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Ladybbird · 03-09-21, 08:37

Devastating and Cruel Most Extreme Abortion Law in US Takes Effect in Texas

US supreme court fails to act to block near-total ban that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers

Biden vows 'whole-of-government' response to new law

BBC News 3 SEP. 2021

US President Joe Biden has launched a "whole-of-government" response to oppose a new law in Texas that bans most abortions.

He called the Supreme Court's decision not to block the law an "unprecedented assault" on women's rights.

Any individual now has the right to sue anyone involved with providing or facilitating an abortion past six weeks of pregnancy in Texas.

This is before many women know they have conceived.

Rights groups had asked the Supreme Court to block the law, but it refused following a 5-4 vote.

The judges said their decision was not based on any conclusion about whether the Texas law was constitutional or not, and that the door remained open for legal challenges.

One of the liberal Supreme Court judges, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said those justices who had allowed the law to stand had "opted to bury their heads in the sand" over a "flagrantly unconstitutional law".

President Biden accused the court of unleashing "unconstitutional chaos". "The highest court of our land will allow millions in Texas in need of critical reproductive care to suffer while courts sift through procedural complexities," he said.

Mr Biden said he had asked the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice to see what steps the national government could take to "insulate women and providers", but did not provide further details.

He said the law violated the landmark Roe v Wade case in 1973, in which the Supreme Court legalised abortion across the US. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that the president had long wanted to see the "codification" of Roe v Wade - which would mean Congress voting to make the precedent federal law.

Texas' Republican Governor Greg Abbott has said his state will "always defend the right to life".

The ruling was welcomed by Dan Patrick, Texas's Republican lieutenant governor, who tweeted: "A tremendous #prolife victory! This lifesaving legislation reflects Texas' pro-life beliefs and our continued commitment to protecting the most vulnerable."

How have abortion providers reacted?

Abortion providers in Texas were also looking for ways to challenge the new law, while dealing with its immediate impact.

"It has been truly devastating," said Andrea Ferrigno of Whole Woman's Health.

Patients have been "talking about their despair and how they've felt pressured and rushed to make a decision", she told the BBC.

For people already beyond the six-week deadline, she said Whole Women's Health had been offering information about what they could do next.

But she said the company was also "regrouping and consulting with our legal counsel" to decide on its next steps.

In the city of San Antonio, Planned Parenthood said it had paused its abortion services "while this plays in the courts".

Its director of public affairs, Mara Posada, said they were "getting calls and having to either let a person know that they cannot get an abortion after six weeks here in Texas, or if they are early enough in their pregnancy, we are referring them to a provider that is currently providing abortion care under the limits".

She added that in the week leading up to the law coming into force, they had seen twice the normal number of patients.

Hope Hanzlik, 21, had an abortion earlier this week, five weeks into her pregnancy. Her abortion provider told her they were having trouble finding appointments for everyone and that she was fortunate to get one.

How does the new law apply?

The so-called Texas Heartbeat Act prohibits abortions after what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists says the term "heartbeat" is misleading, and that what is being detected at this stage is "a portion of the foetal tissue that will become the heart as the embryo develops".

The Texas law enforces its ban with an uncommon approach: it empowers any private citizen to sue anyone who "aids and abets" an illegal abortion.

This means that an American may now be able to seek up to $10,000 (£7,200) in damages in a civil court against abortion providers and doctors - and possibly anyone involved in the process. People like clinic staff, family members, or clergy who encourage or support the procedure could, in theory, be sued.

Turning over enforcement of the Heartbeat Act to private citizens instead of government officials likely means that - in the absence of Supreme Court intervention - the law cannot be challenged until a private citizen seeks damages.

The legislation makes an exception in the case of medical emergency, which requires written proof from a doctor, but not for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.

Texan women who wish to have an abortion after six weeks will need to travel to other states.

What is Roe v Wade?

Abortions were made legal across the US in a landmark 1973 Supreme Court judgement, often referred to as the Roe v Wade case.

By a vote of seven to two, the court justices ruled that individual state governments lacked the power to prohibit abortions.

The court's judgement was based on the decision that a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy came under the freedom of personal choice in family matters as protected by the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.

The ruling came after a 25-year-old single woman, Norma McCorvey under the pseudonym "Jane Roe", challenged the criminal abortion laws in Texas that forbade most abortions.

Henry Wade was the Texas attorney general who defended the anti-abortion law.

The case created the "trimester" system that:

gives American women an absolute right to an abortion in the first three months of pregnancy
allows some government regulation in the second trimester of pregnancy
declares that states may restrict or ban abortions in the last trimester as the foetus nears the point where it could live outside the womb

Ladybbird · 07-09-21, 07:07

Texas Abortion Clinics Will be Protected, Justice Department Says

The US Justice Department says it will protect clinics that perform abortions in Texas, a state with a near-total ban on voluntary pregnancy terminations.

BBC News 7 SEP 2021.

The department said it would "provide support from federal law enforcement" when a clinic, reproductive health centre or patient was "under attack".

A new Texas law bans abortions from as early as six weeks into pregnancy.

Doctors and women's rights groups have criticised the legislation, known as SB8, that took effect last week.

The so-called "Heartbeat Act" was signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in May.

The law, one of the most restrictive in the country, bans abortions after the detection of what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat, something medical authorities say is misleading.

It also gives any individual the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point.

The law took effect after the Supreme Court did not respond to an emergency appeal by abortion providers.

"We will not tolerate violence against those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services, physical obstruction or property damage in violation of the FACE Act," US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement on Monday.

The FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act took effect in 1994. It prohibits any form of threatening or violent behaviour towards anyone obtaining reproductive health services, typically an abortion.

In the statement, Mr Garland said his department would enforce FACE, while it "urgently explores all options to challenge Texas SB8 in order to protect the constitutional rights of women and other persons".

How do Americans feel about abortion rights?

Abortion has long been one of the country's most contentious social issues. However, polls from the Pew Research Center indicate nearly six in 10 Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

This number has remained relatively stable over the past two decades, but masks a partisan divide: only 35% of Republicans support that position.

In conservative Texas, an April poll found nearly half of the state's voters support a six-week ban on abortions.

Ladybbird · 01-04-22, 14:58

Police Find Five Foetuses at The Home of US Anti-Abortion Activist

Five foetuses have been discovered in a US home reportedly belonging to an anti-abortion activist, police say.

BBC News 1APR 2022.

Lauren Handy, left, is a leader of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising
Lauren Handy, 28, is a leader of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) group and describes herself as a "Catholic anarchist".

Police said they were investigating a "potential bio-hazard material" when the foetuses were found.

Ms Handy was separately indicted on Wednesday for forcing entry into an abortion clinic in 2020.

She was photographed outside the Washington DC address on Wednesday as investigators removed items from the basement in bags and coolers.

She told local news outlet WUSA9 that "people would freak out when they heard" what was inside the containers being seized.

Local police said they could not confirm if the home where the foetuses were found was in fact Ms Handy's. However, two law enforcement officials told the Washington Post that the house was where Ms Handy was arrested and had lived or stayed.

"There doesn't seem to be anything criminal in nature about that except for how they got into this house," Ashan Benedict, executive assistant Washington DC police chief, said at a news conference.

Ms Handy recently claimed to have "gained access" to a foetal tissue and organ bank at the University of Washington in Seattle, but the university said nothing was taken.

According to a separate federal indictment issued on Thursday, Ms Handy made an appointment at an abortion provider, the Washington Surgi-Clinic in DC, for 22 October 2020 under the name Hazel Jenkins, saying she wanted an abortion.

But upon her arrival, a group "forcefully entered the clinic", the indictment says, knocking over a clinic employee who injured her ankle.

Under that indictment, Ms Handy and eight other members of the group are charged with conspiring to injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate patients and employees, in violation of their federal rights to seek and provide reproductive health services.

They are also charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) for using force to interfere with the clinic's services.

If convicted, they each could face up to 11 years in prison and a fine of up to $350,000 (£266,000).

Ladybbird · 05-05-22, 09:40

Roe v Wade US Women on Leaked Abortion Ruling

Abortion Ruling: US Supreme Court Says Leak is Real as Investigation Launched

BBC News 5 MAY 222.

A leaked document suggesting millions of US women could lose the legal right to abortion is genuine, the Supreme Court's chief justice has confirmed.

But it does not represent the court's final decision, said John Roberts.

The leak has stirred expectations that the 1973 decision which legalised abortion in the US could be overturned, allowing individual states to ban it.

President Joe Biden has argued that the decision - if it goes ahead - could call other freedoms into question.

The leaked document - labelled "1st Draft" - appears to reflect the majority opinion of the court.

Written by Justice Samuel Alito, it calls the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling - which legalised abortion across the US - "egregiously wrong from the start".

The draft is not a final ruling, and opinions could change. But if Roe v Wade is overturned, around half of US states could ban abortion.

In a statement, Chief Justice Roberts described the leak of the draft - first published by US website Politico - as "a singular and egregious breach" and asked the Marshal of the Supreme Court to launch an investigation.

The work of the court would "not be affected in any way", he added.

The draft's release has caused a wave of reaction from both sides. Anti-abortion law firm Americans United for Life urged the court to disregard "the expectations of pro-abortion activists or proxy media allies".

Planned Parenthood - the largest provider of reproductive health services in the US - has said it would "continue to fight like hell to protect the right to access safe, legal abortion".

It says its research found that 36 million women could lose abortion access if Roe v Wade were struck down.

The ruling is in the court's sights because Mississippi is asking for it to be overturned, with a final decision expected in late June or early July.

Thirteen states have already passed so-called trigger laws that will automatically ban abortion if Roe is overruled this summer. A number of others would be likely to pass laws quickly.

On Tuesday, Oklahoma's governor signed into law an anti-abortion measure based on one passed in Texas last year. The law allows any private citizen to sue anyone who aids in an abortion after six weeks of gestation - before many women even know they are pregnant.

President Joe Biden warned that such a legal change - if the decision stays the same - would have far-reaching implications.

"It concerns me a great deal that we're going to, after 50 years, decide a woman does not have a right to choose," he said.
"But even more, equally profound is the rationale used. It would mean that every other decision relating to the notion of privacy is thrown into question."

Mr Biden said he wanted legislation to enshrine the existing guarantees of abortion access.

"If it becomes the law, and if what is written remains, it goes far beyond the concern of whether or not there is the right to choose," he said.

"It goes to other basic rights - the right to marriage, the right to determine a whole range of things."

BBC North America reporter Anthony Zurcher says the basis for this lies in distinctions drawn by Justice Samuel Alito in the leaked opinion, which he wrote.

Some rights are spelt out in the US Constitution, the judge wrote, while others, such as access to abortion, are mere "unenumerated rights".

Our reporter points out that the same argument could be used in the case of gay marriage, in vitro fertilisation or certain forms of contraception.

MORE;

What is the Roe v Wade ruling?

N.B.: They should call it 'TRUMPS LAW' He and his cronies took womens rights back to the middle ages.
Even WOMEN that are RAPED are NOT allowed abortions in many states,,,,,

Ladybbird · 03-06-22, 07:18

Irish Doctor Says “Women Will Die” if Roe v. Wade is Overturned in The US

“Women will die as a consequence of this," Irish man Dr. Peter Boylan said about the US Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe v. Wade, which protects women's access to abortion.

Irish Central 3 JUN 2022

Dr. Peter Boylan, a retired senior OB-GYN in Dublin who has delivered thousands of babies, says it will be a “tragedy” if the US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.

"Living in a country the size of the United States, and the size of the individual states, where a woman cannot access abortion care, will end up with maternal death,” Dr. Boylan recently told CBS Mornings.

