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As always, thank you for your brilliant synopsis of the shit going down. You are brilliant and I am so grateful for you work.

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I cannot get the audio to work on the video clips. Do not know if it's just me or for everyone.

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I was asked to write against these bills in Wyoming—however, the publication that published my articles previously no longer responds to me.

If you live in Wyoming—help out—send this to friends, families, legislators and news outlets. When need to make our voices heard.

https://open.substack.com/pub/cailleachanam/p/just-gotta-ask-where-are-the-men?r=1jglh9&utm_medium=ios

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Pregnancy, itself, is a risky business. Our record in this country is awful in terms of dealing with maternal-fetal health. I am very pro choice , and this includes the physical and emotional well being of us women! And more OB-GYN are leaving red states because of these abortion bans. The bans are driving away the people trained to deal with high risk pregnancies! Which just compounds the problem. It’s awful.

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So, that Ed Martin who worked on the Republican plank, and who thinks that any abortion after conception is "late term"- is that the same Ed Martin who is now the Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney, who is launching a probe of the Jan 6 prosecutions?

It looks like he is "movin' on up". Watch out!

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So glad I took your advice and got an advance provision Rx. This is all so infuriating. The cruelty is the point.

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Jessica, thank you for your hard work helping to keep us informed. Do you have a glossary of terms that the republicans and antiabortionists are using to reframe the discussion along with a definition of what they really mean? Having a list like that would be handy, and also something we could use to help other people understand what's really at stake when they say they wouldn't support "bans" (for example).

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The worse problem that anti-abortionists have is the language of pregnancy itself and especially the general biological language used to describe pregnancy for all animal life and especially the higher vertebrates like mammals, like us. The process is called gestation and the distinguishing stages are, zygote, blastocyst, embryo, fetus and neonate (infant). Look for a previous Jessica article where somebody actually proposed a bill to outlaw ejaculation where not intended to fertilize an embryo. Really.

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Is it possible to now get a hysterectomy “for medical reasons “ covered by insurance because pregnancy will be such a threat to my life now? This is all so infuriating and THANK YOU for devoting so much time (and probably exhausting emotions it induces) to getting us this important information.

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What they are not saying is that they DO value a “baby” more than the woman. That is the bottom line. If a woman dies and a baby (maybe a boy!) lives that is justice.

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Even worse is that the "baby" is really a myth, a fantasy to prop up religious socialization. A woman's pregnancy is not a baby. It is something becoming a baby.

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Glad to see Cortez Masto rose to the occasion as we worked to elect her. She's better on women than on migrants.

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How can I buy mefi to have for younger friends & family, like 14 yr old great nieces, etc. I can afford to buy at least 10 kits to have on hand. I’ve tried 2 online sites & they both asked for DOB & then prompted me that the pills could only be for my use.

What do I do?? I’m trying to be a helper before the Comstock Act shuts off access.

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I just did this for my daughter via Aid Access. They had a very easy, straightforward process. I just entered my daughter's name and DOB but used my own contact info.

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In his hearing, RFK mentions ending federal funding for abortion and says, perhaps mistakenly, Title X. Curious about what’s going on here. Title X does not fund abortion care. Is he doing this on purpose to conflate Title X and abortion or is he suggesting that the Administration is planning to defund our sole federal source of funds for family planning care? Maybe all of the above.

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Or perhaps he just doesn’t know what the heck he’s talking about?

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Your tireless efforts are so appreciated. Thank you 👏

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Someone needs to tell ALL American citizens that a "moral" nation would treat women as fully human and as people with the agency to make their own decisions.”

If Americans don’t understand stand now that we are under a dictatorship and our rights are slipping away one by one I don’t know what to say.

This is how the Third Reich rose to power by eroding the rights of people. I know I’m preaching to the choir but I’ve nowhere to vent.

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Watching this Senate confirmation hearing puts a pit in my stomach 🤢

If you live in Louisiana, I heard that Senator Cassidy was starting to waver on his vote to confirm RFK Jr. Call your senators and urge them to vote NO! (no matter where you live)

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The entire thing, every new day, every new hour, makes me both enraged & sick.

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So anxious I can't sleep.

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Same!

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By the way, I am old enough to clearly remember the bad old days, long before Roe. When I was a teen I lived in Chicago. Several times a month, and sometimes more often, the Chicago papers would print pictures of dead women, in the positions in which they died, who had had back alley abortions. These accompanied sometimes lurid stories of their immorality leading to their deaths. It was ugly and profoundly upsetting. Now, I believe it is Indiana - I think - that wants to publish every abortion and every woman who has had one and make her private life the stuff of Public discourse and condemnation, further endangering their lives.

Never again the Burning Times! American Taliban and the Inquisition in one convenient package. Time to ramp up the protests and everything else we can do.

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Amen. Time for women to get Angry! I’m shifting into this phase AGAIN currently and I prefer it!!

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