Roe will not affect access to birth control or LGBTQ rights. Other factors could protect those rulings too: The Obergefell decision that legalized same-sex marriage was based on equal protection, and hundreds of thousands of couples have relied on it to wed, a precedent that many courts would be loath to disturb. Still, a sharp increase in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in the U.S. and opposition to some forms of birth control from some quarters on the right have advocates concerned that those rights are vulnerable. The court’s three most liberal members argued that the majority decision “breaches a core rule-of-law principle, designed to promote constancy in the law” and “places in jeopardy” other rights. At the White House, President Joe Biden pledged to do everything in his power to defend a woman’s right to have an abortion in states where it will be banned. He warned that the ruling could undermine rights to contraception and gay marriage: “This is an extreme and dangerous path.” Then there is Thomas’ concurring opinion, which Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the pro-LGBTQ-rights Human Rights Campaign, called an invitation for “stirring up fringe organizations, fringe politicians who want to harm the LGBTQ community.” “There are clearly members of the court who have an outdated notion of what America looks like today and have a fantasy of returning to their painted idealism of a 1940s, 1950s America, certainly not what it really was in the 1940s and ’50s,” she said. “And that is terrifying.” Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, a Democrat, called the decision “dangerous” and warned that it carves the nation into two parts. He predicted there will be “a tsunami of radical litigation and legislation aimed at further eroding rights we have taken for granted.” “Make no mistake — this is just the beginning of a systematic right-wing effort to rewrite decades of bedrock legal precedent,” he said."

Precisely, why an unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms.

NBC News reports:

"There appeared to be no let-up Saturday as Americans angered by the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade hit the streets for a second day of mass protests."

Nor should there be. The nazi element in the Republican Party, including the six Republican nazis on the U.S. Supreme Court, delusionally believe they own your uterus, ladies. Can dictate what you can or can't do with it. Can they?

"From Washington, D.C., where the conservatives on the court Friday swept aside a half-century of precedent to do away with the law [constitutional right to abortion], all the way to the West Coast, there were angry, raucous protests against a ruling that almost immediately made access to abortions all-but-impossible in half the country. Those protests were, at times, met with counter-protests by anti-abortion activists elated by the ruling and determined to stop abortions from happening everywhere in the country. Outside the Supreme Court building, a small-but-growing group of protesters chanting "Women's rights are human rights" confronted a preacher who had waded into the mix and appeared to be trying to drown them out. "Listen to me, our religious convictions inform everything we do," the Rev. Jonathan Tremaine Thomas said. "Why are you trying to impose them on us?" 18-year-old Juliette Dueffert shouted back. "If you have a uterus, you can talk." "You're clearly trying to talk over us," another woman quickly chimed-in. Soon anti-abortion protesters arrived chanting "Abortion is racist" and "Abortion is oppression" and were met with loud booing as police officers stood by ready to move in if necessary."

A portend of far, far worse to come as nazism continues to grow throughout our formerly great country. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"In Mississippi, anti-abortion protesters descended on the state's last clinic, the Jackson Women's Health Center. There, shouting matches erupted between them and members of the “Pink House Defenders,” who are the volunteers that for years have been escorting women in need of abortions through the gauntlet of protesters that have been picketing the clinic for years. As protesters tossed gory photos of supposedly aborted fetuses from their pickup trucks and yelled at reporters covering the unfolding chaos, several defenders tried to block them from driving into the clinic parking lot and Jackson police officers quickly arrived to keep the warring parties apart. In the midst of the mayhem, an NBC News producer had a cellphone knocked out of her hands."

Again, a portend of far, far worse to come as nazism continues to grow throughout our formerly great country.

"It was Mississippi that set into motion the series of legal steps that resulted on the overturning of what had been a constitutional right to an abortion. Under a "trigger law" passed by Mississippi lawmakers back in 2007, the clinic now has less than 10 days before it has to shut down. “I will tell you this — any patients who contact us we will see them” as long as the clinic stays open, Diane Derzis, the chief executive officer of Jackson Women’s Health Organization, told local media after the Supreme Court ruling came down. “We will make sure we see them in those 10 days. A woman should not have to leave the state to receive health care.” In Rhode Island, the Providence Police Department tweeted that it was investigating allegations that an off-duty officer "assaulted" a woman during Friday's raucous protests outside the statehouse. The officer, who was not identified by the department, has been placed on "leave with pay" and a criminal investigation and administrative review is underway, the department said."

No transparency. Precisely, why the jackbooted bastards in law enforcement cannot be trusted. Worse, why is the bastard being paid? Effectively, placed on paid vacation.

At least some prosecutors intend to stand courageously tall. NBC News reports:

"Dozens of elected prosecutors said Friday they would refuse to prosecute those seeking, assisting or providing abortions after the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling that guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion. Prosecutors from 29 states, territories and Washington, D.C., signed a joint statement that included signatories from states like Mississippi, Missouri and Wisconsin that have banned or are poised to ban abortion services following the reversal of Roe v. Wade. “Not all of us agree on a personal or moral level on the issue of abortion,” said the statement signed by 84 prosecutors, a group that included district attorneys and state attorneys general. “But we stand together in our firm belief that prosecutors have a responsibility to refrain from using limited criminal legal system resources to criminalize personal medical decisions. As such, we decline to use our offices’ resources to criminalize reproductive health decisions and commit to exercise our well-settled discretion and refrain from prosecuting those who seek, provide, or support abortions.” The prosecutors said enforcing abortion bans would also "hinder our ability to hold perpetrators accountable, take resources away from the enforcement of serious crime, and inevitably lead to the retraumatization and criminalization of victims of sexual violence."

Indeed. No question.

"Abortion bans have already been enacted in Kentucky, Louisiana, South Dakota and Missouri, with laws that would make it possible to charge abortion providers with some class of felony."

Outrageous nazism.

"Joe Gonzalez, a district attorney in Bexar County, Texas, which includes San Antonio, said “using limited resources to prosecute personal healthcare decisions would be a violation” of his oath. “Outlawing abortion will not end abortion; it will simply end safe abortions and prevent people from seeking the care and help they need for fear of criminal prosecution. I refuse to subject members of my community to that risk,” Gonzalez said in a statement."

Hat's off. Uncommon Valor.

"Four other prosecutors from Texas signed the joint statement. Texas is one of the 13 states with so-called trigger laws, which were designed to snap into effect immediately or soon after a Roe reversal. In Missouri, another "trigger law" state, a statute that took effect Friday prohibits doctors from performing abortions and also makes it a felony to knowingly induce an abortion, punishable by up to 15 years in prison."

Goddamned nazism.

"Wesley Bell, prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County, was among those who signed Friday's joint statement saying they would not pursue charges against those involved with abortions. Bell was the only prosecutor from Missouri to sign the statement organized by Fair and Just Prosecution, a liberal group that advocates for criminal justice reform. Miriam Krinsky, the group's executive director, called the Supreme Court's abortion decision "a jarring betrayal" of generations of Americans. Elected prosecutors, she said in a statement, are "the last line of defense" in efforts to shield patients and providers from criminal charges as states begin banning the procedure."

The Associated Press reports:

"Democratic leaders across the nation vowed Friday to help women who travel to seek abortions and to shield patients and medical professionals from being pursued by authorities in states where the procedure becomes outlawed after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. On the West Coast, the Democratic governors of California, Washington and Oregon issued a joint “multi-state commitment,” saying they will work together to defend patients and care providers. In North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper, also a Democrat, emphasized the importance of the November election in the state where the GOP controls the General Assembly but lacks veto-proof majorities to severely restrict or outlaw abortion. “Democratic governors are the last line of defense against these types of extreme bills,” he said. It was a strategy echoed by President Joe Biden, who told the nation Friday that Democratic victories at the state level in November could thwart efforts to ban abortion. “Congress must act, and with your vote, you can act,” Biden said. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the West Coast plan in a video statement with Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. “No matter who you are or where you come from, Oregon doesn’t turn away anyone seeking health care,” Brown said. All three states anticipate an influx of people seeking abortions, especially as neighboring conservative states move to outlaw or greatly restrict the procedure. The governors also pledged to “protect against judicial and local law enforcement cooperation with out-of-state investigations, inquiries and arrests” regarding abortions performed in their states."

Hat's off. Uncommon Valor. As our formerly great country continues to nazify.

"Elsewhere, some companies reiterated or announced plans to help pay for employees to travel to other states to get reproductive care. For example, Seattle-based Starbucks said it will reimburse abortion travel expenses for employees enrolled in its health care plan if a legal provider isn’t available in their home state or within 100 miles of their home. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson also said he will work to ensure his state “welcomes any individual who comes here to access the fundamental right to reproductive justice,” adding that he is “already working to protect medical professionals who are prosecuted in other states for providing essential health care services that are legal and protected in Washington.” Ferguson says he has a team of 20 staffers working on abortion-access issues. In Sacramento, California, Newsom warned that conservative Supreme Court justices and Republican politicians “are coming after you” on issues beyond the abortion decision and another ruling this week that said Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. Conservative leaders have telegraphed their intent to roll back laws and legal decisions on LGBTQ rights, on contraception, the environment and in other areas, Newsom said. “This is not just about women. This is not just about choice. It’s not just about reproductive freedom — they’re coming after you,” he said."

It's about liberty the nazi element in the Republican Party and the six Republican nazis on the U.S. Supreme Court remain so desperately intent on obliterating. All civil and constitutional rights and liberties are in jeopardy courtesy of the traitorous, treasonous nazi element in our formerly great country.

"Newsom signed into law a bill intended to shield abortion providers and volunteers in California from legal decisions in other states that limit reproductive rights, part of a package of more than a dozen bills intended to make California a sanctuary for those seeking abortions. He said the state’s budget will include $20 million over three years to help pay for women from other states to get abortions in California. The money will go to nonprofits that help women pay for expenses such as travel, lodging and child care."

Hat's off. Uncommon Valor.

"Oregon has codified the right to an abortion. State law was updated in 2017 and allows for late-term abortions and requires private medical insurance and state Medicaid to cover the procedure. A $15 million fund established by state lawmakers this year covers costs for abortion providers and patients without insurance coverage or traveling from out of state. The fund also seeks to expand abortion access in Oregon’s rural communities. Washington and Oregon border Idaho, which following Friday’s ruling will ban abortions except in cases of reported rape or incest, or to protect the mother’s life. Abortion has been legal in Washington state since a 1970 statewide ballot referendum. Another ballot measure approved by voters in 1991 affirmed a woman’s right to choose physician-performed abortion prior to fetal viability and further expanded and protected access to abortion in the state if Roe v. Wade was overturned. In California, abortion was outlawed in 1850, except when the life of the mother was in danger. The law changed in 1967 to include abortions in the case of rape, incest or if a woman’s mental health were in danger. In 1969, the California Supreme Court declared the state’s original abortion law to be unconstitutional but left the 1967 law in place. In 1972 – one year before the Roe v. Wade decision – California voters added a “right to privacy” to the state constitution. Since then, the state Supreme Court has interpreted that right to privacy as a right to access abortion. Local governments in the states said they were also ready to help protect and provide abortion access. Washington state’s most populous county will devote $1 million in emergency funding to help women traveling to the Seattle area seeking abortions following the overturning of Roe v. Wade."

All the above is certainly most encouraging as nazism continues to grow in our formerly great country courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party as well as the six Republican nazis on the U.S. Supreme Court. 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:

"Sen. Susan Collins was blasted Friday for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as opponents targeted her votes to confirm two justices to the Supreme Court who were in the majority opinion allowing states to ban abortion. Critics of the Maine senator haven’t forgotten the key role she played in confirming Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, and she was ripped anew on social media."

For damned good reason.

"Some opponents took to name-calling and attacked Collins for being naive or complicit. Others called for her resignation. University of Maine professor Amy Fried said Collins “helped make this happen,” and the Maine Democratic Party said part of the blame lies at Collins’ feet. Collins was considered a crucial vote on Kavanaugh. She waited months before announcing her decision in a 45-minute floor speech. Shortly after her speech ended, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin announced he, too, was voting for Kavanaugh. The Senate vote was 50-48. Mainers For Accountable Leadership, a liberal advocacy group, said Collins “must immediately apologize to these organizations who she dismissed and demeaned in her floor speech announcing her support of Kavanaugh.”

Needs to resign. If not, immediately impeached, convicted, and removed from office. An apology nowhere near corrects the damage done.

"Rachel Irwin, who works for Building Back Together, which promotes President Joe Biden’s policy agenda, called Friday’s abortion news Collins’ “legacy.” Collins, a Republican, has been a supporter of a woman’s right to an abortion. She has also crossed the aisle on key issues — including splitting with Republicans on former President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several Muslim countries, the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and on whether to convict Trump after his impeachment following the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021."

Where and when did she lose herself?

She clearly and stupidly believed the lies:

"The senator said in a statement Friday that she had received assurances from Kavanaugh and Gorsuch that Roe v. Wade was an established legal precedent."

The following is way too little, much too late:

“Throwing out a precedent overnight that the country has relied upon for half a century is not conservative,” she said. “It is a sudden and radical jolt to the country that will lead to political chaos, anger, and a further loss of confidence in our government.”

How could you so stupidly believe the lies of both nazi jurists?

"Collins’ statement came moments before Biden called the ruling “a tragic error.” She did not respond to a request for an interview Friday from The Associated Press."

Achingly, gutless.

"The senator in her statement took aim at Gorsuch and Kavanaugh for their about-face from what they told her privately and said in their confirmation hearings. “This decision is inconsistent with what Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh said in their testimony and their meetings with me, where they both were insistent on the importance of supporting long-standing precedents that the country has relied upon,” she said."

No excuse, Senator. At the very least, you stupidly and naively believed the lies of two nazis. Makes you unfit for office. Need to resign in disgrace.

"The vote to confirm Gorsuch wasn’t as narrow as for Kavanaugh, whose nomination was nearly derailed by accusations of sexual assault that he denied. Senators approved Gorsuch’s nomination with a 54-45 vote."

Outrageous. Traitorous, treacherous, treasonous.

"Collins voted against the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, saying that it was too late in Trump’s presidency and that his successor should’ve made a nomination to fill the vacancy. Despite the vitriol against Collins and coat hangers mailed to her office, she easily won a fifth term in 2020."

The electorate is indeed hopelessly stupid. Too bad the rest of us have to suffer for it.

"She said she supports a bipartisan bill to codify the right to an abortion. “Our goal with this legislation is to do what the court should have done — provide the consistency in our abortion laws that Americans have relied upon for 50 years,” she said."

Way too little, much too late.

NBC News reports:

"The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will have lasting repercussions for women’s rights across the world, medical associations and rights providers warned, as abortion opponents appeared emboldened by the ruling. Criminalizing abortions would not prevent them, but make them more deadly, a spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday. “A staggering 45% of all abortions around the world are unsafe, making this a leading cause of maternal death,” a statement by the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency read. The World Health Organization also tweeted Friday that access to safe abortion care was “essential” and removing it would “put more women and girls at risk of illegal abortions and the consequent safety issues that would bring.”

Will certainly happen right here in the United States. An egregious step backward in what is now a fascist police-state. Since Roe has since been obliterated by a 6-3 Republican nazi-owned Supreme Court, we now live in a fascist police-state, not just a de facto one. ... Hear the rumble?Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted that he was “concerned and disappointed” by the ruling. He said it reduced both “women’s rights and access to health care.”

Indeed. It has.

"The move was also described as a “catastrophic blow to the lives of millions of women, girls and pregnant people,” in a statement signed by more than 100 global health organizations, including the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, the World Association of Trainees in Obstetrics & Gynecology and the British Medical Association. “As organizations dedicated to providing and supporting health care, we know that restrictive laws do not reduce the need for abortion care,” the statement said. “Rather, such laws increase inequities in access; nurture an environment of fear, stigmatization and criminalization; and put women, girls and pregnant people at risk.”

Remain far better informed than the nazi element in the Republican Party and the six Republican nazis on the U.S. Supreme Court.

"MSI Reproductive Choices, a nongovernment organization providing contraception and safe abortion services in 37 countries around the world, also said in a statement that “decisions made in the U.S. have an impact far beyond their borders.”

Indeed. Certainly, do.

"The ruling has also garnered national attention in China where a hashtag — U.S. Supreme Court cancels constitutional right to abortion — has been viewed by over 620 million people on the microblogging platform Weibo. “This decision is a regression in the protection of women’s rights and interests, causing an uproar around the world,” China Women’s News, a state-run newspaper, wrote in a statement on the platform."

Imagine that. The Chinese have finally gotten something right. LOL. Can we stand it? LOL.

"Elsewhere, Dr. Zoe Greaves, the chair of the medical ethics committee at the British Medical Association, a professional body for doctors and medical students in the United Kingdom, said she was concerned that the ruling would “remove women’s access to essential medical care, a fundamental human right as stated by the U.N.”

Certainly, not a human right even here in the United States, -- the richest nation in the world.

"In Kenya, abortion rights activist Phonsina Archane said she froze for a while in a state of panic while watching the news about the ruling. “If this is happening in America, what about me here in Africa? It’s a very, very sad day,” she told The Associated Press. She added that she was worried the ruling will embolden abortion opponents across Africa who have charged into reproductive health clinics or threatened attacks. Abortion in sub-Saharan Africa is already more unsafe than in any other region of the world, and the overwhelming majority of women of child-bearing age live in countries where abortion laws are highly or moderately restricted, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based research organization that supports abortion rights."

Outrageously:

"The decision was welcomed in some quarters, however. The Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life challenged the world to reflect on life issues. “The fact that a large country with a long democratic tradition has changed its position on this issue also challenges the whole world,” it said in a statement."

What a crock of shit. Time to figuratively remove your head from your ass. Your ignorance remains hopelessly appalling. Truly believe you can dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus? Not your uterus, her uterus. That Aryan arrogant?

5-20-22

In follow-up to last week's edition, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas remains hopelessly clueless. The Associated Press reports:

"Justice Clarence Thomas says the Supreme Court has been changed by the shocking leak of a draft opinion earlier this month. The opinion suggests the court is poised to overturn the right to an abortion recognized nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade."

... If only that were true, Mr. Justice. LOL. That is, if public pressure from release of the document had indeed produced desperately needed positive change in the nazi element on the Court. It did not. You Republican fascist bastards on the Court still intend to eviscerate the right of a woman to do with HER uterus as she damn well pleases, don't you? Nazism still reigns supreme on the Court, doesn't it, sir? Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The conservative Thomas, who joined the court in 1991 and has long called for Roe v. Wade to be overturned, described the leak as an unthinkable breach of trust."

The true breach of trust, sir, is your determination to eviscerate the right of a woman to do with HER uterus as she damn well pleases. Called raw nazism, Mr. Justice. Following in the footsteps of your mentors Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in whose countries abortion was indeed illegal?

“When you lose that trust, especially in the institution that I’m in, it changes the institution fundamentally. You begin to look over your shoulder. It’s like kind of an infidelity that you can explain it, but you can’t undo it,” he said while speaking at a conference Friday evening in Dallas."

What a crock of shit, sir. Where's the transparency so desperately needed in a democratic republic? Then again, wouldn't want to forget this is no longer a democratic republic, but a goddamned de facto fascist police-state thanks to the nazi element in the Republican Party and you GOP fascists on the Court.

"The court has said the draft does not represent the final position of any of the court’s members, and Chief Justice John Roberts has ordered an investigation into the leak."

No more than "symbolism over substance" to shamelessly quote the late Rush Limbaugh nazi.

"Thomas, a nominee of President George H.W. Bush, said it was beyond “anyone’s imagination” before the May 2 leak of the opinion to Politico that even a line of a draft opinion would be released in advance, much less an entire draft that runs nearly 100 pages. Politico has also reported that in addition to Thomas, conservative justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett had voted with the draft opinion’s author, Samuel Alito, to overrule Roe v. Wade and a 1992 decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, that affirmed Roe’s finding of a constitutional right to abortion."

These fascist bastards are determined 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.

"Thomas said that previously, “if someone said that one line of one opinion” would be leaked, the response would have been: “Oh, that’s impossible. No one would ever do that.” “Now that trust or that belief is gone forever,” Thomas said at the Old Parkland Conference, which describes itself as a conference “to discuss alternative proven approaches to tackling the challenges facing Black Americans today.” Thomas also said at one point: “I do think that what happened at the court is tremendously bad...I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them.”

Jesus Christ. Wake up. Your treasonous, treacherous, traitorous thinking and that of your fellow Republican fascists on the Court remains a direct and exigent threat to a democratic republic, sir.

"Thomas also touched in passing on the protests by liberals at conservative justices’ homes in Maryland and Virginia that followed the draft opinion’s release. Thomas argued that conservatives have never acted that way."

Think you and your fellow nazis are somehow better than the rest of us? What a crock of shit. Conveniently forget? You fascist Republican bastards in government all levels all branches indeed repeatedly send your jackbooted bastards in blue against peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment right to protest.

“You would never visit Supreme Court justices’ houses when things didn’t go our way. We didn’t throw temper tantrums. I think it is ... incumbent on us to always act appropriately and not to repay tit for tat,” he said."

Don't like peaceful protest at your residence, sir? Tough shit. Who do you fascist bastards think you are? You're no better than the rest of us, sir. When you deliberately eviscerate civil and constitutional rights and liberties you deserve and can certainly expect peaceful protest.

"Protests at the Supreme Court and around the nation were planned for Saturday."

As well they should be. All civil and constitutional rights and liberties are in jeopardy thanks to the nazi element in the Republican Party. Democrats remain hopelessly incapable of effectively combating this neo-fascist threat to liberty.

Sadly, the following speaks volumes and to be expected from the clueless nazi element in the GOP:

"Neither Thomas nor any of the attendees at the Dallas session made mention of the Jan. 6 insurrection or the actions of Thomas’ wife, Virginia, in fighting to have the results of the 2020 presidential election overturned."

Surprised?

"Clarence Thomas was speaking before an audience as part of a conversation with John Yoo, who is now a Berkeley Law professor but worked for Thomas for a year in the early 1990s as a law clerk. Each justice generally has four law clerks every year and the current group of law clerks has been a focus of speculation as a possible source of the draft opinion’s leak. They are one of a few groups along with the justices and some administrative staff that has access to draft opinions."