“There is no question about that,” he said. “Women will die as a consequence of this.”

Dr. Boylan was responding to a question about what his advice would be about the reality of living somewhere where women cannot access abortion, which until only a few years ago was the case for Ireland.

He added: "It's medieval. You know, it's what is supposed to be the greatest democracy in the world. It's just a tragedy for the United States."

Ladybbird · 24-06-22, 17:48

US Supreme Court Strikes Down Abortion Rights

Millions of women in the US will lose the legal right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned the 50-year-old Roe v Wade ruling that legalised it nationwide

BBC News 24 Jun 2022

Millions of women in the US will lose the legal right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned the 50-year-old Roe v Wade ruling that legalised it nationwide.

The court struck down the landmark ruling, weeks after an unprecedented leaked document suggested it favoured doing so.

The judgement will transform abortion rights in America, with individual states now able to ban the procedure, and half of US states expected to introduce new restrictions or bans.

Ladybbird · 25-06-22, 09:39

Ireland Reacts to US Supreme Court’s Decision to Overturn Roe v Wade

Ireland's politicians and campaign groups are responding after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, which protected access to abortion at the federal level across the country.

Kerry O'Shea 25 Jun, 2022

Ireland is reacting - negatively and positively - to the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that protected a women’s right to abortion.

With Roe v Wade overturned, access to abortion in the US will now be determined at the state level. 26 states are now certain or likely to ban abortion outright, including 13 states that have 'trigger laws' which will automatically enact bans quickly, the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research group, predicts.

The change in US policy comes just over four years after Ireland voted via referendum to overturn its constitutional ban on abortion. Despite the referendum result, or perhaps because of it, abortion remains a divisive subject in Ireland.

On Friday, Ireland’s Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly told the Irish Examiner that the changes to US Supreme Court rulings “have zero impact on the provision of healthcare services in Ireland.”

He added: "Termination services are being expanded in Ireland, with four more hospitals providing services this year."

Ivana Bacik, the leader of Ireland’s Labour Party, separately wrote in the Irish Examiner that the US Supreme Court’s judgment “undoubtedly represents a shocking step backwards,” but that it also has “two important messages for us here in Ireland."

Bacik says the Supreme Court’s decision “should strengthen our resolve to ensure effective access to safe, legal terminations of pregnancy” in Ireland, while also serving as a reminder in Ireland and across the world “that we can never take progress on women’s rights for granted.”

The Labour Party announced that it would be protesting the decision outside of the US Embassy in Dublin on Sunday.

Ladybbird · 26-06-22, 07:11

Roe v Wade: Joe Biden Vows Legal Challenge to Ban on Abortion Pill

President Biden Vows to Fight For Abortion Rights After Roe v Wade Overturned

TRUMP Was Influent on Roe v Wade Supreme Court Ruling

President Joe Biden vowed to take action to protect women’s rights by fighting to stop states from banning abortion pills, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade on Friday.

26 Jun 2022 9 News Australia

The US Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.

The US President also warned anti-abortion states they would be breaking the law if they stopped women travelling to other parts of America to reach clinics.

It came as Democrats launched a desperate fightback after America’s top court – now dominated by conservative justices – threw out the 50-year-old ruling guaranteeing abortion as a nationwide constitutional right.

The seismic ruling further crystallised divisions in America and led to protests across the country that continued on Saturday.

After major protests across the US on Friday, hundreds of protesters again descended on the Supreme Court on Saturday, chanting “my body, my choice”.

Several states, including Missouri, Louisiana, Kentucky, Wisconsin and South Dakota, instituted immediate abortion bans, with up to half the US states poised to follow.

Setting up a new legal front, Mr Biden’s administration indicated it would try to prevent anti-abortion states from banning Mifepristone, one of the pills used for medical abortions, which are potentially a way for women to continue to access abortion even in states where it is banned.

Lawyers for the federal government will argue that the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Mifepristone in 2000 overrides state restrictions.

Pills were used in 54 per cent of all abortions in the US in 2020, according to research by the Guttmacher Institute.

Already this week, the governor of Louisiana signed a new law making it punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and a fine of up to $75,000, to bring abortion pills into the state by post.

Abortion as a Nationwide Constitutional Right

Mr Biden said attempts to restrict medical abortion would be “wrong and extreme and out of touch with the majority of Americans”.

He added: “We’re going to take action to protect women’s rights and reproductive health.

“The decision [to ban abortion] is implemented by states, and my administration is going to focus on how they administer it, and whether or not they violate other laws – like deciding to not allow people to cross state lines to get public health services.”

Mr Biden, speaking at the White House before departing for the G7 summit in Germany, said he thought the Supreme Court decision was “shocking” and “terrible”.

Ladybbird · 14-07-22, 10:40

Man Charged With Raping Ohio Girl 10, Who Was Denied Abortion....

A man in the US state of Ohio has been charged with raping a 10-year-old girl who had to cross state lines for an abortion after her home state restricted the procedure.

BBC 14 JUL 2022

Gershon Fuentes, 27, appeared in court in Columbus on Wednesday.

The unnamed girl's plight has drawn international attention.

US President Joe Biden cited it at the White House as he slammed abortion restrictions, but sceptics had questioned if it was a hoax.

ADVISORY: This story contains details some readers may find upsetting.

Millions of women and girls lost a longstanding constitutional right to abortion after a US Supreme Court decision in June.

In a speech last Friday condemning that ruling, President Biden raised a report of the child's case, angrily saying: "Imagine being that little girl!"

Hours after the Supreme Court decision, legislators in Ohio outlawed abortions after six weeks, with no exceptions for victims of rape or incest.

The child was six weeks and three days pregnant, according to the Indianapolis Star newspaper.

Referred by a child abuse doctor in Ohio, the girl visited a clinic in Indianapolis, Indiana, to undergo a medical abortion on 30 June.

Although efforts are under way to restrict abortion access in Ohio's neighbouring state, the procedure still remains legal there.

Following the Supreme Court ruling, 26 US states have either severely restricted abortions or are expected to do so in the coming weeks and months.

According to prosecutors, the child may have been nine years old when she was attacked.

She told police she was pregnant because of Mr Fuentes, reports the IndyStar.

Police say the accused, who was arrested on Tuesday at a flat in Columbus, admitted raping the girl, according to the Columbus Dispatch.

A saliva sample from him was being checked against DNA from the abortion clinic in Indianapolis, according to local media.

Mr Fuentes is a Guatemalan national and is in the US illegally, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement source told Fox News.

Citing the risk that Mr Fuentes could flee or further endanger the child, Franklin County Municipal Court Judge Cynthia Ebner remanded him in custody, setting bail at $2m (£1.7m).

He faces life in prison if convicted.

The case was first reported on 1 July with few details in the IndyStar. As other news outlets struggled to confirm the story, prominent conservatives began to question its veracity.

Among the sceptics was congressman Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, who had tweeted on Tuesday that the story was "another lie".

As news of the court appearance emerged on Wednesday, Mr Jordan appeared to have quietly deleted that tweet.

A new one was posted in which the lawmaker called for the suspect to be "prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law".

The accused appeared in court on Wednesday

Ladybbird · 19-10-22, 04:08

Roe v Wade: Biden Calls For Federal Law to Restore Abortion Rights

President Joe Biden has said a federal law would be the "fastest way" to restore abortion rights as he signed an order to safeguard abortion access.

Biden Allows US Aid For Abortion Providers and Expands Obamacare

US President Joe Biden has reversed a ban on federal funds going to international aid groups that perform or inform about abortions.

BBC News 19 OCT 2022.

He said the ending of the so-called Mexico City Policy reverses former President Trump's "attack on women's health access".

The memo orders a review of a Trump-era policy blocking funding for US clinics that offer abortion referrals as well.

Mr Biden also signed an edict expanding the Obamacare insurance programme.

"I'm not initiating any new law, any new aspect of the law," he said in the White House Oval Office on Thursday, responding to criticism that he was governing by executive order, rather than congressional legislations.

"There is nothing new that we're doing here other than restoring the Affordable Care Act ... to the way it was before Trump became president," he added.

What is The Global Abortion 'Gag Rule'?

The Mexico City Policy was first enacted by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1984 and has been repeatedly renewed by Republicans and cancelled by Democrats.

For decades, the US has barred money from being spent on overseas abortions but the Mexico City policy takes that a step further. It prevents federal funds from going to organisations that provide abortions, abortion counselling or advocate for the legal right to abortion.

The programme was expanded under Mr Trump, who banned funds from going to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that themselves provide funding for abortion groups.

In a statement earlier, the White House said Mr Biden was issuing the presidential actions "to support women's and girls' sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States, as well as globally".

A report by the US Government Accountability Office released last year found that in 2017, NGOs were unable to receive around $153m (£112m) because they chose not to cut back on abortion programmes.

The report found 54 occasions in which NGOs did not accept US funds due to the policy.

What else has Biden done on abortion?

Mr Biden has also instructed the US health department to immediately consider removing Trump-era restrictions to a domestic family planning programme for low-income Americans known as Title X.

Mr Trump's overhaul of the Title X programme saw tens of millions of dollars stripped from any health centres that offered or referred patients for non-elective abortions, like Planned Parenthood.

Mr Biden on Thursday also removed the US from a 2020 resolution known as the Geneva Consensus, a non-binding charter of more than 30 countries that oppose abortion.

The actions to begin undoing Mr Trump's abortion and healthcare legacy comes on the eve of the annual anti-abortion March for Life protest, which is being held virtually on Friday. In 2020, Mr Trump made history by becoming the first sitting US president to appear at the rally.

It also comes amid legal battles over abortion, as several mostly Republican southern states pass local regulations that drastically cut back access to the procedure.

Conservatives are newly emboldened to try to reverse 1973's Roe v Wade landmark Supreme Court decision, which legalised abortion across the US, after Mr Trump appointed judges who have tilted the court in conservatives' favour.

Some Democrats have called for Congress to end the so-called Hyde Amendment, a federal provision that says funds cannot go to abortion programmes in US states except in cases of rape and incest. Republicans have vowed to block spending legislation that does not include it.

Mr Biden had long supported the Hyde Amendment as a senator and vice-president, but withdrew support during the 2019 Democratic primary elections.

What's Happening With Obamacare? ---Trump Tried to Kill Off Obamacare

Mr Biden on Thursday signed an order to reopen the Affordable Care Act - also known as Obamacare - federal insurance marketplace for three months.

Under Mr Trump, the enrolment period lasted just six weeks, as the Republican administration sought to dismantle the programme.

Mr Biden said that with the ongoing "Covid crisis", now was the time to reinstate access to healthcare and affordable programmes.

Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi praised the expansion in a weekly briefing, saying: "We're very excited about that because we're of course in the middle of a pandemic and we see this was a matter of life and death."

Mr Biden's directive also mandates agencies look into policies that may reduce coverage in the Medicaid healthcare programme for low-income Americans. This includes a measure created under the Trump administration that allows states to impose work requirements on aid-seekers.

The president has also ordered a re-examination of policies that hurt protections for patients with pre-existing conditions and any measures that undermine the federal insurance marketplace or enrolment.

Because most Americans receive health insurance from their employers, pandemic-related layoffs have led to a spike in uninsured people in the past year.

Early estimates say that an additional five to 10 million Americans have lost their health insurance due to coronavirus, but official government studies of the issue are not due until later this year.

Ladybbird · 08-04-23, 09:40

Judge Rules to Halt Approval of Major Abortion Pill in US

TRUMP-Appointed Federal Judge in Texas Has Ordered a Hold on The Longstanding Approval of a Widely Used Abortion Drug, Mifepristone.

