Kabal Comm Pedo Swirl @33 seconds
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIqhGHpCzXo
Texas' near-total abortion ban takes effect
>40,463 views | Sep 1, 2021 | CBS
A new law in Texas bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks, which is before many women know they are pregnant. Ben Tracy has more.
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Caleb Costrini
Caleb Costrini
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>https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/meet-the-woman-behind-the-supreme-courts-high-stakes-abortion-case-240642/
Meet the Woman Behind the Supreme Court’s High-Stakes Abortion Case
>MARCH 2, 2016
“It’s time for the Supreme Court to stop this damn law,” says Whole Woman’s Health founder and CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the most significant abortion case to reach the high court in decades. Even with the legal ramifications of an eight-justice Court taken into consideration, the outcome of Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt will have an enormous impact on the ability of women in Texas — and ultimately the rest of the nation — to access reproductive health care.
Rolling Stone recently discussed the case with Amy Hagstrom Miller, the founder and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, the clinic group that sued over Texas’ extreme anti-abortion law, HB 2. The law — the same one filibustered by Wendy Davis back in 2013 — has already closed a number of Texas clinics, creating a genuine health care crisis in regions of the state, and if fully implemented would shutter even more. “What’s happening in Texas won’t stay in Texas,” Hagstrom Miller warns, noting that “what’s at stake is not only health and safety, but really respect and dignity.”
This law, and the politicians behind it, have taken away women’s decisions. They’ve created medically unnecessary obstacles that make it harder to access safe abortion services, plain and simple. The closing of these clinics has harmed people. It’s created higher costs. It’s created delays of up to 20 days to get an appointment. And it’s created extra obstacles for women who are seeking safe abortion care, as is supposedly their right, on paper. You’ve seen the burdens fall hardest on low-income women, women of color and rural women — we see their dignity, and them being able to make their own health decisions, being taken away.
Even as recently as last month, we had a waiting list at our Fort Worth clinic of up to 60 patients just waiting for an appointment. Prior to HB 2 coming into effect, the Dallas-Fort Worth area had ten licensed abortion facilities, and now we’re down to four. And we’re serving not only the Dallas-Fort Worth area, but also Lubbock, Midland and Southern Oklahoma, because some of the clinics there are closed.
Prior to HB 2 going into effect, there were 44 licensed abortion facilities that were serving people all over the state. And now we’re down to 19.
One of the things that I think is important to point out is that this law does nothing to prevent unplanned pregnancy. So it’s shut down these clinics, but the same amount of women in the state need safe abortion care. Now these women are faced with extra obstacles — travel, delays — and in some cases it’s pushed them into the second trimester. There used to be a clinic in Lubbock. And, for instance, we’ve had a woman call us, she’s a working mom with three children, without health insurance, and she’s trying to figure out how to make it all the way to Fort Worth from Lubbock for two different appointments — it’s 600 miles round-trip each time — and pay for child care, pay for time off work. It’s already pushed her into the second trimester, just trying to figure out the logistics. These specific cases really illustrate how these multiple obstacles are making safe abortion care out of reach. That’s the landscape in Texas already, today, and has been for some time as the provisions of HB 2 have gone into effect.
How are you feeling about the potential outcomes of the Supreme Court case?
I mean, it’s time for the Supreme Court to stop this damn law. This law went forward on misinformation, as though the state had an interest in women’s health and safety. And what’s happened on the ground is it’s forced women to experience delays, or to even take matters into their own hands — in some cases we’re seeing self-induced abortion.
We feel very confident that we’re going to prevail in this case. Partly we feel that confidence because the Supreme Court has already stepped in twice on our behalf, and given us an injunction to protect the full law from going into effect and to keep some clinics open. We expect a 5-3 ruling. Even though the passing of Justice Scalia has been in the news a lot, when push comes to shove, we still need five justices to rule in our favor to stop this law from going into effect.
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