Post-Roe Chaos in states | proposed Amarillo restrictions could have national impact

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“… Amarillo, Texas — a conservative town in the panhandle with a population of about 200,000 — is set to consider a measure that would declare the city a “sanctuary city for the unborn.”

The measure would prohibit abortion unless necessary to save the patient’s life, make abortion pills illegal and outlaw traveling outside the city to access abortion in other states.

Interstate 40 is the major thoroughfare through Amarillo and happens to be the fastest way to get to New Mexico, where abortion is protected.

Though several states have abortion rights initiatives on the ballot next month, anti-abortion activists are focused on Amarillo for the role an outcome there could play nationally. If the ordinance is adopted, the city could become involved in an abortion pill case the Supreme Court sent back to the lower courts last term. The justices argued that the main plaintiffs — a coalition of anti-abortion groups known as the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine — lacked standing to bring the case.

If Amarillo passes the ordinance, anti-abortion advocates think it could have standing. And, not coincidentally, Amarillo’s only federal judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee who has openly opposed Roe v. Wade, would take the case. …”
 
Ugh ... and I thought con law was difficult to wade through when I was in law school. I can't imagine the dumpster fire it is today
 
nycfan said:


“… Amarillo, Texas — a conservative town in the panhandle with a population of about 200,000 — is set to consider a measure that would declare the city a “sanctuary city for the unborn.”

The measure would prohibit abortion unless necessary to save the patient’s life, make abortion pills illegal and outlaw traveling outside the city to access abortion in other states.

Interstate 40 is the major thoroughfare through Amarillo and happens to be the fastest way to get to New Mexico, where abortion is protected.

Though several states have abortion rights initiatives on the ballot next month, anti-abortion activists are focused on Amarillo for the role an outcome there could play nationally. If the ordinance is adopted, the city could become involved in an abortion pill case the Supreme Court sent back to the lower courts last term. The justices argued that the main plaintiffs — a coalition of anti-abortion groups known as the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine — lacked standing to bring the case.

If Amarillo passes the ordinance, anti-abortion advocates think it could have standing. And, not coincidentally, Amarillo’s only federal judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee who has openly opposed Roe v. Wade, would take the case. …”
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It will not have standing to challenge mifepristone no matter what happens. That's not the way standing works. That's a "self-inflicted injury" and it doesn't count. It's the Fifth, so who knows. But SCOTUS has sent this case down twice already. Third time's the charm? I doubt it.
 
nycfan said:


“… Amarillo, Texas — a conservative town in the panhandle with a population of about 200,000 — is set to consider a measure that would declare the city a “sanctuary city for the unborn.”

The measure would prohibit abortion unless necessary to save the patient’s life, make abortion pills illegal and outlaw traveling outside the city to access abortion in other states.

Interstate 40 is the major thoroughfare through Amarillo and happens to be the fastest way to get to New Mexico, where abortion is protected.

Though several states have abortion rights initiatives on the ballot next month, anti-abortion activists are focused on Amarillo for the role an outcome there could play nationally. If the ordinance is adopted, the city could become involved in an abortion pill case the Supreme Court sent back to the lower courts last term. The justices argued that the main plaintiffs — a coalition of anti-abortion groups known as the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine — lacked standing to bring the case.

If Amarillo passes the ordinance, anti-abortion advocates think it could have standing. And, not coincidentally, Amarillo’s only federal judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee who has openly opposed Roe v. Wade, would take the case. …”
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Can't help myself. Amarillo - Home to the 72oz. Steak Challenge. Yes I have eaten there; didn't attempt the challenge.

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nycfan said:
Meh. Republicans have a long history of having their wives soften the abortion debate with more moderate personal positions that don’t impact the actual policy goals of curtailing or eliminating abortion rights.
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Generally because Republicans also have a long history of their wives and SOs having had abortions.
 
Geisterfahrer said:
Generally because Republicans also have a long history of their wives and SOs having had abortions.
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Yep. Goes along with also having premarital sex (and often extramarital sex) while loudly proclaiming to stand for "traditional conservative family values" and promoting abstinence-only sex ed and lots of other hypocritical positions.
 
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Tennessee judges say doctors can't be disciplined for providing emergency abortions

A three-judge panel has ruled that Tennessee cannot discipline doctors who provide emergency abortions to protect the life of the mother while a lawsuit challenging the state’s sweeping abortion ban continues
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Tennessee judges say doctors can't be disciplined for providing emergency abortions​

A three-judge panel has ruled that Tennessee cannot discipline doctors who provide emergency abortions to protect the life of the mother while a lawsuit challenging the state’s sweeping abortion ban continues​

 


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Opponents are trying to capitalize on polls showing that Missourians oppose gender-affirming medical care for minors, which is already illegal for transgender children in the state, and allowing athletes to compete outside their birth gender. By combining the issues, political observers say, opponents are banking on confusing voters and building a broader base against the amendment.

The anti-transgender messaging in Missouri is part of a national trend, where Republicans are leveraging cultural issues like transgender rights to rally conservative voters in the 2024 campaigns.

Opponents are also strategizing about next steps if they lose at the ballot box. They are ready to shift their efforts to a more receptive audience: a state legislature dominated by deeply conservative politicians who have frequently acted against public opinion.

… The Missouri General Assembly has a history of using “ballot candy,” where lawmakers add politically charged language they support to amendments to undo voter-approved measures that they don’t like.

