#Trump warned that Biden & family could face criminal prosecutions unless the US supreme court awards Trump #immunity in his own criminal trials
Interview with Time magazine, Trump painted a startling picture of his 2nd term including he may let states monitor #pregnant women to enforce #abortion laws.
Eric Cortellessa of Time says Trumps plans are “an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world”
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."
A #Houston, #Texas husband rushed his #pregnant wife to one of those Strip-center "Urgent Care" clinics, and they refused to treat her b/c of Texas' extreme anti-abortion laws.
Her husband had to call 911. It took them 20 minutes to arrive, by which point she had already miscarried in the bathroom.
This was a couple that WANTED their child, but got caught in RW Extremism/hysteria over #abortion and cost them their child.
#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.
For now, #abortion remains #legal in #Iowa up to 22 wks of pregnancy. The #law, if upheld, would limit the procedure to a time frame in which many women don’t yet know they are #pregnant. It has limited exceptions for #rape & #incest or if the woman’s life is in danger.
This latest legal battle comes at the end of a flurry of abortion developments nationwide that could have major implications for the presidential election in Nov.
A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday ruled that a $1.7 trillion government funding bill was unconstitutionally passed in 2022 through a pandemic-era rule that allowed lawmakers in the House of Representatives to #vote by #proxy rather than in person.
U.S. District Judge James Wesley #Hendrix in Lubbock reached that conclusion as he granted Republican Texas Attorney General Ken #Paxton’s request to block a provision of that bill that gave #pregnant#workers stronger legal protections.
#Republican legislators in FL hit the pause button on a bill that would have given any “#unborn child” new #protections after opponents raised concerns it would impact women’s #ReproductiveRights in ways similar to the AL IVF ruling.
The bill had passed easily through most cmtes in the #RepublicanControlledLegislature until #Democrats began raising concerns last wk that the proposal was so broad that it might also impact #IVF treatments.
The #legislation sought to define a #fetus as an “unborn child” shielded by civil #negligence#laws. Supporters said the measure would bring #civil#law in line w/existing #state#criminal law that allows for additional penalties against people charged w/ harming a #pregnant#woman.
#Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an #abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a #fatal#diagnosis.
Texas Supreme Court on Friday night put on hold a judge's ruling that approved an abortion for a #pregnant#woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis, throwing into limbo an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the #U.S.
"Another Old White Man deciding what a Woman Can and Can't do with her own body"
Antiabortion advocates are targeting regions along interstates and in areas with airports, with the goal of blocking off the main arteries out of Texas and keeping #pregnant#women hemmed within the confines of their #antiabortion state.
These provisions have already passed in two counties and two cities, creating legal risk for those traveling on major #highways including Interstate 20 and Route 84, which head toward New Mexico, where abortion remains legal and new clinics have opened to accommodate Texas women.
Several more jurisdictions are expected to vote on the measure in the coming weeks
Of interest to those who participate in #climate protest (lawful or not), those in groups that tend to be targeted by #LawEnforcement, and those who are #pregnant and don't wish to be: Choose your #SocialMedia and your communications apps wisely.
"All pregnant women are in danger’: protests in Poland after expectant mother dies in hospital.
Ombudsman rules that #hospital in #NowyTarg failed to tell #DorotaLalik, 33, that..."
"...her life was in danger and could [have] be[en] saved by an #abortion"
“But not everyone realised that 👉if you’re #pregnant and you go to a #Polish#hospital you might not leave alive👈. That you have to go prepared; you need to 👉have a number to a lawyer and contacts with the media ready,👈 and you have to keep fighting and arguing and not believe a single word anyone says because you might not stay alive."
A woman with a legal #medicalMarijuana card in #Oklahoma smoked #marijuana while #pregnant. Why #KayCounty prosecutors wanted to pursue her is beyond me, but a judge tossed the case out of court as there was no proof the woman had committed any crime. Prosecutors are appealing because they somehow represent the rights of her #unborn child not to have had a mother who chose to legally smoke pot while pregnant.
According to a post on X by the United Nations Population Fund, about 45,000 pregnant women and 68,000 breastfeeding women in the Gaza Strip face the risk of anaemia, bleeding and death.
Today in Labor History February 19, 1912: During the IWW Bread & Roses Strike in Lawrence, MA, 200 police attacked 100 women picketers, knocking them to the ground and beating them. As a result, several pregnant women lost their babies.