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In 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right to abortion. That November, Laurence H. Tribe wrote the principal defense of the Court’s decision in the Harvard Law Review. Nearly twenty years later, his book Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990) examined the never-ending debate over the subject. For nearly half a century he has pondered that debate’s relationships to gender equality, sexual identity, personal autonomy, notions of privacy and power, the culture wars, religion, and the place of the Court in American life.

Now, in “Deconstructing Dobbs,” from the Review’s Fall Books issue, Tribe analyzes the flawed legal reasoning the Court’s radicals used to strike down the right to abortion and considers the disastrous moral and political implications of the decision for women and for the Court as an institution.

Laurence H. Tribe “Deconstructing Dobbs”

Whether or not one sees the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision as barely concealed theocracy, it fails to provide any coherent legal analysis of why the right to abortion is not protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.

September 22, 2022 issue https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/09/22/deconstructing-dobbs-laure
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The chaos and cruelty unleashed in late June by the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which wiped out a half-century of constitutional protections for the reproductive rights—and thus the equal citizenship—of women in America, have been well documented. The ruling quickly led to a patchwork quilt of abortion bans differing from state to state and the prospect of new ones throughout the country, transforming what had been hypothetical scenarios into the stuff of nightmares.

They include tragedies like that of the ten-year-old rape victim in Ohio forced to travel across state lines to avoid compelled motherhood. The swarm of lawsuits challenging access to abortion pills by mail. The labyrinth of obstacles confronting those in states where abortion is now banned or heavily restricted who seek safe and legal out-of-state options for terminating pregnancies—for themselves or a patient, friend, or family member—including the knowledge that their travel and medical inquiries might be subject to surveillance and even obstruction or retaliation. The fear of health care professionals and pharmacists that providing treatments to preserve the life of someone undergoing a heartbreaking miscarriage could expose them to criminal prosecution for allegedly terminating a pregnancy. Not to mention the potential crippling of IVF procedures sought by couples who would otherwise remain childless.

As the dissent in the case—written jointly by Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan—pointedly observed, some states might “criminalize the woman’s conduct too, incarcerating or fining her for daring to seek or obtain an abortion,” and “as Texas has recently shown, a State can turn neighbor against neighbor, enlisting fellow citizens in the effort to root out anyone who tries to get an abortion, or to assist another in doing so.”

Dobbs was in no way the removal of the final brick in a steadily crumbling wall of protections for reproductive autonomy. The course of the law over the half-century separating Dobbs from Roe v. Wade (1973) had witnessed no erosion in the principles of personal liberty and equality that had been embodied in pre-Roe decisions. On the contrary, these principles had been continually extended during those years. Roe had built on decisions like Loving v. Virginia (1967), protecting interracial marriage; Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), affirming the right of married couples to engage in sex without risking procreation; and Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972), extending Griswold from married couples to all individuals, married or single. And Roe had in turn furnished the foundation for decisions like Lawrence v. Texas (2003), upholding the right of consenting adults to have sex with partners of any gender, and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), affirming the right of people to marry those they love regardless of sex.

Far from the culmination of a gradual trend toward government control over people’s intimate lives, the decision in Dobbs—no less shocking because a draft of it had leaked nearly two months earlier—felt like a bolt from the blue. “To hear the majority tell the tale, Roe and Casey [v. Planned Parenthood, 1992] are aberrations: They came from nowhere, went nowhere—and so are easy to excise from this Nation’s constitutional law,” the dissent said, but as the cases listed above demonstrate, “That is not true.” Observers had to conclude that only the changed composition of the Court during Donald Trump’s one-term presidency and the formation of a five-justice bloc committed to a religiously inflected political agenda could explain the sudden shift. The dissent’s blunt comment is undeniable: “The Court reverses course today for one reason and one reason only: because the composition of this Court has changed…. Today, the proclivities of individuals rule.”

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/09/22/deconstructing-dobbs-laure
nce-tribe/

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022 9:10 AM

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Moral of the story:

Republicans are capable of learning from their mistakes and don't continue to double down on them every fucking day like Democrats do.
The immoral of the story is that Republican candidates will lie about their position on abortion, but once in office the Republican will declare that "Abortion is Murder" and vote for legislation outlawing all abortion.

lol

So now we're going to pretend that both parties don't do this about every issue before every election, are we?

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022 9:11 AM

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In 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right to abortion.

No. That is not what happened.

There is no constitutional right to abortion. There never was. There was never an amendment made to the constitution either.

