Sens. Kaine, Murkowski, Sinema, and Collins have introduced the Reproductive Freedom For All Act.

By artappraiser on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 9:10pm |

Link is to their Aug. 1 Press Release on Murkowsi's site

THREAD INCLUDES OTHER ABORTION NEWS - including THE VOTE IN KANSAS

Sens. Kaine, Murkowski, Sinema, and Collins have introduced the Reproductive Freedom For All Act.

The legislation would "enact in federal law the essential holdings of Roe v. Wade and related cases," protecting abortion rights and contraception access.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 2, 2022

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https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/release/kaine-murkowski-sinema-and-collins-introduce-legislation-to-codify-roe-v-wade

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Don't know for sure if this guy knows what he's talking about but worth posting -

Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins have joined Kyrsten Sinema and Tim Kaine for a bipartisan bill to codify Roe v. Wade, which means the Senate has at least 51 votes to add abortion rights to any budget reconciliation bill as long as Chuck Schumer and Kamala Harris want to.
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) August 2, 2022

Securing the right to reproductive freedom for half of the country has a significantly positive impact on the national budget and we can pass multiple reconciliation bills a year. There's no reason why Democrats can't pull this off when they have 51 votes.
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) August 2, 2022

The Senate Parliamentarian is an unelected official who gets paid $172,500 a year to decide what we can pass via budget reconciliation, but they have no authority over Chuck Schumer or Kamala Harris, AND can be ignored any time, so yes, we can pass abortion rights with 51 votes. pic.twitter.com/ns6TqTscgZ
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) August 2, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 9:15pm

The first vote on abortion access since the US Supreme Court stripped away federal protection for the procedure is taking place in Kansas on Tuesday following a bitter campaign that has divided politicians, neighbours and even families https://t.co/iNlKgOu7hp pic.twitter.com/exrRrSbc07
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) August 2, 2022

edit to add more from their thread, espec. since their articles are paywalled

The proposed ‘Value Them Both’ amendment would overturn a 2019 ruling by the Kansas Supreme Court that found women had the right to make decisions about their bodies, including whether to terminate a pregnancy https://t.co/E0gq9vgPOE pic.twitter.com/9gigE8rzHS
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) August 2, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 9:50pm

Kansas abortion referendum:

Trump won Franklin County by nearly 40 points in the 2020 election.

Tonight, with virtually all vote reported, "No" is leading by more than 13 points
— Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) August 3, 2022

Johnson Co, KS (biggest in the state) finally releases results:

'No' (pro-choice) leading 72%-28% with 70% of the vote in.

That means the pro-choice side is doing a full *20% better* than Biden did in that Kansas City suburb county so far.
— William Joy (@WilliamJoy) August 3, 2022

Great news if the prochoice vote holds in Kansas -but this may be a red flag for people who think the SCOTUS Dobbs ruling will increase Dem midterm turnout / the chance Democrats hold Congress after 2022 elections- prochoice, Kansan republicans may have decreased that urgency.
— Michael Overholser (@OverholserM) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 10:02pm

I've seen enough: in a huge victory for the pro-choice side, the Kansas constitutional amendment to remove protections of abortion rights fails.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 3, 2022

^ he's from Cook Political Report, basically gold standard on elections

Kansas is redder than a baboon’s backside, too. While this is reassuring, everybody needs to vote, every cycle. https://t.co/SM9CL5ti2p
— The Braden of Domination (@coltmonday) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 10:07pm

Nate Silver:

If the result holds a very big deal. Not a huge surprise based on pre-election polls and Kansas is *slightly* less socially conservative than people assume. But still, confirms that the Dobbs decision was deeply unpopular and will motivate the midterm vote. https://t.co/KCMoJ5IbyF
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 3, 2022

Nate Cohn:

We've now got 12 Kansas counties--almost all rural GOP--where the vote appears to be completely wrapped up, and 'yes' is running is a net-14 pts (using margin to avoid confusion) behind our benchmarks for a tied election in Kansas, based on abortion referendums elsewhere.
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) August 3, 2022

David Shor retweeted this:

Reproductive rights is the best issue for the Democratic Party at the moment. For both moral and political reasons, we should elevate its salience as much as possible. https://t.co/s3tkqPbLUc
— Simon Bazelon (@simon_bazelon) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 11:09pm

My my what a surprise, huge voting lines in Wichita for a primary election for midterms, I wonder why; NOT

HEY WICHITA STAY IN LINE. DONT LEAVE THE LINES!!!

DONT STEP OUT! #KansasVoteNo pic.twitter.com/Imjv3PE8Hs
— L (@issywithal) August 2, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 11:22pm

Cute!

There’s no place like Kansas voters rallying to keep abortion access in place not only for the people in their own state, but for those coming in from other states where abortion is already banned, seeking access to care.

