La state legislature is 80% male. Avg age 58. We’re barely into this and it’s just what we hear. There will be many many more stories like this. “Republican state Rep Neal Collins told the South Carolina House Judiciary Committee that he would not be voting further in favour of the ban on abortions in its current form after hearing of the young woman’s situation, Mr Collins spoke of the sleepless nights he had after hearing from a doctor about how the 19-year-old had come to an emergency room when her water broke after just 15 weeks of pregnancy. It was explained to him that doctors had two choices: Admit the woman to the hospital until the heartbeat stopped, which could take anything from seconds to days - or discharge her to pass the foetus by herself in a toilet. Mr Collins was told there was a greater than 50 per cent chance the woman would lose her uterus and a 10 per cent chance she would develop sepsis and die.” Lawmaker Tearily Explains Teen Almost Lost Uterus Because of Abortion Law He Voted For
Kansas was no fluke. Women registering to vote in droves everywhere. TargetSmart Insights - Not Just Kansas; Women Motivated to Vote in States with Repro Rights at Risk
Nearly two dozen states have moved to restrict abortion or ban it altogether since the reversal of Roe v. Wade — meaning more people, especially those with low incomes and from marginalized communities, will be forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term. So are states prepared to pay for the infrastructure needed to support these parents and children? The data paints a grim picture for many families: Mothers and children in states with the toughest abortion restrictions tend to have less access to health care and financial assistance, as well as worse health outcomes. Stuart Butler, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, calls the end of Roe "a double whammy" for people who live in these states, which are mostly in the South. "They are far less likely to have assistance for themselves and their children, and they are far less likely to have health care available to them when they are pregnant and for their children," he tells Morning Edition. "And that means that there's going to be not only more hardship, but greater health problems and maternal deaths and so on ... unless there is a fundamental change in political behavior in those states."
Tudor Dixon is the Trump backed candidate for governor in Michigan. Won the GOP nomination and will be facing Whitmer in November. Michigan GOP candidate says rape victims find "healing" through having baby She said that campaign ads that portrayed her as not believing in the life of the mother were "not true" and that her view is that the "health of the mother and life of the mother are two different things." She described as "fake" stories that there were no dispensations for women who have, for instance, ectopic pregnancies, amid a confusing legal landscape following the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe vs. Wade, which had guaranteed a women's federal right to an abortion. Anchor Roop Raj then asked Dixon about whether she would support terminating the pregnancy of a 14-year-old rape victim. Dixon replied that she had spoken to people who were the children of rape victims and that "the bond that those two people made and the fact that out of that tragedy there was healing through that baby, it's something that we don't think about."
At least there's a consolation. Looks like another situation in which the Trump backed candidate is going to lose to a Democrat in an election that may have otherwise been competitive had the Republicans selected a more mainstream candidate.
Smith the incumbent lost by 7000 votes. This is surprising; it was not a race until his abortion opinion. The political salience of the issue keeps getting confirmed
I guess she didn’t feel the need to “find Jesus”, one of the most offensive things I have heard in the case of a campaign
It's too bad we can't do this with the many other Christofascists DeSantis has put on Florida courts.
Another indication that this ruling hastened the death march of republicans… pro life candidates are now lying about their positions. Or maybe they were lying because they are radically changing. In Arizona, Blake Masters backtracks on abortion and scrubs his campaign website Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters softened his tone and scrubbed his website's policy page of tough abortion restrictions Thursday as his party reels from the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Just after it released the ad, Masters' campaign published an overhaul of his website and softened his rhetoric, rewriting or erasing five of his six positions. NBC News took screenshots of the website before and after it was changed. Masters' website appeared to have been refreshed after NBC News reached out for clarification about his abortion stances. "I am 100% pro-life," Masters' website read as of Thursday morning. That language is now gone. Another notable deletion: a line that detailed his support for "a federal personhood law (ideally a Constitutional amendment) that recognizes that unborn babies are human beings that may not be killed."
I seriously doubt that Masters' strategy will work considering the ads with his previous positions are more or less preserved for eternity. Also, if he should debate Kelly and even if he doesn't he's going to have answer questions regarding his apparent change in position on the abortion issue.
The language in their dialog boxes is hilarious. Cards Against Humanity donating profits from orders in 22 states to abortion fund | WAVY.com
I’m befuddled by the notion that the SCOTUS ruling robs a mother the right to kill her baby. All it entails is the possibility that she may need to drive to a killing state to kill her baby.
