A Trump appointed judge issued another ruling on Friday that paves the way for conservative activists to continue the fight to ban abortion drug Mifepristone, even if they lose their pending appeal.
This IS a War on Women. Thank you so much for your thorough and dogged coverage of this issue, Amee Vanderpool!
It strikes me that aggressive, hard-hitting support for single mothers, improving daycare opportunities and insisting that it be covered by insurance, expanding Medicaid, prosecution of rapists without further traumatizing the victim, school lunches and so many other efforts would solve this problem without further harming the victims. The horror stories about child welfare departments and the foster care system abound.
But these zealots aren't interested in raising healthy, happy, well-educated, well-adjusted children.
Frankly, they aren't all that interested in being alive and aware in the 21st Century.
This slow roll into an authoritarian dystopian future where nine unelected self-proclaimed kings decide what is law is terrifying. Did anybody honestly believe that the anti-woman extremists would stop at abortion? Once they get this drug outlawed you can bet they’re going after the pill. It’s insane that we’re in this position in 2024, just insane. And the Dems have done themselves no favors. Biden should be out there day and night with his bully pulpit taking on the court, reminding we the people that the court is unelected, not answerable to anybody, lacks basic ethics and enjoys a guaranteed good wage, healthcare and private security paid for by we the people. I would even go so far as to say the court, who likes to bandy about “original intent” isn’t even authorized by the US constitution to have judicial review. The dems have sat on the sidelines for 30 years while the republicans slowly took over the courts, knowing that is where the real power lies. The high court continues to box itself into irrelevancy as it gets further and further away from the people. Dems need to get it together and soon.
The only possibly upside to this argument about whether this group of anti-choice ER doctors have standing is that if their suit is approved, that could open the floodgates to *other* groups of ER doctors going after, say, gun manufacturers, for traumatizing them on the job. Gunshot wounds are a *demonstrably* large part of what ER doctors have to deal with whereas problems with mifepristone are so rare that this anti-choice group has to make some kind of “statistical prediction” garbage up in order to say they have standing.
I am not a lawyer so I have no idea how to write an amicus brief, but if the issue is standing, I would hope that someone who is better at Law Stuff than I am would use this argument to throw out the idea that the slim possibility of having to treat a medication abortion injury is applicable.
Judge Kacsmaryk’s decision was so blatantly political and religiously-based that any defense of it is, to be blunt, laughable. You are correct that the Supreme Court has a chance to restore a bit of its credibility on this issue, but I’m not holding my breath.
This IS a War on Women. Thank you so much for your thorough and dogged coverage of this issue, Amee Vanderpool!
It strikes me that aggressive, hard-hitting support for single mothers, improving daycare opportunities and insisting that it be covered by insurance, expanding Medicaid, prosecution of rapists without further traumatizing the victim, school lunches and so many other efforts would solve this problem without further harming the victims. The horror stories about child welfare departments and the foster care system abound.
But these zealots aren't interested in raising healthy, happy, well-educated, well-adjusted children.
Frankly, they aren't all that interested in being alive and aware in the 21st Century.
Thanks for your thoroughness, Amee.
This slow roll into an authoritarian dystopian future where nine unelected self-proclaimed kings decide what is law is terrifying. Did anybody honestly believe that the anti-woman extremists would stop at abortion? Once they get this drug outlawed you can bet they’re going after the pill. It’s insane that we’re in this position in 2024, just insane. And the Dems have done themselves no favors. Biden should be out there day and night with his bully pulpit taking on the court, reminding we the people that the court is unelected, not answerable to anybody, lacks basic ethics and enjoys a guaranteed good wage, healthcare and private security paid for by we the people. I would even go so far as to say the court, who likes to bandy about “original intent” isn’t even authorized by the US constitution to have judicial review. The dems have sat on the sidelines for 30 years while the republicans slowly took over the courts, knowing that is where the real power lies. The high court continues to box itself into irrelevancy as it gets further and further away from the people. Dems need to get it together and soon.
Of course they are, not to mention no fault divorce.
The only possibly upside to this argument about whether this group of anti-choice ER doctors have standing is that if their suit is approved, that could open the floodgates to *other* groups of ER doctors going after, say, gun manufacturers, for traumatizing them on the job. Gunshot wounds are a *demonstrably* large part of what ER doctors have to deal with whereas problems with mifepristone are so rare that this anti-choice group has to make some kind of “statistical prediction” garbage up in order to say they have standing.
I am not a lawyer so I have no idea how to write an amicus brief, but if the issue is standing, I would hope that someone who is better at Law Stuff than I am would use this argument to throw out the idea that the slim possibility of having to treat a medication abortion injury is applicable.
Judge Kacsmaryk’s decision was so blatantly political and religiously-based that any defense of it is, to be blunt, laughable. You are correct that the Supreme Court has a chance to restore a bit of its credibility on this issue, but I’m not holding my breath.
I am so sick of nazi judges. And "politicians"