Mifepristone: US abortion pill access in doubt after rival rulings

BBC 8 APR 2023

But an hour later an Obama-picked judge in Washington state issued a competing ruling, ordering that access to the drug be preserved in 17 states.

The pill has been allowed for over 20 years, and is used in most abortions.

The duelling court orders make it likely that the issue will escalate to the US Supreme Court.

In a 67-page opinion, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, halted the FDA's approval of mifepristone. The ruling will not go into effect for seven days to allow the government time to appeal.

The US Department of Justice confirmed on Friday night it would challenge the Texas ruling.

Judge Kacsmaryk's decision could limit access to the drug for millions of women in the US. Legal analysts said the ruling threatens to upend the entire foundation of America's drug regulatory system.

It comes after the Supreme Court removed constitutional protections for abortion last year, triggering a wave of state-by-state bans.

A lawsuit filed by anti-abortion groups had argued that the drug's safety was never properly studied.

'Barbaric' abortion law nearly killed Texas women

In his ruling, Judge Kacsmaryk said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval had violated federal rules that allow for accelerated approval of certain drugs. The FDA spent four years reviewing mifepristone before it was approved in 2000.

The judge also said the FDA had failed to consider the "psychological effects" of mifepristone and its safety record.

The FDA's "failure [to account for this] should not be overlooked or understated", his legal opinion continued. The FDA, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists (ACOG) and other mainstream medical organisations say mifepristone is safe for use.

Allison Whelan, assistant professor in Georgia State University College of Law who filed a legal brief in favour of keeping FDA approval, said the ruling - which refers throughout to "unborn humans", not fetuses - was "inflammatory".

"The politics and ideology motivating Judge Kacsmaryk's decision could not be made any clearer by the inflammatory anti-abortion language used throughout the opinion," she told the BBC.

"He cherry-picks the studies he cites to support his conclusion that abortions are unsafe or harm those who get abortions, without citing the many studies that refute those conclusions."

Meanwhile, Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group that represented plaintiffs in the lawsuit, called the Texas ruling "a significant victory" for women and doctors.

Jeanne Mancini, president of another anti-abortion group, March for Life, hailed it as "a major step forward for women and girls".

But an hour after the Texas ruling, another federal judge, this one in Washington state, issued a competing 31-page injunction on a separate case, ordering the FDA to keep the drug on the market in the Democratic-run states that brought the lawsuit.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson called the counter-ruling a "huge win".

Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren slammed the Texas ruling, tweeting: "We can't let one right-wing extremist overrule women, their doctors, and the scientists."

Mifepristone, part of a two-drug regimen that induces abortions, effectively stops the pregnancy, while the second drug, misoprostol, empties the uterus.

It was first approved for the termination of pregnancy up until seven weeks gestation.

In 2016, its approved use was extended to 10 weeks of pregnancy.

Mifepristone is also used to treat women who have been RAPED, suffered miscarriages and Cushing syndrome, a hormone-related condition.

Last week, the Democratic governor of Washington state announced that a three-year supply of mifepristone had been stockpiled by state officials in the event that it became unavailable nationwide.

Days later the Republican governor of neighbouring Idaho signed a new law making "abortion trafficking" illegal. The law makes it a crime for adults to help children leave the state to obtain an abortion without a parent's consent.

Ladybbird · 15-04-23, 05:00

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Quietly Signs Six-Week Abortion BAN Into Law in Florida

Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill banning most abortions after six weeks, paving the way for drastic changes in access to the procedure across the state.

Opponents Argue Six Weeks is BEFORE Many Women Know They Are Pregnant. So This in Fact is a CUNNING Way of BANNING ALL Abortions

BBC News 15 APR 2023

The law will not go into effect until a court rules on an ongoing legal challenge to the existing 15-week ban.

The six-week ban makes exceptions for abortions in cases of rape or incest, as long as the woman can provide documentation such as a police report or a restraining order....

"We are proud to support life and family in the state of Florida," the governor said in a statement.

He claimed the law would "defend the dignity of human life and transform Florida into a pro-family state".

The state has been a safe haven for those seeking abortion in the country's south-east since Roe v Wade - which gave women in the US the constitutional right to abortion - was overturned last year.

The state's current 15-week limit on abortion is one of the most lenient in the south-east, with many travelling from other states to Florida to have the procedure.

Mr DeSantis' signed the bill late Thursday night just hours after Florida's Republican-led House of Representatives approved the ban on Thursday, with 70 voting for and 40 voting against. It had been passed in the state Senate on 3 April.

"A woman's right to choose, I've heard people talk about that," Republican lawmaker Kiyan Michael said during the debate, as quoted by CNN. "Well, that right to choose begins before you have sex."

In a statement shortly after Mr DeSantis signed the bill, the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates said the ban's exceptions for rape or incest would not provide "meaningful access to patients in need".

The group argued the bill as a whole would "shut down a critical abortion access point for millions across the southeast, Caribbean, and Central and South America".

The fate of the new six-week abortion law is still contingent upon another ruling from Florida's Supreme Court.

Florida's highest court is hearing a challenge brought by abortion clinics to the state's existing 15-week ban. The latest law signed by Mr DeSantis contains language that says the six-week ban would only go into effect if Florida's highest court upholds the 15-week law that is already in place.

Florida's conservative Supreme Court is expected to side with anti-abortion activists and rule the 15-week ban is constitutional.

National debate over abortion in the US has been raging since a federal judge suspended the original approval of a widely used abortion drug, mifepristone, last week.

That suspension was later blocked by an appellate court, and the Biden administration has said it will ask the Supreme Court to restore full access to the drug.

Ladybbird · 22-04-23, 08:08

US Supreme Court Blocks Ruling Limiting Access to Abortion Pill

Federal judge in Texas ruled in early April to suspend FDA-approved mifepristone used in more than half of abortions in US

BBC News 22 APR 2023

The US supreme court decided on Friday to temporarily block a lower court ruling that had placed significant restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone.

The justices granted emergency requests by the justice department and the pill’s manufacturer, Danco Laboratories, to halt a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge in Texas. The judge’s order would significantly limit the availability of the medication as litigation proceeds in a challenge by anti-abortion groups.

The decision offered a victory to the Biden administration as it defends access to the drug in the latest fierce legal battle over reproductive rights in the US. The president praised the decision and said he continues to stand by the FDA’s approval of the pill.

“As a result of the supreme court’s stay, mifepristone remains available and approved for safe and effective use while we continue this fight in the courts,” Biden said in a statement. “The stakes could not be higher for women across America. I will continue to fight politically driven attacks on women’s health.”

The court’s ruling means that access to mifepristone will remain unchanged at least into next year as appeals play out and patients can still get medication abortions with the drug in states where it was previously available.

Reproductive rights groups celebrated the ruling, while cautioning it does not necessarily herald the final outcome of the case. “This is very welcome news, but it’s frightening to think that Americans came within hours of losing access to a medication that is used in most abortions in this country and has been used for decades by millions of people to safely end a pregnancy or treat a miscarriage,” said Jennifer Dalven, director of the Reproductive Freedom Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.

“Make no mistake, we aren’t out of the woods by any means. This case, which should have been laughed out of court from the very start, will continue on.”

The decision came in the most pivotal abortion rights case to make its way through the courts since Roe v Wade was overturned last year. More than half of abortions in the US are completed using pills.

The case was brought by a conservative Christian legal group arguing the Food and Drug Administration improperly approved mifepristone more than 23 years ago.

The Biden administration vigorously defended the FDA against the charge, emphasizing its rigorous safety reviews of the drug and the potential for regulatory chaos if plaintiffs and judges not versed in scientific and medical arguments begin to undermine the agency’s decision-making.

Conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, with Alito writing that the Biden administration and Danco “are not entitled to a stay because they have not shown that they are likely to suffer irreparable harm in the interim”.

The order granting the stay was unsigned, so it is not known how each of the other seven justices voted.

The case has moved quickly through the courts in recent weeks, as contradicting rulings have thrown the future of the drug into question.

In early April, a federal judge in Texas, Matthew Kacsmaryk, first ruled in the lawsuit brought by a coalition of anti-abortion groups to suspend the FDA’s 23-year-old authorization of mifepristone entirely, writing that the agency wrongly approved the drug. After a challenge by the Biden administration in the fifth circuit court of appeals, a divided three-judge panel said the drug’s approval could stand, but imposed restrictions on it, limiting its use to seven weeks of pregnancy instead of the current 10-week limit, and banning delivery of the pill by mail.

The Biden administration then asked the supreme court to intervene before the restrictions went into effect. Alito twice stayed the lower court ruling, keeping access to mifepristone unaltered while the court deliberated.

Complicating matters, another federal judge issued a ruling directly contradicting Kacsmaryk’s, ordering the FDA to refrain from making any changes to the availability of mifepristone in 18 jurisdictions.

That judge – Judge Thomas O Rice, in Washington – reaffirmed that order after the fifth circuit’s ruling.

Both the Biden administration and pharmaceutical companies have warned of regulatory chaos around drug approvals, should the supreme court allow the restrictions on mifepristone to go into effect.

“If this ruling were to stand, then there will be virtually no prescription, approved by the FDA, that would be safe from these kinds of political, ideological attacks,” president Biden said in a written statement after the Kacsmaryk’s decision in early April.

The US vice-president, Kamala Harris, echoed the point in a statement responding to the appellate decision: “If this decision stands, no medication – from chemotherapy drugs, to asthma medicine, to blood pressure pills, to insulin – would be safe from attacks.”

Ladybbird · 04-12-23, 13:08

‘Moderate’ or Roe v Wade Killer: Can TRUMP Have it Both Ways on Abortion?

TRUMP is Proud of Appointing The Supreme Court Justices Who Overturned Womens' Right to Abortion – Now He Realises Its a Vote Loser for Republicans

The Guardian UK 4 DEC 2023

Republicans beware: hostility to abortion stands to haunt Trumps’ party in 2024

A few months ago, the former president Donald Trump accused the Republican party of speaking “very inarticulately” on abortion. And yet, for the GOP presidential frontrunner, inarticulateness seems to be a feature, not a bug, of his own approach to abortion.

Trump thinks he can run in 2024 as a “moderate” on abortion, Rolling Stone reported this week – even though he’s currently running ads in Iowa, a crucial state in the Republican primary, proclaiming himself “the most pro-life president ever”. It’s a title to which Trump has a legitimate claim: his three nominees to the supreme court not only handed the nation’s highest court a definitive conservative majority, but all three voted to overturn Roe v Wade in summer 2022.

That move handed the anti-abortion movement the victory of a lifetime, but Republicans have been paying for it ever since. They underperformed in both the 2022 midterms and the 2023 Virginia state elections, losses that have been widely credited to the party’s inability to figure out a path forward on abortion.

Abortion rights advocates, meanwhile, won every abortion-related ballot measure of the last 18 months, even in red states. After Ohio, seemingly a conservative stronghold, voted to enshrine abortion rights in its state constitution earlier this month, abortion rights activists rushed to remind Democrats that “abortion is a winning issue” in 2024.

While Republicans have flailed over how to message on an apparently toxic issue, Trump has – in typical Trump fashion – flip-flopped on it with apparent ease. Shortly after the 2022 midterms, Trump blamed “the abortion issue” for Republicans’ poor performance. He has refused to say whether he supports a federal ban and called the decision by Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, to sign a six-week abortion ban a “terrible thing”.

But all the while, Trump continues to take credit for overturning Roe.
“I was able to kill Roe v Wade,” he bragged on social media in May.