Whoever released this draft indeed provided a desperately needed public service as fascism exponentially grows on the U.S. Supreme Court. The lack of transparency heretofore is appalling. Speaks of the insulation these justices expect from the public they deliberately deprive of civil and constitutional rights and liberties. No greater threat to liberty than out of control government. The Founders understood this. Precisely, why they wrote the Constitution including the Bill of Rights. The nazi element on the Court and in the Republican Party seems to have conveniently forgotten this.

"Thomas also answered a few questions from the audience, including one from a man who asked about the friendships between liberal and conservative justices on the court, such as a well-known friendship between the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. “How can we foster that same type of relationship within Congress and within the general population?” the man asked. “Well, I’m just worried about keeping it at the court now,” Thomas responded. He went on to speak in glowing terms about former colleagues. “This is not the court of that era,” he said."

Clueless.

The following is appalling and indicative of the growing nazism within our formerly great country:

"Despite his comments, Thomas seemed in good spirits — laughing heartily at times. Yoo, who is known for writing the so-called “torture memos” that the George W. Bush administration used to justify using “enhanced interrogation” techniques after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, said at one point that he had taken pictures of notes Thomas had taken during the conference. “You’re going to leak them?” Thomas asked, laughing. Yoo responded: “Well, I know where to go...Politico will publish anything I give them now.”

Readers are reminded "enhanced interrogation" is a euphemism for TORTURE.

5-20-22

Standing tall. The Associated Press reports:

"Abortion rights supporters demonstrating at hundreds of marches and rallies Saturday expressed their outrage that the Supreme Court appears prepared to scrap the constitutional right to abortion that has endured for nearly a half-century and their fear about what that could mean for women’s reproductive choices. Incensed after a leaked draft opinion suggested the court’s conservative majority would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, activists spoke of the need to mobilize quickly because Republican-led states are poised to enact tighter restrictions. In the nation’s capital, thousands gathered in drizzly weather at the Washington Monument to listen to fiery speeches before marching to the Supreme Court, which was surrounded by two layers of security fences. The mood was one of anger and defiance, three days after the Senate failed to muster enough votes to codify Roe v. Wade. “I can’t believe that at my age, I’m still having to protest over this,” said Samantha Rivers, a 64-year-old federal government employee who is preparing for a state-by-state battle over abortion rights."

Thanks to the nazi element in the Republican Party. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Caitlin Loehr, 34, of Washington, wore a black T-shirt with an image of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s “dissent” collar on it and a necklace that spelled out “vote.” “I think that women should have the right to choose what to do with their bodies and their lives. And I don’t think banning abortion will stop abortion. It just makes it unsafe and can cost a woman her life,” Loehr said.

"From Pittsburgh to Los Angeles, and Nashville, Tennessee, to Lubbock, Texas, tens of thousands participated in events, where chants of “Bans off our bodies!” and “My body, my choice!” rang out. The gatherings were largely peaceful, but in some cities there were tense confrontations between people on opposing sides of the issue. Polls show that most Americans want to preserve access to abortion — at least in the earlier stages of pregnancy — but the Supreme Court appeared to be poised to let the states have the final say. If that happens, roughly half of states, mostly in the South and Midwest, are expected to quickly ban abortion."

... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and many, many other issues.

"The battle was personal for some who came out Saturday. In Seattle, some protesters carried photographic images of conservative justices’ heads on sticks. Teisha Kimmons, who traveled 80 miles to attend the Chicago rally, said she fears for women in states that are ready to ban abortion. She said she might not be alive today if she had not had a legal abortion when she was 15. “I was already starting to self harm and I would have rather died than have a baby,” said Kimmons, a massage therapist from Rockford, Illinois. At that rally, speaker after speaker said that if abortion is banned that the rights of immigrants, minorities and others will also be “gutted,” as Amy Eshleman, wife of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot put it. “This has never been just about abortion. It’s about control,” Eshleman told the crowd of thousands. “My marriage is on the menu and we cannot and will not let that happen.” In New York, thousands of people gathered in Brooklyn’s courthouse plaza before a march across the Brooklyn Bridge to lower Manhattan for another rally. “We’re here for the women who can’t be here, and for the girls who are too young to know what is ahead for them,” Angela Hamlet, 60, of Manhattan, said to the backdrop of booming music. Robin Seidon, who traveled from Montclair, New Jersey, for the rally, said the nation was at a place abortion rights supporters have long feared. “They’ve been nibbling at the edges, and it was always a matter of time before they thought they had enough power on the Supreme Court, which they have now,” said Seidon, 65."

Thanks to the Trump nazi and the three fellow GOP fascists, national socialists he callously nominated to the Supreme Court and confirmed by a Republican nazi-owned Senate. Democrats? Worthless. Egregiously, ineffective.

"At many of the rallies, speakers put the issue in stark terms, saying people will die if abortions are outlawed. In Los Angeles, high-profile lawyer Gloria Allred recounted how she could not get a legal abortion after being raped at gunpoint in the 1960s. She said she ended up having life-threatening bleeding after a “back alley” abortion. “I want you to vote as though your lives depend on it, because they do,” she told the crowd."

Indeed, they do. The nazi element in the Republican Party couldn't care less. Worse? Democrats remain achingly incapable of effectively challenging and combating these fascist, national socialist, nazi bastards.

NBC News reports:

"In his leaked draft Supreme Court opinion, Justice Samuel Alito argues that overturning Roe v. Wade would allow “women on both sides of the abortion issue to seek to affect the legislative process.” If women in a post-Roe era don’t like state laws that restrict abortion access, or laws that preserve the right to have an abortion, Alito envisions a world in which they can step up and change them. Women can vote, he pointed out, and often do so in higher numbers than men. They can lobby and run for office. But advocates for voting access and civil rights say that Alito’s depiction does not account for the parts of the country, particularly in the South, where laws make it harder for the poor and voters of color to cast their ballots, and where racially polarized voting can make it more difficult for abortion rights candidates to gain ground."

The Alito nazi can't, won't be confused by the truth:

"Southern states — including Mississippi, Georgia and Texas — that are poised to significantly limit or outlaw abortion with few exceptions are also some of the toughest places to participate in elections, or have recently passed voting restrictions, according to researchers, civil rights advocates and a review of federal lawsuits. “Justice Alito has a ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ version of how democracy is supposed to work,” said Michael Li, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice’s Democracy Program at New York University, which supports voting rights. “But when you go to the states that’s not actually how democracy works for a whole host of reasons, whether it’s gerrymandering or laws that make it harder to vote.” The idea that state legislators are voted out if they do something their constituents don’t like oversimplifies the ways political mechanisms, like gerrymandering, can shield elected officials from blowback, Li said. Even if 50 percent of a state’s voters believe abortion should be legal, that isn’t always reflected in the legislature, where elected officials have drawn their own districts in ways that might skew representation away from the majority of voters. Abortion rights supporters are organizing to fight for access to reproductive health care in the upcoming midterms, though some say that the proliferation of voter restriction laws — both past and recent — means they also need to fight to remove hurdles to voting. “It’s really important to recognize that the same people that are disproportionately affected by legislation that bans abortion in various ways, or the outright overturning of Roe, they’re the very same people who are disproportionately, or actually intentionally, targeted by voter suppression laws,” said Nita Chaudhary, chief of program for MoveOn, a progressive advocacy group. “It is women of color, women with less resources, who stand to lose the most and are most impacted. It has been a decades-long strategy on the part of the right to disempower and disenfranchise these very populations. This is what they’re trying to do.”

“Justice Alito is assuming that we have a political system that is responsive to public sentiment,” Li said. “And the reality is that in a lot of ways, the system is designed not to be responsive to public sentiment.”

5-20-22

Uncommon Valor. Standing tall. The following is an opinion article written by cultural critic Rachel Simon. NBC News reports:

"When the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s impending decision on Roe v. Wade came out last week, one of my first thoughts was: I’ve got to get to the clinic. Since early last fall, I’ve volunteered as an escort at my local abortion clinic in North Carolina, helping patients and their companions make it through the front doors without getting stopped and harassed by the anti-abortion protesters that congregate daily outside. It’s never been the easiest work; despite our best efforts, the “antis,” as we call them, will do anything to get patients to change their minds. They shout hateful words in their faces and even stop cars before they make it into the driveway. But I suspected that the Roe v. Wade draft decision would add terrifying fuel to the protesters’ fires, inspiring them to increase their numbers, double down on their intimidation and become generally more brazen in their tactics. And unfortunately, I was right. They shout hateful words in their faces and even stop cars before they make it into the driveway. On Tuesday, May 3 — the morning after the Supreme Court leak — the escorts on duty told our group chat that in addition to there being many more protesters present than normal (several dozen versus six or seven), one “anti” broke North Carolina law to trespass onto clinic property — twice. The trespasser’s apparent goal was to speak to patients already safely inside. (She apparently insisted that she only wanted to give them treats and gift cards. Unlikely.) Police were called, and the woman was given a citation; but it marked an ominous start to the week ahead. Thursday and Friday (the clinic isn’t open on Wednesdays) also saw larger numbers of protesters than usual, including a distressing amount of young children accompanying their parents and echoing their often factually incorrect and hateful speech. In addition to the routine condemnations that we escorts are “supporters of murder” and “participants in Black genocide” (due to the false yet widely shared belief among anti-abortion advocates that Black women abort pregnancies far more frequently than white women), the protesters accused us of “salivating over dead babies” and bemoaned that we weren’t aborted ourselves. They were cruel and insistent. And, as always but with notably less subtlety than usual, some of them recorded us on video and wrote down patients’ license plate numbers, an unsettling but unfortunately legal act."

Raw nazism. In 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.

"I didn’t volunteer on Saturday — the start of Mother’s Day weekend — but those who did reported seeing over 160 protesters, possibly a record for the clinic. As noted by several escorts over text, a few of these “antis” came so close to both escorts and patients, shouting at them from merely a foot away, that police were nearly called again. One protester, furious that an escort was standing protectively between her and a patient, almost chest-bumped her in frustration. Dozens of other protesters spread out around all edges of the street, aiming to stop cars en route to the clinic and reroute them to the “pregnancy crisis center” down the street — one of many places that claim to provide abortion care but in reality have noted anti-abortion agendas."

Expect better of goddamned nazi liars?

"Most days, my fellow escorts and I are successful in preventing patients from being misled and redirected by protesters, holding signs that instruct cars to keep their windows up and urging them to pull safely into the clinic lot. Yet with so many more antagonists than usual on the scene last weekend, it was impossible for the escorts to get to every patient before a protester did. As a result, it appeared that at least one woman skipped her appointment, escorts wrote in our group chat, and several others walked into the clinic tearful and visibly shaken by the protesters’ actions. It will be hard for us escorts to not feel defeated every time we arrive to find five protesters present for every one of us, or every time we spot yet another 6-year-old joining the fray. As the countdown to the Supreme Court’s official decision on Roe v. Wade gets closer, things at the clinic — and at clinics across America — will likely only grow more chaotic. It will be hard for us escorts to not feel defeated every time we arrive to find five protesters present for every one of us, or every time we spot yet another 6-year-old joining the fray with a sign spouting some incorrect and harmful anti-abortion “fact.” And although it is the clinic’s escort policy that we don’t engage with protesters ourselves or respond to their claims — no matter how dangerous and absurd they may be — I assume it will become harder than ever to resist responding as their statements grow increasingly forceful and targeted."

Indeed, a no-win situation. Challenge the nazi bullshit and it could incite violence. Remain silent and you reinforce the lies. The judiciary, the law itself, and law enforcement have intentionally and egregiously failed to enforce all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Precisely, why an unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. ... Hear the rumble? Too deaf to hear?

"At the same time, though, anti-abortion protesters aren’t the only ones coming out in droves following the leak. Since last week, dozens of new volunteers have reached out to our escort lead, ranging from college students galvanized by the decision, to older men and women — some of whom have told us that they once marched for causes like the ERA in the ‘70s — wanting to spend their retirement fighting back. Some who aren’t able to volunteer have expressed their support in other ways, with multiple strangers driving past the clinic stopping to thank us for being there; one man on Thursday even provided Starbucks gift cards to escorts out of appreciation (the escort in turn gave them to the deserving clinic staff.)"

Indeed, Uncommon Valor. Epitome of selflessness. The ultimate in courage, true bravery to place themselves between the insane Nazi Right and women seeking an abortion. Hat's off.

"It’s gratifying to see these changes, and I hope that in the days ahead, more and more people get involved with the battle for abortion access, whether as clinic escorts, community organizers or even just financial donors. The anti-abortion movement may be emboldened by the court’s decision, but so are we — and it’s our responsibility to help the hundreds of thousands of women who need abortions each year get the care and support they deserve inside and outside the clinic walls."

5-13-22

The following is an editorial by cultural critic Noah Berlatsky that strikes at the very heart of the current Supreme Court debacle. NBC News reports:

"America was supposedly founded on the principle that power must be accountable if it is not to be tyrannical. Yet, the recent debate over abortion rights has illustrated once again that too many Americans in positions of power would prefer a populace that acquiesced silently to even monstrous abuses. Too many Americans in positions of power would prefer a populace that acquiesced silently to even monstrous abuses."

No question.

"Over the weekend, protesters organized a vigil outside Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house in Chevy Chase, Maryland, to protest the threatened repeal of Roe v. Wade. The protest at Kavanaugh’s house was peaceful — as you can see from video shot during it. Yet, many pundits and officials reacted as if they were staring down the barrel of an incoming revolution. Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, claimed without evidence that protesters were “threatening violence against Supreme Court justices.” John Harwood, CNN’s White House correspondent, intoned, “It is wrong to even hint at physically threatening a public official,” even though no one (except maybe him) had hinted at any such thing. Jen Psaki, Biden’s soon-to-be-ex-press secretary, sent a tweet declaring that protests “should never include violence, threats, or vandalism”— even though, again, the protesters going viral were nonviolent and seemed to have committed no vandalism."

Exactly, right.

"It’s true that nonviolent protesting outside someone’s house can be uncomfortable and annoying for the target of said protest. And Americans generally feel like they should have a right to privacy in their homes. They don’t want their sleep or their family disturbed. Kavanaugh is a very powerful man, which means in most social settings he is treated with deference and even reverence. He isn’t accustomed to having his privacy disturbed or his personal space impinged upon."

Tough shit. Got precisely what he deserved, however. Here's why:

"Kavanaugh’s presumption of personal inviolability, however, is strikingly at odds with the draft decision he appears to support about abortion. The leaked opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, rejects the right to privacy that has guaranteed abortion rights in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade in 1973. The decision, if implemented, would mean lawmakers could extend state-sanctioned power and violence not just into homes but also into uteruses. Many conservative state laws primed to go into effect if Roe is repealed include no exemptions for rape. That means that women who are sexually assaulted would be forced to carry babies to term. States like Mississippi may even be contemplating bans on some forms of birth control. The decision, if implemented, would mean lawmakers could extend state-sanctioned power and violence not just into homes but also into uteruses."

No question.

"Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that protests around abortion can be extremely aggressive — at least when not aimed at Supreme Court justices. In 2014, the court struck down a Massachusetts law that created 35-foot buffer zones around abortion clinics. The law was intended to reduce harassment of patients and to prevent shootings similar to those that occurred in 1994."

Can't have that, can we? Outrageous, isn't it? Then again, expect better from a nazi court? Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Nor have harassment and violence in anti-abortion protests diminished. Incidents of violence reached record highs in recent years, as people seeking abortions at clinics around the country have been verbally and sometimes even physically attacked by protesters. Yet, despite the 2014 ruling, an 8-foot fence has been erected around the Supreme Court building so justices don’t have to interact with protesters who object to their assault on abortion rights."

The hypocrisy? Stunning.

"The majority of the Supreme Court believes that pregnant, poor, desperate people who try to access reproductive health care should have to brave a gantlet of abuse and potential violence. Supreme Court justices themselves can keep protesters from their workplace and are, according to powerful politicians and members of the commentariat, also supposed to be insulated from nonviolent protesters in their private lives. This despite the fact that, according to this Supreme Court, a right to privacy doesn’t actually exist."

Would indeed be laughable had the de facto fascist threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties not been as dire as it has become.

"The double standard here is all the more repulsive for being so transparent. Powerful people identify with powerful people. This identification is exacerbated when the powerful people in question are men who are exercising power over women. Philosopher Kate Manne refers to this as “himpathy”—“the inappropriate or outsize sympathy extended to male perpetrators of misogyny and sexual violence over their female victims, who are often erased in the process.”

No question. Precisely, why an unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and many, many other issues. ... Hear the rumble?

"Manne has discussed the himpathy extended to Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. Senate Republicans dismissed testimony by Christine Blasey Ford that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when both were in high school. Ford has had to move four times because of death threats. Meanwhile, Kavanaugh is happily ensconced in Chevy Chase, where mild threats to his privacy are decried by supporters as unacceptable violence."

Quite a double standard, isn't it? Highly indicative of the raw nazism currently raging across our formerly great country.

"This disproportion is the essence of tyranny. The unelected deciders are not to be confronted, or even questioned. Those who are decided upon, in contrast, have little inherent right to life, to liberty, to pleasure or to their own bodies. The bland language of deference and the cruel language of obedience are one language. It is the language of authoritarianism. And a country in which the powerful can seize rights and bodies without even nonviolent protest is not a democracy."

It's called nazism. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. Adolf and Benito? Likely, wildly cheering on their fiery perches.

5-13-22

Another pressing reproductive issue ignored by the federal government. NBC News reports:

"More than 200 American foreign service officers are calling on the Biden administration to ensure that they have access to reproductive health services in the countries where they serve. In a letter to State Department leadership in December, which was not released publicly until last week, the diplomats said that they have encountered obstacles to getting reproductive health care in their host countries. "All diplomats, and their family members, deserve the same access to timely, life-saving health care overseas as domestically, and when that is not possible for any reason — including host country law — to be afforded prompt medical evacuation to such care," they wrote in the letter to Carol Z. Perez, the director general of the Foreign Service. The diplomats said they are "routinely denied access" to such care and have experienced difficulty obtaining family planning services, rape kits, emergency contraceptives and abortion pills. "We deserve access to the same rights we have in our own country when we serve overseas and demand that reproductive rights be guaranteed in the Foreign Affairs Manual," they said. The letter said American diplomats based in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America who experienced reproductive health emergencies were instructed to resort to using local options available to them on their own. "Some nearly died, many had long-lasting injuries, while others took on serious financial burdens to access the necessary and lifesaving care," they said. "The experience of these diplomats today mirrors the traumatizing experiences of American women decades ago when these rights were inaccessible in our country too.

"One woman who signed the letter, Andrea Capellan, a foreign service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development, recently published commentary in the latest edition of The Foreign Service Journal calling on the department to take action to address the concerns raised in the letter. The release of the letter comes a week after the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion suggesting that court may have a majority of justices to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling."

5-13-22

Critique of Alito abortion first draft by Caroline Mala Corbin, professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law. NBC News reports:

"According to a leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s opinion on a Mississippi law that bans abortion at 15 weeks, a majority of the Supreme Court seems determined to scrap precedent and fundamentally change the constitutional landscape by ruling that women do not have a right to an abortion. We ought not to be relying on a history filled with racism, sexism and homophobia to determine our fundamental rights today."

No kidding. The nazi element in the Republican Party seems to have conveniently forgotten this. 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. Constitution protects fundamental rights, both those that are specifically listed, like the right to speech in the First Amendment, and those that are not specifically listed, including privacy rights such as the right to marry and the right to autonomy over your own body. Roe v. Wade, decided in 1973, first held that abortion was among those rights, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992 upheld that right. Both have shortcomings, but they are not so flawed that they should be struck down. Yet that is what Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion would do."

Alito and his fellow Republican fascists on the Court are determined to impose their perverse religious views on the rest of us in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause.

"He declares that Roe and Casey were egregiously wrong and overrules them. Such a decision would allow states to outlaw abortion, which most red states are poised to do. His opinion is not final, and the official decision is expected to be handed down only this summer. But it is worth conducting a close reading of his draft, obtained by Politico, and examining the key quotes that reveal some of the many problems with his legal analysis.

"1. The opinion claims that the right to abortion is not deeply rooted in our nation’s history and tradition. “Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in American law for the right to obtain an abortion. Zero. None.” Alito thereby claims that there is no historical basis for a right to abortion. Even assuming Alito did not distort the historical record with some cherry-picked law office history — the pejorative term historians give to the error-prone historical analyses of lawyers and judges in cases — his claim is rubbish. Rights can be stated at different levels of generality. The right to homosexual sodomy is a narrow formulation; the right to choose your intimate partner is a broader formulation. Stated narrowly, as Alito did with the right to abortion, the historical record may not support the right. Stated slightly more broadly, it becomes more obvious that the right is deeply rooted in our nation’s history and tradition. The right to make medical decisions is deeply rooted in our nation’s history and tradition. So, as previous Supreme Courts have noted, is the right to bodily autonomy, as well as decisional autonomy — such as the right to make major life decisions like whom to marry and whether to have children. These are not listed in the Constitution, but as the Ninth Amendment states: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

Alito is not only forcing his perverse religious views on the rest of us, but his nazi ideology as well.

"2. The opinion relies on history and tradition alone to determine our rights. “In deciding whether a right [is protected], the Court has long asked whether the right is ‘deeply rooted in [our] history and tradition’ and whether it is essential to our Nation’s ‘scheme of ordered Liberty,’” Alito writes in the draft. This formulation, together with a narrow articulation of potential rights, all but dooms any right that did not exist since the founding of the nation — a ludicrous standard given how both our culture and our values have progressed over time. We ought not to be relying on a history filled with racism, sexism and homophobia to determine our fundamental rights today. This approach merely perpetuates historical inequalities, like that between men and women."

Certainly, the intention of the nazi element in the Republican Party. Alito, sadly, is reflecting that in his legal opinions.

"3. The opinion reaffirms that pregnancy discrimination is not sex discrimination. “The regulation of a medical procedure that only one sex can undergo does not trigger heightened constitutional scrutiny unless the regulation is a ‘mere pretext designed to effect an invidious discrimination against members of one sex or the other.’” In other words, discrimination based on pregnancy or abortion does not automatically count as sex discrimination. In making this determination, Alito cited 1974’s Geduldig v. Aiello. If you want to talk about decisions that were grievously wrong the day they were decided, Geduldig is a good example. In that decision, nine men concluded that laws that discriminate based on pregnancy did not automatically discriminate against women because some women were not pregnant. Yes, that was the reasoning. It is like saying that an insurance company that refused to cover testicular cancer does not discriminate against men because many will not develop it."

