The Supreme Court, and abortion.

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Gov. Jay Inslee signs group of bills on abortion and reproductive health access

 

Gov. Jay Inslee signed a number of bills Thursday that will protect access to abortion and reproductive care in Washington state.

 

Inslee has made maintaining the right to have an abortion in the state one of his priorities, and the five bills he is signing Thursday reflect that.

 

House Bill 1152, also known as the "My Health, My Data Act," increases consumer protections around collecting, sharing and selling consumer health data, including data collected by apps, websites and organizations.

 

House Bill 1469 shields abortion and gender-affirming care patients and providers from prosecution by out-of-state authorities and prevents cooperation with investigations. A number of states, including neighboring Idaho, have passed legislation that would penalize anyone who helps a minor get an abortion in another state.

 

House Bill 1340 protects healthcare providers in Washington from disciplinary action for providing legal abortion and gender-affirming care in Washington.

 

Senate Bill 5242 increases equitable access to abortion care by eliminating cost-sharing for abortions. For health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, including health plans offered to public employees, a health carrier may not impose cost-sharing for abortion of a pregnancy.

 

Senate Bill 5768 protects abortion pill access by authorizing the Department of Corrections to distribute a supply of 30,000 doses of mifepristone. Inslee directed the DOC to purchase the supply of mifepristone in March, after a ruling in a Texas federal court threatened access to the pill.

 

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[Jumbo]

I'm still struggling to get major support for my Retroactive Abortion Programs.

 

 I'm retired from helping individual humans but am still committed to helping improve the state of the species.

 

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Feds: Hospitals that denied emergency abortion broke the law

 

Two hospitals that refused to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman who was experiencing premature labor put her life in jeopardy and violated federal law, a first-of-its-kind investigation by the federal government has found.

 

The findings, revealed in documents obtained by The Associated Press, are a warning to hospitals around the country as they struggle to reconcile dozens of new state laws that ban or severely restrict abortion with a federal mandate for doctors to provide abortions when a woman’s health is at risk. The competing edicts have been rolled out since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion last year.

 

But federal law, which requires doctors to treat patients in emergency situations, trumps those state laws, the nation’s top health official said in a statement.

 

“Fortunately, this patient survived. But she never should have gone through the terrifying ordeal she experienced in the first place,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said. “We want her, and every patient out there like her, to know that we will do everything we can to protect their lives and health, and to investigate and enforce the law to the fullest extent of our legal authority, in accordance with orders from the courts.”

 

The federal agency’s investigation centers on two hospitals — Freeman Health System in Joplin, Missouri, and University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City, Kansas — that in August refused to provide an abortion to a Missouri woman whose water broke early at 17 weeks of pregnancy. Doctors at both hospitals told Mylissa Farmer that her fetus would not survive, that her amniotic fluid had emptied and that she was at risk for serious infection or losing her uterus, but they would not terminate the pregnancy because a fetal heartbeat was still detectable.

 

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[Larry]

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I'd be willing to bet that it doesn't actually do half of the things claimed.  

 

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Louisiana Republicans Kill Rape, Incest Exceptions to Abortion Ban After Unhinged Hearing

 

After a truly eyebrow-raising hearing on Wednesday, Louisiana’s House criminal justice committee voted against adding rape and incest exceptions to the state’s abortion ban, one of the strictest in the country.

Pastor John Raymond of Slidell, La., testified against the bill, saying that an abortion in the case of rape would make it so there are two victims instead of one–a talking point parroted by anti-abortion activists throughout the discussion. Women will “clamor to put old boyfriends behind bars in order to dispense with the inconvenience of giving birth,” he said.

Raymond, mind you, currently faces numerous criminal charges for cruelty to juveniles, including multiple allegations of physically abusing a 4-year-old, once allegedly holding him upside down by the ankle and whipping his butt. The pastor has also been accused of taping three 13-year-old boys’ mouths shut after they refused to stop talking in class.

The rest of the hearing was equally disheartening. Democrat Delisha Boyd, who introduced the bill to add rape and incest exceptions, revealed that she was the product of rape after her mother was sexually assaulted when she was 15. “My mother never recovered,” said Boyd, adding that her mother died just before she was 28 years old.

Republicans, of course, were unmoved by this argument. Anti-abortion activist Debbie Melvin said abortion “can be like a second rape.”

 

https://news.yahoo.com/louisiana-republicans-kill-rape-incest-180000016.html

Edited May 11, 2023 by EmirOfShmo

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1 hour ago, EmirOfShmo said:

Louisiana Republicans Kill Rape, Incest Exceptions to Abortion Ban After Unhinged Hearing

 

After a truly eyebrow-raising hearing on Wednesday, Louisiana’s House criminal justice committee voted against adding rape and incest exceptions to the state’s abortion ban, one of the strictest in the country.

Pastor John Raymond of Slidell, La., testified against the bill, saying that an abortion in the case of rape would make it so there are two victims instead of one–a talking point parroted by anti-abortion activists throughout the discussion. Women will “clamor to put old boyfriends behind bars in order to dispense with the inconvenience of giving birth,” he said.