You've got the votes for the next 2 months. Pass it. What are you waiting for?

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022 9:26 AM

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In 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right to abortion.

No. That is not what happened.

There is no constitutional right to abortion. There never was. There was never an amendment made to the constitution either.

You've got the votes for the next 2 months. Pass it. What are you waiting for?

It requires 3/4th of the states to pass a constitutional amendment making abortion a right. Sorry to tell you but 1/3rd of the states already banned abortion in the last two months.

There are an infinite number of things people do that are not listed as a right in the constitution. If some religious group wanted to ban dancing, for example, a Supreme Court packed with 5 members of the Church of Christ could ban dancing. The Republicans packed the Supreme Court with 5 Catholics who were anti-abortion before they joined the Supreme Court. The 5 were asked during confirmation hearings in the Senate if they would overturn Roe v Wade and the 5 said they would NOT overturn Roe v Wade, but then they did.

Mennonite, Hutterite, Baptist, Seventh-day Adventist, Church of Christ, Restorationist, and Holiness movement sects ban dancing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_ban

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022 9:32 AM

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In 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right to abortion.

No. That is not what happened.

There is no constitutional right to abortion. There never was. There was never an amendment made to the constitution either.

You've got the votes for the next 2 months. Pass it. What are you waiting for?
It requires 3/4th of the states to pass a constitutional amendment making abortion a right. Sorry to tell you but 1/3rd of the states already banned abortion in the last two months.

I didn't say to make it an amendment.

But thank you for agreeing with me that there is no constitutional right to abortion by not arguing that point, thus making the entire article you posted following that statement pure horse shit.

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022 9:44 AM

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In 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right to abortion.

No. That is not what happened.

There is no constitutional right to abortion. There never was. There was never an amendment made to the constitution either.

You've got the votes for the next 2 months. Pass it. What are you waiting for?
It requires 3/4th of the states to pass a constitutional amendment making abortion a right. Sorry to tell you but 1/3rd of the states already banned abortion in the last two months.

I didn't say to make it an amendment.

But thank you for agreeing with me that there is no constitutional right to abortion by not arguing that point, thus making the entire article you posted following that statement pure horse shit.

6ix, you completely misunderstood what you read. I will simplify for you: the constitutional rights are around 30, but there are millions of things people do that are not listed as a right. A dishonest and stubborn Catholic Supreme Court justice, for example, could therefore ban millions of things. That banning is based only on the personal preferences of Catholic justices, who are also intellectually dishonest, and is a political problem that can be solved by removing those justices. Supreme Court justices are not supposed to make decisions based on their religion. And the Senate is supposed to hold the justices to that standard of conduct, but it won't because half the Senators are Republicans.

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Sunday, September 4, 2022 3:25 PM

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When these women lost their pregnancies, each ended up in jail.

More than 50 women have been prosecuted for child neglect or manslaughter in the United States since 1999 because they tested positive for drug use after a miscarriage or stillbirth.

The medical community calls this legal approach harmful and counterproductive. But it’s a strategy many legal experts say is likely to become more common now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, making it easier for states to pass laws that give fetuses and embryos the same rights as children or their mothers.

An analysis of court records and medical examiner data over the last 23 years found at least 20 felony cases in Alabama, 14 in South Carolina and 10 in Oklahoma, as well as nine in other states where prosecutors have embraced some form of “fetal personhood” in bringing criminal charges after miscarriage or stillbirth. Many of the prosecutions resulted in lengthy prison sentences and life-altering consequences for mostly poor women who were struggling with addiction.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/09/01/they-lost-their-pregnanc
ies-then-prosecutors-sent-them-to-prison

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Sunday, September 4, 2022 6:50 PM

Nope.

I'm not going to feel bad for addicts.

Nobody felt bad for me. They don't get special treatment just because our sex parts are different.

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Monday, September 5, 2022 7:53 AM

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A recent development that has made me feel depressed about the prospects for peace between religion and secularism is the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the United States Supreme Court. In doing so, the Supreme Court has overturned a precedent with which a significant majority (often cited to be at least 60%) of Americans agree. Whatever the legal merits of the court’s decision, there is little doubt that the buildup to this deeply regressive decision was driven primarily by a religious belief that considers life to begin at conception. It’s a belief without any basis in science; in fact, as Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan wrote many years, if you factored in science, then Roe v. Wade would seem to have drawn the line at the right point when the fetus develops a nervous system and really distinguishes itself as a human. In fact, one of the tragedies of overturning Roe v. Wade is that the verdict struck a good balance between respecting the wishes of religious moderates and taking rational science into account.

