A bunch of fundamentalist theocracy states have started having police and even private citizens patrolling to spot pregnant women on roads connected to the border. They take the information of the car or woman, and check when she comes back if she is still visibly pregnant. If not, an investigation can be initiated. Right now this is not getting a lot of publicity and the theocratic states want to keep it that way. Let the public know that these people see the Handmaids Tale as a how to guide book. Hugs. Scottie
The Washington Post reports:
As soon as Collin Davis found out his ex-partner was planning to travel to Colorado to have an abortion in late February, the Texas man retained a high-powered antiabortion attorney — who court records show immediately issued a legal threat.
Now, Davis has disclosed his former partner’s abortion to a state district court in Texas, asking for the power to investigate what his lawyer characterizes as potentially illegal activity in a state where almost all abortions are banned.
Davis’s petition was filed under Texas’s Rule 202 by Jonathan Mitchell, a prominent antiabortion attorney known for devising new and aggressive legal strategies to crack down on abortion.
Read the full article.
Mitchell appeared here in 2022 for his lawsuit seeking to block insurance coverage for PrEP medications because they “encourage homosexual behavior.”
Also in 2022, Mitchell filed six separate lawsuits seeking to dismantle LGBTQ rights, including the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling.
Headline should be “Abusive, Controlling Man Upset Woman Doesn’t Want His Baby.”
We overturned the Runaway Slave Act quite a while ago.
And now we’ve become a nation of slave states and free states.
That’s not an exaggeration.
Forcing a person to use her body against her will (even in pregnancy, even to sustain a life) is slavery.
And the GOP is still disgruntled about it.
I don’t know much, but I know this: Any woman who votes Republican in November for any candidate running for any position is out of her fuckin’ mind.
True. My crazy religious sister is voting R consistently because Jesus and god. She is 100% anti-abortion, and that’s one of the reasons why god chose Trump as president, you see.
She is 65 and “pure”, which means she has never stained herself with sexual relations in her entire life, so getting pregnant isn’t going to happen. Pregnancy is only for nice married women, and if you aren’t a nice married woman, you are a damned whore who gets exactly what she deserves.
Yes, she is out of her mind, which is exactly why she votes republican.
Not to mention it violates the constitution. Texas cannot criminalize behavior in a state where that behavior is legal. It has no jurisdiction in Colorado.
Their novel characterization, from what I’ve said in other cases, is that the “crime” occurs in Texas when they procure the plane ticket or bus ticket or make plans, etc.
I don’t believe any texas court has signed on to that shit yet – but that’s their argument AFA
Missouri tried to do something similar, but in a different context: “That fetus is a Missouri citizen and we are protecting the life of that citizen from being taken outside of the state to be killed.” SMDH
If they’re going to claim that a fetus counts as a citizen of Missouri, then they logically need to stop issuing birth certificates and start issuing conception certificates. At least historically — especially since a child was not guaranteed to survive birth — a baby was only considered a citizen once it was born.
Claiming that a fetus somehow counts as a citizen poses an additional legal problem in the sense that it potentially opens the door to a pregnant woman potentially being charged with manslaughter for miscarrying even though her miscarriage wouldn’t necessarily have anything to do.with what she did or failed to do.
Prevailing precedent on the right to interstate travel would, in normal times, make such a notion laughable…but with this SCOTUS, these are not normal times.
This!!!
Hey Texas, you know how you discriminated against a trans cheerleader from a blue state that has laws against it? Well that blue state will sue you.
You’re totally cool with it, right?
I’m pretty sure the US Supreme Court already gave its blessing to the Texas law.
Not this one, as far as I know. You may be thinking of the “bounty” law – but I’m willing to admit if I’m wrong.
My version is on a T-shirt, but I like YOUR version better!!!
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Thanks to her ex.
This is OT, but I have to put it somewhere for you. Cool science news: https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/animals/orangutan-spotted-using-medicinal-plant-to-treat-recent-wound/
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Hi Ali. I had seen this before. It is incredible, but then we all know plants have many healing properties. In fact Cannabis is known to be a great pain reliever but due to racism it was not able to be studied and used in the US. The people in Florida years ago approved medial cannabis but the republicans including DeathSantis just ignore the wishes of the people. After all they are our rulers, they get paid by drug companies and are racist that love using drugs against black people so they just fucking ignore the vote. Their view is that what is the public, the people going to do? They rule and take the money, and we have to follow their orders on how to live. They are about to get a big wake up soon. Hugs. Scottie
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