Women are risking their very lives being pregnant in Texas:
Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) posted at 1:02 PM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
BREAKING: Texas Supreme Court votes 9-0 to uphold forced birth, protect the rights of rapists, and place women’s lives at risk, making them leave the state to receive life-saving medical care.
(https://x.com/TristanSnell/status/1796603195218882742?t=HpnYrV0JDTj4pozWvvoM_A&s=03)
Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) posted at 3:01 PM on Fri, May 31, 2024:
CNBC: The Texas Supreme Court just rejected a challenge to one of the strictest abortion laws in the country made possible by Trump. Several women who suffered serious pregnancy complications filed the suit. The decision was unanimously rejected by all nine Republican justices https://t.co/knDjGNCRPJ
(https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1796633026094301627?t=ta6gC9as4hEFeboBCYp7Ug&s=03)
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From Jessica Valenti:
Texas Rules Against Women. Again.
5.31.24
JESSICA VALENTI
MAY 31
Texas Nightmare
I’m not surprised, but I am sickened: The Texas Supreme Court has ruled against the twenty women who sued after the state’s abortion ban put their health and lives at risk. The justices decided that there’s no problem with the state’s ban, and that the issue was doctors misunderstanding the law—not the law itself. “Texas law permits a life-saving abortion,” the opinion states.A refresher: The Center for Reproductive Rights brought the lawsuit on behalf of women harmed by Texas’ ban. You can read the details of their stories here, but it’s likely you remember some of their names: Amanda Zurawski, for example, ended up in the ICU with sepsis. She was denied care until she was on death’s door. Samantha Casiano—forced to give birth despite the fact that her baby was missing parts of her brain and skull—actually vomited on the stand while recounting watching her baby take pained last breaths. She said that talking about what happened “just makes my body remember and it just reacts.”
What was so hard about watching this case play out was seeing these women relive their worst moments just to have the state attorneys treat them like shit—including arguing that they didn’t have standing to even bring a suit because they weren’t currently pregnant. (Zurawski said, “I survived sepsis and I don’t think today was much less traumatic than that.”) The Court agreed with the state, ruling that the women didn’t have standing in the case. Which is…just mind-blowing.
Horrifically, justices also ruled that women should be forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term:
“The current law, however, plainly does not permit abortion based solely on a diagnosis that an unborn child has an abnormal condition, even a life-limiting one…
As painful as such circumstances are, that the law does not authorize abortions for diagnosed fetal conditions absent a life-threatening complication to the mother does not render it unconstitutional.”
Notice anything about the language there? “Life-limiting” is a term I’ve flagged before, one that anti-abortion activists want doctors and courts to use instead of calling a fetus’ condition lethal or nonviable. It looks like they got their wish. (It’s also worth noting that blaming doctors for not understanding the law is also an anti-abortion talking point, one we started to see soon after Roe was overturned.)
Eleanor Klibanoff at the Texas Tribune points out that in this way, the ruling was similar to the one on Kate Cox’s pregnancy. Despite Cox’s pregnancy being nonviable and her health and life at risk, Texas Supreme Court denied her an emergency abortion.
This decision comes just days after Abortion, Every Day broke the news that the Texas GOP platform calls for punishing abortion patients as murders, and the same week that college professors in the state sued for the right to punish students who miss class to get abortions.
I’ll have more on the ruling soon, but I just want to send my thoughts to the brave patients who came forward in this case. They laid their pain bare in the hopes that it would make even the smallest difference. It might not have changed the law, but I do think their stories changed the country.
And then, there’s THIS from Texas too….
The Entire PHUCK!!!
Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions
Men are using abortion bans to control and abuse women in their lives for “consensual sexual intercourse”
By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
A pair of Texas professors figured out that their female students have sex and, boy, they do not like it. So now the philosophy professor and finance professor are suing for the right to punish their students who, outside of class, have abortions.
“Pregnancy is not a disease, and elective abortions are not ‘health care,'” University of Texas at Austin professor Daniel Bonevac sneers in a federal court filing with professor John Hatfield. Instead, Bonevac writes, because pregnancy is the result of “voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse,” students should not be allowed time off to get abortions. If the students disobey and miss class for abortion care, the filing continues, the professors should be allowed to flunk students. Additionally, Bonevac asserts that he has a right to refuse to employ a teaching assistant who has had an abortion, calling such women “criminals.”
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Even though the plaintiffs suing for the right to flunk female students for abortion include boilerplate arguments in which they feign concern that abortion is “killing,” the legal filing makes it clear that what really outrages Bonevac and Hatfield is that Title IX prevents them from controlling the private lives of students. Along with their anger about abortion, they grouse about not being allowed to punish students “for being homosexual or transgender.” They also argue they should be able to penalize teaching assistants for “cross-dressing,” by which they appear to mean allowing trans women to wear skirts.