But Evangelical Christians in the United States, of which there has a been dwindling and therefore proportionately bitter and vociferous number in recent years, don’t care about such lowly details as nervous systems (although they do seem to care about heartbeats which ironically aren’t unique to humans). For them, all there is to know about when life begins has been written in a medieval book. Lest there be any doubt that this consequential decision by the court was religiously motivated, it’s worth reading a recent, detailed analysis by Laurence Tribe, a leading constitutional scholar. Lessig convincingly argues that the Catholic justices’ arguments were in fact rooted in the view that life begins at conception, a view on which the constitution is silent but religion has plenty to say.

The grim fact that we who care about things like due process and equality are dealing with here is that a minority of religious extremists continues to foist extremely regressive views on the majority of us who reject those views to different degrees. For a while, it seemed that religiosity was declining in the United States. But now it appears that those of us who found this trend reassuring were too smug; it’s not the numbers of the religious that have mattered but the strength of their convictions, crucially applied over time like water dripping on a stone to wear the system down. And that’s exactly what they have wanted.

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/09/the-root-of-diverse-evil
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Monday, September 5, 2022 8:58 AM

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Women Are So Fired Up to Vote, I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It

The pattern was clearest in states where abortion access was most at risk, and where the electoral stakes for abortion rights this November were the highest. The states with the biggest surges in women registering post-Dobbs were deep red Kansas and Idaho, with Louisiana emerging among the top five states. Key battleground states also showed large increases, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, which are all facing statewide races in which the fate of abortion access could be decided in November.

There is no precedent for an election centered around the removal of a constitutional right affirmed a half-century before. Every poll we consume over the closing weeks of this election will rely on a likely voter model for which we have no benchmark.

The stakes are high. Going into the midterms this fall, the G.O.P. need only gain six seats in the House and one seat in the Senate to retake control of those chambers

Several Republicans seem to be sensing that they’re in trouble. In Arizona, the Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters, an ardent abortion opponent, recently wiped language advocating extreme abortion restrictions from his website.

Whether the coming elections will be viewed as a red wave, a Roe wave or something in between will be decided by the actions of millions of Americans — especially, it seems, American women. As Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority decision in Dobbs: “Women are not without electoral or political power.” He was right about that. Republicans might soon find out just how much political power they have.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220904235348/https://www.nytimes.com/202
2/09/03/opinion/women-voters-roe-abortion-midterms.html

I’ve watched Americans in recent years acclimate to some very grim realities. Especially since the ascension of Donald Trump, numerous tragedies and extreme policies have been met with little political consequence: schools targeted by mass murderers, immigrants treated as subhuman and autocratic regimes around the globe affirmed as allies. While Mr. Trump did fail in his re-election bid, a swing of just over 20,000 votes in the three states with the narrowest margins would have produced a win for him, and Democrats hold razor-thin majorities in the House and the Senate. We will soon discover if American women adjust to the newest grim reality: the loss of the right to abortion. Are American women once again going to let the Republicans get away with it?

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Monday, September 5, 2022 10:32 AM

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Women Are So Fired Up to Vote, I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It

No they aren't.

It's rather telling when an article this full of the narrative can't make it out of the Opinion section of the NYT.

It doesn't matter if women are fired up to vote in NYC or any other shitlib city.

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Friday, September 9, 2022 5:47 AM

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Women Are So Fired Up to Vote, I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It

No they aren't.

It's rather telling when an article this full of the narrative can't make it out of the Opinion section of the NYT.

It doesn't matter if women are fired up to vote in NYC or any other shitlib city.

Republicans’ chances of retaking the Senate majority are diminishing thanks to abortion.

Public and internal polling data suggest that the GOP’s struggle to attract women voters may turn out to be the biggest obstacle standing between the party and a potential Senate majority in 2023. A Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday showed that abortion was the single issue most likely to drive respondents to vote this fall, above inflation. And 52 percent of white suburban women say they would support a Democratic candidate in the election, the poll found, while only 40 percent said they would vote for the Republican.

The environment has begun to neutralize, a shift largely attributable to women. Recent polling has shown Senate candidates neck and neck in Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio, while Democrats appear to have sizable leads in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/06/skeptical-female-voters-gop-s
enate-00054747

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Saturday, November 26, 2022 5:06 PM

Gov. Newsom Tells Biden He Will Not Run For President In 2024

https://www.ibtimes.com/gov-newsom-tells-biden-he-will-not-run-preside
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Saturday, November 26, 2022 5:09 PM

FBI Shriner Homosexuals waited until AFTER the Mid Terms to start doing their jobs?