Raymond, mind you, currently faces numerous criminal charges for cruelty to juveniles, including multiple allegations of physically abusing a 4-year-old, once allegedly holding him upside down by the ankle and whipping his butt. The pastor has also been accused of taping three 13-year-old boys’ mouths shut after they refused to stop talking in class.

The rest of the hearing was equally disheartening. Democrat Delisha Boyd, who introduced the bill to add rape and incest exceptions, revealed that she was the product of rape after her mother was sexually assaulted when she was 15. “My mother never recovered,” said Boyd, adding that her mother died just before she was 28 years old.

Republicans, of course, were unmoved by this argument. Anti-abortion activist Debbie Melvin said abortion “can be like a second rape.”

 

https://news.yahoo.com/louisiana-republicans-kill-rape-incest-180000016.html

A good 1/3+ percent of this country has become a cesspool of (in)humanity.

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Ah yes, showing how much he values the sanctity of life.

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How much do you want to bet he gets a governor's pardon?

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[Larry]

It's the logical extension of the cover story they've been using to justify their agenda. 

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On 4/28/2023 at 11:30 AM, Cooked Crack said:

 

It should be notes that 1,002 Americans overwhelmingly support it.

 

polls represent the areas in which they are taken.

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Only because that ****bird Cotham switched parties. Stay strong, we’re gonna take back the legislature next year and set it right!

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The 5th Circuit Is Furious That the Supreme Court Put It in Timeout

 

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is where law goes to die—a place where the nation’s most partisan jurists recklessly wield their power to enact hard-right policy under the guise of judging. But even by the court’s own dismal standards, Wednesday was a ****show of epic and catastrophic proportions. A nightmare three-judge panel heard the never-ending mifepristone case, which seeks to pull the “abortion pill” off the market in all 50 states. The hearing was a humiliating farce from start to finish as Judges Jennifer Walker Elrod, James Ho, and Cory Wilson assumed the role of pro-life warriors hellbent on changing any rules and ignoring any evidence that might stand in the way of them ruling against abortion.

 

And here’s the punchline: Nothing these intellectual Lilliputians do will even matter. The Supreme Court has already decided that the 5th Circuit cannot be trusted with this case: In April, it froze the court’s previous decision stringently limiting access to mifepristone, expressly maintaining the freeze until the justices themselves take further action. Elrod, Ho, and Wilson are howling into the wind; they have no power to change a thing about federal regulation of medication abortion. The adults in the room have already put them in time-out. And rather than demonstrate that they can judge responsibly, they seized on Wednesday’s hearing to throw a combination temper tantrum/gaslight party. No lessons have been learned, no maturity acquired. This time-out probably isn’t ending anytime soon.

 

It would be cruel and unusual to subject the reader to a full recap of this sorry case, but here are the basics: In 2000, after a four-year review, the FDA approved mifepristone, in combination with misoprostol, for medication abortion. The agency imposed stringent limits on the drug and studied it extensively, eventually finding that it is incredibly safe and effective. In response to these findings, the FDA has reduced barriers to mifepristone since 2016: It authorized the drug’s use until 10 weeks of pregnancy (up from seven), approved a generic version, reduced reporting requirements, and stopped mandating three in-person doctor visits.

 

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a group of anti-abortion activists created a group called Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine for the purpose of suing over mifepristone. They incorporated AHP in Amarillo, Texas, so that Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk—a former anti-abortion advocate known for extreme, dangerous, and incoherent far-right rulings—would be guaranteed to hear the case due to a jurisdictional loophole. Then they sued, represented by the Christian nationalist hate group Alliance Defending Freedom. Kacsmaryk played his part, issuing an unprecedented and unhinged decision purporting to suspend the FDA’s 23-year-old approval of mifepristone. The 5th Circuit futzed with his decision in a hopeless effort to make it marginally more plausible, but the Supreme Court didn’t bite: With only two dissenting votes, SCOTUS stayed Kacsmaryk’s whole ruling, meaning that nothing he or the 5th Circuit does to attack the drug will have any legal effect, unless the Supreme Court does an about-face and ultimately sides with the 5th Circuit.

 

Which brings us to Wednesday, when the FDA and Danco Laboratories (which manufacturers mifepristone) tried to pull the 5th Circuit back into the orbit of reality. It was a futile exercise. Elrod, a George W. Bush appointee, is one of the most disingenuous and petty judges on the bench. Ho is an extremist and a troll who’s blotto on his own power. Wilson, for his part, often seems to misunderstand basic facts about any given case. Both Ho and Wilson are—drum roll, please—Trump appointees. Sarah Harrington (for the FDA) and Jessica Ellsworth (for Danco) did an amazing job handling a comically hostile bench. But what was the point? Nobody seriously expects these robed ideologues to do their job with a modicum of integrity. Here are a few lowlights of the hearing:

 

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