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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

A Democratic state senator needs an #abortion. She told her colleagues about #Arizona’s ‘cruel’ #laws.

The only reason I had to hear those things was a cruel and uninformed attempt by outside forces to shame and coerce and frighten me into making a different decision other than the one I knew was right for me. There’s no one-size-fits-all script for people seeking abortion care, and the #legislature doesn’t have any right to assign one.

source: https://19thnews.org/2024/03/eva-burch-arizona-abortion/

#law #democracy #justice #rights #women #humanrights #problem #health #life #religion

A Democratic state senator needs an abortion. She told her colleagues about Arizona’s ‘cruel’ laws.

While Eva Burch spoke on the Senate floor about her planned abortion, almost all of her GOP colleagues found something else to do.

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anubis2814@friendica.myportal.social
anubis2814

Brittany Watts, Ohio woman charged with felony after miscarriage at home, describes shock of her arrest

Welcome to America where the punishment of your body violating your choice which happens to so many women, is a felony. Many women I know would be charged with murder in what what a heartbreaking loss to them. This was never about protecting babies or we wouldn't have the highest infant mortality rate in the western world. This is about cruelty to and policing women.
#bodyautonomy #abortion #abortionrights
Brittany Watts, Ohio woman charged with felony after miscarriage at home, describes shock of her arrest

Brittany Watts, Ohio woman charged with felony after miscarriage at home, describes shock of her arrest

Brittany Watts, the Ohio woman charged with a felony after a miscarriage, says she doesn't want "any other woman to go through what I had to go through."

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libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com
libramoon

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/rick-scott-debbie-mucarsel-powell-florida-senate

Could a #Democrat Beat #RickScott in #Florida’s #US #Senate Race?
Democrats are hoping Debbie Mucarsel-Powell can help them keep control of the Senate in 2024.

BY ABIGAIL TRACY

..."Whereas Scott is one of the wealthiest members of the US Senate, Mucarsel-Powell is an #immigrant who worked at a donut shop for minimum wage as a young teen in America; while Scott arguably made himself the face of the #Republican Party’s effort to gut entitlement programs, Mucarsel-Powell wrote the bill in the US House to expand #Medicare; and as Scott expressed support for federal #abortion restrictions and backed Florida’s six-week ban, Mucarsel-Powell continued to be an outspoken advocate for reproductive rights.

Democrats hope that Mucarsel-Powell is the right messenger for the moment. With the candidate being a Spanish-fluent Latina woman running for US Senate in Florida, Democrats argue that she is uniquely positioned to win back the support of the state’s Hispanic community, which the Democratic Party has bled in recent cycles. “Can Debbie find the money to be competitive, and can she change the numbers among Hispanics? I think the more that she can do [that], the more the money’s going to come,” said Schale, who worked on Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns in Florida. “I definitely think Florida’s trended Republican—I’m not an idiot. But I don’t think it’s gone from a state that Obama won by three or four points, or a state that was basically a dead tie five years ago in the governor’s race, to a 20-point Republican state overnight. It hasn’t happened. And a lot of that top of the ticket has been impacted by the fact that we’re doing terrible with Hispanics here.” ...

Could a Democrat Beat Rick Scott in Florida’s US Senate Race?

Democrats are hoping Debbie Mucarsel-Powell can help them keep control of the Senate in 2024.

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libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com
libramoon

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2024-state-court-races

#State Supreme #Court Races Could Make or Break 'Firewall for Our #Democracy'
JULIA CONLEY
Jan 04, 2024

..."In Wisconsin, Justice Janet Protasiewicz won her state supreme court seat last April in an election that inspired the state's highest-ever turnout for an off-election year #judicial race. Supporters of the #Democratic judge highlighted her strong backing of #abortion #rights, voting access, and worker protections, and noted that a Democratic majority on the state's high court could decide whether former President Donald Trump would be able to challenge the 2024 election results, as he attempted to in 2020.