Howard Schweber, a professor of American politics and political theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that “Trump has what, in my experience of observing politics, seems like a nearly unique ability to maintain cognitive dissonance in ways that his supporters find untroubling.

“His supporters will say, ‘Oh, well, he really means that when he says’ – and then finish that sentence with whichever position they approve of. That’s the gamble that he’s taking,” he said.

Trump has not said what, if any, specific abortion policy he would support as president. DeSantis has said that he would support a 15-week national abortion ban, a position championed by the powerful anti-abortion group SBA Pro-Life America. Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, has said that she would sign an abortion ban as president, but doubts that Republicans could muster the votes in Congress.

Iowa has a reputation for conservative evangelicalism, but most Iowans believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. By not letting himself get nailed down on a specific abortion policy

Trump might be approaching Iowa as though the presidential primary is already over, said Tim Hagle, a political science professor at the University of Iowa. (Which it very well be: Trump is polling far higher than any of his competitors, who have largely cratered.) In a general election, where voters are more likely to be less dogmatic, it can pay to be vague – particularly on a charged issue like abortion.

“Things that you might say a little more forcefully during the nomination process during the primaries, you back off a little bit when it comes time to time for the general election,” Hagle said. “And that’s been a strategy of candidates for decades.”

Republicans in Iowa have launched an effort to amend the state constitution and clarify that it does not protect abortion rights. In order for the amendment to show up on the ballot, the Republican-controlled state legislature would have to pass it before handing the measure to voters. That could backfire, increasing turnout among abortion rights supporters who oppose Trump.

Most Americans oppose the overturning of Roe

Donald Trump beams alongside Amy Coney Barrett at the White House following her confirmation as a supreme court justice.

Ladybbird · 12-12-23, 22:13

CRUEL Texas Supreme Court Rules AGAINST Woman Who Sued to Get Abortion Due to Medical Emergency

A state district judge granted the request last week, but the Texas Supreme Court directed the lower court to vacate its order Monday.

Daily Mail 12 DEC 2023

Kate Cox

A Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis and who was awaiting a decision from the Texas Supreme Court about whether she would be allowed to get an abortion said Monday that she has decided to leave Texas to get the procedure.

Kate Cox, a mother of two who is around 20 weeks pregnant, found out just after Thanksgiving that her developing fetus has trisomy 18, a fatal diagnosis. Seeking to terminate the pregnancy to protect her health and future fertility, she and her husband sought a court order to block Texas’ abortion bans from applying in her case.

A state district judge granted the request Thursday, but then the state Supreme Court temporarily paused the lower court’s order Friday. On Monday evening, the Texas Supreme Court directed the lower court to vacate its order.

"A woman who meets the medical-necessity exception need not seek a court order to obtain an abortion," the court wrote in its decision, adding: "The law leaves to physicians — not judges — both the discretion and the responsibility to exercise their reasonable medical judgment, given the unique facts and circumstances of each patient."

Molly Duane, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing Cox, said the Supreme Court "ruling should enrage every Texan to their core."

"If Kate can’t get an abortion in Texas, who can? Kate’s case is proof that exceptions don’t work, and it’s dangerous to be pregnant in any state with an abortion ban," Duane said.

Before the Supreme Court issued its ruling, Cox’s lawyers said she intended to proceed with the lawsuit despite seeking an out-of-state abortion.

Duane said Cox had to seek medical care outside Texas "due to the ongoing deterioration" of her health.

Nancy Northup, the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said: "This past week of legal limbo has been hellish for Kate. Her health is on the line. She’s been in and out of the emergency room and she couldn’t wait any longer."

Ladybbird · 28-03-24, 02:54

US Supreme Court Hearing Not a Success For Anti-Abortion Doctors

Judge shopping scheme backfires on anti-abortion activists with 'embarrassing' case in Supreme Court -

'WTH do these people think they are trying to control womens' decisions on what they do with THEIR OWN bodies?'

The Guardian 28 MAR 2024

Justices appear unconvinced by anti-abortion doctors’ who didn’t have legal standing to sue during hearing over access to FDA-approved pill mifepristone.

A US supreme court hearing that held the potential to reshape abortion access and the US Food and Drug Administration’s authority did not go well for anti-abortion doctors behind the case

The consensus is a positive sign for abortion rights advocates, who feared the case would curtail access to medication abortions, which now account for the majority of all abortions nationally.

“It’s very possible that they will just toss the lawsuit out because the anti-abortion doctors didn’t have legal standing to sue,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor at Georgetown Law School and an expert in global public health law, said about the justices.

“In my view, the lawsuit was absurd on its face and deserves to be thrown out because these anti-abortion doctors had very little injury,” Gostin added.

The case deals with FDA regulation of the drug mifepristone, one-half of a two-drug regimen used to terminate an early pregnancy. A group representing the doctors, called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, has sought to roll back FDA decisions that expanded mifepristone access, such as allowing doctors to prescribe it via telehealth.

The Alliance argued its doctors could be forced to deal with complications of a medication abortion, thus doctors had the legal right, or standing, to bring the case.

But over the course of 90 minutes of oral arguments, even members of the supreme court’s conservative supermajority seemed skeptical of the claim.

Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh asked the US solicitor general, Elizabeth Prelogar, whether the doctors, represented by the powerhouse conservative law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, were already protected by laws that shield healthcare providers from violating their consciences.

Fellow conservative Neil Gorsuch indicated that, in asking for a nationwide change, the anti-abortion doctors were asking for too much.

“This case seems like a prime example of turning what could be a small lawsuit into a nationwide legislative assembly on an FDA rule,” Gorsuch said.

Eva Temkin, an attorney at the law firm Paul Hastings who wrote a brief to the court on behalf of pharmaceutical executives and companies and a former FDA attorney, said the hearing underscored the importance of the FDA’s work as an independent arbiter of science.

“The court was sort of appropriately skeptical of the plaintiffs’ standing in this case, and also appropriately skeptical of the idea that FDA had abused its authority by reaching the scientific judgment it reached,” said Temkin.

Many legal experts agreed the anti-abortion doctors lacked the standing to sue. But they were less sure that the supreme court – which overturned Roe v Wade less than two years ago – would not side with the doctors anyway.

“What we’ve seen recently is groups like ADF essentially saying: ‘We have a conservative supermajority. Let’s see if any of the old rules still apply. Let’s see if any of the procedural guardrails still exist,’” said Mary Ziegler, a professor at the University of California, Davis who studies the legal history of reproduction.

“I think you had a lot of the conservative justices saying: ‘Yes, we’re conservative on abortion, but you still don’t have standing. Sorry!’”

Not every justice appeared so dubious of the anti-abortion doctors’ standing. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the most conservative justices, seemed more willing to side with the anti-abortion doctors.

“Justice Alito’s vote is not even remotely in question. The plaintiff here could be a Barbie doll and he would find standing,” said Elizabeth Sepper, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Still, she added: “I still think if I were a bookmaker, I would have odds on the government prevailing on standing.”

Experts were also struck by Thomas’s and Alito’s references to the Comstock Act, a 19th-century anti-obscenity law that, in the wake of Roe’s demise, anti-abortion activists have argued can be used to implement a nationwide abortion ban.

Although the Comstock Act has not been enforced in roughly 80 years, Thomas asked a lawyer for Danco Laboratories, a manufacturer of mifepristone, to explain why Danco was not violating the Comstock Act by selling and advertising mifepristone. (She demurred, saying that such an issue was not before the court.)

“He suggested to the lawyer for Danco that the company is committing criminal acts, currently, on an ongoing basis,” Sepper said. “That’s effectively what that exchange came down to, and that’s sort of stunning.”

Whether the supreme court sides with the FDA and Danco, or with the anti-abortion doctors, Thomas, Alito or both will probably end up writing an opinion that mentions the Comstock Act, multiple experts said.

“It’s getting raised in briefs, it’s getting raised in cases where it’s of dubious relevance,” said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. “It’s in the conversation. Do I think they probably have the votes to make it more than part of the conversation? Probably not. But I’ve been wrong before.”

Even if the FDA prevails in the mifepristone case, it is unlikely to be out of the woods. The supreme court is currently deliberating over another case that attacks the administrative state and that could jettison the Chevron Doctrine, a legal concept that requires judges defer to expert agencies when the law is ambiguous.

“We’re really beginning to see the crumbling of health and safety agencies that have kept Americans healthy and safe for nearly a century – and all of that is beginning to wither away right in front of our eyes,” Gostin said. “So the FDA is not out of the woods, and neither are their counterparts at other health and safety and scientific agencies.”

The justices are also set to hear oral arguments in yet another abortion case next month, which will ask the justices to decide whether a federal law that requires hospitals to stabilize patients in medical emergencies pertains to emergency abortions.

Regardless of how that case or the mifepristone case ultimately plays out, experts are confident that the supreme court will be asked to weigh in on abortion again and again.

“If standing ends up being the way that this case ends, that doesn’t mean this kind of challenge won’t happen again,” said Nicole Huberfeld, a health law professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health.

“The courthouse doors remain open.”

Supreme Court hears arguments in abortion pill case - FULL Audio

Ladybbird · 10-04-24, 03:37

REPUBLICANS DRACONIAN LAW: Abortion is BANNED With NO Exceptions For Rape or Incest in Nearly 22 US States

---From 1989 TRUMP has changed his mind many times, depending on what he can get out of the result

Arizona Top Court Upholds 1864 Near Total Abortion BAN

The legality of abortion in the US and the various restrictions imposed on the procedure vary significantly depending on the laws of each state or other jurisdiction.

MailOnline/CNN 10 APR 2024

Some states prohibit abortion at all stages with few exceptions, others permit it up to a certain point, while others allow abortion throughout a womans' pregnancy.

WHICH US STATES BAN ABORTION

See where abortions are banned and legal — and where it’s still in limbo;

Following the Supreme Courts’ June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens’ Health Organization, which eliminated a constitutional right to abortion nationwide, nearly two dozen US states have banned or limited access to the procedure. States where abortion is most limited report higher rates of maternal and infant mortality, as well as greater economic insecurity.

The fight over abortion is well underway in state legislatures and courts. Most recently on April 9, Arizonas’ Supreme Court reinstated a 1864 law, rooted in the Civil War era, barring abortion in nearly all circumstances. The ruling, however, has been stayed for two weeks, and the current 15-week ban remains in place in the meantime.

In other news, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case against the abortion pill in March and will hear a challenge to Idahos’ near-total ban in late April. In Florida, a six-week ban will replace the states’ current 15-week ban on 1 May.

>> 6 week BAN is WRONG -Most women dont even know they are pregnant until 12/13 weeks

CNN is tracking these legal challenges as they make their way through the courts.

Here’s where abortion access currently stands in the United States.

Republican Supreme Court Overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 - Upheld For Decades, Ending Womens' Right to Abortion

In a historic and far-reaching decision, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion, upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists.

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Arizona Supreme Court Upholds Law From 1864 Effectively Banning Abortion

Arizonas’ Abortion BAN is Exactly What Trump Wanted

Nebraska Woman Who Helped Illegally Terminate Her Daughters' Pregnancy Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison

US Woman Could Face Prison After Suffering Miscarriage

Woman Criminally Charged After Miscarriage in Ohio

Texas Woman Describes Ordeal With State Abortion Law After Miscarriage

THE LIST GOES ON AND ON...