Voting matters. pic.twitter.com/GlRz5rI4NR
— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 11:54pm

A uniquely Wichita experience -- voting on abortion rights at the site of an abortion doctor's assassination. https://t.co/lv1AEiuqm0
— Polly Wenzl (@PollyBWenzl) August 2, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 12:04am

Indeed, if the GOP had a totally different position on abortion than the one it actually advances -- that it should be legal but only in the first trimester -- then abortion wouldn't be an electoral liability for the party. https://t.co/Fg1zf19T4g
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) August 3, 2022

See also this column about NM Gov candidate Mark Ronchetti's one weird trick for mitigating the political damage to him from Dobbs (abandoning his old position and adopting a new very different one) https://t.co/Tv0zHzMQ64
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 12:41am

In my many years of working in political data I can’t recall having seen voter registration deviate from the mean nearly as much as we’ve seen in Kansas since June 24th.
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) August 3, 2022

Among Kansans who registered to vote on or after June 24th (when the Dobbs decision was announced), Democrats have an 8 pt advantage. Compare that to the GOP's overall advantage of 19 pts among all registered voters in Kansas. The landscape changed on June 24th.
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) August 3, 2022

Oh, and perhaps more impressive (and problematic for the GOP): 70% of Kansans who registered to vote after the Dobbs decision was handed down on June 24th are women.
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 1:02pm

I think it’s telling that Will did not include a link to the post here so that he could better lie about its content https://t.co/yrbCysJuKJ
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 3, 2022

I think if you look at how the pro-choice side ran and won in Kansas you’ll see they adhered very closely to this formula. https://t.co/cVELNxfTmj pic.twitter.com/dRyhR2ISNn
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 3, 2022

Great example here https://t.co/gNL0lUo9yL
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 1:06pm

^ It worked to stress the libertarian, anti-nanny-state angle. That would definitely imply woke moralizing isn't very welcome either. (Nor even Bloomberg style - they'll make the choice of buying a Big Gulp themselves, thanks for the health concerns but no thanks.)

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 1:11pm

Biden signs order paving way for Medicaid to pay for out-of-state abortions https://t.co/dpMWIDd9sk
— Heal the Planet -- #BetoForTexas (@fwtoney) August 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/03/2022 - 6:11pm

De Santis wants the 15 week ban law in Florida enforced

http://dagblog.com/comment/319520#comment-319520

and just a reminder that allowing abortion choice up until 15 weeks is the most popular answer in national polls

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/04/2022 - 3:59pm

Eli Lilly and Co.—among Indiana’s largest employers—on the state’s new near-total abortion ban: “Given this new law, we will be forced to plan for more employment growth outside our home state.” pic.twitter.com/ArHSuw8mAf
— Adam Wren (@adamwren) August 6, 2022

Glad to see that Eli Lilly will be focusing its business growth outside the state of Indiana after Indiana passed a draconian anti-abortion bill. States that do this will quickly find themselves unable to attract top talent. https://t.co/xQ6sPjRSWO
— Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@TheAngryEpi) August 7, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/07/2022 - 1:47pm

Montana Supreme Court upholds ruling blocking abortion restrictions

BY OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN @TheHill.com - 08/09/22 9:27 PM ET

Montana’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that temporarily blocks further restrictions on abortion.

Planned Parenthood in a statement Tuesday announced that the Montana Supreme Court blocked three separate laws that were enacted during the state’s legislative session last year from taking effect.

One of the laws would have banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, while another would have created numerous barriers to medication abortion, and a third would have implemented a mandatory ultrasound offer and documentation requirement for those seeking an abortion.

A district court in September blocked those three laws from taking effect. Planned Parenthood’s Montana chapter filed the initial lawsuit challenging them.

“We are pleased that the Montana Supreme Court ruled today to uphold the preliminary injunction put in place by the District Court in the fall.This means that three anti-abortion laws remain unenforceable, including a 20-week ban,” Planned Parenthood of Montana’s chapter president and CEO, Martha Stahl, said in a statement.

“The Court upheld the Armstrong decision, which the State had requested be overturned, and abortion remains legal in Montana, protected by our constitutional right to privacy. This is a victory for our right to make personal medical decisions, free from the interference of government,” Stahl added. [....]

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/09/2022 - 10:26pm

PolitiFact - Abrams distorts new Georgia abortion law; Kemp has not moved to investigate women for miscarriages https://t.co/IKlmA3y3vJ
— STEVE TARVIN (@SteveTarvin) August 13, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/13/2022 - 9:57pm

Anti-AOC candidate a bit unhinged

AOC’s opponent has a promo out for a TV appearance. pic.twitter.com/VEgUbe5Pcz
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 13, 2022

by PPlongstickings (not verified) on Sun, 08/14/2022 - 2:25am

BREAKING NEWS: Oakland County Judge Jacob Cunningham grants Gov. Whitmer request for preliminary injunction, issues order that Michigan county prosecutors CANNOT enforce 1931 abortion ban

Order remains until MSC determines if abortion is constitutionally protected in Michigan.
— Mark Cavitt (@MarkCavitt) August 19, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 3:49pm

Catholics for Choice:

When we say we want health care for all, we mean it.

From trans-inclusive health care to abortion access, health care for all is a Catholic social justice value.
— Catholics for Choice (@Catholic4Choice) September 4, 2022

account description:

A voice for Catholics who believe that Catholic tradition supports one's right to follow their conscience in matters of sexuality and reproductive health.

Worldwide linktr.ee/catholics4choi…Joined December 2008

by artappraiser on Sun, 09/04/2022 - 5:00pm

Catholic tradition supports whatttt? Are you fucking kidding me?

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 09/04/2022 - 5:19pm

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