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Another blow to #ReproductiveRights... Thanks, #SCOTUS!

States can block #Medicaid money for health care at #PlannedParenthood, the #SupremeCourt says

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Updated 3:09 PM EDT, June 26, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — "States can block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid money for health services such as #contraception and #CancerScreenings, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

"The 6-3 opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch and joined by the rest of the court’s conservatives was not directly about abortion, but it comes as Republicans back a wider push across the country to defund the organization. It closes off Planned Parenthood’s primary court path to keeping Medicaid funding in place: patient lawsuits.

"The justices found that while Medicaid law allows people choose their own provider, that does not make it a right enforceable in court. The court split along ideological lines, with the three liberals dissenting in the case from #SouthCarolina.

"Public health care money generally cannot be used to pay for abortions, but Medicaid patients go to Planned Parenthood for other needs in part because it can be difficult to find a doctor who takes the publicly funded insurance, the organization has said.

"South Carolina Gov. #HenryMcMaster, a Republican [and asshole], said Planned Parenthood should not get any taxpayer money. The budget bill backed by President Donald Trump in Congress would also cut Medicaid money for the group. That could force the closure of about 200 centers, most of them in states where abortion is legal, Planned Parenthood has said."

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#WelcomeToGilead #TheHandmaidsTale
#McMasterIsABastard #ProBirth #ProCancer #MAGADeathCult

The Danger of Trump's Supreme Court
Assembly Required w/ Stacey Abrams
Leah Litman, host of Strict Scrutiny
How Trump Has Exploited the Supreme Court, the continuing threat to Birthright Citizenship

Imara Jones, creator of TransLash Media
Outlawing of Gender-Affirming Care, legal attacks against trans youth and their families, the erasure of the “T” from LGBT
#US #Law #SCOTUS #Politics #Economics #Trans #ReproductiveRights
youtube.com/watch?v=JCpyWHhd8M

Continued thread

Litman says,

"A lot of men on the left, you know, it was particularly men, kept saying, well, if the justices overrule Roe, this is going to be the gift that keeps on giving to the Democratic Party that is going to be able to run on the issue of abortion.

And it's clear that this country just does not care enough about women and their lives and health and safety for that to be true."

#abortion #Dobbs #SupremeCourt #ReproductiveRights #women
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As the 3-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's act to rip reproductive rights from women with the Dobbs decision comes around, Katie Phang talks to Leah Litman, author of Lawless, about "How far we've plummeted in terms of reproductive rights freedom since that fateful day in 2022."

#abortion #Dobbs #SupremeCourt #ReproductiveRights #women
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katiephang.substack.com/p/dobb

History may not repeat, but it does rhyme, and this fits the same old beats of American-style intellectual dishonesty, moral hypocrisy, authoritarians' weapons of mass perception, and anti-democratic state violence.

“The object of the [14] Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms of unsatisfactory to either.”
― Justice Henry Billings Brown, author of the majority opinion Plessy v. Ferguson, SCOTUS 1896
#US #Politics #Economics #BlackMastodon #VotingRights #ReproductiveRights #Trans #TransRights #Trump #TrumpRegime #whiteNationalism #Christofascism #Patriachy #ForcedPregnamcy #CompulsoryHetronormativity #LGB

Police in UK can now take women's phones and check their period tracking app

Several women's health and safety organisations have spoken out against the 'shocking' new guidance, vowing to 'aggressively challenge' it

"New guidance in the UK has handed British police the power to trawl through women's phones if they suspect said individual has undergone an illegal abortion.

As per an announcement made by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) last month, officers investigating the causes of stillbirths, miscarriages and unexpected pregnancy losses will now be permitted access to check menstrual cycle tracking apps.

The alleged aim of the incoming procedure is to 'establish a woman’s knowledge and intention in relation to the pregnancy.'"

#UKPol #ReproductiveRights #ReproductiveJustice

tyla.com/news/uk-police-force-

tyla · UK Police can now take women's phones and check their period tracking appBy Rhianna Benson

The more things change ...

"I gotta think of something to say besides 'fuck'. I think you can say 'fuck', it's a free country. Oh I'm sorry, that's right, you almost probably can't get an abortion soon, and then you won't be able to say 'fuck'. I just wanna say, you should be able to have a fucking abortion, that's right."

#EddieVedder, Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged, 1992

youtube.com/watch?v=Y7gbiX9c-s