Ludicrous, isn't it? LOL. Alito clearly fails to see he's coming off as an idiot.

"4. The court casually dismisses the equal protection clause. “[W]e briefly address one additional constitutional provision that some … have now offered as yet another home for the abortion right: The Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.” Although it is obvious to millions of women, Alito rejected out of hand the idea that abortion rights have much to do with equality. Yet as Planned Parenthood v. Casey recognized, without the right to control their reproduction, women cannot participate as equals in the social, economic and political life of the country. Alito devotes only a brief paragraph to this crucial aspect of why the right to abortion should be constitutionally guaranteed, and his main argument for dismissing it is that Geduldig and its progeny preclude it — despite the clearly flawed reasoning of Geduldig."

Fascinating, isn't it? Indicative of profound ignorance in the Alito nazi.

"5. The opinion claims there is nothing wrong with letting legislatures determine abortion access. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” In saying this, Alito glosses over the fact that the main point of constitutional protection for the vulnerable is to guarantee certain rights against the tyranny of the majority. Alito also blithely observes that “women are not without electoral or political power,” even pointing out that women are more likely to vote than men. Yet he ignores the more pertinent fact that women are not even close to half of those with the power to make abortion decisions (for example, women make up only 15.5 percent of Mississippi’s Legislature) despite their share of the population."

Expect better of the nazi element in the Republican Party?

"6. The opinion puts many other rights at risk. “What sharply distinguishes the abortion right” is that “abortion destroys … ‘potential life’ and what the law at issue in this case regards as the life of an ‘unborn human being.’” This convoluted language is Alito’s way of trying to reassure us that the court is not going to overrule fundamental rights the Supreme Court has found to be contained in the Constitution but not specifically enumerated, such as the right to contraception access or interracial marriage or same-sex marriage. Except that if they wanted to, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court could easily write an opinion about any of these that concludes that the right is not deeply rooted in our nation’s history and tradition. There is no legal safeguard in this opinion that requires the court’s overhaul of fundamental rights to stop with abortion."

Indeed, a prelude to far worse to come as the nazi element on the Court continues to eviscerate all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

"7. The opinion violates the principle of separation of church and state. “There is ample evidence that the passage of [anti-abortion] laws was … spurred by a sincere belief that abortion kills a human being.” But the view that an embryo or a fetus is a human being and that abortion is murder is ultimately a religious view, and not a universal one at that. Rather, it is the deeply held belief of a vocal and powerful subset of Christians; in Reform Judaism, for instance, an abortion may be religiously mandated. The way to allow everyone to live their own truth is to keep abortion legal. Those whose religion condemns it can eschew it; those whose religion does not can opt to end unwanted pregnancies and control their own fates. Instead, contrary to the First Amendment command for separation of church and state and respect for everyone’s religious practice, this decision would impose one religious morality on everyone."

That has certainly been the intention of the nazi element in the Republican Party for at least the last half century since Roe v. Wade.

"8. The opinion engages in shameless hypocrisy. “In interpreting what is meant by the Fourteenth Amendment’s reference to ‘liberty,’ we must guard against the natural human tendency to confuse what that Amendment protects with our own ardent views about the liberty that Americans should enjoy.” Yet that is exactly what Alito’s opinion does: It overrules decades-old precedent to impose conservative justices’ anti-abortion views because they finally have the votes to do so."

Most convenient and hopelessly convoluted, isn't it? Expect better of the nazi element in the Republican Party?

5-13-22

Amazing how the nazi element in the Republican Party remains so adept at distorting reality. Particularly, on the United States Supreme Court. The Washington Post reports:

"Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday that the judiciary is threatened if people are unwilling to “live with outcomes we don’t agree with” and that recent events at the Supreme Court might be “one symptom of that.”

Wake up, Mr. Justice. Your determined ignorance remains appalling. With all due respect, sir, there is no greater threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than the Republican nazi element currently owning a 6-3 majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Thomas, speaking to judges and lawyers at the 11th Circuit Judicial Conference, did not speak directly about the leak of a draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, a colossal breach of the court’s procedures."

Why not, Mr. Justice? No guts? Addicted to political correctness, sir? Sadly, that breach occurred in direct response to the exigent threat posed by the Alito nazi and his henchmen who share his Aryan arrogant fascist views regarding the pending loss of nearly all civil and constitutional rights and liberties by the six Republican nazis currently on the Court. That is, evisceration of Roe v. Wade is a prelude of far worse to come as the nazi element imposes its perverse ideology and religious views on all.

"But he referred a couple of times to the “unfortunate events” of the past week, and in a question-and-answer session led by a former clerk, he said he worried about declining respect for institutions and the rule of law."

Wake up, Mr. Justice. There can be no respect for an institution that now poses an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties, sir. How can there be respect for the rule of law when we essentially now live in a de facto fascist police-state? Democratic republic in name only.

Sadly, tragically, catastrophically, sir, the following is currently the direct opposite of reality:

“It bodes ill for a free society,” he said. It can’t be that institutions “give you only the outcome you want, or can be bullied” to do the same, he said."

We are no longer free. Have not been for decades. Free to do what we're told, sir. You and your fellow fascists on the Court now dictate to women what they can and cannot do with THEIR uterus. That uterus does not belong to you and your colleagues. You don't seem to understand this. Sadly, catastrophically, Aryan arrogantly, it is the nazi element on the Court clearly, determinedly doing the bullying. That clueless, sir?

"The court’s longest-serving justice said he also worried about a “different attitude of the young” that might not show the same respect for the law as past generations did. “Recent events have shown this major change,” he said."

That's been falsely claimed by the nazi element in our formerly great country the last six decades, Mr. Justice. Remains a crock of shit. An easy excuse for fascists like you, sir, to continue taking a raucous hard dump on all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Then, haughtily, blame those believing in civil and constitutional rights for condemning your clueless embrace of nazism, fascism, national socialism. While lining your pockets off the bottom of the food chain and the middle class.

The following remains a continuing problem in our formerly great country:

"In the friendly questioning, Thomas was not asked about his own most recent controversy. That involves his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, and her ties to the Trump White House and activism regarding challenges to the 2020 election results."

Convenient, isn't it? 'Don't do as I do, do as I say,' right, Mr. Justice? Your hypocrisy reeks, sir.

"Thomas is the member of the court least likely to adhere to stare decisis, the principle of letting past decisions stand. In past cases, including Casey, he called for Roe to be overturned. On Friday, he did not link his views to the current controversy over Roe but repeated that important decisions he thinks were wrongly decided should be corrected. “We use stare decisis as a mantra when we don’t want to think,” Thomas said."

Jesus Christ. What a crock of shit. Your national socialist, fascist, nazi views, and mentality, sir, ironically demonstrate your achingly egregious, hopelessly profound, sadly enduring, achingly pathetic lack of thought. ... A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, Mr. Justice.

5-13-22

U.S. Treasury Secretary stands tall. The Associated Press reports:

"Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s appearance before a Senate committee took an unexpected and tense detour into the abortion debate Tuesday when senators questioned her about the potential impact of an abortion ban on the American economy. “I believe that eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades,” Yellen said in response to a question from Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. He had introduced the topic with a question on how an abortion ban could financially harm women. Yellen’s answer drew a sharp response from Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who asked her, “Did you say that ending the life of a child is good for the labor force participation rate?” “I think people can disagree on the issue of being ‘pro-life’ or ‘pro-abortion’ — but framing it in the labor force participation rate feels callous to me,” he said, adding that the conversation “to me seems harsh.” Yellen responded: “This is not harsh, this is the truth.”

Goddamned right. No question. Clearly, the nazi element in the Republican Party remains determinedly clueless. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"She continued by saying an abortion ban “deprives them of the ability to continue their education,” and those impacted are most commonly young Black women."

Moreover:

"A number of economic analyses indicate that limitations on access to abortion can negatively impact people financially and in other ways. Sarah Miller, a researcher at the University of Michigan, authored a paper with two others on the impact of abortion restrictions. The trio evaluated data on women who sought abortions at 30 clinics in 21 states but were turned away because they were past the clinics’ gestation limit. Two-thirds ended up giving birth. “As we show in our paper,” Miller said, an abortion ban “will have pretty severe economic consequences for women to keep their head above water,” adding that “there could also be physical and mental health consequences.” Committee chair Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, ended by saying that if Roe v. Wade were overturned, every woman’s decision to determine her reproductive future and health would be “handed over to politicians.” “It shouldn’t be handed over to me, it shouldn’t be handed over to Secretary Yellen, and it shouldn’t be handed over to Mitch McConnell,” he said, referring to the Senate Republican leader."

5-6-22

Supreme Court abortion leak. The Associated Press reports:

"The Supreme Court keeps secrets. Year after year, in major case after major case, there’s little beyond what the justices say during oral arguments that suggests how they will rule until they actually do. That is, apparently, until Monday evening when Politico published what it said is a draft of an opinion in a major abortion case that was argued in the fall. While there have, on very rare occasions, been leaks of the outcomes in cases, the publication of an apparent draft running nearly 100 pages was without an evident modern parallel. The draft says that a majority of the court is prepared to overrule the landmark 1973 decision, Roe v. Wade, that legalized abortion nationwide. A decision in the case had been expected before the court begins its summer recess in late June or early July, so it could be more than a month before the court actually issues a final opinion. If the court does what the draft suggests, the ruling would upend a nearly 50-year-old decision; its advance publication would also disturb an almost unbroken tradition of secrecy at the court. Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday confirmed the draft’s authenticity and promised an investigation into the source of the leak. The draft opinion is by Justice Samuel Alito. Politico says the draft was distributed to other members of the court in February. Alito is a member of the court’s six-justice conservative majority."

They're 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.

The Associated Press reports:

"If the U.S. Supreme Court follows through on overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, it would immediately split the country into states with abortion access and those that outlaw it. Some states had already been preparing for the potential that the high court could weaken or overturn Roe, but the bombshell leak of the draft opinion appeared to accelerate that drive Tuesday, setting the country on course for an even more jumbled landscape of abortion rights even before the court actually issues its ruling. Almost immediately after Politico released the draft Monday night, Republicans who had fostered a decades-long push to end abortion rights cheered the prospect while Democrats vowed to fight the possible overturning of a constitutional right that has been in place for nearly a half-century. In California, Democrats who wield control of the state Legislature and the governor’s office issued a joint statement late Monday announcing they would seek to amend the state’s constitution to enshrine abortion rights. “California will not stand idly by as women across America are stripped of their rights and the progress so many have fought for gets erased,” California Democrats said. “We know we can’t trust the Supreme Court to protect reproductive rights, so California will build a firewall around this right in our state constitution. Women will remain protected here.” About half of U.S. states are already expected to ban abortion if Roe falls, according to the abortion-rights think tank Guttmacher Institute. Twenty-two states, largely in the South and Midwest, already have total or near-total bans on the books. Aside from Texas, all are now blocked in court because of Roe. Thirteen states have so-called trigger laws, which would immediately ban abortion if Roe is overturned and would presumably go into effect if the Supreme Court majority votes for the draft in late June or early July.

"While pointing out that abortion is still a legal right now, Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said the draft is “horrifying and unprecedented.” The burden of losing access to abortion will fall most heavily on low-income women and people of color, advocates have said. “Banning abortions does not stop abortions,” tweeted Democratic Kansas Rep. Christina Haswood, one of three Native American lawmakers there. “The poor and us colored folks will suffer. I’m furious.”

"Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said her state would “welcome with open arms” those who need access to abortion. In Hawaii, state Sen. Roz Baker, a Democrat, questioned what more the ruling, if supported, could bring. “Are they going to go back and go after the LGBTQ community next?” she said. “Are they going to go after immigrants? Are they going to go after any of the vulnerable populations?”

The Associated Press reports:

"Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” the draft opinion states. It was signed by Justice Samuel Alito, a member of the court’s 6-3 conservative majority who was appointed by former President George W. Bush. The document was labeled a “1st Draft” of the “Opinion of the Court” in a case challenging Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks, a case known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The court is expected to rule on the case before its term ends in late June or early July. The draft opinion in effect states there is no constitutional right to abortion services and would allow individual states to more heavily regulate or outright ban the procedure. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” it states, referencing the 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey that affirmed Roe’s finding of a constitutional right to abortion services but allowed states to place some constraints on the practice. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

"The draft opinion strongly suggests that when the justices met in private shortly after arguments in the case on Dec. 1, at least five voted to overrule Roe and Casey, and Alito was assigned the task of writing the court’s majority opinion.

"In a joint statement from Congress’ top two Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said, “If the report is accurate, the Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past fifty years — not just on women but on all Americans.” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, also a Democrat, said people seeking abortions could head to New York. “For anyone who needs access to care, our state will welcome you with open arms. Abortion will always be safe & accessible in New York,” Hochul said in a tweet."

The Associated Press reports:

"President Joe Biden on Tuesday blasted a “radical” draft Supreme Court opinion that would throw out the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling that has stood for a half century and warned that other rights including same-sex marriage and birth control are at risk if the court follows through. Across the nation, Americans grappled with what might come next. "Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One, Biden said he hoped the draft wouldn’t be finalized by justices, contending it reflects a “fundamental shift in American jurisprudence” that threatens “other basic rights” like access to birth control and marriage. He added: “If this decision holds, it’s really quite a radical decision.” He said the “basic fairness and the stability of our law demand” that the court not overturn Roe. “If the court does overturn Roe, it will fall on our nation’s elected officials at all levels of government to protect a woman’s right to choose,” Biden said. “And it will fall on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November. At the federal level, we will need more pro-choice Senators and a pro-choice majority in the House to adopt legislation that codifies Roe, which I will work to pass and sign into law.” Though past efforts have failed, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he intended to hold a vote. “This is as urgent and real as it gets,” Schumer said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “Every American is going to see on which side every senator stands.”

The only way such legislation could pass currently would be to get rid of the filibuster.

"Democrats contended that several conservative justices misled senators about their feelings. And Maine Republican Susan Collins, who supports abortion rights but was a pivotal GOP vote for the confirmations of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, said if the draft reflects the final opinion of the court, “it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office.” An AP-NORC poll in December found that Democrats increasingly see protecting abortion rights as a high priority for the government. Other polling shows relatively few Americans want to see Roe overturned. In 2020, AP VoteCast found that 69% of voters in the presidential election said the Supreme Court should leave the Roe v. Wade decision as is; just 29% said the court should overturn the decision. In general, AP-NORC polling finds a majority of the public favors abortion being legal in most or all cases."

Republican nazi Aryan arrogance:

"Alito, in the draft, said the court can’t predict how the public might react and shouldn’t try. “We cannot allow our decisions to be affected by any extraneous influences such as concern about the public’s reaction to our work,” Alito wrote in the draft opinion, according to Politico."

Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

The Washington Post reports:

"A majority of Americans say the Supreme Court should uphold Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion, a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted last week finds. With the Supreme Court poised to overturn the right to abortion, the survey finds that 54 percent of Americans think the 1973 Roe decision should be upheld while 28 percent believe it should be overturned — a roughly 2-to-1 margin.

"The Post-ABC poll finds that 57 percent of Americans oppose their state making abortions legal only in the first 15 weeks of pregnancy, while a similar majority, 58 percent, opposes limiting abortion to the first six weeks of pregnancy.

"Public opinion on abortion’s legality has not shifted significantly since 2019, when 60 percent of Americans said it should be legal in all or most cases. Support today is slightly above the average of 55 percent saying it should be legal in all or most cases over 33 national Post-ABC polls dating back to 1995. Americans overwhelmingly support permitting abortion in certain cases. Eighty-two percent say abortion should be legal when the woman’s physical health is endangered, and 79 percent say abortion should be legal when the pregnancy was caused by rape or incest. Meanwhile, 67 percent say abortion should be legal when there is evidence of serious birth defects."

The Washington Post reports:

"Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said Tuesday that the leaked draft opinion proposing to overturn Roe v. Wade is authentic but not final, and that he is opening an investigation into how it became public. “To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the Court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed,” Roberts said. “The work of the Court will not be affected in any way.”

Sadly, you have no integrity with six Republican nazis in the majority. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"While Roberts’s statement said the draft provided to Politico was genuine, “it does not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case.”

Empty, hollow, meaningless rhetoric.

ABC News(AP) reports:

"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer angrily denounced as an “abomination” the Supreme Court’s leaked draft decision that would overturn the nation’s landmark Roe v. Wade ruling and vowed that if it stands the Senate will vote on legislation to uphold women’s access to abortions."

To date, Senator, Democrats have been all talk, little to no action, against the exigent threat presented by the nazi element in the Republican Party to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Schumer said the conservative justices “lied” to the Senate during confirmation hearings when they assured senators the case that since 1973 has allowed abortion access was settled law. He said with the draft opinion circulating, “the Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past 50 years — not just on women, but on all Americans.” “This is a dark and disturbing morning in America,” Schumer said as he opened the Senate on Tuesday."

Empty, hollow, meaningless rhetoric. Here's why:

"But the Democratic leader stopped short of promising to change Senate filibuster rules to allow Democrats to overcome Republican obstruction and pass legislation that would salvage the landmark abortion law on their own, as some party advocates are demanding."

Only way that legislation could currently pass, -- and the Senator knows it:

"Schumer does not have the votes within the Democrats' razor-thin 50-vote majority to muscle through a rules change in the Senate that would allow Democrats to push past what is typically a 60-vote threshold on big bills."

Due to the Republican filibuster.

Stupidly:

"Instead, the Democrats shifted attention swiftly and intently on the chamber’s two most prominent Republicans who support abortion access — Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Both had refused to help Democrats stop confirmation of the Trump-era judges who tipped the Supreme Court's majority to conservatives and are now putting the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling at risk."

Would be goddamned laughable if the continued existence of a democratic republic were not on the line.

"Murkowski told reporters on Capitol Hill that if the direction of the draft becomes the final opinion, “I will just tell you that it rocks my confidence in the court right now.”

Jesus Christ. Give me a break. You and your henchnen are directly responsible for seating these goddamned nazis on the Supreme Court.

"Murkowski and Collins introduced legislation earlier this year to turn the court's longstanding opinion on Roe v. Wade into law and President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Congress to do just that. Passing an abortion access bill through the Senate remains a political longshot, especially under the rapid timeline that would be needed before the Supreme Court issues its final decisions in June. Such legislation would most likely require the 60-vote threshold and there are not enough Republicans publicly willing to join Murkowski, Collins and the Democrats to preserve Americans' access to abortion services. Collins in a morning statement pointed blame back to the justices themselves, personally singling out two of the three Trump-era judges, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, she had supported for confirmation. The Maine Republican said if the leaked draft opinion on abortion becomes the ruling of the court, “it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office.”

What did you expect, Senator? The nazi element in the Republican Party has no credibility, no honor, no integrity. What goddamned nazi does, Senator?

"Even though Collins told reporters Tuesday her bill with Murkowski to put Roe v. Wade into law could have broader support, so far, there are not the number of Republicans needed to boost it to passage."

Surprised? Give me a break.

"As stark warnings of an end to Roe v. Wade become the potential new normal in the U.S., the political fallout in Congress is certain to be far-reaching and complicated, a gripping new phase in the partisan fights over abortion access, religious liberties and the fundamental aspects of women's reproductive health. The Republican senators in particular, who helped turn the court into a solid 6-3 conservative majority, face deep scrutiny over their public beliefs at the time and the reality now confronting the country."

As well they should. Deservedly, so.

"Collins helped confirm both of those nominees, though she did not vote for Justice Amy Coney Barrett because the nomination came so close to the 2020 election, when the presidency was being decided and she also faced a stiff reelection race. Murkowski, who is up for reelection this year, did not vote for Kavanaugh after his explosive confirmation hearings over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman acquaintance during high school. She did give her support to Gorsuch and Barrett."

Sad, isn't it? To say nothing of the nazi element in the Republican Party which continues to obfuscate:

"But Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., countered McConnell and the other Republicans who want to go after the leak. “What should be investigated and prosecuted is the fact that people who were nominated to the Supreme Court stood up and said they believed in the rule of law and precedent, and then at first opportunity, changed direction by 180 degrees and are going for a full repeal of Roe,” said Warren, a former Harvard law professor. Schumer said Republican senators will have to answer to voters in this fall’s election — signaling the Democrats prefer to fight the issue on the campaign trail than in Congress."

Goddamned gutless. Precisely, why Democrats are not worth a shit.

"Schumer said “the blame for this decision falls squarely on Republican senators” who voted to confirm justices that solidified the court’s conservative majority."

Democrats, as well, for not effectively confronting the nazi element in the Republican Party.

NBC News reports:

"Research suggests the bans and restrictions would have manifold effects on maternal health. For one, if more pregnant people can't get the abortions they seek, they'd shoulder the risk of the U.S.'s relatively high — and rising — rate of death from pregnancy-related causes, which is particularly elevated among people of color. "There are going to be women that will die from pregnancy because of this decision, period," said Dr. Amy Addante, an OBGYN in Illinois and a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health. In addition, pregnant people would face the risk of prosecution for seeking to end pregnancies in states where abortion is banned, and research has shown that unwanted pregnancies have many harmful long-term consequences for mothers, including a higher chance of financial hardship and a severe toll on mental health."

Clearly, matters not to the nazi element in the Republican Party. 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. has the highest maternal mortality rate of any developed country. In total, about 700 women die every year of pregnancy-related complications in the U.S., and about 3 in 5 of those deaths are preventable, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "One of the things that I worry about the most is that we are going to see an increase in maternal deaths in this country" if Roe is overturned, said Lauren Ralph, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco. The U.S. maternal mortality rate in 2020 was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births — the highest it had been since before Roe was overturned, according to the Commonwealth Fund, which promotes better health care for underserved communities. The rate was far higher among Black people: 55.3 deaths, which is nearly three times the rate for white people. A rise in maternal deaths, therefore, would likely "be concentrated among people who are living below the federal poverty line, people of color," Ralph said."

