I don’t feel good enough to write this but I’ll give it a shot just because the information needs to be out there and no one else has mentioned it here.
This is the sort of vindictive, misogynistic shit that’s going on while we’re all distracted by Drumpf.
City repeals noise rule on only Mississippi abortion clinic
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's capital city has repealed a year-old local law that sought to restrict noise levels outside the state's only abortion clinic by limiting amplified sound and banning protesters from approaching patients without their permission.
A group that sued the city of Jackson said the repeal is a victory for free speech, while the clinic's owner sharply criticized the city for not protecting patients and clinic employees from harassment.
The Jackson City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to take the ordinance off the books. It was responding to a lawsuit filed by Mississippi Justice Institute, a group that pushes for limiting government regulations….
A federal appeals court in February 2019 upheld the constitutionality of a 2009 Chicago ordinance that created an 8-foot (2-meter) bubble zone outside medical facilities. But, in 2014, the Supreme Court struck down a 2007 Massachusetts law that banned people from standing within 35 feet (11 meters) of an abortion clinic.
Court: Tennessee can enforce Down syndrome abortion ban
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Tennessee can begin outlawing abortions because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, as well as prohibit the procedure if it's based on the race or gender of the fetus.
Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee enacted the so-called “reason bans” earlier this year as part of a sweeping anti-abortion measure. The law gained national attention because it banned abortion as early as six weeks — making it one of the strictest in the country — but it included several other anti-abortion components.
The law was immediately blocked by a lower federal court just hours after Lee signed it into law.
However, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision will allow the state to enforce the reason bans while abortion rights groups continue their court battle against that law.
The Forced Birthers have said they’ll keep on filing lawsuits until they get one as far as the Supreme Court because they believe Drumpf’s three (count ‘em, THREE!) new Supreme Court justices will overturn Roe v. Wade. This one is a prime candidate for that role.
Ran across this just now on Urban Dictionary:
1: Someone who believes that abortion is wrong to the extent that they wish to ban abortions for everyone, thus forcing women who have been raped, had birth control fail, have a life-threatening pregnancy, or have a terminallydefectivefetus to carry theirfetito term. Also known by the alternate term'anti-choice' and the more innocent-sounding 'pro-life'.
2: Someone who believes that the rights of an undifferentiated blob of cells that is nowhere near recognizable as human (or anything else, for that matter) has rights that far surpass, in both importance and magnitude, those of the fully formed, living, breathing, thinking individual whom the cells have parasitized.
Note: some forced-birthers even go so far asto bomb abortion clinics in an attempt to kill abortion-performing doctors. Ironically, they do this because they feel that life is so damned sacred. (See also: hypocrite)Forced-birthers would set a far better example if they stopped screeching at all the pro-choicers and adopted some of theunwanted children who wound up in orphanages because they changed the minds of the women who got pregnant with them.