I really like: Delaware, Moira Donegan of The Guardian, Senate Democrats Frank and Bryan forcing Republicans into a vote on birth control ,and Arizona Kris Mayes, and Melinda Gates!! These people are good!!
Remember, vote blue!!
And Democrats, I want you to get pro-choice laws PASSED!! Use whatever methods possible!!! No excuses!!! Goddamn!!
“I will certainly accommodate students who are seeking medically necessary abortions in response to a pregnancy that threatens the student’s life or health. But I will not accommodate a purely elective abortion that serves only to kill an unborn child that was conceived through an act of voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse.”
So much in one statement, but what struck me first was the use of I. It demonstrates the singular power this man feels he has to punish "loose and irresponsible" women. Never forget, in their minds there are good women and bad women. Only those who they deem good and worthy are allowed compassion.
I was a professor for half my career and for the record, I never wanted to punish my graduate and undergraduate students for this or any other reason (I say that half jokingly, because this whole thing is absurd to begin with).
I rant and rave here but where we are as a country is too unreal. Sure, I thought the show the Apprentice was entertaining and thought that if a novice like Obama could run for the presidency, why not trump, led to believe by some as a successful businessman (I didn't know much about him when he started). But as things came out in his campaign, I thought that America would see through this charlatan and for sure Hillary would win (and she was of course my choice since 2008). Hillary once said in an interview (after 2016), that in this day and age, politics had to be entertainment (remember the Olivia Nuzzis complaining about covering Biden and how boring it is?). America is paying a hefty price for losing its way, for hoisting a two-bit easy mark reality star to the highest office in the land. But fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me -- America will have found this the hard way.
From Slate by Bill Pruitt:
The Donald Trump I Saw on The Apprentice
For 20 years, I couldn’t say what I watched the former president do on the set of the show that changed everything. Now I can.
Of COURSE S4L drafted Rubio's disgusting letter. Only my belief in a just God is sustaining me during this unbelievable and traumatic time in American history.
Yesterday, I was talking to a relative I love very much. He voted for Trump 2+ times but won't do that again (he claims) after Trump's Jan 6 and beyond rampage. In any event, this beloved male relative was talking to me about the "Muslim infiltration" of America and how the Muslims really have some frightening ideas about women's rights. And so I said, "Beloved male relative, once the Republican Party and its evil minions get done installing their vision for American women, I doubt there'll be much of us left to abuse by the time those Muslims get here. One thing I know about women is that we're practical - that's why American women are currently in the process of eliminating the immediate threat."
Anyway, that shut him up about the Muslims, but having these conversations can make me feel like I am the one taking crazy pills! Keep the faith, y'all. As Jessica tells us often, abortion access is a winning position.
I need to say that to my own younger sister & a nephew who sound like clones of your beloved relative. They’re 2X Trump voters & “Christians” terrified of other religions & nationalities taking over ‘Murika.
I’ve tried begging them not to vote for him again, but they probably will.
I'm Southern to the bone and have spent my entire life loving and living with current day MAGAts. They are terrified and that terror works like RFKJr's brainworm. I vacillate between pity and my own abject terror in the face what the activist right has spent half a century turning perfectly decent and trusting human beings into.
An excellent piece as always. I am extremely concerned that if we don’t somehow get our govt to stop killing innocent people in Palestine, we will not win the election and all this will be a moot point.
The political problem is that Biden and the Democrats could lose even more support for moving too far in that direction. I'm not saying anything about what's right or wrong, just how it relates to the election. So they have to be very careful and walk a fine line with public opinion. As Silver says, it would be better for Biden if there were not a war in Palestine, but that's not the situation he's been given.
As an alumnus of UT Austin, philosophy professor Daniel Bonevac and business and finance professor John Hatfield have turned my stomach and caused me to close my check book. I will consider opening it when these 2 and any who support them are FIRED!
How about we box up all our used tampons and send them to Marco Rubio and Josh Bresheen. After all, we can’t know for sure that there are not products of conception in there—we might have had an early miscarriage and not even realized we were pregnant. While we’re at it, every time a man cuts himself shaving he should have to collect the blood and send it to Rubio and Bresheen, who can have it analyzed for…what again?