No surprise there. Sadly, been the American way for decades, -- if not far longer.

"The U.S. maternal mortality rate more than doubled from 1987 to 2017, CDC data show. By contrast, maternal mortality in high-income countries decreased slightly every year on average over roughly the same period, according to a 2016 study. Some research suggests that women who are denied abortions face an especially high risk of pregnancy-related health issues, due in part to an increased likelihood of delaying prenatal care. A study published last year found that although most U.S. states had similar rates of maternal mortality in 1995, states that restricted abortion access had significantly higher rates by 2017 than those with more protective policies."

Sad, isn't it? Then again, can't confuse the nazi element in the Republican Party with the truth.

"Unintended pregnancies are at higher risk for medical complications, which can extend beyond once the baby is delivered," Addante said. That was also the finding of a five-year research project at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, called The Turnaway Study, which looked at 1,000 women who sought abortions across 30 facilities in the U.S. Of that group, women who were denied abortions had more serious health problems, such as high blood pressure or seizures, than those who had abortions. Two women who were denied abortions died from conditions related to their pregnancies. "We can definitely say that if these people had been able to get the care that they wanted, those maternal deaths would have been avoided," said Ralph, one of the study's researchers."

The nazi element in the Republican Party, apparently, couldn't care less.

"Experts said it is unlikely that overturning Roe would lead to more unsafe abortions in the U.S., although there is a chance. "In terms of unsafe abortions, 'back-alley' or unskilled abortion providers and women dying from unsafe abortions, I truly hope that is not what we’re seeing. It's a risk, but I hope not," said Susan Wood, the director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health at George Washington University. A major difference for women seeking abortions now, compared to the pre-Roe era, are the abortion pills the Food and Drug Administration approved in 2000. The regimen consists of mifepristone, which blocks progesterone, and misoprostol, which induces contractions. The combination can be taken up to 10 weeks after a patient’s last period; FDA regulations require the pills to be dispensed only by registered providers."

That's a problem. Limits access. Especially, to women who don't have the money. Worse? Truly believe the nazi element in the Republican Party won't try to outlaw this medication? Think desperate women won't dangerously resort to attempting to self-induce an abortion?

"By 2020, the drug combination was used in half of all U.S. abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights advocacy group. In December, the FDA decided to permanently allow patients to receive the pills by mail after telehealth appointments. But six states — Arizona, Indiana, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas — have made that illegal."

Think more won't follow suit?

"Medication abortion is very safe: A 2018 National Academies of Sciences report found in 2018 that complications arise in just a fraction of a percent of patients. A more recent study, published in February, found that about 1 percent of people who had self-managed medication abortions experienced adverse effects, none of whom died. Still, that's not the right option for everyone seeking an abortion, Addante said. "It doesn’t replace the need for procedural abortion to be available, because there’s going to be some people that it’s just the safer option or for personal reasons it’s the better fit," she said. If Roe is overturned, some pregnant people wouldn't have access to either option. Experts said they worry about the legal repercussions."

For damned good reason:

"Folks are more likely to be criminalized, jailed, to be prosecuted and in prison for managing their own abortion than they are to experience any medical complications," said Dr. Jamila Perritt, the president and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health. Communities of color, immigrants and LGBTQ people are among the biggest targets for criminalization, she added. "My biggest concern right now is seeing an already very marginalized population pushed even further to the brink in terms of their ability to access reproductive health care," Addante said."

Clearly, matters not to the nazi element in the Republican Party responsible for all this.

"In a 2020 analysis of Turnaway Study data, researchers found that just over half of the participants said deciding to get an abortion was difficult. Those women were more likely to report feeling sadness, guilt and anger shortly afterward. However, by five years out, 84 percent reported either positive or neutral feelings. Experts characterized the negative effects of denying someone a wanted abortion as long-lasting and intergenerational. A 2017 U.K. study looked specifically at the mental health impacts of unplanned motherhood on women with partners and found that nine months after birth, they were nearly twice as likely to experience psychological distress as women with planned pregnancies. "We are going to see potentially some increased adverse mental health outcomes if people are being forced to continue pregnancies and they either don’t want to or it's unsafe for them to do so," Addante said. In the Turnaway Study, women who were denied abortions were found to be more likely to stay in contact with violent partners and to have trouble affording basic living expenses than women who'd had abortions. Their children were more likely to live below the federal poverty line than children born to women who'd previously had abortions. "The majority of people who are seeking abortions are already parents, so they know what it means to have children," Perritt said. "They're making decisions about accessing abortion care in a way that will allow them to continue to care for the children that they already have."

Apparently, the nazi element in the Republican Party and their supporters are not aware abortion was indeed illegal in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. ... Or, couldn't care less they're indeed following in the footsteps of their goddamned fascist, national socialist, nazi mentors. 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:

"Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, who has supported bills to limit abortion and is up for reelection in Wisconsin, said in a statement that neither personal beliefs nor “pressure from the radical left to intimidate sitting Supreme Court justices, should be the basis on which this profound moral issue should be decided for all of society.”

Sadly, this Senator is insane. Has lost his mind. First, the six Republican nazis on the Supreme Court are forcing their perverse religious beliefs on the rest of us. Second, there is no radical left. Has not been for decades. Worse? Far worse and to the point? Democrats are clearly incapable of effectively challenging the nazi element in the Republican Party. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. Third, the Senator has clearly lied. The Supreme Court is not about to decide this 'moral issue' for society. Far from it. It is supposedly returning the issue to the states. At least half of the states remain abortion friendly.

4-15-22

Another nazi governor signs another nazi law into existence. Nazi justice in 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. The Associated Press reports:

"Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law on Tuesday that makes it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, as part of an aggressive push in Republican-led states across the country to scale back abortion rights."

Who the hell are these nazi bastards to dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus?

"The bill, which takes effect 90 days after the Legislature adjourns next month, makes an exception only for an abortion performed to save the life of the mother."

So these Republican fascist bastards truly believe a woman who is raped or the victim of incest should be forced to bring the pregnancy to term. What pieces of shit. Readers are reminded abortion was also illegal in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Where the hell are the Democrats? Out to lunch?

"Abortion rights advocates say the bill signed by the GOP governor is certain to face a legal challenge."

Means squat shit as Republican nazis continue to own the Supreme Court, 6-3:

"Its passage comes as the conservative U.S. Supreme Court considers ratcheting back abortion rights that have been in place for nearly 50 years. “We want to outlaw abortion in the state of Oklahoma,” Stitt said during a signing ceremony for the bill, flanked by anti-abortion lawmakers, clergy and students. “I promised Oklahomans that I would sign every pro-life bill that hits my desk, and that’s what we’re doing here today.”

Proud of your nazism, Governor?

"Under the bill, anyone convicted of performing an abortion would face up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. It does not authorize criminal charges against a woman for receiving an abortion. Sen. Nathan Dahm, a Broken Arrow Republican now running for Congress who wrote the bill, called it the “strongest pro-life legislation in the country right now, which effectively eliminates abortion in Oklahoma.”

A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, you nazi bastard.

"Abortion rights advocates say the bill is clearly unconstitutional, and similar laws approved recently in Arkansas and Alabama have been blocked by federal courts."

Apparently, not for long as a Republican nazi-owned U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule.

“Oklahoma legislators are trying to ban abortion from all sides and merely seeing which of these dangerous, shameful bills they can get their governor to sign,” Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Texas and Oklahoma and a board member at Physicians for Reproductive Health, said in a statement. Although similar anti-abortion bills approved by the Oklahoma Legislature in recent years have been stopped as unconstitutional, anti-abortion lawmakers have been buoyed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow new Texas abortion restrictions to remain in place. The new Texas law, the most restrictive anti-abortion law to take effect in the U.S. in decades, leaves enforcement up to private citizens, who are entitled to collect what critics call a “bounty” of $10,000 if they bring a successful lawsuit against a provider or anyone who helps a patient obtain an abortion."

Nazi justice in a de facto fascist police-state.

“The U.S. Supreme Court’s failure to stop Texas from nullifying the constitutional right to abortion has emboldened other states to do the same,” Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement. “We’ve sued the state of Oklahoma ten times in the last decade to protect abortion access and we will challenge this law as well to stop this travesty from ever taking effect.” Several states, including Oklahoma, are pursuing legislation similar to the Texas law this year. The Texas law bans abortion after roughly six weeks of pregnancy and makes no exceptions in cases of rape or incest. Abortions in Texas have plummeted by about 50% since the law took effect, while the number of Texans going to clinics out of state and requesting abortion pills online has gone up. One of the Texas-style Oklahoma bills that is one vote away from the governor’s desk would ban abortions from the moment of conception and would take effect immediately upon the governor’s signature."

... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and many, many other issues.

4-15-22

More of the same in 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. ABC News(AP) reports:

"A 26-year-old woman has been charged with murder in Texas after authorities said she caused “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion,” in a state that has the most restrictive abortion laws in the U.S."

Raw nazism. Adolf and Benito? Likely, wildly cheering on their fiery perches.

Get this. It's appalling:

"It’s unclear whether Lizelle Herrera is accused of having an abortion or whether she helped someone else get an abortion. Herrera was arrested Thursday and remained jailed Saturday on a $500,000 bond in the Starr County jail in Rio Grande City, on the U.S.-Mexico border, sheriff's Maj. Carlos Delgado said in a statement."

Raw nazism. Civil and constitutional rights and liberties? Under severe assault by the nazi element in the Republican Party. Democrats? Worthless. Gutless.

“Herrera was arrested and served with an indictment on the charge of Murder after Herrera did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual by self-induced abortion,” Delgado said in the statement. Delgado did not say under which law Herrera has been charged. He said no other information will be released until at least Monday because the case remains under investigation."

Jesus Christ. What goddamned nazi bullshit. Where's the transparency? Jackbooted bastards in law enforcement need more time to get their bullshit straight?

"A 2021 state law that bans abortions in Texas for women who are as early as six weeks pregnant has sharply curtailed the number of abortions in the state. The law leaves enforcement to private citizens who can sue doctors or anyone who helps a woman get an abortion. The woman receiving the abortion can not be sued under the law."

An outrageously unconstitutional law enforced not by government but through a bounty system.

"Another Texas law prohibits doctors and clinics from prescribing abortion-inducing medications after the seventh week of pregnancy and prohibits delivery of the pills by mail."

Government now owns your uterus, ladies. In Nazi Texas.

NBC News reports:

"A Texas district attorney announced in a statement on Sunday that he will file a motion to dismiss the indictment against Lizelle Herrera, the 26-year-old woman who attracted national attention after being arrested on Thursday and charged with murder after authorities said she “caused the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.” “In reviewing applicable Texas law, it is clear that Ms. Herrera cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegation against her,” said District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez, who represents the counties of Starr, Jim Hogg and Duval. Ramirez said in the statement that he informed Herrera’s lawyer on Saturday of his plan to file the motion for dismissal on Monday. Herrera’s lawyer, Calixtro Villarreal, declined to comment on the news. “Prosecutorial discretion rests with the District Attorney’s office, and in the State of Texas a prosecutor’s oath is to do justice,” Ramirez added in his statement. “Following that oath, the only correct outcome to this matter is to immediately dismiss the indictment against Ms. Herrera.”

NPR reports:

"Starr County District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez said Sunday he has filed a motion to dismiss a murder charge against a woman for performing a "self-induced abortion." Ramirez said the case stemmed from a report made to police by a local hospital in January. The Starr County Sheriff's Office arrested 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera on Thursday and held her in custody on $500,000 bond. By Saturday night, Herrera was released from custody after an abortion rights advocacy fund posted bail on her behalf. Ramirez said the Starr County Sheriff's Department "did their duty in investigating the incident brought to their attention by the reporting hospital” but this was not a criminal matter under Texas law. “Ms. Hererra cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegation against her,” Ramriez said. This is a dramatic turnaround from an indictment signed March 30, 2022, stating that Hererra “did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual J.A.H. by a self-induced abortion.” The specifics and strength of the case against Hererra were murky from the start. Steve Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, said that based on the information available, the murder charge didn’t make sense. “The Texas murder statute does apply to the killing of an unborn fetus," he said, "but it specifically exempts cases where the person who terminated the fetus is the pregnant woman.” Vladeck said Herrera’s situation showed what will happen as legal protections around abortion crumble. “I think what this case really is, is an ominous portent of what things are going to look like on the ground in states that have aggressive abortion restrictions,” he added. Jessica Brand, a former prosecutor and founder of the WREN Collective, a criminal justice nonprofit organization, agreed. “We've had a lot of wake up calls in Texas for how far people are willing to go to prosecute women to strip women of their rights,” she said. Melissa Arjona, who co-founded South Texans for Reproductive Justice, said the arrest is a consequence of SB 8, which criminalized abortion as early as six weeks and deputized private citizens to sue anyone who provides an abortion or “aids and abets” a procedure. “I mean, they criminalized pregnancy, basically, and abortion access," she said. "And so we knew something like this was bound to happen eventually.” “The valley is kind of isolated from the rest of the state and we feel the impact pretty severely. So, yeah there’s a lot of desperation from these laws that are getting worse.”

Raw nazism.

"While SB8 explicitly exempts pregnant women who get an abortion from criminal repercussions, it makes it nearly impossible to access abortion services in Texas, so many people are left with little to no legal options to terminate their pregnancy. The controversial law went into effect in September 2021. As legal challenges make their way through the courts, thousands of Texans have gone out of state to get abortions. “Criminalizing pregnant people’s choices or pregnancy outcomes, which the State of Texas has done, takes away people’s autonomy over their own bodies, and leaves them with no safe options when they choose not to become a parent," said Rockie Gonzalez, founder and board chair of Frontera Fund, which organized a protest on Hererra’s behalf outside the Starr County jail on Saturday. “We want people to know that this type of legislation impacts low-income people of color communities the most when state legislators put restrictions on our reproductive rights,” Gonzalez told TPR. Lynn Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, said it was also troubling that this incident began with hospital staff making a report to police. “We should not be living in a country where people who get pregnant are afraid to go for help at a hospital, because somebody there will turn them in or might turn them in, and it will result in arrest,” Paltrow told TPR. “This is a disaster not only for any hope of equality, but also for public health. Because what these kinds of prosecutions do is frighten people away from hospitals when they need them from speaking honestly to their doctors when they need them.”

4-8-22

Indeed, a step in the right direction. NPR(AP) reports:

"Colorado just enacted a law that enshrines the right to have an abortion in the state, the latest left-leaning state that's taken action to protect reproductive rights as the practice faces renewed efforts by conservatives to restrict its access. The so-called Reproductive Health Equity Act affirms that pregnant people in Colorado have the right to continue a pregnancy and give birth or have an abortion, and it blocks public entities from denying or restricting that right. "In the State of Colorado, the serious decision to start or end a pregnancy with medical assistance will remain between a person, their doctor, and their faith," Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement after signing the bill into law on Monday. "This bill simply maintains the status quo regardless of what happens at the federal level and preserves all existing constitutional rights and obligations," he added."

Excellent.

"Colorado joins 15 other states and Washington, D.C., in codifying the right to have an abortion either prior to a fetus's viability or throughout a pregnancy in state law. Blue states have been racing to enact such laws as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case that could upend the constitutional right to an abortion outlined in the Roe v. Wade decision. The current court is more conservative than past courts that have taken up similar challenges. At the same time, conservative legislatures from Florida to Oklahoma to Kentucky have passed bills that further restrict abortion. Officials in Colorado are bracing for the possibility that the state's new protections for abortion will mean that residents in nearby states facing tough restrictions on the practice will come to Colorado for care."

Time for all such states who believe in the right to abortion to expand their facilities in anticipation. Migration will likely increase as well, -- as those who have the means and believe in civil and constitutional rights and liberties flee states dominated by the nazi element in the Republican Party. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

The insanity, however, continues in states dominated by the nazi element in the Republican Party. The Associated Press reports:

"The Oklahoma House gave final legislative approval on Tuesday to a bill that would make performing an abortion a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. With little discussion and no debate, the Republican-controlled House voted 70-14 to send the bill to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who has previously said he’d sign any anti-abortion bill that comes to his desk."

Expect better in a de facto fascist police-state dominated by the nazi element in the Republican Party?

"The bill is one of several anti-abortion measures still alive in Oklahoma’s Legislature this year, part of a trend of GOP-led states passing aggressive anti-abortion legislation as the conservative U.S. Supreme Court is considering ratcheting back abortion rights that have been in place for nearly 50 years. The Oklahoma bill, which passed the Senate last year, makes an exception only for an abortion performed to save the life of the mother, said GOP state Rep. Jim Olsen, of Roland, who sponsored the bill. Under the bill, a person convicted of performing an abortion would face up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. “The penalties are for the doctor, not for the woman,” Olsen said. Similar anti-abortion bills approved by the Oklahoma Legislature and in other conservative states in recent years have been stopped by the courts as unconstitutional, but anti-abortion lawmakers have been buoyed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow new Texas abortion restrictions to remain in place. The new Texas law, the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the U.S. in decades, leaves enforcement up to private citizens, who are entitled to collect what critics call a “bounty” of $10,000 if they bring a successful lawsuit against a provider or anyone who helps a patient obtain an abortion. Several states, including Oklahoma, are pursuing similar legislation this year. The Oklahoma bill’s passage came on the same day as more than 100 people attended a “Bans Off Oklahoma” rally outside the Capitol in support of abortion rights. “These legislators have continued their relentless attacks on our freedoms,” said Emily Wales, interim president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes. “These restrictions are not about improving the safety of the work that we do. They are about shaming and stigmatizing people who need and deserve abortion access.” Wales said Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinic in Oklahoma has seen an 800% increase in the number of women from Texas after that state passed its new anti-abortion law last year. The Texas law bans abortion once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, without exceptions in cases of rape or incest. Also Tuesday, the Oklahoma House adopted a resolution to recognize lives lost due to abortion and urge citizens to fly flags at half-staff on Jan. 22, the day the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in its landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade."

What a crock of shit as the nazi element in the Republican Party continues to obliterate all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Forces its perverse religious and ideological views on all. A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, you nazi bastards.

3-18-22

Nazi court rubber stamps nazi law. 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:

"Texas abortion providers on Friday conceded a final blow to their best hope of stopping the nation’s most restrictive abortion law after a new ruling ended what little path forward the U.S. Supreme Court had left for clinics. The decision by the Texas Supreme Court, which is entirely controlled by Republicans, spelled the coming end to a federal lawsuit that abortion clinics filed even before the restrictions took effect in September, but were then rejected at nearly every turn afterward."

The Texas Supreme Court, just like the U.S. Supreme Court, remains controlled by the partisan nazi element in the Republican Party who serve as 'judges' in both failed courts. ... Hear the rumble? Too deaf to hear?

“There is nothing left, this case is effectively over with respect to our challenge to the abortion ban,” said Marc Hearron, attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, which led the challenge against the Texas law known as Senate Bill 8. Although Texas abortion clinics are not dropping the lawsuit, they now expect it will be dismissed in the coming weeks or months."

This is truly a nazi law. Imposed by the nazi element in the Republican Party desperate to force its perverse ideology and religious views on all. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.

"The Texas law bans abortion after roughly six weeks of pregnancy and makes no exceptions in cases of rape or incest. Abortions in Texas have plummeted by more than 50% since the law took effect."

Texas women have been forced to go out of state to get an abortion. Ladies? Nazis in the Republican Party effectively own your uterus. ... Or, at least, think they do. Time to cut your men off from all sex until this changes. You do have that power. It is your body.

"The decision by the Texas Supreme Court turned on whether medical licensing officials had an enforcement role under the law known as Senate Bill 8, and therefore, could be sued by clinics that are reaching for any possible way to halt the restrictions. But writing for the court, Justice Jeffrey Boyd said those state officials have no enforcement authority, “either directly or indirectly.”

Called nazi justice imposed by a nazi court. Liberty? What's that? Means shit squat to the figurative heirs of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini.

"Texas abortion providers had already acknowledged they were running out of options and that the law would stay in place for the foreseeable future. The U.S. Supreme Court has signaled in a separate case out of Mississippi that it would roll back abortion rights, and possibly overturn its landmark Roe v. Wade decision, in a ruling that is expected later this year. The number of monthly abortions in Texas fell by more than 50% in the two months after the law took effect, according to state health figures. But that data only tells part of the story, and researchers say the number of Texas women who are going online to get abortion pills by mail has risen sharply."

Women who had the money traveled out of state to get an abortion. Those on the bottom of the food chain could not. Remained figuratively f--ked by the nazi element in the Republican Party.

3-18-22

Think Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has any semblance of honor? The Texas Standard reports:

"Amber Briggle says her long fight over gender-affirming care wasn’t a choice but her duty. Her Texas family is under investigation after state Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a legal opinion this year saying gender-affirming treatments for transgender children constitutes child abuse. Later, Gov. Greg Abbott instructed the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate any reported instances of such treatments. The Briggles are now the target of such an investigation. “I’m really not great,” Amber Briggle said. “Actually, my hair is falling out, I can’t sleep. It’s not – we’re not good.” Briggle’s son is transgender. Back in 2016, she told Texas Standard she invited Paxton over to dinner to “put a human face” to the struggle for transgender rights that Paxton was challenging at the time via opposition to public school bathroom guidelines outlined by the Obama administration."

Paxton continues to impose his perverse ideological views as attorney general despite the fact he was indicted on felony charges years ago. Continues to stonewall, has yet to go to trial.

"Today, Briggle tells the Standard that the open investigation by Child Protective Services, or CPS, is causing an immense amount of stress, but she and her husband are trying to shield their kids from the details. “The lead-up to the CPS visit, which actually happened a week ago today, was very stressful and full of anxiety for both of my children,” Briggle said. “But the caseworker came and went and no one got hauled away in handcuffs, and so they feel like — they feel like it’s over.” Last week, CPS called Briggle at her office and said the agency would be at her home in half an hour to begin an investigation. Briggle immediately hired a lawyer, at great expense, she says. The day she had dreaded had finally come, she thought. “Texas legislators have been trying to erase trans kids and harm them and break the hearts of loving parents like me for years. And they’re they’re finally doing it,” Briggle said."

Called nazism. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"Briggle doesn’t know who reported her family, but ever since she began advocating for LGBTQ and trans rights years ago, she says has felt a “target right on my back.”