03-09-21, 08:37	#1
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	US Supreme Court -No Success For Interferring Anti-Abortion Doctors/Activists Devastating and Cruel Most Extreme Abortion Law in US Takes Effect in Texas US supreme court fails to act to block near-total ban that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers Biden vows 'whole-of-government' response to new law BBC News 3 SEP. 2021 US President Joe Biden has launched a "whole-of-government" response to oppose a new law in Texas that bans most abortions. He called the Supreme Court's decision not to block the law an "unprecedented assault" on women's rights. Any individual now has the right to sue anyone involved with providing or facilitating an abortion past six weeks of pregnancy in Texas. This is before many women know they have conceived. Rights groups had asked the Supreme Court to block the law, but it refused following a 5-4 vote. The judges said their decision was not based on any conclusion about whether the Texas law was constitutional or not, and that the door remained open for legal challenges. One of the liberal Supreme Court judges, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said those justices who had allowed the law to stand had "opted to bury their heads in the sand" over a "flagrantly unconstitutional law". President Biden accused the court of unleashing "unconstitutional chaos". "The highest court of our land will allow millions in Texas in need of critical reproductive care to suffer while courts sift through procedural complexities," he said. Mr Biden said he had asked the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice to see what steps the national government could take to "insulate women and providers", but did not provide further details. He said the law violated the landmark Roe v Wade case in 1973, in which the Supreme Court legalised abortion across the US. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that the president had long wanted to see the "codification" of Roe v Wade - which would mean Congress voting to make the precedent federal law. Texas' Republican Governor Greg Abbott has said his state will "always defend the right to life". The ruling was welcomed by Dan Patrick, Texas's Republican lieutenant governor, who tweeted: "A tremendous #prolife victory! This lifesaving legislation reflects Texas' pro-life beliefs and our continued commitment to protecting the most vulnerable." How have abortion providers reacted? Abortion providers in Texas were also looking for ways to challenge the new law, while dealing with its immediate impact. "It has been truly devastating," said Andrea Ferrigno of Whole Woman's Health. Patients have been "talking about their despair and how they've felt pressured and rushed to make a decision", she told the BBC. For people already beyond the six-week deadline, she said Whole Women's Health had been offering information about what they could do next. But she said the company was also "regrouping and consulting with our legal counsel" to decide on its next steps. In the city of San Antonio, Planned Parenthood said it had paused its abortion services "while this plays in the courts". Its director of public affairs, Mara Posada, said they were "getting calls and having to either let a person know that they cannot get an abortion after six weeks here in Texas, or if they are early enough in their pregnancy, we are referring them to a provider that is currently providing abortion care under the limits". She added that in the week leading up to the law coming into force, they had seen twice the normal number of patients. Hope Hanzlik, 21, had an abortion earlier this week, five weeks into her pregnancy. Her abortion provider told her they were having trouble finding appointments for everyone and that she was fortunate to get one. How does the new law apply? The so-called Texas Heartbeat Act prohibits abortions after what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists says the term "heartbeat" is misleading, and that what is being detected at this stage is "a portion of the foetal tissue that will become the heart as the embryo develops". The Texas law enforces its ban with an uncommon approach: it empowers any private citizen to sue anyone who "aids and abets" an illegal abortion. This means that an American may now be able to seek up to $10,000 (£7,200) in damages in a civil court against abortion providers and doctors - and possibly anyone involved in the process. People like clinic staff, family members, or clergy who encourage or support the procedure could, in theory, be sued. Turning over enforcement of the Heartbeat Act to private citizens instead of government officials likely means that - in the absence of Supreme Court intervention - the law cannot be challenged until a private citizen seeks damages. The legislation makes an exception in the case of medical emergency, which requires written proof from a doctor, but not for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. Texan women who wish to have an abortion after six weeks will need to travel to other states. What is Roe v Wade? Abortions were made legal across the US in a landmark 1973 Supreme Court judgement, often referred to as the Roe v Wade case. By a vote of seven to two, the court justices ruled that individual state governments lacked the power to prohibit abortions. The court's judgement was based on the decision that a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy came under the freedom of personal choice in family matters as protected by the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. The ruling came after a 25-year-old single woman, Norma McCorvey under the pseudonym "Jane Roe", challenged the criminal abortion laws in Texas that forbade most abortions. Henry Wade was the Texas attorney general who defended the anti-abortion law. The case created the "trimester" system that: gives American women an absolute right to an abortion in the first three months of pregnancy allows some government regulation in the second trimester of pregnancy declares that states may restrict or ban abortions in the last trimester as the foetus nears the point where it could live outside the womb __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. 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07-09-21, 07:07	#2
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: Texas CRUEL Abortion Law: Justice Department Says Abortion Clinics Will be Protec Texas Abortion Clinics Will be Protected, Justice Department Says The US Justice Department says it will protect clinics that perform abortions in Texas, a state with a near-total ban on voluntary pregnancy terminations. BBC News 7 SEP 2021. The department said it would "provide support from federal law enforcement" when a clinic, reproductive health centre or patient was "under attack". A new Texas law bans abortions from as early as six weeks into pregnancy. Doctors and women's rights groups have criticised the legislation, known as SB8, that took effect last week. The so-called "Heartbeat Act" was signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in May. The law, one of the most restrictive in the country, bans abortions after the detection of what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat, something medical authorities say is misleading. It also gives any individual the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. The law took effect after the Supreme Court did not respond to an emergency appeal by abortion providers. "We will not tolerate violence against those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services, physical obstruction or property damage in violation of the FACE Act," US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement on Monday. The FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act took effect in 1994. It prohibits any form of threatening or violent behaviour towards anyone obtaining reproductive health services, typically an abortion. In the statement, Mr Garland said his department would enforce FACE, while it "urgently explores all options to challenge Texas SB8 in order to protect the constitutional rights of women and other persons". How do Americans feel about abortion rights? Abortion has long been one of the country's most contentious social issues. However, polls from the Pew Research Center indicate nearly six in 10 Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases. This number has remained relatively stable over the past two decades, but masks a partisan divide: only 35% of Republicans support that position. In conservative Texas, an April poll found nearly half of the state's voters support a six-week ban on abortions. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

01-04-22, 14:58	#3
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Police Find 5 Foetuses at Home of Anti-Abortion Activist Police Find Five Foetuses at The Home of US Anti-Abortion Activist Five foetuses have been discovered in a US home reportedly belonging to an anti-abortion activist, police say. BBC News 1APR 2022. Lauren Handy, left, is a leader of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising *Lauren Handy, 28, is a leader of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) group and describes herself as a "Catholic anarchist".* Police said they were investigating a "potential bio-hazard material" when the foetuses were found. Ms Handy was separately indicted on Wednesday for forcing entry into an abortion clinic in 2020. She was photographed outside the Washington DC address on Wednesday as investigators removed items from the basement in bags and coolers. She told local news outlet WUSA9 that "people would freak out when they heard" what was inside the containers being seized. Local police said they could not confirm if the home where the foetuses were found was in fact Ms Handy's. However, two law enforcement officials told the Washington Post that the house was where Ms Handy was arrested and had lived or stayed. "There doesn't seem to be anything criminal in nature about that except for how they got into this house," Ashan Benedict, executive assistant Washington DC police chief, said at a news conference. Ms Handy recently claimed to have "gained access" to a foetal tissue and organ bank at the University of Washington in Seattle, but the university said nothing was taken. According to a separate federal indictment issued on Thursday, Ms Handy made an appointment at an abortion provider, the Washington Surgi-Clinic in DC, for 22 October 2020 under the name Hazel Jenkins, saying she wanted an abortion. But upon her arrival, a group "forcefully entered the clinic", the indictment says, knocking over a clinic employee who injured her ankle. Under that indictment, Ms Handy and eight other members of the group are charged with conspiring to injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate patients and employees, in violation of their federal rights to seek and provide reproductive health services. They are also charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) for using force to interfere with the clinic's services. *If convicted, they each could face up to 11 years in prison and a fine of up to $350,000 (£266,000).* __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

05-05-22, 09:40	#4
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	US Women CANT Have Abortions -Supreme Court Rules Roe v Wade US Women on Leaked Abortion Ruling Abortion Ruling: US Supreme Court Says Leak is Real as Investigation Launched BBC News 5 MAY 222. A leaked document suggesting millions of US women could lose the legal right to abortion is genuine, the Supreme Court's chief justice has confirmed. But it does not represent the court's final decision, said John Roberts. The leak has stirred expectations that the 1973 decision which legalised abortion in the US could be overturned, allowing individual states to ban it. President Joe Biden has argued that the decision - if it goes ahead - could call other freedoms into question. The leaked document - labelled "1st Draft" - appears to reflect the majority opinion of the court. Written by Justice Samuel Alito, it calls the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling - which legalised abortion across the US - "egregiously wrong from the start". The draft is not a final ruling, and opinions could change. But if Roe v Wade is overturned, around half of US states could ban abortion. In a statement, Chief Justice Roberts described the leak of the draft - first published by US website Politico - as "a singular and egregious breach" and asked the Marshal of the Supreme Court to launch an investigation. The work of the court would "not be affected in any way", he added. The draft's release has caused a wave of reaction from both sides. Anti-abortion law firm Americans United for Life urged the court to disregard "the expectations of pro-abortion activists or proxy media allies". Planned Parenthood - the largest provider of reproductive health services in the US - has said it would "continue to fight like hell to protect the right to access safe, legal abortion". It says its research found that 36 million women could lose abortion access if Roe v Wade were struck down. The ruling is in the court's sights because Mississippi is asking for it to be overturned, with a final decision expected in late June or early July. Thirteen states have already passed so-called trigger laws that will automatically ban abortion if Roe is overruled this summer. A number of others would be likely to pass laws quickly. On Tuesday, Oklahoma's governor signed into law an anti-abortion measure based on one passed in Texas last year. The law allows any private citizen to sue anyone who aids in an abortion after six weeks of gestation - before many women even know they are pregnant. President Joe Biden warned that such a legal change - if the decision stays the same - would have far-reaching implications. "It concerns me a great deal that we're going to, after 50 years, decide a woman does not have a right to choose," he said. "But even more, equally profound is the rationale used. It would mean that every other decision relating to the notion of privacy is thrown into question." Mr Biden said he wanted legislation to enshrine the existing guarantees of abortion access. "If it becomes the law, and if what is written remains, it goes far beyond the concern of whether or not there is the right to choose," he said. "It goes to other basic rights - the right to marriage, the right to determine a whole range of things." BBC North America reporter Anthony Zurcher says the basis for this lies in distinctions drawn by Justice Samuel Alito in the leaked opinion, which he wrote. Some rights are spelt out in the US Constitution, the judge wrote, while others, such as access to abortion, are mere "unenumerated rights". Our reporter points out that the same argument could be used in the case of gay marriage, in vitro fertilisation or certain forms of contraception. MORE; *What is the Roe v Wade ruling?* N.B.: They should call it 'TRUMPS LAW' He and his cronies took womens rights back to the middle ages. Even WOMEN that are RAPED are NOT allowed abortions in many states,,,,, __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

03-06-22, 07:18	#5
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: US Women CANT Have Abortions -Supreme Court Rules Irish Doctor Says “Women Will Die” if Roe v. Wade is Overturned in The US “Women will die as a consequence of this," Irish man Dr. Peter Boylan said about the US Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe v. Wade, which protects women's access to abortion. Irish Central 3 JUN 2022 Dr. Peter Boylan, a retired senior OB-GYN in Dublin who has delivered thousands of babies, says it will be a “tragedy” if the US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. "Living in a country the size of the United States, and the size of the individual states, where a woman cannot access abortion care, will end up with maternal death,” Dr. Boylan recently told CBS Mornings. “There is no question about that,” he said. “Women will die as a consequence of this.” Dr. Boylan was responding to a question about what his advice would be about the reality of living somewhere where women cannot access abortion, which until only a few years ago was the case for Ireland. He added: "It's medieval. You know, it's what is supposed to be the greatest democracy in the world. It's just a tragedy for the United States." __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

