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#Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict #Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women
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The new legislation, prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, comes after 111 Texas #doctors signed a public letter urging that the ban be changed because it “does not allow us as medical professionals to do our jobs."
#News #Health #ReproductiveRights #Pregnancy #Healthcare
Texas Lawmakers Push for More Exceptions to Strict Abortion Ban
The new legislation is prompted by ProPublica’s reporting on Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain, who died after they could not access timely reproductive care in Texas.ProPublica
#Georgia officials have dismissed all members of the state's Maternal Mortality Review Committee, which is charged with investigating deaths of #pregnant women, in response to ProPublica's reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller.
#Abortion #Pregnancy #Women #Mothers #Families #RoeVWade #Health #HealthCare
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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica’s Report on Amber Thurman, Candi Miller Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outside individuals.”ProPublica
Disgusting, cruel, and STUPID
"Miscarrying patient was passed around 'like a hot potato' due to #Idaho #abortion ban, #doctor testifies
The "heavily bleeding" patient was told the pregnancy would not survive, but she had not been counseled on abortion... plaintiff in a #lawsuit over the state's abortion bans, said...
"My colleagues are so scared and confused to even mention the word... pass the patient around and hopefully something will happen and declare itself"'
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Miscarrying patient was passed around 'like a hot potato' due to Idaho abortion ban, doctor testifies
Several women are challenging the strict abortion ban in Idaho.Nadine El-Bawab (ABC News)
I’m shocked by how misinformed the men in my life are on abortion bans. Most of them support a woman’s right to choose - but they don’t understand that the bans put lives at risk. One said to me “I’m sure they don’t impact women who WANT to start a family”.
They do - and here’s why:
Abortion bans put lives at risk. When you criminalize abortion - you’re practically criminalizing pregnancy. It sounds harsh - but women have been arrested for having miscarriages. Doctors face jail time for intervening to save a woman’s life if she’s having pregnancy complications.
When a woman is having an early miscarriage - you can’t tell whether it happened naturally or was induced. The police should not be involved in making that call. Yet if they have ANY reason to suspect you wanted to end that pregnancy? You could be arrested.
Have an ectopic? An abruption? A fetus with lethal anomalies? Doctors are going to hesitate before intervening even IF your life is at risk. They have to consult the legal department, they have to fear for their licence and the possibility of jail time.
Pregnancy is NOT a health neutral state. Anything you can be at risk for - you’re higher risk for in pregnancy. When things go sideways - it can happen incredibly quickly. Waiting to intervene can and does cost the life of the mother AND the baby.
Doctors are also fleeing states with abortion bans - leaving women in those states with even less access to qualified care. They don’t want to practice somewhere that the government is going to dictate what happens to their patient. They don’t want to worry about criminal charges.
All of this adds up to bad news for women - many of who WANT children but will choose not to become pregnant in the face of these archaic and dangerous laws. It’s not “your body my choice”. It’s “my body my choice”. Until people realize that - we continue to be in danger.
#abortion #prochoice #abortionishealthcare #womenshealth #mybodymychoice #reproductivehealth
seeing a lot of posts saying…
'get your IUD now'
'stock up on Plan B'
'here's where to find mifepristone'
but nowhere have i seen posts saying…
'seriously consider getting a vasectomy [so you can potentially avert the risk to someone's life or livelihood]'
as someone that's had one, there's usually a 3 month waiting period so you have time to think it over. when you go in for the procedure, it takes about an hour—half of it filling paperwork out, changing into a gown, and waiting for the surgeon. recovery took me about a day to feel 70% normal, then roughly a week to get back to 100%. there are typically no obvious signs there's been an incision since the way the procedure is done is so minimally invasive and there's zero impact to sexual or urinary function.
at this point, taking it upon yourself to get a vasectomy and talking openly about it is direct action, or at least adjacent
#health #harmReduction #bodilyautonomy #reproductiverights #reproductivejustice #reprojustice #planb #contraceptives #abortion #abortionrights #mifepristone #vasectomy #sexualhealth #harris #trump #election #election2024 #postElectionPrep #directAction #resist #resistance
Ray of sunshine:
Voters in seven states, both red and blue, passed measures protecting #abortion rights, including Missouri, which is the first to overturn a ban since the end of Roe.-- NYT
"And so women are treated as hate objects, of course, in that discourse, and that discourse has become mainstream and is certainly a key part of the Republican Party today."
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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(continued from /10) "that the women’s only place is in making babies to replace the race essentially; that they shouldn’t have a voice within the white supremacist community; and that feminism itself is part of the problem and part of the reason why this 'great replacement theory' is working."