FBI Offers Reward Over Firebomb Attack On New York Pro-Life …
https://vision.org.au/news/fbi-finally-acts-on-firebombing-of-pro-life
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Monday, December 5, 2022 9:21 AM

Will it be Biden vs Trump once again?

https://www.thestatesman.com/opinion/will-it-be-biden-vs-trump-once-ag
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Friday, December 9, 2022 9:02 AM

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Texas state court throws out lawsuit against doctor who violated abortion law

The court’s ruling does not overturn the 2021 law, which banned abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. It also does not impact the near-total ban on abortion that went into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

by Eleanor Klibanoff Dec. 8, 2022

A judge in San Antonio has thrown out a lawsuit filed against a Texas abortion provider who intentionally violated a controversial state abortion law.

The law, known as Senate Bill 8, allows anyone to bring a lawsuit against someone who “aids or abets” in an abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy. On Thursday, state District Judge Aaron Haas in Bexar County said people who have no connection to the prohibited abortion and have not been harmed by it do not have standing to bring these lawsuits.

Thursday’s ruling sets an important precedent but does not overturn the law, said Marc Hearron, senior counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights.

When SB 8 went into effect in September 2021, it was the most restrictive abortion law in the nation. The law banned abortions after the detection of fetal cardiac activity, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, a point at which many people don’t yet know they are pregnant.

Almost all of the clinics in the state immediately stopped providing abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. The law’s unique civil enforcement mechanism made it difficult to challenge in court without a test case. Dr. Alan Braid, a San Antonio doctor who had provided abortions in Texas since Roe v. Wade was handed down in 1973, decided to intentionally violate the law to attract one of these private lawsuits.

“I wanted to make sure that Texas didn’t get away with its bid to prevent this blatantly unconstitutional law from being tested,” Braid wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post.

Three lawsuits were filed against Braid immediately. Two were never formally served, Hearron said, but one, filed by a Chicago resident named Felipe Gomez, proceeded through the courts. Thursday’s ruling in the Gomez case is the first and only SB 8 case to be resolved in court. Hearron said he anticipated that Gomez, who represented himself, would appeal the decision.

Gomez could not immediately be reached for comment.

In addition to the six-week ban, which is civilly enforced, Texas is also operating under several criminal abortion bans that went into effect after the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June. Doctors who provide abortions in Texas can face up to life in prison.

In the wake of those laws going into effect, Braid closed his clinic in San Antonio, as well as its sister facility in Tulsa.

“It is heartbreaking that Texans still can’t get essential health care in their home state and that providers are left afraid to do their jobs,” Braid said in a statement. “Though we were forced to close our Texas clinic, I will continue serving patients across the region with the care they deserve at new clinics in Illinois and New Mexico.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/08/texas-abortion-provider-lawsui
t/

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Thursday, January 19, 2023 6:45 AM

Lula da Silva withdraws Brazil from international declaration against abortion

https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/brazil/lula-da-silva-withdr
aws-brazil-from-international-declaration-against-abortion/

Tony Evers, Democrats push Republican leaders to add abortion poll to ballot. Here are the politics behind the move.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/17/evers-democrat
s-push-gop-leaders-to-add-abortion-referendum-to-ballot/69812337007/

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Thursday, February 2, 2023 9:47 AM

Move Over Moses and Zoroaster: Manhattan Has a New Female Lawgiver

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/arts/design/discrimination-sculptur
e-madison-park-sikander-women.html

Minnesota: There is something wrong with people who celebrate this

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/there_is_something_wrong_
with_people_who_celebrate_this.html

‘Satanic golden medusa’ abortion statue outside New York City courthouse ruthlessly mocked: ‘Monstrosity’

https://www.foxnews.com/media/satanic-golden-medusa-abortion-statue-ne
w-york-city-courthouse-ruthlessly-mocked-monstrosity

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Sunday, May 14, 2023 10:09 AM

or maybe Second can post about Jehovas and Abortion here?

Most want abortion pill to remain available — CBS News poll
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-pill-cbs-news-poll-2023-04-16/

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Saturday, May 27, 2023 6:18 AM

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The Press is Falling for Anti-Abortion “Fetal Heartbeat” Propaganda

Reporters are parroting — and spreading — sentimental falsehoods.