Voters in Ohio and Michigan are among those who face similarly high stakes this year, Harris said. In the former state, two Democratic judges and one Republican are up for reelection to a court that currently has a 4-3 majority favoring the GOP.
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In Michigan, where the high court has a 4-3 Democratic majority and two judges on the 2024 ballot—one from each party—victories for the GOP could also allow a new conservative majority to reverse several pro-abortion rights laws passed in 2023.

"After Roe v. Wade was overturned, we had to turn to state courts and state constitutions as the critical backstop to protecting access to abortion," Brigitte Amiri, deputy director at the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, told the AP. "And the stakes are unbelievably high in each of these cases in each of these states."

The results of this year's state court races could also have implications for redistricting efforts, which the Republican State Leadership Committee told the AP it is focusing on heavily, calling the state supreme courts the "last line of defense against far-left national groups."...

2024 State Supreme Court Races Could Make or Break 'Firewall for Our Democracy,' Groups Say

"After Roe v. Wade was overturned, we had to turn to state courts and state constitutions as the critical backstop to protecting access to abortion," said one advocate. "And the stakes are unbelievably high."

smokeinfog@diasp.org
SmokeInFog

A woman who had a miscarriage is now charged with abusing a corpse as stricter abortion laws play out nationwide

(CNN) — An Ohio woman who had sought treatment at a hospital before suffering a miscarriage and passing her nonviable fetus in her bathroom now faces a criminal charge, her attorney told CNN.

Brittany Watts, 33, of Warren, has been charged with felony abuse of a corpse, Trumbull County court records show.

“Ms. Watts suffered a tragic and dangerous miscarriage that jeopardized her own life. Rather than focusing on healing physically and emotionally, she was arrested and charged with a felony,” her attorney, Traci Timko, told CNN in an email.

“Ms. Watts’ case is pending before the Trumbull County Grand Jury. I have advised her not to speak publicly until the criminal matter has resolved.”

Though a coroner’s office report said the fetus was not viable and had died in the womb, Watts’ case highlights the extent to which prosecutors can charge a woman whose pregnancy has ended – whether by abortion or miscarriage.

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#Ohio #abortion #miscarriage #sexism #rightsAbuse #womensRights #bodilyAutonomy #medicine #health

A woman who had a miscarriage is now charged with abusing a corpse as stricter abortion laws play out nationwide | CNN

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wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation from Ehrenreich, Barbara

We are talking about a nine-month bout of symptoms of varying severity, often including nausea, skin discolorations, extreme bloating and swelling, insomnia, narcolepsy, hair loss, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, indigestion, and irreversible weight gain, and culminating in a physiological crisis which is occasionally fatal and almost always excruciatingly painful. If men were equally at risk from this condition — if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains — then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.

Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941) American feminist, journalist, political activist
“Hers” column, New York Times (1985-02-07)

#quote #quotes #quotation #abortion #pregnancy #sexism #health #symptoms #perspective
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/ehrenreich-barbara/65461/

"Hers" column, New York Times (1985-02-07) - Ehrenreich, Barbara | WIST Quotations

We are talking about a nine-month bout of symptoms of varying severity, often including nausea, skin discolorations, extreme bloating and swelling, insomnia, narcolepsy, hair loss, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, indigestion, and irreversible weight...

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azurecerulean@diasp.org
Azure Cerulean

Ann #Coulter Calls Out '#Cruelty' Of '#Pro-Life Movement' - Second Nexus

Ann Coulter lashed out at the 'cruelty' of the 'pro-life movement' after Kate #Cox, whose #fetus was diagnosed with #fatal #trisomy 18, was denied an #emergency #abortion by the #Texas Supreme Court.

Amelia Mavis Christnot
Dec. 12, 2023

https://secondnexus.com/coulter-texas-cox-abortion-cruelty?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

Ann Coulter Calls Out 'Cruelty' Of 'Pro-Life Movement' After Texas Woman Is Denied Emergency Abortion

She's just realizing this now?

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