So when will the checkpoints go up at state borders?
Emotion fueled a debate on the Senate floor on Thursday as Republicans objected to taking up a Democratic bill that would guarantee a woman’s constitutional right to travel across state lines to receive abortion care.
The Democratic bill, called the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act of 2022 was introduced earlier this week by Sens. Patty Murray of Washington, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. The bill would additionally protect providers in states that support abortion rights from lawsuits for helping women from other states.
Monday, July 18, 2022 - Cleveland, OH – Today, Mayor Justin M. Bibb reaffirmed his unequivocal position that abortion is a form of reproductive health care and access to abortion is a human right.
“With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the dangerous restrictions on abortion that have followed, the City is committed to protecting residents’ ability to seek the reproductive health care options that they choose for themselves,” Mayor Bibb said.
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“We must do everything in our power to defend a woman’s right to choose what happens with her own body - not allow government or activist judges that control,” said Council President Blaine A. Griffin.
To that end, the Mayor and Cleveland City Council are pleased to make six major announcements on how we will protect reproductive rights in the City of Cleveland:
1. Non-Prosecution
Chief Prosecutor Aqueelah Jordan, in collaboration with Law Director Mark Griffin, have pledged that no City attorney will prosecute, refer for prosecution, or otherwise participate in charging any abortion-related crimes.
It truly is a form of reproductive health care, especially in cases like the 10 year old girl who was raped. IF the Religious Reich force that little girl, who is not fully grown, she has a far greater chance of dying than a grown woman, despite the advances in medical technology. The Anti-life people are not “pro-life”. They are pro-death, especially in cases like this, in which they will kill what they consider “two people”, if they even consider that little 10 year old girl a life. It’s far better to save the 10 year old girl by terminating the pregnancy and getting her mental health counseling, because she will need it, even if she will have PTSD, depression, or some other psychiatric disorder due to the rape she experienced. Psychologists can’t cure the mental damage, but they can help people live a better life with the mental issues rape brings onto a person. The little girl deserves a life. She does not deserve to have abuse piled on top of the rape by being forced to continue that pregnancy and face a great chance of dying at such a young age. I really do hope the 10 year old girl gets a chance at life and no one stops the termination of the pregnancy.
I’m sure there are some opinions around that don’t think so … 1) She’s a girl, 2) She’s young, 3) She’s Hispanic. - 3 Strikes, merely an asterisk on some chart.
Maybe to some, but she is a victim of rape and needs protection and help so she can become a survivor. Anyone who thinks as you just listed, doesn’t give a damn about any human being and hasn’t even been there to understand. I’m a woman, who’s been a girl, so for #1 so what. 2. Doesn’t matter if she’s young, she’d a human being who does not need the trauma asurbated by stupid people. #3. So what? She’s still a human being who’s been abused. No one needs to traumatize her further, especially by those who can’t see a human being. I have two words for those people, which I can’t say on the forum.
I think people should sue individual legislators that signed these abortion bills for falsely impersonation of medical expertise without credentialed qualifications.
That constitutes fraud and medical malpractice
If these wannabe doctors want to make laws , let them serve a few years in prison .
I think the same standards apply when making medical law. If these guys want to play with people’s lives, they should be held accountable for any and all damage done as a result of their action in signing that law.
I believe that would fall under being complicit in illegal conduct.
It probably will be, but I think the doctor has every right to sue for what the attorney general said about her though. I think that falls under liable or slander.
And why aren’t we seeing this simple message being sent out:
“A WOMAN’S LIFE IS MORE IMPORTANT, THAN THE LIFE OF A FETUS!” Period!!!
being posted everywhere, and spoken as a preamble and closing sentence to every discussion that’s trying to defend a woman’s right to defend her own person???
Isn’t that … is Ironic the right word? , seems there should be some term that is more forceful…
Anyways - When does “Liberty” equate to taking away freedoms/protections?
Nobody was forcing Catholics to have an abortion. There was no Mandate that minors under 15 (or any age) have an abortion.
It is religious fanatics (among others) that “want to hold complete power” and “distrust and dislike those who are not like” them.
You’d think an honest SCJ would know and understand that.
Once a ‘quintessential pro-life Texan,’ she had to flee her home state to get an abortion
Well, doesn’t that just say it all…
3 miscarriages later she saw the light.
But another pregnancy with a grim prognosis, and even her doctor couldn’t help her because of old white men on high thrones.
Federal Judge Rules Anti-HIV Medicine Is Unconstitutional
A Texas federal judge has ruled a provision of the Affordable Care Act that mandates free coverage of drugs that prevent HIV infections violates religious beliefs. MSNBC’s Katie Phang spoke with Pennsylvania State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta on the dangers this poses for the LBGTQ community.