“Once a fetal heartbeat could be detected, typically around the sixth week of pregnancy … ”

When I read this phrase in the New Yorker, referring to Texas’s first abortion ban, I shot off a letter to the editor. “This is misleading,” I wrote. “There is no heartbeat at six weeks because the fetus does not yet have a heart. As San Francisco OB-GYN Dr. Jennifer Kerns told NPR: ‘What we’re really detecting is a grouping of cells that are initiating some electrical activity. In no way is this detecting a functional cardiovascular system or a functional heart.’” I noted that “a six-week fetus is about the size and shape of a baked bean.”

If the vaunted New Yorker copy desk could let this bit of anti-abortion bunk stand without comment, what was going on? I combed the media. Not just the National Review — which calls corrections like Dr. Kerns’s “mendacity” — or the Catholic press but also mainstream local and national news outlets including CNN, The Associated Press, Reuters, U.S. News & World Report, and PBS were parroting the same descriptor of the inaccurately — and of course strategically — named “fetal heartbeat” laws being debated or enacted in states from Idaho to Iowa, Georgia to New Hampshire.

The chorus resounded from websites, television, and radio from coast to coast: South Carolina was debating a law that “bans most abortions after early cardiac activity can be detected in a fetus or embryo, which can commonly be detected as early as six weeks into pregnancy”; in Georgia, a “law banning abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected, typically around six weeks”; Nebraska’s legislature made an “unconventional move … after conservatives failed to advance a bill that would have banned abortion once cardiac activity can be detected — generally around six weeks of pregnancy.”

A number of the reports got it half right, adding that when the so-called heartbeat is first detected, many women do not even know they are pregnant.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20230527101124/https://theintercept.com/20
23/05/27/abortion-fetal-heartbeat-propaganda-press-coverage/

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Saturday, June 24, 2023 8:00 AM

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A Year After Dobbs, the Anti-Abortion Right Is Grilling Doctors on Tattoos, Tweets, and Too-Strong Beliefs

Unsatisfied with humiliating patients, the anti-abortion right is escalating a time-tested tactic: Make doctors grovel.

Judith Levine, June 24 2023, 6:00 a.m.

Some three hours into the 14-hour inquisition of Dr. Caitlin Bernard before the Indiana physician’s licensing board, the assistant attorney general asked her an odd question: “Do you have a tattoo of a coat hanger that says, ‘Trust women,’ on your body?”

It was hard to tell which part offended him more: the coat hanger or “trust women.”

Bernard’s attorney objected to the question as irrelevant. And legally speaking, it was. For the record, Bernard does have such a tattoo, on her left foot, inked years ago to remind her of life in the bad old days. She is not ashamed of it.

But the question was certainly not an opening for the doctor to express pride in her profession and her advocacy of reproductive health care. It was not meant to seek information. Nor was the query a misstep. The interrogator, Cory Voight, was on a mission to prove this respected OB-GYN unfit to practice medicine.

But, it seemed, even that was not enough. As the surrogate for his boss, the fiercely anti-abortion Indiana state Attorney General Todd Rokita, Voight wanted to tear the defendant down emotionally and in the eyes of the public. Asking a woman in a professional hearing about a mark on her body — using the word “body” — was part of a larger strategy, one long deployed by anti-abortion forces against abortion-seekers. Now they’re using it against providers and advocates as well. The strategy is humiliation.

Bernard’s trial, at the May 25 meeting of Indiana’s physician’s licensing board, was the latest chapter in Rokita’s yearlong smear campaign. In June 2022, just after the Dobbs decision triggered the misnamed “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban in Ohio, Bernard performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from that state. She told a local reporter the girl’s age, gestational stage, and state of origin, not her name or any other identifying details. She spoke again at a reproductive rights rally, warning that thousands of Indianans, including children, would be subject to similar, unnecessary trauma should the state pass an abortion ban in an upcoming special session. The case became national news. Bernard was celebrated as a hero.

