A new study shows that doctors applying to residency programs post-Dobbs are avoiding states with abortion bans.
Even worse, there was a decline in OBGYN residency applications *in general.*
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The Phyllis Schlafly effect: the Utah Republican who passed a law banning abortion clinics in the state (even tho abortion is legal!) describes herself as a ‘homemaker’ in her official bio
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Mace and a few other Republicans are out there acting like the voice of reason, when really all they're doing is slyly redefining the "middle ground" so that they can act as if they've compromised when they pass a ban with exceptions or deign to let us keep contraception
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Check out what she said this weekend about finding a "middle ground":
"The vast majority of people want some sort of gestational limits...they want exceptions for rape & incest, they want women to have access to birth control."
Since when is access to birth control the middle??
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You've probably seen South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace has been making the media rounds calling out her colleagues' extremism on abortion, for example. Seems like a good idea on the surface, but there's something else going on
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Something to keep an eye on when it comes to Republican messaging on abortion: They are working overtime to redefine what "the middle" is.
jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-eve
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Two-thirds of Americans - including most Republicans! - want abortion medication to be legal
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Republicans know that abortion rights are *incredibly* popular. The only way they can win is by cheating.
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They want to raise the standard from 50% of voters to 60% of voters but they need voters to agree to that change. Instead of laying out what their proposal would actually do, they're just...lying
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Truly wild piece of information in the NYT about Missouri Republicans' attempts to raise the standards on ballot measures in order to stop voters from restoring abortion rights
nytimes.com/2023/04/23/us/
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And it’s not just ballot measures - they’re attacking on all fronts. Fifteen Republican AGs just signed onto a brief arguing they have the right to fire elected district attorneys who won’t prosecute abortion cases
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That’s why I am so over all the ‘middle ground’ shit. We have public support! The real issue is that a small group of extremist legislators are wielding a growing amount of power against the majority of voters they’re supposed to represent.
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I’ve been writing about this at my newsletter for months - they’re undermining democracy to ban abortion
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As Republicans lose ballot initiatives on abortion, state lawmakers and anti/abortion groups have a new tactic: make it harder to pass ballot initiatives. nytimes.com/2023/04/23/us/
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Two decades of use and over 100 studies show that mifepristone is overwhelmingly safe and effective. While the Supreme Court did the bare minimum right thing in temporarily safeguarding mifepristone, this should never have been brought before the courts.
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The greatest accomplishment for the right is how they’ve made maintaining the status quo feel like a win…
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Abortion is a winning issue I really wish they'd fucking act like it
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1) we did vote
2) restoring Roe isn't enough
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Let me say this:
I'll continue to fight attacks on women’s health. The American people must also continue to use their vote as their voice and elect a Congress that will restore the protections of Roe v Wade.
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Next stop for the mifepristone case is the 5th Circuit who is all but certain to issue a positively batshit ruling.
The antis are going to force the Comstock Act issue before SCOTUS one way or another.
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BREAKING — Supreme Court allows abortion pill to stay on the market for now
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We are now less than 9 hours until 11:59p, when Justice Alito's current stay of Judge Kacsmaryk's mifepristone order (as narrowed by the 5th Circuit) ends.
Subscribe to Law Dork for my report — whenever we hear:
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Free campaign talking point for every Dem in every state:
"If elected I will do what is necessary to ensure abortion is legal in every state in the nation."
That's it. You literally don't need any other response to win.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/
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Hi. Abortion is still legal and mifepristone is still available. Chaos, confusion, and misinformation are powerful tools anti-abortion extremists use to trick people out of abortion. Don’t hand them that power. You can still get an abortion at Whole Woman’s Health.
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Good morning. Abortion can be self-managed with pills sourced in your community. 1 mifepristone pill followed by 4 misoprostol pills 24-48 hours later OR 12 miso pills dissolved 4 at a time under the tongue every 3 hours. You don’t need to tell police what you took if they ask.
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There's no separating the attacks on abortion rights from attacks on democracy:
Fifteen state AGs are arguing for the right to remove elected district attorneys who decline to prosecute abortion cases
jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-eve
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Marjorie Dannenfelser () of , has no qualms about lying to the public at large & reporters need to hold her accountable
𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓: Marjorie's 2021 lies published
𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓: Marjorie's words published today
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Their new messaging is all about the false idea of ‘pain capable’ fetuses. But here’s the good news - the change is in part because they know Americans hate abortion bans, so reaching for language that won’t turn voters off (this ain’t it)
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I’ve been warning about this over the last few weeks - after Dems ceded anything beyond restoring Roe, anti-choicers moved the goalposts
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"We will oppose any presidential candidate who refuses to embrace at a minimum a 15-week national standard to stop painful late-term abortions.."
If they move up their fake definition of "late-term" any further it will literally be in the first trimester... twitter.com/LEBassett/stat…
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The anti-abortion movement is telling us where it’s headed next: Comstock. If Democrats were serious about protecting abortion access at all—at all—a bill to repeal Comstock would have been introduced last week and there’d be a full court press behind it.
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Wish I could include a link to this piece, but when I do Twitter hides it from people 🙃 Anyway, check it out, democracy is fucked
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So it looks like Twitter is suppressing views on any tweet that has a Subst*ck link - don't know how much longer I can justify staying on here
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Anyone else suddenly have no more social previews when you paste urls on this hellsite?
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There's no separating the attacks on abortion rights from attacks on democracy:
Fifteen state AGs are arguing for the right to remove elected district attorneys who decline to prosecute abortion cases
jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-eve
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A reminder that the use of enforcement discretion DOES comply with court orders.
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FDA Commissioner Robert Califf in response to Sen. John Hoeven asking if FDA would commit to following the decision of the courts with respect to mifepristone:
"The FDA intends to comply with court orders."
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Imagine telling a sexually harassed 12-year old that she should respond by giving men 'a blessing'
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