Expect better in a de facto fascist police-state? Dominated by the nazi element in the Republican Party? Not that Democrats are any better. Have done shit squat to rein in these egregiously fascist assholes.

"She is also disheartened by Paxton’s legal opinion that likely spurred the report against her. Paxton accepted the Briggles’ 2016 invitation for dinner. Amber Briggle says Paxton and his wife brought a home-baked dessert and had a “lovely visit.” “He sat at my table for 2 1/2 hours, you know, eating, like, carefully prepared food, watching us engage with our children and play musical instruments and tell jokes and do magic tricks,” Briggle said. “He knows firsthand that we are not child abusers.”

Like his fuhrer, the Trump nazi, truth means nothing to the fascist element in our formerly great country.

"But Paxton’s opinion, issued in February, showed Briggle that perhaps her attempt to change his mind about trans rights wasn’t as successful as she had thought. “My husband and I, in our — in our naïve way, thought we really got through to them,” she said. One comfort, Briggle says, is knowing that Paxton’s legal opinion is just that – an opinion. Lawmakers failed to pass legislation that would have made it a crime for parents who help their children get gender-affirming care, punishing them with prison time and sending the child to foster care. Indeed, after Texas Standard’s interview with Briggle Wednesday, a Texas appeals court upheld a challenge to another investigation of a family supporting gender-affirming care for a transgender child. But Briggle says her currently ongoing CPS investigation still makes her feel uneasy."

As well it should. There is no greater threat to liberty than the rise of fascism in the United States. No foreign power. Not the criminal element. Nothing presents a greater threat to freedom than the nazi element in the Republican Party.

“I know what the law says. And yet it is terrifying to have a CPS worker come into your home and threaten to take your children away for doing nothing more than loving them unconditionally,” she said."

Rise of the Fourth Reich. Adolf and Benito? Likely, wildly cheering on their fiery perches.

"For parents or others who may not understand gender-affirming care for children, Briggle reiterates that it’s backed by medical groups. The Texas Medical Association, for example, opposes criminalization of parents who help their children get “evidence-based” care. She also says helping her son transition was not a choice. “At the end of the day, I’m just always going to do what I know is best for my son, like any other loving parent out there. So I’m not sure it’s a decision; it’s just my duty as his mom,” Briggle said."

Finally, some temporary semblance of relief. The Associated Press reports:

"A Texas judge on Friday blocked the state from investigating as child abuse gender confirming care for transgender youth. District Judge Amy Clark Meachum issued a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive to compel the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate reports of youth receiving such care. The injunction broadens Meachum’s earlier order blocking the state’s investigation of the parents of one transgender teenager. The American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal sued on behalf of the parents of the 16-year-old girl over the investigation and Abbott’s directive. Meachum scheduled a trial for July 11 on the challenge to Abbott’s directive. Meachum ruled that by issuing the directive without a new law or rule, the governor and officials’ actions “violate separation of powers by impermissibly encroaching into the legislative domain.”

No question. Aryan arrogance of the nazi element in the Republican Party. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The lawsuit marked the first report of parents being investigated following Abbott’s directive and an earlier nonbinding legal opinion by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton labeling certain gender-confirming treatments as “child abuse.” DFPS said it had opened nine investigations following the directive and opinion. “The court’s decisive ruling today brings some needed relief to trans youth in Texas but we cannot stop fighting,” Brian Klosterboer, ACLU of Texas attorney, said in a statement after the ruling."

Raw nazism. ... Hear the rumble?

"The groups also represent a clinical psychologist who has said the governor’s directive forces her to choose between reporting clients to the state or losing her license and other penalties. “(Abbott’s directive) singles out these families for targeted scrutiny, it stigmatizes them, invades their privacy and it interferes with the fundamental right of parents to make the decision of what’s best for their child,” Paul Castillo, senior counsel for Lambda Legal, said toward the end of the daylong hearing before Meachum."

Get this:

"Paxton said he planned to appeal the judge’s ruling. “I’ll win this fight to protect our Texas children,” Paxton tweeted."

What a crock of shit. Your head remains, figuratively, securely lodged up your achingly clueless ass, Mr. Attorney General. So does that of the Governor, sir. What you and your fellow nazi are doing is severe damage to transgender children and their parents. Called raw nazism. Adolf and Benito would have been proud of you bastards. Likely, wildly cheering on their fiery perches. Indicted on felony charges years ago, when will you finally go to trial, Mr. Attorney General? When will you fascist bastards at the very top of the food chain be accorded equal justice to those on the bottom, Mr. Paxton? Certainly, no equal justice in a de facto fascist police-state.

"The governor’s directive and Paxton’s opinion go against the nation’s largest medical groups, including the American Medical Association, which have opposed Republican-backed restrictions on transgender people filed in statehouses nationwide."

Expect better of the nazi element in the Republican Party?

"Arkansas last year became the first state to pass a law prohibiting gender confirming treatments for minors, and Tennessee has approved a similar measure. A judge blocked Arkansas’ law, and the state has appealed that ruling. Meachum’s ruling came the same day that dozens of major companies — including Apple, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Meta and Microsoft — criticized the Texas directive in a full-page ad in the Dallas Morning News. “The recent attempt to criminalize a parent for helping their transgender child access medically necessary, age-appropriate healthcare in the state of Texas goes against the values of our companies,” read the ad, which used the headline “DISCRIMINATION IS BAD FOR BUSINESS.”

No question.

"Meachum issued her ruling after several hours of testimony in the parents’ lawsuit challenging Abbott’s directive. A child protective services supervisor testified Friday that she resigned from the department because of concerns about the directive, and said cases involving gender confirming care were being treated differently than others. Megan Mooney, a clinical psychologist also represented by the groups in the lawsuit, said the governor’s directive has caused “outright panic” among mental health professionals and families of transgender youth. “Parents are terrified that (child protective services) is going to come and question their children, or take them away,” Mooney testified. “Mental health professionals are scared that we’re either violating our standards and professional codes of conduct, or in violation of the law.” The family that challenged Texas’ directive was not identified by name in the lawsuit. The suit said the mother works for DFPS on the review of reports of abuse and neglect. The day of Abbott’s order, she asked her supervisor how it would affect the agency’s policy, according to the lawsuit. The mother was placed on leave because she has a transgender daughter and the following day was informed her family would be investigated in accordance with the governor’s directive, the suit said. The teen has received puberty-delaying medication and hormone therapy. Advocates have said the directive has had a chilling effect on providers of gender confirming care in the state. Texas Children’s Hospital announced last week it will stop providing hormone therapies for transgender youth because of the governor’s order."

The governor in a supposedly democratic republic does not have the authority or power to make law. ... Only to enforce existing law.

"Paxton earlier this week filed a challenge in federal court to guidelines President Joe Biden’s administration issued in response to Texas’ investigations. The guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that despite Abbott’s order, health care providers are not required to disclose private patient information regarding gender-confirming care."

Unbridled Aryan arrogance of the nazi element in the Republican Party. A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, Mr. Attorney General. Governor.

Gets worse. Get this. NPR(AP) reports:

"Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. have unleashed a wave of state legislation attempting to restrict access to abortions and to gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth by allowing lawsuits to be filed against anyone who helps them. But now there's a new twist in what appears to be a broader Republican strategy: Representatives in multiple states are pushing bills that would attempt to limit what residents can and can't do even beyond state lines. Recently in Missouri, a state representative introduced a measure that would let people sue anyone they suspect of helping a resident get an abortion in another state. More than 1,500 miles away, an Idaho bill seeking to ban gender-affirming care for youth would have made it a felony to help a child access care outside the state. While Idaho Senate leaders last week said they will not be taking up the bill — essentially killing it, for now — it was easily passed by the Republican-led Idaho House a day earlier. Legal experts say these so-called bounty hunter bills are most certainly unconstitutional and have little chance of withstanding legal challenges."

With a 6-3 Republican nazi U.S. Supreme Court?

"States are free to have their own rules, and those rules differ from state to state. But the notion that a state can tell its citizens what they could do, not just within but without their borders, really is anathema to how we think of our constitutional system," Stephen Vladeck, a constitutional scholar and law professor at the University of Texas School of Law, tells NPR. At their core, Vladeck says, such bills are legal experiments intended to slowly erode constitutional protections. "What's ominous and scary about them is that if they work even a little, even the fact that they're part of public discourse, they've done a ton of damage to our constitutional system." Even if they're not enforced or enforceable, he says these laws might discourage people from engaging in the underlying conduct — in this case, keep them from traveling out of state for abortions or to receive gender-confirming care. "And we might never know that those folks were chilled. We might never know that the mere existence of these laws has that effect."

The worst is yet to come as our formerly great country continues to nazify.

3-11-22

Think the U.S. Supreme Court truly believes a woman's uterus belongs to her? Not the government? NBC News reports:

"The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Kentucky’s Republican attorney general can pick up the legal fight over a restrictive abortion law that the state’s Democratic governor no longer wishes to defend. Already this term, the court has allowed a Texas abortion law, the strictest in the nation, to remain in force. And it has yet to rule on a case from Mississippi with much higher stakes, which presents a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. Thursday’s case also involved the issue of abortion, but the ruling was about a different question: Who can represent a state in court after there’s been a shift in the political landscape? The law at issue, House Bill 454, was passed by Kentucky’s legislature in 2018. It would ban the use of a surgical abortion procedure commonly used in the second trimester of pregnancy. Immediately after the law was signed by the former governor, Republican Matt Bevin, a Louisville women’s surgical center challenged it in court. A federal judge found the law unconstitutional, concluding that it restricted a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion before the fetus is considered viable. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, based in Ohio, agreed. A Democrat, Andy Beshear, then took over the governor’s office, and the state health official who initially defended the law declined to take further action. But the state’s newly elected attorney general, Republican Daniel Cameron, asked the full 6th Circuit to take another look at the law. The appeals court turned him down, saying he came to the process too late. But by a vote of 8-1, the Supreme Court reversed that ruling Thursday, allowing the attorney general to step in to defend the law."

Clearly, it's not just the six Republican nazis on the Court that are the problem. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

“The Sixth Circuit panel failed to account for the strength of the Kentucky attorney general’s interest in taking up the defense of HB 454 when the secretary for Health and Family Services elected to acquiesce,” wrote Justice Samuel Alito for the majority. Dissenting, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that in reaching its decision, the majority “bends over backward to accommodate the attorney general’s reentry into the case.” She said the ruling could “open the floodgates for government officials to evade the consequences of litigation decisions made by their predecessors of different political parties, undermining finality and upsetting the settled expectations of courts, litigants, and the public alike.” Cameron’s victory does not guarantee that the full appeals court will grant his request for review or will allow the law to take effect. But it does give defenders of the Kentucky law another chance to try to revive it."

Raw nazism. Ladies? Clearly, the Court does not believe your uterus belongs to you. Government can and does dictate what you can and cannot do with it. Courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party and a few Democrats.

“This is a ruling that many in the commonwealth have hoped for, and we will proudly continue to carry the mantle for this important pro-life law by going back to the Sixth Circuit and litigating the case,” Cameron said in a statement. Their prospects of success may depend on what the Supreme Court ultimately says about the abortion right when it decides the Mississippi case in the next several months."

... Hear the rumble?

3-4-22

Nightmare coming true. NPR reports:

"Doctors' worst fears about the Texas abortion law are coming true."

Surprised? Seatbelts on:

"In the days after the new Texas abortion law known as S.B. 8 took effect last September, Anna was planning her wedding to her fiancé, Scott. They'd set a date for this coming May — until Anna realized her period was almost two weeks late. "I just remember laughing to myself because I was like, wow, for as responsible as I think I am all the time, I had no idea that I was pregnant — and that late," says Anna. NPR is only using her first name because of the sensitivity of her story. Doctors in Texas have been warning that S.B. 8 would make it harder for them to treat medical crises and would endanger their patients. Six months in, many say those predictions are coming true. "I don't want to be talking about this at all," says Anna, who lives in central Texas. "But it's important to share this story. Because somebody is going to die eventually." The law bans most abortions as soon as any cardiac activity can be detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, or about two weeks after a missed period. Most women don't know they're pregnant at that point. For Anna, there would have been little to no time to get an abortion in Texas by the time she discovered her pregnancy. She and Scott were open to having a baby, even if a bit sooner than they might have planned, so they moved up their wedding plans to December. When their wedding day arrived, Anna was 19 weeks pregnant. And she was in her wedding dress, getting makeup done with her bridesmaids, when she noticed something was wrong. "It felt like something was coming out of me. So I freaked out. I literally wet my dress in the seat that I was in," she says. Anna's water had broken too early for the baby to survive. She and Scott spent the night of their wedding in the ER, trying to take in the heartbreaking news."

Here's the problem:

"Basically the doctor looked at me and was like, well, the baby's underdeveloped," says Anna. "Even with the best NICU care in the world, they're not going to survive." And as painful as it was to hear that, the doctors told Anna there was another urgent concern. "'You're at a high chance of going septic or bleeding out,'" she says the doctors told her — a risk of infection or hemorrhage, which could become deadly. "'And unfortunately we recommend termination, but we cannot provide you one here in Texas because of this law.'"

Courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party desperate to force its national socialist, fascist, nazi ideology and religious views on others. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"In Anna's situation, a patient would normally be offered two options: wait and watch for signs of danger; or terminate the pregnancy, which is usually the safest option and most guaranteed to preserve future fertility. But under Texas law, abortions are only allowed at that stage for severe medical emergencies, defined as when a patient is "in danger of death or a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function." And because fetal heart tones were detectable, doctors told Anna they couldn't offer her that option. It's impossible to know how many patients and doctors are having similar conversations in Texas. Many are feeling frustration and disbelief as they navigate in the new legal environment. Also creating complications is that the law contains no exception for pregnancies conceived through rape or incest, creating wrenching situations for patients whose lives have already been rattled by trauma."

Courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party.

"Dr. Andrea Palmer, an OB-GYN in Fort Worth, recently took care of a woman who discovered she was pregnant after being drugged and raped at a party. Before the assault, she and her husband had been trying for a baby. "She found out she was pregnant and was not able to discern whether the baby was the product of consensual sex with her husband or the product of her sexual assault," says Palmer. Genetic testing could have answered that question, but not in time to legally get an abortion close to home. Palmer says her patient couldn't afford to travel out of state and didn't want to risk waiting and finding out the worst. So she got an early abortion in Texas while it was still legal. "The thought of carrying something in your body and raising a baby that could have been by a man who was sadistic and sick and awful enough to drug and rape a complete stranger? I just cannot imagine that somebody who claims to have love in their heart would ever wish that particular bit of hell on another human being," says Palmer."

Courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party.

"Her patient gave permission to share her story anonymously, so people could hear how complicated and difficult these decisions can be."

Courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party.

"Yeah, I mean it's, it's absolutely horrific," says John Seago. He's the legislative director with Texas Right to Life, which helped push S.B. 8 through the state legislature last year. He says even though he feels for Anna and for Palmer's patient, the law's supporters believe that abortion is an "act of injustice," no matter what."

So did Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

"Even in the worst circumstances, another act of violence on an innocent victim is not the best solution that we have," he says."

In whose opinion? That of a goddamned fascist desperate to force his or her perverse ideological and religious views on all?

Here comes the disingenuous bullshit:

"Seago says when it comes to medical emergencies, medical associations should do more to help doctors understand what's allowed under the law. "It seems politically advantageous for some of these groups that oppose the bill, and oppose all pro-life legislation, to just say this is unreasonable," he says."

Here's the problem with that bullshit:

"Groups including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have opposed S.B. 8. They say the law is vaguely worded, leaves providers vulnerable to being sued and puts patients at risk. Dr. John Thoppil, president of the Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says medical groups have provided as much guidance as they can. "I think the interpretation of the bill, through multiple layers, has been fantastically communicated, but that doesn't make the bill any better," he says. "This might help you say, 'I might win the lawsuit,' but it doesn't prevent the lawsuit." Molly Duane, an attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is challenging the law, says providers also are "extremely and understandably fearful" of providing abortions even in medical emergencies because of the law's design, which allows individuals to enforce it through civil suits. "A physician who made that determination in the moment would be doing so knowing that if someone second-guessed their judgment, [anyone] could file a lawsuit saying that you violated S.B. 8.," she says."

The following is courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party:

"In the emergency room on their wedding night, Anna and Scott say the doctors appeared nervous and concerned, but could do little to help them. "I remember being like, what, why can't you just do this?" says Anna. "They couldn't even say the word 'abortion.' I could see the fear in these doctors' eyes that they were just so scared to even talk about it." "They were typing stuff out on their phones and showing it to us," adds Scott, saying that the doctors were afraid to even be overheard helping them plan an abortion. The next day, Anna's OB-GYN needed a plan to get Anna to a place where she could get the procedure as quickly as possible. They ruled out some nearby states, including Oklahoma and Arkansas, with mandatory waiting periods as long as three days. "So there's two options," says Scott. "There's New Mexico and there's Colorado. Would we rather have her go into labor on a plane or like, out by Midland in a car?" "And I said absolutely not," says Anna's doctor, who spoke with NPR on the condition of anonymity over fears of facing lawsuits. "Because west Texas is at least 8 or 9 hours of desert. Sometimes you have hours with no cell phone reception, no gas station ... in the middle of a medical crisis. So I requested she at least take a flight. And make it a direct flight if possible." But Anna says that plan came with its own set of risks. There's a lump in her throat as she talks about what could have happened on the plane. "I had to come up with a game plan with my OB in case I went into labor on the flight. And I made sure that I bought us front row seats so I could be close to the bathroom in case it happened. And I'm like, no one should ever have to do that."

Courtesy of the nazi element in the Republican Party. Think Democrats any better? They failed to stand up to these nazi bastards.

"But even through tears, Anna says she knows she was lucky to have several thousand dollars in savings to cover the cost — and to get an appointment in Colorado at all. Clinics across the region say they're struggling to accommodate the surge in demand from patients from Texas, the nation's second most populous state. And they're fearful that many more states could implement similar laws if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns decades of precedent guaranteeing abortion rights. "Texas is a very large state. So you have numerous people trying to get care elsewhere," says Kari White, a sociologist at the University of Texas at Austin. She's been researching patients who've left Texas for abortions since S.B. 8 took effect. "There are not very many clinics in the states that surround Texas," she says. "And they're already serving the patients that live in that state, as well as sometimes in neighboring states." White says the supply and demand problem is only likely to get worse. A major abortion case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in 1973, opening the door to many more restrictions around the country. The Mississippi law at the center of the current case would ban most abortions after 15 weeks — four weeks earlier than when Anna was searching for an appointment in a neighboring state. "People may not be able to go to Oklahoma or Louisiana four months from now, because care may not be available in those states either," White says. Lawmakers in states such as Oklahoma, Florida and Ohio are sponsoring bills modeled after the one in Texas. Meanwhile, states including California and Vermont are taking steps to expand abortion access, hoping to increase their ability to take in patients like Anna from around the country."

... Hear the rumble?

"Since her ordeal, Anna says she fears for the lives of other women. "I've never in my life felt like I didn't matter, that my life was expendable," she says, but "I did in that moment." She's especially worried about families without the resources to travel long distances for potentially life-saving treatment. "I have a savings account and a job that I could have made this happen for myself," she says. "There's plenty of other people on this planet with uteruses who could not have done that. And what would they have done? Would they have just died? I think about that all the time."

Clearly, the nazi element in the Republican Party couldn't care less. A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, you fascist bastards.

1-28-22

Treasonous, traitorous Republican nazis on the U.S. Supreme Court again strike blow to liberty. CBS News(AP) reports:

"In the latest setback for abortion rights in Texas, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused to speed up the ongoing court case over the state's ban on most abortions. Over dissents from the three liberal justices, the court declined to order a federal appeals court to return the case to a federal judge who had temporarily blocked the law's enforcement. The court offered no explanation for its action. The Texas ban is thus likely to remain in effect for the foreseeable future, following a decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to send the case to the Texas Supreme Court, which is entirely controlled by Republican justices and does not have to act immediately. Abortion providers had asked the high court to countermand the appellate order, which they said in court papers has no purpose other than to delay legal proceedings and prevent clinics from offering abortions beyond around six weeks of pregnancy. The law has devastated abortion care in Texas, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote. "Instead of stopping a Fifth Circuit panel from indulging Texas' newest delay tactics, the Court allows the State yet again to extend the deprivation of the federal constitutional rights of its citizens through procedural manipulation," Sotomayor wrote, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. "The Court may look the other way, but I cannot." Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three liberals in December in a dissent that called for allowing a broader challenge to the law and a quick return to the lower federal court. Roberts did not note his position on Thursday."

Nazi 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.

1-7-22

A false alternative to abortion. The Associated Press reports:

"Year after year, several thousand women in the U.S. carry an unintended pregnancy to term and then offer the baby for adoption. It’s a choice commended by many foes of abortion. Yet despite a huge demand for babies from Americans yearning to adopt, perhaps 40 times more women opt for an abortion, and a large majority of those who proceed to give birth make the choice to keep the child. The reason, say people familiar with unintended pregnancies, is that even in those circumstances, a powerful bond is likely to form between the mother-to-be and the developing baby — and to vastly complicate any decision to put the newborn up for adoption. That idea is well known to doctors, clinic operators and other abortion-rights advocates, who say recent comments from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and other abortion opponents perpetuate a misleading narrative that adoption can negate the need for abortions. “It’s ridiculous to say it’s no problem to eliminate abortion — just place the kids for adoption,” said Elizabeth Bartholet, a law professor at Harvard University and an outspoken advocate of adoption. “It’s not going to be an emotion-free nonevent. There’s going to be bonding and connection, and a sense that it’s an unnatural act to give your child away.”

Delusionally believe that's true for all? Especially, the very young? Not to neglect to mention the very bottom of the food chain? ... Or, the disabled? Really, think so?

"Discussion of adoption as an alternative to abortion intensified this month when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks. If the high court’s conservative majority upholds the law, it could lead to the demise of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a nationwide right to abortion, and enable conservative states to impose sweeping bans."

... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and many other issues as our formerly great country continues to deteriorate.