Another nightmare story from Texas. This is what these laws have brought:
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/03/texas-professors-to-fail-students-seek-abortions/
Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) posted at 8:43 PM on Wed, Jun 05, 2024:
Trump says states passing abortion bans forcing teenage rape survivors to give birth is “a beautiful thing to watch” https://t.co/dbOXSnC8Ln
(https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1798531024625750523?t=HKNZdhFWhEYAgtCUHtn4_w&s=03)
And, for with these nightmares in a Red State, there is good news from a Blue State:
Bill expanding Illinois’ abortion shield law heads to Gov. Pritzker’s desk
Story by Max Cotton
SPRINGFIELD (WGEM) – A bill expanding Illinois’ reproductive health care shield law now heads to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk. The state Senate passed the legislation Thursday on a party-line vote prohibiting the state from complying with any criminal or civil investigation into legally obtained health care in Illinois, including abortion. Democrats voted in favor of the bill while Republicans opposed it.
The bill, which is a follow-up on the state’s 2023 shield law, protects location information and medical and billing records. It also allows minors from any state to apply for public aid to cover their health care, including abortion, without parental consent. The bill would also exempt those records from inquiries related to the state’s Freedom of Information Act. It also allows someone to sue if they’re information is improperly shared or if a state, county or city tries to impose criminal or civil penalties for health care legally obtained in Illinois.
The bill’s Senate sponsor, state Sen. Celina Villanueva, D-Chicago, argues it’s necessary as other states restrict abortion rights and look to attempt to enforce those laws beyond their borders. She cited a recent Texas case in which a man is asking for a court order to gather evidence to potentially sue his ex-partner, who received an abortion in another state where the procedure is legal.
Jasmine Crockett’s Anger Translator (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 7:17 PM on Sun, Jun 09, 2024:
If we pull out of 2024 with a Biden win, the next 4 years will be a literal Civil War between KHive & its allies, and white Democrats like Cheryl here who “just can’t put their finger on why they don’t like Kamala.”
It will be the moment KHive has been preparing for for 8 years. https://t.co/WXvvbN1bc0
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1799958975540007083?t=HuzJBZ-BZ5Xq0u5Vc_epBw&s=03)
uh huh
uh huh
Jasmine Crockett’s Anger Translator (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 9:54 PM on Mon, Jun 10, 2024:
“I’m a lifelong Democratic voter, but I’m going to choke on the Black candidate because I don’t think they can win” is some horrifying s**t from the 20th century and the main reason why my mother was afraid white people would do the same thing to Obama.
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1800360998013989139?t=4tqtx80Sz6u4ftuy9uu9sA&s=03)
Portia ♍️ McGonagal (@PortiaMcGonagal) posted at 1:42 PM on Tue, Jun 11, 2024:
And this is what they can’t grok. We don’t eff w/ the Black people they love. Not Clarence/Bubba Gums,Head Rub, Candace, Nina, Eddie…doesn’t matter left or right. They think we run with anybody Black because they’re Black.
(https://x.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1800599401641169256?t=3NJj5o5Ky8UGJuuPEW29fg&s=03)
Here For THEE Comments 1 (@forthecomments1) posted at 7:08 AM on Tue, Jun 11, 2024:
WP mad, mad, that Black people didn’t cancel Will for slapping Chris. They love Chris more than we do, because he’s their Minstrel man. Denzel called Chris the devil and said, “You finally did it”! Samuel said “My man, you slapped the 💩out of Chris”! They’re both laughing!😂 https://t.co/l4xmioeXhz
(https://x.com/forthecomments1/status/1800500430310695199?s=03)
𝓝𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓼 (@NikkiBarnesFL) posted at 7:20 PM on Sun, Jun 09, 2024:
I’m starting to see too many men who are undesirable incels spout this “we need to return to the nuclear family” bullshit.
Just keep it 💯…you hate women and you want us to be FORCED to marry one of you milkdud head ass losers to have access to housing, bank accounts, credit cards, etc.
Y’all are some sick ass people.
(https://x.com/NikkiBarnesFL/status/1799959784604524722?t=94JrXog1L4_uaG7TE9J_7g&s=03)
Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) posted at 5:57 PM on Mon, Jun 10, 2024:
In the newsletter tonight:
An anti-abortion group doxxed the people collecting signatures for a pro-choice measure in Arkansas, opening them up to harassment, threats & violence.
