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SCOTUS Skips Ninth Circuit to Take On Emergency Abortion Bans and It Doesn’t Look Great
The question of if, when, how, and to what extent states can ban emergency abortion care — and allow for the prosecution of doctors who provide “stabilizing” abortions to patients — is headed to the Supreme Court.
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GOP Judges: Texas Can Ban Life-Saving Emergency Abortion Care
A George W. Bush appointee and two Trump appointees on the Fifth Circuit ruled that Texas’ abortion bans supersede federal laws that allow doctors to provide life-saving abortions to pregnant people.
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Lying Republicans Can’t Get Their Stories Straight on Abortion Bans
Days after the Supreme Court announced it will consolidate and hear oral arguments in two cases related to medication abortion access, the New York Times dropped a Sunday blockbuster looking at what basically amounts to the story of Sam Alito’s enthusiastic dismantling of whatever ethical credibility the court had left in the pursuit of overturning…
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Two Tales of Pregnancy Post-Dobbs: Give Birth, Die Trying, or Go to Jail
Two women’s experiences in Ohio and Texas expose the deep cruelties — in many ways deliberately engineered cruelties — baked into abortion bans and the treatment and criminalization of pregnancy loss in the United States, especially post-Dobbs.
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Hell is Not Hot Enough for Ken Paxton
There is no call for this other than: the State of Texas is demanding that we give birth or die trying.
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Texas Shrugs Off Life-Threatening Abortion Bans as ‘Hard Calls’
The state of Texas says it doesn’t have a responsibility to clarify statutory language that could save pregnant people’s lives.
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Trump Claims to be ‘Moderate’ on Abortion in Latest String Of Wordbarf To Leave His Lips
This week, the Texas Supreme Court will hear AG Ken Paxton’s best argument for forcing pregnant people with life-threatening pregnancies to die at the hands of the state.
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A Pirate Looks at 40, or: Things I Think I Know By Now
I’ve always carried around a lot of existential dread; this birthday hasn’t really exacerbated it any more than usual. Instead, I’ve been quietly spooked by the unsettling realization that the more I live and learn, the less I really know for sure.
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Abortion Rights Remain Undefeated at the Ballot Box
Good morning especially to the Ohio voters who enshrined abortion and other essential repro rights in their state constitution last night! Why don’t we try something like that here in Texas?
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Ohio Republican Purges 26,000 Voters from Rolls In Advance of Abortion Vote, A Total Coincidence We’re Sure
It’s probably a total coincidence that Ohio’s anti-abortion Republican Secretary of State, Frank LaRose, purged 26,000 voters from the rolls just in time for Ohioans to head to the polls tomorrow to vote on the Issue 1 constitutional amendment on abortion rights. Surely could not be part of the mass, desperate panic to silence Buckeye…
