“Nothing says that after clawing back 24 weeks, we can’t go for the big prize.”

Didn’t mention it in this story and I maybe should have but: amending state constitutions is permanent and costs tens of millions of dollars. The reality is there will be no future amendment to enshrine access to later abortion. Advocates… Read more

Three of us looked at it and couldn’t come to consensus, but fwiw: I agree Read more

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Susan B. Anthony was also a racist who didn’t support voting rights for Black people!
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list of state-based abortion funds: https://abortionfunds.org/funds/ Read more

yes, abortion funds as someone mentioned below and aid access also accepts donations via bank transfer: https://aidaccess.org/en/page/301373/support-aid-access Read more

US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who is representing the Justice Department in its case against Texas, closed out by saying that the Court must consider the “startling implications” of this law. Texas is arguing that no one can sue—not pregnant people, not providers, not the US government, and if the Court… Read more

Jonathan Mitchell, the architect of SB8 whose views are stuck in the 1950s, argues that Texas doesn’t enforce the law and can’t be sued here. Instead, he said Congress should pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would “codify Roe” into federal law, and providers should sue under that legislation. He surely… Read more

Justice Sonia Sotomayor throws a glass of cold water in the faces of everyone in the courtroom (and everyone listening) to remind them that the design of SB8 is not limited to abortion. She argues that states that dislike certain precedents might pass bounty-enforced laws that ignore them. State that don’t like Heller… Read more

Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone made a huge Freudian slip in saying that “SB8 is a novel solution.” He corrected himself immediately to say that the Department of Justice is arguing that “SB8 is a novel problem for which this Court must concoct a novel solution,” an argument he disagrees with. Read more

Justice Samuel Alito has twice offered as an example of a hypothetical lawsuit under SB8 a woman suing an abortion provider after a procedure because of “emotional distress.” While some (but not all) people find it difficult to decide whether or not to have an abortion, more than 95 percent of women in a 2020 study… Read more

Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked Texas SG Stone how the law’s enforcement mechanism might affect other constitutional rights, including the Second Amendment, and specifically references the brief from a gun policy group in support of the abortion providers. The Firearm Policy Coalition wants the law blocked because it… Read more