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1margd
In 2020, 84% of pregnancy-related deaths in US were preventable...
Thank goodness, son's friend was in Michigan when pre-eclampsia necessitated a Caesarean. With much care, her infant son avoided abortion only to be delivered by emergency Caesarean when mom's blood pressure soared and live only a day or two. In another state they both might have died. :(
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CDC Division of Reproductive Health @CDC_DRH | 12:31 PM · May 29, 2024 {X}:
New data show that nearly half of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. in 2020 occurred 1 week to 1 year after delivery. View new Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC) data here:
Pregnancy-Related Deaths: Data From Maternal Mortality Review Committees in 38 U.S. States, 2020 {CDC}
Key points
Pregnancy-related deaths occurred during pregnancy, delivery, and up to 1 year postpartum.
The leading cause of pregnancy-related death varied by race and ethnicity.
Over 80% of pregnancy-related deaths were determined to be preventable.
https://www.cdc.gov/maternal-mortality/php/data-research/2020-mmrc.html https://bit.ly/3WKhuEs
Image (https://x.com/CDC_DRH/status/1795855400740274306/photo/1)
Thank goodness, son's friend was in Michigan when pre-eclampsia necessitated a Caesarean. With much care, her infant son avoided abortion only to be delivered by emergency Caesarean when mom's blood pressure soared and live only a day or two. In another state they both might have died. :(
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CDC Division of Reproductive Health @CDC_DRH | 12:31 PM · May 29, 2024 {X}:
New data show that nearly half of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. in 2020 occurred 1 week to 1 year after delivery. View new Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC) data here:
Pregnancy-Related Deaths: Data From Maternal Mortality Review Committees in 38 U.S. States, 2020 {CDC}
Key points
Pregnancy-related deaths occurred during pregnancy, delivery, and up to 1 year postpartum.
The leading cause of pregnancy-related death varied by race and ethnicity.
Over 80% of pregnancy-related deaths were determined to be preventable.
https://www.cdc.gov/maternal-mortality/php/data-research/2020-mmrc.html https://bit.ly/3WKhuEs
Image (https://x.com/CDC_DRH/status/1795855400740274306/photo/1)
2krazy4katz
>1 margd: Amazing statistics! It's not money or medical knowledge that is the problem. It's politics!!
3kiparsky
>2 krazy4katz: Specifically the politics of getting Catholics to vote against everything they believe in, in exchange for something they've never believed in.
Pretty amazing trick when you think about it.
(and yes, I know that the myth that abortion is annoying to god, even though according to their own book he does most of the abortions that ever happen and he never said anything about it in his book, has now spread to different christian cults, but I believe that when it was injected into politics it was specifically aimed at getting catholics to ignore their faith - and boy did it ever work)
Pretty amazing trick when you think about it.
(and yes, I know that the myth that abortion is annoying to god, even though according to their own book he does most of the abortions that ever happen and he never said anything about it in his book, has now spread to different christian cults, but I believe that when it was injected into politics it was specifically aimed at getting catholics to ignore their faith - and boy did it ever work)
4krazy4katz
>3 kiparsky: Not much I can say about that, being Jewish.
I should read the New Testament one of these days. I have been meaning to do it but somehow always forget. It seems there are right wing conservative and left wing liberals in each of the 3 major monotheistic religions these days.
I should read the New Testament one of these days. I have been meaning to do it but somehow always forget. It seems there are right wing conservative and left wing liberals in each of the 3 major monotheistic religions these days.
5margd
Embryology is awesome process. (This is a zebrafish, but early human development not much different.)
Merlin Lange 🇺🇦 @Merlin_Lange | 5:07 PM · May 31, 2024 {X}:
Project Lead - Senior Staff Scientist at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub {San Francisco}
12 hours time-lapse of #zebrafish head development acquired with a LSM {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confocal_microscopy ?}.
0:06 (https://x.com/Merlin_Lange/status/1796649801322529066)
Merlin Lange 🇺🇦 @Merlin_Lange | 5:07 PM · May 31, 2024 {X}:
Project Lead - Senior Staff Scientist at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub {San Francisco}
12 hours time-lapse of #zebrafish head development acquired with a LSM {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confocal_microscopy ?}.
0:06 (https://x.com/Merlin_Lange/status/1796649801322529066)
6margd
Texas Supreme Court rules against women who alleged state abortion ban put their health at risk
Tierney Sneed and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn | May 31, 2024
...The state’s highest court, which is made up entirely of Republicans, reversed a lower court’s order that broadened the exception to circumstances in which a pregnancy is “unsafe” for the pregnant person or when there is a fetal condition making it unlikely the fetus will survive.
...lawsuit brought by several Texas women who suffered serious health complications in their desired pregnancies. They alleged the state’s strict abortion laws put their lives and health in danger when they were forced to wait until their health seriously deteriorated before receiving the procedure or were denied an abortion altogether until they traveled out of state...
...The Texas justices took issue with the trial court’s order allowing for an abortion to be performed if a doctor had a “good faith” reason to believe the procedure was necessary. The high court ruled doctors must hew to the “reasonable medical judgment” standard in the law, which the ruling described as requiring doctors to “identify a life-threatening physical condition that places the mother at risk of death or serious physical impairment of a major bodily function unless an abortion is performed.” ...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/31/politics/texas-supreme-court-abortion-ban/index.h...
Tierney Sneed and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn | May 31, 2024
...The state’s highest court, which is made up entirely of Republicans, reversed a lower court’s order that broadened the exception to circumstances in which a pregnancy is “unsafe” for the pregnant person or when there is a fetal condition making it unlikely the fetus will survive.
...lawsuit brought by several Texas women who suffered serious health complications in their desired pregnancies. They alleged the state’s strict abortion laws put their lives and health in danger when they were forced to wait until their health seriously deteriorated before receiving the procedure or were denied an abortion altogether until they traveled out of state...
...The Texas justices took issue with the trial court’s order allowing for an abortion to be performed if a doctor had a “good faith” reason to believe the procedure was necessary. The high court ruled doctors must hew to the “reasonable medical judgment” standard in the law, which the ruling described as requiring doctors to “identify a life-threatening physical condition that places the mother at risk of death or serious physical impairment of a major bodily function unless an abortion is performed.” ...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/31/politics/texas-supreme-court-abortion-ban/index.h...
7margd
State Reproductive Policies Important to Enrollment Decisions
Stephanie Marken and Zach Hrynowski | March 14, 2024
71% say state reproductive healthcare policies impact college choice*
80% of all current/prospective students prefer states with greater access
86% of Democrats and 63% of Republicans prefer states with greater access
... *This is up slightly from 67% who said the same in late 2022. An even greater increase in the relevance of this issue to prospective and current students is also seen among those indicating these policies are highly important in their enrollment decisions (38% compared with 30% in 2022).
Both surveys were conducted after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022...
https://news.gallup.com/poll/611453/state-reproductive-policies-important-enroll...
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As posted in #105 thread 3:
Small Decline Seen in Ob/Gyn Residency Applications in Abortion Ban States — Analysis of ERAS data reveals no differences in signaling, though
Rachael Robertson | February 7, 2024
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/108633
Stephanie Marken and Zach Hrynowski | March 14, 2024
71% say state reproductive healthcare policies impact college choice*
80% of all current/prospective students prefer states with greater access
86% of Democrats and 63% of Republicans prefer states with greater access
... *This is up slightly from 67% who said the same in late 2022. An even greater increase in the relevance of this issue to prospective and current students is also seen among those indicating these policies are highly important in their enrollment decisions (38% compared with 30% in 2022).
Both surveys were conducted after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022...
https://news.gallup.com/poll/611453/state-reproductive-policies-important-enroll...
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As posted in #105 thread 3:
Small Decline Seen in Ob/Gyn Residency Applications in Abortion Ban States — Analysis of ERAS data reveals no differences in signaling, though
Rachael Robertson | February 7, 2024
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/108633
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CBS Mornings @CBSMornings | 8:53 AM · Jun 4, 2024:
“My fear is that stories like ours will continue to get told and not believed”: @TheRyanHamilton found his unconscious wife on the floor after being denied medical care for a miscarriage.
He tells @OmarVillafranca about the emotional saga.
9:32 (https://x.com/CBSMornings/status/1797974910012215438)
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Texas man details wife's devastating miscarriage amid state's strict abortion laws: "Nobody uses the word abortion"
Omar Villafranca, Jennifer Earl, Rachel Bailey | June 4, 2024
..."People are not aware of how common miscarriages are. One out of every five pregnancies end in miscarriage. This is a common experience for women, and so it's really scary that here you have a woman going through something that's actually quite common and having such a frustrating time getting the care that she needed," CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder, editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, said on "CBS Mornings."...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-man-details-wifes-devastating-miscarriage-ami...
“My fear is that stories like ours will continue to get told and not believed”: @TheRyanHamilton found his unconscious wife on the floor after being denied medical care for a miscarriage.
He tells @OmarVillafranca about the emotional saga.
9:32 (https://x.com/CBSMornings/status/1797974910012215438)
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Texas man details wife's devastating miscarriage amid state's strict abortion laws: "Nobody uses the word abortion"
Omar Villafranca, Jennifer Earl, Rachel Bailey | June 4, 2024
..."People are not aware of how common miscarriages are. One out of every five pregnancies end in miscarriage. This is a common experience for women, and so it's really scary that here you have a woman going through something that's actually quite common and having such a frustrating time getting the care that she needed," CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder, editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, said on "CBS Mornings."...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-man-details-wifes-devastating-miscarriage-ami...
92wonderY
>8 margd: I’ve had two early miscarriages that required medical care, and one that didn’t. It is a very common occurrence.
10margd
>9 2wonderY: Must be terrifying to be bleeding or infected, needing medical care, and not be able to access it... My sister had a bleed after an otherwise normal delivery, in which part of the placenta didn't detach. She was recovering at our parents' place in a rural area north of Toronto, when the hemorrhaging was detected. By the time she reached hospital in Toronto, she was white as a sheet from loss of blood.
As you note, miscarriages etc. are very common: pregnancy can be a hazardous proposition for the mom. (Lots of step-mothers in those old fairy tales...) It's enraging that knuckle-dragging, know-nothings are substituting their ill-informed judgement for that of women and their doctors. Grr.
As you note, miscarriages etc. are very common: pregnancy can be a hazardous proposition for the mom. (Lots of step-mothers in those old fairy tales...) It's enraging that knuckle-dragging, know-nothings are substituting their ill-informed judgement for that of women and their doctors. Grr.
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After the 2024 election, look for abortion opponents to find plaintiffs "with standing" to return to court with arguments that do not threaten to completely upend FDA and the pharmaceutical industry:
US supreme court unanimously upholds access to abortion pill mifepristone
Carter Sherman | 13 Jun 2024
FDA still has the power to give expanded access to mifepristone in major victory to abortion rights supporters
...The case, a consolidation of Food and Drug Administration v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and Danco Laboratories LLC v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, dealt with the FDA’s ability to regulate mifepristone, one of two drugs typically used in medication abortions, which now make up more than 60% of all US abortions and have become a major target of anti-abortion activists. A coalition of abortion opponents had tried to persuade the supreme court to roll back a series of moves by the FDA to expand access to the drug, such as allowing abortion providers to mail mifepristone to patients – a request that the justices met with skepticism in the case’s March arguments.