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/11
"One of the really interesting things in the research that I’ve done on the neo-Nazi community, white supremacist community, is the way that they linked anti-feminism to their neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideals. If you go back to Daily Stormer in 2014, 2015, they’re saying arguments about anti-feminism as being essential to understanding white supremacy;" (continued in /11)
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/10
"There’s a really smart researcher on authoritarianism, Karen Stenner, and she had retweeted that—what she said was, Pay attention to how he says the word women. And if you listen to it, it’s really interesting because of so much visceral anger and hatred just dripping off of his tongue as he says the word women. That’s very indicative of Trump’s approach to women in general."
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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"Despite best practices, despite all of the consultants opinions, Donald Trump is fearlessly being misogynistic. I don’t know if that message is going to convince any women to vote for him, but it certainly will resonate with men."
~ Jennifer Mercieca
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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Brutal New Ad Nukes Trump—With His Own Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Women
As Kamala Harris hits Trump hard over his misogyny, a scholar of political communications explains how Harris is tapping into a level of cultural energy among women we are underestimating.The New Republic
“'It’s really hard to know that there are men out there who want to vote against reproductive rights, even though they shouldn’t have a say in it at all,' Casey, who voted for Harris, said. She doesn’t think she could date someone who doesn’t share her views again. 'As a political science major, I made a decision that I don’t want to put myself in that position.'”
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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"People are saying this is the Abortion Election. I believe it is the Female Personhood Election. ...
A vote for Republicans is a vote to deny women female personhood."
~ Andra Watkins
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/13
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Recap: The Republican War on Women
Female personhood is on the ballot (Scroll to the end to listen)Andra Watkins (How Project 2025 Will Ruin YOUR Life)
"The media have obsessed over Black people and Latinos turned off by Harris and various other #Demsindisarray narratives. The enthusiasm of women for Harris is a storyline that has been entirely unexplored."
~ Michael Tomasky
Hmm. Wonder why that would be? What is it about the media (and who owns and controls the media?) that would cause the media to ignore this? (/s)
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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Men are hopeless, but don’t worry: Women will save America. As usual.
Fighting Words. What got me...newsletter.tnr.com
"THE 'GENDER GAP' MATH IS UNDER-APPRECIATED in coverage of the race. More women will likely show up to vote than they did in 2020, and they will be supporting Harris more than they did Biden four years ago. Trump may be making gains with men. But he’s going to have to turn out a lot more of them if he wants to keep up."
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/15
Yes, Texas’s abortion laws are killing women. @ProPublica reports on another case — 18-year-old Neveah Crain, who was diagnosed with sepsis but sent home because her six-month fetus had a heartbeat, and on a subsequent visit, had delayed care because the obstetrician insisted on two ultrasounds to “confirm fetal demise.” She died hours later. She and her mother, Candace Fails are both devout anti-abortion Christians, but supported it in the event of life-threatening illness. “I know it sounds selfish, and God knows I would rather have both of them, but if I had to choose,” Fails said, “I would have chosen my daughter.”
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#Texas #RoeVWade #Abortion #Healthcare #WomensRights #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Nevaeh Crain Died During a Miscarriage After Trying to Get Care in Texas Hospitals
It took 20 hours and three ER visits before doctors admitted the pregnant 18-year-old to the hospital as her condition worsened. She’s one of at least two women who died under Texas’ abortion ban.ProPublica
A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to #Texas Emergency Rooms
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It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a #hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened.
Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.”
She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s #abortion ban.
#News #Health #HealthCare #Pregnancy #Government #Law #Safety #Family
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Nevaeh Crain Died During a Miscarriage After Trying to Get Care in Texas Hospitals
It took 20 hours and three ER visits before doctors admitted the pregnant 18-year-old to the hospital as her condition worsened. She’s one of at least two women who died under Texas’ abortion ban.ProPublica
"Because what Trump has to offer men is permission to hate women. Those women.
And the terms of that hate are not 'Women are taking away our precious cultural ideas about manhood!'. It’s pretty much 'Women are taking our jobs and our social power, women are doing better at most of what we have done, women are—without any malice or plan—unveiling the many cases where men have risen to the top on nothing more than mediocrity & a pair of testicles.'"
"So many of the feeder streams into Trumpism well up from springs of reaction to changes in the status of women. Dobbs has made it plain that anti-abortion sentiment is primarily about control of women. Its supporters are indifferent to women dying, women risking death, women enduring pregnancy after rape."
~ Timothy Burke
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/22
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Trump Essentials (5): It's The Gender, Stupid
Trump Has Cruelty and Malice For All, But It's Women That Are His IssueTimothy Burke (Eight by Seven)
"It seems that the men of MAGA feel as entitled to their wives’ votes as they do their reproductive rights."
~ Malcolm Ferguson
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
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MAGA Men Are Freaking Out Over Their Wives Secretly Voting for Harris
Fox News’s Jesse Watters is the latest to have a full-blown meltdown over the possibility of his wife voting for Kamala Harris.The New Republic
"FOX News has been losing their collective minds over the ad [by at Vote Common Good telling women they have a right to vote for whom they choose without their husbands instructing them] — accusing Harris of encouraging women to lie to their spouses and equating the wives who vote for Harris with those who commit adultery."