24-06-22, 17:48	#6
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: US Women CANT Have Abortions -Supreme Court Rules US Supreme Court Strikes Down Abortion Rights Millions of women in the US will lose the legal right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned the 50-year-old Roe v Wade ruling that legalised it nationwide BBC News 24 Jun 2022 Millions of women in the US will lose the legal right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned the 50-year-old Roe v Wade ruling that legalised it nationwide. The court struck down the landmark ruling, weeks after an unprecedented leaked document suggested it favoured doing so. The judgement will transform abortion rights in America, with individual states now able to ban the procedure, and half of US states expected to introduce new restrictions or bans. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

25-06-22, 09:39	#7
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: US Women CANT Have Abortions -Supreme Court Rules Ireland Reacts to US Supreme Court’s Decision to Overturn Roe v Wade Ireland's politicians and campaign groups are responding after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, which protected access to abortion at the federal level across the country. Kerry O'Shea 25 Jun, 2022 Ireland is reacting - negatively and positively - to the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that protected a women’s right to abortion. With Roe v Wade overturned, access to abortion in the US will now be determined at the state level. 26 states are now certain or likely to ban abortion outright, including 13 states that have 'trigger laws' which will automatically enact bans quickly, the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research group, predicts. The change in US policy comes just over four years after Ireland voted via referendum to overturn its constitutional ban on abortion. Despite the referendum result, or perhaps because of it, abortion remains a divisive subject in Ireland. On Friday, Ireland’s Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly told the Irish Examiner that the changes to US Supreme Court rulings “have zero impact on the provision of healthcare services in Ireland.” He added: "Termination services are being expanded in Ireland, with four more hospitals providing services this year." Ivana Bacik, the leader of Ireland’s Labour Party, separately wrote in the Irish Examiner that the US Supreme Court’s judgment “undoubtedly represents a shocking step backwards,” but that it also has “two important messages for us here in Ireland." Bacik says the Supreme Court’s decision “should strengthen our resolve to ensure effective access to safe, legal terminations of pregnancy” in Ireland, while also serving as a reminder in Ireland and across the world “that we can never take progress on women’s rights for granted.” The Labour Party announced that it would be protesting the decision outside of the US Embassy in Dublin on Sunday. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

26-06-22, 07:11	#8
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: Biden Calls For Fed Law to Restore Abortion Rights & Expands Obamacare Roe v Wade: Joe Biden Vows Legal Challenge to Ban on Abortion Pill President Biden Vows to Fight For Abortion Rights After Roe v Wade Overturned *TRUMP Was Influent on Roe v Wade* Supreme Court Ruling President Joe Biden vowed to take action to protect women’s rights by fighting to stop states from banning abortion pills, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade on Friday. 26 Jun 2022 9 News Australia The US Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states. The US President also warned anti-abortion states they would be breaking the law if they stopped women travelling to other parts of America to reach clinics. It came as Democrats launched a desperate fightback after America’s top court – now dominated by conservative justices – threw out the 50-year-old ruling guaranteeing abortion as a nationwide constitutional right. The seismic ruling further crystallised divisions in America and led to protests across the country that continued on Saturday. After major protests across the US on Friday, hundreds of protesters again descended on the Supreme Court on Saturday, chanting “my body, my choice”. Several states, including Missouri, Louisiana, Kentucky, Wisconsin and South Dakota, instituted immediate abortion bans, with up to half the US states poised to follow. Setting up a new legal front, Mr Biden’s administration indicated it would try to prevent anti-abortion states from banning Mifepristone, one of the pills used for medical abortions, which are potentially a way for women to continue to access abortion even in states where it is banned. Lawyers for the federal government will argue that the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Mifepristone in 2000 overrides state restrictions. Pills were used in 54 per cent of all abortions in the US in 2020, according to research by the Guttmacher Institute. Already this week, the governor of Louisiana signed a new law making it punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and a fine of up to $75,000, to bring abortion pills into the state by post. Abortion as a Nationwide Constitutional Right Mr Biden said attempts to restrict medical abortion would be “wrong and extreme and out of touch with the majority of Americans”. He added: “We’re going to take action to protect women’s rights and reproductive health. “The decision [to ban abortion] is implemented by states, and my administration is going to focus on how they administer it, and whether or not they violate other laws – like deciding to not allow people to cross state lines to get public health services.” *Mr Biden, speaking at the White House before departing for the G7 summit in Germany, said he thought the Supreme Court decision was “shocking” and “terrible”.* __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

14-07-22, 10:40	#9
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: Biden Calls For Fed Law to Restore Abortion Rights & Expands Obamacare Man Charged With Raping Ohio Girl 10, Who Was Denied Abortion.... A man in the US state of Ohio has been charged with raping a 10-year-old girl who had to cross state lines for an abortion after her home state restricted the procedure. BBC 14 JUL 2022 Gershon Fuentes, 27, appeared in court in Columbus on Wednesday. The unnamed girl's plight has drawn international attention. US President Joe Biden cited it at the White House as he slammed abortion restrictions, but sceptics had questioned if it was a hoax. ADVISORY: This story contains details some readers may find upsetting. Millions of women and girls lost a longstanding constitutional right to abortion after a US Supreme Court decision in June. In a speech last Friday condemning that ruling, President Biden raised a report of the child's case, angrily saying: "Imagine being that little girl!" Hours after the Supreme Court decision, legislators in Ohio outlawed abortions after six weeks, with no exceptions for victims of rape or incest. The child was six weeks and three days pregnant, according to the Indianapolis Star newspaper. Referred by a child abuse doctor in Ohio, the girl visited a clinic in Indianapolis, Indiana, to undergo a medical abortion on 30 June. Although efforts are under way to restrict abortion access in Ohio's neighbouring state, the procedure still remains legal there. Following the Supreme Court ruling, 26 US states have either severely restricted abortions or are expected to do so in the coming weeks and months. According to prosecutors, the child may have been nine years old when she was attacked. She told police she was pregnant because of Mr Fuentes, reports the IndyStar. Police say the accused, who was arrested on Tuesday at a flat in Columbus, admitted raping the girl, according to the Columbus Dispatch. A saliva sample from him was being checked against DNA from the abortion clinic in Indianapolis, according to local media. Mr Fuentes is a Guatemalan national and is in the US illegally, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement source told Fox News. Citing the risk that Mr Fuentes could flee or further endanger the child, Franklin County Municipal Court Judge Cynthia Ebner remanded him in custody, setting bail at $2m (£1.7m). He faces life in prison if convicted. The case was first reported on 1 July with few details in the IndyStar. As other news outlets struggled to confirm the story, prominent conservatives began to question its veracity. Among the sceptics was congressman Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, who had tweeted on Tuesday that the story was "another lie". As news of the court appearance emerged on Wednesday, Mr Jordan appeared to have quietly deleted that tweet. A new one was posted in which the lawmaker called for the suspect to be "prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law". The accused appeared in court on Wednesday __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

19-10-22, 04:08	#10
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: DeSantis Signs SIX-Wk Abortion BAN Into Law-CUNNING Way of BANNING ALL Abortions Roe v Wade: Biden Calls For Federal Law to Restore Abortion Rights President Joe Biden has said a federal law would be the "fastest way" to restore abortion rights as he signed an order to safeguard abortion access. Biden Allows US Aid For Abortion Providers and Expands Obamacare *US President Joe Biden has reversed a ban on federal funds going to international aid groups that perform or inform about abortions.* BBC News 19 OCT 2022. He said the ending of the so-called Mexico City Policy reverses former President Trump's "attack on women's health access". The memo orders a review of a Trump-era policy blocking funding for US clinics that offer abortion referrals as well. Mr Biden also signed an edict expanding the Obamacare insurance programme. "I'm not initiating any new law, any new aspect of the law," he said in the White House Oval Office on Thursday, responding to criticism that he was governing by executive order, rather than congressional legislations. "There is nothing new that we're doing here other than restoring the Affordable Care Act ... to the way it was before Trump became president," he added. What is The Global Abortion 'Gag Rule'? The Mexico City Policy was first enacted by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1984 and has been repeatedly renewed by Republicans and cancelled by Democrats. For decades, the US has barred money from being spent on overseas abortions but the Mexico City policy takes that a step further. It prevents federal funds from going to organisations that provide abortions, abortion counselling or advocate for the legal right to abortion. The programme was expanded under Mr Trump, who banned funds from going to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that themselves provide funding for abortion groups. In a statement earlier, the White House said Mr Biden was issuing the presidential actions "to support women's and girls' sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States, as well as globally". A report by the US Government Accountability Office released last year found that in 2017, NGOs were unable to receive around $153m (£112m) because they chose not to cut back on abortion programmes. The report found 54 occasions in which NGOs did not accept US funds due to the policy. What else has Biden done on abortion? Mr Biden has also instructed the US health department to immediately consider removing Trump-era restrictions to a domestic family planning programme for low-income Americans known as Title X. Mr Trump's overhaul of the Title X programme saw tens of millions of dollars stripped from any health centres that offered or referred patients for non-elective abortions, like Planned Parenthood. Mr Biden on Thursday also removed the US from a 2020 resolution known as the Geneva Consensus, a non-binding charter of more than 30 countries that oppose abortion. The actions to begin undoing Mr Trump's abortion and healthcare legacy comes on the eve of the annual anti-abortion March for Life protest, which is being held virtually on Friday. In 2020, Mr Trump made history by becoming the first sitting US president to appear at the rally. It also comes amid legal battles over abortion, as several mostly Republican southern states pass local regulations that drastically cut back access to the procedure. Conservatives are newly emboldened to try to reverse 1973's Roe v Wade landmark Supreme Court decision, which legalised abortion across the US, after Mr Trump appointed judges who have tilted the court in conservatives' favour. Some Democrats have called for Congress to end the so-called Hyde Amendment, a federal provision that says funds cannot go to abortion programmes in US states except in cases of rape and incest. Republicans have vowed to block spending legislation that does not include it. Mr Biden had long supported the Hyde Amendment as a senator and vice-president, but withdrew support during the 2019 Democratic primary elections. What's Happening With Obamacare? ---Trump Tried to Kill Off Obamacare Mr Biden on Thursday signed an order to reopen the Affordable Care Act - also known as Obamacare - federal insurance marketplace for three months. Under Mr Trump, the enrolment period lasted just six weeks, as the Republican administration sought to dismantle the programme. Mr Biden said that with the ongoing "Covid crisis", now was the time to reinstate access to healthcare and affordable programmes. Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi praised the expansion in a weekly briefing, saying: "We're very excited about that because we're of course in the middle of a pandemic and we see this was a matter of life and death." Mr Biden's directive also mandates agencies look into policies that may reduce coverage in the Medicaid healthcare programme for low-income Americans. This includes a measure created under the Trump administration that allows states to impose work requirements on aid-seekers. The president has also ordered a re-examination of policies that hurt protections for patients with pre-existing conditions and any measures that undermine the federal insurance marketplace or enrolment. Because most Americans receive health insurance from their employers, pandemic-related layoffs have led to a spike in uninsured people in the past year. Early estimates say that an additional five to 10 million Americans have lost their health insurance due to coronavirus, but official government studies of the issue are not due until later this year. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

