It's faux-naive to pretend not to understand the phrase "abortion on demand." I agree that the only person who should be allowed to make the decision to have an abortion is the pregnant person. But Roe itself treats the decision as one between the pregnant person and their doctor, which I agree is already sub-optimal. Sometimes under current law abortion also requires authorization by someone other than the pregnant person, e.g., a mature minor proceeding or ruling of a hospital ethics committee about the degree of risk posed by a pregnancy.
Donald Trump was the best thing that ever happened to Joe Biden. There's no way a marginal candidate like Biden would have won against a Republican who wasn't a barking mad lunatic like Trump.
I was on a Zoom earlier today to prepare for lobby day in Virginia next week. Because both houses of the General Assembly are now Democrat, we don't have to wait for crappy bills in one house to be killed in the other house. They just go nowhere.
In case you wondered how Texas protects their own men, read this article: husband did not want a third child, he drugged his wife's drink with abortion medication multiple times, sending her to the emergency room, caught on in-home security cameras from his wife, plus the discarded packaging of the medication in the garbage and...... he only gets 6 months in jail. But be sure not to give any woman money in Texas to help her get to New Mexico for an abortion or you will go to prison for 10 years!!
Good to hear people questioning the "viability" issue and other myths and convictions that advance the beliefs in gestational personhood. We need to advance more language that clarifies what people mean when they say "fetus" or "embryo" or any other stage of gestation and also what gestation means. There is too much being legislated based on people's imagination and less on actual biological reality.
I'm thinking about that SC hearing yesterday and the justices responses. Kagan's is bothering me the most. Of all the justices there, for her to say that throwing TFG off the ballot in CO sounds like one state making a "national" decision, I mean really ??? I expect that from the Trump justices because they don't care about judicial hypocrisy. But Kagan? Mississippi brought us Dobbs, right? It undid Roe, left us NATIONALLY insecure, with the possibility that we will see a NATIONAL abortion ban, likely via Comstock and the crazy Trump-placed Texas judge who was placed there to do just that. She made no mention of that.
I had kind of intended to read the transcripts going in to yesterday but then when I read Chris Geidner's report about it at Law Dork I decided to spare myself; it doesn't sound like it was ever a serious consideration :(
Thank you Jessica for these amazing updates. I learn something new each day, a little wrinkle of a strategy. And I continue to hang on to, and want to remind everyone, every day - that the Pro Life movement has been planning for this moment for FIFTY years. And every little horror that they are putting upon women has been intentional. There are no "mistakes" in the blatant subjugation of women's rights. Every bad thing happening to women is 100% because of what they intentionally planned to execute meticulously for the last fifty years.
Alito is quoted in an article that America went wrong in the 60's, giving all those rights out. He planned to undo them.
"By the time Alito entered high school, he had developed a keen interest in the law, and was taking note of the Warren Court’s reshaping of American life, which included landmark rulings desegregating schools and other public facilities; recognizing a right to contraception for married couples and to interracial marriage; barring state-sanctioned school prayer; and guaranteeing access to public defenders for indigent criminal defendants. ...
During his confirmation hearings, Democratic senators—Joe Biden among them—pressed him to answer why, on his 1985 application for the Office of Legal Counsel job, he had listed membership in an organization called the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (cap). The group was made up of disgruntled former Princetonians who criticized various changes on campus, including coeducation and the university’s efforts to recruit minorities and public-school graduates. (Princeton, the group’s founder declared, should consist of “a body of men, relatively homogenous in interests and backgrounds.”)"
Not surprised but it's still frightening to read. He can have his awful views, but he should keep them separate from his rulings. But of course, they don't care about the integrity of our system. They want to push their fanatical ideology on us any way they can.
Let's ponder the next logical question in a red state: If a zygote gets pregnant and that zygote is in distress, is there an exception for its life or does it have to bare the zygote that is in its womb?
When anyone says something about god’s will, I like to point out that their god also allows cancer to happen, so should we not treat it? Should we not set broken bones because god allowed those bones to be broken? Should we outlaw erectile disfunction drugs because ed is just god saying, “Sorry dude, you’re done with all that”?
