#us abortion ruling

[multicolour-ink]

To those devastated by the decision made in the US regarding Roe V Wade, know that I do have your back and my heart goes out to you all.

This decision has taken away the rights from many. Regardless of your thoughts on the matter, people always deserve the right for their freedom. This decision has taken away that freedom. Plain and simple.

This is a rare time I get political as I just want my blog to be a fun and safe space; but I feel it is right to voice my support and share my feelings on this.

Anyone who disagrees, I respect that. But please be civil and don't try to make an argument.

#i wish i could say more #i wish i had the power to just change it back tk the way it was #as a brit ab*****ns can happen before 24 weeks (in england scotland and wales) #that's about 5 and a half months #so honestly positive imo #oh and boris johnson says the decison in regards to roe v wade is backwards #which is probably the smartest thing he's ever said #as a woman and an open minded person #i support those who wish to get an abortion #there are multiple reasons to and it's not my place to question that decision #so anyone who disagrees #i respect your opinion but please be civil and don't try to make an argument #roe v wade #roe v. wade #us abortion laws #us abortion ruling #us abortion rights #feminism

[none-ofthisnonsense]

I have to do a presentation on abortion in the US, so if someone has a link to send or something it would be great!!

#abortion #roe v wade #roe wade #abortion laws #us abortion ruling #us abortion ban #us abortion rights #us abortion law

[iactuallydolikepussy]

mexican feminists, assisting usa women who are seeking abortions

#abortion #abortion ban #feminism #us abortion ruling #us abortion ban #aborto #us abortion rights #us abortion news

[darkacademicfrom2021]

The US has had abortion rights since 1973. That’s insane to even think about for me. In Argentina they decriminalized it in December of 2020, after getting rejected in 2018. We’ve fought so hard to get it. I was just a child with my mother screaming both on the streets when we knew we weren’t getting our human rights any time soon anyway. And I can’t tell you how much it pained me when I coulnd’t go out to the streets to cry out of happiness when we got the news in 2020, that the thing our people fought so so hard for finally got given to us. We saw (and see, still) hope, and the mere idea of this right getting taken away from us any time soon is terrifying. Yet there are people who can take it away from us, because of, what we thought it to be, a very new law.

How can a right that’s been settled 50 years ago get taken away so easily, so out of nowhere, so unrightfully?

#abortion laws ban #pro choice #us abortion rights #us abortion ruling #us abortion laws #us abortion ban #abortion ban #abortion laws

[0dotexe]

Huge W for Mexico for decriminalizing abortion across the entire country especially since a lot of border towns rely on medical tourism to survive. I'm expecting a lot of US citizens are going to cross the border for their reproductive rights very soon.

Viva Mexico bitches.

#exe talkz #normal mode #Mexico #abortion #abortion rights #reproductive rights #This doesn't mean it's legal everywhere yet but it's getting there - this ruling is basically Mexico's Roe #From what I understand - US residents are already using Mexico as a vector to get aborion medication #Anyways huge W for Mexico - even though abortion has been legal in most of the country for a while now

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #abortions #abortion bans #codify roe #roe v. wade #dobbs v. jackson women’s health organization #abortion is health care #abortion is better than negligence #abortion is not a crime #abortion is a human right #pro lifers be like #pro choice #my body my choice #my body my rules #my body my rights #memes #shitpost #2022

[chaserofstarsandtheabyss]

Mother stop calling me your “biological daughter” challenge and using that to explain why you’re so upset at trans women competing in sports (impossible)

#I have watched videos and read essays on white feminism and Jesus fucking Christ my mom was hitting like every fragile point #it’s so UNFAIR when trans women compete in sports :(( #as the mother to a BiOloGiCal DaUgHTEr #like shut the fuck up #I’m just like … I don’t actually care if trans women compete tbh #and her just going like ‘well I don’t think it should be used against Those women in that particular case’ #when I argue that is disproportionately affects black womeb #or her obviously not believing me when I say that trans women face harder difficulties than she probably does #like it does not matter that you don’t think the rules should be used in that way #they WILL be used in a way that is detrimental to women and they have more so than your hypotheticals #I swear to god it’s the same argument for abortion #‘well I do think a woman should have an abortion if carrying pregnancy could be harmful to her but not other women’ #if it’s illegal it WILL be used against that woman #how can you not see that #like the law will be used in a way that’s demeaning to women #but because it’s not the women you care about it doesn’t matter #also side note #and completely unrelated #can she stop implying that I’m less beautiful or don’t want to be beautiful because I’m transmasc #that would be great

[prettyvintageafternoon]

So the man who shot an obstetrician, James Kopp, is now using the overturning of Roe V Wade to get out of jail.