"During the arguments, Barrett, an adoptive mother, said women who give birth due to lack of access to abortion could avoid being forced into parenthood by leaving the baby at a safe location, without fear of criminal consequences, so the infant could be adopted. “It’s just not the reality,” said Ashley Brink, manager of a clinic operated by the abortion-rights group Trust Women in Wichita, Kansas. “It’s undermining people’s decisions and choices and ability to control their lives and their futures.”

Certainly, true. Moreover? Not appropriate for those opposed to abortion to force their ideology and religious views on the rest of society.

"Bartholet described the justice’s comments as “breathtakingly thoughtless” by failing to acknowledge the deep emotional bonds that many women have with their babies even when they result from an unwanted pregnancy. Those bonds can grow more powerful immediately after birth, said Grace Howard, who has worked as a doula assisting women in childbirth and women seeking abortions. “Your body’s like, ’Bond! Bond, damn it!’” said Howard, an assistant professor in justice studies at San Jose State University."

Think those opposed to abortion speak for all women? Think it's right for them to force their perverse ideological and religious views on all who strongly disagree?

"The U.S. government tracks how many children are adopted out of foster care and from foreign countries, but there are no official, comprehensive figures on private adoptions of infants. Nonetheless, it’s clear that only a small fraction of women carry unwanted pregnancies to term and then place the baby for adoption. In 2014, there were an estimated 18,000 private infant adoptions nationwide, according to the National Council for Adoption, a private organization serving abortion agencies and other parties. That same year, there were 926,190 abortions in the U.S., according to the Guttmacher Institute, a prominent source of abortion-related statistics. The adoption council is working on a new estimate of infant adoptions for 2019 and 2020. Its acting CEO, Ryan Hanlon, predicted the number would be similar to the 2014 estimate. Hanlon says there’s a huge gap between the number of U.S. infants available for adoption and the hundreds of thousands of Americans – single adults and couples – who want to adopt. “There are dozens waiting with each agency for every child they place,” Hanlon said."

Think that gives those opposed to abortion the right to force all women to bring a pregnancy to term?

"Some women who opted for abortion in response to an unintended pregnancy say the decision was difficult – yet they’re also grateful they had a choice. Among them is U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, a California Democrat, who says she received a “back-alley” abortion in Mexico after a teenage pregnancy. Lee said adoption “is an alternative to parenting, not to pregnancy.” “The fight for abortion rights is not about our individual stances on abortion or adoption — it is about every person’s right to make decisions about their personal health,” she said. “Your choices about your body, health, and family are nobody’s business but your own.”

Truer words never spoken. Time to wake up.

"Many abortion-rights advocates are wary of some aspects of private adoption, viewing it as part of the agenda of anti-abortion activists. Mallory Schwarz, executive director of Pro-Choice Missouri, said the anti-abortion pregnancy centers that proliferate in many states are part of that system. “The role of crisis pregnancy centers is to trick people, coerce them out of making the right decision for themselves so that they choose to give up — choose to carry a pregnancy and then give up a baby to be adopted,” Schwarz said."

It's up to the woman herself to make the decision, -- whether it's to abort, carry the pregnancy to term and keep the baby, or place it up for adoption.

12-31-21

Biden remains outrageously ineffective fighting the nazi element in the Republican Party vis a vis abortion rights. Could certainly cost the Democrats dearly in 2022 to say nothing of 2024. ABC News(AP) reports:

"President Joe Biden insists that he strongly believes in the rights spelled out in the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that are now under the most dire threat in decades. But he barely even uses the word "abortion" and when his administration has been asked about what it can do to protect reproductive rights, the response has mostly been that Congress must write the landmark court decision into law, a strategy that is highly likely to fail."

Especially, since Biden has refused to push for removal of the Senate filibuster that would at least temporarily rein in the nazi element in the Republican Party.

"To women who rallied to Biden’s presidential campaign in no small part to protect the landmark 1973 court ruling, that's not nearly enough."

No, it's not. Nowhere near. Biden refuses to consider expansion of the Supreme Court which would at least temporarily rein in the six Republican nazis on the highest court of the land.

"The administration's measured response to a series of major setbacks for the right to have an abortion lacks in urgency for many advocates, who feel Biden should be doing more after the conservative-majority Supreme Court signaled a willingness to strike down all or part of the rights enshrined in the case that legalized abortion. “What we want is to see is ideally the president use the bully pulpit to talk about abortion in a strong and effective way,” said Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health at the National Women's Law Center. “It matters. It matters for the stigma that surrounds abortion, and it matters to show that it's a priority for him and his administration.”

Biden's agenda, supreme goal, is the same as every other candidate in the last seven decades, that is, attain re-election. Any way he can. No matter what. No matter how. Including paying lip service to his constituents.

"The frustration is part of a broader concern among Democrats that the president's focus on the massive issues of the economy and pandemic response have pushed other urgent matters out of the limelight, including voting rights, immigration and gun control."

The Second Amendment is the last best defense against outrageously corrupt and abusive government. It's infringement to date by Democrats is outrageously unconstitutional. Republicans will rightfully 'fight it tooth and nail.'

"It’s an approach that threatens to undermine Biden and Democrats heading into next year’s midterms when they need to rally the party’s most loyal voters, including women and Black people, to maintain control of Congress. It’s also part of a broader problem that women’s rights groups have with the Democrats' general reluctance to fully embrace the abortion issue in the way that Republicans have. “This could be seen as an opportunity to talk about an issue that will be important to us in 2022,” said Democratic strategist Maria Cardona. “It doesn't have to be at the expense of his priorities." Cardona said "the White House and the bully pulpit and bull horn are big enough to fit all these messages.”

"There have been studies, commissions, and a range of executive actions, but Biden has been focused on the issues he views as most pressing for the country, most passable in Congress, and posing the greatest return with voters."

That approach has clearly failed to date and will continue to fail:

"Biden has wagered that the moderate voters who secured his White House victory over Donald Trump in 2020 were most attracted to his promises to end the pandemic and its associated economic disruption, and simply to prove Washington can work once again. For the most animated Democratic voters whose issues have not received the same attention, Biden is betting they'll still show up to vote in fear of what Republicans would do if they take charge once again."

That's clearly a mistake. False confidence. As it stands at the moment, Biden will lose.

"Women's rights groups have long harbored some skepticism about Biden on the issue. He's a devoted Catholic whose views on the issue have changed over time. He reversed himself during his campaign on the so-called Hyde amendment — only belatedly opposing a legislative provision barring the use of federal funds to pay for abortion. He did revoke the “Mexico City” policy that required non-governmental organizations as a condition of funding not to promote abortion as a family planning method in other countries. Biden didn’t mention abortion rights once during a recent speech looking back over the year at a holiday fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. Women’s right activists are keeping track: He’s barely said the word in office, though there is no acknowledged strategy behind it. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has used the word multiple times, saying recently of Biden: “He’s committed to working with Congress to codify the constitutional right to safe and legal abortion, as protected by Roe and subsequent Supreme Court precedent.”

Empty, hollow, meaningless rhetoric. Not backed up with action.

"And despite a progressive generation of Democrats who want him to raise hell over culture war issues, he's got a bigger picture he must focus on, said William Galston, a Brookings Institution fellow and author of “Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy.” “The most important objective of the Biden administration is to make sure that Donald Trump does not re-enter the Oval Office in January 2025," he said. “Everything else pales in consideration to that.”

If that's truly Biden's thinking, why is the Justice Department dragging its feet on prosecuting the Trump nazi for his treasonous, traitorous incitement of the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection?

12-17-21

Supreme Court abortion ruling. The Associated Press reports:

"The Supreme Court on Friday left in place Texas’ ban on most abortions, offering only a glimmer of daylight for clinics in the state to challenge the nation’s most restrictive abortion law."

Expect better of a nazi Republican Supreme Court? Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The decision, little more than a week after the court signaled it would roll back abortion rights and possibly overturn its landmark Roe v. Wade decision, was greeted with dismay by abortion rights supporters but praise by opponents. Five conservative justices, including three appointed by former President Donald Trump, formed a majority to limit who can be sued by the clinics, a result that both sides said probably will prevent federal courts from effectively blocking the law. Texas licensing officials may be sued, but not state court judges, court clerks or state Attorney General Ken Paxton, the court ruled. That seems to leave people free, under the unusual structure of the Texas law, to sue abortion clinics and anyone else who “aids or abets” an abortion performed after cardiac activity is detected in an embryo, around six weeks and before some women know they’re pregnant. “The Supreme Court has essentially greenlit Texas’s cynical scheme and prevented federal courts from blocking an unconstitutional law,” the Center for Reproductive Rights, which represents the Texas clinics, said on Twitter. The court acted more than a month after hearing arguments over the law, which makes no exceptions for rape or incest."

Raw nazism. Adolf and Benito? Likely, wildly cheering on their fiery perches.

"The law has been in place for about three months, since Sept. 1. The Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide has stood since 1973. Justice Neil Gorsuch, who has consistently voted against abortion rights, did not mention Roe in his main opinion for the court Friday. Gorsuch is one of the Trump appointees, along with Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett."

Three Republican nazis on the bench.

"Abortion providers will now attempt to run the same legal gantlet that has previously frustrated them. The federal judge who already has once blocked the law, known as S.B. 8, almost certainly will be asked to do so again. Then his decision would be reviewed by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has twice voted to allow enforcement of the abortion ban. In any case, it all could return to the justices, and so far there have not been five votes on the nine-member court to put the law on hold while the legal fight plays out. “The Court should have put an end to this madness months ago, before S. B. 8 first went into effect. It failed to do so then, and it fails again today,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a separate opinion Friday. The court’s conservative majority also seems likely to roll back abortion rights in a Mississippi case that was argued last week, although that decision is not expected until spring. If Roe is overruled, the fight over the Texas law would be largely beside the point because Texas is one of 12 states with a trigger law that would ban abortion in a post-Roe world. Friday’s high court ruling came a day after a state court judge in Texas ruled that the law’s enforcement, which rewards lawsuits against violators by awarding judgments of $10,000, is unconstitutional yet left the law in place. The legal fight over the Texas law is focused on its unusual structure and whether it improperly limits how the law can be challenged in court. Texas lawmakers handed responsibility for enforcing the law to private citizens, rather than state officials. The law authorizes lawsuits against clinics, doctors and others who perform or facilitate a banned abortion. The case raised a complex set of issues about who, if anyone, can sue over the law in federal court, the typical route for challenges to abortion restrictions. Indeed, federal courts routinely put a hold on similar laws, which rely on traditional enforcement by state and local authorities."

Get this:

"The Supreme Court voted Friday 8 to 1 in favor of allowing the clinics’ lawsuit against the ban to proceed, with only Justice Clarence Thomas voting the other way. But the court was sharply divided, 5-4, on the knotty issue of whom to target with a court order that ostensibly tries to block the law. The justices ruled that Texas licensing officials may be sued, but dismissed claims against state court judges, court clerks and the state attorney general."

Nazi justice. Most convenient, isn't it?

"Gorsuch wrote that abortion providers have to follow the same rules that apply to people asserting other constitutional rights. “The Court has consistently applied these requirements whether the challenged law in question is said to chill the free exercise of religion, the freedom of speech, the right to bear arms or any other right. The petitioners are not entitled to a special exemption,” Gorsuch wrote. Chief Justice John Roberts and the three liberal justices dissented from that part of the decision in an opinion that said the purpose of the Texas law was “to nullify this court’s rulings” on abortion. The same four justices were in dissent in September when the court declined to block the law once before. “The nature of the federal right infringed does not matter; it is the role of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system that is at stake,” Roberts wrote. Roberts called on U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, whose earlier order blocking the law was overturned by the appeals court, to “enter appropriate relief without delay.” Sotomayor also chastised her colleagues for their part in the “catastrophic consequences for women seeking to exercise their constitutional right to an abortion in Texas.” She said the court’s decision closed off the most direct route to challenging the law and would “clear the way” for other states to “reprise and perfect Texas’ scheme in the future to target the exercise of any right recognized by this court with which they disagree.”

The nazi element in the Republican Party is treasonously, traitorously turning our formerly great country into a goddamned fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only.

"Since it took effect in September, the law has imposed the most restrictive abortion curbs in the nation since the Supreme Court first declared a woman’s right to an abortion in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. In the Texas law’s first month, a study published by researchers at the University of Texas found, the number of abortions statewide fell by 50% compared with September 2020. The study was based on data from 19 of the state’s 24 abortion clinics, according to the Texas Policy Evaluation Project. Some residents who left the state seeking abortions have had to travel well beyond neighboring states, where clinics cannot keep up with the increase in patients from Texas, according to a separate study by the Guttmacher Institute. Following the court’s September vote, the Justice Department filed its own lawsuit over the Texas law. The justices on Friday dismissed that suit, which raised a separate set of thorny legal issues."

Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. Too deaf to hear? Or, too aggressively stupid.

NBC News reports:

"The chief justice of the United States, John Roberts, warned Friday that the Supreme Court risks losing its own authority if it allows states to circumvent the courts as Texas did with its near-total abortion ban. In a strongly worded opinion joined by the high court’s three liberal justices, Roberts wrote that the "clear purpose and actual effect" of the Texas law was "to nullify this Court’s rulings." That, he said, undermines the Constitution and the fundamental role of the Supreme Court and the court system as a whole. The opinion was a remarkable plea by the chief justice to his colleagues on the court to resist the efforts by right-wing lawmakers to get around court decisions they dislike, in this case Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that made abortion legal in the United States, within limits. But in this case, his urgent request was largely ignored by the other justices on the court who were appointed by Republicans. His point to them was that the court system should decide what the law is, and it should resist efforts like that of the Texas Legislature to get around the courts by limiting the ability of abortion providers to sue. It is a basic principle, he wrote, "that the Constitution is the 'fundamental and paramount law of the nation,' and '[i]t is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.'" He cited as proof the landmark 1803 Marbury v. Madison case, which established the principle of judicial review, allowing the court to nullify laws that violate the Constitution. “If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery,” he said, quoting the 1809 U.S. v. Peters case, which found that state legislatures can't overrule federal courts. “The nature of the federal right infringed does not matter; it is the role of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system that is at stake.”

No question.

"The Texas law, which took effect in September, delegates enforcement to any person, anywhere, who can sue any doctor performing an abortion or anyone who aids in the procedure. That makes it virtually impossible for abortion providers to sue the state to block the law, S.B. 8. Texas has argued that the law's opponents had no legal authority to sue the state because S.B. 8 does not give state officials any role in enforcing the restriction."

Think Democrats won't ultimately use the same tactic to obliterate the Second Amendment, last best defense against corrupt and abusive government? Governor of California is already planning to do so as reported later on in this edition. Think other Democrats won't follow suit on their pet peeves?

"Roberts has said that politics has no place at the Supreme Court and has made it clear he will resist efforts to draw the court into partisan cultural fights, fearing that the perception of partisanship will undermine the court's legitimacy."

Too late. Already, has.

"With the court now having a 6-3 conservative supermajority, Roberts wound up siding with the three liberal justices: Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor. The addition of three justices by former President Donald Trump meant Roberts could not find another vote for his position, leaving him largely in the minority in the abortion ruling. Melissa Murray, a law professor at New York University, said Friday on MSNBC that “the real question here is whether or not Chief Justice John Roberts is chief justice in principle as well as name.” “The question here is how can he reign in that hardcore conservative bloc of the court?" she asked. "And it seemed obvious last week in oral arguments, and this week — in terms of how these opinions are written, and where the chief justice finds himself — that maybe he's having a hard time keeping all of the conservative bloc in line.” The Supreme Court ruling Friday said that abortion providers in Texas can move forward with their lawsuit challenging S.B. 8 along a very narrow path. But it kept the law in effect while the court battle unfolds, which abortion rights supporters said would prevent large numbers of low-income Texas women from obtaining abortions during the legal fight."

NPR reports:

"Saying the Supreme Court "failed us today," the abortion provider at the heart of the legal challenge to S.B. 8 — the controversial Texas law that allows private citizens to sue anybody who helps to provide an abortion past six weeks of pregnancy — vowed to continue fighting the law, which remains in effect. But the provider and its legal allies said Friday's ruling, a narrow and technical decision led by the court's most conservative members, left them fewer options to do so. "For 101 days, our patients have been left with two choices: carry a pregnancy they didn't want to begin with or jump through hoops to leave the state. It's heartbreaking and it should have never happened to begin with," wrote Whole Woman's Health, a network of abortion providers that operates four clinics in Texas."

Freedom? Liberty? What's that?

"We'd hoped for a statewide injunction, but no clear path to it. Rest assured, we will NOT stop fighting," the provider wrote. S.B. 8 remains in effect while the lawsuit, called Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson, is allowed to proceed in federal court. At least two other major challenges to the law exist. The legal future is uncertain enough that abortion providers said they would likely continue to decline services to patients who are already past six weeks of pregnancy. "This does not feel like a green light for us to reopen," said Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman's Health. "The risk for clinic staff and physicians remain great."

All thanks to the nazi element in the Republican Party and six Republican nazis on the U.S. Supreme Court who have absolutely no clue what liberty is. Delusionally believe they own a woman's uterus. Can dictate to her what she can and cannot do with it. Raw nazism. Hitler and Mussolini? Wildly cheering on their fiery perches.

"Anti-abortion groups in the state hailed the decision."

What clueless nazi wouldn't?

"While we continue to fight for this policy in the lower courts, Texas Right to Life celebrates that the Texas Heartbeat Act will continue saving between 75-100 preborn children from abortion per day," said a spokesperson for Texas Right To Life, an anti-abortion group involved in litigation over S.B. 8, using another name for the law."

Clueless nazis desperate 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.

"In a partial dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: "The nature of the federal right infringed does not matter; it is the role of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system that is at stake." "It's stunning that the Supreme Court has essentially said that federal courts cannot stop this bounty-hunter scheme enacted to blatantly deny Texans their constitutional right to abortion. The Court has abandoned its duty to ensure that states do not defy its decisions," said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights."

12-17-21

California is fighting back against the nazi element in the anti-abortion cartel. The Associated Press reports:

"With more than two dozen states poised to ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court gives them the OK next year, California clinics and their allies in the state Legislature on Wednesday revealed a plan to make the state a “sanctuary” for those seeking reproductive care, including possibly paying for travel, lodging and procedures for people from other states."

How about that? Uncommon Valor. Finally, a willingness to stand up to the nazi element in the Republican Party. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The California Future of Abortion Council, made up of more than 40 abortion providers and advocacy groups, released a list of 45 recommendations for the state to consider if the high court overturns Roe v. Wade — the 48-year-old decision that forbids states from outlawing abortion. The recommendations are not just a liberal fantasy. Some of the state’s most important policymakers helped write them, including Toni Atkins, the San Diego Democrat who leads the state Senate and attended multiple meetings. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom started the group himself and in an interview last week with The Associated Press said some of the report’s details will be included in his budget proposal in January."

More than empty rhetoric and best of all:

“We’ll be a sanctuary,” Newsom said, adding he’s aware patients will likely travel to California from other states to seek abortions. “We are looking at ways to support that inevitability and looking at ways to expand our protections.”

Sadly:

"Abortion, perhaps more than any other issue, has divided the country for decades along mostly traditional partisan lines. A new decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which could come next summer, would be the culmination of more than 40 years of conservative activism. But Wednesday’s report offers a first glimpse of how Democratic-dominated states could respond and how the debate over abortion access would change."

Need to be far more pro-active than to date.

"California already pays for abortions for many low-income residents through the state’s Medicaid program. And California is one of six states that require private insurance companies to cover abortions, although many patients still end up paying deductibles and co-payments. But money won’t be a problem for state-funded abortion services for patients from other states. California’s coffers have soared throughout the pandemic, fueling a record budget surplus this year. Next year, the state’s independent Legislative Analyst’s Office predicts California will have a surplus of about $31 billion. California’s affiliates of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, got a sneak preview of how people might seek abortions outside their home states this year when a Texas law that outlawed abortion after six weeks of pregnancy was allowed to take effect. California clinics reported a slight increase in patients from Texas."

Get this:

"Now, California abortion providers are asking California to make it easier for those people to get to the state. The report recommends funding — including public spending — to support patients seeking abortion for travel expenses such as gas, lodging, transportation and child care. It asks lawmakers to reimburse abortion providers for services to those who can’t afford to pay — including those who travel to California from other states whose income is low enough that they would qualify for state-funded abortions under Medicaid if they lived there. It’s unclear about how many people would come to California for abortions if Roe v. Wade is overturned. California does not collect or report abortion statistics. The Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, said 132,680 abortions were performed in California in 2017, or about 15% of all abortions nationally. That number includes people from out of state as well as teenagers, who are not required to have their parents’ permission for an abortion in California. Planned Parenthood, which accounts for about half of California’s abortion clinics, said it served 7,000 people from other states last year."

Hard to believe the system would not be overloaded with California's willingness to facilitate travel and other expenses. Other states that believe in the right to abortion would need to step up and do their part:

"A huge influx of people from other states “will definitely destabilize the abortion provider network,” said Fabiola Carrion, interim director for reproductive and sexual health at the national Health Law Program. She said out-of-state abortions would also likely be later term procedures, which are more complicated and expensive."

Remarkably:

"The report asks lawmakers to help clinics increase their workforce to prepare for more patients by giving scholarships to medical students who pledge to offer abortion services in rural areas, help them pay off their student loans and assist with their monthly liability insurance premiums."

Would certainly be a step in the right direction. -- The old bastards on the Nazi Right who have greedily lined their packets for decades will never change their nazi ideology and perverse religious views.

“We’re looking at how to build capacity and build workforce,” said Jodi Hicks, CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California. “It will take a partnership and investment with the state.” Abortion opponents in California, meanwhile, are also preparing for a potential surge of patients from other states seeking the procedure — only they hope to convince them not to do it."

Hasn't happened significantly to date. Had it, opponents wouldn't have been doing all they could for decades to nazify the judiciary and egregiously restrict the right to abortion.

"Jonathan Keller, president and CEO of the California Family Council, said California has about 160 pregnancy resource centers whose aim is to convince women not to get abortions. He said about half of those centers are medical clinics, while the rest are faith-based counseling centers. Many of the centers are located near abortion clinics in an attempt to entice people to seek their counseling before opting to end pregnancies. Keller said many are already planning on increasing their staffing if California gets an increase of patients. “Even if we are not facing any immediate legislative opportunities or legislative victories, it’s a reminder that the work of changing hearts and minds and also providing real support and resources to women facing unplanned pregnancies — that work will always continue,” Keller said. He added: “In many ways, that work is going to be even more important, both in light of the Supreme Court’s decision and in light of whatever Sacramento decides they are going to do in response.”

