Post-Roe Chaos in states | Wiscy Supremes strike 1848 Abortion Ban

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Sadly, it won't move the needle legislation wise till it's a blond upper middle class woman at least.
 
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A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms

It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.” She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban.
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A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms​

It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.” She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban.​

 
^ it's not safe to be a pregnant woman in any Trump abortion state, not even to visit. As someone said "if you are pregnant and get in a car crash or something unrelated to the pregnancy, the doctors will treat you like an untouchable till it might be too late"

We are also very close to these abortion laws intersecting the crazy pro-gun laws and we have partners holdign hospital staff at gun point till they treat the women.
 
I hope the families sue these hospitals and doctors for malpractice. I know they’re in a difficult position, but they need to be mindful of Scylla while they dodge Charybdis.
 
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A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms

It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.” She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban.
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A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms​

It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.” She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban.​

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As someone who had to have a D&C after a missed miscarriage about 20 years ago now, I am so glad I had protection of Roe for the sake of my health (and fertility so we could eventually have our son a year or so later at a relatively late age for a mom).

What happened to this poor young woman is exactly what my doctors told me could happen to me if I elected to wait for my body to complete the miscarriage.
 
nycfan said:
As someone who had to have a D&C after a missed miscarriage about 20 years ago now, I am so glad I had protection of Roe for the sake of my health (and fertility so we could eventually have our son a year or so later at a relatively late age for a mom).

What happened to this poor young woman is exactly what my doctors told me could happen to me if I elected to wait for my body to complete the miscarriage.
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I just saw an article about this, had missed this post earlier. Livid does not begin to describe how I feel about this situation. 😡. I’m so glad that you are here to tell the tale, and I’m sorry you had to go through that. I CANNOT even begin to imagine how this girl’s family is managing right now.
 
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Southern Baptist Convention public policy head takes aim at LGBTQ+ rights, abortion access in Trump letter

The president of the SBC's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission asked Trump to prioritize limiting LGBTQ+ rights and abortion access in his new term.
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Southern Baptist Convention public policy head takes aim at LGBTQ+ rights, abortion access in Trump letter​


“… The letter outlines a series of policy priorities for the Trump administration to consider in its first 100 days: restricting access and funding for abortion providers and the abortion pill, reversing an executive order issued by President Joe Biden with guidance to federal agencies on antidiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people, and reversing other federal rules under Biden protecting LGBTQ+ rights. …”
 
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That's a misleading headline. The appeals panel didn't really address the issue of travel outside the state, except to say that Idaho's police powers do not extend beyond its borders. This was mostly about in-state stuff, and the travel issue was not addressed in the opinion.
 

As antiabortion advocates launch legal efforts to stop abortion pills from reaching women in states with bans, they are increasingly turning to one group with uniquely intimate and specific information to help them find cases: male sex partners of women who decided to end their pregnancies.

The strategy propelled a first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed last month by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that cited first-hand information from an unnamed “biological father” to accuse a New York doctor of illegally providing abortion pills to a woman in the Dallas area, according to two people familiar with the case’s origins.

The case was inspired by a report Paxton’s office received from the man and emerged as part of a broader abortion law enforcement operation the attorney general has quietly created that includes searching for potential plaintiffs, said the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.


This partner-focused approach will shift to a more public phase next month when Texas’s largest antiabortion organization launches an advertising campaign on Facebook and X to reach the husbands, boyfriends and sex partners of women who have had abortions in the state — with the goal of recruiting them to file lawsuits against those who assisted the women in ending their pregnancies.
“The strategy right now is to tell dads that if you’re the father of a child victim of an abortion, you have legal rights, there may be a way to hold these people accountable,” said John Seago, the president of Texas Right to Life, adding that his group has already found several men who could act as plaintiffs in upcoming cases.

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At least one other man initiated legal action in hopes of persuading his partner not to have an abortion — retaining Mitchell and issuing a legal threat as soon as he found out the woman was planning to travel out of state to end her pregnancy.

That man submitted a petition in state district court under an unusual legal mechanism often used in Texas to investigate suspected illegal actions before a lawsuit is filed. If the woman proceeded with the abortion, even in a state where the procedure remains legal, the male partner threatened to seek a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the abortion and “pursue wrongful-death claims against anyone involved in the killing of his unborn child,” according to court records.

That petition, filed in March, is still making its way through the courts. The man has so far not been able to obtain any additional discovery about his partner’s abortion.
Mitchell, the man’s lawyer, declined a request for comment.

For male partners initiating a wrongful-death case, the first step is frequently to request highly personal and sensitive information from the woman who chose to end her pregnancy, compelling her to hand over text messages and other documentation related to her abortion that could then be made public during discovery.
It can be particularly painful to learn you’re being targeted by someone you once trusted, said Wolf, the attorney who has represented women implicated in these cases. For some of the women, he said, these actions can be “a betrayal of something that may have been a good relationship at one point but no longer is.”

Texas Right to Life plans to file several of these kinds of lawsuits in different appeals courts in the coming months, Seago said — with the ultimate goal of getting one of them before the Texas Supreme Court.
The group’s employees have been contacting antiabortion pregnancy centers and “abortion recovery groups” that minister to men. They are particularly interested in cases that involve websites mailing pills into states with bans, and those that aggregate abortion pill resources.
 

Trump pardons antiabortion activists who blocked access to clinics​

The pardons came the evening before thousands of activists are expected to march to the U.S. Capitol in the 52nd annual March for Life.


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Several protesters were convicted in D.C. federal court in separate proceedings in 2023, after they were found to have pushed their way into the Washington Surgi-Clinic, near George Washington University’s campus, injuring a nurse and hounding patients in an October 2020 blockade.

Attorneys for the defendants called them peaceful demonstrators emulating sit-ins from the civil rights era. Federal prosecutors in court documents described their efforts as “organized invasions” carried out with physical force, chains, ropes and locks — all of it carefully planned and live-streamed.

… The other pardon recipients were convicted of similar offenses in New York, Michigan and Tennessee. Prosecutors had alleged they violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a 1994 law that makes it a felony to use threats or violence to interfere with reproductive health-care services.

… Not all of those granted clemency were imprisoned as of Thursday. In a letter lobbying Trump for the pardons this month, the antiabortion Thomas More Society called them a group of “peaceful pro-life Americans” that included “grandparents, pastors, a Holocaust survivor, and a Catholic priest.” They argued to Trump that the FACE Act was unconstitutional and that part of prosecutors’ reasoning for bringing the charges was to protect the right to abortion, which no longer existed in 2023 because of the Supreme Court’s ruling the year before overturning Roe v. Wade. …”
 
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