I wish I was joking. It was never about protecting children. It was always about controlling others who can reproduce, and demonizing those with actual medical expertise to help those who are viably fertile.

#'I think abortion is murder therefore I should be freed for literal murder' headass #abortion #pro choice #pro-choice #pro-lifers have no problem dragging OBGYNs because they provide abortion care #when they are also the people who are needed for folks to carry successful pregnancies to term #this dude is CANADIAN #he's not even American but he is using a U.S. SCOTUS ruling to justify his crimes

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

January 21, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JAN 21, 2024

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade decision. By a 7–2 vote, the Supreme Court found that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution guaranteed the right of privacy under its “concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action.” This right to privacy, the court said, guarantees a pregnant woman the right to obtain an abortion without restriction in the first trimester of a pregnancy. After that point, the state can regulate abortion, it said, “except when it is necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother.”  

The right to privacy is a “fundamental right,” the court said, and could be regulated by the state only under a “compelling state interest.” 

Abortion had always been a part of American life, but states began to criminalize the practice in the 1870s. By 1960, an observer estimated, there were between 200,000 and 1.2 million illegal U.S. abortions a year, endangering women, primarily poor ones who could not afford a workaround. 

To stem this public health crisis, doctors wanted to decriminalize abortion and keep it between a woman and her doctor. In the 1960s, states began to decriminalize abortion on this medical model, and support for abortion rights grew. The rising women's movement wanted women to have control over their lives. Its leaders were latecomers to the reproductive rights movement, but they came to see reproductive rights as key to self-determination. 

By 1971, even the evangelical Southern Baptist Convention agreed that abortion should be legal in some cases, and by 1972, Gallup pollsters reported that 64% of Americans agreed that abortion should be between a woman and her doctor. Sixty-eight percent of Republicans, who had always liked family planning, agreed, as did 59% of Democrats.

In keeping with that sentiment, the Supreme Court, under Republican Chief Justice Warren Burger, in a decision written by Republican Harry Blackmun, overrode state antiabortion legislation by recognizing the constitutional right to privacy under the Fourteenth Amendment.  

The common story is that Roe sparked a backlash. But legal scholars Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel showed that opposition to the eventual Roe v. Wade decision began before the 1972 election in a deliberate attempt to polarize American politics. President Richard Nixon was up for reelection in that year, and with his popularity dropping, his advisor Pat Buchanan urged Nixon to woo Catholic Democrats over the issue of abortion. In 1970, Nixon had directed U.S. military hospitals to perform abortions regardless of state law, but in 1971, using Catholic language, he reversed course to split the Democrats, citing his personal belief "in the sanctity of human life—including the life of the yet unborn.”

As Nixon split the U.S. in two to rally voters, his supporters used abortion to stand in for women's rights in general. Railing against the Equal Rights Amendment, in her first statement on abortion in 1972, activist Phyllis Schlafly did not talk about fetuses but instead spoke about “women’s lib”—the women’s liberation movement—which she claimed was “a total assault on the role of the American woman as wife and mother, and on the family as the basic unit of society.”

A dozen years later, sociologist Kristin Luker discovered that "pro-life" activists believed that selfish “pro-choice” women were denigrating the roles of wife and mother and were demanding rights they didn’t need or deserve.

By 1988, radio provocateur Rush Limbaugh demonized women's rights advocates as “feminazis” for whom “the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur.” The issue of abortion had become a way to denigrate the political opponents of the radicalizing Republican Party.  

Such rhetoric turned out Republican voters, especially the white evangelical base, and Supreme Court justices nominated by Republicans began to chip away at Roe v. Wade. 

But support for safe and legal abortion has always been strong, and Republican leaders almost certainly did not expect the decision to fall entirely. Then, to the surprise of party leaders, the white evangelical base in 2016 elected Donald Trump to the White House. To please that base, he nominated to the Supreme Court three extremists, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. The three promised in their confirmation hearings to respect settled law, which senators chose to interpret as a promise to leave Roe v. Wade largely intact.

