The stakes are high for doctors in TX when it comes to abortion.
With 3 overlapping laws, TX bans nearly all abortions & has some of the strictest penalties for doctors in the US, incl. thousands of$ in fines, the loss of a medical license & even life in prison.
“'After going through all this I wondered, why are we not the poster child for abortion rights?' said Riata Little Walker, who traveled from her home in Casper, Wyo., for an abortion in Colorado at 22 weeks, after doctors diagnosed Down syndrome and a heart defect in her fetus, which they said would require surgery and later a transplant if it survived until delivery."
When Cristian Nationalists tell you they think a child born of rape can be part of God's plan but an abortion can not-then they are admitting they worship a god that sends rapists but not doctors.
Online discourse: "You have to convince me to vote for Joe #Biden"
Why? I don't like Joe Biden. The idea that anyone has to convince you to fall in love with Joe Biden is as absurd of a #political assertion as the #MAGA cult and #Trump, that #politics is about #passion
My Voice, My Choice: For Safe And Accessible #Abortion
"We are asking the European Commission to submit a proposal for financial support to Member States that would be able to perform safe termination of pregnancies for anyone in Europe who still lacks access to safe and legal abortion."
Deliberate dissemination of disinformation about abortion is harming women, esp. in TX:
TX officials have appointed a leading anti-abortion activist to the MMRC panel. Dr Skop will join as a comm. member repping rural areas (even though she is from the 7th-largest city in the US). But she also reps a largely overlooked segment of the anti-abortion mvt: researchers who seek to discredit the idea that abortion restrictions are putting women’s lives in danger.
Skop – who has called the supreme court’s overturning of #RoevWade “a victory in the battle but not the end of the #war” – has argued in favor of forcing #rape and #incest#victims as young as nine or 10 to carry #pregnancies to term.
Louisiana’s new bill, once signed, would reclassify two #abortion pills (mifepristone and misoprostol) as Schedule IV controlled substances, like valium, and making it a crime to possess them without a valid in-state prescription.
Surgical and medication abortions are already banned in Louisiana, with few exceptions.
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Our own @NewsDesk shared this Flipboard Storyboard by Rolling Stone, which looks at America after "Roe" and includes stories about how conservatives are rebranding pro-life and life as an abortion doula.
"A leading anti-abortion doctor has been appointed to Texas’ maternal mortality review committee. Dr. Ingrid Skop, an OB/GYN from San Antonio, will be serving in the role designated for a community member representing a rural area.
Skop...is the most visible face of a small but influential national anti-abortion medical community, the first call for anyone looking for an OB/GYN to publicly defend abortion restrictions."