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“On the heels of their greatest victory, antiabortion activists are eager to capitalize on their momentum by enshrining constitutional abortion bans, …
“pushing Congress to pass a national prohibition, blocking abortion pills, and limiting people’s ability to get abortions across state lines.” washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
… “‘It’s not over,’ said Oklahoma state Rep. Todd Russ (R), who attended the conference. At this point, Russ said, the ideas are like ‘popcorn in a popcorn popper.’
“‘There are all kinds going around.’
“The Supreme Court decision has already transformed America, immediately ending abortion care in eight states, with many more states poised to ban the procedure in the coming weeks and months.
“By the end of the year, abortion could be outlawed across roughly half the country. Former vice president Mike Pence and other GOP leaders have called for a national ban.”

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Jun 27
Signs of defection from TFG’s bandwagon. Imagine how much chaos he’ll create if he isn’t the Republican nominee in 2024. Or even if he is.

nytimes.com/2022/06/24/opi…
“But the hearings are having more of an impact than I expected.”
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Jun 27
“…Eric Herschmann, who was a White House adviser and did Zoom interviews with his panda painting and baseball bat of justice in the background, has been really compelling because he doesn’t mince words.” nymag.com/intelligencer/…
“Herschmann calls Trump’s ideas asinine and insane.
“On Friday, he said a couple of really memorable things, the first being his recollection of what he told Jeff Clark, the man Trump wanted to install as attorney general because he planned to do Trump’s bidding.
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Jun 27
“The January 6 committee’s five televised hearings thus far have been riveting television. I spoke with Vulture television critic Jen Chaney about the specific production choices that have made them so gripping — and so unlike other congressional hearings.
Ben: “I think the January 6 hearings have surprised a lot of people by being this gripping, even though the subject they’re exploring doesn’t lack for drama. It’s not just that the committee has dug up so much new and damning information …
“about Donald Trump’s extensive attempts to steal the election, or that zero pro-Trump Republicans are rebutting any of that information. It’s also the unusually polished style of the proceedings. As a TV critic, what has struck you most?”
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Jun 27
“Our tradition not only permits the termination of pregnancy, but even requires it when the life of the pregnant person is at stake.” rabbisforrepro.org
“And, the fact of the matter is, it’s a part of our lives; one in four people who can get pregnant will terminate a pregnancy by the age of 45.
“We know that limiting reproductive health access has disastrous consequences. Those who lack access to reproductive health care — disproportionately those struggling financially;
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Jun 27
The author of this article is Danya Ruttenberg: “a rabbi and the scholar in residence at the National Council of Jewish Women. She is the author of eight books, including the forthcoming On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unrepentant World.” theatlantic.com/family/archive…
“Think about the relationship between faith and abortion, at least in the United States, and you might conjure up images of prayer circles at the March for Life, or protesters outside clinics, or a priest giving a sermon on the sanctity of life.
“Religion is often associated with an anti-abortion stance in the American popular imagination—and white Evangelicals have been encouraging that connection for decades.
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Jun 26
“As many as a third of women experience some form of trauma during pregnancy or birth,” including the author of this article. I would share it in its entirety, but I’ve used all my gift articles for June.
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
“When Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization leaked nearly two months ago, signaling that Roe was about to fall, I felt sick, both figuratively and literally.
“First, I thought of the faces and the stories of the women I had interviewed in abortion clinics in three states, for various articles and documentaries. I felt shaky, thinking about what would happen to women like them now, women who often had other children to support.
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