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Abortion Law: Why Cruelty Is the Point
The current epidemic of medieval abortion laws being passed by state legislatures has inspired a lot of people to explain why such laws are cruel. See, for example, Rape victim who had illegal abortion...
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How Democrats Need to Talk About Abortion
Jonathan Capehart praised Pete Buttigieg’s Fox News appearance (which I didn’t see), and in particular praised Buttigieg’s answer to an abortion question. “Do you believe at any point in pregnancy,”...
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SCOTUS Really Might Overturn Roe This Time
The SCOTUS announced today it will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law that outlaws elective abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation. There is real concern that...
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Fetus Vigilantes Are Unleashed in Texas
I have long believed that abortion is an effective wedge issue for Republicans as long as Roe v. Wade stays in effect. Polls going back years show a reasonably comfortable majority of Americans support...
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Roe May Be Dead; Republicans Hope We Don’t Notice
I got tickled at Dave Weigel’s column today. The intro — “The only newsletter that isn’t about Joe Manchin today, this is The Trailer.” Many people are pissed at Manchin, who is acting up again. He...
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The Price of Complacency Is Too High
The SCOTUS is hearing argments on the Texas vigilante abortion ban today. Kate Riga at TPM reports that the Texas law has sent “shockwaves” through neighboring states, as Texas women seek abortions....
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Supreme Court: Roe Is About to Go
Today the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Mississippi abortion law case. Mark Joseph Stern reports for Slate: Give this to the Supreme Court: It...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Give Money to NARAL
Cheryl Gay Stolberg writes in the New York Times: In the 116th Congress, if you’re a Democrat, you’re either a socialist, a baby killer or an anti-Semite. That, at least, is what Republicans want...
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Well, They Dropped the Bomb
Well, they did it. Roe v. Wade is overturned. The justices added a second decision day this week, which is unusual. Tell me that this timing wasn’t partly to take attention away from the J6 hearing....
View ArticleWhy Right Wing Crazies Are Trying to Destroy One of the Few Things George W....
Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney report at Politico that Trump’s co-defendants are begining to turn on him. Apparently their lawyers think their best defense is that they were just following Trump’s...
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