All these fascist bastards are doing is harassing and threatening innocent women determined to do with THEIR uterus as they damn well please. Who the hell are these Aryan arrogant nazis to force their perverse ideological and religious views on anyone? -- Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

12-17-21

The following could turn out to be an exigent threat to the Second Amendment perpetrated by the Governor of California in retaliation for the attack on abortion perpetrated by the nazi element in the Texas Republican Party. The Associated Press reports:

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday pledged to empower private citizens to enforce a ban on the manufacture and sale of assault weapons in the state, citing the same authority claimed by conservative lawmakers in Texas to outlaw most abortions once a heartbeat is detected. California has banned the manufacture and sale of many assault-style weapons for decades. A federal judge overturned that ban in June, ruling it was unconstitutional and drawing the ire of the state’s Democratic leaders by comparing the popular AR-15 rifle to a Swiss Army knife as “good for both home and battle.” California’s ban remained in place while the state appealed. Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers in Texas this year passed a law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which normally occurs at about six weeks into pregnancy. The Texas law allows private citizens to enforce the ban, empowering them to sue abortion clinics and anyone else who “aids and abets” with the procedure. Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Texas law to remain in effect while abortion clinics sue to block it. That decision incensed Newsom, a Democrat who supports abortion rights. “If states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army knives, then California will use that authority to protect people’s lives, where Texas used it to put women in harm’s way,” Newsom said in a statement released by his office at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Newsom said he has directed his staff to work with the state’s Legislature and its Democratic attorney general to pass a law that would let private citizens sue to enforce California’s ban on assault weapons. Newsom said people who sue could win up to $10,000 per violation plus other costs and attorneys fees against “anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon” in California. “If the most efficient way to keep these devastating weapons off our streets is to add the threat of private lawsuits, we should do just that,” Newsom said. The legal fight over the Texas abortion law has focused on its unusual structure and whether it improperly limits how the law can be challenged in court. Texas lawmakers handed responsibility for enforcing the law to private citizens, rather than state officials."

Kangaroo justice perpetrated by the mob.

"The case raised a complex set of issues about who, if anyone, can sue over the law in federal court, the typical route for challenges to abortion restrictions. Newsom’s gun proposal would first have to pass California’s state Legislature before it could become law. The Legislature is not in session now and is scheduled to reconvene in January. It usually takes about eight months for new bills to pass the Legislature, barring special circumstances. State Sen. Brian Dahle, a Republican from Bieber, would oppose the plan but predicted it could probably pass California’s Democratic-dominated state Legislature. He said the proposal was most likely a stunt for Newsom to win favor with his progressive base of voters ahead of a possible run for president in the future. “The right to bear arms is different than the right to have an abortion. The right to have an abortion is not a constitutional amendment. So I think he’s way off base,” Dahle said. “I think he’s just using it as an opportunity to grandstand.” But Newsom’s Saturday night declaration is a fulfilled prophecy for some gun rights groups who had predicted progressive states would attempt to use Texas’ abortion law to restrict access to guns. That’s why the Firearms Policy Coalition, a nonprofit group that advocates for gun rights, filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court opposing the Texas law. “If Texas succeeds in its gambit here, New York, California, New Jersey, and others will not be far behind in adopting equally aggressive gambits to not merely chill but to freeze the right to keep and bear arms,” attorney Erik Jaffe wrote on behalf of the Firearms Policy Coalition."

Think Democrats won't do it on other issues to stick it to the nazi element in the Republican Party? Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it. ... And not like it one bit. Gutting of the Second Amendment, -- last best defense against corrupt and abusive government. Sadly, likely not the worst of it perpetrated by assholes in the Democratic Party.

NBC News reports:

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Saturday he plans to use the same tactic from Texas's abortion law to target assault rifle sales after the Supreme Court declined to block enforcement of the law. In a statement, Newsom said he has directed his staff to collaborate with the legislature and Attorney General Rob Bonta to draft a bill that would allow private citizens to file lawsuits "against anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or parts in the State of California." "If states can shield their laws from review by federal courts, then CA will use that authority to help protect lives," Newsom said in a tweet. The announcement follows a ruling from the Supreme Court that abortion providers in Texas can proceed with lawsuits challenging S.B. 8, the nation's most restrictive abortion law that bans the procedure after the first six weeks of pregnancy. But the court declined to block enforcement of the law while court battles continues, so the law remains in effect. The ruling provided a narrow victory for abortion clinics. Texas had sought to make the law nearly impossible to challenge in federal court. The state argued that abortion providers could not contest the law in advance but had to wait until they were sued for violating it. The court also dismissed a separate lawsuit brought by the Justice Department that challenged Texas' law. It also narrowed the field of possible defendants that can be sued in any lawsuits that go forward. Newsom said he was "outraged" by the Supreme Court ruling. "But if states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army Knives, then California will use that authority to protect people's lives, where Texas used it to put women in harm's way," he said. "If that's the precedent then we'll let Californian's sue those who put ghost guns and assault weapons on our streets," Newsom wrote in a separate tweet shared to Twitter."

Again, think Democrats won't do it on other issues to stick it to the nazi element in the Republican Party? Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it. ... And not like it one bit. -- While our formerly great country continues to deteriorate, and obliterates all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. A de facto fascist police-state, democratic republic in name only. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms.

12-10-21

Uncommon Valor. The Washington Post reports:

"With the New York City skyline melting into the distance, Meera Shah looked out over the pink sunset, trying to relax as she settled in for the nearly three-hour flight to Chicago. Heavy rain splashed against the plane’s windows. Some of the passengers — football fans headed to the Notre Dame game in Indiana — were talking about news of high winds in Chicago causing delays. Shah needed to make her connection. She had patients waiting. The New York physician was on her monthly commute to South Bend — an 800-mile trip across four states — to perform abortions. She is among about 50 doctors who travel regularly to 20 states, logging hundreds of miles, crisscrossing time zones to provide abortions in places where patients would otherwise not have access, according to Mary Frank, director of strategic initiatives at the National Abortion Federation, an association of providers. The doctors are paid by the clinics they serve. Shah and other doctors who do such work say that their services have never been needed more — and that their commitment has never been stronger, with the nation at the most significant moment for abortion rights since Roe v. Wade made the procedure legal in 1973. Abortion opponents are optimistic that Roe will be overturned when a newly conservative Supreme Court rules next year on a Mississippi abortion ban, following arguments heard Wednesday. A Texas law that bans nearly all abortions after six weeks — the strictest in the country — is also being reviewed by the high court. But even if Roe v. Wade is upheld, abortion rights advocates worry there will not be enough doctors to perform the procedure. That fear is part of what drives Shah. “The commute is exhausting, of course, but I’ve seen firsthand how this care is so important to a patient’s autonomy over their own body,” said Shah, 38."

Called liberty. -- A concept the nazi element in the Republican Party has absolutely no clue of or regard for. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The daughter of Indian immigrants, Shah sees her work as part of her identity as a doctor and her commitment to social justice. She was back to her South Bend commute two days after her honeymoon this summer to see patients at a Whole Woman’s Health Alliance clinic. “I literally fly all this way to hand out medication abortion pills,” she said. “I do what a nurse practitioner is trained to do and is already doing in some states,” she said, adding that a key strategy of abortion opponents has been to place layers of restrictions on providers and clinics. So Shah flies to South Bend about once a month and stays anywhere from 24 hours to two days. The South Bend clinic also has a rotation of doctors who drive in from nearby states, including one from Kentucky."

Indeed, Uncommon Valor.

"When abortion was first legalized, the antiabortion movement targeted women who sought the procedure, labeling them “sluts” and “murderers,” said Carole Joffe, a professor in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California at San Francisco. “But this proved to be a losing strategy,” Joffe said. So the movement turned to “the harassment and vilification of abortion providers instead.” “It’s not just fear of antiabortion violence or harassment that inhibits abortion provision by local doctors,” Joffe said, adding: “Abortion stigma plays a role. In some practices, when doctors join group practices, they are obligated to sign a statement that they will not provide abortions — even away from the group’s office, in a clinic.”

Who the hell are these nazi bastards to force their perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us?

"Pamela Merritt, executive director of the nonprofit Medical Students for Choice, said training more doctors to perform abortions will “be a key battle in the fight to maintain and increase access” to the procedure. “Fewer clinics means higher demand at all other clinics,” she said. “And that means fewer openings for training, because clinics simply do not have the time.” Abortion rights activists also hope that the efforts to ban abortion will inspire a new generation of doctors who, like Shah, are committed to offering what she calls “compassionate care.” Medical Students for Choice added chapters at 10 U.S. medical schools this year, with an estimated 300 additional members, Merritt said."

Her courage is inspiring:

"Shah’s flight from New York had a rough landing and was over an hour late. So she sprinted nearly a mile through sprawling O’Hare International Airport to try to make her connection. She was too late — it had already taken off. Zigzagging through the crowds of stranded passengers, she found a virtual customer-service kiosk and was able to retrieve her luggage at baggage claim. With so many travelers stranded, there were no rental cars available. So Shah improvised and calls an Uber — the nearly two-hour ride to South Bend would cost about the same as renting a car for 48 hours. “Patients may have taken a day off of work or traveled hundreds of miles or set up child care,” she said. “I have to make it.” She got in the car around 10 p.m. On the way, she called ahead to her hotel. “Please don’t give away my room,” she pleaded. It’s happened before when she’s arrived late during the busy football season. “I promise — I’m on my way.” After the drive through darkness and rain, she arrived in South Bend by midnight. The next morning, Shah was up early. Dressed in dark blue scrubs, she grabbed a frozen breakfast burrito from the hotel lobby, filled her travel mug with English-breakfast tea and headed to the clinic. On the ride over, she saw the antiabortion billboards that dotted the skyline. She passed the campus of the University of Notre Dame, famous for football and its towering “Touchdown Jesus” mural. Across the highway from the clinic, the Women’s Care Center attempted to lure her patients away with offers of free pregnancy tests. Escort April Lidinsky, a professor of women’s and gender studies at Indiana University South Bend, held a big rainbow umbrella to block patients from the few protesters who had shown up. She shuffled Shah in as the demonstrators held up crosses and gestured toward the pregnancy center across the street, shouting, “We love you and your baby!”

Delusionally, think so? Or, is it their nazi ideology that drives their insanity?

"Inside, inspirational messages are painted on the walls to welcome patients: “Look at our women. They are strong, you can feel it. They are the rocks on which we really build,” a quote from labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta. Exam rooms are named after female cultural icons — Diana Ross, Ella Fitzgerald, Audre Lorde. Clinic workers wear purple T-shirts with “Kicking politicians out of vaginas since 2003” on the back. On a table in the waiting room is a book titled “You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion,” which was written by Shah and includes a note inside that says, “Meera Shah is your physician today.” Shah wrote the book to illustrate the range of people who get abortions and counter the stereotypes about them. She tells the stories of a rabbi who had an abortion because it was not the right time for her to become a parent, a young woman who advocated for herself before a judge in West Virginia to get an abortion without parental consent, and an Indian woman who questioned her desire to parent after she was abused growing up. Shah, chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic in Hudson, N.Y., also wanted to show readers the next generation of providers. She wants children of her own someday and often shows off photos of her niece and nephew on her phone. “I would do anything for them,” said Shah, a family-medicine doctor specializing in sexual and reproductive health. But she said she feels just as strongly that pregnant people have the right to make decisions about their bodies."

Thankfully for the sake of liberty:

"For many young doctors like Shah, making sure access to abortions remains safe and legal is a mission, particularly in underserved communities, Joffe said. “There’s a new generation of doctors — disproportionately female, many of them people of color — who are committed to providing abortion precisely because of the assault on abortion rights,” Joffe said. “They realize that the attack on abortion impacts the most vulnerable in our society. They see it as a social justice issue.” About 50 percent of abortion patients live below the federal poverty line, 25 percent just above it, Joffe said. About 60 percent also already have children. Joffe and other abortion rights advocates fear a return to the pre-Roe era when people turned to untrained or poorly trained individuals for abortions — and in many cases died or suffered permanent injury from botched procedures performed under unsanitary conditions. “The image of the butcher dominated the medical imagination, and helped keep abortion providers marginalized from rest of mainstream medicine ... even though the post-Roe providers were largely ethical and skilled.”

All that is now threatened by the nazi element in the Republican Party. Worse, an unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and many, many other issues.

"Shah’s book opens with a scene in a Target in her hometown in the South. She describes bumping into a woman who looked like “Mrs. Claus or even Betty White” while in the greeting-card aisle. The woman notices Shah’s black-and silver stethoscope and asks whether she was a nurse. She tells the woman she’s a doctor, and the woman asks what kind. “At that point in my life,” Shah writes, “this question was tricky for me.” Shah said she rarely disclosed that she provided abortion care, especially while in the Bible Belt. But something about the woman’s questions made her finally “come out” to the shopper and tell her that, along with family medicine, she is an abortion provider."

Uncommon Valor.

"The woman pauses for a moment. Shah holds her breath, “suddenly afraid my casual Target run was about to turn into an altercation.” Instead the woman leans in and says: “I’ve had an abortion. In fact, I’ve had two.” The woman says her first abortion was when she was young. The second was when she already had two children.” “You’re the only one I’ve told,” she whispers to Shah, touching her arm. “Ever?” Shah asks. “Ever,” the woman says. In the clinic’s waiting room, a soft-spoken, rail-thin 18-year-old described how she thought the people at the women’s center across the street would help her get an abortion when they coaxed her over. Instead, they sent her home with information about the “bliss of motherhood” and “mental illness” that comes with abortion, along with photos of a smiling pregnant woman. Then they started calling her. “I told them I wanted an abortion, and at first I didn’t really know what they were doing,” the teenager said. “Then I told them, ‘It’s really not your guys’ decision.” After a few more phone calls, “they sounded all disappointed, but I couldn’t really understand why,” she said. “It’s not their life. They won’t be getting up with that baby in the middle of the night.” They texted and called so many times, she said, that she eventually blocked their number because they refused to stop. When her name was called at the clinic, she was led to a private counseling room. “Did you bring anyone with you today?” Shah asked. “My grandma,” said the patient, who was wearing Crocs with a rainbow charm on one and a popcorn charm on the other. “She’s waiting in the car with my 6-month-old daughter. She’s teething. She broke my TV.” “She’s a handful,” she added, smiling a little, then looking down and fiddling with her phone. The exam room was named for poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou. The teen looked up at an Angelou quote painted in cursive on the wall: “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Get this:

"Shah began to read from a script required by Indiana law, but she added, “I don’t agree with this as your doctor.” The mandated script includes medically disputed information such as, “A human fetus can feel pain at or before 20 weeks,” and that abortion can cause infertility later. “Both not true,” Shah told her patient. Shah performed an ultrasound and told the teen the gestational age of the fetus was seven weeks and four days. She printed out the image, put it and the state-mandated information into an envelope and told her she could read it — or not. “I’m ready for the abortion,” the teen said. “Can I do it today?” “Great question,” Shah said. “State law requires that you come back in 18 hours.”

Liberty? What's that? Means shit squat to the nazi element in the Republican Party responsible for this outrageous bullshit. These clueless fascists can't comprehend it's not their uterus.

“Really? Why can’t I just do it today?” she asked. Shah explained again that state law requires the waiting period. The teen lowered her head and said quietly: “I understand. Thank you.” “I’m already in a tough domestic-violence situation,” she said. She shared cellphone photos of evidence of beatings she said were from her daughter’s father when she was pregnant with her first child, leaving her with a bruised eye and head wound. She was able to get a protective order against him. “Good,” Shah said, gently touching her back. “I just can’t have another baby right now. My body isn’t ready.”

Means shit squat to the nazi element in the Republican Party. Shit squat.

"In the break room, clinic staffers discussed what might happen if Roe is overturned. But they had full schedule of patients and knew they needed to take a break to eat if they were going to keep their energy up. They passed around menus from a Vietnamese restaurant. Shah rarely has time to eat, but she paid the tab for the staff. Next on Shah’s schedule was Savannah, a 29-year-old with children ages 6 and 1 at home. She rushed in when her name was called. “I have to take my kids trick-or-treating after we talk,” she said. She explained that she was there for an abortion because she just had a baby. Her birth control failed. She is studying criminal justice with hopes of becoming a lawyer. She is a former methamphetamine addict who earned money dancing in a strip club, but she couldn’t work after becoming pregnant and ended up homeless. Now, she said she had turned her life around and is trying to be a good mother to the children she already has. “For me, for my sobriety, for me finally being able to get an education, I don’t want another child right now,” she said, adding she had given it a lot of thought. She was about seven weeks pregnant. Savannah had been volunteering for Planned Parenthood, working the phones to tell callers there is nothing to be ashamed of in having an abortion and making sure they know their rights: “I’ve spoken to women and say, ‘It’s your life.’ These men in government, telling you what to do, don’t know your life. Have they ever been a pregnant, homeless stripper? No. At the very least they should mind their own business. That’s all they have to do.”

Goddamned f--king right. ... Hear the rumble?

"She told Shah that she thinks she’s brave for doing the work she does — providing abortion services. And she was impressed that she came all the way from New York. “Wow, that’s very admirable,” she told Shah. “Thank you.” “Don’t worry about me,” Shah said. “I’m actually honored to be able to care for you.”

Uncommon Valor. Great courage. Hat's off, Doctor.

12-10-21

Did the Trump nazi's Supreme Court nominees lie under oath? The Associated Press reports:

"During his confirmation to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh convinced Sen. Susan Collins that he thought a woman’s right to an abortion was “settled law,” calling the court cases affirming it “precedent on precedent” that could not be casually overturned. Amy Coney Barrett told senators during her Senate confirmation hearing that laws could not be undone simply by personal beliefs, including her own. “It’s not the law of Amy,” she quipped. But during this week’s landmark Supreme Court hearing over a Mississippi law that could curtail if not outright end a woman’s right to abortion, the two newest justices struck a markedly different tone, drawing lines of questioning widely viewed as part of the court’s willingness to dismantle decades old decisions on access to abortion services. The disconnect is raising fresh questions about the substance, purpose and theater of the Senate’s confirmation process that some say is badly broken. And it’s creating hard politics for Collins and another Senate Republican who supports abortion rights, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, as the nation confronts the potential unraveling of the law. “I support Roe,” Collins said as she ducked into an elevator shortly after Wednesday’s arguments at the court. The Maine Republican voted to confirm Kavanaugh but opposed Barrett’s nomination as too close to the 2020 presidential election. Murkowski declined a hallway interview Thursday at the Capitol and has not provided further public comment. She opposed Kavanaugh and supported Barrett, both nominees among the most narrowly confirmed in the split Senate. The court’s ruling on the Mississippi case may not be known until June but the fallout from the week’s arguments are reviving concerns that the judicial branch, like nation’s other civic institutions, is becoming deeply politicized, and that the Congress — specifically the Senate — must do better in its constitutional role to advise and consent on presidential nominees."

Think that's possible with the nazi element dominating the Republican Party?

“It’s not like the senators have been naive and have trusted too much,” said Neil Siegel, a law professor at Duke University, who has served as a special counsel to Senate Democrats, including when Joe Biden was a senator. “I think the problem is primarily that we’re deeply polarized, and the Constitution makes nomination and confirmation of federal judges, including justices, a political process.”

That has to change. Unacceptable alternative? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.

"Confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee are intense affairs, hourslong sessions that typically drag for days as one senator after another grills the president’s nominees over their approach to the law. Kavanaugh’s hearing in 2018 exploded amid stunning allegations he had sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford when they were teenagers at a house party decades ago, claims he vehemently denied."

Think the son of a bitch didn't lie under oath?

"The abortion debates have been front and center at confirmation hearings, but senators snapped to focus as Republican Donald Trump nominated three conservative justices during his presidential term, potentially tipping the nine-member court away from centrists and liberals."

They're 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.

"Suddenly what had been long debates over the legal precedents set by the landmark cases Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey became very real-life questions for American women as Republicans reached for the long-sought goal of rolling back abortion access."

These nazis clearly believe they own your uterus, ladies. Do they?

"Kavanaugh repeatedly told the senators under grilling from Democrats and Republicans that the women’s right to an abortion has been affirmed. “The Supreme Court has recognized the right to an abortion since the 1973 Roe v. Wade case — has affirmed it many times,” he told Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C."

Clearly, the nazi lied. The bastards stupidly bought his bullshit, raw deception:

"To Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Kavanaugh stressed “the importance of the precedent” under the previous court rulings and a “woman has a constitutional right to obtain an abortion before viability,” referring to the 24 weeks of pregnancy now in question under the Mississippi law, which would lower the threshold to 15 weeks. He won over Collins, who is not on the panel, after his assurances during a two-hour meeting. Yet during this week’s court hearing Kavanaugh read from a long list of court cases that have upturned past precedents and questioned why the court couldn’t now do the same with abortion. “If you think about some of the most important cases, the most consequential cases in this court’s history, there’s a string of them where the cases overruled precedent,” he said."

He's a goddamned liar.

More deception, disingenuous bullshit from the liar:

"Kavanaugh said during the court hearing that the abortion debate is “hard” and perhaps the court should throw it to the states to decide — essentially ending the federal protection. Senators said the justices could simply be submitting a line of questioning, forcing the lawyers for the state and the federal government to respond, rather than reflecting their own reading of the law. But Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who had intense exchanges with Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett during the confirmation battles — and voted against both — said what she heard from the court was about what she expected. “I’m not one bit surprised,” Klobuchar said."

Clearly, the nazi element in the Republican Party, including Republican Supreme Court 'justices' are congenital, disingenuous liars.

"Barrett had told senators that Roe v. Wade did not fall in the category of a “super precedent,” described by legal scholars as cases that are so settled there are no calls to revisit them. Yet as a conservative Christian, she insisted one’s own views don’t play a role. “It’s not the law of Amy,” she told senators. “It’s the law of the American people.”