Even so, Trump’s right-wing nominees could not win confirmation to the Supreme Court until then–Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in 2017 ended the filibuster for Supreme Court justices, reducing the votes necessary for confirmation from 60 to as low as 50. Fifty-four senators confirmed Gorsuch; 50 confirmed Kavanaugh; 52 confirmed Barrett.

On June 24, 2022, by a vote of 6 to 3, in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Five of the justices said: “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.” 

For the first time in American history, rather than expanding the nation’s recognition of constitutional rights, the Supreme Court took away the recognition of a constitutional right that had been honored for almost 50 years. Republican-dominated states immediately either passed antiabortion legislation or let stand the antiabortion measures already on the books that had been overruled by Roe v. Wade. 

But the majority of Americans didn’t support either the attack on abortion rights or the end of a constitutional right. Support for abortion rights had consistently been over 60% even during the time Roe was under attack, but the Dobbs decision sent support for abortion as Roe v. Wade established it to 69%. Only 13% want it illegal in all circumstances. Since Dobbs, in every election where abortion was on the ballot, those protecting abortion rights won handily, including last week, when Tom Keen won a special election in Florida, flipping a seat in the state House from Republican to Democratic.

But I wonder if there is more behind the fury over the Dobbs decision than just access to abortion, huge though that is. 

In the 1850s, elite southern enslavers quietly took over first the Democratic Party, and then the Senate, the White House, and then the Supreme Court. Northerners didn’t pay much attention to the fact that their democracy was slipping away until suddenly, in 1854, Democrats in the House of Representatives caved to pressure from the party’s southern wing and passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. That law overturned the Missouri Compromise, which had kept enslavement out of much of the West, and had stood since 1820, so long that northerners thought it would stand forever. 

With the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, human enslavement would become the law of the land, and the elite southern enslavers, with their concentration of wealth and power, would rule everyone else. It appeared that American democracy would die, replaced by an oligarchy.

But when the Kansas-Nebraska bill passed, northerners of all parties came together to stand against those trying to destroy American democracy. As Illinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln put it: “We rose each fighting, grasping whatever he could first reach—a scythe—a pitchfork—a chopping axe, or a butcher’s cleaver,” to fight against the minority trying to impose its will on the majority. Within a decade, they had rededicated themselves to guaranteeing “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

I wonder if Dobbs, with its announcement that when Republicans are given power over our legal system they do not consider themselves obligated to recognize an established constitutional right, will turn out to be today’s version of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. 

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Letters From An American #Heather Cox Richardson #history #women's rights #reproductive rights #abortion rights #right wing SCOTUS #corrupt SCOTUS #rule of law #Kansas-Nebraska bill #slavery #Dobbs #US History #Roe V. Wade #women

[annasellheim]

I tried my best at a Jersey accent - it didn’t go well.

#comic #comics #proud #graphic medicine #abortion #pro choice #women's health #lgbtq health #health care #scotus #USA #us politics #comic reading #Jersey #new jersey #dc #washington d.c. #early 30s #my body my rules #my body my choice

[the-og-gay-cousin]

Making the annual "Merry Christmas"/"happy holidays" posts this year is just wild for me. There is a fucked up war in Ukraine and an outright genocide in Palestine. America, a major world power, is falling apart at the seams and is attempting to silence and remove its own people, along with its own democracy. Neonazis were allowed to roam the streets. North Korea is testing more and more missiles. It feels like the beginnings of world war 3, and meanwhile, all of us are expected to go about our daily lives. A lot has happened in my personal life on top of that, including leaving my job when management went to actual shit, so one can imagine what it's like living as a young woman in 2023.

Christmas hasn't felt like Christmas in a while. As a kid, I woke up to abuse every Christmas morning, but it still felt more like Christmas than it does now. It hasn't felt like Christmas since before COVID, to be honest, but this year takes the cake for an unexciting Christmas morning. There's no anticipation, there is only me going through the motions as innocents are killed in Palestine en masse. There isn't any buzzing anticipation, there's just a sense of time flying by with a side of dread regarding what will happen because America's politicians won't get their heads out of their asses so that they can have the sense to stop supporting genocidal actions. To be frank, I feel like the only thing stopping American politicians from supporting Russia's actions is the heavy anti-communist agenda America has always had in the name of freedom and democracy for cishet neurotypical white men. If America had any political agendas in Russia, I'm fairly certain that America would be supporting its invasion of Ukraine too, along with the bullshit Israel is pulling.