That was my thought. Lawmakers implicitly wanting to force one year olds to give birth is the headline there. They grew up believing Mary was impregnated by a spirit and Eve was created from a rib, so the skids to batshit crazytown are thoroughly greased.
The underlying logic is that since the wife and fetus were rightfully the man's property, he was essentially within his rights to do what he did. The legal system was designed to protect a man's property interest in his wife and children, way and the mindset is still there.
I'm probably closer to Puff the marshmallow than a tough guy. For better or worse, that's how I feel. His actions are absolutely vile. While he was trying to burn the field rather than plow the field, it still strikes me as a form of rape. He should be outcast from society. If he marries in the future, I fear for his wife.
thanks, but your tossing off a shitty suggestion is not elevated by your defense, which seems to be 'well, what he did is a kind of rape, so he should be raped by another brutal male.' let's leave it at that. This is not what we're here for, after all.
I don’t understand how “christians” are ok with the “god does not make mistakes” garbage or the “god doesn’t give you anything you can’t handle” garbage. It’s so asinine. If there was a god, SHE would not have allowed the things that happened to me when I was a child to occur.
It's faux-naive to pretend not to understand the phrase "abortion on demand." I agree that the only person who should be allowed to make the decision to have an abortion is the pregnant person. But Roe itself treats the decision as one between the pregnant person and their doctor, which I agree is already sub-optimal. Sometimes under current law abortion also requires authorization by someone other than the pregnant person, e.g., a mature minor proceeding or ruling of a hospital ethics committee about the degree of risk posed by a pregnancy.
Donald Trump was the best thing that ever happened to Joe Biden. There's no way a marginal candidate like Biden would have won against a Republican who wasn't a barking mad lunatic like Trump.
It's called "the revenge of the rednecks".
After reading Bill Eigler's remark about one-year-olds getting abortions, I have lost my shit to the point where it may no longer be recoverable.
Yes, why is he even thinking about raping and impregnating babies? That is not normal, they better check his hard-drive, seriously.
I was on a Zoom earlier today to prepare for lobby day in Virginia next week. Because both houses of the General Assembly are now Democrat, we don't have to wait for crappy bills in one house to be killed in the other house. They just go nowhere.
In case you wondered how Texas protects their own men, read this article: husband did not want a third child, he drugged his wife's drink with abortion medication multiple times, sending her to the emergency room, caught on in-home security cameras from his wife, plus the discarded packaging of the medication in the garbage and...... he only gets 6 months in jail. But be sure not to give any woman money in Texas to help her get to New Mexico for an abortion or you will go to prison for 10 years!!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2024/02/08/476976/houston-attorney-accused-of-slipping-abortion-drugs-into-pregnant-wifes-drinks-pleads-guilty-sentenced-to-jail/%3famp=1
Good to hear people questioning the "viability" issue and other myths and convictions that advance the beliefs in gestational personhood. We need to advance more language that clarifies what people mean when they say "fetus" or "embryo" or any other stage of gestation and also what gestation means. There is too much being legislated based on people's imagination and less on actual biological reality.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/pregnancy-weeks-abortion-tissue
I'm thinking about that SC hearing yesterday and the justices responses. Kagan's is bothering me the most. Of all the justices there, for her to say that throwing TFG off the ballot in CO sounds like one state making a "national" decision, I mean really ??? I expect that from the Trump justices because they don't care about judicial hypocrisy. But Kagan? Mississippi brought us Dobbs, right? It undid Roe, left us NATIONALLY insecure, with the possibility that we will see a NATIONAL abortion ban, likely via Comstock and the crazy Trump-placed Texas judge who was placed there to do just that. She made no mention of that.
I had kind of intended to read the transcripts going in to yesterday but then when I read Chris Geidner's report about it at Law Dork I decided to spare myself; it doesn't sound like it was ever a serious consideration :(
Joyce Vance is good 👍 too. Plus she occasionally has a bonus. Pictures of her spoiled chickens 🐔 and her rooster 🐓.
