1/ With anti-choice groups like Alliance Defending Freedom complaining to the Supreme Court that the Biden administration is using EMTALA to force hospitals to become abortion clinics, it's crucial to understand what EMTALA is.
rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/04/08/wha… 2/ EMTALA is a federal law requiring Medicare-funded hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment, including abortion care, to patients with emergency medical conditions, regardless of their ability to pay.

1/ 💰 Records reviewed by @garnethenderson suggest that “crisis pregnancy centers” may be spending upwards of $1 billion. But where does this vast funding flow from? Let's dive into the complexities of CPCs’ reliance on donor-advised funds (DAFs).

rewirenewsgroup.com/2023/08/30/ant… 2/ Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are accounts started by a charitable “sponsor.” Individuals contribute money to the account and “advise” the sponsor on how to donate it, while remaining largely anonymous.

1/ Right now, @US_FDA is considering making a birth control pill called Opill available over the counter.

If approved, it will be the first OTC birth control pill in the United States. A decision is expected this summer. 2/ Opill is a progestin-only pill, or POP. More on what that means, plus some history and background about who stands to benefit most from OTC birth control, here:

rewirenewsgroup.com/2023/05/03/a-b…

🚨Yesterday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced a plan to create a *$100 million* grant program for “crisis pregnancy centers,” (aka CPCs), which would make Tennessee one of the largest state funders of these anti-abortion clinics. apnews.com/article/aborti… If this is your first rodeo with CPCs, let’s break it down: They’re ideologically Christian organizations whose purpose is to dissuade pregnant people from accessing abortions.

And they do it via misinformation and scare tactics.

1/ 🧵It’s well documented that Black pregnant people face—sometimes fatal—discrimination in health care. But a recent study published by BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth shows that pregnancy bias at work can exacerbate physical and mental health complications for Black pregnant folks. 2/ Researchers interviewed 24 pregnant people and found that they faced difficulty finding and/or keeping jobs while pregnant, and that pregnancy discrimination led to financial stress and depression, which piled on to the normal stressors of pregnancy.

so true.

https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1600514973922459649

Gorsuch was good on ICWA. He's crap on everything else.

https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1600519842246926340

What's up, nerds! @AngryBlackLady here ready to live-tweet the downfall of democracy in #MooreVHarper!

The independent state legislature theory (ISL Theory) is on deck. And it's bad.

https://twitter.com/RewireNewsGroup/status/1600143046464753669?s=20&t=kOJbeRkbOhyxHlytqHxiEw

THE ISL theory posits that state courts are without power to review state legislative action when it comes to federal elections because the Elections Clause says the legislature *exclusively* has the power to set the time, place, and manner of federal elections.

It's absurd.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear a case, Moore v. Harper, which could decide whether Democrats will ever be permitted to win another election. The case involves the independent state legislature theory—the crackpot notion that the Elections Clause of the Constitution permits state legislatures to wield unchecked power in the way states run their federal elections.

What's up nerds!

@AngryBlackLady here live-tweeting #303Creative in which an evangelical Christian wants an advisory opinion about whether making a hypothetical wedding website for a hypothetical gay couple in the future violates her 1st Amendment rights.

https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/1599749228028624896?s=20&t=nA2tVv6M8n3WzweIye7G_Q

Thomas: Is this case ripe?

Waggonner, who is arguing for Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of Lorie Smith/#303Creative tries to answer and fumbles around.

She's claiming Colorado is chilling her speech.

(No they're not.)

It’s been almost six months since #SCOTUS overturned #RoeVWade and the Court’s conservatives have accelerated the Christian nationalists’ project to reimagine the boundaries of our civil society, reflects @Hegemommy.

rewirenews.link/3gVwOMh For years, Republicans have shown they are willing to sacrifice democracy when it gets in their way, and the Supreme Court is an essential component of this project of maintaining minority control at all costs, explains @KA_OConnor.

rewirenews.link/3FsqxRx

Deputy SG Kneedler is up for the DOJ:

He is arguing that Congress has full authority to regulate the affairs of Indians. Plenary means plenary. Why are we here. Bottom line: Congress's actions must be rationally related to furthering the interests of Indians.

Regulating placement of children is rationally related to furthering the interests of Indians.

Let's wrap it up and go home.

*taps mic*

Good morning!

@AngryBlackLady here live-tweeting the arguments in #BrackeenVHaaland, the case that demonstrates there's nothing white folks won't complain about when they don't get their way. They want native children and by George, they'll have them, ICWA be damned! The case is more than about the white supremacist urge to steal Native children from their homes and assimilate them, thereby severing their ties to their tribes.

It's also about ending tribal sovereignty. "Native American" is a political designation that means something.

As we wait for the polls to close and results to come in over the next week, we've got an #ElectionDay timeline cleanser for you, brought to you by the pets of @RewireNewsGroup🐾 First, we have @GalinaEspinoza's adorable Corgi named Guinness, who is feeling the #spookySCOTUSseason spirit. 🎃

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in a challenge to a 44-year-old law that prioritizes placing Native American children in Native American homes. The case is called Brackeen v. Haaland and the law at issue is the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). On this day in 1978, Congress enacted ICWA in response to abusive child welfare practices that resulted in large numbers of Native children being separated from their homes, families, and tribes.

*taps mic*

Oh hello. It's @AngryBlackLady here live-tweeting the beginning of the end of affirmative action.

What am I looking for?

Clarence Thomas, a beneficiary of affirmative action himself, talking about a color blind Constitution.

Alito being a small angry man. At least Scalia won't be on the bench talking about how maybe Black people should be satisfied with "lesser schools."

That's what he said in the Fisher case. Remember Becky with the Bad Grades?
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On Halloween, the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in two cases that will likely overrule more than 40 years of precedent regarding race-based affirmative action in higher education. Both cases, SFFA v. Harvard University and SFFA v. University of North Carolina, were filed by Students for Fair Admissions, an anti-affirmative action organization run by conservative Edward Blum.

Only 1 in 6 people in states with total abortion bans support them, according to a new @ppc_umd study, which raises the question: How are these bans becoming law with no popular support?

publicconsultation.org/wp-content/upl… Nearly 6 in 10 voters say the government should not make getting an abortion a crime, and even more say abortion should not be a crime before viability.

We’re now two weeks away from the November elections and early voting has already begun in many states. While every election has ramifications for abortion access in a post-Roe America, there are several states where your reproductive rights are on the ballot. In Arkansas, Issue 3 would create the "Arkansas Religious Freedom Amendment," amending the state constitution to say that "government shall not burden a person's freedom of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability."

arkelect.com/ballot-issues/7

Republican candidates are backtracking their anti-abortion stances as a largely pro-abortion electorate prepares to vote this November. A non-exhaustive list 🧵 Blake Masters, candidate for U.S. Senate, Arizona

The celebration of Pride this month has been marred by a record-breaking 340+ bills introduced in state legislatures this year that have harmful impacts for the LGBTQ community, 24 of which were passed into law in 13 states. “Opponents of transgender equality have stopped pretending that they’re trying to do anything other than target transgender kids,” said Cathryn Oakley, State Legislative Director and Senior Counsel at the @HRC. “They’re saying the quiet part out loud.”

As sweaty as these last few weeks have been, we’re focusing on reasons to be hopeful for the future of abortion access. So, for this week’s state’s spotlight, we’re holding up the example set by New York state. On Monday, @GovKathyHochul passed a slew of legislation protecting abortion access, including a bill to study the “unmet needs” of pregnant people in the state. Sounds pretty good, right?

governor.ny.gov/news/governor-…