BRITT BILL WOULD CREATE FEDERAL DATABASE TRACKING PREGNANCIES
Alabama Senator Katie Britt, best known for delivering a bizarre, melodramatic televised response to President Biden's 2024 State of the Union address, has introduced a bill to create a federal website to collect data on pregnant people.
The bill, the More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed Act (MOMS Act), would mandate the creation of a federal website called Pregnancy.gov, which Britt calls a "clearinghouse of relevant resources available for pregnant and postpartum women, and women parenting young children."
The website would take users through series of questions, it claims, to generate a list of relevant resources of interest within the user’s zip code. The bill would also allow government officials to reach out to users for additional information.
The database would refer users to so-called "crisis pregnancy centers"; fake clinics that do not actually provide women with healthcare, but rather use deception and coercion to scare women away from getting an abortion, even if it necessary for their own health.
“This is a fight for freedom, the fundamental freedom to make decisions about one’s own body & not have their government tell them what they’re supposed to do,” the VP said.
VP #KamalaHarris then pivoted to the meat of her argument to #Florida voters: that #Trump was to blame for the #AbortionBan that just went into effect in the state, as well as others like it nationwide.
“Across our nation, we witnessed a full on assault, state by state, on #ReproductiveFreedom, & understand who is to blame: former president Donald Trump did this,” Harris said.
“Donald #Trump hand picked 3 members of the #UnitedStates#SupremeCourt because he intended for them to overturn #Roe, & as he intended, they did.”
#KamalaHarris harkened back to her grilling, as a senator on the judiciary cmte, of 2 of Trump’s #SCOTUS nominees, saying it was clear after their confirmation that the days of nationwide #abortion#access were numbered:
The ban, which took effect on Wednesday, was part of Gov. Ron #DeSantis’s push into cultural #conservatism. But Florida #politics is rarely that simple.
What? Democratic Primary and Nonpartisan Election
When? Tuesday, May 21th
Who? John Barrow
For? Georgia Supreme Court
Why? Restore women's right to make their own medical decisions.
How? Be a voter!
The justices heard arguments in an appeal by #Idaho ofcls of a lower court's ruling that found that the 1986 US law at issue, the #EmergencyMedicalTreatment & Labor Act (#EMTALA), supersedes the state's near-total #ban in the relatively rare circumstances when the 2 conflict.
President Joe #Biden's admin, which sued Idaho over the #abortion#law, has urged the justices to uphold that ruling.
US Sol Gen #Prelogar, who argued on behalf of the #Biden admin: "the situation on the ground in #Idaho is showing the devastating consequences" of the conflict between #EMTALA & Idaho's #AbortionBan.
"One #hospital system in Idaho says that right now it's having to transfer #pregnant#women in #medical#crisis out of the state about once every other week. That's untenable & EMTALA does not countenance it."
Women are being tortured, maimed, & humiliated, because of abortion bans in some red🩸states:
One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a TX emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a FL hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in NC, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.
#Iowa’s Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thurs in a case that could decide the future of #abortion in that state, the latest in a series of #legal battles that threaten abortion #access across the country during a historic #election year.
At issue is a ban passed by the legislature last July that restricts the procedure after 6 wks of pregnancy…. #PlannedParenthood & others immediately sued to block the #law & won a preliminary injunction from a lower court.
During the…hearing in DesMoines, the justices on #Iowa’s highest court asked lawyers for each side how the state’s past #abortion rulings —which in recent yrs narrowed #protections for abortion—apply to the pending law. #AbortionBan#ReproductiveRights#AbortionIsHealthCare
The #Iowa justices questioned whether the case should be sent back to the district court for further arguments & review.
“Every justice on this court has recognized that the state plays a vital role in protecting unborn life. The legislature & the governor agree,” Solicitor Gen Eric Wessan said in his opening stmnt. He urged the 7 justices, all of them #Republican appointees, to rule so that the #6weekBan can proceed.
The #AmericanTaliban members of the AZ Supreme Court ruled it's pre-Civil War, pre-statehood, pre-women can vote law that bans abortion & will send doctors & anyone that helps to jail, can go into effect
We were planning a vacation to the Grand Canyon, but canceled our plans due to a family rule: we only spend money in states where every member of the family has equal access to healthcare