The abortion opponents claimed that, if the FDA’s current regulations of mifepristone were allowed to remain, anti-abortion doctors could suffer harm if they have to treat women who experience complications from mifepristone. But in Thursday’s majority opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh rejected that argument, ruling that the anti-abortion activists did not prove that they had the legal right to bring the case in the first place, or standing.
...Only Justice Clarence Thomas, one of the most hardline conservative justices on the court, wrote a concurring opinion that dealt primarily with the legal nuances of standing, arguing that so-called “abortionists” – a term widely seen as derogatory among abortion providers – should also lack standing to sue on behalf of their patients...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jun/13/supreme-court-abo...
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Syllabus
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION ET AL. v.
ALLIANCE FOR HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE ET AL.
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR
THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
No. 23–235. Argued March 26, 2024—Decided June 13, 2024*
38 p
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-235_n7ip.pdf
US supreme court unanimously upholds access to abortion pill mifepristone
Carter Sherman | 13 Jun 2024
FDA still has the power to give expanded access to mifepristone in major victory to abortion rights supporters
...The case, a consolidation of Food and Drug Administration v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and Danco Laboratories LLC v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, dealt with the FDA’s ability to regulate mifepristone, one of two drugs typically used in medication abortions, which now make up more than 60% of all US abortions and have become a major target of anti-abortion activists. A coalition of abortion opponents had tried to persuade the supreme court to roll back a series of moves by the FDA to expand access to the drug, such as allowing abortion providers to mail mifepristone to patients – a request that the justices met with skepticism in the case’s March arguments.
The abortion opponents claimed that, if the FDA’s current regulations of mifepristone were allowed to remain, anti-abortion doctors could suffer harm if they have to treat women who experience complications from mifepristone. But in Thursday’s majority opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh rejected that argument, ruling that the anti-abortion activists did not prove that they had the legal right to bring the case in the first place, or standing.
...Only Justice Clarence Thomas, one of the most hardline conservative justices on the court, wrote a concurring opinion that dealt primarily with the legal nuances of standing, arguing that so-called “abortionists” – a term widely seen as derogatory among abortion providers – should also lack standing to sue on behalf of their patients...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jun/13/supreme-court-abo...
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Syllabus
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION ET AL. v.
ALLIANCE FOR HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE ET AL.
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR
THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
No. 23–235. Argued March 26, 2024—Decided June 13, 2024*
38 p
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-235_n7ip.pdf
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Senate GOP blocks bill to guarantee access to IVF nationwide
Clare Foran and Ted Barrett | June 13, 2024
Senate Republicans block an effort by Democrats to guarantee access to in vitro fertilization nationwide ... The legislation failed to advance in a procedural vote by a tally of 48-47. It needed 60 votes to advance. Republicans criticized the Democrat-led legislation as unnecessary overreach and a political show vote.
...Republicans have introduced their own bills on IVF and contraception. GOP Sens. Katie Britt of Alabama and Ted Cruz of Texas have introduced a bill called the IVF Protection Act and Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa has put forward a separate bill to promote access to contraception.
...{Democratic Sens. Patty Murray of Washington state} ... criticized the GOP bill, arguing that states could “enact burdensome and unnecessary requirements and create the kind of legal uncertainty and risk that would force clinics to once again close their doors.”
Under the IVF bill from Britt and Cruz, states would not be eligible for Medicaid funding if they prohibit access to IVF, but the legislation “permits states to implement health and safety standards regarding the practice of IVF”...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/13/politics/senate-ivf-bill-vote/index.html
Clare Foran and Ted Barrett | June 13, 2024
Senate Republicans block an effort by Democrats to guarantee access to in vitro fertilization nationwide ... The legislation failed to advance in a procedural vote by a tally of 48-47. It needed 60 votes to advance. Republicans criticized the Democrat-led legislation as unnecessary overreach and a political show vote.
...Republicans have introduced their own bills on IVF and contraception. GOP Sens. Katie Britt of Alabama and Ted Cruz of Texas have introduced a bill called the IVF Protection Act and Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa has put forward a separate bill to promote access to contraception.
...{Democratic Sens. Patty Murray of Washington state} ... criticized the GOP bill, arguing that states could “enact burdensome and unnecessary requirements and create the kind of legal uncertainty and risk that would force clinics to once again close their doors.”
Under the IVF bill from Britt and Cruz, states would not be eligible for Medicaid funding if they prohibit access to IVF, but the legislation “permits states to implement health and safety standards regarding the practice of IVF”...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/13/politics/senate-ivf-bill-vote/index.html
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Jeff Sharlet JeffSharlet | 6:15 PM · Jun 12, 2024:
NYT Bestseller THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. THE FAMILY (book & Netflix). THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS. Words+pics @VanityFair. Teach Dartmouth.
Liberals may not realize how much the Southern Baptist Convention sets the course for much of Christian nationalism. Its vote against IVF is *loud.*
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jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1 | 3:13 AM · Jun 12, 2024:
I write about Christian Nationalism; Column = @buckscobeacon; Newsletter = https://crownewsletter.substack.com
For those who don’t know, Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leaders have been enormously influential in the Council for National Policy (CNP), the Christian Right’s umbrella organization, which effectively controls the GOP. 1/ ...
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Why the Southern Baptists’ vote opposing IVF could change national politics
Megan Messerly | 06/12/2024
The move may signal the beginning of a broad turn on the right against IVF, an issue that many social conservatives see as the “pro-life” movement’s next frontier...
...The resolution, which was passed by nearly 11,000 so-called messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, declares that IVF “most often participates in the destruction of embryonic human life” and calls on Southern Baptists to adopt and “only utilize reproductive technologies” that affirm “the unconditional value and right to life of every human being.”...
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/12/ivf-southern-baptist-convention-evangel...
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Tristan Snell @TristanSnell | 8:57 PM · Jun 13, 2024:
Lawyer, legal commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. Commentator, MSNBC. Creator of podcast/newsletter/book TAKING DOWN TRUMP.
In just the last few days, Senate Republicans have KILLED:
- protection for IVF
- protection for contraceptives
- an ethics code for the Supreme Court
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
NYT Bestseller THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. THE FAMILY (book & Netflix). THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS. Words+pics @VanityFair. Teach Dartmouth.
Liberals may not realize how much the Southern Baptist Convention sets the course for much of Christian nationalism. Its vote against IVF is *loud.*
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jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1 | 3:13 AM · Jun 12, 2024:
I write about Christian Nationalism; Column = @buckscobeacon; Newsletter = https://crownewsletter.substack.com
For those who don’t know, Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leaders have been enormously influential in the Council for National Policy (CNP), the Christian Right’s umbrella organization, which effectively controls the GOP. 1/ ...
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Why the Southern Baptists’ vote opposing IVF could change national politics
Megan Messerly | 06/12/2024
The move may signal the beginning of a broad turn on the right against IVF, an issue that many social conservatives see as the “pro-life” movement’s next frontier...
...The resolution, which was passed by nearly 11,000 so-called messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, declares that IVF “most often participates in the destruction of embryonic human life” and calls on Southern Baptists to adopt and “only utilize reproductive technologies” that affirm “the unconditional value and right to life of every human being.”...
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/12/ivf-southern-baptist-convention-evangel...
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Tristan Snell @TristanSnell | 8:57 PM · Jun 13, 2024:
Lawyer, legal commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. Commentator, MSNBC. Creator of podcast/newsletter/book TAKING DOWN TRUMP.
In just the last few days, Senate Republicans have KILLED:
- protection for IVF
- protection for contraceptives
- an ethics code for the Supreme Court
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
14margd
Those 86, 149 toddlers each have as many as two parents, four grandparents, family, friends, and well-wishers and fair-minded people, who VOTE.
Opinion: We are witnessing a war against women
How can the religious right, a movement that calls itself pro-life, take a stance against IVF?
Eugene Robinson | June 13, 2024
...According to a report issued in March by the Department of Health and Human Services, more than 2 percent of U.S. infants born in 2021 were conceived through IVF. That equals 86,149 toddlers who otherwise would not be here to scamper around the house.
...The Rev. Albert Mohler, president of the {Southern Baptists Convention} denomination’s flagship Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, urged passage of the anti-IVF resolution by telling Baptists in a speech that a human life begins “when the sperm and the egg meet and God says, ‘Let there be life.’” He went on to criticize Alabama’s elected leadership for its “lack of political will to stand behind what was the correct ruling and judgment by the Alabama Supreme Court.” {frozen embryos created during the IVF process are “children,” and that the embryos are therefore protected under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act} ...
Mohler said that IVF “is not only the alienation of reproduction from the conjugal setting, it is also an engineered system whereby multiple embryos are created only for most of them assuredly to be destroyed.” And he claimed, without evidence, that “much of the market for this is actually not even found among heterosexual married couples, but the redefinition of marriage, the redefinition of gender, the redefinition of all things in light of the LGBTQ movement.”...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/13/ivf-procedure-details-religio...
Opinion: We are witnessing a war against women
How can the religious right, a movement that calls itself pro-life, take a stance against IVF?
Eugene Robinson | June 13, 2024
...According to a report issued in March by the Department of Health and Human Services, more than 2 percent of U.S. infants born in 2021 were conceived through IVF. That equals 86,149 toddlers who otherwise would not be here to scamper around the house.
...The Rev. Albert Mohler, president of the {Southern Baptists Convention} denomination’s flagship Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, urged passage of the anti-IVF resolution by telling Baptists in a speech that a human life begins “when the sperm and the egg meet and God says, ‘Let there be life.’” He went on to criticize Alabama’s elected leadership for its “lack of political will to stand behind what was the correct ruling and judgment by the Alabama Supreme Court.” {frozen embryos created during the IVF process are “children,” and that the embryos are therefore protected under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act} ...
Mohler said that IVF “is not only the alienation of reproduction from the conjugal setting, it is also an engineered system whereby multiple embryos are created only for most of them assuredly to be destroyed.” And he claimed, without evidence, that “much of the market for this is actually not even found among heterosexual married couples, but the redefinition of marriage, the redefinition of gender, the redefinition of all things in light of the LGBTQ movement.”...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/13/ivf-procedure-details-religio...
15krazy4katz
Why are these people against gun control if they care so much about life? Nothing makes any sense to me anymore…
PS. Sorry my response is off-topic but...
PS. Sorry my response is off-topic but...
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Brazil: Thousands protest bill tightening abortion ban
DW | 15 June 2024
Thousands of Brazilian women protested on Saturday against a bill that would tighten Brazil's ban on abortion. Under the bill, abortions after 22 weeks of pregnancy would be considered homicide, even in cases of rape.
...In Brazil, abortion is currently only allowed in cases of rape, fetal deformation or when the mother's life is in danger. Otherwise, the practice is punishable by between one and three years in jail.
The bill advancing in the country's Congress would establish sentences of six to 20 years for abortions carried out after 22 weeks of gestation.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who belongs to the left-wing Workers' Party (PT) ... "It is insane to want to punish a woman with a greater penalty than the criminal who committed the rape" ...
... right-wing parties strengthened their majority in the lower house of parliament...
https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-thousands-protest-bill-tightening-abortion-ban/a-69...
DW | 15 June 2024
Thousands of Brazilian women protested on Saturday against a bill that would tighten Brazil's ban on abortion. Under the bill, abortions after 22 weeks of pregnancy would be considered homicide, even in cases of rape.
