DeSantis threatens criminal charges for airing abortion rights ads in Florida – news round-up

Ron DeSantis’ Administration Is Threatening to Prosecute the Media for Airing Pro-Choice Ads The problem is especially acute for cancer patients, like Caroline, who must undergo an abortion in order to receive chemotherapy. Florida’s exception does not clarify when a patient’s cancer is severe enough to justify termination. These women may have to wait until … Read more

Georgia Supreme Court reinstates state’s 6-week abortion ban

The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the state’s six-week abortion ban while it reviews an appeal from the state of a lower court ruling that had struck down the law. ….. The state Supreme Court’s decision, however, left in place the lower court’s ruling blocking a separate provision of the law that had given … Read more

Republicans in House races are moderating their words on abortion — but not always their policies

“House Republicans know their extreme anti-choice records are their biggest vulnerability, so they’re saying anything in a desperate attempt to deceive voters,” DCCC spokesperson Viet Sheldon told The 19th, adding that the organization will continue to fact check GOP candidates’ records in the final weeks before Election Day. Read more at 19th News  

The Rise of the Right-Wing Tattletale

Mitchell declined to comment for this article. But his work on the Silva case and the bounty law, among other matters, reflects a tactic that conservatives have recently embraced in a range of social battles, including those over abortion, LGBTQ issues, and school curricula. Across the nation, Republican-controlled state legislatures and conservative activists have passed … Read more

Trump and Vance Are Calling Their Abortion Ban Something New

Trump, and the conservative-activist elite that Vance hails from, have a clear plan for limiting women’s access to abortion should they win in November. This could take the form of a congressionally authorized ban if Republicans have a big enough majority, which Trump and Vance would simply refer to as a “minimum national standard.” Or … Read more

Vance backtracks on whether Trump would veto national abortion ban

When pressed on if Trump would veto a national abortion if brought to his desk as president, Vance wouldn’t commit to an answer. Instead, Vance said Sunday that Trump “thinks it’s ridiculous to talk about vetoing a piece of legislation that isn’t going to come before the president in the first place.” Read more at … Read more

“Deadly”: Experts warn Trump and Vance are “backpedaling” on abortion to conceal a darker reality

In August, Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who suffered a rare complication from abortion pills, died from an infection after Georgia passed a law banning the abortion treatment that would have saved her life. Earlier this summer, Texas woman Kate Cox, whose fetus’ lethal anomaly doctors said threatened her health and future fertility, left the … Read more

JD Vance won the VP debate with lies. Here’s the truth, in his own words

At his core, if Vance has one, there is a Christian nationalism that seems to embrace Trump as a means to an end. This is what really concerns me about Vance, not that he believes in nothing, but that he believes in a country run on Christianity above law. Read more at the LA Times … Read more