Abortion pill “reversal” is a myth created by anti-choice organizations and is not backed up by mainstream physicians. But abortion pill reversal websites, pamphlets, and organizations don’t want you to know that.
SO, we put together a list of major anti-abortion myths and debunked them for you. Starting with...
FALSE: Life begins at conception
The question of when life begins is a philosophical question, a religious question, a spiritual question— everything BUT a legal question. And considering that it’s pretty much impossible to determine exactly when conception occurs, we have no business legislating abortion.
FALSE: Fetuses feel pain (and have a heartbeat by 6 weeks).
Science simply does not back this up, just like many of the other false fetus facts peddled by the anti-abortion movement. We could bore you with the details. Or you could read this story.
We’ve debunked this one already, but Sanger (who was horribly ableist) was actually anti-abortion and Planned Parenthood didn't begin performing abortions until after her death. So not only is this a flat-out lie, it’s also irrelevant.
FALSE: The anti-abortion movement is about abortion.
The anti-abortion movement will tell you themselves that they are coming for the 14th amendment. They don’t care about abortion or the lives of pregnant people and their children. It's a power grab.
BREAKING: Justice Stephen Breyer is set to retire leaving a vacant Supreme Court seat, and the opportunity for @POTUS to fulfill his promise of nominating the first Black woman Supreme Court justice.
Our legal team—@Hegemommy, @AngryBlackLady, and @ms_creilly—have compiled a list of Black women who President Biden could pick to fulfill his promise to nominate the first Black woman SCOTUS justice.
Are you ready?
Ketanji Brown Jackson is the second woman to sit on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and was nominated by Biden in 2021.
She formerly clerked for Justice Breyer and was a federal public defender.
She is seen as a frontrunner due to the D.C. Circuit Court to SCOTUS pipeline.
“Forced sterilization laws are not an aberration—they are part of a larger, horrifying system that prevents disabled people from making basic decisions about their lives, their families, and their futures,” says Ma’ayan Anafi, author of the report.
🚨 31 states + DC have laws explicitly allowing the forced sterilization of disabled people (the most recent were passed in 2019 in Iowa and Nevada)
🚨 17 states allow forced sterilizations on disabled children (only 3 states explicitly prohibit this)
NEW: In #WholeWomansVJackson, the Supreme Court has ruled that abortion providers can move forward with their #SB8 challenge against some, but not all of the defendants.
NEW: In #USvTexas, the Supreme Court dismissed the Biden administration’s request to block enforcement of #SB8.
Ahead of Supreme Court decisions in the two biggest abortion cases since #RoeVWade, the future looks pretty grim. But it doesn’t have to. And one state is giving us a blueprint to what a pro-abortion United States could look like.
This week the California Future of Abortion Council released a list of 45 recommendations, backed by abortion providers and advocacy organizations like @PPActionCA.
And this plan has legs—@CAgovernor@GavinNewsom and state @SenToniAtkins have voiced their support for these recommendations and could get the executive and legislative branches behind them.
Some states *cough* Ohio *cough* are trying to get creative with their oppression, ultimately forcing the closure of all abortion clinics that service the southwest part of the state.
Basically Mississippi asked for the law to bye analyzed under current law in its cert petition and then in its merits brief was like, well actually can you just overturn Roe and Casey.
THIS IS UNUSUAL.
Usually if a litigant wants to overturn precedent, they SPECIFICALLY ask the Supreme Court to do that in their cert petition.
You can't say you want the Court to answer one question and then switch when they decide to take the case.
it's procedurally improper.
But Roberts doesn't seem to care much. @Hegemommy has been saying for YEEEEAAARS that Roberts is no friend to abortion.
He's showing his hand here.
We told y'all not to get too excited about his June Medical Services opinion.