...In Brazil, abortion is currently only allowed in cases of rape, fetal deformation or when the mother's life is in danger. Otherwise, the practice is punishable by between one and three years in jail.
The bill advancing in the country's Congress would establish sentences of six to 20 years for abortions carried out after 22 weeks of gestation.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who belongs to the left-wing Workers' Party (PT) ... "It is insane to want to punish a woman with a greater penalty than the criminal who committed the rape" ...
... right-wing parties strengthened their majority in the lower house of parliament...
https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-thousands-protest-bill-tightening-abortion-ban/a-69...
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Far-right Republicans’ latest target? No-fault divorce
Arwa Mahdawi | Sat 15 Jun 2024
...first instituted in California in 1969 by the then governor, Ronald Reagan ...By 2010 every state in the country had legalized a no-fault divorce option. The change in law seemed like common sense: before the shift, couples who no longer wanted to be together had to make up scenarios where someone was at fault, even sometimes faking adultery, to get a court to agree to let them split.
....no-fault divorces were also a feminist act: they made it easier for women (and it usually was women) in abusive relationships to get out.
Want to know just how good for American women no-fault divorces were? A National Bureau of Economic Research study conducted in 2003, found a large decline in the number of women killing themselves following the introduction of no-fault divorce, but no similar decline for men. “Total female suicide declined by around 20% in states that adopted unilateral divorce,” according to the paper. There was also “a large decline in domestic violence for both men and women in states that adopted unilateral divorce … {and} suggestive evidence that unilateral divorce led to a decline in females murdered by their partners”.
If a law makes it easier for women to exercise their autonomy then you can be sure that Republicans will want to overturn it...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/15/republicans-no-fau...
Arwa Mahdawi | Sat 15 Jun 2024
...first instituted in California in 1969 by the then governor, Ronald Reagan ...By 2010 every state in the country had legalized a no-fault divorce option. The change in law seemed like common sense: before the shift, couples who no longer wanted to be together had to make up scenarios where someone was at fault, even sometimes faking adultery, to get a court to agree to let them split.
....no-fault divorces were also a feminist act: they made it easier for women (and it usually was women) in abusive relationships to get out.
Want to know just how good for American women no-fault divorces were? A National Bureau of Economic Research study conducted in 2003, found a large decline in the number of women killing themselves following the introduction of no-fault divorce, but no similar decline for men. “Total female suicide declined by around 20% in states that adopted unilateral divorce,” according to the paper. There was also “a large decline in domestic violence for both men and women in states that adopted unilateral divorce … {and} suggestive evidence that unilateral divorce led to a decline in females murdered by their partners”.
If a law makes it easier for women to exercise their autonomy then you can be sure that Republicans will want to overturn it...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/15/republicans-no-fau...
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jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1 | 12:23 AM · Jun 22, 2024 {X}:
8/ FWIW, scientists estimate that about 30% of blastocysts fail to implant under normal conditions and that another 30% naturally abort between implantation and the woman’s first missed period.
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Elisabeth Clare Larsen et al. 2024. New insights into mechanisms behind miscarriage (Review). BMC Medicine volume 11, Article number: 154 (26 June 2013) https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-11-154 Open Access
Fig 1. The pregnancy loss iceberg: an overview of the outcome of spontaneous human conceptions. It is estimated that 70% of conceptions are lost prior to live birth. The majority of these losses occur prior to implantation or before the missed menstrual period, and since they are not revealed to the woman they are termed preclinical. In the pregnancy loss ‘iceberg’, they are therefore below the ‘waterline’.
https://x.com/jennycohn1/status/1804369580930011153/photo/1
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-11-154/figures/...
8/ FWIW, scientists estimate that about 30% of blastocysts fail to implant under normal conditions and that another 30% naturally abort between implantation and the woman’s first missed period.
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Elisabeth Clare Larsen et al. 2024. New insights into mechanisms behind miscarriage (Review). BMC Medicine volume 11, Article number: 154 (26 June 2013) https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-11-154 Open Access
Fig 1. The pregnancy loss iceberg: an overview of the outcome of spontaneous human conceptions. It is estimated that 70% of conceptions are lost prior to live birth. The majority of these losses occur prior to implantation or before the missed menstrual period, and since they are not revealed to the woman they are termed preclinical. In the pregnancy loss ‘iceberg’, they are therefore below the ‘waterline’.
https://x.com/jennycohn1/status/1804369580930011153/photo/1
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-11-154/figures/...
19kiparsky
>17 margd: Bearing in mind that an unwanted marriage greatly increases the likelihood of an unwanted pregnancy, we can see once again that the so-called "pro-lifers" are in fact pro-abortion. Always have been, always will be. They need abortion, it's the only way they can sell their "pro-life" misogyny.
21margd
>20 kiparsky: I think it's a miracle that anyone of us is here. Also, that reproduction is a process that often needs to be managed, and that the woman, the potential mother-to-be, is the person to make decisions. Society can help w medical, societal, and economic support, but any decisions are hers to make.
22margd
As with TX Supreme Court, TX state medical board was unable to provide much clarity or support for physicians or their patients ... Board doesn't even mention ectopic pregnancies!
{TX} State medical board adopts rules on how doctors can work under abortion bans
Marin Wolf | Jun 21, 2024
A mother with a medical emergency does not need to be in imminent danger of death to qualify for an abortion
...The adopted rules did not substantially change from those proposed and discussed as part of the official rule-making process over the last three months. Doctors, patients and lawyers who participated in a stakeholder meeting last month largely found the suggested guidance lacking.
Board members acknowledged during their meeting Friday that the adopted rules could not address every qualm doctors have with Texas’ abortion legislation. The board cannot alter the laws, but only provide clarity on how they should be implemented in a hospital or doctor’s office.
The guidance does not include a list of conditions that qualify for medical exemptions under the three overlapping abortion laws that forbid the procedure in all cases except to save the life of the mother. Board members said such a list would be incomplete because each patient circumstance is unique.
...whether there was “adequate time to transfer a patient” to another hospital to avoid an abortion ... may be one of the few factors reviewed if a complaint is filed against a physician.
... two types of ectopic pregnancies — one occurring in the scar of a previous cesarean section and one occurring in the muscle of the uterus — that ... could be hard to navigate under the current guidance language. In the final language, the board removed the definition of the condition
... More than 20 Texas women turned to the courts for additional clarity on when their doctors could act in medical emergencies in Zurawski v. Texas. The State Supreme Court ruled against those women in late May, saying a lower court’s injunction in the case “departed from the law as written without constitutional justification.” ...
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2024/06/21/state-medical-board-ado...
{TX} State medical board adopts rules on how doctors can work under abortion bans
Marin Wolf | Jun 21, 2024
A mother with a medical emergency does not need to be in imminent danger of death to qualify for an abortion
...The adopted rules did not substantially change from those proposed and discussed as part of the official rule-making process over the last three months. Doctors, patients and lawyers who participated in a stakeholder meeting last month largely found the suggested guidance lacking.
Board members acknowledged during their meeting Friday that the adopted rules could not address every qualm doctors have with Texas’ abortion legislation. The board cannot alter the laws, but only provide clarity on how they should be implemented in a hospital or doctor’s office.
The guidance does not include a list of conditions that qualify for medical exemptions under the three overlapping abortion laws that forbid the procedure in all cases except to save the life of the mother. Board members said such a list would be incomplete because each patient circumstance is unique.
...whether there was “adequate time to transfer a patient” to another hospital to avoid an abortion ... may be one of the few factors reviewed if a complaint is filed against a physician.
... two types of ectopic pregnancies — one occurring in the scar of a previous cesarean section and one occurring in the muscle of the uterus — that ... could be hard to navigate under the current guidance language. In the final language, the board removed the definition of the condition
... More than 20 Texas women turned to the courts for additional clarity on when their doctors could act in medical emergencies in Zurawski v. Texas. The State Supreme Court ruled against those women in late May, saying a lower court’s injunction in the case “departed from the law as written without constitutional justification.” ...
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2024/06/21/state-medical-board-ado...
23margd
Abortion rights interests plow money into US election races
Stephanie Kelly | June 24, 2024
...In the 2023-2024 election cycle leading up to the Nov. 5 vote, pro-abortion rights interests have given $3.37 million to federal candidates, political parties, political action committees (PACs) and outside groups, compared to about $273,000 from anti-abortion interests, according to data from OpenSecrets, which tracks money in politics....
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/abortion-rights-interests-plow-money-into-us-el...
Stephanie Kelly | June 24, 2024
...In the 2023-2024 election cycle leading up to the Nov. 5 vote, pro-abortion rights interests have given $3.37 million to federal candidates, political parties, political action committees (PACs) and outside groups, compared to about $273,000 from anti-abortion interests, according to data from OpenSecrets, which tracks money in politics....
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/abortion-rights-interests-plow-money-into-us-el...
24margd
VOTE! Hemorrhage, septicemia, preeclampsia ... coincidentally I'm reading "Tools" chapter of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution. In Cat Bohannon notes that only a handful of animals suffer as dangerous a pregnancy and childbirth as do humans -- and the other species are rare, almost extinct. She argues that GYNECOLOGY is a uniquely human invention, practiced in all cultures. However,
“{T}oday six Justices refuse to recognize the {emergency abortion} rights that EMTALA* protects,” instead opting to “dismiss these cases … Today’s decision is not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho. It is delay.”
- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act
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Supreme court says Idaho abortion ruling 'inadvertently' published - report
Guardian | 18.29 BST
The supreme court has acknowledged to Bloomberg Law that the ruling in a case over whether hospitals in Idaho can be required to carry out abortions in emergencies was published by accident.
The court’s public information officer Patricia McCabe told {Bloomberg}: “The Court’s Publications Unit inadvertently and briefly uploaded a document to the Court’s website. The Court’s opinion in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States will be issued in due course.”
Bloomberg Law goes on to report that the ruling is 6-3 in favor of the Biden administration, with conservative justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito dissenting. However, the ruling is structured to allow litigation over the issue to continue, and not resolve the broader question of whether the federal government can require emergency abortions be performed {per Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act} in states where the procedure is banned:
The high court decision “will prevent Idaho from enforcing its abortion ban when the termination of a pregnancy is needed to prevent serious harms to a woman’s health,” Justice Elena Kagan said in a concurring opinion.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote separately to say that she wouldn’t have dismissed the case, according to the copy that was briefly online.
“Today’s decision is not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho. It is delay,” she wrote. “While this court dawdles and the country waits, pregnant people experiencing emergency medical conditions remain in a precarious position, as their doctors are kept in the dark about what the law requires.”
The posted decision indicates the court won’t resolve broader questions about the intersection of state abortion bans and a federal law designed to ensure hospitals treat patients who arrive in need of emergency care.
The case is the supreme court’s first look at a state abortion ban since the conservative majority overturned Roe v Wade in 2022. The court on 13 June preserved full access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone, saying anti-abortion doctors and organizations lacked legal standing to press a lawsuit.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jun/26/supreme-court-decisions-tod...
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22 p draft decision
https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rJo5436tVr08/v0
“{T}oday six Justices refuse to recognize the {emergency abortion} rights that EMTALA* protects,” instead opting to “dismiss these cases … Today’s decision is not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho. It is delay.”
- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act
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Supreme court says Idaho abortion ruling 'inadvertently' published - report
Guardian | 18.29 BST
The supreme court has acknowledged to Bloomberg Law that the ruling in a case over whether hospitals in Idaho can be required to carry out abortions in emergencies was published by accident.