Thank you Jessica for these amazing updates. I learn something new each day, a little wrinkle of a strategy. And I continue to hang on to, and want to remind everyone, every day - that the Pro Life movement has been planning for this moment for FIFTY years. And every little horror that they are putting upon women has been intentional. There are no "mistakes" in the blatant subjugation of women's rights. Every bad thing happening to women is 100% because of what they intentionally planned to execute meticulously for the last fifty years.
Alito is quoted in an article that America went wrong in the 60's, giving all those rights out. He planned to undo them.
"By the time Alito entered high school, he had developed a keen interest in the law, and was taking note of the Warren Court’s reshaping of American life, which included landmark rulings desegregating schools and other public facilities; recognizing a right to contraception for married couples and to interracial marriage; barring state-sanctioned school prayer; and guaranteeing access to public defenders for indigent criminal defendants. ...
During his confirmation hearings, Democratic senators—Joe Biden among them—pressed him to answer why, on his 1985 application for the Office of Legal Counsel job, he had listed membership in an organization called the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (cap). The group was made up of disgruntled former Princetonians who criticized various changes on campus, including coeducation and the university’s efforts to recruit minorities and public-school graduates. (Princeton, the group’s founder declared, should consist of “a body of men, relatively homogenous in interests and backgrounds.”)"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/05/justice-alitos-crusade-against-a-secular-america-isnt-over
Not surprised but it's still frightening to read. He can have his awful views, but he should keep them separate from his rulings. But of course, they don't care about the integrity of our system. They want to push their fanatical ideology on us any way they can.
Sadly, his views are exactly why the federalists had him installe.
God defines life as beginning with breath.
Be like God.
Genesis 2, Ezekiel 37.
Let's ponder the next logical question in a red state: If a zygote gets pregnant and that zygote is in distress, is there an exception for its life or does it have to bare the zygote that is in its womb?
Wow! Dobbs is fabulous for fast-track family building: You can now be a new parent AND a new grandparent in a matter of 18 months!
When anyone says something about god’s will, I like to point out that their god also allows cancer to happen, so should we not treat it? Should we not set broken bones because god allowed those bones to be broken? Should we outlaw erectile disfunction drugs because ed is just god saying, “Sorry dude, you’re done with all that”?
So Republicans would force a one year old to remain pregnant if it were possible? Interesting.
That was my thought. Lawmakers implicitly wanting to force one year olds to give birth is the headline there. They grew up believing Mary was impregnated by a spirit and Eve was created from a rib, so the skids to batshit crazytown are thoroughly greased.
So in Texas, but ofcking course, this man gets 180 DAYS in jail for giving an abortifacient to his pregnant wife without her knowledge or permission.
No paywall, so as to facilitate your outrage:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/us/texas-abortion-drug-sentence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UE0.A6vr.2tQBJvBj24oq&smid=url-share
The underlying logic is that since the wife and fetus were rightfully the man's property, he was essentially within his rights to do what he did. The legal system was designed to protect a man's property interest in his wife and children, way and the mindset is still there.
They reduced the charges against him. Hard to square that isn't it? Especially knowing that misoprostol, the drug he used, is a known fetal teratogen.
Thanks for the article. Her ex is really a piece of crap💩. He should be in prison and get to be a 'prison wife.'
I HOPE your TV-tough-guy comment at the end is beneath you.
I'm probably closer to Puff the marshmallow than a tough guy. For better or worse, that's how I feel. His actions are absolutely vile. While he was trying to burn the field rather than plow the field, it still strikes me as a form of rape. He should be outcast from society. If he marries in the future, I fear for his wife.
thanks, but your tossing off a shitty suggestion is not elevated by your defense, which seems to be 'well, what he did is a kind of rape, so he should be raped by another brutal male.' let's leave it at that. This is not what we're here for, after all.
Agreed. 🤐
I don’t understand how “christians” are ok with the “god does not make mistakes” garbage or the “god doesn’t give you anything you can’t handle” garbage. It’s so asinine. If there was a god, SHE would not have allowed the things that happened to me when I was a child to occur.