“Republicans reintroduce SAVE Act in House and Senate
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) reintroduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act — a nationwide proof of citizenship bill — in the House and Senate respectively. Roy and Lee introduced the bill in each chamber last year as well.
This follows the passage of a House rules package last week outlining the SAVE Act, which could disenfranchise numerous eligible voters, as one of its top legislative priorities in this new session of Congress.”
This description of the SAVE Act fails to mention that voters whose adult names are different from the names on their birth certificates (think married women) will be denied their right to vote unless they can prove they are the same person. So women will be thrown off voting rolls. Call your Senators and Congresspeople to tell them to vote no on the SAVE Act.
How the hell do you call yourself a hospital (or Nurse/Doctor) and deny patient care? Insane. A hospital in Aus was refusing to abortions and was called out in the media and then the 'resource' issue or whatever BS they were using as an excuse got 'resolved'. Right wing religious nut job politicians here are trying the same shameful tactics. I am hoping the media see the link and keep the spotlight on US.
From Heather Cox Richardson's Substack today: And MAGA Republicans have proposed a bill to impose a national abortion ban, along with a bill urging Congress to support a consortium of antiabortion doctors for women because, the bill says, “health care should emphasize the whole woman, including her physical, mental, and spiritual wellness,” and “health care for women should also address the needs of men, families, and communities.”
So health care should also “address the needs of men”…
“Take a gander at this Project 2025 gem on male condoms. Eliminate men’s preventive services from the women’s preventive services mandate. In December 2021, HRSA updated its women’s preventive services guidelines to include male condoms after claiming for years that it had no authority to do so because Congress explicitly limited the mandate to “women’s” preventive care and screenings. HRSA should not incorporate exclusively male contraceptive methods into guidelines that specify they encompass only women’s services.” Project 2025, page 485
If you want to fight the Catholic Church’s takeover of our government, our judiciary, our schools and our health system, I recommend supporting Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (https://www.au.org).
This attack on Americans has been well-orchestrated between the Federalist Society (primarily Catholic and run by Opus Dei zealot Leonard Leo) saturating our courts with rightwing Catholic judges; our rural hospitals being bought up by Catholic chains; and our states illegally using taxpayer money to fund their schools and also CPCs that prey on vulnerable women.
Catholics make up just 23% of our population but they have an outsized influence on all our lives, particularly us women and girls.
Today, one man, a Catholic president, is letting the Equal Rights Amendment— 100 years in the making and ratified since 2020 — languish. Publishing the ERA would give women protection from Project 2025’s plans for restricting our rights.
Women were encouraged to contact the White House to ask President Biden to call the Archivist to publish the ERA. But before Christmas, the White House email and phone number for comments were shut down. I was hung up on — twice — yesterday when I called the White House switchboard (202-456-1414) to leave a message asking Biden to publish. It’s not looking hopeful at this point. I won’t be voting for Catholic candidates in the future. I don’t trust them.
I've been following this outfit (au.org) since I was in college studying philosophy (1990s), esp because it was woven into many debates... Never seems to end.
Biden and the ERA thing is very frustrating. It's also late in the conversation. The Democrats need to get much more vocal and aggressive. I don't recall Harris pushing for its ratification either, do you?
Congress needs to extend the deadline for acceptable ratification, if I have this right:
I’ve been supporting the ERA since the 70s and I’m disgusted that the Democrats are letting us down once again — the first time was when they didn’t bother to protect Roe. It’s taken 70 years, but the Democrats are making me cynical: If they fail to publish the ERA I can only conclude they need women’s rights to run on but don’t want to actually protect women — much like Trump didn’t want to solve immigration. He just wanted to run on the issue.
I’m fucking furious over this last slap in our face.
The fact that we need ‘baby boxes’ in states with abortion bans is definitely scary for everyone. It’s like they want women treated without regard for modern evidence based medicine. What of the poor children, male and female? They will grow up thinking their mother abandoned them. Even children given up for adoption will feel abandoned. Will they search for answers, including DNA genetic history? Anti abortion laws and cruelty to women will upend our society leading to widespread sorrow and grief.
Actually there are some here who post in the comments section, but you're right that they seem to be a small minority, or at least of the people who are vocal about it. I'm not a believer myself, but I come from a Catholic family so I'm familiar enough with the teachings to know that Jesus spent most of his time criticizing the religious establishment, and the rich, and warned us precisely about the exact type of people who profess so loudly to be Christians in America today.
Yes, they should, if your religion prevents you from giving proper standard of care to patients, you should not be allowed to buy hospitals, or any medical care facilities, that serve the secular public.
Doesn't the claim made by St Joseph's of being beholden to a different system of governance open the door to total anarchy? Whats to stop things like polygamy, honor killings, and child marriage if an organization or person can claim the state and federal law doesn't apply to them?
