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Ken Paxton is a vile piece of shit!

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Is there a resources page somewhere for reporters that lists everyone in the anti abortion world their policy positions/statements and those in the trump admin? Eg Ed Martin. Maybe legacy media wouldn’t be SOOOO BAD at abortion reporting, whitewashing trumps lies, letting Trump get away with vague non positions while staffing his admin with anti abortion extremists and just getting basic facts wrong(like when they all reported the “softened”?GOP platform because they all lack basic reading comprehension skills.

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You are dreaming. Those reporters are told get a story that promotes a specific agenda, because their editors know what the publishers want to read, without the editors getting a clarifying memo every mornting. If reporters were interested in the information you reference, they could find it.

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They are doing it on purpose, they have the same access to information that Jessica does, yet they are too lazy to be anything other than stenographers for the forced-birthers.

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What about those of us who got long term birth control and therefore don't need these annual FP visits? I wonder if those numbers are actually as dire as they seem?

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The numbers are super dire. And even long term bc has and end date, doesn't it?

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Do we have proof that the guy is the father. No fetal remains.

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Yeah, I hope she tells him it wasn't even his!

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She's having a trying time. Why try to goad a Texas man into killing her?

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Good

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I meant glad your daughter is not going to law school in Texas

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The extremes that politicians are bringing to the abortion conversation are insane. First of all it's causing doctors to unwittingly commit medical malpractice or act like it would be on health issues that shouldn't even be in question. If they just keep abortion at a level of understandable it would be great. I'm 40 now and I remember when I was a teenager it was three months until you couldn't get one. I never needed the service but it was an option even if it was something that required travel. 3 months is a long enough time period to decide. I have my own opinions on the subject just as anyone else does but they are only opinions. Like it makes no sense that someone would go full term and then get one unless there was a medical issue which is going to kill both Mom and baby or either of them. Why aren't we mentioning adoption at that point? It's easier to find an adoption lawyer than an abortion clinic that will go through with a full term abortion on a healthy pregnancy. And it also doesn't cost a dime for the mother. The adoptive parents usually pay for all the legal fees and sometimes medical costs. And medical costs can also be covered by the state if someone doesn't have the means to pay for it. There is a point that goes too far with it but it's not the only option if you're in that situation.

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There was a Colorado representative who found late in her pregnancy there were severe fetal anomolies. Three months is not enough time for some tests. And what if you are diagnosed with cancer at 4 months? Reject treatment so you can leave a motherless child - along with any others you may already have?

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3 months is not enough time if you need amniocentesis testing that takes place between 16-20 weeks. Mine happened at 20 weeks. Pregnancies can go south at any time and require a woman to abort to save her life.

I would recommend The Turnaway Study that found that women who gave their babies up for adoption are haunted by it and regret it. They did NOT regret their abortions.

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Yes, the ones who want to steal the babies, they trick women into having, at the crisis pregnancy centers, are connected to (so-called) christian adoption agencies, Betsy DeVos is bankrolling one, anyway the profit margin is insane on those adoptions, just like it is on the CPC's themselves.

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Paxton claims "... ended the life of unborn child ...". Legally, is there such a thing as an "unborn child" anywhere? This is the whole problem.

Also, Jessica notes the use of the term "mother" to apply to a pregnant woman. More legal language? Is the term "mother" legal language anywhere? If so how is it applied and what contradictions might we see in trying to apply it to a pregnant woman? A pregnant woman might reasonably deserve some kind of special legal status, but only if it included, especially, her right to terminate her pregnancy. And only if it was based on the legal recognition that the contents of her pregnancy could not command any legal respect as a person.

And her pregnancy does command legal respect as a person here in California, which politically endeavors to advance protections for the right to an abortion. In California, if you are liable for death or injury to a pregnant woman, you are also legally liable for the death or injury of her pregnancy as a person.

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They use that language because they can. We don’t force them to explain themselves. They’ll say it’s in the Bible, but it’s not (TexasChristians.org/Bible). Ask them why they believe in cell/embryonic personhood? They can’t answer that—believe me, I’m asking them regularly. But we need everyone everywhere asking that question of the ones voting for these bills, every day if necessary, and especially the wackos Jessica mentions, even if we don’t live in their states.