Rokita was apoplectic. First, he circulated the calumny that Bernard had invented the patient. When it turned out the patient existed and a suspected perpetrator was arrested, Rokita cast around for laws Bernard might have broken. He came up with another false allegation — that she’d violated patient privacy and reporting laws — and petitioned the board to revoke her license. To do the job, Rokita sent the slimy-mouthed Voight. During the trial, many of his questions began, “Isn’t it true that …”

In another volley of questions, attempting to show that Bernard used the rape victim as a political tool, Voight declared, “No physician has been as brazen in pursuit of their own agenda.” “Brazen” is another one of those words, evoking “brazen hussy.” “She is unfit to practice medicine.” Morally unfit, that is.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20230624102107/https://theintercept.com/20
23/06/24/dobbs-abortion-doctors-humiliation/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Saturday, August 12, 2023 6:20 PM

The Controversial movie Blonde really wasn't so graphic comapred to the stuff you get on tv

'Full Frontal Nudity, Oral Sex and More: Why ‘Passages,’ ‘Blonde’ and 19 More Films Earned the NC-17 Rating'
https://variety.com/?post_type=pmc_list&p=1235385545

A 6,000-year-old Stone Age burial of a woman with a baby cradled in her arm was discovered in 2015 in the central Netherlands city of Nieuwegein.

It is the oldest infant burial ever found in the Netherlands.

In many eras, the absence of medical knowledge made childbirth a dangerous passage, reflecting a mother's love and courage for her child. The joy of new life often came with the shadow of risk, a testament to the enduring strength and resilience of mothers across ages.

https://twitter.com/Power_History/status/1690460379166461952

As the Greco-Persian Wars allowed for the dominance of Western politics, the following Peloponnesian Wars provided the basis for poles within Western politics.
Though both Greek, hyper-conservative Sparta and hyper-liberal (for the age) Athens were about as politically and morally opposite as two states could be.
And the concrete results of their fighting show us how these abstract moralities actually play out in reality

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Sunday, September 24, 2023 8:56 AM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

In Backwoods USA, Mom Sentenced to Two Years In Prison for helping Daughter

Bill Haskell | September 24, 2023 7:30 am
https://angrybearblog.com/2023/09/backwoods-usa-mom-sentenced-to-two-y
ears-for-helping-daughter

US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills, Backwoods and Out Houses USA, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/22/burgess-abortion-pill-
nebraska-mother-daughter

This is not horrific. It is what happens to people when there is no way out. The horrific part is the state which forces people to take any means possible.

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Jessica Burgess, a Nebraska mother accused of helping her teenage daughter use pills to end her pregnancy, was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison.

Burgess and her daughter, Celeste Burgess, stand accused of working together to end Celeste Burgess’s pregnancy in April 2022.

According to prosecutors, after the pair bought pills to end the pregnancy, Celeste Burgess gave birth to a stillborn fetus. At the time, Nebraska law banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Celeste Burgess’s pregnancy was well past that point, according to court records.

Police say that the Burgesses buried the fetal remains. An examination of the remains suggested they may have also been burned, according to court documents.

Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty in July to charges of false reporting, providing an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, and concealing, removing or abandoning a dead human body. She was sentenced to one year in prison each charge, but the sentences for false reporting and tampering with human remains will run concurrently, with the sentence for the illegal abortion to served consecutively with the sentences for the other charges, a spokesperson for the Madison county courthouse said.

Celeste Burgess also took a plea deal and was sentenced to 90 days for concealing or abandoning a dead body earlier this year.

Although the case occurred before the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, it has been seen as a harbinger of how law enforcement may prosecute people for ending their own pregnancies in a post-Roe era – and how giant tech companies could go along with it.

Court documents in the case revealed that Facebook’s parent company Meta supplied police with the private Facebook messages that Celeste and Jessica Burgess had sent one another. In one message, Celeste told Jessica: “Remember we burn the evidence.”

Although most states do not ban people from inducing their own pregnancies – abortion bans typically penalize abortion providers, not patients – abortion rights advocates have long warned that if a prosecutor wants to target someone for a self-managed abortion, they will find a statute that is elastic enough to do so.

Celeste Burgess was released from Madison county jail earlier this month, after serving a little more than half of her 90-day sentence, local Nebraska news outlet KTIV reported. At her sentencing, Celeste Burgess said that her family could not have afforded a funeral for fetal remains, according to Courthouse News. (In a financial affidavit obtained by Vice, Jessica Burgess said she had $400 to her name.) Celeste Burgess also reportedly deals with multiple mental health issues and became pregnant due to an abusive relationship.

Jessica Burgess was set to undergo a court-ordered psychological evaluation ahead of her sentencing. But the evaluation was canceled due to lack of funding, according to KTIV.

Nebraska law now bans almost all abortions past 12 weeks of pregnancy.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Thursday, August 29, 2024 4:59 AM

Planned Parenthood bus outside DNC sees eight abortion patients, does nine vasectomies

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/aug/22/planned-parenthood-bu
s-outside-dnc-sees-eight-abor/

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