A new Missouri bill would prohibit women leaving the state to get an abortion.
If this style of legislation is somehow found legal, it would have a huge impact in a post-Roe v Wade world. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
In Texas, where Roe might as well not exist, half of the state’s abortion patients cross state lines or request abortion pills from Aid Access, an overseas service that sends pills in the mail while sidestepping U.S. abortion laws.
Rep Schakowsky & Rep Strickland are reintroducing a bill that would repeal the Helms Amendment, a decades-old provision that prohibits U.S. dollars from directly funding abortion services overseas.
Pres. Biden repealed the so-called "global gag rule" via executive order in Jan.
Officially the Mexico City Policy, barred any NGO from “perform[ing] or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning” using funds from any source as a condition of receiving US dollars.
Think of Helms as the international version of the Hyde Amendment.
UPDATE: Republicans have voted to advance Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination despite Democrats boycotting the vote.
A full Senate vote is expected Monday.
It's normal for SCOTUS nominees to decline questions, but noteworthy that Barrett has declined questions that other Justices were comfortable answering, specifically reproductive issues like birth control.
- HEK 293T cells are a cell line originally derived from the kidney tissue of a fetus aborted in the Netherlands in the 1970s.
- Those cells are used to test potency. They don't end up in the final product, but they're a part of the testing process.
Per Regeneron:
The cells "were used in testing the antibody candidates' ability to neutralize the virus" and helped researchers "determine the 'best' two antibodies, which now make up the REGN-COV2 cocktail."
I'm looking into everything the candidates have to say about abortion rights, women's health and if the moderator #askaboutabortion. Follow along on this thread 👇👇👇
First topic is Supreme Court! I imagine we'll be getting to Roe v Wade sooner than later! Buckle up!
Biden says Roe v Wade is "at stake right now."
President appears to reject that, saying that we don't know how Amy Coney Barrett feels about Roe v. Wade and that abortion isn't on the ballot.