The court’s public information officer Patricia McCabe told {Bloomberg}: “The Court’s Publications Unit inadvertently and briefly uploaded a document to the Court’s website. The Court’s opinion in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States will be issued in due course.”
Bloomberg Law goes on to report that the ruling is 6-3 in favor of the Biden administration, with conservative justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito dissenting. However, the ruling is structured to allow litigation over the issue to continue, and not resolve the broader question of whether the federal government can require emergency abortions be performed {per Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act} in states where the procedure is banned:
The high court decision “will prevent Idaho from enforcing its abortion ban when the termination of a pregnancy is needed to prevent serious harms to a woman’s health,” Justice Elena Kagan said in a concurring opinion.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote separately to say that she wouldn’t have dismissed the case, according to the copy that was briefly online.
“Today’s decision is not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho. It is delay,” she wrote. “While this court dawdles and the country waits, pregnant people experiencing emergency medical conditions remain in a precarious position, as their doctors are kept in the dark about what the law requires.”
The posted decision indicates the court won’t resolve broader questions about the intersection of state abortion bans and a federal law designed to ensure hospitals treat patients who arrive in need of emergency care.
The case is the supreme court’s first look at a state abortion ban since the conservative majority overturned Roe v Wade in 2022. The court on 13 June preserved full access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone, saying anti-abortion doctors and organizations lacked legal standing to press a lawsuit.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jun/26/supreme-court-decisions-tod...
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22 p draft decision
https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rJo5436tVr08/v0
25margd
VOTE! Challenge to FDA regulation of mifepristone will return to Supreme Court after the election, count on it.
Elena Kagan Torches Supreme Court for Overturning Chevron
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / June 28, 2024
...The court ruled 6–3 in Loper Bright v. Raimondo on Friday, overruling a landmark 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council {a legal precedent that courts defer to the expert opinions of federal agencies}and shifting the balance of power toward courts rather than the executive branch when it comes to the interpretation of ambiguous rules.
That would effectively give any court and any judge veto power over all the decisions that any executive agency makes, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Food and Drug Administration to the Education Department and beyond.....
https://newrepublic.com/post/183269/elena-kagan-supreme-court-chevron-ruling-dis...
Elena Kagan Torches Supreme Court for Overturning Chevron
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / June 28, 2024
...The court ruled 6–3 in Loper Bright v. Raimondo on Friday, overruling a landmark 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council {a legal precedent that courts defer to the expert opinions of federal agencies}and shifting the balance of power toward courts rather than the executive branch when it comes to the interpretation of ambiguous rules.
That would effectively give any court and any judge veto power over all the decisions that any executive agency makes, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Food and Drug Administration to the Education Department and beyond.....
https://newrepublic.com/post/183269/elena-kagan-supreme-court-chevron-ruling-dis...
26Molly3028
https://www.cnn.com/kfile-ed-martin-rnc-platform-committee-anti-abortion-excepti...
Top leader of RNC Platform Committee entertained idea of imprisoning women who get abortions, opposes exceptions
One of the leaders of the Republican National Convention’s platform committee, which shapes the party’s official stance on key issues, has a history of pushing extreme anti-abortion positions, including advocating for a national ban without exceptions for rape or incest. He also entertained the possibility of jailing women who get abortions and the doctors who perform them.
Ed Martin, the deputy policy director for the convention’s platform committee, is one of three people the Republican National Committee selected in May to help craft the party’s platform, which serves as a blueprint for the Republican Party’s agenda by detailing policy positions and how Republicans and former President Donald Trump would govern if elected. The platform is expected to be pared down this year, slashing the length of the document to focus on Trump’s agenda for a second term.
Top leader of RNC Platform Committee entertained idea of imprisoning women who get abortions, opposes exceptions
One of the leaders of the Republican National Convention’s platform committee, which shapes the party’s official stance on key issues, has a history of pushing extreme anti-abortion positions, including advocating for a national ban without exceptions for rape or incest. He also entertained the possibility of jailing women who get abortions and the doctors who perform them.
Ed Martin, the deputy policy director for the convention’s platform committee, is one of three people the Republican National Committee selected in May to help craft the party’s platform, which serves as a blueprint for the Republican Party’s agenda by detailing policy positions and how Republicans and former President Donald Trump would govern if elected. The platform is expected to be pared down this year, slashing the length of the document to focus on Trump’s agenda for a second term.
272wonderY
Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measure to enshrine certain abortion rights into the constitution
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arkansas-abortion-rights-groups-s...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arkansas-abortion-rights-groups-s...
28margd
Unearthed audio: JD Vance calls for a “federal response” to block women in red states from traveling to another state to get an abortion
0:48 ( https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1816648974549369095 )
- Kamala HQ @KamalaHQ | 9:37 PM · Jul 25, 2024
0:48 ( https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1816648974549369095 )
- Kamala HQ @KamalaHQ | 9:37 PM · Jul 25, 2024
29margd
Infant mortality in the US rose 3% in 2022, marking 2nd year of increases: CDC
Mary Kekatos | July 25, 2024
The infant mortality rate was 5.61 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2022.
... overall mortality rate increased for infants born to American Indian/Alaska Native women, white women and Dominican women in 2022 while other racial and ethnic groups did not see significant increases from 2021 to 2022.
Meanwhile, infants of Black women had the highest mortality rate at 10.90 per 1,000 live births in 2022 followed by infants of American Indian/Alaska Native women and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander women.
...infant mortality rates were highest in the South and Rust Belt middle America and lowest in the Northeast, Northwest and West
...in 2022, the five leading causes of all infant deaths were the same as those in 2021 including congenital malformations, disorders related to short gestation and low birth weight, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), unintentional injuries and maternal complications.
...{Dr. James Greenberg, co-director of the Perinatal Institute at Cincinnati Children's and co-founder of Cradle Cincinnati -- a non-profit working to improve infant mortality rates in Hamilton County, Ohio} said preterm birth is the actual leading cause of infant death based on research conducted by his team, but there's not a single code for a death certificate that covers preterm births
... other factors that may have played a role in the bump in 2022 include
an RSV and flu season in 2022 that began much earlier than usual after COVID-19 pandemic mitigation measures began to be lifted.
... the impact of a COVID-19 infection in pregnant women, which may have forced some to deliver early and, in turn, raised the risk of infant mortality.
... the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, which led to anecdotal reports of women forced to carry to term babies that would die upon being born or shortly after birth...
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/infant-mortality-us-rose-3-2022-marking-2nd/story?...
Mary Kekatos | July 25, 2024
The infant mortality rate was 5.61 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2022.
... overall mortality rate increased for infants born to American Indian/Alaska Native women, white women and Dominican women in 2022 while other racial and ethnic groups did not see significant increases from 2021 to 2022.
Meanwhile, infants of Black women had the highest mortality rate at 10.90 per 1,000 live births in 2022 followed by infants of American Indian/Alaska Native women and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander women.
...infant mortality rates were highest in the South and Rust Belt middle America and lowest in the Northeast, Northwest and West
...in 2022, the five leading causes of all infant deaths were the same as those in 2021 including congenital malformations, disorders related to short gestation and low birth weight, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), unintentional injuries and maternal complications.
...{Dr. James Greenberg, co-director of the Perinatal Institute at Cincinnati Children's and co-founder of Cradle Cincinnati -- a non-profit working to improve infant mortality rates in Hamilton County, Ohio} said preterm birth is the actual leading cause of infant death based on research conducted by his team, but there's not a single code for a death certificate that covers preterm births
... other factors that may have played a role in the bump in 2022 include
an RSV and flu season in 2022 that began much earlier than usual after COVID-19 pandemic mitigation measures began to be lifted.
... the impact of a COVID-19 infection in pregnant women, which may have forced some to deliver early and, in turn, raised the risk of infant mortality.
... the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, which led to anecdotal reports of women forced to carry to term babies that would die upon being born or shortly after birth...
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/infant-mortality-us-rose-3-2022-marking-2nd/story?...
30margd
Sean Casten @SeanCasten | 10:31 AM · Jul 26, 2024 {X}:
US Rep, IL-06. Engineer. Former CEO. Dad. Husband. Born at 326 ppm...
Trump’s Project 2025 has some VERY creepy surveillance ideas about women’s pregnancies. Read this passage carefully (from page 455 of their plan).
Text ( https://x.com/SeanCasten/status/1816843737747574934/photo/1 )
US Rep, IL-06. Engineer. Former CEO. Dad. Husband. Born at 326 ppm...
Trump’s Project 2025 has some VERY creepy surveillance ideas about women’s pregnancies. Read this passage carefully (from page 455 of their plan).
Text ( https://x.com/SeanCasten/status/1816843737747574934/photo/1 )
312wonderY
>30 margd: “abortion tourism”. Just an introduction to the grossness.
32margd
Andrew—Author of America Rises On Substack @AmoneyResists | 6:46 PM · Aug 1, 2024 {X}:
The “pro-life” “pro-children” and “pro-family” party
just blocked a bill in the senate to extend the child tax credit.
Rocky Mountain Views 🪷 @RockyMountViews
JD Vance did not even show up to vote.
This is the guy that said that parents should pay less in taxes.
The “pro-life” “pro-children” and “pro-family” party
just blocked a bill in the senate to extend the child tax credit.
Rocky Mountain Views 🪷 @RockyMountViews
JD Vance did not even show up to vote.
This is the guy that said that parents should pay less in taxes.
332wonderY
So now Fox is calling it “unsupervised female health decisions.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-bPu-wx39A/?igsh=MmZnb2s1OWxycnQ3
The comments seem to think this is satire. Let me research…
Appears to be a hoax. Sorry.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-bPu-wx39A/?igsh=MmZnb2s1OWxycnQ3
The comments seem to think this is satire. Let me research…
Appears to be a hoax. Sorry.
342wonderY
Initiative to enshrine abortion rights in Missouri constitution qualifies for November ballot
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/missouri-voters-face-choice-continued-aborti...
If passed, the Missouri initiative would “do something that no other state has done before — end a total abortion ban at the ballot box,” said Rachel Sweet, campaign manager for Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, which is sponsoring the measure with significant financial support from Planned Parenthood affiliates and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Missouri will join at least a half-dozen states voting on abortion rights during the presidential election. Arizona’s secretary of state certified an abortion-rights measure for the ballot on Monday. Measures also will go before voters in Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and South Dakota.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/missouri-voters-face-choice-continued-aborti...
If passed, the Missouri initiative would “do something that no other state has done before — end a total abortion ban at the ballot box,” said Rachel Sweet, campaign manager for Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, which is sponsoring the measure with significant financial support from Planned Parenthood affiliates and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Missouri will join at least a half-dozen states voting on abortion rights during the presidential election. Arizona’s secretary of state certified an abortion-rights measure for the ballot on Monday. Measures also will go before voters in Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and South Dakota.
35Molly3028
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/ex-obama-campaign-manager-tells-fox-news-what-is-the...
