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@JessicaValenti
Sep 5 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
If you want to know what dystopia looks like, it's this YouTube video from the South Dakota Health Department telling doctors when they're allowed to save pregnant women's lives
I wish I was exaggerating: This is a government video instructing doctors are what conditions are sufficiently life-threatening enough to end women's pregnancies Image
And btw, I say "end women's pregnancies" and not 'abortion' because the video doesn't recommend abortion for life-threatening pregnancies. Instead, it says doctors can perform 'maternal fetal separations' - that's a fake term anti-abortion activists made up
Why is the South Dakota health department parroting anti-abortion rhetoric? Because this video was made in collaboration with the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs (AAPLOG) - an extremist group that says abortion is *NEVER NECESSARY* to save someone's life
In fact, AAPLOG doesn't want women to have abortions when their pregnancies are life-threatening - they want doctors to force women into c-sections, rather than easier, safer, quicker, less painful and less traumatic abortions.
And btw that’s becoming a common recommendation among anti-abortion groups. Literally just made a TikTok about this a few days ago related to a *different* organization
I have the full story on the South Dakota video in tonight's issue of Abortion, Every Day (link in bio). And it relates to issues I've been tracking for over a year: conservative efforts to redefine abortion & moves by Republican lawmakers to pretend as if they care if women die

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Sep 6
Ron DeSantis is *sending cops* to the homes of people who signed a petition to get abortion on the Florida ballot.

This comes the same week that the Florida department of state requested information on 36,000 voters who signed the Amendment 4 petition
h/t @AnnaForFlorida Image
Republicans claim they're looking for fraud, using the same dept of “Election Crimes and Security" that DeSantis used to target Black voters in 2022.

They don't care that voters want abortion rights restored—and if they need to dismantle democracy to keep it banned, so be it
Btw, if you haven't subscribed to Abortion, Every Day yet, consider that I predicted this would happen *six months ago* after two petitioners were arrested for allegedly collecting fraudulent signaturesImage
Read 6 tweets
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Aug 28
There have been a ton of headlines over the last few days about JD Vance promising that Trump won’t support national abortion ban.

But what reporters haven’t picked up on is that Vance used the word ‘ban’ in a very particular way to lie in plain sight.
If you read my newsletter, you know I’ve been tracking conservatives’ efforts to redefine ‘ban’ for over a year. Interviews like this are *exactly* why I’m so obsessive about language. So let’s get into it…
Anti-abortion activists and politicians know that abortion bans are extremely unpopular, so they no longer use that word. At all. 

That’s why you’ll hear Republicans say that they support a ‘restriction’ or a ‘national minimum standard’ even tho they just mean ‘ban.’
Read 14 tweets
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Jul 31
A few things to know about Project 2025:

It doesn't just call for every abortion to be reported to the federal government, but also every miscarriage, stillbirth, and "incidental" pregnancy loss from medical treatments like chemo

Project 2025 also calls for a Trump presidency to redefine emergency contraception as an 'abortifacient' (they call it the “week after” pill), use the FDA to repeal approval of abortion medication, and use Comstock to ban the shipping of abortion pills & supplies
But Project 2025 doesn't just want to criminalize the mailing of abortion medication - it calls for a ban on the “interstate carriage of abortion drugs.”

That means anyone who drives pills a few miles across a border will be labeled as a drug trafficker.
Read 9 tweets
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Jul 25
In the newsletter right now: Georgia cops are investigating a miscarriage, and it's following all of the traditional markers of pregnancy criminalization

Link in bio Image
It's so important that people understand the way criminalization operates - and the way it humiliates and punishes pregnant people
When people are turned in to law enforcement for their pregnancy outcomes, for example, it's most often healthcare providers who make that call. That was the case here.

@ifwhenhow has an important study that gets into this ifwhenhow.org/resources/self…
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Jul 17
Since I'm on a roll with bitching about mainstream coverage of abortion rights:

Remember how many headlines claimed Republicans removed a national ban from their platform? I pointed out that wasn't true because of language on the 14th amendment *and* so-called 'late' abortion
Essentially, anti-abortion lawmakers have been redefining 'late' abortion as anything after the 1st trimester. (It's is not a real medical term, so they define however they want) It's rhetorical cover for their national ban -they say they're just limiting 'extreme late' abortion
This is what I wrote about the platform. Just remember this quote for a minute: Image
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Jul 16
The @nytimes is has *deceptively edited a JD Vance quote* to make it appear that he opposes a national ban. Here's the 2022 quote they use:

“Ohio is going to want to have a different abortion policy from California, from New York, and I think that’s reasonable."
Here's the full quote, where Vance clearly calls for a national ban. This is journalistic malpractice. Image
This is not just a matter of taking a politician's word for it. They reference the quote and then lie about it
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