The US supreme court heard one of the most sadistic, extreme anti-abortion cases yet | Moira Donegan (opinion piece)
Their own Dobbs decision, after all, did not require any state to allow abortions in the case of risks to women’s health. Sepsis, organ failure and loss of fertility in women were thereby tacitly accepted by the court as an acceptable cost of prohibiting abortions.
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Supreme Court wrestles with fallout of Dobbs in arguments on emergency abortions
“They are pushing a legal strategy to give rights to embryos and fetuses that would override the rights of the pregnant person,” said Alexa Kolbi-Molinas with the American Civil Liberties Union. “Whether or not we see a decision in this case that discusses fetal personhood or recognizes these issues or excludes pregnant people from the protection of federal law, we know that is what these extremist anti-abortion politicians are pushing and they’re not going to stop.”
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Conservative SCOTUS Justices Somehow Ignore Pregnant Patients In Heated Abortion Arguments
Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh focused more on the spending power of the federal government than they did life-saving emergency abortion care.
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Why Idaho’s hospitals are having pregnant patients airlifted out of state
St. Luke’s Health System, which includes the hospital where Seyb works, filed an amicus brief in the case, noting that an abortion may be critical to protect a patient from nonfatal harms like loss of organs, permanent disability, severe pain or loss of fertility. It also said the ban forces patients to endure potentially risky out-of-state transfers.
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Alito reignites fetal rights debate in Idaho abortion case
“I don’t know that the Court wants to do this, like, immediately, two years after Dobbs in the immediate lead up to an election,” she said. “I think the strategy is like, in addition to just asking for full blown constitutional fetal personhood, why not do a few things that move us toward that end.”
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