Ex-Obama Campaign Manager Tells Fox News What Is The ‘Sleeper Issue’ That Will Determine This Election
“Yeah, Dana, this is the sleeper issue of this election. And it was a sleep received the last election in the 2022 midterm elections. The Democrats performed 9% better than the polls. And when you look at why the huge move towards the Democrats from suburban women, you know, the story of my entire life has been don’t piss women off,” Messina replied, adding:
"And this issue has pissed off a whole lot of women voters, in these battleground states. And now they’re going to get a chance to vote on it. And you see this in poll after poll. I totally agree with you. The economy is the most important issue. But when you go down and look at issues that are moving enthusiasm, it is this abortion issue. And it’s because across party Republicans, Democrats, independents all believe in the same thing. They want the government to stay out of their lives. And this is an issue that is just burning straight hot. And President Trump seems to be trying to run away from his position on this. And I think it’s really hard to do."
Ex-Obama Campaign Manager Tells Fox News What Is The ‘Sleeper Issue’ That Will Determine This Election
“Yeah, Dana, this is the sleeper issue of this election. And it was a sleep received the last election in the 2022 midterm elections. The Democrats performed 9% better than the polls. And when you look at why the huge move towards the Democrats from suburban women, you know, the story of my entire life has been don’t piss women off,” Messina replied, adding:
"And this issue has pissed off a whole lot of women voters, in these battleground states. And now they’re going to get a chance to vote on it. And you see this in poll after poll. I totally agree with you. The economy is the most important issue. But when you go down and look at issues that are moving enthusiasm, it is this abortion issue. And it’s because across party Republicans, Democrats, independents all believe in the same thing. They want the government to stay out of their lives. And this is an issue that is just burning straight hot. And President Trump seems to be trying to run away from his position on this. And I think it’s really hard to do."
36krazy4katz
>32 margd: It is just amazing to me how people who lie so blatantly can be popular enough to get on any national ticket. I understand the Republicans and Democrats have fundamental differences in philosophy but this goes way beyond those differences. I never thought they would be so crazy. Well, I guess I have been thinking that since 2016.
37kiparsky
>36 krazy4katz: Just keep in mind that Donald Trump spent decades supporting abortion providers... I'd love to hear some reporter ask him how many abortions he paid for in that time. To make it easy, he can round it to the nearest dozen.
38krazy4katz
>37 kiparsky: That is very interesting! But not surprising, I guess. There is no shred of consistency in that man except a complete lack of rational behavior.
392wonderY
The Lincoln Project’s newest ad:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_K1RYaJa5f/?igsh=MWptZTV2YTRibm5zNg==
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_K1RYaJa5f/?igsh=MWptZTV2YTRibm5zNg==
40margd
>39 2wonderY: Great ad... I'd say hyperbole, but remember that fellow in Trump admin who kept track of young women's menses under his authority in immigrant camp...
Project 2025 -- American Taliban, they are:
Taliban’s new laws ban Afghan women from speaking in public
Waslat Hasrat-Nazimi | 26 Aug 2024
https://www.dw.com/en/how-talibans-new-rules-further-silence-women-in-afghanista...
Project 2025 -- American Taliban, they are:
Taliban’s new laws ban Afghan women from speaking in public
Waslat Hasrat-Nazimi | 26 Aug 2024
https://www.dw.com/en/how-talibans-new-rules-further-silence-women-in-afghanista...
41margd
Kamala HQ @KamalaHQ | 4:05 PM · Aug 27, 2024:
Unearthed audio: JD Vance says teachers who do not have biological children “disorient and really disturb” him: “She should have some of her own {children}”
0:29 (https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1828524227508453492)
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Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing | 2:58 AM · Aug 28, 2024 {X}:
{epidemiologist}
This is wild. JD Vance thinks women without kids should not be teachers. It gets weirder:
1) AFT teachers union boss Randi Weingarten, whom Vance attacks as childless, is actually a mother.
3) Vance is also Catholic. Has he never heard of **Catholic nuns** who are teachers?
Unearthed audio: JD Vance says teachers who do not have biological children “disorient and really disturb” him: “She should have some of her own {children}”
0:29 (https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1828524227508453492)
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Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing | 2:58 AM · Aug 28, 2024 {X}:
{epidemiologist}
This is wild. JD Vance thinks women without kids should not be teachers. It gets weirder:
1) AFT teachers union boss Randi Weingarten, whom Vance attacks as childless, is actually a mother.
3) Vance is also Catholic. Has he never heard of **Catholic nuns** who are teachers?
422wonderY
North Carolina Gov. Cooper expands contraception access, Medicaid to cover Opill
https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2024/08/city-nc-medicaid-oral-contraceptive
Me
Cooper has been working on expanded access since spring. Medicaid had paid for prescriptions. This allows rural women to get birth control without needing to go to a doctor, since this is an OTC version.
https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2024/08/city-nc-medicaid-oral-contraceptive
Me
Cooper has been working on expanded access since spring. Medicaid had paid for prescriptions. This allows rural women to get birth control without needing to go to a doctor, since this is an OTC version.
43margd
>42 2wonderY: Good on NC with its 12-week abortion ban to provide rural women of modest means access to contraception.
Sounds like Opill works in 48h if one forgets a pill and has to restart. As an OTC med, I assume Opill is one of the safer progestins? For women of modest means, it would be great if Opill prevented menstruation, and the need to buy period products, but that doesn't seem to be the case?
https://www.drugs.com/opill.html
https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/progestin-oral-route-parenteral-rou...
Sounds like Opill works in 48h if one forgets a pill and has to restart. As an OTC med, I assume Opill is one of the safer progestins? For women of modest means, it would be great if Opill prevented menstruation, and the need to buy period products, but that doesn't seem to be the case?
https://www.drugs.com/opill.html
https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/progestin-oral-route-parenteral-rou...
44margd
Why? {Answer, if any, is behind a paywall.}
Eleanor Bimla Schwarz et al. 2024. Pregnancy after Tubal Sterilization in the United States, 2002 to 2015. NEJM Evid 27 Aug 2024;3(9).
DOI: 10.1056/EVIDoa2400023 https://evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/EVIDoa2400023
Abstract
Background. Tubal sterilization is the most commonly used method of contraception in the United States. Because contraceptive effectiveness influences contraceptive selection, we examined typical use failure rates after tubal sterilization in the United States.
... Results. Pregnancy after tubal sterilization was reported by 2.9 to 5.2% of participants across NSFG waves. In the most recent survey wave (2013 to 2015), the estimated percentage of participants with pregnancies within the first 12 months after a tubal sterilization procedure was 2.9%; at 120 months after tubal sterilization, the estimated percentage with a pregnancy was 8.4%...
Conclusions. These data suggest that there may be nontrivial rates of pregnancy after tubal sterilization.
Eleanor Bimla Schwarz et al. 2024. Pregnancy after Tubal Sterilization in the United States, 2002 to 2015. NEJM Evid 27 Aug 2024;3(9).
DOI: 10.1056/EVIDoa2400023 https://evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/EVIDoa2400023
Abstract
Background. Tubal sterilization is the most commonly used method of contraception in the United States. Because contraceptive effectiveness influences contraceptive selection, we examined typical use failure rates after tubal sterilization in the United States.
... Results. Pregnancy after tubal sterilization was reported by 2.9 to 5.2% of participants across NSFG waves. In the most recent survey wave (2013 to 2015), the estimated percentage of participants with pregnancies within the first 12 months after a tubal sterilization procedure was 2.9%; at 120 months after tubal sterilization, the estimated percentage with a pregnancy was 8.4%...
Conclusions. These data suggest that there may be nontrivial rates of pregnancy after tubal sterilization.
45margd
IVF is extremely expensive. I don't believe Rs will pay for it -- or force insurance co. to pay -- for all those who ask for the repeated procedures that may be required to effect a pregnancy -- especially if single ovum is collected each time. (Maybe childless married couples below the age of 28? Maybe the Senator's daughter? Still a budget buster, I think!)
Rick Scott (US Senate) @ScottforFlorida | 9:30 AM · Jun 14, 2024 {X}:
Each of my 7 grandkids is a precious gift from God.
But sometimes families need help.
You can count on this grandpa to always protect IVF.
Watch my latest campaign ad👇
0:30 (https://x.com/ScottforFlorida/status/1801608113428086816)
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Rick Scott Voted to oppose the Right to IVF Bill
How every senator voted on the Right to IVF Act
Szu Yu Chen and Adrián Blanco | June 13, 2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/06/13/senate-vote-right...
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Senate Republicans block bill on women’s right to IVF as Democrats make push on reproductive care
STEPHEN GROVES | June 13, 2024
https://apnews.com/article/senate-ivf-alabama-reproductive-care-460d099153d3faf5...
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Tammy Duckworth (US Senate) @TammyDuckworth |
You literally voted against my bill to protect IVF yesterday.
1:48 PM · Jun 14, 2024
Rick Scott (US Senate) @ScottforFlorida | 9:30 AM · Jun 14, 2024 {X}:
Each of my 7 grandkids is a precious gift from God.
But sometimes families need help.
You can count on this grandpa to always protect IVF.
Watch my latest campaign ad👇
0:30 (https://x.com/ScottforFlorida/status/1801608113428086816)
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Rick Scott Voted to oppose the Right to IVF Bill
How every senator voted on the Right to IVF Act
Szu Yu Chen and Adrián Blanco | June 13, 2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/06/13/senate-vote-right...
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Senate Republicans block bill on women’s right to IVF as Democrats make push on reproductive care
STEPHEN GROVES | June 13, 2024
https://apnews.com/article/senate-ivf-alabama-reproductive-care-460d099153d3faf5...
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Tammy Duckworth (US Senate) @TammyDuckworth |
You literally voted against my bill to protect IVF yesterday.
1:48 PM · Jun 14, 2024
46margd
My sister is one who bled white after birthing a healthy baby... I hope every US woman -- and people who love them -- vote so-called "pro-lifers" to hell this November. And give blood... (Amazing how far Red Cross sends blood, if there is a local need.)
Doctors grapple with how to save women’s lives amid ‘confusion and angst’ over new Louisiana law
Lorena O'Neil - September 3, 2024
A lifesaving drug used to stop postpartum hemorrhaging will be pulled off emergency response carts once it becomes a ‘controlled dangerous substance.’
Misoprostol is a pill often used in early stages of post-delivery bleeding, especially for patients with hypertension or asthma who might have adverse side effects from using other hemorrhage medications that are usually administered by needles or an IV. Misoprostol is also used as a precautionary measure in case doctors think a patient is at risk for hemorrhaging.
In May, Gov. Jeff Landry signed legislation reclassifying misoprostol and mifepristone as Schedule IV controlled dangerous substances, despite more than 200 doctors signing a letter against the measure. The law goes into effect on Oct. 1, and doctors and pharmacists are scrambling to come up with postpartum hemorrhage policies that will comply with the law while still providing proper medical care for women.
Some hospitals have already preemptively pulled misoprostol from their obstetric hemorrhage carts and kits because controlled dangerous substances need to be stored and accessed differently from other medications...
https://lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/louisiana-women/
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Author thread:
Lorena O'Neil @lorenaoneil | 8:41 AM · Sep 3, 2024:
Reporter covering politics, culture, tech | Bylines: RollingStone, @LATimes, GuardianUS, @IlluminatorLA | @PulitzerCenter StoryReach Fellow | {New Orleans, LA}
https://x.com/lorenaoneil/status/1830949359560659007
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1830949359560659007.html
BREAKING: Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts because of new Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. My first @pulitzercenter StoryReach article for @IlluminatorLA ...
