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@ReproRights
Sep 18, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Robert Destro, Trump’s nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, has a long history of opposition to reproductive rights, including openly advocating against contraception, abortion, and #RoevWade.
Destro has also failed to respect LGBTQ+ rights, and has repeatedly campaigned against civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ folks in the name of religious liberty. But we all know there’s nothing moral about denying services to people based on who they love or how they identify.
We cannot allow a man who openly campaigns against #reprorights and LGBTQ+ rights to claim responsibility for ensuring that the U.S. delivers on international human rights agreements and responds appropriately to rights violations.
Robert Destro’s record is clear. He is anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ+ & anti-human rights. He is a fundamentally flawed candidate to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights & Labor. For this reason, we urge the Senate, VOTE NO ON DESTRO. reproductiverights.org/sites/crr.civi…

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Jun 12
WATCH: Our courageous client Lauren Miller testified today before the Senate Judiciary Committee about her terrifying experience being denied emergency abortion care under Texas's extreme ban.
Lauren, a plaintiff in our major Zurawski v. Texas abortion rights case, needed abortion care to save her own life, and the life of her viable twin.
Even though her doctors were ready and willing to provide the lifesaving care Lauren needed, Texas's laws instead forced her to flee the state at one of the most vulnerable moments of her life.
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May 31
Dr. Dennard, an OBGYN and a plaintiff in our Zurawski v TX case, got emotional when she heard the verdict from the Texas Supreme Court. Texas ruled against Dr. Dennard and 20+ other plaintiffs who sued the state after being denied abortions amid dire pregnancy complications.
Dr. Dennard understands the harsh reality of living under Texas’ criminal abortion ban better than anyone. Last summer, she had to flee the state when her own pregnancy was diagnosed with anencephaly, a lethal genetic condition where the brain and skull don’t completely form.
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May 22
LET DOCTORS PRACTICE MEDICINE. That's the common sense request being made in an urgent new letter to the US Supreme Court signed by 6,000 doctors from all 50 states.
🧵Here's what you need to know.
The letter was published as SCOTUS considers a MAJOR abortion case with the potential to utterly unravel the standards of emergency medical care—not just abortion care—across the country.
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) says all hospitals receiving Medicare funds must provide emergency stabilizing care to patients who arrive to the ER crashing. For patients in a pregnancy emergency, abortion care is often the treatment needed.
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Mar 26
⚠️With the abortion pill case going before the US Supreme Court today, here are some important reminders about mifepristone, the medication in question.
Mifepristone is extremely safe. ­­­In addition to a 20+ year track record of use in the US, the medication’s safety is documented in more than 100 peer-reviewed articles.
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Mar 22
NEWS OUT OF TEXAS: Today, the Texas Medical Board announced that they are publishing proposed rules to purportedly ‘clarify’ exceptions to the state’s harsh abortion bans. However, these rules fall seriously short of the clarity needed.
“The rules Texas Medical Board proposed today contain more of the same rhetoric we have been hearing for years: that physicians should just read the language of the exception and exercise their reasonable medical judgment.” -Molly Duane, @ReproRights Senior Staff Attorney
Further, these rules create a burdensome documentation system physicians must use when providing an abortion, including documenting whether there was ‘adequate time to transfer the patient’ ‘by any means available’ to a different facility to avoid having to perform an abortion.
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Feb 28
🔴LIVE: The @SenateBudget Committee is hosting a hearing on the devastating economic impacts of abortion bans. The committee will hear from @ReproRights' Tennessee plaintiff Allie Phillips and other experts. Tune in now and follow our live coverage: budget.senate.gov/hearings/no-ri…
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“[The] freedom to decide if and when to have a child affects a women’s life trajectory and her family’s financial security. Women denied an abortion who had to carry a pregnancy to term were 4x more likely to live in poverty." -@SenWhitehouse
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