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
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Julia Roberts Reminds Us - Your Vote, Your Choice
Julia Roberts reminds us that In the Voting Booth women still have the right to choose. 🔴 Join our Vote Common Good Email List to be part of the Common Good...YouTube
"In the last two days, you may have noticed a strange uptick in right-wing commentators talking about Harris’s 'attack' on the 'sanctity of marriage.' There’s been a bit of a buzz about conservative white women voting for Harris secretly — breaking with their faith communities and perhaps even their husbands to cast a vote against Donald Trump."
~ Diana Butler Bass
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/19
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Halloween at The Cottage - Scary Witch Edition
On Jezebel, leading good wives astray, and gendercideDiana Butler Bass (The Cottage)
"Donald Trump, mind you, has been found civilly responsible for rape. He has been accused by multiple women of rape (including his ex-wife Ivana), of sexual assault, of groping. He has bragged about grabbing women by the pussy without asking. He has bragged about being the reason Dobbs was overturned. Because he is the reason Dobbs was overturned."
~ Robyn Pennacchia
#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/17
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Trump Once Again Excited To Do Things Whether The Woman Likes It Or Not
Sort of a consistent theme with this one, no?Robyn Pennacchia (Wonkette)
Obeidallah focuses on what happened recently in Neptune, Florida, where a group of teens waving Trump flags gathered at an early voting site to harrass voters, with one teen, Caleb James Williams, pulling out a machete and brandishing it at two female voters.
And in South Carolina, a man has just verbally assaulted Black women working at the polls.
"This week we have seen two deeply alarming incidents of violence, threats and abuse directed by Donald Trump’s male supporters against women at polling locations. And tragically this will likely not be the last given a core theme of Trump’s “bro vote” strategy has been amplifying sexism and misogyny—as we saw again at his rallies this week."
~ Dean Obeidallah
"Jesse Watters said that he would consider his wife voting for Kamala Harris the same as if she was having an extramarital affair.
The Fox News co-host told panelists on The Five that if he discovered second wife, Emma DiGiovine, was secretly backing the vice president, it would be 'D-Day' for their marriage."
~ David Gardner
As Sean Craig reports, MAGA bros are freaking out because so many women are voting.
"Two of former president Donald Trump’s most prominent backers in the right wing influencer sphere [Mike Cernovich and Charlie Kirk] fretted Wednesday after early votingnumbers showed massive early turnout among women that could imperil their candidate’s path to victory."
#Trump #women #gender #abortion
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MAGA Bros Are Freaking Out Because So Many Women Are Voting
“Unless this changes, Kamala Harris takes PA and it’s over,” tweeted right wing gadfly Mike Cernovich.Sean Craig (The Daily Beast)
"Charlie [Kirk] is deeply concerned—he said yesterday in an interview with Megyn Kelly—that women may 'undermine their husbands' by letting them think they’re with them, side-by-side, seated comfortably on the Trump train."
William Kristol
#Trump #women #gender #abortion
/5
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Polio in Every Pot; Smallpox in Every Garage
Team Trump isn’t quietly enabling RFK Jr.’s vaccine lunacy. They’re enthusiastically embracing it.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"Across battlegrounds, there is a 10-point gender gap in early voting so far: Women account for roughly 55 percent of the early vote, while men are around 45 percent, according to a Politico analysis of early vote data in several key states."
~ Megan Messerly and Jessica Piper
"At a rally this evening near Green Bay, Wisconsin, Trump said his team had advised him to stop talking about how he was going to protect women by ending crime and making sure they don’t have to be 'thinking about abortion.”'
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #women #gender #abortion
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October 30, 2024
On Friday, October 25, at a town hall held on his social media platform X, Elon Musk told the audience that if Trump wins, he expects to work in a Cabinet-level position to cut the federal government.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
Alaina Demopoulos points to Jamisen Casey, a 21-year-old student in California who is registered to vote in her home state of Tennessee, On Tik Tok, she says i a video, “My absentee ballot on its way home to cancel out my ex boyfriend’s vote." The video shows her dancing with her mail-in ballot in hand.
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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The women ‘cancelling out’ their Trump-loving partners’ votes: ‘No one will ever know’
Trend underlines vast gender divide as election approaches, as experts say some women face pressure to ‘toe the line’ politically at homeAlaina Demopoulos (The Guardian)
"Just to be clear, if Donald Trump wins, the people who will be most happy about it are people who do not think women should have the right to vote."
~ Robyn Pennacchia
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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"Trump is closing his campaign by having literal Nazi rallies and predator-splaining to women that he’s going to 'protect' them ;whether they like it or not.'”
~ Evan Hurst
#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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MAGA Men VERY MAD At Wives Secretly Voting For Kamala. Stop Laughing, It's Not Funny!
Oh no! Is somebody being DISOBEYED?Evan Hurst (The Moral High Ground)