Doctors grapple with how to save women’s lives amid ‘confusion and angst’ over new Louisiana law
Lorena O'Neil - September 3, 2024
A lifesaving drug used to stop postpartum hemorrhaging will be pulled off emergency response carts once it becomes a ‘controlled dangerous substance.’
Misoprostol is a pill often used in early stages of post-delivery bleeding, especially for patients with hypertension or asthma who might have adverse side effects from using other hemorrhage medications that are usually administered by needles or an IV. Misoprostol is also used as a precautionary measure in case doctors think a patient is at risk for hemorrhaging.
In May, Gov. Jeff Landry signed legislation reclassifying misoprostol and mifepristone as Schedule IV controlled dangerous substances, despite more than 200 doctors signing a letter against the measure. The law goes into effect on Oct. 1, and doctors and pharmacists are scrambling to come up with postpartum hemorrhage policies that will comply with the law while still providing proper medical care for women.
Some hospitals have already preemptively pulled misoprostol from their obstetric hemorrhage carts and kits because controlled dangerous substances need to be stored and accessed differently from other medications...
https://lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/louisiana-women/
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Author thread:
Lorena O'Neil @lorenaoneil | 8:41 AM · Sep 3, 2024:
Reporter covering politics, culture, tech | Bylines: RollingStone, @LATimes, GuardianUS, @IlluminatorLA | @PulitzerCenter StoryReach Fellow | {New Orleans, LA}
https://x.com/lorenaoneil/status/1830949359560659007
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1830949359560659007.html
BREAKING: Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts because of new Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. My first @pulitzercenter StoryReach article for @IlluminatorLA ...
47margd
Donald Trump Is Stuck (Opinion)
Jamelle Bouie | Sept. 6, 2024
“Giving states full authority over the scope of bodily autonomy is a recipe for 50 nonstop conflicts over the issue. To tie basic rights to state borders is to seed the landscape with potentially unresolvable disputes over the very nature of being an American.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/opinion/trump-dobbs-abortion.html
Jamelle Bouie | Sept. 6, 2024
“Giving states full authority over the scope of bodily autonomy is a recipe for 50 nonstop conflicts over the issue. To tie basic rights to state borders is to seed the landscape with potentially unresolvable disputes over the very nature of being an American.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/opinion/trump-dobbs-abortion.html
482wonderY
>47 margd: This Supreme Court might have voted for “States rights” on the question of slavery.
492wonderY
Missouri judge rules abortion amendment is in ‘blatant violation’ of state requirements
https://missouriindependent.com/2024/09/06/missouri-judge-rules-abortion-amendme...
A Missouri judge ruled Friday evening that a reproductive-rights amendment did not comply with state initiative petition requirements, leaving the door open to potentially withhold it from the November ballot.
Cole County Circuit Judge Christopher Limbaugh ruled that the coalition behind the citizen-led ballot measure failed to meet the sufficiency requirement through a “failure to include any statute or provision that will be repealed, especially when many of these statutes are apparent.”
A spokesperson for Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, the campaign behind the reproductive-rights amendment, said they plan to appeal.
Limbaugh also wrote that while he found a “blatant violation” of state law, he “recognizes the gravity of the unique issues involved in this case, and the lack of direct precedent on point.”
As a result, he won’t issue an injunction preventing the amendment from being printed on the ballot until Tuesday to allow time for “further guidance or rulings” from the appeals court.
The constitutional deadline for ballots to be printed is Tuesday.
https://missouriindependent.com/2024/09/06/missouri-judge-rules-abortion-amendme...
A Missouri judge ruled Friday evening that a reproductive-rights amendment did not comply with state initiative petition requirements, leaving the door open to potentially withhold it from the November ballot.
Cole County Circuit Judge Christopher Limbaugh ruled that the coalition behind the citizen-led ballot measure failed to meet the sufficiency requirement through a “failure to include any statute or provision that will be repealed, especially when many of these statutes are apparent.”
A spokesperson for Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, the campaign behind the reproductive-rights amendment, said they plan to appeal.
Limbaugh also wrote that while he found a “blatant violation” of state law, he “recognizes the gravity of the unique issues involved in this case, and the lack of direct precedent on point.”
As a result, he won’t issue an injunction preventing the amendment from being printed on the ballot until Tuesday to allow time for “further guidance or rulings” from the appeals court.
The constitutional deadline for ballots to be printed is Tuesday.
502wonderY
DeSantis’ election police questioned people who signed abortion petitions
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2024/09/06/florida-abor...
The officer’s visit appears to be part of a broad — and unusual — effort by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to inspect thousands of already verified and validated petitions for Amendment 4 in the final two months before Election Day. The amendment would overturn Florida’s six-week abortion ban by proposing to protect abortion access in Florida until viability.
…
One 16-year supervisor said the request was unprecedented. The state did not ask for rejected petitions, which have been the basis for past fraud cases.
DeSantis, who signed the abortion ban into law, has organized opposition to the amendment, and his office’s request to supervisors has supporters of the amendment fearful it could be “political interference.”
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2024/09/06/florida-abor...
The officer’s visit appears to be part of a broad — and unusual — effort by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to inspect thousands of already verified and validated petitions for Amendment 4 in the final two months before Election Day. The amendment would overturn Florida’s six-week abortion ban by proposing to protect abortion access in Florida until viability.
…
One 16-year supervisor said the request was unprecedented. The state did not ask for rejected petitions, which have been the basis for past fraud cases.
DeSantis, who signed the abortion ban into law, has organized opposition to the amendment, and his office’s request to supervisors has supporters of the amendment fearful it could be “political interference.”
512wonderY
Missouri Supreme Court keeps abortion amendment on ballot
https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/missouri-supreme-court-keeps-abortion-amendmen...
https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/missouri-supreme-court-keeps-abortion-amendmen...
52kiparsky
>51 2wonderY: That's pretty straight-up police-state shit, isn't it?
532wonderY
>52 kiparsky: If you mean >50 2wonderY: Yes. From start to finish. When is DeSantis up for reelection?
542wonderY
Florida Supreme Court agrees to fast track case against Gov. DeSantis' efforts against abortion vote
https://www.latintimes.com/florida-supreme-court-agrees-fast-track-case-against-...
The (Florida) health agency also launched a website last week, claiming that Amendment 4 "threatens women's safety," including information about groups that donated to the Amendment 4 campaign effort.
Supporters of the amendment criticized the site and speculated it may violate a Florida law that prohibits state employees and officers from using their "official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election."
https://www.latintimes.com/florida-supreme-court-agrees-fast-track-case-against-...
The (Florida) health agency also launched a website last week, claiming that Amendment 4 "threatens women's safety," including information about groups that donated to the Amendment 4 campaign effort.
Supporters of the amendment criticized the site and speculated it may violate a Florida law that prohibits state employees and officers from using their "official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election."
55margd
Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.
Kavitha Surana | Sept. 16, 2024
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found.
...The availability of D&Cs for both abortions and routine miscarriage care helped save lives after the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, studies show, reducing the rate of maternal deaths for women of color by up to 40% the first year after abortion became legal.
But since abortion was banned or restricted in 22 states over the past two years, women in serious danger have been turned away from emergency rooms and told that they needed to be in more peril before doctors could help. Some have been forced to continue high-risk pregnancies that threatened their lives. Those whose pregnancies weren’t even viable have been told they could return when they were “crashing.”
Such stories have been at the center of the upcoming presidential election, during which the right to abortion is on the ballot in 10 states.
But Republican legislators have rejected small efforts to expand and clarify health exceptions — even in Georgia, which has one of the nation’s highest rates of maternal mortality and where Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women...
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death
Kavitha Surana | Sept. 16, 2024
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found.
...The availability of D&Cs for both abortions and routine miscarriage care helped save lives after the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, studies show, reducing the rate of maternal deaths for women of color by up to 40% the first year after abortion became legal.
But since abortion was banned or restricted in 22 states over the past two years, women in serious danger have been turned away from emergency rooms and told that they needed to be in more peril before doctors could help. Some have been forced to continue high-risk pregnancies that threatened their lives. Those whose pregnancies weren’t even viable have been told they could return when they were “crashing.”
Such stories have been at the center of the upcoming presidential election, during which the right to abortion is on the ballot in 10 states.
But Republican legislators have rejected small efforts to expand and clarify health exceptions — even in Georgia, which has one of the nation’s highest rates of maternal mortality and where Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women...
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death
56margd
Can you imagine this self-important, whiney little creep in a position of power over women (to begin with)??
Kamala’s Wins @harris_wins | 6:07 PM · Sep 16, 2024 {X}:
BREAKING: In a stunning leak, JD Vance has called for a federal response to stop women from traveling from red states to blue states to receive reproductive healthcare. Retweet so all Americans hear this devastating leak.
2:48 (https://x.com/harris_wins/status/1835802841769783595)
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Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance | 10:26 PM · Sep 16, 2024:
@UALawSchool {U Alabama Law School} |@MSNBC & @NBCNews |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor
If women can't travel to receive care, or for any other reason they choose to, then we are truly relegated to second class citizenship. This is what the future will look like for yourself, your daughters, your loved ones, if Trump and Vance win.
Kamala’s Wins @harris_wins | 6:07 PM · Sep 16, 2024 {X}:
BREAKING: In a stunning leak, JD Vance has called for a federal response to stop women from traveling from red states to blue states to receive reproductive healthcare. Retweet so all Americans hear this devastating leak.
2:48 (https://x.com/harris_wins/status/1835802841769783595)
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Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance | 10:26 PM · Sep 16, 2024:
@UALawSchool {U Alabama Law School} |@MSNBC & @NBCNews |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor
If women can't travel to receive care, or for any other reason they choose to, then we are truly relegated to second class citizenship. This is what the future will look like for yourself, your daughters, your loved ones, if Trump and Vance win.
57margd
The Last Word: Lawrence O'Donnell MSNBC on death of 28YO GA mother, IVF, playing politics w healthcare
6:03 (https://x.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1836238589165769215)
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Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.
Kavitha Surana | Sept. 16, 2024
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories...
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death
6:03 (https://x.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1836238589165769215)
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Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.
Kavitha Surana | Sept. 16, 2024
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories...
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death
58krazy4katz
So the question is: other than voting against the people promoting these outrageous restrictions, what else can we do? Even if the right people win in Congress and the presidency, will that be enough? Or will the Supreme Court still have the last say? And is there anything we can do right now?
59margd
>58 krazy4katz: Kind of sad to hear that gender is playing a role in people's likely vote... Where did we go wrong raising our sons?? (I have two -- one leans D, and the other has converted to R ... in the time of Trump!)
60margd
>58 krazy4katz: AARGH! No more Ms Nice Gal!
“SAVE” WHAT?
How the Republican War on Women Extends to Voting Rights
Thom Hartmann | September 19, 2024
Most women vote Democratic. And most still change their name when they marry. And that’s where the GOP sees an Achilles’ heel...
...House Speaker Mike Johnson and former President Donald Trump were pushing the Safeguard American Eligibility, or SAVE, Act, demanding it be part of must-pass legislation to fund the federal government for another year (the funding runs out at the end of this month, and then the shutdown begins).
It died in the House Wednesday night, but, like a bad penny, you can bet it’ll return...
...The SAVE Act is a proposed federal law, so, first off, it would put a future president (say, Trump) in charge of enforcing it, taking that power away from the states. Millions of voter registrations in any states the president decides are problematic could be removed until those voters “cure” their registrations, and state authorities would have no say in it.
