All the states taking up new abortion laws in 2019

In 2019, states are taking action to restrict or expand access to abortion amid a national debate over Roe v. Wade.

Multiple states such as Kentucky and Georgia have passed bills that ban abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, around six weeks of pregnancy, while Alabama recently passed the strictest abortion law in the country, banning the procedure with few exceptions.

Several other states are considering "trigger" laws that go into effect to ban abortion should Roe v. Wade be overturned, while other states like New York have passed bills that enshrine abortion rights.

States like Alabama are specifically hoping their new laws force the Supreme Court to take up a challenge to Roe v. Wade, which established a woman’s right to abortion in 1973.

Here are the states that have passed or are considering new abortion laws in 2019:

STATES THAT PASSED NEW LAWS

Alabama

Law: The nation’s most restrictive abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest.

In May, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed into law the nation’s most restrictive abortion ban, which makes it a felony for Alabama doctors to perform or attempt to perform an abortion. The only exception made under the law is for in cases where the life of the mother is endangered by her pregnancy. It has not taken effect, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood announced a legal challenge Friday.

Arkansas

Law: An abortion ban after 18 weeks into pregnancy with exceptions.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) signed a bill in March that bans abortions after 18 weeks into pregnancy, with exceptions for rape, incest and medical emergencies. The state also passed a law in February that would automatically make abortion illegal in Arkansas if Roe v. Wade were overturned. The law is expected to take effect this month, but the ACLU has vowed to sue.

Georgia

Law: The state passed a fetal heartbeat abortion ban in May.

Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed a “heartbeat” bill in May that would ban abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected. The ACLU said it plans to challenge the law in court. The state currently bans abortions after the 20-week mark, but in light of the new law, an abortion could be banned as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The bill would take effect next year unless it’s blocked in court.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/445460-states-passing-and-considering-new-abortion-laws-in-2019

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>>6604135

The state Senate upheld an existing law making an abortion a felony, a law that would apply if the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.

Pennsylvania

Law: A proposal would ban abortions for babies because of a Down syndrome diagnosis.

House lawmakers approved in May a measure that would bar abortions solely because of a possible Down syndrome diagnosis. Aborting a baby based on its sex is already outlawed in the state. The bill has an exception permitting women to get abortions in cases of rape, incest or endangerment to the mother. It was sent to the Senate.

Rhode Island

Law: A bill enshrining abortion rights in the state.

The state House passed a bill in March that would guarantee abortion rights in the state, but it was voted down by the state's Senate Judiciary Committee. Senators have vowed to attach the bill to other legislation.

South Carolina

Law: A "heartbeat" abortion law banning the procedure at six weeks.

Gov. Henry McMaster (R) has said he will sign the bill, which passed the state House but was not taken up by the Senate before the legislative session adjourned for the year.

Wisconsin

Law: Wisconsin’s Democratic governor plans to veto abortion restrictions recently passed.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) has vowed to veto abortion restrictions the state assembly passed last week. One of the bills passed was the so-called born alive measure, which requires abortion providers to give care to babies who survive abortion attempts. Doctors would reportedly face prison time if they did not provide necessary medical care.

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New York Times Supports False Trump Claims About An "Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program" That Does Not Exist

During a press conference in Japan U.S. President Donald Trump today said (video):

And I’m not looking to hurt Iran at all. I’m looking to have Iran say, “No nuclear weapons.” We have enough problems in this world right now with nuclear weapons. No nuclear weapons for Iran.

And I think we’ll make a deal.

Iran said: "No nuclear weapons." It said that several times. It continues to say that.

Iran does not have the intent to make nuclear weapons. It has no nuclear weapons program.

But Trump may be confused because the U.S. 'paper of the record', the New York Times, recently again began to falsely assert that Iran has such a program.