Christmas doesn't feel like Christmas. It hasn't in a while, but I'm really getting that this year.

#free palestine #free gaza #slava ukraini #glory to ukraine #Sorry for the long rant #I'm just #I'm fucking pissed #we did not put down the original Nazi regime for this shit #we did not get force fed all that anti-fascist propaganda and all that pro-America propaganda in school for fuckin #America #of all places #to support a genocide in the middle east and expect us to be okay with it #America has always been a shit show but holy actual fuck #long post #not even gonna begin on what America is doing to its own citizens #misogyny in court rulings regarding abortion is CRAZY coming from this place #forget about treatment of lgbt folk #shit is insane #poc people are still having bullshit done to them #as per the American bullshit standard #healthcare is as out of reach as ever #the people have no say in their tax dollars #apparently #since it's all going to fund ethnic cleansing in the Middle East #Fuck this shit man #I fought to get out of abuse that none of the authorities would have addressed properly because it was primarily psychological #and now I guess I'm ready to fight as best as I can against global scale bullshit by attending protests when possible #and by keeping Palestine in the algorithms of myself and any of my followers

[bisexualalienss]

in what world does a judge think they have authority of drugs the fda approves. hell country

#i don’t think the ruling will stand after the fifth circuit but #mifepristone also has many uses. #smaller doses help with inducing labor #also w cushing's syndrome #plus it’s been approved for 20+ years #and also. it makes abortion easier which they hate

[iactuallydolikepussy]

👣Que mal que las chicas de hoy ya sepan abortar con medicamentos.

Qué feo que aborten ANTES de cumplir las doce semanas de gestación comprando Misoprostol en cualquier farmacia sin necesidad de receta, las cuáles vienen con 12 pastillas; usando 4 pastillas de forma sublingual cada 3 horas, para así obtener un aborto espontáneo desde casa, donde se necesitan mantener hidratadas y con comida balanceada; si las acompaña una amiga, es mejor.

Que horror que sepan que el dolor se controla con 400 mg de ibuprofeno cada 6 horas y una compresa o bolsa de agua caliente sobre el vientre.

No es posible que se enteren que 10 días después pueden irse a hacer un ultrasonido para revisar que el producto haya salido de forma exitosa.

En que momento se vienen a enterar que si el sangrado es mucho (más de tres (3) toallas nocturnas en una hora) y se asustan o se sienten mal (debilidad, palidez, mareos, taquicardia, fiebre), pueden acudir al hospital más cercano y decir que comenzaron a sangrar de manera espontánea. Nadie sabrá que usaron el misoprostol y nadie puede obligarlas a dar información que no quieran proporcionar. Que mal que si tienen dudas o necesiten acompañamiento puedan recurrir a Las Libres (http://www.laslibres.org.mx/)

#abortion ban #pls transalet idk if its safe tu put it in english #us abortion news #us abortion rights #us abortion ban #us abortion ruling #abortion

[woolandcoffee]

Another WOTUS decision from an activist judge, and I just can't stress enough how much the U.S. is captured by an activist, right-wing judiciary. If the courts were ever neutral arbiters who's only existence was to settle disputes and occasionally interpret the law, that time is long past. Our government is, in theory, set up on a system of checks and balances. Except that there is no realistic check upon the court system. At least, there is no realistic check upon the court system if the federal government refuses to act (either by ignoring clearly biased rulings, removing activist judges from the bench, or packing the courts with more moderate jurists).

Unless the judiciary is meaningfully reigned in, judges will continue to take more and more power. If judges continue to overrule federal agencies - who are empowered to act by Congress and the President, and employ thousands of experts to make informed decisions - for no reason other than that particular judge disagrees personally with the agency's decision, then we're effectively letting judges run the government. It doesn't matter who the President is, or what Congress does, it matters what some Harvard grad who wears a polyester robe to work and hasn't every worked an honest day in their life is. And that's a fucking problem.