We’ve seen attacks on democracy in every state with a pro-choice ballot measure (link in bio)
(https://x.com/JessicaValenti/status/1800301253853065612?t=aR1AiTKAy4h-EAIQESMV5w&s=03)
BWA HA HA HA HA HAH A
rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) posted at 1:07 PM on Mon, Jun 10, 2024:
“The African American, he’s advocating for is Curtis Jackson, not the rest of y’all … Let’s stop pretending 50 Cent is Harry Belafonte” – @Patillo4Georgia talks 50 Cent on The Hill https://t.co/v7xOKXxjf7 #BlackStarNetwork #RolandMartinUnfiltered https://t.co/el6Rcek6n4
(https://x.com/rolandsmartin/status/1800228189823750556?t=qritfsCMQXmKHoTLfMetvg&s=03)
LadyGrey 🇦🇲🇺🇦🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@TWLadyGrey) posted at 7:36 AM on Mon, Jun 10, 2024:
*Biden does something people don’t like.*
Wine moms: we have to preserve abortion & LGBTQ rights.
Sane people: Trump is really bad
Black voters: Republicans are awful, can’t vote for them
Jews: We can’t enable fascism
Everyone else: WE MUST SACRIFICE EARTH TO PUNISH BIDEN!
(https://x.com/TWLadyGrey/status/1800144959196246398?t=wgEzFPI0-1MpaxWm4zfHrg&s=03)
Henry VIII (@SussexHenryVIII) posted at 0:18 AM on Mon, Jun 10, 2024:
If Chris Rock had made a joke about Angelina Jolie’s weight and Brad Pitt had slapped him in the face on stage there would have been cheers.
This whole outcry was because Will is black, and white people don’t get why the joke was disrespectful.
I will die on this hill
(https://x.com/SussexHenryVIII/status/1800034869801894349?t=LPUmEUJ00Ln5YA_0wLKXVg&s=03)
Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) posted at 8:18 PM on Mon, Jun 10, 2024:
President Biden at the Juneteenth concert praising progress for Black Americans – but also warning about “old ghosts in new clothes” looking to to take away rights and erase history https://t.co/lgkFBlpub1
(https://x.com/JonLemire/status/1800336726956691959?s=02)
RFK Jr. Facts (@realRFKJr) posted at 3:41 PM on Thu, Jun 06, 2024:
Remember Trump’s Central Park Five ad?
In 2016, RFK Jr. wrongfully accused two innocent men of color of a crime they didn’t commit.
RFK Jr. and Donald Trump will always put themselves first, even at the expense of innocent people.
Every single time.
https://t.co/ih9MwT7fzE
(https://x.com/realRFKJr/status/1798817392820408451?s=02)
RFK Jr. Facts (@realRFKJr) posted at 1:33 PM on Thu, Jun 06, 2024:
Mike Barnicle: I’ve known RFK Jr. “nearly all of his life,”
“He’s running in this race for himself… He’s a very damaged individual.” https://t.co/pySiC38rQF
(https://x.com/realRFKJr/status/1798785257673568573?s=02)
Lis Smith (@Lis_Smith) posted at 7:09 PM on Thu, May 30, 2024:
For those keeping score at home, @RobertKennedyJr, @NicoleShanahan, RFK Jr’s campaign manager, and his Super PAC have all weighed in defending Trump, excusing his crimes, and dismissing the rule of law.
It’s no wonder why Donald Trump’s largest donor is also RFK Jr’s. https://t.co/BeJ8Zj2Mjf
(https://x.com/Lis_Smith/status/1796333139197116425?s=02)
Phil Jones (@PhilJonesNFL) posted at 7:08 PM on Mon, Jun 10, 2024:
Kirk Franklin brings Vice President @KamalaHarris on stage to Dance
#JuneteenthConcert https://t.co/eYqhyTWV1o
(https://x.com/PhilJonesNFL/status/1800319070665081279?t=ziv30pH6_3thZSG_YkHpeQ&s=03)
colorfullstory (@colorfullstory) posted at 4:22 AM on Tue, Jun 11, 2024:
I love this
Black joy is also an act of resistance
I love to see it
(https://x.com/colorfullstory/status/1800458625212698824?t=T0P-fzPN3kEkjUCmuC9boQ&s=03)
Jess Piper (@piper4missouri) posted at 8:59 PM on Mon, Jun 10, 2024:
The “pro-life” movement has nothing to do with life or they’d be advocating for maternal wellness, universal healthcare, family leave, livable wages, affordable housing, and fully-funded public education…they are in fact against all of those things.
