Text:
Yesterday on the floor, the Senate DFL pushed bills forward that advance and protect reproductive freedom in Minnesota. There was no debate. Instead, our Republican colleagues sat silent, casting no vote after no vote.
They voted no to codifying abortion access, bodily autonomy, and reproductive decision-making.
They voted no to patients’ access to medically accurate reproductive health information.
They voted no to health insurance coverage of contraceptives.
They voted no to investing in research on maternal morbidity while Minnesota experiences a black maternal health crisis.
They voted no to funding prenatal and postpartum home visits.
They voted no to comprehensive family planning grants.
They voted no to new criminal penalties for sexual assault.
The Senate GOP Majority
voted no without a debate because they know their positions are
extreme. They know they are not with Minnesotans when it comes to
supporting family planning and protecting reproductive freedom.
They know their agenda is indefensible.
With the imminent fall of Roe, now is the
moment to protect and advance Minnesotans' basic rights and
reproductive freedom. I am focused and fighting because if we don't win,
we won't have a choice.
The fundamental privacy of physician-patient consultation and the right to secure treatment of unwanted medical conditions is at stake. Men in the Supreme Court are poised to pronounce there is no privacy right. The leaked Alito opinion rules Roe resting on the basic Constitutional right to privacy is no longer good law. That the right to privacy is not a real Constitutional right.
Why Ms. Coney Barrett joined these men of misogyny is a mystery. Some superstition at play no doubt.
The men, gender insensitive.
Ms C-B, no excuse.
Mitch McConnell has declared a Republican passage of a federal nationwide ban on abortion is "possible."
The apt title Sen. Murphy gave her emailing,
Indefensible.
_______UPDATE_______
If you value ignorance, there is plenty to go around. Irrespective of any federal rule, statute, presidential order, or result of the Civil War on the question of federal preeminence. And there is the commerce clause, with medicine federalized as evidenced by the FDA, NIH, CDC in ways the hundred pages of Alito sophistry ignores. There are state boards of practice and licensing norms, but treatment availability is inherent to medical activity, be it research, regulatdory deliberation, or conduct of clinical practice. The issue is treatment of an unwanted pregnancy, with the science and procedural medicine well established - while breakthroughs such as abortificant pharmaceuticals can happen over time.
If you value science, and science based policy - science over superstition - the question of safety and efficiency is no longer open to debate.
Websearch. It is exasperating that this issue has not remained closed. Roe was a well thought out decision, with the opinion authored by a Minnesotan.
So, as a practical matter, how can the abortion haters stop the pill? Without an incredible invasion of privacy. A level of invasion nobody in their right mind would welcome.
What's in your mailbox today is an unwarranted level of government scrutiny, but will it not come to that if the haters have their way?
What are you ordering online is the same. Yet absent that level of intrusion, the haters cannot stop the pill. Not per Alito's "states rights" brand. The mail and internet are federal systems. It will be the war on abortificants being a duplicate failure to the war on drugs. With attendant consequences if there is criminalization of non-compliance.
It is stupid. It is Weyricn's mischief and a joined ignoring of the right to freedom from religion; those two factors together at play to stand against reason, compassion and plain good sense. Forcing an unwanted pregnancy to term is simply being very mean to a woman. As well as stupid. It is Republican Jesus jockeying at its absolute worse. Republican indecency. Republican incivility.
With links.