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Cont: Roe v Wade overturned - this is some BS part II

May as well put this here.

A pregnant mother kept getting sicker. She died after she couldn’t get an abortion in Texas.
The reality: In states that ban abortion, patients with chronic conditions and other high-risk pregnancies often have nowhere to turn.


They enter pregnancy sick and are expected to get sicker. Yet lawmakers who wrote the bans have refused to create exceptions for health risks. As a result, many hospitals and doctors, facing the threat of criminal charges, no longer offer these patients terminations, ProPublica found in interviews with more than 100 OB-GYNs across the country. Instead, these women are left to gamble with their lives.


As Walker’s blood pressure swung wildly and a blood clot threatened to kill her, she continued to press doctors at prenatal appointments and emergency room visits, asking if it was safe for her to continue the pregnancy. Although one doctor documented in her medical record that she was at “high risk of clinical deterioration and/or death,” she was told over and over again that she didn’t need to worry, her relatives say. More than 90 doctors were involved in Walker’s care, but not one offered her the option to end her pregnancy, according to medical records.
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I'm perfectly willing to call this murder by legislator. The Republican legislators knew that this kind of thing would be the result of their actions and there's no actual redeeming value in play, once one acknowledges that the inane pretenses are what they are.
 
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catsmate said:
It couldn't happy they claimed...
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Sorry – we haven’t been able to serve the page you asked for.
You may have followed an outdated link, or have mistyped a URL.

I'm thinking that URL doesn't look right, ending in a comma

ETA: Yeah, works when you remove the comma.....

www.theguardian.com

Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took pills to induce abortion

If prosecuted, case against 31-year-old would be one of first in Georgia since it passed 2019 law banning most abortions
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
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smartcooky said:
Sorry – we haven’t been able to serve the page you asked for.
You may have followed an outdated link, or have mistyped a URL.

I'm thinking that URL doesn't look right, ending in a comma

ETA: Yeah, works when you remove the comma.....

www.theguardian.com

Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took pills to induce abortion

If prosecuted, case against 31-year-old would be one of first in Georgia since it passed 2019 law banning most abortions
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Bugger. My bad.
 
You'd think Georgia would have to be concerned about the million or so people nearly illiterate, significant climate related problems, terrible healthcare provisions, unemployment et cetera.
 
catsmate said:
It couldn't happy they claimed...
www.theguardian.com

Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took pills to induce abortion

If prosecuted, case against 31-year-old would be one of first in Georgia since it passed 2019 law banning most abortions
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Well, you could say it hasn't happened... yet. It's not being prosecuted yet.

"Ultimately, the decision on whether to prosecute Moore for murder will be left to Keith Higgins, the district attorney for the Brunswick judicial circuit, who would first have to obtain an indictment from a grand jury."
 
catsmate said:
Women in Florida being forced to have Caesarian sections.
www.propublica.org

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has also constricted the rights of pregnant women.
www.propublica.org www.propublica.org
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That's a couple of ◊◊◊◊◊◊ up stories right there. Almost hard to believe but since it's Florida I'm not shocked at all.
 
From https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2026/fifth-circuit-decision-directs-fda-restrict-mifepristone-access :
News Release
May 1, 2026

Fifth Circuit Decision Directs FDA to Restrict Mifepristone Access​

If allowed to stand, this decision would be the most sweeping threat to abortion since the overturning of Roe​

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling in State of Louisiana et al. v. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) et al, ordering the FDA to temporarily reimpose medically unnecessary in-person dispensing requirements on mifepristone—and upending abortion access nationwide. An emergency appeal to the US Supreme Court will likely follow swiftly, and we will share relevant updates as they occur.

This litigation was initiated by plaintiffs seeking to reimpose in-person dispensing and other restrictions that the FDA permanently removed from the risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) for mifepristone in 2023, in line with robust research showing they were not medically necessary. A federal district court paused the case in early April to give the FDA time to complete a safety review of mifepristone that it had initiated at the urging of anti-abortion groups, despite overwhelming evidence that the drug is safe and effective. After the district court ruling, plaintiffs quickly appealed to the Fifth Circuit to reimpose the in-person dispensing requirement.

The end goal of this legal attack is to eliminate telehealth prescribing, pharmacy dispensing, and mailing of mifepristone nationwide, including in states that have not enacted total abortion bans.

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cosmicaug said:
From https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2026/fifth-circuit-decision-directs-fda-restrict-mifepristone-access :
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...and the emergency appeal mentioned here was filed yesterday
abc7news.com

Makers of abortion pill mifepristone file Supreme Court emergency appeal after ruling blocks access

The makers of the abortion pill mifepristone filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court on Saturday urging the justices to pause a lower-court ruling that temporarily blocked Americans from accessing the drug through the mail.
abc7news.com abc7news.com
 
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling in State of Louisiana et al. v. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) et al, ordering the FDA to temporarily reimpose medically unnecessary in-person dispensing requirements on mifepristone—and upending abortion access nationwide. An emergency appeal to the US Supreme Court will likely follow swiftly, and we will share relevant updates as they occur..
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I am sure the fine legal minds will use their legal genius to review the constitution, examine past case law, and come up with a ruling that they were always going to make regardless, by quoting some "expert" from centuries ago.
 
Segnosaur said:
I am sure the fine legal minds will use their legal genius to review the constitution, examine past case law, and come up with a ruling that they were always going to make regardless, by quoting some "expert" from centuries ago.
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Or literally pretending that a prior case was ruled in the opposite way that it was and using that as justification. Or resurrecting another legal framework that was unanimously rejected by a prior Supreme Court for being so very disingenuous. Or... meh. There's been so much variety of bad behavior by the radical right-wing political extremists of the SC that trying to predict it to be any particular line of bad faith argument is something of a fool's gambit.
 
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