Since when have college students, who are legally adults, needed to submit an excuse when they miss a class? What are they, in high school? And if for some reason they do have to justify an absence to a professor, can’t they just lie? Who’s going to investigate whether they really had Covid or whether there was a death in the family? It’s no professor’s business what medical procedure they did or didn’t have.
Either I’m really old or was just in super toxic settings. Been threatened with failing grades for needing necessary surgeries; told no excused absences. Required documents from physicians with diagnoses. College thru med training. There are rules-can’t ask about marriage & kids in interviews, work hour limits, sleep allowance, bathroom breaks, days off per month 😂. And we see how some of the physicians are captured in this nonsense. Probably just broken brains.
Not sure I understand your context—rules for what, where? I’ve never been questioned for missing a class, college through two masters” degrees, and neither have my kids. Didn’t know that happened. What, we have the absence police now?
It was a bad COVID night and a moot point. Apologies. I have withheld specifics for reasons I think will be clear. Some people with power in systems abuse it unless there’s a union or some serious protection. It does sound absurd. Absence police. I guess point being I was not fazed by the idea of needing an “abortion absence excuse” because I was trained to hand over medical records in the hope of having an absence excused. And before you say, well, don’t, once you are a couple hundred thousand dollars in, a threat that could ruin your career and no back up certainly worked on me. I got away with refusing to do something to a patient I was told to do that was unethical, but refusing to do something without the proper protective gear for myself was an offense. I’ve been injured by thrown instruments. Assaulted by an attending. Etc. These events are not rare. I’ve taken issues all the way up the chain and been punished for doing so. I guess overall, my point is, our healthcare system treats its own this way. That being said, there are a lot of good people in healthcare. Physicians and their lobbying organizations should have raised holy hell to stop any encroachment on fertility rights and law practicing medicine; they have power and resources. All the lobbyists did that I know of was put out some statements. To which I say, call those folks and tell them to get off their rear ends. Some individual physicians put their freedom and lives on the line. Maybe the lobbyists are doing more than I know and it’s not being covered. Doubt it. A lot of individual physicians are barely keeping their heads above water to keep up with workflow-no golfing, haha-they’re employees, fire at will (not complaining, it’s the best job one could have and a privilege to do it), but a phone call to their specialty organization to let them know how they feel about the abortion issue might help. Have they done it? I suspect too many are poorly informed (yikes) about necessary abortion and opposed to elective abortion. There’s a lot of good in medicine and a lot of toxic. Then there’s a lot of business, which is disgusting. Forgive the truth telling. I may regret it if I live. Ha.
I’ll 2nd that Lee. During my 42 yrs as an RN, working OR/ICU/MS/ER I’ve seen great nurses & doctors & I’ve also seen some gosh awful ones; fortunately the latter are fairly rare. Even excellent ones in each profession can behave like assholes.
Nurses & Drs are well known for “eating their young.”
Thanks for the suggestions about calling the professional groups or writing them. You’re correct that they do have power & influence, if they’re willing to use it. However, having interacted with hundreds of people with chronic pain issues on sm platforms & become a dues paying member of some orgs who focus on the issue of under-treatment of pain, I can tell you that we have been begging the AMA & other Medical societies to speak up against what the DEA & CDC are doing to people by withholding opioid pain meds, they haven’t been of much help.
I suspect professors have attendance “policies” so it will look to the powers-that-be like they are doing a good job keeping seats filled, or in response to out- of control absences. Not every illness requires a doctor visit. And they don’t have the manpower to investigate student absences, not to mention the implications of setting up a police state to do so. I imagine any student who was victimized in this way would have recourse, either through the university administration or a lawsuit
I hope that the jury hands trump his ass on a platter. Of course it’s gold plated, and pre sanitized by the secret service and comes with a complimentary wipe 😉.
is pending in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Amarillo Division before Hon. Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, presiding. (The following items of apparel are prescribed in his courtroom: shorts, flip flops, tank tops, halter tops, T-shirts with graphic writing, hats, sunglasses, and tights/athletic wear.) Plaintiffs have moved for a preliminary In the injunction and the Court has ordered the parties to meet and confer for a proposed briefing schedule by May 31.