(https://x.com/piper4missouri/status/1800347040444297413?t=woh8fzWtd9DQz9LgbJPHrQ&s=03)
Baltimore and Sinclair Broadcasting:
Veronica McDonald🗣 (@Purify_toast17) posted at 9:21 AM on Tue, Jun 11, 2024:
It’s all clear. Sinclair 45 wants to rid downtown Baltimore of black people and needed Bates & Dixon to do it. The only thing 95% of the people on Fox 45’s pictures are doing wrong is being black. Because they couldn’t get rid of Scott, 45 is going to hype scary black people.
(https://x.com/Purify_toast17/status/1800533888403730780?t=Vg9j-yZeOZ0gBrmlKzK_uA&s=03)
Nothing but truth.
Portia ♍️ McGonagal (@PortiaMcGonagal) posted at 9:14 AM on Tue, Jun 11, 2024:
Curious. Do predominantly white women’s orgs like Emily’s List speak out when groups like The Fearless Fund are targeted by people like Blum? Do WW think Blum won’t come after them too? Sure he’ll start w/us. They won’t stop. 1/
(https://x.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1800531966334525797?t=fgPf1XlUOMoT1TecwQU2-g&s=03)
Portia ♍️ McGonagal (@PortiaMcGonagal) posted at 9:15 AM on Tue, Jun 11, 2024:
2/2
WW were the biggest beneficiaries of Affirmative Action. Where was their uproar when Blum led to its gutting? Keep thinking you’re safe. And don’t demand solidarity when you’re not.
(https://x.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1800532246761521528?t=wsFDanvk_thvfGGv5u4tjQ&s=03)
Veronica McDonald🗣 (@Purify_toast17) posted at 9:25 AM on Tue, Jun 11, 2024:
Blum was going after Fearless Fund “for them,” so no, they’re not going to speak out. And truthfully, Blum & Co aren’t going after WW just yet because they need WW on their side.
(https://x.com/Purify_toast17/status/1800534937344545011?t=u5wosAXPevWXK8EY0sEZ6Q&s=03)
Veronica McDonald🗣 (@Purify_toast17) posted at 9:25 AM on Tue, Jun 11, 2024:
The attacks on white women’s financial autonomy will occur after MAGA has gotten complete control of the government.
(https://x.com/Purify_toast17/status/1800534940108673469?t=eU1gIDDCPBVTS45SY1YJmQ&s=03)
What a phucking clown!
Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) posted at 10:50 AM on Tue, Jun 11, 2024:
This guy is one of the highest paid “journalist” in all of politics. In case you were wondering why the political media is completely rotten to the core.
(https://x.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/1800556340408144134?t=5wxBrsoftk-siAKHmFTlog&s=03)
Jonathan Martin (@jmart) posted at 10:36 AM on Tue, Jun 11, 2024:
In the Sorkin version of 2024, Hunter’s conviction would be the escape hatch Biden takes to focus on family and drop out of the race, deferring to a Democrat, who is not approaching 82.
Here in reality, it will take the jaws of life to get Biden out and Dems will continue what they’ve done for two years: grumbling but saying nothing in public
(https://x.com/jmart/status/1800552700955840572?s=03)
philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) posted at 9:42 AM on Mon, Jun 10, 2024:
The South Carolina Department of Education said AP African American studies will not be offered in the state’s schools anymore https://t.co/6gjinkvU7l
(https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1800176671657808155?s=02)
Jasmine Crockett’s Anger Translator (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 0:24 PM on Sun, Jun 09, 2024:
Project 2025 is what’s conceived when the North won the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement happened, and the white supremacist right is still salty for having gone 0 for 2
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1799855072173551740?t=zFfZSTF-pKVqP4HVX5-uhg&s=03)
TRUTH
𝓝𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓼 (@NikkiBarnesFL) posted at 11:01 PM on Sun, Jun 09, 2024:
I’m voting for @JoeBiden in November because there are Black people I have spoken with who don’t want over policing in their community, who don’t want books that teach Black history BANNED from their children’s schools, who don’t want public education funds stripped from their children’s schools for voucher scams and they understand that when Biden cuts the check there needs to be state & local Democrats in place to distribute the funds appropriately.
You can organize or CRY and there’s too many of y’all crying on this app. You voting or playing politics in November?
(https://x.com/NikkiBarnesFL/status/1800015488786837546?t=a6eX6dB1w2BbNqdDzLzMEQ&s=03)
Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) posted at 7:30 PM on Sun, Jun 09, 2024:
So the U.S. Women’s Olympic basketball team has multiple white players on it, but somehow not putting Caitlin Clark on the team is bc of “anti-white racism” in the minds of folks who dine on white grievance three meals a day. Y’all are the stupidest people alive. Seriously.
(https://x.com/timjacobwise/status/1799962321101472120?t=u9OCHxlHGI0TrbsJ4r9o0g&s=03)
Good Morning, Everyone 😊😊😊