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I have family in South Carolina and I went to graduate school in Columbia. I often look through the newspapers in the state. I just looked through The State paper and the Charleston paper and there's nothing mentioned about the abortion bill. I just scrolled up through the home pages of both papers. Hopefully, that means it will go nowhere but they still should be covering it.

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That is on purpose, they pass these bills quite often in the dead of night, (Ron Deathsantis did that with the six-week abortion ban, because he knew it wasn't popular.)

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I'm not sure Paxton can win this case, even with this u.s. supreme court. But the idea is also to push the federal government, and the Trump administration specifically, into changing federal regulations regarding reproductive health care on the grounds of protecting "states' rights to make their own decisions", i.e. to "protect" the slave states like Texas from the free states like New York. It's nudging them to have that argument be the one they use for things like FDA changes and Comstock. Obviously it's a very very fucked up understanding of the idea of 'rights', but it's also exactly what authoritarians mean whenever they use the term. I've said for a long time that there really are no differences between this and the period preceding the Civil War.

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🎯👆👆👆

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Let me be petty: I just heard Anthony Blinken talking to Syrians (and the world) saying they need to respect “the rights of women”. Who the hell is he to tell anyone how to treat women when the US is KILLING women. Fuck you, Blinken. How is our government any better than Assad murdering his own people? At least Assad didn’t choose one gender over another.

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Trump hasn’t yet assumed office and the MSM continues to allow him to lie about and evade every issue he is asked about. Reporter asks a question and trump tells a blatant lie. Reporter moves on to next question which acts to re-enforce the lie. Or, reporter asks a question and trump evades by never answering. Reporter moves on to the next question without receiving answer.

Trump is very skilled at playing the media and clearly (in general) the media is no match for him. Jonathan Swan is the only journalist I can think of who has nailed trump. Kristen Welker is a good journalist but she continues to allow blatant lies and evasions. Trump wears journalists down until they give up.

God help us all because we are screwed.

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Did I miss it? How is it not a HIPAA violation for doctors to tell the boyfriend that the woman had lost a nine week pregnancy?

If he found the meds, he could have googled them, but her doctor had no business sharing her medical info!

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Some male older doctors, will just blurt things out to another male, because they don't respect women.

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Excellent question.

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Paxton filed the complaint in a Collin County, Texas court. The defendant is in the state of New York and of course Texas counties have jurisdiction over people in other states?

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So is it a question of where the abortion took place? Where the provider works? Or the state residence of the woman? I was always understanding it as the second one— where the provider is operating from. So it’s the “state” not the woman. That’s how it’s been sold to the public IMHO. Now because they can’t stop women from getting the pills mailed they have only the other two choices. They’ll settle on the woman in no time. We are chattel to them to be owned and controlled by the state.

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The forced birth people are operating on former Rep. Steve King’s idea. “We will never rebuild our civilization with other people’s babies.” Force females of all age to give birth whether or not the pregnancy is viable. These people are despicable.

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Ah yes, the White Supremist creed.

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The "other people" are presumably not one of "us". After all, we always have to marry someone else's baby in order to have our own.

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How can I help? Stock up on abortion medication? Buy plan B for people. Please give me something to do 😭😭

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Here’s what I’ve been working on. Maybe it’s something you can do, too:

URGE BIDEN TO MAKE THE ERA THE 28TH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. This is something significant and meaningful we could work on in Biden's last days in office. Many of you probably know that the ERA has been around a long time and is in limbo. Right now, because the required 38 states have ratified the amendment AND several law suits as well as the American Bar Association have deemed time limits for constitutional amendments to be unconstitutional, all that is left to make this the 28th amendment to the Constitution is to urge Biden to have the national archivist sign it and publish it in the Federal Register. We are asking everyone to send a letter or postcard to Biden ON DECEMBER 15th urging him to publish the ERA.

The address is: President Biden, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW; Washington, DC 20500.

And, call the White House and leave a message at 202-456-1111. If hundreds of thousands of us (or even millions) urge Biden to do this, he may actually ACT.

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thanks, already did and shared.

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Thank you for this! Done.

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Thank you for this information. I live in NYC, and I am hoping that we can remain a safe(r) alternative for as long as we can.

The silence on my feeds about any of this is shocking (well, not shocking, but disappointing).

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