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Thank you Jessica for posting the link to the glamour article. It was painful to read and I cried thinking of what she and her husband went through. I'm old enough to remember pre- roe and when roe became law. We won't go back, we'll fight!

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Hey y’all, that celebrate the Arizona for Abortion Access petition! I was at the state capitol when we turned in 823,685 signatures (1 in 5 voters!!) - we needed 383,923 signatures to qualify.

Over 170,000 of those signatures were gathered by volunteers, the most volunteer signatures ever gathered in AZ for a ballot measure by a wide margin. This is a big reason to hope in this time of gloom.

We can keep our democracy if we put in the work! Let’s get busy!

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They clearly are saying that women are so stupid that they would go to a speech therapist for an abortion. It’s like saying that men are so stupid that they would go to an AC mechanic to fix a broken sewer line. They never tire of insulting us.

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I LOVE your work and am a subscriber!

It’s often difficult to deal with these stories emotionally, but I love that you’re sharing it.

One request: please stop referring to “conservative” supreme court justices. They are the opposite of conservative—they are radical extremists.

You are sooooooo vigilant about language. Calling these extremists conservative is the greatest trick they played on us.

This would even be a great subject for one of your newsletters.

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Chris Spencer has a lot of nerve trying to say that speech pathologists could performabortions. Florida is governed by men who have NO medical expertise or training, but who propose and enact legislation that denies women and their physicians the right to make medical decisions.

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It’s time to bring back barber surgeons for all male surgeries. And they can forego anesthesia, too.

Actually, I learned from watching “The Janes”, a documentary about abortion before Roe, that the mafia got involved in performing abortions because there was money to be made. There was one guy interviewed who was taught the procedure, I gathered a D and C. So, we’ve always got that to fall back on…

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Well, Trump is essentially at his core a mob boss. So he probably has a way to make money off of all this.

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Can confirm, and as a former surgical assistant, I can assure him we all train for years before we are ever allowed to touch a patient, and assist. And these fucking yoyos want to control medical decisions!

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So, when Republicans start talking about the financial impact stuff- one of the things I've been fixating on IS cost. Some of the studies I want to see

- The cost difference (for all parties) comparing an abortion at 15-21 weeks after a tragic diagnosis (which is already really expensive) vs multiple emergency room visits followed by a life-saving emergency surgery, probably follow-up surgeries and then care for whatever permanent damage may result. Just go through different scenarios and put a price tag on it.

- How much does it cost to keep all the doomed babies alive and do hospitals have the staff and resources to manage them? I know they don't (obviously, or they wouldn't be shutting down all over the place).

On top of that, it seems like the whole premise of Republicans claiming that unborn taxpayers are being killed and that harms the state is kind of negated by the fact that there hasn't been a huge boost in the birth rate in the last couple years. It's actually just making people terrified to get pregnant in the first place and there's a run on OBGYNs to get permanently sterilized.

Sorry, I have poor-person brain and money matters a LOT to me. I know it's cute to say things like "money doesn't matter" or "money doesn't buy happiness", but not having enough of it can actually kill you.

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They are counting on that. killing the poor gives them wood. Probably the first in decades, as they are sadists.

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Yeah, it would be hard to believe if it wasn't so obvious.

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As if women needed more incentive, I heard Michael Steele say today that Project 2025 plans to expand the Supreme Court with four more radical (guessing Catholic) justices. That would seal the deal for generations.

Dems need to stop dithering and organize to get a Dem elected this fall. They also need to start imagining how Republicans intend to steal this election and strategize how how they will fight that.

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I was wrong: Project 2025 will add FIVE more radical justices to the Supreme Court!

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"Greszler claims that abortion being legal would reduce state revenue because fewer people would live in Florida".

^^^ What a dumb bitch this Rachel Greszler is.......she's really grasping at straws, they are just pulling stuff out of their ass.... but her comment is very much aligned with one of the dark agendas behind forced-birthers: forcing more unwanted babies so that someone 20 years from now can serve them their big macs..... increase the hourly service industry workforce.....increase the uneducated/undereducated classes..... create a steady stream of desperate people that will go work in factories for $11 an hour.

Her assumption that every person born in Florida is going to stay in Florida to generate tax revenue is absurd of course - many of them will move out of the state and some of them will not live to adulthood (for various reasons).

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By their direct actions, if they keep power here.

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And hasn't tourism to Florida been significantly down the last one or two years? I thought I read that snippet somewhere.

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I hope so, no one sane should come here, hit them where it hurts, in the tourism wallet.

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Don't care what the cost of Florida's ballot measure is...a woman's freedom is priceless.

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Yep, the state can afford to fix the mess they deliberately created. Not to mention they are losing money because women from all over the south, were coming here for healthcare. Fucking dumbasses.

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Lord, I'm glad I'm taking a week off to go play in the mountains. I cannot take much more of this.

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May you be in a place with no wi-fi. A week without internet is a rejuvenating gift!

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I need one!! Thanks!

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The Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire's July newsletter has sign-up links for the Liberation Foundation virtual training series: Reproductive Justice 101 on July 10, Disability Justice 101 on July 17, Ancestral Traditions: Abortion Doulas and Self-Managed Abortion, July 24, July 31, Our Fates are Tied: Reproductive Freedom and Queer Liberation.

Georgetown Law posted the recordings of the amazing "Supreme Court Term in Review: A Crisis of Health and Democracy," https://www.c-span.org./video/?536680-1/review-2023-24-supreme-court-term-rulings. Amazing. Hard to watch, but must-watch.

The New York Times updated its abortion access/bans map as of July 1, 2024: Allison McCann and Amy Schoenfeld Walker, "Tracking Abortion Bans Across the Country," https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/abortion-laws-roe-v-wade.html.

Looking ahead: the Reproductive Health Access Project and Advocates for Youth will have a program on August 21 at noon Pacific, 2 central, 3 Eastern time, "Panel on Medication Abortion Access in College Health Settings," https://secure.everyaction.com/e9H-BPPq00C718L_44o41A2. (If the link shows my e-mail, hi!)

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