In 2018, for instance, voters overwhelmingly approved the Clean Missouri initiative, which aimed to reform some of the worst abuses of legislative redistricting. Two years later, Republican lawmakers introduced new ballot language that reframed the issue, focusing on minor ethics reforms while quietly seeking to reverse many of the changes in the Clean Missouri initiative. That repeal effort narrowly passed.

A similar tactic is evident in Missouri’s Amendment 7, which the legislature placed on this year’s ballot. While it is dressed up as a measure to ensure that only U.S. citizens can vote, something already required by law, its real impact would be to ban ranked-choice voting in the state, a move strongly supported by Republicans in the General Assembly. …”
 


"In the 13 states that enacted near-total abortion bans, the number of women receiving abortions increased in all but three. Some women traveled to clinics in states where abortions were legal. Others ordered abortion pills from U.S. doctors online, after doctors in other states started writing prescriptions under shield laws that protect them when they provide mail-order pills to patients in states with bans.

The only states with bans where abortion fell during this period were Texas, where the decrease was small; Idaho, where it was larger; and Oklahoma, where the data showed an unusually large number of abortions in 2020.

... Nationwide, the study also found that abortions have continued to rise. There were roughly 587,000 abortions in the first half of this year, an increase of more than 12 percent from the same period in 2023.

“It’s a surprise to everyone,” said David S. Cohen, co-author of the coming book “After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion” and a law professor at Drexel University. “I think most people thought there would be creativity and determination that would still get a lot of people abortions once Roe v. Wade was overturned. But I don’t think anyone thought it would stay the same, let alone go up.”

[There is a chart of each of the 13 states showing comparison of how abortion was accessed in these states in 2020 and 2023, between travel and local in 2020 and travel and abortion pills in 2023.]
 
nycfan said:


"In the 13 states that enacted near-total abortion bans, the number of women receiving abortions increased in all but three. Some women traveled to clinics in states where abortions were legal. Others ordered abortion pills from U.S. doctors online, after doctors in other states started writing prescriptions under shield laws that protect them when they provide mail-order pills to patients in states with bans.

The only states with bans where abortion fell during this period were Texas, where the decrease was small; Idaho, where it was larger; and Oklahoma, where the data showed an unusually large number of abortions in 2020.

... Nationwide, the study also found that abortions have continued to rise. There were roughly 587,000 abortions in the first half of this year, an increase of more than 12 percent from the same period in 2023.

“It’s a surprise to everyone,” said David S. Cohen, co-author of the coming book “After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion” and a law professor at Drexel University. “I think most people thought there would be creativity and determination that would still get a lot of people abortions once Roe v. Wade was overturned. But I don’t think anyone thought it would stay the same, let alone go up.”

[There is a chart of each of the 13 states showing comparison of how abortion was accessed in these states in 2020 and 2023, between travel and local in 2020 and travel and abortion pills in 2023.]
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Which is precisely why I think Republicans will never settle for just banning abortion in red states, they will push for and pass a national abortion ban as soon as they get the chance. And for those who say they won't because of polls or whatever, their base doesn't care, and they will pressure Republicans to pass it.
 
19thnews.org

A list of all the ways DeSantis has tried to meddle in Florida’s abortion ballot measure

Officials in Republican states have waged legal battles and other efforts to thwart abortion ballot measures or to influence their language. Florida stands out.
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“… Across multiple Republican-controlled states, state officials have waged legal battles and other efforts to thwart abortion rights measures from getting on the ballot or to influence the language.

But Florida stands out for how DeSantis is deploying multiple levers of power within his administration to discredit the amendment and even block political speech about it. While courts have pushed back on some of those efforts, they amount to the most sweeping and brazen government-funded campaigns opposing an abortion ballot measure this election cycle.

… At least three agencies housed within the DeSantis administration have aired television and radio ads, and put up a page on the Agency for Healthcare Administration (AHCA)’s website opposing Amendment 4. Journalist Jason Garcia, author of the Seeking Rents newsletter, has tracked nearly $20 million in taxpayer funds that have gone to state-sponsored ad campaigns opposing Amendment 4 and Amendment 3, which would legalize recreational marijuana in the state. State money has also gone to the legal battles surrounding ads from both sides. A judge dismissed a lawsuit the ACLU of Florida filed challenging the anti-Amendment 4 ad campaigns as a misuse of taxpayer funds. AHCA defended the website as an effort to educate voters and provide “transparency.”

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In a highly unusual step, the Florida Department of Health sent letters to local television stations arguing the advertisement is misleading about the medical exceptions to Florida’s abortion law and threatened that they could face second-degree misdemeanor criminal charges for creating a “sanitary nuisance.”

The department’s general counsel, John Wilson, subsequently resigned, the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times reported, writing in his resignation letter that “a man is nothing without his conscience.” He later stated in court documents that it was DeSantis’ own deputies who directed him to send the letters. A spokesperson for DeSantis did not immediately return a request for comment about Wilson’s claims.

The department’s actions received additional rebuke from the chair of the Federal Communications Commission and from a federal judge. In granting Floridians Protecting Freedom’s request for a temporary injunction to block the Health Department from sending additional letters to TV stations, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote: “To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it’s the First Amendment, stupid.” …”
 


“… The ruling comes after voters chose to legalize and protect access to reproductive rights in November 2023.

"Ohio voters have spoken," Jenkins wrote. "The Ohio Constitution now unequivocally protects the right to abortion."

Issue 1 passed in Nov. 2023 57-43%, enshrining reproductive rights into the state constitution. It says Ohioans have the right to make their own decisions about abortion, contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage care and continuing pregnancy. The state is prohibited from interfering with or penalizing someone for exercising this right. …”
 
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