Four years after Texas’s bounty hunter law, faux-lifers are back with a new play to restrict abortion access and a fresh set of never-before-seen legal tools that experts say would undermine the balance of power in the state. Because nothing says "the Friendship State" quite like giving private actors control over other people's bodies.
texastribune.org/2025/05/12/tex…

📄 An American Political Science Review (APSR) study shows that abortion restrictions foretell future Physical Integrity Rights (PIR) abuses.

Researchers found that abortion bans serve as a testing ground for repressive policies and behaviors against the broader population.
🧵 Researchers show that restrictions on abortion rights have coincided with increased authoritarianism and reduced democratic freedoms.

Restricting abortion rights serves as a precursor to broader human rights abuses.
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politicalsciencenow.com/how-abortion-r…

🌟 REMINDER: Bukele made secret deals with MS-13. He's not as anti-gang as he wants you to believe.

https://twitter.com/MPaarlberg/status/1919087395481215031

Bukele has also made secret deals with Barrio 18, another major Salvadoran gang, secretly releasing gang leaders while thousands of innocent people languish in Bukele's prisons.
english.elpais.com/international/…

@SCassaday @leeesdee47654 @danrwall @BryanKemper Taber’s Medical Dictionary. miscarriage | Taber’s Medical Dictionary. (n.d.). tabers.com/tabersonline/v… @SCassaday @leeesdee47654 @danrwall @BryanKemper Joshua Broder, Chapter 12 - Imaging the Genitourinary Tract, Editor(s): Joshua Broder, Diagnostic Imaging for the Emergency Physician, W.B. Saunders, 2011, Pages 650-705, ISBN 9781416061137, .doi.org/10.1016/B978-1…

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Here's the details about the young woman's condition:

Once Beatriz realized she was pregnant, “she stopped taking her lupus medicine,” which was contraindicated for pregnancy.

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https://twitter.com/ProTruth4Life/status/1870595910583083481

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“Her skin was covered in painful eruptions; she had hypertension, and her damaged kidneys were spilling protein into her urine, leaving her blood and body severely weakened.
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@GM20198114 @ZELLKLUMPEN Actually, I am correct. What you are essentially arguing is the consenting to Activity A (sexual intercourse) is consenting to a wholly different activity, Activity B (gestation). This is false. Professor @NathanNobis has written about this, and the flaws in such reasoning.
1/ @GM20198114 @ZELLKLUMPEN @NathanNobis I suggest you read his evaluation.
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@MrsElleClark9 @TheeMightyCage @oliveegger I don't think you read my thread explaining the delays.

Example:
● TX law
● Scenario: 𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 with detectable fetal cardiac tones. The cervix is opened.

1/ 2/ Texas law allows for the removal of a dead embryo/fetus. However, it does not allow for miscarriage management generally.

Why? Because there are different types of miscarriages, and contrary to common misconceptions, not all miscarriages involve an already deceased embryo/fetus.

Regarding miscarriage management:

Texas law allows for the removal of a dead embryo/fetus. However, it does not allow for miscarriage management generally.

Why? Because there are different types of miscarriages, and contrary to common misconceptions, not all miscarriages involve an already deceased embryo/fetus.
1/ @KaseTime @EJMcPherson94 @maqart55 @hoothathuh @DoomScroling Consider 𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 with detectable fetal cardiac tones.

The cervix is opened.

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Oh my gosh. The new mifepristone lawsuit claims that mifepristone is suppressing teen birth rates, which injures plaintiff states by depriving said states of population increases - as if teen girls are inherently meant to serve the state as baby factories. This is functionally a slaver's argument:
"We will force you to perform unpaid labor against your will so that we can maintain power and reap financial benefits."

Young maternal age is associated with an increased risk of death, maternal anemia, infections, eclampsia and preeclampsia, emergency cesarean delivery, and postpartum depression.

The complications, the morbidity and the mortality are much higher in girls under 15.
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https://twitter.com/Dumfukdetector/status/1783845107088687347

— They have long labor, obstructed labor, the fetus bears down on the bladder and on the urethra, sometimes causing pelvic inflammatory disease and the rupture of tissue between the vagina and the bladder and rectum. Another critical issue is that the pelvis of a child is...

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Justices Kagan and Jackson is schooling Idaho’s attorney on EMTALA. Justice Sotomayor says Idaho is turning preemption on its head.

(When a state law conflicts with federal law, federal law preempts state laws.)

🧵 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 is among the 8 women who've recently joined the lawsuit against Texas for denied care.

Lawsuit link (see pgs. 38-41):
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/upl…

At 19 weeks, Elizabeth's water broke. Her daughter was not developed enough to survive.

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This put Elizabeth at risk of developing an infection (chorioamnionitis) that could cause her to lose her uterus or even her life.

She and her husband decided that the safest decision was to terminate her pregnancy.

However, the hospital denied her OB/GYN's request,...

🧵 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨 is among the 8 women who've newly joined the lawsuit against Texas for denied care.

Lawsuit link (see pgs. 26-29):
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/upl…

Jessica's daughter, Emma, had a lethal condition called fetal anasarca,...

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... the final stage of hydrops fetalis, a condition in which large amounts of fluid build up in a baby's tissues and organs, causing extensive swelling (edema).

Emma was already showing signs of heart failure and would not survive to birth.
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radiopaedia.org/articles/hydro…

🧵 𝐊𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐧 is among the 8 women who've newly joined the lawsuit against Texas for denied care.

Lawsuit link (see pgs. 22-26):
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/upl…

Kylie's son, Grant, was diagnosed with alobar holoprosencephaly, a fatal diagnosis which also involves...

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... the baby having an abnormally large head.

Kylie was repeatedly denied termination even though the baby's head would inevitably grow too large for her to give birth to him. This meant Kylie would be forced to have a cesarean section, a major surgery...