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May 5, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Four key parts of the abortion bill Schumer will bring up for a vote next week: nationalreview.com/2022/05/schume…

1. How it creates a right to abortion through 9 months of pregnancy in all 50 states:
2. It would strike down almost all state laws on abortion, including parental-consent laws supported by 70% of Americans:
3. It would gut conscience and religious liberty protections:
4. It would create a right for non-doctors to perform abortions:
5. I said four, but here’s a fifth:

Murkowski and Collins point out that it would prohibit state laws banning sex-selective abortions—the killing of baby girls in the womb because they are girls.
Should I keep going?

6. It would abolish state laws requiring a 24-hour waiting period prior to obtaining an abortion—measures that Americans back nationally by a 41-point margin, according to Gallup.

news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abor…

web.archive.org/web/2018120520…
7. It would strike down state laws requiring that abortionists inform women of alternatives to abortion, measures that Americans support by a 77-point margin, according to Gallup.
8. The bill could potentially force 50 states to pay for elective abortions for Medicaid recipients because it bans measures that "directly or indirectly increase the cost of providing abortion services or the cost for obtaining abortion services." web.archive.org/web/2018120520…
Even if WHPA doesn't mandate tax-funded Medicaid abortions, House Democrats unanimously voted in 2021 to kill the Hyde amendment.

Congressional Democrats are probably 1 or 2 Senate seats from ending Hyde: nationalreview.com/2021/07/house-…
9. The WHPA would invalidate Pennsylvania's late-term abortion law under which Kermit Gosnell was convicted for killing 21 infants in utero later than 24 weeks of pregnancy (charges in addition to murders he committed after birth)
web.archive.org/web/2018120520…

10. It would strike down state partial-birth abortion bans—for example, the one in Georgia—that aren’t the same as the federal partial-birth abortion ban.

nationalreview.com/corner/radical…

@EdWhelanEPPC on why that matters:

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Nov 11, 2024
The Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison is small but worth your time.

Few things concentrate the mind on the sacrifices of veterans like the sight of a Union Army surgeon’s saws. Image
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Three rosaries carried by U.S. troops in three different wars: Civil War, WWII, Vietnam. Image
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Joseph Goss, my maternal grandmother’s great-grandfather, was 14 years old when he enlisted at Camp Randall in 1862. I’m told he was a drummer boy in Sherman’s army. Image
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Sep 19, 2024
Georgia's abortion law only takes effect when there's a heartbeat, so the law was not even relevant here.

See the text of the law vs. ProPublica's elisions that try to make what would be a *totally unreasonable* fear of the law seem reasonable. 1/

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To be clear, it would be egregious malpractice for a hospital to delay treatment in a life-threatening circumstance even if there were a fetal heartbeat.

Contrary to ProPublica's dangerously false claim, no abortion law in the country requires waiting until a woman is on the "brink of death" to provide treatment in any life-threatening case.

When a life-threatening condition arises, abortion laws allow immediate treatment. 2/Image
Was this inexcusable 20-hour delay in treatment that contributed to the likely preventable death of Amber Thurman due to a (totally unreasonable) fear of the law?

It's possible.

It's also possible that wasn't the reason for the delay.

ProPublica: "It is not clear from the records available why doctors waited to provide a D&C to Thurman, though the summary report shows they discussed the procedure at least twice in the hours before they finally did." 3/propublica.org/article/georgi…
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Jun 13, 2024
The office of Colorado abortionist Warren Hern was recorded saying he would perform an abortion at 32 weeks—start of the 8th month—for a healthy mother with a healthy baby.

The earliest preemie to survive his stay in a NICU was born at 21 weeks, and the authors of a 2013 study on late abortions reported that “data suggest that most” abortions performed between weeks 20 and 28 of pregnancy are not performed for “reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.”

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Biden administration’s solicitor general: “There can be complications that
happen after viability, but there, the standard of care is to deliver the baby if you need the
pregnancy to end because it's causing these severe health consequences for the mom.”


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The Atlantic published a big profile in 2023 of Colorado abortionist Warren Hern, who said on the record the majority of late-term abortions he performs are on healthy babies of physically healthy mothers.
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Dec 13, 2023
It is false and dangerous to claim that the Texas supreme court denied a "life-saving abortion."

Trisomy 18 threatens an unborn child’s life, but the Center for Reproductive Rights lawsuit did not identify any condition that threatened Kate Cox’s life.
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It is also false to claim that trisomy 18 is *always* fatal for the baby. Bella Santorum was born with trisomy 18; she’s now 15 years old. Image
Spreading the false claim that this was a “life-threatening” situation for the mother can only make hospital lawyers, administrators, and doctors more apprehensive about providing proper treatment in cases when a pregnant woman’s life is threatened.
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Apr 14, 2023
Kemp, after signing 6-week limit, won by 8 points in a state Trump lost.

Ohio gov DeWine signed a 6-week limit and won by 25 points in a state Trump carried by 8 points.

Same story with Iowa gov Kim Reynolds, who won by 19 in a state Trump won by 8.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court election has big implications for state law, but electoral implications are overstated by many:

nationalreview.com/2023/04/the-cr… 2/ Image
At issue in Wisconsin was a ban throughout pregnancy with no exception for rape.

Florida’s 6-week limit has exceptions for rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormalities, and the life and physical health of the mother.

nationalreview.com/corner/florida… 3/
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Apr 13, 2023
5th Circuit: “it appears that the statute of limitations bars plaintiffs’ challenges to the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone in 2000.”

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“Several doctors testified that they have seen an increasing number of women coming to the emergency room with complications from chemical abortions due to FDA’s virtual elimination of controls on the dispensing and administration of the drugs” under the Biden administration. ImageImageImageImage
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