#woolly rambles #this applies to the recent decision about abortion medication too btw #the FDA approved that drug according to its expertise and authority well over two decades ago #if Chevron deference was protecting us as it was meant to then this should have been an open and shut case with a decision in favor of FDA #but activist judges don't care about precedent or established rule of law #they care about weilding as much fucking power as they can #and what is our recourse there? another fucking court? where there are no consequences when judges misapply or purposefully ignore the law? #they should be shot like dogs if you ask me

[mymarifae]

a turnip for you all

#and a special note: #don't doomscroll today. this grave injustice today is horrifying on multiple levels yes. but here's the thing #things can always change. less focusing on the fact that this has happened and oh we're all doomed we can't do anything #and more focusing on the things you CAN do. because there is always always always something #even something as seemingly small as reblogging a few informational posts and providing others with important resources #that's not small at all. that's VITAL. #share resources. donate to abortion funds if you can (i've reblogged a few links to some already) #SAVE info about how to get misoprostol and shelf lives and whatnot. because i wouldn't be surprised if webpages start being taken down #don't just bookmark the links. SAVE the information. permanently. later i may download pdfs and host a folder on my drive or something #delete flo and request that all your information be wiped as well. tbh don't use any period tracker apps #if you have to keep track. do it on paper. something that can be shredded and disposed of by yourself #rather than let the information be permanently stored by some company. #deep breath. it's going to be okay. it's not over. the fight will continue and there are ways for YOU to directly contribute #yes YOU. you at home sitting on your bed or couch. #the problem with modern day activism is too many people believe there's nothing significant they can do #but even the tiniest contribution from a large number of people can do wonders. look at your options and decide what you can do and do it. #and take care of yourself. remember the golden rule: if you go to protests leave your phone at HOME #and don't talk to cops. ever. inform them you are invoking your right to remain silent and you are invoking your right to an attorney #chin up stay safe stay strong. it'll be okay #turnip

[thepro-lifemovement]

@rosaliewarda sent me this submission: "Some people here seem to think women find abortion an easy solution to have fun without consequences. This while also saying that abortion is painful and brutal. Well yes it is. No woman would say the opposite. But deciding for women whether or not they have the right to go through this painful procedure is also brutal. What about the victims of rape? Would you also tell them that they should have been careful?"

I usually don't bring up cases of rape because that is an incredibly small group, and most pro-abortionists still want abortion legal regardless of rape being the reason for pregnancy. The average rate of pregnancy that results from unprotected sex is 2-4%. A survey of U.S. women's reasons for choosing abortion found that only one percent reported "rape" as a reason and less than one half of one percent reported that rape was the main reason.

If a woman is raped, I suggest she seek medical care immediately. Do not hesitate. If the victim is not already pregnant from prior, freely-chosen sexual activity, has not yet ovulated (i.e. has not released an egg from her ovary into the fallopian tube where it could be fertilized by the attacker's sperm), the morning-after pill can reasonably be expected to prevent her from ovulating. Doctors can test the woman's LH levels, and if it's determined that her LH levels have spiked and she is ovulating, the morning-after pill will not be able to block the egg's release from her ovary, making it an abortifacient if used. So it should only be used to prevent ovulation. If she has already ovulated and conceived, then she should receive the utmost love and support in her pregnancy. I think the rapist shall be held liable for all of her hospital bills, child support payments, and every bill for that child. That's a law we need to push for. Like really push for.

I will never blame a woman for getting pregnant as a result of rape. She is the victim. But I don't believe she should abort her baby because it's not the baby's fault. "A hint is found in another study of 164 women who had rape pregnancies (conducted for the book Victims and Victors). In that study, the majority of those who had abortions said it only caused additional problems and the vast majority regretted having abortions. By contrast, among those who delivered the child, satisfaction was higher and none stated any regret for giving birth."

People need to stop scaring victims of rape into getting an abortion. It is not their rapist's baby; it's her baby. It is a social myth that abortion is her best option. It's not.

#submission #rape #rape victims #prolife #i know prolifers hate plan b #but if its only used in the very rare cases as a contraceptive then its fine because theres no embryo conceived #it can only be a contraceptive if shes not ovulating #catholic hospitals are very strict on its use for rape victims as a contraceptive #i wonder with states outlawing abortion #that those rules will apply as well3 #but theres also a lot of side effects to it #abortion #pro-life #pro life #anti abortion #rosaliewarda