And what will the law require citizens who want to vote do? Lacking a passport or other proof of citizenship with their married names, they must produce both a birth certificate (with the seal of the state where it was issued; no copies allowed) and a current form of identification—both with the exact same name on them. That could instantly disqualify about 90 percent of all married women without passports or other proof that matches their birth certificates or proof of a legal name change.
For women in that situation, they can still register to vote if they can prove that they went to court to change their name when they got married, but most women just start using their new married name without ever going through all those formalities (although a few states recognize marriage as a legal name change).
...According to the Brennan Center for Justice, one third of all women have citizenship documents that do not identically match their current names primarily because of name changes at marriage. Roughly 90 percent of women who marry adopt their husband’s last name.
...An estimated 34 percent of women could be turned away from the polls unless they have precisely the right documents...
https://newrepublic.com/article/186160/republican-war-women-extends-voting-right...
“SAVE” WHAT?
How the Republican War on Women Extends to Voting Rights
Thom Hartmann | September 19, 2024
Most women vote Democratic. And most still change their name when they marry. And that’s where the GOP sees an Achilles’ heel...
...House Speaker Mike Johnson and former President Donald Trump were pushing the Safeguard American Eligibility, or SAVE, Act, demanding it be part of must-pass legislation to fund the federal government for another year (the funding runs out at the end of this month, and then the shutdown begins).
It died in the House Wednesday night, but, like a bad penny, you can bet it’ll return...
...The SAVE Act is a proposed federal law, so, first off, it would put a future president (say, Trump) in charge of enforcing it, taking that power away from the states. Millions of voter registrations in any states the president decides are problematic could be removed until those voters “cure” their registrations, and state authorities would have no say in it.
And what will the law require citizens who want to vote do? Lacking a passport or other proof of citizenship with their married names, they must produce both a birth certificate (with the seal of the state where it was issued; no copies allowed) and a current form of identification—both with the exact same name on them. That could instantly disqualify about 90 percent of all married women without passports or other proof that matches their birth certificates or proof of a legal name change.
For women in that situation, they can still register to vote if they can prove that they went to court to change their name when they got married, but most women just start using their new married name without ever going through all those formalities (although a few states recognize marriage as a legal name change).
...According to the Brennan Center for Justice, one third of all women have citizenship documents that do not identically match their current names primarily because of name changes at marriage. Roughly 90 percent of women who marry adopt their husband’s last name.
...An estimated 34 percent of women could be turned away from the polls unless they have precisely the right documents...
https://newrepublic.com/article/186160/republican-war-women-extends-voting-right...
61kiparsky
>60 margd: These people really are pretty sick.
62margd
Dr. Daniel Grossman @DrDGrossman | 8:49 AM · Sep 22, 2024 {X}:
Clinical & public health researcher on abortion & contraception. MD. @ANSIRH
Director. @UCSFBixby faculty. @IbisRH Sr Advisor.
Aha! Dr. M____ wants peer-reviewed literature on the impact of abortion bans in the US. I love talking about the data and educating my colleagues.
Let’s walk through the literature, shall we?
This peer-reviewed study looked at 2 hospitals in Texas after the 6-week abortion ban went into effect among patients presenting less than 22 wks with a complication like PPROM, bleeding, severe preeclampsia.
Anjali Nambiar et al. 2022. Maternal morbidity and fetal outcomes among pregnant women at 22 weeks’ gestation or less with complications in 2 Texas hospitals after legislation on abortion. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Volume 227, Issue 4, October 2022, Pages 648-650.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2022.06.060 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002937822005361?via%3Dih...
Since abortion was not possible, all received expectant management. Maternal morbidity occurred in 16/28 patients (57%), compared to 33% who elected immediate abortion in similar clinical situations.
Bar graph (https://x.com/DrDGrossman/status/1837836716205371728/photo/1)
Bottom line: when abortion is no longer an option when patients present with an obstetric complication in the second trimester, complications increase.
Another peer-reviewed study was based on interviews with maternal-fetal medicine specialists in the Southeast since the Dobbs decision.
Abby Schultz et al. 2024. Impact of post-Dobbs abortion restrictions on maternal-fetal medicine physicians in the Southeast: a qualitative study. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM, Volume 6, Issue 7, July 2024, 101387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajogmf.2024.101387 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2589933324001137?via%3Dih...
“In restricted states, most MFM physicians reported cases in which they did not provide an abortion in the setting of maternal health risk or fetal anomaly that they would have provided or facilitated before the Dobbs decision.”
“In these situations, they cited fear of legal liability as the main driver for this shift in care.”
Yet another peer-reviewed study reports on interviews with ob/gyn residents training in states with abortion restrictions since Dobbs and describes the moral distress they experienced when they were unable to provide abortion care.
Jema K. Turk et al. 2024. “I Went Into This Field to Empower Other People, and I Feel Like I Failed”: Residents Experience Moral Distress Post-Dobbs. J Grad Med Educ. 2024 Jun; 16(3): 271–279. doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-23-00582.1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11173027/
“Residents described challenges to their physician identity caused by inability to do the job, which led to internalized distress and reconsidering career choices.” — @JodySteinauer
Text excerpt (https://x.com/DrDGrossman/status/1837836734089838918/photo/1)
Here’s another peer-reviewed article: a moving (and anonymous) account from ob/gyn residents in Missouri about the cases they have witnessed of care denied or delayed since abortion was banned there:
Anonymous 2024. On Dobbs: Our First Year of US OB/GYN Residency
J Grad Med Educ (2024) 16 (4): 399–401. https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-24-00135.1 https://meridian.allenpress.com/jgme/article/16/4/399/502544/On-Dobbs-Our-First-...
The data are clear... The patients who trust their health care to us deserve better than this system and anti-abortion laws that threaten their lives.
Clinical & public health researcher on abortion & contraception. MD. @ANSIRH
Director. @UCSFBixby faculty. @IbisRH Sr Advisor.
Aha! Dr. M____ wants peer-reviewed literature on the impact of abortion bans in the US. I love talking about the data and educating my colleagues.
Let’s walk through the literature, shall we?
This peer-reviewed study looked at 2 hospitals in Texas after the 6-week abortion ban went into effect among patients presenting less than 22 wks with a complication like PPROM, bleeding, severe preeclampsia.
Anjali Nambiar et al. 2022. Maternal morbidity and fetal outcomes among pregnant women at 22 weeks’ gestation or less with complications in 2 Texas hospitals after legislation on abortion. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Volume 227, Issue 4, October 2022, Pages 648-650.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2022.06.060 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002937822005361?via%3Dih...
Since abortion was not possible, all received expectant management. Maternal morbidity occurred in 16/28 patients (57%), compared to 33% who elected immediate abortion in similar clinical situations.
Bar graph (https://x.com/DrDGrossman/status/1837836716205371728/photo/1)
Bottom line: when abortion is no longer an option when patients present with an obstetric complication in the second trimester, complications increase.
Another peer-reviewed study was based on interviews with maternal-fetal medicine specialists in the Southeast since the Dobbs decision.
Abby Schultz et al. 2024. Impact of post-Dobbs abortion restrictions on maternal-fetal medicine physicians in the Southeast: a qualitative study. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM, Volume 6, Issue 7, July 2024, 101387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajogmf.2024.101387 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2589933324001137?via%3Dih...
“In restricted states, most MFM physicians reported cases in which they did not provide an abortion in the setting of maternal health risk or fetal anomaly that they would have provided or facilitated before the Dobbs decision.”
“In these situations, they cited fear of legal liability as the main driver for this shift in care.”
Yet another peer-reviewed study reports on interviews with ob/gyn residents training in states with abortion restrictions since Dobbs and describes the moral distress they experienced when they were unable to provide abortion care.
Jema K. Turk et al. 2024. “I Went Into This Field to Empower Other People, and I Feel Like I Failed”: Residents Experience Moral Distress Post-Dobbs. J Grad Med Educ. 2024 Jun; 16(3): 271–279. doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-23-00582.1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11173027/
“Residents described challenges to their physician identity caused by inability to do the job, which led to internalized distress and reconsidering career choices.” — @JodySteinauer
Text excerpt (https://x.com/DrDGrossman/status/1837836734089838918/photo/1)
Here’s another peer-reviewed article: a moving (and anonymous) account from ob/gyn residents in Missouri about the cases they have witnessed of care denied or delayed since abortion was banned there:
Anonymous 2024. On Dobbs: Our First Year of US OB/GYN Residency
J Grad Med Educ (2024) 16 (4): 399–401. https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-24-00135.1 https://meridian.allenpress.com/jgme/article/16/4/399/502544/On-Dobbs-Our-First-...
The data are clear... The patients who trust their health care to us deserve better than this system and anti-abortion laws that threaten their lives.
63krazy4katz
>62 margd: As a biological scientist (studying vision but I am not a physician) I read some of this too and was horrified.
I used to teach first year medical students at my institution but we (PhDs) seem to have been replaced by the clinical faculty this year. I wonder if there is some way to include a section in an ethics course (there must be one!) that would strengthen the resolve of physicians to push back against these laws. If there are physicians on this thread, I would appreciate any ideas you may have. I understand getting involved in politics would be tricky.
Perhaps I will try to find a way to reach out to our physicians. I just don't know how. The only physician I know privately was an OB/GYN (now retired) but also Catholic. The topic once came up and he was very angry. However that was when women had the liberty to switch doctors if they needed to without leaving the state (or country in the most dystopian perspective!).
I used to teach first year medical students at my institution but we (PhDs) seem to have been replaced by the clinical faculty this year. I wonder if there is some way to include a section in an ethics course (there must be one!) that would strengthen the resolve of physicians to push back against these laws. If there are physicians on this thread, I would appreciate any ideas you may have. I understand getting involved in politics would be tricky.
Perhaps I will try to find a way to reach out to our physicians. I just don't know how. The only physician I know privately was an OB/GYN (now retired) but also Catholic. The topic once came up and he was very angry. However that was when women had the liberty to switch doctors if they needed to without leaving the state (or country in the most dystopian perspective!).
64margd
>63 krazy4katz: I think the vote is the only way out. That and teaching critical thinking, stats, etc. in high school biology. Shocking to me how much magical thinking there is out there...
65krazy4katz
>64 margd: I agree. I hope it goes well in November. Then we have to find a way to deal with the Supreme Court. sigh...
66margd
Georgia judge declares state’s abortion ban unconstitutional, allowing procedure to resume beyond 6 weeks into pregnancy
Shawn Nottingham | September 30, 2024
...Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, or LIFE Act, infringes on a woman’s state constitutional rights....
“When a fetus growing inside a woman reaches viability, when society can assume care and responsibility for that separate life, then – and only then – may society intervene. An arbitrary six-week ban on (post-embryonic cardiac activity pregnancy) terminations is inconsistent with these rights and the proper balance that a viability rule establishes between a woman’s rights of liberty and privacy and society’s interest in protecting and caring for unborn infants,” {Fulton County Superior Judge Robert} McBurney wrote. {“a review of our higher courts’ interpretations of ‘liberty’ demonstrates that liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.” }
...Kara Murray, communications director for Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, said in a statement Monday, “...we will immediately appeal the lower court’s decision.”
...Georgia has no way for citizens to place initiatives on the ballot...
...two women in the state died after they did not get proper medical treatment for complications from taking abortion pills to end their pregnancies...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/30/politics/georgia-abortion-ban/index.html
Shawn Nottingham | September 30, 2024
...Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, or LIFE Act, infringes on a woman’s state constitutional rights....