08-04-23, 09:40	#11
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: DeSantis Signs SIX-Wk Abortion BAN Into Law-CUNNING Way of BANNING ALL Abortions Judge Rules to Halt Approval of Major Abortion Pill in US TRUMP-Appointed Federal Judge in Texas Has Ordered a Hold on The Longstanding Approval of a Widely Used Abortion Drug, Mifepristone. Mifepristone: US abortion pill access in doubt after rival rulings BBC 8 APR 2023 But an hour later an Obama-picked judge in Washington state issued a competing ruling, ordering that access to the drug be preserved in 17 states. The pill has been allowed for over 20 years, and is used in most abortions. The duelling court orders make it likely that the issue will escalate to the US Supreme Court. In a 67-page opinion, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, halted the FDA's approval of mifepristone. The ruling will not go into effect for seven days to allow the government time to appeal. The US Department of Justice confirmed on Friday night it would challenge the Texas ruling. Judge Kacsmaryk's decision could limit access to the drug for millions of women in the US. Legal analysts said the ruling threatens to upend the entire foundation of America's drug regulatory system. It comes after the Supreme Court removed constitutional protections for abortion last year, triggering a wave of state-by-state bans. A lawsuit filed by anti-abortion groups had argued that the drug's safety was never properly studied. *'Barbaric' abortion law nearly killed Texas women* In his ruling, Judge Kacsmaryk said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval had violated federal rules that allow for accelerated approval of certain drugs. The FDA spent four years reviewing mifepristone before it was approved in 2000. The judge also said the FDA had failed to consider the "psychological effects" of mifepristone and its safety record. The FDA's "failure [to account for this] should not be overlooked or understated", his legal opinion continued. The FDA, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists (ACOG) and other mainstream medical organisations say mifepristone is safe for use. Allison Whelan, assistant professor in Georgia State University College of Law who filed a legal brief in favour of keeping FDA approval, said the ruling - which refers throughout to "unborn humans", not fetuses - was "inflammatory". "The politics and ideology motivating Judge Kacsmaryk's decision could not be made any clearer by the inflammatory anti-abortion language used throughout the opinion," she told the BBC. "He cherry-picks the studies he cites to support his conclusion that abortions are unsafe or harm those who get abortions, without citing the many studies that refute those conclusions." Meanwhile, Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group that represented plaintiffs in the lawsuit, called the Texas ruling "a significant victory" for women and doctors. Jeanne Mancini, president of another anti-abortion group, March for Life, hailed it as "a major step forward for women and girls". But an hour after the Texas ruling, another federal judge, this one in Washington state, issued a competing 31-page injunction on a separate case, ordering the FDA to keep the drug on the market in the Democratic-run states that brought the lawsuit. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson called the counter-ruling a "huge win". Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren slammed the Texas ruling, tweeting: "We can't let one right-wing extremist overrule women, their doctors, and the scientists." Mifepristone, part of a two-drug regimen that induces abortions, effectively stops the pregnancy, while the second drug, misoprostol, empties the uterus. It was first approved for the termination of pregnancy up until seven weeks gestation. In 2016, its approved use was extended to 10 weeks of pregnancy. Mifepristone is also used to treat women who have been RAPED, suffered miscarriages and Cushing syndrome, a hormone-related condition. Last week, the Democratic governor of Washington state announced that a three-year supply of mifepristone had been stockpiled by state officials in the event that it became unavailable nationwide. Days later the Republican governor of neighbouring Idaho signed a new law making "abortion trafficking" illegal. The law makes it a crime for adults to help children leave the state to obtain an abortion without a parent's consent. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

15-04-23, 05:00	#12
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: DeSantis Signs SIX-Wk Abortion BAN Into Law-CUNNING Way of BANNING ALL Abortions Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Quietly Signs Six-Week Abortion BAN Into Law in Florida Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill banning most abortions after six weeks, paving the way for drastic changes in access to the procedure across the state. Opponents Argue Six Weeks is BEFORE Many Women Know They Are Pregnant. So This in Fact is a CUNNING Way of BANNING ALL Abortions BBC News 15 APR 2023 The law will not go into effect until a court rules on an ongoing legal challenge to the existing 15-week ban. The six-week ban makes exceptions for abortions in cases of rape or incest, as long as the woman can provide documentation such as a police report or a restraining order.... "We are proud to support life and family in the state of Florida," the governor said in a statement. He claimed the law would "defend the dignity of human life and transform Florida into a pro-family state". The state has been a safe haven for those seeking abortion in the country's south-east since Roe v Wade - which gave women in the US the constitutional right to abortion - was overturned last year. The state's current 15-week limit on abortion is one of the most lenient in the south-east, with many travelling from other states to Florida to have the procedure. Mr DeSantis' signed the bill late Thursday night just hours after Florida's Republican-led House of Representatives approved the ban on Thursday, with 70 voting for and 40 voting against. It had been passed in the state Senate on 3 April. "A woman's right to choose, I've heard people talk about that," Republican lawmaker Kiyan Michael said during the debate, as quoted by CNN. "Well, that right to choose begins before you have sex." In a statement shortly after Mr DeSantis signed the bill, the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates said the ban's exceptions for rape or incest would not provide "meaningful access to patients in need". The group argued the bill as a whole would "shut down a critical abortion access point for millions across the southeast, Caribbean, and Central and South America". The fate of the new six-week abortion law is still contingent upon another ruling from Florida's Supreme Court. Florida's highest court is hearing a challenge brought by abortion clinics to the state's existing 15-week ban. The latest law signed by Mr DeSantis contains language that says the six-week ban would only go into effect if Florida's highest court upholds the 15-week law that is already in place. Florida's conservative Supreme Court is expected to side with anti-abortion activists and rule the 15-week ban is constitutional. National debate over abortion in the US has been raging since a federal judge suspended the original approval of a widely used abortion drug, mifepristone, last week. That suspension was later blocked by an appellate court, and the Biden administration has said it will ask the Supreme Court to restore full access to the drug. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

22-04-23, 08:08	#13
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: US Supreme Court -No Success For Interferring Anti-Abortion Doctors/Activists US Supreme Court Blocks Ruling Limiting Access to Abortion Pill Federal judge in Texas ruled in early April to suspend FDA-approved mifepristone used in more than half of abortions in US BBC News 22 APR 2023 The US supreme court decided on Friday to temporarily block a lower court ruling that had placed significant restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone. The justices granted emergency requests by the justice department and the pill’s manufacturer, Danco Laboratories, to halt a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge in Texas. The judge’s order would significantly limit the availability of the medication as litigation proceeds in a challenge by anti-abortion groups. The decision offered a victory to the Biden administration as it defends access to the drug in the latest fierce legal battle over reproductive rights in the US. The president praised the decision and said he continues to stand by the FDA’s approval of the pill. “As a result of the supreme court’s stay, mifepristone remains available and approved for safe and effective use while we continue this fight in the courts,” Biden said in a statement. “The stakes could not be higher for women across America. I will continue to fight politically driven attacks on women’s health.” The court’s ruling means that access to mifepristone will remain unchanged at least into next year as appeals play out and patients can still get medication abortions with the drug in states where it was previously available. Reproductive rights groups celebrated the ruling, while cautioning it does not necessarily herald the final outcome of the case. “This is very welcome news, but it’s frightening to think that Americans came within hours of losing access to a medication that is used in most abortions in this country and has been used for decades by millions of people to safely end a pregnancy or treat a miscarriage,” said Jennifer Dalven, director of the Reproductive Freedom Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. “Make no mistake, we aren’t out of the woods by any means. This case, which should have been laughed out of court from the very start, will continue on.” The decision came in the most pivotal abortion rights case to make its way through the courts since Roe v Wade was overturned last year. More than half of abortions in the US are completed using pills. The case was brought by a conservative Christian legal group arguing the Food and Drug Administration improperly approved mifepristone more than 23 years ago. The Biden administration vigorously defended the FDA against the charge, emphasizing its rigorous safety reviews of the drug and the potential for regulatory chaos if plaintiffs and judges not versed in scientific and medical arguments begin to undermine the agency’s decision-making. Conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, with Alito writing that the Biden administration and Danco “are not entitled to a stay because they have not shown that they are likely to suffer irreparable harm in the interim”. The order granting the stay was unsigned, so it is not known how each of the other seven justices voted. The case has moved quickly through the courts in recent weeks, as contradicting rulings have thrown the future of the drug into question. In early April, a federal judge in Texas, Matthew Kacsmaryk, first ruled in the lawsuit brought by a coalition of anti-abortion groups to suspend the FDA’s 23-year-old authorization of mifepristone entirely, writing that the agency wrongly approved the drug. After a challenge by the Biden administration in the fifth circuit court of appeals, a divided three-judge panel said the drug’s approval could stand, but imposed restrictions on it, limiting its use to seven weeks of pregnancy instead of the current 10-week limit, and banning delivery of the pill by mail. The Biden administration then asked the supreme court to intervene before the restrictions went into effect. Alito twice stayed the lower court ruling, keeping access to mifepristone unaltered while the court deliberated. Complicating matters, another federal judge issued a ruling directly contradicting Kacsmaryk’s, ordering the FDA to refrain from making any changes to the availability of mifepristone in 18 jurisdictions. That judge – Judge Thomas O Rice, in Washington – reaffirmed that order after the fifth circuit’s ruling. Both the Biden administration and pharmaceutical companies have warned of regulatory chaos around drug approvals, should the supreme court allow the restrictions on mifepristone to go into effect. “If this ruling were to stand, then there will be virtually no prescription, approved by the FDA, that would be safe from these kinds of political, ideological attacks,” president Biden said in a written statement after the Kacsmaryk’s decision in early April. The US vice-president, Kamala Harris, echoed the point in a statement responding to the appellate decision: “If this decision stands, no medication – from chemotherapy drugs, to asthma medicine, to blood pressure pills, to insulin – would be safe from attacks.” __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

04-12-23, 13:08	#14
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Roe v Wade KILLER: TRUMP Wants it Both Ways on Womens' Right to Abortion ‘Moderate’ or Roe v Wade Killer: Can TRUMP Have it Both Ways on Abortion? TRUMP is Proud of Appointing The Supreme Court Justices Who Overturned Womens' Right to Abortion – Now He Realises Its a Vote Loser for Republicans The Guardian UK 4 DEC 2023 Republicans beware: hostility to abortion stands to haunt Trumps’ party in 2024 A few months ago, the former president Donald Trump accused the Republican party of speaking “very inarticulately” on abortion. And yet, for the GOP presidential frontrunner, inarticulateness seems to be a feature, not a bug, of his own approach to abortion. Trump thinks he can run in 2024 as a “moderate” on abortion, Rolling Stone reported this week – even though he’s currently running ads in Iowa, a crucial state in the Republican primary, proclaiming himself “the most pro-life president ever”. It’s a title to which Trump has a legitimate claim: his three nominees to the supreme court not only handed the nation’s highest court a definitive conservative majority, but all three voted to overturn Roe v Wade in summer 2022. That move handed the anti-abortion movement the victory of a lifetime, but Republicans have been paying for it ever since. They underperformed in both the 2022 midterms and the 2023 Virginia state elections, losses that have been widely credited to the party’s inability to figure out a path forward on abortion. Abortion rights advocates, meanwhile, won every abortion-related ballot measure of the last 18 months, even in red states. After Ohio, seemingly a conservative stronghold, voted to enshrine abortion rights in its state constitution earlier this month, abortion rights activists rushed to remind Democrats that “abortion is a winning issue” in 2024. While Republicans have flailed over how to message on an apparently toxic issue, Trump has – in typical Trump fashion – flip-flopped on it with apparent ease. Shortly after the 2022 midterms, Trump blamed “the abortion issue” for Republicans’ poor performance. He has refused to say whether he supports a federal ban and called the decision by Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, to sign a six-week abortion ban a “terrible thing”. But all the while, Trump continues to take credit for overturning Roe. “I was able to kill Roe v Wade,” he bragged on social media in May. Howard Schweber, a professor of American politics and political theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that “Trump has what, in my experience of observing politics, seems like a nearly unique ability to maintain cognitive dissonance in ways that his supporters find untroubling. “His supporters will say, ‘Oh, well, he really means that when he says’ – and then finish that sentence with whichever position they approve of. That’s the gamble that he’s taking,” he said. Trump has not said what, if any, specific abortion policy he would support as president. DeSantis has said that he would support a 15-week national abortion ban, a position championed by the powerful anti-abortion group SBA Pro-Life America. Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, has said that she would sign an abortion ban as president, but doubts that Republicans could muster the votes in Congress. Iowa has a reputation for conservative evangelicalism, but most Iowans believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. By not letting himself get nailed down on a specific abortion policy Trump might be approaching Iowa as though the presidential primary is already over, said Tim Hagle, a political science professor at the University of Iowa. (Which it very well be: Trump is polling far higher than any of his competitors, who have largely cratered.) In a general election, where voters are more likely to be less dogmatic, it can pay to be vague – particularly on a charged issue like abortion. “Things that you might say a little more forcefully during the nomination process during the primaries, you back off a little bit when it comes time to time for the general election,” Hagle said. “And that’s been a strategy of candidates for decades.” Republicans in Iowa have launched an effort to amend the state constitution and clarify that it does not protect abortion rights. In order for the amendment to show up on the ballot, the Republican-controlled state legislature would have to pass it before handing the measure to voters. That could backfire, increasing turnout among abortion rights supporters who oppose Trump. *Most Americans oppose the overturning of Roe* Donald Trump beams alongside Amy Coney Barrett at the White House following her confirmation as a supreme court justice. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

