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#MAGAjustices Behold their depraved, misogynistic coercive control. Excerpt: A divided Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday that federal law can require hospitals to provide emergency abortion care in states with strict bans on the procedure in the latest legal battle over access to abortion since the high court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago. Throughout two hours of argument, only the court’s three liberal justices strongly backed the Biden administration’s view that a 40-year-old emergency care law preempts Idaho’s strict ban that imposes penalties of up to five years in prison on doctors who perform the procedure, with an exception when “necessary to prevent the death of a pregnant woman.” The Biden administration had invoked the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act — known as EMTALA — to try to retain emergency access to abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe. Conservative justices, who make up the majority of the court, pushed back on the Biden administration’s interpretation of EMTALA during oral arguments and suggested the federal government cannot force private hospitals that receive federal funds to violate a state’s law. Throughout two hours of argument, only the court’s three liberal justices strongly backed the Biden administration’s view that a 40-year-old emergency-care law preempts Idaho’s strict ban, which imposes penalties of up to five years in prison on doctors who perform the procedure, with an exception when “necessary to prevent the death of a pregnant woman.” The liberal justices repeatedly raised detailed, harrowing examples of women facing health emergencies short of death, including infertility and kidney failure, and said pregnant women in Idaho were being forced out of state for emergency abortion care in violation of federal law.

South Carolina Supreme Court Strikes Down State Abortion Ban The South Carolina ban on abortions after cardiac activity is no more after the latest legal challenge to the state’s 2021 law proved successful. #personalbranding #branding #socialmedia #technology #future #futurism #businessintelligence #creativity #analytics #personaldevelopment #management

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Wayne Law Professor Nancy Chi Cantalupo shares important insights in the Michigan Independent's article on the potential use of the Comstock Act to enforce a national abortion ban. Professor Cantalupo emphasizes the crucial role of the Department of Justice in enforcing such laws, especially under different administrations. She warns that a re-elected Trump administration could use this law to criminalize abortion without hesitation. Read the full article to learn more about Professor Cantalupo's expert analysis here: https://bit.ly/3yKh1sh

#Reproductiveabuse getting the spotlight it deserves in light of the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US. Two years goes by so fast. Whatever one’s position on abortion is, where I believe there’s no simple answers (nor should there be), reproductive abuse is an insidious previously overlooked aspect of #coercivecontrol. When already difficult decisions like choosing to terminate a pregnancy rather than expose a child to an abusive father are taken away from victims by the State, I struggle to see how this is ‘protecting’ life. Anyone’s life. “It’s been almost two years since the Supreme Court overturned #Roe v. #Wade, and a new survey from the National Domestic Violence Hotline offers a disturbing glimpse into how #abortion bans—and rampant confusion about the language of these laws and who they punish—have given abusers more control than ever. Between October and December 2023, the Hotline conducted a survey on its website and anonymously collected #domesticviolence victims’ experiences with acts of #reproductivecoercion, or acts to control their victims’ reproductive decision-making, such as tampering with their birth control or blocking their access to abortion. The survey received 3,431 responses. One respondent told the Hotline her partner “knowingly and forcefully kept having sex after [my] consent was withdrawn.” She “became pregnant as a result of #rape” and wanted to get the morning after pill, but had no means of transportation to access it and “feared trying to go on my own, of what he would have tried to do if I left.” The window passed for her to be able to take plan B, and she got pregnant. Another wrote that her partner “got me #pregnant deliberately against my will after I made it clear I didn’t want kids. I believe he did it to keep me trapped and tied to him.” About a quarter (23%) of respondents said their current or former partner pressured them into becoming pregnant while 13% said their current or former partner used or threatened violence while they were pregnant. Almost 10% of respondents said abusive partners used or threatened violence if they expressed that they wanted an abortion.” #dfv #sexualassault Quoted text courtesy of National Domestic Violence Hotline

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Soon, MPs will have the opportunity to vote on an amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill - tabled by Diana Johnson MP - which would stop anyone facing prosecution for ending their own pregnancy in England and Wales.   As Diana Johnson explains in The Times, “Vulnerable women are being threatened with jail using a law from the Victorian era, which was passed before women even had the right to vote or sit as MPs. Parliament has moved on and society has moved on. The vast majority of people accept that abortion is a healthcare issue between a woman and her doctor.”   ‘Women seeking an abortion would still need to meet the grounds set out in the Abortion Act 1967. However, women who end pregnancies outside these limits would no longer face criminal prosecution under the 1861 law.’ As The Times reveals, this amendment ‘has broad cross-party support’, as the majority of MPs say women should no longer be prosecuted if they end pregnancies outside the law, with ‘less than one in four in favour of criminal action.’   Read the full report below: https://lnkd.in/eZrhQ3c7 #DecriminaliseAbortion #AbortionRights #ReproductiveRights  #ReproductiveJustice #AbortionIsHealthcare 

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