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Aug 27, 2019 6 tweets 1 min read Read on X
Looks like someone needs a safe space
WHAT ABOUT CAMPUS FREE SPEECH BRET
This fucking grifter wrote a whole column finger wagging about sexual harassers losing their jobs and "moral proportion" then narc'd on a university professor because of a mean tweet
He literally gave a speech mocking college survivors for wanting a break-out room with counselors during a rape culture debate yet somehow has the nerve (and time and energy!!) to pull this shit. What a trip
This asshole wouldn't last a day as a woman on the internet

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More from @JessicaValenti

Dec 16
A few important things about the Texas lawsuit against a New York abortion provider:

1) Ken Paxton appears to be lying about the patient suffering "serious complications" that "required medical intervention."

2) We need to talk about how Paxton found out about this abortion
On the abortion 'complication' claim: Paxton says in his press release that abortion pills "caused serious harm to this patient."

This appears to be a lie—one that is being repeated by mainstream outlets
If you read the brief, you'll see that the patient went to the hospital because she was worried about how much she was bleeding. That's not unusual with abortion pills - a lot of folks don't realize how much they'll bleed.

But the brief says nothing about her being treated
Read 13 tweets
Nov 1
I’m still thinking about this woman in Georgia—miscarrying and hemorrhaging ‘dinner plate-sized clots’—who, even after qualifying for an abortion, couldn’t skip the state’s 24-hour waiting period because she wasn’t close enough to dying.

This is torture

usatoday.com/story/news/hea…
And this is the thing the anti-abortion movement wants to normalize: our suffering. To them, what happened to this woman is a 'success story' - proof their laws work because at least she's still alive. Who cares how much she had to unnecessarily suffer?
This is something I've been tracking at the newsletter - anti-abortion activists are trying very hard to normalize the idea that suffering for your pregnancy is to be expected. That it's all part of motherhood and if you were a 'good' mother you wouldn't complain
Read 4 tweets
Oct 30
Another dead woman.

Josseli Barnica was killed by the abortion ban in Texas, denied miscarriage care because her fetus still had a heartbeat.

They are killing us.

propublica.org/article/jossel…
Think about how many women have died who stories aren't being published. Think about how many deaths won't be counted as abortion ban deaths but 'standard' maternal deaths.

Republicans want to normalize this. They want us to believe that their laws aren't responsible.
I want people to understand something, especially as the anti-abortion movement comes out to say that it's the doctors' fault and the law allowed care: THEY KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN.

The people who wrote these laws knew we would die and decided that was an acceptable loss
Read 20 tweets
Oct 21
BREAKING: Court docs show that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis directed the threats against television stations airing ads for a pro-choice ballot measure

His office wrote the letters telling stations they'd be criminally charged if they didn't stop running ads for Amendment 4
Story is up at the newsletter now, but the health department lawyer who signed and sent the letter revealed in an affidavit that a prewritten letter was sent from DeSantis' deputies, and that he was directed to send it to media outlets
He resigned a few days later in order to avoid having to further threaten journalists. This is just one part of a huge anti-democratic assault in Florida to keep abortion banned.

The full story is at Abortion, Every Day (linked in bio)
Read 6 tweets
Oct 16
At Abortion, Every Day right now:

In the last weeks before the election, Republicans have revived their case against mifepristone. They want to ban mailing the medication (essentially passing a back-door ban), revoke access for minors entirely & more.

This is a BIG DEAL.
The amended complaint comes from the Attorneys General of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas.

It targets shield state providers, specifically, arguing that the FDA enabled “a 50-state abortion drug mailing economy, undermining state abortion laws.”
In other words: They're invoking Comstock.

The suit would also revoke access to minors entirely and restore old on mifepristone—rolling back how far into pregnancy the pills can be used, limit who can prescribe the medication, and restore requirements for in-person visits
Read 5 tweets
Oct 2
CBS' live fact check of the debate says that Project 2025 doesn't call for a registry of pregnancies. But it does: Image
There is also no mention on @CBSNews' fact checking site that a "minimum national standard" is the same thing as a national abortion ban
@CBSNews CNN *also* says that Project 2025 doesn't call for registering pregnancies. Untrue!

The document says the HHS should make states report all abortions, miscarriages, stillbirths and "treatments that incidentally result in the death of a child (such as chemotherapy)" Image
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