I suppose we will see both the EMTALA and Mifepristone cases reemerge in the Supreme Court now that the election is behind us. I listened to the EMTALA case in full and some of the remarks from justices were extremely alarming. I would love to understand more about their arguments there. I find it terrifying that there are “pro-life doctors” in emergency rooms or anywhere at all.
I think Jessica recently included a picture of a group of them putting their hands on DeSantis in prayer unity or something at some sort of press conference. Was mind blowing that they'd be posturing like that, as if to sanctify the withholding of care to pregnant women in distress.
They do this. Yet they advocate the bloodshed of innocents like cows to the slaughter, like sacrificial lambs on the digital altar of their god's house. In broad daylight they turn their heads from mass butcherings performed for a global audience. It is the blood on their hands that is disgusting, not the blood between our thighs. It is their terminations of potential that are immoral, not ours. It is their abortions of breathing lives that are murder, not ours.
I hope the CA AG hammers that hospital on this. Contrary to what the Catholic hospitals there might think, state law DOES prevail over the Catholic Church. If the procedure is legal in the state, the hospital has to adhere to that law.
Jesus said render unto Caesar what is Caesars. As far as their sanctimonious demand that they be allowed to impose suffering and death on women, St. Joe's seems to be answering to the devil.
They do get federal money and I believe EMTALA was put in place to remove those funds if women did not receive life-saving care. I guess the problem is EMTALA is not enforced or enforceable. Just another worthless law that has no teeth and was made to appease the people who worried about Catholic hospitals.
Just found Jessica. AED. So glad to be here!
Folks, one more thing that’s happening right now:
(This is from Marc Elias’ Democracy Docket)
“Republicans reintroduce SAVE Act in House and Senate
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) reintroduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act — a nationwide proof of citizenship bill — in the House and Senate respectively. Roy and Lee introduced the bill in each chamber last year as well.
This follows the passage of a House rules package last week outlining the SAVE Act, which could disenfranchise numerous eligible voters, as one of its top legislative priorities in this new session of Congress.”
This description of the SAVE Act fails to mention that voters whose adult names are different from the names on their birth certificates (think married women) will be denied their right to vote unless they can prove they are the same person. So women will be thrown off voting rolls. Call your Senators and Congresspeople to tell them to vote no on the SAVE Act.
How the hell do you call yourself a hospital (or Nurse/Doctor) and deny patient care? Insane. A hospital in Aus was refusing to abortions and was called out in the media and then the 'resource' issue or whatever BS they were using as an excuse got 'resolved'. Right wing religious nut job politicians here are trying the same shameful tactics. I am hoping the media see the link and keep the spotlight on US.
The media are not our friends, most just quote the misinformation the forced-birthers tell them.
From Heather Cox Richardson's Substack today: And MAGA Republicans have proposed a bill to impose a national abortion ban, along with a bill urging Congress to support a consortium of antiabortion doctors for women because, the bill says, “health care should emphasize the whole woman, including her physical, mental, and spiritual wellness,” and “health care for women should also address the needs of men, families, and communities.”
Oy
So health care should also “address the needs of men”…
“Take a gander at this Project 2025 gem on male condoms. Eliminate men’s preventive services from the women’s preventive services mandate. In December 2021, HRSA updated its women’s preventive services guidelines to include male condoms after claiming for years that it had no authority to do so because Congress explicitly limited the mandate to “women’s” preventive care and screenings. HRSA should not incorporate exclusively male contraceptive methods into guidelines that specify they encompass only women’s services.” Project 2025, page 485
https://open.substack.com/pub/andrawatkins/p/reader-question-what-does-project?r=fqsxl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Oy is right. It all "sounds" so reasonable when it's really sneaky and oppressive.
https://open.substack.com/pub/newrepublic/p/the-gop-is-rewriting-what-it-means?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=isvcd
If you want to fight the Catholic Church’s takeover of our government, our judiciary, our schools and our health system, I recommend supporting Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (https://www.au.org).
This attack on Americans has been well-orchestrated between the Federalist Society (primarily Catholic and run by Opus Dei zealot Leonard Leo) saturating our courts with rightwing Catholic judges; our rural hospitals being bought up by Catholic chains; and our states illegally using taxpayer money to fund their schools and also CPCs that prey on vulnerable women.
Catholics make up just 23% of our population but they have an outsized influence on all our lives, particularly us women and girls.
Today, one man, a Catholic president, is letting the Equal Rights Amendment— 100 years in the making and ratified since 2020 — languish. Publishing the ERA would give women protection from Project 2025’s plans for restricting our rights.
Women were encouraged to contact the White House to ask President Biden to call the Archivist to publish the ERA. But before Christmas, the White House email and phone number for comments were shut down. I was hung up on — twice — yesterday when I called the White House switchboard (202-456-1414) to leave a message asking Biden to publish. It’s not looking hopeful at this point. I won’t be voting for Catholic candidates in the future. I don’t trust them.
