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Kathleen Kingsbury
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Women in states with new extreme anti-abortion laws could face legal repercussions, not just for getting an abortion but even for miscarrying or having a stillbirth. IVF and birth control may also be under threat. Here's how we know. nytimes.com/personhood.
A version of “The Handmaid’s Tale” has been taking shape in states across the country for some time. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
The extreme new abortion bans in Georgia, Alabama and Missouri are the latest efforts, efforts that empower prosecutors to charge women for having miscarriages, stillbirth, falling down the stairs, attempted suicide, not wearing a seat belt, etc. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
The mere existence of criminal statutes aimed at forcing women to make decisions to protect their fetuses — even at the expense of their own health —inject fear into health care settings and deny women proper health care. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
And, finally, a reminder that abortion is still legal in all 50 states and will be until the Supreme Court says otherwise. Until then, a primer on how to help protect reproductive rights, even if you don't live in Alabama, Georgia or Missouri. -30-nytimes.com/2019/05/15/opi…
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Kathleen Kingsbury
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A thread: Today, the @NYTOpinion Editorial Board launches our 9-part series on personhood laws and the criminalization of pregnancy. Couldn't be prouder of this work, put together by an extraordinarily talented team. Please read it. (1/x)
The @nytimes ed board has been a longtime defender of abortion rights. In the past we've covered plans to decimate access to reproductive health care, curtail abortions at 20 weeks, the global & domestic gag rule, abstinence-only education + other pressing issues. (2/x)
Today's series focuses on how, to bolster their contention that a fetus should be recognized as a person, anti-abortion campaigners have won the passage of laws in Congress and in state capitals to assert the government’s right to protect a fetus as early as fertilization (3/x)
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Adam Shehata
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With the #abortion bills in the US effectively banning abortion in all circumstances, it is time we remember Henry #Morgentaler, a Canadian physician who challenged the #criminalization of abortion in Canada and went to prison for it.

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Dr. Morgentaler was born in Poland in 1923. He was imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. After the war, he immigrated to Canada to study and practice medicine. 2/25
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Sally Hunt
@sallybhunt
Anti-abortion/pro-forced birth/“pRo-LiFe” views & legislation are only about gaining power, control, ownership, & full domination over girls’ & women’s bodies, to make all girls & women into subjugated second-class citizens.

#abortionrights #abortion #abortionishealthcare
What about homeless lives? Poor lives? Arab/Palestinian lives? Sick lives who can’t afford medical care? Black lives shot by cops? It’s CRUEL to care more about tiny blobs w/ no feelings, no conscious thoughts, no opinions, & no fears than abt born, aware, sentient girls & women.
Homeless people die out on the street all the time, with no food, shelter, or healthcare. US engages in military interventions around the world. We murder innocent men, women, children, & babies all over the world. In the US, people can’t afford medical care/prescriptions, & die.
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Harlem Flipper
@HarlemFlipper
Franchise Tax Board v Hyatt is the sleeper abortion case you have not heard about. Because, of course, it is not about #abortion.

But the decision - and HOW it is reached - is going to determine how the incoming wave of abortion cases are going to be resolved.

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The FTB case came from a tax dispute. A former resident of California sued the California Franchise Tax Board in a Nevada state court, claiming that it had done him all manner of wrongs in investigating his purported tax liability.
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California does not want to be sued in another state’s courts. The current law, decades old, allows such suits.

The case has nothing to do with abortion, but everything to do with how to overturn precedent.
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robjh1
@robjh1
To be clear Abortion is not a rite of passage or a Means to an End as some in the entertainment community are portraying. #Abortion
Abortion is not birth control but people control. #DefundPlannedParenthood
All the more reason to #VoteRedToSaveAmerica .
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Marla in GA 🏳️‍🌈☮️🥔🍐🌊
@MarlaCaldwell
Last night I promised a thread about #abortion before Roe v Wade legalized it nationally. Until the mid-1800s, common law allowed abortion until "quickening", when fetal movement can be felt. Toxic abortion remedies & doctors competing w midwives led to… 1/
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"In the late 1920s some 15,000 women a year died from [illegal] abortions…In 1971, the year after decriminalization, the maternal-mortality rate in New York State dropped 45%." 3/
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Victoria Brownworth
@VABVOX
We really need to talk more about #abortion as an option for women.
It's hard to say this and hard to hear it for many, but just because you discover you are pregnant doesn't mean you must carry that pregnancy to term. Your decision will last the rest of your life--and the rest of the life of any child you decide to carry to term.
#abortion
And no, I am not advocating #abortion.
I'm advocating thinking about parenthood & all it entails.
Because once you have a child, you can't just walk away from that life.
And women/girls are talked into maintaining pregnancies every day.
More discussion would change that.
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