In relevant part, the complaint alleges:
Plaintiffs Hatfield and Bonevac do not intend to accommodate student
absences from class to obtain abortions—including illegal abortions and purely elective
abortions that are not medically required. Nor will Plaintiffs Hatfield and Bonevac hire a
teaching assistant who has violated the abortion laws of Texas or the federal-law
prohibitions on the shipment or receipt of abortion pills and abortion-related paraphernalia.
See 18 U.S.C. § 1461–1462 [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1461 and https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1462, originally known as the Comstock Act]. The complaint alleges no harm or injury to either faculty member and the remainder of the complaint refers to "plantiff" in the singular. They appear to have lent their names to this action as a legal makeweight in aid of establishing standing.
Here is a list of publicly available contact information.
I hope you find them appropriately useful. This is not doxxing since they are readily available on unrestricted public facing websites, so I don't think of this at all as doxxing. I hope everyone sees this as an opportunity for serious direct engagement and not as an avenue for harassment. (If millions of concerned people decide to substantively engage with these people, I don't consider that harassment. No one invited them into this controversy.)
Poop, bloody tampons, flushed condoms, etc.......what do students for (not) life say about that in wastewater?
Oil spills, plastics, pesticides, farm animal runoff polluting our ground water, rivers and streams......what do students for life say about that?
Do they really think that the young voters who care about the environment are going to fall for mife/miso pollution argument? Seems like a very easy argument to shred into pieces.
Can someone please remind Texas Republicans that women across the world are shedding their uterine lining and flushing it down the toilet EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY?! (Excuse my language)
And women have been miscarrying at home since forever, and flushing that too. Please reassure me that their argument isn’t going to stand up to the EPA?
That’s what I think. I really do believe that every pro choice woman in America, who still menstruates, should be saving all their bloody tampons, pads, miscarriage contents, wrap in plastic, put it in a nice cardboard box, $ mail it to the AGs or forced birther judges, Govs of abortion banned states with a note inside saying that since you weren’t sure if this was toxic waste or not, that you thought it best to let them decide how to properly dispose of the material.
It’s not clear to me after digging through USPS Publication 52 how these items are classified for purposes of mailing, packaging and labeling, let alone having any good notion as to how applicable state law might treat them. I can imagine Ken Paxton, for example, freaking out and ordering DNA testing to include in some terrorist database or such.
For all readers of Jessica's heroic newsletter, I'd suggest getting tickets for Suffs in NYC on Broadway. https://suffsmusical.com/. Amazing theater and although I didn't find verification online, may well have been inspired by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Highly recommended.
Yep. I am composing a letter to the President as we speak.
I really like: Delaware, Moira Donegan of The Guardian, Senate Democrats Frank and Bryan forcing Republicans into a vote on birth control ,and Arizona Kris Mayes, and Melinda Gates!! These people are good!!
Remember, vote blue!!
And Democrats, I want you to get pro-choice laws PASSED!! Use whatever methods possible!!! No excuses!!! Goddamn!!
“I will certainly accommodate students who are seeking medically necessary abortions in response to a pregnancy that threatens the student’s life or health. But I will not accommodate a purely elective abortion that serves only to kill an unborn child that was conceived through an act of voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse.”
So much in one statement, but what struck me first was the use of I. It demonstrates the singular power this man feels he has to punish "loose and irresponsible" women. Never forget, in their minds there are good women and bad women. Only those who they deem good and worthy are allowed compassion.
Obviously he feels rape is fine too, by the way he phrased that garbage.
I was a professor for half my career and for the record, I never wanted to punish my graduate and undergraduate students for this or any other reason (I say that half jokingly, because this whole thing is absurd to begin with).
I rant and rave here but where we are as a country is too unreal. Sure, I thought the show the Apprentice was entertaining and thought that if a novice like Obama could run for the presidency, why not trump, led to believe by some as a successful businessman (I didn't know much about him when he started). But as things came out in his campaign, I thought that America would see through this charlatan and for sure Hillary would win (and she was of course my choice since 2008). Hillary once said in an interview (after 2016), that in this day and age, politics had to be entertainment (remember the Olivia Nuzzis complaining about covering Biden and how boring it is?). America is paying a hefty price for losing its way, for hoisting a two-bit easy mark reality star to the highest office in the land. But fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me -- America will have found this the hard way.
