Roe v. Wade is gone.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Prominent anti-abortion, evangelical and social conservative groups are pressuring the Republican National Committee not to moderate its stance on abortion, ahead of a meeting to draft a new GOP platform next week.

New efforts from groups including Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Students for Life, and a coalition led by the Family Research Council are aimed at ensuring Republicans don’t make former President Trump’s leave-abortion-to-the states approach the official position of the party.

Anti-abortion leaders have been expressing concern at Trump’s approach throughout the campaign, as he has tried to avoid taking a firm stance and wading into the political minefield of abortion.

Yet as the RNC closes ranks around Trump ahead of the convention in Milwaukee, those groups are growing increasingly worried.

They argue weakening the platform would be abandoning all the progress the movement has made at limiting access to the procedure and would risk a divide among the party when they should be united.

The campaign and the RNC have seemingly rebuffed those entreaties.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/47...-platform/

[Ravenshire]

Prominent anti-abortion, evangelical and social conservative groups are pressuring the Republican National Committee not to moderate its stance on abortion, ahead of a meeting to draft a new GOP platform next week.  

New efforts from groups including Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Students for Life, and a coalition led by the Family Research Council are aimed at ensuring Republicans don’t make former President Trump’s leave-abortion-to-the states approach the official position of the party.

Anti-abortion leaders have been expressing concern at Trump’s approach throughout the campaign, as he has tried to avoid taking a firm stance and wading into the political minefield of abortion.  

Yet as the RNC closes ranks around Trump ahead of the convention in Milwaukee, those groups are growing increasingly worried.  

They argue weakening the platform would be abandoning all the progress the movement has made at limiting access to the procedure and would risk a divide among the party when they should be united.

The campaign and the RNC have seemingly rebuffed those entreaties.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/47...-platform/

I don't see the party splitting over this as they all know half a loaf is better than none. But, wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if the right fractured over the wedge issue of abortion?

[Angrboda]

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/47...-platform/

I don't see the party splitting over this as they all know half a loaf is better than none. But, wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if the right fractured over the wedge issue of abortion?

The party is already split. It's just a matter of where those divisions will show, and how deeply they go.

[Thumpalumpacus]

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/47...-platform/

I don't see the party splitting over this as they all know half a loaf is better than none. But, wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if the right fractured over the wedge issue of abortion?

Anything that cuts their turnout is good by me.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Boru

[Disagreeable]

America seems to be slipping backwards on a daily basis

Isn't that old news?

[Fake Messiah]

Texas Sues for Access to Records of Women Seeking Out-of-State Abortions

Texas has sued to block federal rules that prohibit investigators from viewing the medical records of women who travel out of state to seek abortions where the procedure is legal.

The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in Federal District Court in Lubbock, targets medical privacy regulations that were issued in 2000, and takes aim at a rule issued in April that specifically bans disclosing medical records for criminal or civil investigations into “the mere act of seeking, obtaining, providing or facilitating reproductive health care.”

Texas bans abortions in almost all circumstances. Women are not subject to criminal prosecution for obtaining abortions, but state law imposes penalties of as much as life in prison for those who aid in obtaining abortions.

The lawsuit claims that the privacy rules ignore federal law that lets states view medical records “for law enforcement purposes.”

In a statement on Wednesday, Texas’ attorney general, Ken Paxton, called the April rule “a backdoor attempt at weakening Texas’ laws.” He added: “The Biden administration’s motive is clear: to subvert lawful state investigations on issues that the courts have said the states may investigate.”

The Biden administration “remains committed to protecting reproductive health privacy and ensuring that no woman’s medical records are used against her.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/us/te...cords.html

[arewethereyet]

^ It's not a law about what you can and cannot do in Texas. It's a law to control women who live in Texas and the powers that be think they can enforce that law across state lines.

Women as property - nothing new.

[Thumpalumpacus]

The 19th-century abortion law in the battleground state of Arizona was officially repealed on Saturday.

The 1864 law, which was initially passed even before Arizona became a state, was revoked with Saturday marking the 90th day that the state legislature adjourned for the year. The Civil War-era law banned nearly all abortions except in the cases to save the life of the mother.

The fight over access to abortions in the state started earlier this year. Arizona’s highest court upheld the 1864 law in early April, making abortions almost entirely illegal in the Grand Canyon State. Then, in early May, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) signed legislation to repeal the state’s Civil War-era ban, just a day after it passed through the Republican-controlled state Senate.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch.../?tbref=hp