A May 4 editorial in the Times claimed that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps was running such a nuclear weapons program. After a loud public outrage the Times corrected the editorial. Iran's UN office wrote a letter to the Times which was published on May 6:

In an early version of “Trump Dials Up the Pressure on Iran” (editorial, nytimes.com, May 4), now corrected, you referred to a nuclear weapons program in describing the reach of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

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The editorial is correct in criticizing the punishing aspects of the Trump administration policy toward Iran — one that has brought only suffering to the Iranian people and one that will not result in any change in Iran’s policies. But it was wrong to refer to a weapons program — a dangerous assertion that could lead to a great misunderstanding among the public.

Unfortunately that did not help. The NYT continues with the "dangerous assertion".

On May 13 the NYT reporters Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes wrote in White House Reviews Military Plans Against Iran, in Echoes of Iraq War:

At a meeting of President Trump’s top national security aides last Thursday, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented an updated military plan that envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack American forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons, administration officials said.

One can not accelerate one's car, if one does not have one. The phrase "accelerate work on nuclear weapons" implies that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. It may that the White House falsely claimed that but the authors use the phrase and never debunk it.

A May 14 NYT piece by Helene Cooper and Edward Wong repeats the false claim without pointing out that it is wrong:

The Trump administration is looking at plans to send as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack American forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons, The New York Times reported.

Also on May 14 the NYT's editorial cartoon was published under the caption Will Iran Revive Its Nuclear Program? The caption of the orientalist cartoon falsely asserted that Iran had enriched Uranium to weapons grade. And no, Iran does not have a nuclear weapon or a nuclear weapons program in its freezer.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/05/new-york-times-supports-false-trump-claims-about-an-iranian-nuclear-weapons-program-that-does-not-ex.html

‘Israel’s extreme right wing government has finished any hope for a Palestinian state’

For the 2 million Palestinians who make up almost 22 per cent of the population of Israel, discrimination and institutional racism has been a reality since the Nakba

Last year, Palestinian citizens of Israel suffered two major set-backs in their ongoing fight for equality. The first was the Nation-State Law, which basically turned non-Jews into second class citizens. The second, which is related to the first, was a slump in Palestinian and Arab representation within the Israeli Knesset (parliament).

For the 2 million Palestinians who make up almost 22 per cent of the population of Israel, discrimination and institutional racism has been a reality since the Nakba of 1948. Even though “the right to equality is not yet enshrined in law regarding most aspects of life,” no previous decree with constitutional status has relegated non-Jewish Israeli citizens to an inferior status resembling the apartheid laws in White-ruled South Africa rather than the equal rights and democracy celebrated in the West.

To discuss the implications of the Nation-State Law and the reasons why growing numbers of Palestinian citizens of Israel feel disillusioned and alienated, I sat with Yousef Jabareen. The Palestinian academic born in Umm Al-Fahm in northern Israel was elected for a second time to the Israeli Knesset in April.

This law, he told me, “deepens discrimination” and “excludes” the Arab Palestinian community within Israel. It also “enshrines the purity of the Jewish citizen in Israel and of the Jewish people in general.” Because of this, he added, “it’s important to explain to the international community the dangers of this law, and how it will lead to greater conflict in the region.”

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190527-israels-extreme-right-wing-government-has-finished-any-hope-for-a-palestinian-state/

>>6604205

>abortion is a non issue

They are killing 40 million unborn children per year WW as a sacrifice to Moloch to gain power and you call this a non-issue…..hmmmmmmmmmmm REALLY!

>>6604232

You're a dumbass

http://www.numberofabortions.com/

>>6604297

Yeah I know, just wanted to back up my post with proof to show the fucker up. Slow day thought I'd take shills to task

They need their sacrifices or they lose their power and lets face a grandma can beat their puny weak asses

Memorial Day Marine Interviews on War, Israel, & USS Liberty

Gets really interesting at 12 mins

>>6604393

Israel runs everything, they own everything and control all governments. Anyone who publicly opposes them gets silenced.

From Q post 151

How do you capture a very dangerous animal?

Do you attack it from the front?

Do you walk through the front door?

Do you signal ahead of time you will be attacking?

>>6604473

Wonder if he's linked to the Talpiot program

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