From Slate by Bill Pruitt:
The Donald Trump I Saw on The Apprentice
For 20 years, I couldn’t say what I watched the former president do on the set of the show that changed everything. Now I can.
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/donald-trump-news-2024-trial-verdict-apprentice.html
Of COURSE S4L drafted Rubio's disgusting letter. Only my belief in a just God is sustaining me during this unbelievable and traumatic time in American history.
Yesterday, I was talking to a relative I love very much. He voted for Trump 2+ times but won't do that again (he claims) after Trump's Jan 6 and beyond rampage. In any event, this beloved male relative was talking to me about the "Muslim infiltration" of America and how the Muslims really have some frightening ideas about women's rights. And so I said, "Beloved male relative, once the Republican Party and its evil minions get done installing their vision for American women, I doubt there'll be much of us left to abuse by the time those Muslims get here. One thing I know about women is that we're practical - that's why American women are currently in the process of eliminating the immediate threat."
Anyway, that shut him up about the Muslims, but having these conversations can make me feel like I am the one taking crazy pills! Keep the faith, y'all. As Jessica tells us often, abortion access is a winning position.
I need to say that to my own younger sister & a nephew who sound like clones of your beloved relative. They’re 2X Trump voters & “Christians” terrified of other religions & nationalities taking over ‘Murika.
I’ve tried begging them not to vote for him again, but they probably will.
I'm Southern to the bone and have spent my entire life loving and living with current day MAGAts. They are terrified and that terror works like RFKJr's brainworm. I vacillate between pity and my own abject terror in the face what the activist right has spent half a century turning perfectly decent and trusting human beings into.
I absolutely love the Moira Donegan quote about women forming a “habit” of thinking of themselves as autonomous human beings. It’s perfect.
She's a very gifted writer.
An excellent piece as always. I am extremely concerned that if we don’t somehow get our govt to stop killing innocent people in Palestine, we will not win the election and all this will be a moot point.
The political problem is that Biden and the Democrats could lose even more support for moving too far in that direction. I'm not saying anything about what's right or wrong, just how it relates to the election. So they have to be very careful and walk a fine line with public opinion. As Silver says, it would be better for Biden if there were not a war in Palestine, but that's not the situation he's been given.
https://open.substack.com/pub/natesilver/p/your-friends-are-not-a-representative?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=l0fb9
And he cannot make a sovreign country do anything. And Bibi the butcher wants his ideological twin, the Orange Gollum, back in the white house.
As an alumnus of UT Austin, philosophy professor Daniel Bonevac and business and finance professor John Hatfield have turned my stomach and caused me to close my check book. I will consider opening it when these 2 and any who support them are FIRED!
make sure you tell UT Austin that.
How about we box up all our used tampons and send them to Marco Rubio and Josh Bresheen. After all, we can’t know for sure that there are not products of conception in there—we might have had an early miscarriage and not even realized we were pregnant. While we’re at it, every time a man cuts himself shaving he should have to collect the blood and send it to Rubio and Bresheen, who can have it analyzed for…what again?
love this idea!! What address??
Since when have college students, who are legally adults, needed to submit an excuse when they miss a class? What are they, in high school? And if for some reason they do have to justify an absence to a professor, can’t they just lie? Who’s going to investigate whether they really had Covid or whether there was a death in the family? It’s no professor’s business what medical procedure they did or didn’t have.
🎯
Either I’m really old or was just in super toxic settings. Been threatened with failing grades for needing necessary surgeries; told no excused absences. Required documents from physicians with diagnoses. College thru med training. There are rules-can’t ask about marriage & kids in interviews, work hour limits, sleep allowance, bathroom breaks, days off per month 😂. And we see how some of the physicians are captured in this nonsense. Probably just broken brains.
Not sure I understand your context—rules for what, where? I’ve never been questioned for missing a class, college through two masters” degrees, and neither have my kids. Didn’t know that happened. What, we have the absence police now?