12-12-23, 22:13	#15
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: US Supreme Court -No Success For Interferring Anti-Abortion Doctors/Activists CRUEL Texas Supreme Court Rules AGAINST Woman Who Sued to Get Abortion Due to Medical Emergency A state district judge granted the request last week, but the Texas Supreme Court directed the lower court to vacate its order Monday. Daily Mail 12 DEC 2023 Kate Cox A Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis and who was awaiting a decision from the Texas Supreme Court about whether she would be allowed to get an abortion said Monday that she has decided to leave Texas to get the procedure. Kate Cox, a mother of two who is around 20 weeks pregnant, found out just after Thanksgiving that her developing fetus has trisomy 18, a fatal diagnosis. Seeking to terminate the pregnancy to protect her health and future fertility, she and her husband sought a court order to block Texas’ abortion bans from applying in her case. A state district judge granted the request Thursday, but then the state Supreme Court temporarily paused the lower court’s order Friday. On Monday evening, the Texas Supreme Court directed the lower court to vacate its order. "A woman who meets the medical-necessity exception need not seek a court order to obtain an abortion," the court wrote in its decision, adding: "The law leaves to physicians — not judges — both the discretion and the responsibility to exercise their reasonable medical judgment, given the unique facts and circumstances of each patient." Molly Duane, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing Cox, said the Supreme Court "ruling should enrage every Texan to their core." "If Kate can’t get an abortion in Texas, who can? Kate’s case is proof that exceptions don’t work, and it’s dangerous to be pregnant in any state with an abortion ban," Duane said. Before the Supreme Court issued its ruling, Cox’s lawyers said she intended to proceed with the lawsuit despite seeking an out-of-state abortion. Duane said Cox had to seek medical care outside Texas "due to the ongoing deterioration" of her health. Nancy Northup, the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said: "This past week of legal limbo has been hellish for Kate. Her health is on the line. She’s been in and out of the emergency room and she couldn’t wait any longer." __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

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28-03-24, 02:54	#16
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: US Supreme Court -No Success For Interferring Anti-Abortion Doctors/Activists US Supreme Court Hearing Not a Success For Anti-Abortion Doctors Judge shopping scheme backfires on anti-abortion activists with 'embarrassing' case in Supreme Court - **'WTH do these people think they are trying to control womens' decisions on what they do with THEIR OWN bodies?' The Guardian 28 MAR 2024 Justices appear unconvinced by anti-abortion doctors’ who didn’t have legal standing to sue during hearing over access to FDA-approved pill mifepristone. A US supreme court hearing that held the potential to reshape abortion access and the US Food and Drug Administration’s authority did not go well for anti-abortion doctors behind the case The consensus is a positive sign for abortion rights advocates, who feared the case would curtail access to medication abortions, which now account for the majority of all abortions nationally. “It’s very possible that they will just toss the lawsuit out because the anti-abortion doctors didn’t have legal standing to sue,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor at Georgetown Law School and an expert in global public health law, said about the justices. “In my view, the lawsuit was absurd on its face and deserves to be thrown out because these anti-abortion doctors had very little injury,” Gostin added. The case deals with FDA regulation of the drug mifepristone, one-half of a two-drug regimen used to terminate an early pregnancy. A group representing the doctors, called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, has sought to roll back FDA decisions that expanded mifepristone access, such as allowing doctors to prescribe it via telehealth. The Alliance argued its doctors could be forced to deal with complications of a medication abortion, thus doctors had the legal right, or standing, to bring the case. But over the course of 90 minutes of oral arguments, even members of the supreme court’s conservative supermajority seemed skeptical of the claim. Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh asked the US solicitor general, Elizabeth Prelogar, whether the doctors, represented by the powerhouse conservative law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, were already protected by laws that shield healthcare providers from violating their consciences. Fellow conservative Neil Gorsuch indicated that, in asking for a nationwide change, the anti-abortion doctors were asking for too much. “This case seems like a prime example of turning what could be a small lawsuit into a nationwide legislative assembly on an FDA rule,” Gorsuch said. Eva Temkin, an attorney at the law firm Paul Hastings who wrote a brief to the court on behalf of pharmaceutical executives and companies and a former FDA attorney, said the hearing underscored the importance of the FDA’s work as an independent arbiter of science. “The court was sort of appropriately skeptical of the plaintiffs’ standing in this case, and also appropriately skeptical of the idea that FDA had abused its authority by reaching the scientific judgment it reached,” said Temkin. Many legal experts agreed the anti-abortion doctors lacked the standing to sue. But they were less sure that the supreme court – which overturned Roe v Wade less than two years ago – would not side with the doctors anyway. “What we’ve seen recently is groups like ADF essentially saying: ‘We have a conservative supermajority. Let’s see if any of the old rules still apply. Let’s see if any of the procedural guardrails still exist,’” said Mary Ziegler, a professor at the University of California, Davis who studies the legal history of reproduction. “I think you had a lot of the conservative justices saying: ‘Yes, we’re conservative on abortion, but you still don’t have standing. Sorry!’”** Not every justice appeared so dubious of the anti-abortion doctors’ standing. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the most conservative justices, seemed more willing to side with the anti-abortion doctors. “Justice Alito’s vote is not even remotely in question. The plaintiff here could be a Barbie doll and he would find standing,” said Elizabeth Sepper, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Still, she added: “I still think if I were a bookmaker, I would have odds on the government prevailing on standing.” Experts were also struck by Thomas’s and Alito’s references to the Comstock Act, a 19th-century anti-obscenity law that, in the wake of Roe’s demise, anti-abortion activists have argued can be used to implement a nationwide abortion ban. Although the Comstock Act has not been enforced in roughly 80 years, Thomas asked a lawyer for Danco Laboratories, a manufacturer of mifepristone, to explain why Danco was not violating the Comstock Act by selling and advertising mifepristone. (She demurred, saying that such an issue was not before the court.) “He suggested to the lawyer for Danco that the company is committing criminal acts, currently, on an ongoing basis,” Sepper said. “That’s effectively what that exchange came down to, and that’s sort of stunning.” Whether the supreme court sides with the FDA and Danco, or with the anti-abortion doctors, Thomas, Alito or both will probably end up writing an opinion that mentions the Comstock Act, multiple experts said. “It’s getting raised in briefs, it’s getting raised in cases where it’s of dubious relevance,” said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. “It’s in the conversation. Do I think they probably have the votes to make it more than part of the conversation? Probably not. But I’ve been wrong before.” Even if the FDA prevails in the mifepristone case, it is unlikely to be out of the woods. The supreme court is currently deliberating over another case that attacks the administrative state and that could jettison the Chevron Doctrine, a legal concept that requires judges defer to expert agencies when the law is ambiguous. “We’re really beginning to see the crumbling of health and safety agencies that have kept Americans healthy and safe for nearly a century – and all of that is beginning to wither away right in front of our eyes,” Gostin said. “So the FDA is not out of the woods, and neither are their counterparts at other health and safety and scientific agencies.” The justices are also set to hear oral arguments in yet another abortion case next month, which will ask the justices to decide whether a federal law that requires hospitals to stabilize patients in medical emergencies pertains to emergency abortions. Regardless of how that case or the mifepristone case ultimately plays out, experts are confident that the supreme court will be asked to weigh in on abortion again and again. “If standing ends up being the way that this case ends, that doesn’t mean this kind of challenge won’t happen again,” said Nicole Huberfeld, a health law professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health. *“The courthouse doors remain open.”* Supreme Court hears arguments in abortion pill case - FULL Audio

10-04-24, 03:37	#17
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,647 Thanks: 27,646 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	US Abortion-22 States; RAPE/INCEST -If You're Pregnant -KEEP Baby OR Go to JAIL REPUBLICANS DRACONIAN LAW: Abortion is BANNED With NO Exceptions For Rape or Incest in Nearly 22 US States ---From 1989 TRUMP has changed his mind many times, depending on what he can get out of the result Arizona Top Court Upholds 1864 Near Total Abortion BAN The legality of abortion in the US and the various restrictions imposed on the procedure vary significantly depending on the laws of each state or other jurisdiction. MailOnline/CNN 10 APR 2024 Some states prohibit abortion at all stages with few exceptions, others permit it up to a certain point, while others allow abortion throughout a womans' pregnancy. WHICH US STATES BAN ABORTION See where abortions are banned and legal — and where it’s still in limbo; Following the Supreme Courts’ June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens’ Health Organization, which eliminated a constitutional right to abortion nationwide, nearly two dozen US states have banned or limited access to the procedure. States where abortion is most limited report higher rates of maternal and infant mortality, as well as greater economic insecurity. The fight over abortion is well underway in state legislatures and courts. Most recently on April 9, Arizonas’ Supreme Court reinstated a 1864 law, rooted in the Civil War era, barring abortion in nearly all circumstances. The ruling, however, has been stayed for two weeks, and the current 15-week ban remains in place in the meantime. In other news, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case against the abortion pill in March and will hear a challenge to Idahos’ near-total ban in late April. In Florida, a six-week ban will replace the states’ current 15-week ban on 1 May. *>> 6 week BAN is WRONG -Most women dont even know they are pregnant until 12/13 weeks* CNN is tracking these legal challenges as they make their way through the courts. Here’s where abortion access currently stands in the United States. Republican Supreme Court Overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 - Upheld For Decades, Ending Womens' Right to Abortion In a historic and far-reaching decision, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion, upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists. --------- Arizona Supreme Court Upholds Law From 1864 Effectively Banning Abortion Arizonas’ Abortion BAN is Exactly What Trump Wanted Nebraska Woman Who Helped Illegally Terminate Her Daughters' Pregnancy Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison US Woman Could Face Prison After Suffering Miscarriage Woman Criminally Charged After Miscarriage in Ohio Texas Woman Describes Ordeal With State Abortion Law After Miscarriage THE LIST GOES ON AND ON...