I've been following this outfit (au.org) since I was in college studying philosophy (1990s), esp because it was woven into many debates... Never seems to end.
Biden and the ERA thing is very frustrating. It's also late in the conversation. The Democrats need to get much more vocal and aggressive. I don't recall Harris pushing for its ratification either, do you?
Congress needs to extend the deadline for acceptable ratification, if I have this right:
https://msmagazine.com/2024/12/16/biden-ratify-era-equal-rights-amendment/
Here’s what Jill Winebanks said about deadlines: If it’s not in the body of the Amendment, it doesn’t matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vky4Jw0opR0
I don’t remember Harris pushing it either.
I’ve been supporting the ERA since the 70s and I’m disgusted that the Democrats are letting us down once again — the first time was when they didn’t bother to protect Roe. It’s taken 70 years, but the Democrats are making me cynical: If they fail to publish the ERA I can only conclude they need women’s rights to run on but don’t want to actually protect women — much like Trump didn’t want to solve immigration. He just wanted to run on the issue.
I’m fucking furious over this last slap in our face.
I agree. It is very curious and frustrating.
The fact that we need ‘baby boxes’ in states with abortion bans is definitely scary for everyone. It’s like they want women treated without regard for modern evidence based medicine. What of the poor children, male and female? They will grow up thinking their mother abandoned them. Even children given up for adoption will feel abandoned. Will they search for answers, including DNA genetic history? Anti abortion laws and cruelty to women will upend our society leading to widespread sorrow and grief.
Martha,as an adoptee, thanks so much for your comment.This is pretty much never discussed.
Adoption is not the answer to abortion…
Thank you, I wish you love!
The Turnaway Study supports your statement.
Thank you, I will look it up.
It appears there are no Christians who believe in Jesus Christ and his teachings.
The last one just died at 100.
Actually there are some here who post in the comments section, but you're right that they seem to be a small minority, or at least of the people who are vocal about it. I'm not a believer myself, but I come from a Catholic family so I'm familiar enough with the teachings to know that Jesus spent most of his time criticizing the religious establishment, and the rich, and warned us precisely about the exact type of people who profess so loudly to be Christians in America today.
california should use the power of eminent domain to buy and then assume control of the hospital because it’s not acting in the public interest.
Yes, they should, if your religion prevents you from giving proper standard of care to patients, you should not be allowed to buy hospitals, or any medical care facilities, that serve the secular public.
sing it!
Doesn't the claim made by St Joseph's of being beholden to a different system of governance open the door to total anarchy? Whats to stop things like polygamy, honor killings, and child marriage if an organization or person can claim the state and federal law doesn't apply to them?
If the theocrats get their way those things will follow. they already practice child marriage that's why we can't pass laws against it.
I suppose we will see both the EMTALA and Mifepristone cases reemerge in the Supreme Court now that the election is behind us. I listened to the EMTALA case in full and some of the remarks from justices were extremely alarming. I would love to understand more about their arguments there. I find it terrifying that there are “pro-life doctors” in emergency rooms or anywhere at all.
I think Jessica recently included a picture of a group of them putting their hands on DeSantis in prayer unity or something at some sort of press conference. Was mind blowing that they'd be posturing like that, as if to sanctify the withholding of care to pregnant women in distress.
They do this. Yet they advocate the bloodshed of innocents like cows to the slaughter, like sacrificial lambs on the digital altar of their god's house. In broad daylight they turn their heads from mass butcherings performed for a global audience. It is the blood on their hands that is disgusting, not the blood between our thighs. It is their terminations of potential that are immoral, not ours. It is their abortions of breathing lives that are murder, not ours.
I hope the CA AG hammers that hospital on this. Contrary to what the Catholic hospitals there might think, state law DOES prevail over the Catholic Church. If the procedure is legal in the state, the hospital has to adhere to that law.
South Carolina Republicans seek execution for women who have an abortion: Straight from Handmaid’s Tale
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/01/08/republicans-seek-execution-for-women-who-have-an-abortion-handmaids-tale/
I’ve said before that now that they can’t burn us as witches or lock us in Magdalene asylums, the church find new ways to torture and kill us.
Thanks for saying this!
St. Joe's many answer to a "higher power," but I bet they get state and federal money.
Jesus said render unto Caesar what is Caesars. As far as their sanctimonious demand that they be allowed to impose suffering and death on women, St. Joe's seems to be answering to the devil.
Same with all religious hospitals and clinics.
They do get federal money and I believe EMTALA was put in place to remove those funds if women did not receive life-saving care. I guess the problem is EMTALA is not enforced or enforceable. Just another worthless law that has no teeth and was made to appease the people who worried about Catholic hospitals.