It was a bad COVID night and a moot point. Apologies. I have withheld specifics for reasons I think will be clear. Some people with power in systems abuse it unless there’s a union or some serious protection. It does sound absurd. Absence police. I guess point being I was not fazed by the idea of needing an “abortion absence excuse” because I was trained to hand over medical records in the hope of having an absence excused. And before you say, well, don’t, once you are a couple hundred thousand dollars in, a threat that could ruin your career and no back up certainly worked on me. I got away with refusing to do something to a patient I was told to do that was unethical, but refusing to do something without the proper protective gear for myself was an offense. I’ve been injured by thrown instruments. Assaulted by an attending. Etc. These events are not rare. I’ve taken issues all the way up the chain and been punished for doing so. I guess overall, my point is, our healthcare system treats its own this way. That being said, there are a lot of good people in healthcare. Physicians and their lobbying organizations should have raised holy hell to stop any encroachment on fertility rights and law practicing medicine; they have power and resources. All the lobbyists did that I know of was put out some statements. To which I say, call those folks and tell them to get off their rear ends. Some individual physicians put their freedom and lives on the line. Maybe the lobbyists are doing more than I know and it’s not being covered. Doubt it. A lot of individual physicians are barely keeping their heads above water to keep up with workflow-no golfing, haha-they’re employees, fire at will (not complaining, it’s the best job one could have and a privilege to do it), but a phone call to their specialty organization to let them know how they feel about the abortion issue might help. Have they done it? I suspect too many are poorly informed (yikes) about necessary abortion and opposed to elective abortion. There’s a lot of good in medicine and a lot of toxic. Then there’s a lot of business, which is disgusting. Forgive the truth telling. I may regret it if I live. Ha.
I’ll 2nd that Lee. During my 42 yrs as an RN, working OR/ICU/MS/ER I’ve seen great nurses & doctors & I’ve also seen some gosh awful ones; fortunately the latter are fairly rare. Even excellent ones in each profession can behave like assholes.
Nurses & Drs are well known for “eating their young.”
Thanks for the suggestions about calling the professional groups or writing them. You’re correct that they do have power & influence, if they’re willing to use it. However, having interacted with hundreds of people with chronic pain issues on sm platforms & become a dues paying member of some orgs who focus on the issue of under-treatment of pain, I can tell you that we have been begging the AMA & other Medical societies to speak up against what the DEA & CDC are doing to people by withholding opioid pain meds, they haven’t been of much help.
Agreed. To their shame.
And where are they with abortion? Statements.
I only had one professor in grad school that had an attendance policy, so it seems to be case by case.
I suspect professors have attendance “policies” so it will look to the powers-that-be like they are doing a good job keeping seats filled, or in response to out- of control absences. Not every illness requires a doctor visit. And they don’t have the manpower to investigate student absences, not to mention the implications of setting up a police state to do so. I imagine any student who was victimized in this way would have recourse, either through the university administration or a lawsuit
I hope that the jury hands trump his ass on a platter. Of course it’s gold plated, and pre sanitized by the secret service and comes with a complimentary wipe 😉.
I knew he didn’t wipe his own ass!
Well, to be fair he can't reach it, with those little Tyranosaurus arms of his.
No. 2:24-cv-86-Z
State of Texas;
Daniel A. Bonevac;
John Hatfield,
Plaintiffs,
v.
The United States of America;
Miguel Cardona, in his official
capacity as Secretary of Education;
United States Department of
Education; Catherine Lhamon, in
her official capacity as Assistant Secretary
for Civil Rights, Department of Education;
Randolph Wills, in his official capacity
as Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement, Department of Education,
Defendants.
is pending in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Amarillo Division before Hon. Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, presiding. (The following items of apparel are prescribed in his courtroom: shorts, flip flops, tank tops, halter tops, T-shirts with graphic writing, hats, sunglasses, and tights/athletic wear.) Plaintiffs have moved for a preliminary In the injunction and the Court has ordered the parties to meet and confer for a proposed briefing schedule by May 31.
In relevant part, the complaint alleges:
Plaintiffs Hatfield and Bonevac do not intend to accommodate student
absences from class to obtain abortions—including illegal abortions and purely elective
abortions that are not medically required. Nor will Plaintiffs Hatfield and Bonevac hire a
teaching assistant who has violated the abortion laws of Texas or the federal-law
prohibitions on the shipment or receipt of abortion pills and abortion-related paraphernalia.
See 18 U.S.C. § 1461–1462 [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1461 and https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1462, originally known as the Comstock Act]. The complaint alleges no harm or injury to either faculty member and the remainder of the complaint refers to "plantiff" in the singular. They appear to have lent their names to this action as a legal makeweight in aid of establishing standing.