The nazi Republican Supreme Court 'justice' lied. You control your uterus, madam. To claim control of the uterus of other women is the height of nazi Aryan arrogance. The following is disingenuous bullshit that clearly demonstrates this 'Justice' has no credibility:

"This week, Barrett pressed the lawyers to explain why women couldn’t simply give up babies for adoption, now that safe haven laws exist in the states. ”Why didn’t you address the safe haven laws and why don’t they matter?”

The following is gutless and precisely why Democrats have zero credibility:

"Asked about the disconnect between the Senate hearings and the court arguments, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and now the Judiciary Committee chairman, acknowledged the hearings have their limits, but refrained from judgment until the court issues its ruling."

Here's the problem:

"Perhaps not since Ruth Bader Ginsburg told senators during her own confirmation hearing in 1993 that the decision to bear a child is “central to a woman’s right, her dignity” have nominees been as out-front on their views. The norm now is for nominees to hold their views close."

Not acceptable. The questioning needs to be extremely intense. If a nominee balks, the disingenuous piece of shit should not be confirmed. The problem is clearly 'wishy washy' gutless Democrats who won't proverbially hold the feet of these nazi assholes to the fire:

“We can’t ask for sworn affidavits,” Durbin said. “My belief is the person and their life experience is more predictive of the outcome of future cases than any declaration they make to a committee.”

Why don't you resign in disgrace, Senator? You're worthless. Clearly, a major part of the problem.

Think Republican nazis in the Senate are any better? Wake up. Get this:

"Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, a former judge, shrugged off the difference between what’s said in committee hearings as a fact of life in politics. “I’ve seen too many confirmation conversions, where people basically repudiate things they’ve done and said in the past in order to get confirmed, but once we’ve somebody gets confirmed, there’s basically nothing we can do about it,” said Cornyn, who voted to confirm both Kavanaugh and Barrett."

That's bullshit, Senator. You can do the right thing, that is, impeach, convict, and remove this excrement from office. ... Instead of engaging in insane partisanship, you can certainly put principle ahead of all the bullshit. -- As your fellow Republicans did forcing Nixon's resignation nearly half a century ago.

“I don’t think they’re a sham,” he said. “I think there’s useful discussions but obviously there’s no consequences associated with voting in a way that’s different from what you said in the hearing.”

It is you, Senator, and those who think like you in both failed major political parties that are and remain the sham.

12-3-21

Nazi justice. ... Hear the rumble? The Associated Press reports:

"The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday signaled it would uphold Mississippi’s 15-week ban on abortion and may go much further to overturn the nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years. The fate of the court’s historic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion throughout the United States and its 1992 ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which reaffirmed Roe, probably won’t be known until next June. But after nearly two hours of arguments, all six conservative justices, including three appointed by former President Donald Trump, indicated they would uphold the Mississippi law. At the very least, such a decision would undermine Roe and Casey, which allow states to regulate but not ban abortion up until the point of viability, at roughly 24 weeks. And there was also substantial support among the conservative justices for getting rid of Roe and Casey altogether."

The six Republican national socialists 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.

"The court’s three liberal justices said that reversing Roe and Casey would significantly damage the court’s legitimacy. “Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?” Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked. Justice Elena Kagan said the abortion decisions are “part of the fabric of women’s place in this country.”

Not in the view of the nazi element in the Republican Party.

"The case came to a court with a 6-3 conservative majority that has been transformed by the justices named by Trump, who had pledged to appoint justices who oppose abortion rights."

If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and many, many other issues.

NBC News reports:

"Justice Sonia Sotomayor used her questions during a Supreme Court hearing Wednesday on abortion rights to urge her conservative colleagues to follow precedent and not politics in deciding the case. Sotomayor noted that the sponsors of the 2018 Mississippi abortion law, which would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, had said they were pushing ahead with the legislation and a court challenge "because we have new justices" on the Supreme Court. Former President Donald Trump successfully nominated three Supreme Court justices during his four-year term, giving the conservatives a 6-3 majority."

Expect less of the Trump nazi? A nazi who treasonously, traitorously incited the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection.

"Sotomayor, who was nominated by then-President Barack Obama, said that tossing out the landmark rulings establishing abortion rights would tarnish the court's reputation and open the floodgates to other challenges of well-settled law. “Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts? I don’t see how it is possible," Sotomayor said, while questioning Mississippi's solicitor general Scott Stewart. She called Roe v. Wade a watershed decision that created an "entrenched set of expectations in our society, that this is what the court decided, this is what we will follow." Overturning Roe could have other far-reaching consequences as well, she warned. "I could name any other set of rights, including the Second Amendment by the way. There are many political people who believe the court erred in seeing this is a personal right as opposed to a militia right," she said. "If people actually believe that it's all political, how will we survive? How will the court survive?" Stewart countered that there have been medical "advancements" since Roe was decided in 1973 and since the court's 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. That ruling has held that states can impose some restrictions on abortion as long as they do not present an "undue burden" but the procedure cannot be prohibited before fetal viability, generally considered to be 23 to 24 weeks into pregnancy. Sotomayor asked Stewart what that the medical advancements have been since Casey, and he said "knowledge and concern about such things as fetal pain" prior to 24 weeks. Sotomayor accused him of using junk science, and said there's a "small fringe of doctors" who hold that view and it's "not one well-founded in science at all." "How is your interest anything but a religious view?" Sotomayor later asked. "When does the life of a woman and putting her at risk enter the calculus?" She said "forcing women who are poor" to proceed with unwanted pregnancies puts them "at a tremendously greater risk of medical complications and ending their life, fourteen times greater to give birth to a child full term than it is to have an abortion before viability. And now the state is saying to these women, we can choose not only to physically complicate your existence, put you at medical risk, make you poorer by the choice, because we believe what?" Stewart said a woman's interest "is there the entire time. All the interests are there the entire time."

Clearly to the Stewart nazi day is night, night is day, and shit smells perversely sweet. All ass backwards from reality. Expect better of a national socialist, an Aryan arrogant fascist?

"The court on Wednesday appeared prepared to uphold the Mississippi law, which would represent a dramatic break from 50 years of rulings. But it was unclear after Wednesday's argument whether the court would take the additional step of explicitly overturning its abortion precedents, including Roe v Wade. It's unclear when the court will rule."

If there is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and an exponentially increasing list of other issues embraced by the nazi element in the Republican Party. Democrats? Worthless. Have no ability or willingness to stand up to these goddamned traitorous national socialists, achingly clueless fascists.

11-5-21

In follow-up to the voting and abortion fiasco in Nazi Texas, NPR(AP) reports:

"The NAACP is urging athletes in major sports to consider not signing with professional teams in Texas in response to the state's voting and abortion laws and its ban on mask requirements. Leaders of the NAACP issued an open letter Thursday to players associations for the NBA, NFL, WNBA, MLB and NHL. The NAACP leaders called Texas' laws "a blueprint by legislators to violate constitutional rights for all," and asked free agents to reconsider moving their families to a state that is "not safe for anyone." The civil rights organization reminded the free agents to also consider the influence their platforms hold. "When all else fails, we must look within and answer the call to protect the basic human rights and democratic values which are fundamental to this country," said NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson. "Professional athletes serve as some of our country's greatest role models and we need them to join us to fight for democracy." "If you are a woman, avoid Texas. If you are Black, avoid Texas. If you want to lower your chances of dying from coronavirus, avoid Texas," Johnson continued in the letter."

Readers are reminded:

"Texas' abortion law, SB8 (known as the Texas Heartbeat Act), is considered one of the strictest in the country. The law bans almost all abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy — even in cases of rape, incest and sexual abuse."

Raw nazism. Direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The state's law provides for private citizens to enforce the law by suing abortion providers or anyone else who helps a woman break the law, giving the citizens money if they win."

Nazi bounty system craftily designed to avoid scrutiny by the outrageously failed judicial system.

"Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill that enacts several restrictions on voting. The provisions include: banning Texans from registering to vote using a post office box as their address, banning drive-thru voting, and restricting applications for a mail-in ballot for medical reasons. Abbott, who is the only lawmaker mentioned by name in the NAACP's letter, has also been the subject of criticism for lifting COVID-19 restrictions, making masks optional and allowing businesses to reopen. "Personal vigilance to follow the [safety] standards is still needed to contain COVID. It's just that now, state mandates are no longer needed," Abbott said in his Mar. 2 news conference. Earlier this month, Abbott issued an executive order banning vaccine requirements and calling for state lawmakers to pass the ban into law. Also in the open letter, the NAACP leaders said the rights of people of color are being attacked in Texas, attacks Texas NAACP President Gary Bledsoe called reprehensible. Bledsoe says that Texans must stand together and "use all of the tools at their disposal" to protect human rights. "We must fight for our Constitution and the freedoms that it guarantees to all Americans," he said."

Liberty? Gone.

Get this:

"There are nine major professional teams across Texas: the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets; the WNBA's Dallas Wings; the NFL's Houston Texans and Dallas Cowboys; the MLB's Texas Rangers and Houston Astros; and the NHL's Dallas Stars. NPR reached out to the league players associations; they did not immediately respond to requests for comment."

The Associated Press reports:

"A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Monday they would allow abortion providers to pursue a court challenge to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second-largest state after six weeks of pregnancy. But it was unclear how quickly the court would rule and whether it would issue an order blocking the law that has been in effect for two months, or require providers to ask a lower court put the law on hold. Two conservative justices, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, voted in September to allow the law to take effect, but they raised questions Monday about its novel structure. The law was written to make it difficult to mount legal challenges, and it subjects clinics, doctors and others who facilitate an abortion to large financial penalties. “There’s a loophole that’s been exploited here, or used here,” Kavanaugh said, explaining that the question for the court is whether to “close that loophole.” Kavanaugh suggested that the “principle” and “whole sweep” of a 1908 Supreme Court case would “suggest extending the principle here, arguably” and closing the loophole."

Imagine that. A bounty system indeed too nazi for a Republican nazi on the Court. LOL.

"The justices heard three hours of arguments Monday in two cases over whether abortion providers or the Justice Department can mount federal court challenges to the law, which has an unusual enforcement scheme its defenders argue shields it from federal court review. The Biden administration filed its lawsuit after the justices voted 5-4 to refuse a request by providers to keep the law on hold. Three other conservative justices joined Barrett and Kavanaugh in the majority to let the law take effect. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s three liberal justices in dissent. The justices sounded less convinced that the Justice Department lawsuit should go forward, and Justice Elena Kagan suggested that a ruling instead in favor of the providers would allow the court to avoid difficult issues of federal power. In neither case Monday is the right to an abortion directly at issue. But the motivation for the lawsuits is that the Texas law conflicts with landmark Supreme Court rulings that prevent a state from banning abortion early in pregnancy. Arguing for the United States, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices that Texas’ law was enacted in “open defiance” of Supreme Court precedent. “It enacted a law that clearly violates this court’s precedents,” she said."

No question.

"Under the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision, states are prevented from banning abortion before viability, the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb, around 24 weeks of pregnancy. The justices will hear a separate challenge to those decisions in a case over Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks. Those arguments are set for Dec. 1. Kagan told Judd E. Stone II, arguing for Texas, that until Texas passed its law, “no state dreamed” of trying to make an end-run around Supreme Court precedent in the same way. If the Supreme Court doesn’t do anything about that, she said, it would be inviting states to try to flout precedent: “Guns. Same-sex marriage. Religious rights. Whatever you don’t like: go ahead,” she said. Kagan, who disagreed with her colleagues’ decision to let the law take effect, said Texas’ law has prevented women in Texas “from exercising a constitutional right.” Kavanaugh also raised concerns about laws that might affect other constitutional rights."

10-29-21

In follow-up to the ongoing abortion fiasco in Nazi Texas, The Associated Press reports:

"The Supreme Court is not immediately blocking the Texas law that bans most abortions, but has agreed to hear arguments in the case in early November."

What the f--k have they been waiting for? Hell to freeze over? The fascist bastards have been dragging their feet. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The justices said Friday they will decide whether the federal government has the right to sue over the law. Answering that question will help determine whether the law should be blocked while legal challenges continue. The court is moving at an unusually fast pace that suggests it plans to make a decision quickly. Arguments are set for Nov. 1."

Certainly, doesn't look good with nazi Republicans enjoying a 6-3 majority. Sadly and despite all the current foot-dragging, this is indeed a pace quicker than normal for this Court. Tragic, isn't it? Precisely, what desperately needs to change. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and an exponentially increasing number of other issues. Republican fascists, in goose step with their insane fuhrer the Trump nazi, are taking a raucous hard dump on all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

Here's the problem:

"The court’s action leaves in place for the time being a law that clinics say has led to an 80% reduction in abortions in the nation’s second-largest state. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that she would have blocked the law now. “The promise of future adjudication offers cold comfort, however, for Texas women seeking abortion care, who are entitled to relief now,” Sotomayor wrote."

No question. Expect better from the nazi Republican majority on the Court? Republican nazis are desperately forcing their perverse ideology and religious views on an increasingly unwilling public in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.

"The law has been in effect since September, aside from a district court-ordered pause that lasted just 48 hours, and bans abortions once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks and before some women know they are pregnant. That’s well before the Supreme Court’s major abortion decisions allow states to prohibit abortion, although the court has agreed to hear an appeal from Mississippi asking it to overrule those decisions, in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. But the Texas law was written to evade early federal court review by putting enforcement of it into the hands of private citizens, rather than state officials."

A pernicious end run around existing law and the United States Constitution imposed by the nazi element in the Republican Party.

Even worse? Get this:

"The focus of the high court arguments will not be on the abortion ban, but whether the Justice Department can sue and obtain a court order that effectively prevents the law from being enforced, the Supreme Court said in its brief order."

The nazi bastards on the Supreme Court are indeed effectively dragging their feet in goose step with their fellow Republicans.

"If the law stays in effect, “no decision of this Court is safe. States need not comply with, or even challenge, precedents with which they disagree. They may simply outlaw the exercise of whatever rights they disfavor,” the Biden administration wrote in a brief filed earlier in the day."

No question. Quite true. Worse? Think Democrats won't do the same vis a vis gun control? Won't use the same tactics as these Republican nazis to attack the Second Amendment? That is, impose a similar $10,000 bounty system enforced by other civilians through lawsuits to go after gun owners, thus avoiding judicial oversight and enforcement of constitutional rights? Time to wake up.

"Other state-enforced bans on abortion before the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb, around 24 weeks, have been blocked by courts because they conflict with Supreme Court precedents. “Texas should not obtain a different result simply by pairing its unconstitutional law with an unprecedented enforcement scheme designed to evade the traditional mechanisms for judicial review,” the administration wrote. A day earlier, the state urged the court to leave the law in place, saying the federal government lacked the authority to file its lawsuit challenging the Texas ban. The Justice Department filed suit over the law after the Supreme Court rejected an earlier effort by abortion providers to put the measure on hold temporarily. In early October, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled for the administration, putting the law on hold and allowing abortions to resume. Two days later, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put the law back into effect. The court already is hearing arguments on Dec. 1 in the Mississippi case in which that state is calling for the court to overrule the Roe and Casey decisions."

... Hear the rumble?

10-22-21

In follow-up to the abortion fiasco in Texas, The Associated Press reports:

"The Biden administration said Friday it will turn next to the U.S. Supreme Court in another attempt to halt a Texas law that has banned most abortions since September."

What took so long? Why all the foot-dragging?

"The move comes as the Texas clinics are running out of avenues to stop the GOP-engineered law that bans abortions once cardiac activity is detected, which is usually around six weeks. It amounts to the nation’s biggest curb to abortion in nearly 50 years."

Called raw nazism. By Republican nazis in the Texas Legislature and the achingly nazi Texas Governor. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The latest defeat for clinics came Thursday night when a federal appeals panel in New Orleans, in a 2-1 decision, allowed the restrictions to remain in place for a third time in the last several weeks alone. Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said the federal government will now ask the Supreme Court to reverse that decision but did not say how quickly."

Why all the goddamned foot-dragging? Why? When will increasingly worthless Democrats finally, effectively challenge the nazi element in the Republican Party? When?

"The Biden administration was under pressure from abortion rights supporters to go to the Supreme Court even before the announcement. The court already once allowed the restrictions to take effect, but did so without ruling on the law’s constitutionality."

Time to force the issue. Expose the 6-3 Republican nazi-owned Court for precisely what it is.

"Since the law took effect Sept. 1, Texas women have sought out abortion clinics in neighboring states, some driving hours through the middle of the night and including patients as young as 12 years old. The law makes no exception for cases of rape or incest."

The nazi element in the Republican Party truly believes it owns your uterus, ladies. Does it?

Spoken by a Republican nazi Texas AG under criminal indictment for years on unrelated matters:

"The Texas Attorney General’s Office called Thursday night’s decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals a “testament that we are on the right side of the law and life.”

Your hypocrisy, sir? Stunning, you fascist son of a bitch.

"A 1992 decision by the Supreme Court prevented states from banning abortion before viability, the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb, around 24 weeks of pregnancy. But Texas’ law has outmaneuvered courts so far because it offloads enforcement to private citizens. Anyone who brings a successful lawsuit against an abortion provider for violating the law is entitled to claim at least $10,000 in damages, which the Biden administration says amounts to a bounty."

Raw nazism. These outrageously fascist pieces of human excrement treasonously, traitorously responsible for this outrageously unconstitutional law have betrayed their falsely sworn oaths of office to uphold the United States Constitution. Traitorous nazis.

"Already the stakes are high in the coming months over the future of abortion rights in the U.S. In December, the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court will hear Mississippi’s bid to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that guarantees a woman’s right to an abortion. On Wednesday, 18 state attorneys generals from mostly GOP-controlled states threw new support behind the Texas law, urging the court to let the restrictions stand while accusing the federal government of overstepping in bringing the challenge in the first place. Last month, more than 20 other states, mostly run by Democrats, had urged the lower court to throw out the law. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has called the law “clearly unconstitutional” and warned that it could become a model elsewhere in the country unless it’s struck down."

The future of our formerly great country is not good. An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and an exponentially increasing number of other equally intolerable issues embraced and forced by the nazi element in the Republican Party. ... Hear the rumble?

Think equally insane Democrats won't follow the Republican example and set up a similar bounty system against gun ownership similarly enforced by civilians through lawsuits? Time to wake up.

10-15-21

In follow-up to the abortion crisis in Texas, The Associated Press reports:

"A federal appeals court has allowed Texas to resume banning most abortions, just one day after clinics began racing to serve patients again for the first time since early September."

An outrageously biased nazi court desperate to force its perverse ideology and religious views on the rest of us in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"A one-page order by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued late Friday reinstated the nation’s strictest abortion law, which bans abortions once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks. It makes no exceptions in cases of rape or incest. “Patients are being thrown back into a state of chaos and fear,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which represents several Texas clinics that had briefly resumed normal abortion services. She called on the U.S. Supreme Court to “step in and stop this madness.”

Highly unlikely since the highest court in the country is run and owned by a 6-3 Republican nazi majority.

"Clinics had braced for the New Orleans-based appeals court to act fast after U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, an appointee of President Barack Obama, on Wednesday suspended the Texas law that he called an “offensive deprivation” of the constitutional right to an abortion. Knowing that order might not stand long, a handful of Texas clinics on Thursday started performing abortions again beyond six weeks, and booked new appointments for this weekend."

Uncommon Valor on the part of these clinics who may face retroactive law suits by Republican nazi bounty hunters empowered by this outrageously unconstitutional law imposed by nazis in the Texas Legislature and our nazi Governor.

"But barely 48 hours passed before the appeals court accepted Texas’ request to set aside Pitman’s ruling — at least for now — pending further arguments. It gave the Biden administration, which had brought the lawsuit, until Tuesday to respond. “Great news tonight,” Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tweeted. “I will fight federal overreach at every turn.”

What a goddamned nazi. -- A Republican nazi already under indictment himself for years on unrelated matters who falsely swore an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. ... Hey, Kenny? Do you and your fellow Republican fascists delusionally believe you own a woman's uterus? Can dictate to her what she can and cannot do with HER uterus?

"Texas had roughly two dozen abortion clinics before the law took effect Sept. 1. During the brief period the law was on hold, many Texas physicians remained unwilling to perform abortions, fearful that doing so could still leave them in legal jeopardy."

Sad, isn't it? Doesn't affect the rich. They can simply fly out of state. F--ks the poor and middle class who will either be forced to raise an unwanted child, or endure a dangerous back alley illegal abortion performed by a charlatan. A butcher. Thanks to the nazi element in the Republican Party. A raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil!, you outrageously fascist bastards.

Readers will recall the perverse, pernicious scheme imposed by these clueless Republican sons of bitches:

"The new law threatens Texas abortion providers with lawsuits from private citizens, who are entitled to collect at least $10,000 in damages if successful. That novel approach to enforcement is the reason why Texas had been able to evade an earlier wave of legal challenges prior to this week. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals had already once allowed the law to take effect in September, and stepped in this time only hours after Paxton’s office urged them to act. His office told the court that since the state does not enforce the law, it cannot “be held responsible for the filings of private citizens that Texas is powerless to prevent.”

This, coming from an indicted Texas Attorney General who has delayed his own prosecution for years.

"It is unclear how many abortions Texas clinics performed while the law was on hold. On Thursday, at least six abortion providers had resumed normal services or were gearing up to do so, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. Prior to Pitman’s blistering 113-page order, other courts had declined to stop the law, which bans abortions before some women even know they are pregnant. That includes the Supreme Court, which allowed it to move forward in September without ruling on its constitutionality."

Five of the six Republican nazis on the Supreme Court, in direct violation of their oaths of office to uphold the Constitution, allowed this nazi law to go into effect temporarily for months without a hearing.

"A 1992 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court prevented states from banning abortion before viability, the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb, around 24 weeks of pregnancy. But Texas’ version has so far outmaneuvered the courts because it leaves enforcement to private citizens to file suits, not prosecutors, which critics say amounts to a bounty."

What's next? An effort by Democrats to do the same regarding gun control? Think goddamned Democrats won't attempt to impose their pet projects using the same outrageously unconstitutional tactics?

Read and consider the next five words of the following quote very, very carefully:

“This is an answered prayer,” said Kimberlyn Schwartz, spokeswoman for Texas Right to Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion group."

No more than an outrageously unconstitutional attempt to impose their perverse ideology and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
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