“When a fetus growing inside a woman reaches viability, when society can assume care and responsibility for that separate life, then – and only then – may society intervene. An arbitrary six-week ban on (post-embryonic cardiac activity pregnancy) terminations is inconsistent with these rights and the proper balance that a viability rule establishes between a woman’s rights of liberty and privacy and society’s interest in protecting and caring for unborn infants,” {Fulton County Superior Judge Robert} McBurney wrote. {“a review of our higher courts’ interpretations of ‘liberty’ demonstrates that liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.” }
...Kara Murray, communications director for Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, said in a statement Monday, “...we will immediately appeal the lower court’s decision.”
...Georgia has no way for citizens to place initiatives on the ballot...
...two women in the state died after they did not get proper medical treatment for complications from taking abortion pills to end their pregnancies...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/30/politics/georgia-abortion-ban/index.html
67krazy4katz
>66 margd: Let's hope this stays. The term "cardiac activity" at 6 weeks is misleading. There is no heart at that time. There are just cells that will eventually form the heart that are beating randomly.
68margd
My understanding is that ambulance will take serious-emergency patients to the nearest hospital. A woman may be out of luck if it's a Catholic hospital. Even a public hospital partly owned by the RC church.
California sues Catholic hospital for denying emergency abortion
Brendan Pierson | September 30, 2024
Summary
AG says hospital violated state law on emergency care
State aims to stop denials of medically necessary abortions
The woman, chiropractor Anna Nusslock, was driven to another hospital 12 miles (19 km) away and was dangerously hemorrhaging by the time she reached the operating table, according to the lawsuit...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/california-sues-catholic-hospital-refusing-provide...
California sues Catholic hospital for denying emergency abortion
Brendan Pierson | September 30, 2024
Summary
AG says hospital violated state law on emergency care
State aims to stop denials of medically necessary abortions
The woman, chiropractor Anna Nusslock, was driven to another hospital 12 miles (19 km) away and was dangerously hemorrhaging by the time she reached the operating table, according to the lawsuit...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/california-sues-catholic-hospital-refusing-provide...
69kiparsky
This doesn't make any sense to me at all. In my world, when a doctor refuses necessary care to a patient, they're no longer a doctor, their new title is "the defendant".
70margd
>69 kiparsky: After the Hobby Lobby case, RC hospital may claim religious liberty, and, if so, I wonder California's next step will be to pull its certification to practice as a full-service (incl. emergency) hospital? Fine for private hospital not to offer elective abortions based on religious convictions, but not to deny needed services on sayso of local bishop. IMO.
(After childbearing years I needed a D&C for medical reasons. With procedure scheduled at local RC hospital, pretty bad that I felt I had to ask my MD if surgical team would be trained and skilled in the procedure. One just doesn't know, and there's no time to look into it in an emergency, and one is esp vulnerable if the Catholic hospital is the only one in town.)
(After childbearing years I needed a D&C for medical reasons. With procedure scheduled at local RC hospital, pretty bad that I felt I had to ask my MD if surgical team would be trained and skilled in the procedure. One just doesn't know, and there's no time to look into it in an emergency, and one is esp vulnerable if the Catholic hospital is the only one in town.)
712wonderY
Georgia supreme court reinstates six-week abortion ban
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/georgia-supreme-court-reinstates-states-6-week-...
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the state’s six-week abortion ban while it reviews an appeal from the state of a lower court ruling that had struck down the law.
The decision goes into effect at 5 p.m. local time, meaning that most abortions will again be illegal in the state after six weeks of pregnancy after that time.
The state Supreme Court's decision, however, left in place the lower court’s ruling blocking a separate provision of the law that had given state prosecutors broad access to the medical records of abortion patients without due process protections.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/georgia-supreme-court-reinstates-states-6-week-...
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the state’s six-week abortion ban while it reviews an appeal from the state of a lower court ruling that had struck down the law.
The decision goes into effect at 5 p.m. local time, meaning that most abortions will again be illegal in the state after six weeks of pregnancy after that time.
The state Supreme Court's decision, however, left in place the lower court’s ruling blocking a separate provision of the law that had given state prosecutors broad access to the medical records of abortion patients without due process protections.
722wonderY
Georgia WR Colbie Young arrested on charges of battery and assault on an unborn child
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-colbie-young-arrest-a7c7a5b9d73624a747fb7dff7...
He was not charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DA6KxCZp08C/?igsh=MWFlaDdtamtiajNvOA==
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-colbie-young-arrest-a7c7a5b9d73624a747fb7dff7...
He was not charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DA6KxCZp08C/?igsh=MWFlaDdtamtiajNvOA==
73krazy4katz
>72 2wonderY: How (what am I trying to say?) crazy!!
76margd
>75 2wonderY: ... I read somewhere that these laws haven't decreased the number of abortions --at least among women who have means -- but maternal mortality, always high, is up(?)
Daisy
The Lincoln Project (8 Oct 2024)
1:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkaqA0KHj98)
Lincoln Project message to MAGA dads: A good father knows how important it is to protect his daughter. This November, fathers need to protect their daughters from Donald Trump...
Daisy
The Lincoln Project (8 Oct 2024)
1:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkaqA0KHj98)
Lincoln Project message to MAGA dads: A good father knows how important it is to protect his daughter. This November, fathers need to protect their daughters from Donald Trump...
77margd
Tennessee judges say doctors can’t be disciplined for providing emergency abortions
KIMBERLEE KRUESI | October 17, 2024
...Tennessee doctors who provide emergency abortions to protect the life of the mother cannot have their medical licenses revoked or face other disciplinary actions while a lawsuit challenging the state’s sweeping abortion ban continues.
...The judges determined that the following medical conditions now fall under the state’s abortion exemptions: premature rupture of the amniotic sac that surrounds the fetus; inevitable abortions; fatal fetal diagnoses that result in severe preeclampsia or mirror syndrome associated with fetal hydrops; and fatal fetal diagnoses leading to an infection that will result in uterine rupture or potential loss of fertility...
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-tennessee-ban-a4f89851b53687cd1b28d093e32608...
KIMBERLEE KRUESI | October 17, 2024
...Tennessee doctors who provide emergency abortions to protect the life of the mother cannot have their medical licenses revoked or face other disciplinary actions while a lawsuit challenging the state’s sweeping abortion ban continues.
...The judges determined that the following medical conditions now fall under the state’s abortion exemptions: premature rupture of the amniotic sac that surrounds the fetus; inevitable abortions; fatal fetal diagnoses that result in severe preeclampsia or mirror syndrome associated with fetal hydrops; and fatal fetal diagnoses leading to an infection that will result in uterine rupture or potential loss of fertility...
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-tennessee-ban-a4f89851b53687cd1b28d093e32608...
78lilithcat
The quiet part said out loud. See paragraphs 751 and 752: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067/gov.uscourts.tx...
792wonderY
>78 lilithcat: Gee. You’d think they might concern themselves with other ways that populations potentially decrease. Hmmm. Like school shootings?
81margd
Infants died at higher rates after abortion bans in the US, research shows
Deidre McPhillips | October 21, 2024
In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows. The vast majority of those infants had congenital anomalies, or birth defects...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/infants-died-higher-rates-abortion-150048976.html
Deidre McPhillips | October 21, 2024
In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows. The vast majority of those infants had congenital anomalies, or birth defects...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/infants-died-higher-rates-abortion-150048976.html
82margd
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
Amy Yurkanin | Nov. 21, 2024
...Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women. The move came in response to ProPublica having obtained internal reports detailing two deaths.
ProPublica reported in September on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, which the state maternal mortality review committee had determined were preventable. They were the first reported cases of women who died without access to care restricted by a state abortion ban, and they unleashed a torrent of outrage over the fatal consequences of such laws...
... Georgia’s had 32 standing members from a variety of backgrounds, including OB-GYNs, cardiologists, mental health care providers, a medical examiner, health policy experts and community advocates. They are volunteer positions that pay a small honorarium.
Their job is to collect data and make recommendations aimed at combatting systemic issues that could help reduce deaths and publish them in reports. The Georgia committee’s most recent report found that of 113 pregnancy-related deaths from 2018 through 2020, 101 had at least some chance of being prevented. Its recommendations have led to changes in hospital care to improve the response to emergencies during labor and delivery and to new programs to increase access to psychiatric treatment...
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-dismisses-maternal-mortality-committe...
Amy Yurkanin | Nov. 21, 2024
...Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women. The move came in response to ProPublica having obtained internal reports detailing two deaths.
ProPublica reported in September on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, which the state maternal mortality review committee had determined were preventable. They were the first reported cases of women who died without access to care restricted by a state abortion ban, and they unleashed a torrent of outrage over the fatal consequences of such laws...
... Georgia’s had 32 standing members from a variety of backgrounds, including OB-GYNs, cardiologists, mental health care providers, a medical examiner, health policy experts and community advocates. They are volunteer positions that pay a small honorarium.
Their job is to collect data and make recommendations aimed at combatting systemic issues that could help reduce deaths and publish them in reports. The Georgia committee’s most recent report found that of 113 pregnancy-related deaths from 2018 through 2020, 101 had at least some chance of being prevented. Its recommendations have led to changes in hospital care to improve the response to emergencies during labor and delivery and to new programs to increase access to psychiatric treatment...
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-dismisses-maternal-mortality-committe...
83krazy4katz
>82 margd: Thank you, Margd, for keeping us up-to-date on the continuous flood of horrific outcomes of the Supreme Court's unjust decision that eliminated women's rights to her own body. We have to fight very hard to get back what was once our personal freedom.
84Molly3028
If I was a back-in-the-day suffragette, I would be spinning in my grave right about now. Women comprise the majority gender, but they keep on losing ground because they fail to vote in their own best interests time and again in the 21st century.
852wonderY
The Federalist published a how-to on increasing birth rates:
Here’s How To Actually Reverse The Baby Bust
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/02/heres-how-to-actually-reverse-the-baby-bust...
“… child-rearing expenses do not appear to be the main obstacle to people choosing to have more children. Remember, fertility rates used to be much higher even when people had significantly less money than they do now.”
“Education policy offers two prime examples of how government programs suppress fertility rates. People are more likely to have children if they start having families earlier and if they have religious convictions that make them think differently about the costs and benefits of raising children. Yet current education policies push people to delay having families until they are much older and impose barriers to accessing religious education, both of which significantly reduce fertility rates.”
… and some thoughtful response
https://www.instagram.com/p/DDkbhlIy2FE/?img_index=7&igsh=MXVzOXFlMTVtODA4cQ...
Here’s How To Actually Reverse The Baby Bust
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/02/heres-how-to-actually-reverse-the-baby-bust...
“… child-rearing expenses do not appear to be the main obstacle to people choosing to have more children. Remember, fertility rates used to be much higher even when people had significantly less money than they do now.”
“Education policy offers two prime examples of how government programs suppress fertility rates. People are more likely to have children if they start having families earlier and if they have religious convictions that make them think differently about the costs and benefits of raising children. Yet current education policies push people to delay having families until they are much older and impose barriers to accessing religious education, both of which significantly reduce fertility rates.”
… and some thoughtful response
https://www.instagram.com/p/DDkbhlIy2FE/?img_index=7&igsh=MXVzOXFlMTVtODA4cQ...