Here is a list of publicly available contact information.
Daniel A Bonevac
Department of Philosophy
Voice: (512) 232-4333
The University of Texas at Austin
Fax: (512) 471-4806
1 University Station C3500
Cell: (512) 695-0060
Austin, TX 78713 USA
E-mail:bonevac@mail.utexas.edu
John William Hatfield, Professor
Arthur Andersen & Co. Alumni Centennial Professorship in Finance, Century Club Professorship
Department of Finance, Department of Economics, and Department of Business, Government and Society
PhD, Stanford University, 2005
john.hatfield@gmail.com
https://www.jwhatfield.com/
University of Texas at Austin
2110 Speedway, B6600
Austin, TX 78712-1178
Counsel for the State of Texas and Professors Bonevac and Hatfield
JONATHAN F. MITCHELL
Mitchell Law PLLC
111 Congress Avenue, Suite 400
Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 686-3940 (phone)
(512) 686-3941 (fax)
Jonathan@mitchell.law
Counsel for the State of Texas
Gene Patrick Hamilton
America First Legal Foundation
611 Pennsylvania Avenue SE
#231
Washington, DC 20003
202-964-3721
gene.hamilton@aflegal.org
Kathleen T. Hunker
Office of the Texas Attorney General
Special Litigation Division
PO Box 12548, MC 009
Austin, TX 78711-2548
512-936-2275
kathleen.hunker@oag.texas.gov
Johnathan Stone
Office of the Attorney General
PO Box 12548, Capitol Station
Austin, TX 78711
512-936-2613
johnathan.stone@oag.texas.gov
Kyle Tebo
Office of the Attorney General
PO Box 12548 Capitol Station
Austin, TX 78701
512-936-0567
kyle.tebo@oag.texas.gov
Ryan Daniel Walters
Office of the Texas Attorney General
Special Litigation Division
209 W. 14th Street
7th Floor
Austin, TX 78701
512-936-2714
ryan.walters@oag.texas.gov
Thank you for all of those ph# & email addresses.
I hope you find them appropriately useful. This is not doxxing since they are readily available on unrestricted public facing websites, so I don't think of this at all as doxxing. I hope everyone sees this as an opportunity for serious direct engagement and not as an avenue for harassment. (If millions of concerned people decide to substantively engage with these people, I don't consider that harassment. No one invited them into this controversy.)
Poop, bloody tampons, flushed condoms, etc.......what do students for (not) life say about that in wastewater?
Oil spills, plastics, pesticides, farm animal runoff polluting our ground water, rivers and streams......what do students for life say about that?
Do they really think that the young voters who care about the environment are going to fall for mife/miso pollution argument? Seems like a very easy argument to shred into pieces.
They really aren't too bright. "Students" That dropped out of High school, I suspect.
Gee whiz.~~~•••
Can someone please remind Texas Republicans that women across the world are shedding their uterine lining and flushing it down the toilet EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY?! (Excuse my language)
And women have been miscarrying at home since forever, and flushing that too. Please reassure me that their argument isn’t going to stand up to the EPA?
Thank you! They don't know about these medical realities, evidently.
Perhaps a reception facility for those purposes could be established at the offices of
AG Paxton's offices.
That’s what I think. I really do believe that every pro choice woman in America, who still menstruates, should be saving all their bloody tampons, pads, miscarriage contents, wrap in plastic, put it in a nice cardboard box, $ mail it to the AGs or forced birther judges, Govs of abortion banned states with a note inside saying that since you weren’t sure if this was toxic waste or not, that you thought it best to let them decide how to properly dispose of the material.
Anonymously of course
It’s not clear to me after digging through USPS Publication 52 how these items are classified for purposes of mailing, packaging and labeling, let alone having any good notion as to how applicable state law might treat them. I can imagine Ken Paxton, for example, freaking out and ordering DNA testing to include in some terrorist database or such.
For all readers of Jessica's heroic newsletter, I'd suggest getting tickets for Suffs in NYC on Broadway. https://suffsmusical.com/. Amazing theater and although I didn't find verification online, may well have been inspired by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Highly recommended.
If a female student asks for a medical absence, a professor has no right to know the medical issue for which the student is asking leave.