The Florida Supreme Court isn't hearing arguments on the privacy case until September so abortion up to 15 weeks (which sucks but is better than 6) remains accessible here until at least then. Spread the word!
Can anyone direct me to groups doing get out the vote for the August Ohio referendum changing the rules on ballot initiatives? I'm not in Ohio but would love to make calls to help drive turnout for this critical election.
“Why heartbeat?” We need to pressure media to start asking some basic questions: Yes, there is no heart, but also since when does heartbeat define ‘life’? Why does someone facing sepsis have to wait for a pump to stop functioning? Why aren’t anti-abortionists ‘rescuing’ ‘post-conception unborn babies’ from wastewater, if they really believe conception is the standard?
Yeah it's bizarre. Like why the heart that determines life? It's as arbitrary as the kidneys or the liver or the lungs. If anything, I'd think consciousness would determine personhood which happens around 19 weeks. And if that were the metric to go by, abortion would be as much "murder" as taking a braindead patient off life support.
Exactly! My understanding is the development of the thalamus at around 24 weeks determines that a ‘brain’ (which continues to develop even after birth) and consciousness are working at least at a basic level. That seems also to be the benchmark on medical ethics and was the basis of the Roe viability standard. I frankly think, and Jessica would probably disagree, that we could win the personhood argument by focusing on brain, always emphasizing that doctors should be in control of decisions around life and health of the birth parent.
I love Jessica's newsletter, because it helps me stay informed on this topic - but it also enrages me. Everything these awful forced birth people do enrages me. That this is the state of women's reproductive health in such a wealthy, supposedly free country- all greenlit by a zealous high court - makes me furious.
Everything was so enraging in today's newsletter but this part was the most enraging to me:
"Knowing that all of the above issues will lead to an increase in maternal death rates, Republicans are already working to hide or sow distrust in maternal health data. (Lawmakers in Idaho, for example, completely dismantled the state’s maternal mortality committee.)"
There's nothing more telling about how much they really do not give a shit about women's lives.
They think we are lying about maternal deaths to make them look bad, or would do so if we could get away with it. This is their justification for suppressing accurate counts. Straight from the COVID playbook.
These people are stupid. The same people who are making these laws are the same people in charge of the institutions tracking this data. How could we manipulate the data? And yeah def straight out of the COVID playbook. See how well that turned out when they killed off a bunch of their voter base by the 2022 election. But guess that's more evidence of how stupid they are.
Kudos to AZ Gov Hobbs who made over-the-counter birth control legally accessible in AZ.
The Florida Supreme Court isn't hearing arguments on the privacy case until September so abortion up to 15 weeks (which sucks but is better than 6) remains accessible here until at least then. Spread the word!
Can anyone direct me to groups doing get out the vote for the August Ohio referendum changing the rules on ballot initiatives? I'm not in Ohio but would love to make calls to help drive turnout for this critical election.
“Why heartbeat?” We need to pressure media to start asking some basic questions: Yes, there is no heart, but also since when does heartbeat define ‘life’? Why does someone facing sepsis have to wait for a pump to stop functioning? Why aren’t anti-abortionists ‘rescuing’ ‘post-conception unborn babies’ from wastewater, if they really believe conception is the standard?
Yeah it's bizarre. Like why the heart that determines life? It's as arbitrary as the kidneys or the liver or the lungs. If anything, I'd think consciousness would determine personhood which happens around 19 weeks. And if that were the metric to go by, abortion would be as much "murder" as taking a braindead patient off life support.
Exactly! My understanding is the development of the thalamus at around 24 weeks determines that a ‘brain’ (which continues to develop even after birth) and consciousness are working at least at a basic level. That seems also to be the benchmark on medical ethics and was the basis of the Roe viability standard. I frankly think, and Jessica would probably disagree, that we could win the personhood argument by focusing on brain, always emphasizing that doctors should be in control of decisions around life and health of the birth parent.
Maybe. Still think fetal coverture would be our best argument.
I agree. Legacy media isn’t doing its job here. So much gets said without question or pushback.
I love Jessica's newsletter, because it helps me stay informed on this topic - but it also enrages me. Everything these awful forced birth people do enrages me. That this is the state of women's reproductive health in such a wealthy, supposedly free country- all greenlit by a zealous high court - makes me furious.
Everything was so enraging in today's newsletter but this part was the most enraging to me:
"Knowing that all of the above issues will lead to an increase in maternal death rates, Republicans are already working to hide or sow distrust in maternal health data. (Lawmakers in Idaho, for example, completely dismantled the state’s maternal mortality committee.)"
There's nothing more telling about how much they really do not give a shit about women's lives.
They honestly believe we would do the same. Dishonest people are always projecting their motives outward.
How would we do the same though? Whose deaths would we straight up ignore?
They think we are lying about maternal deaths to make them look bad, or would do so if we could get away with it. This is their justification for suppressing accurate counts. Straight from the COVID playbook.
These people are stupid. The same people who are making these laws are the same people in charge of the institutions tracking this data. How could we manipulate the data? And yeah def straight out of the COVID playbook. See how well that turned out when they killed off a bunch of their voter base by the 2022 election. But guess that's more evidence of how stupid they are.
Indispensable.