WASHINGTON – Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Women of all backgrounds, from near and far, aged 24 to 84, traveled to protest an expired draft opinion that would reject Rowe’s remarkable ruling against Wade. In interviews, women cite various reasons for their appearance. For the younger protesters, they saw that their own reproductive rights were at stake. For the older protesters, it was a battle their grandchildren did not want to do again.
Thirty-nine-year-old Jessica Fendrick was driving an hour from Bel Air, Maryland, on Tuesday morning after reading the news.
“I can’t believe how many women I’ve met who have done this in their lives. And so I feel I owe it to them to be here because they’ve already done that, “she said. “And now we have to fight for them again.”
Fendrick said it was a shock to read the draft.
“I really thought the Supreme Court nominees had indicated that Rowe v. Wade was a precedent and that they would keep that promise they made under oath,” Fendrick said.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE STORY OF ABORTION:
“Biden says if Rowe v. Wade is overturned, other rights could be next.”
“Chief Justice John Roberts is launching an investigation into the leak.”
“Several state bans on abortion will begin if Rowe is lifted.”
– The expiration of the draft opinion was a shock to the observers of the Supreme Court
– Senate Democrats are outraged, say they will lead the fight to the election campaign
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
TOPECA, Cannes. – Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat and a strong supporter of abortion rights in a Republican-dominated state, vowed on Tuesday to “continue to oppose any regressive legislation that interferes with individual rights or freedoms.”
Voters in Kansas will decide in the primary election in August whether to add language to the state constitution sought by abortion opponents, saying nothing in the charter provides for the right to abortion.
The voting initiative aims to overturn a 2019 Kansas Supreme Court ruling declaring access to abortion a “fundamental” right that enemies of abortion fear could lead the court to lift existing restrictions. But if Rowe v. Wade is repealed, the change will allow Republican-controlled lawmakers to ban abortions.
“Although I do not want to jump to conclusions based on an expired draft, I want to reiterate that I have always believed that every woman’s reproductive decisions should be left to her and her doctor,” Kelly said in a statement.
Kelly’s alleged Republican opponent in the gubernatorial race, Attorney General Derek Schmid, says that despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Kansas voters still have to pass the state vote initiative.
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AUSTIN, Texas – Carina Munoz, who works at a clinic in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, which specializes in women’s health services, said Tuesday she receives about 100-150 calls a day about abortion services.
She said at least half of the callers were from the United States and most were from Texas, which shares approximately 230 miles (370 kilometers) of the border with Tamaulipas, Mexico’s most northeastern state.
When called, she said she explained to clients that although Mexico’s Supreme Court has set a legal precedent by decriminalizing abortion in the case of Coahuila, a state that also shares a long border with Texas, abortion is not yet allowed in Tamaulipas.
She said clients in the United States treated by her clinic could only be seen for health and prenatal examinations, and that abortion seekers were advised to seek them where legal.
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WASHINGTON – Angry Senate Democrats have vowed to vote on legislation to protect access to abortion for millions of Americans.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday angrily condemned an expired Supreme Court ruling that would overturn Rowe’s remarkable ruling against Wade.
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia is adamant about refusing to end the filibuster, saying Tuesday that “the flibuster is the only defense we have for democracy.”
So without Republican support, Congress is essentially powerless to prevent access to abortion.
Schumer did not promise to change Senate rules to overcome Republican obstacles to saving the abortion law.
Key Republican Senator Lisa Markowski said that if the bill was delayed, “it would shake my credibility in court.”
Democrats have signaled they will fight during the election campaign this fall.
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SANTA FE, New Mexico – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who signed a law last year lifting the state’s long-term ban on most abortion procedures, took to Twitter on Tuesday to vow to protect local access to abortion services.
Grisham, a Democrat who signed the law in anticipation of a new approach by the US Supreme Court, wrote that “The moment so many of us fear is before us.”
Voters in New Mexico in 2020 ousted several socially conservative Democratic lawmakers who backed the state’s 1969 ban.
New Mexico is already accepting many patients from neighboring states such as Texas, who have tightened restrictions on abortion procedures. Albuquerque is home to one of the few independent clinics in the country to perform third-trimester abortions.
Republicans in the legislative minority have vowed to review the state’s abortion laws, while pro-democracy activists have scheduled an evening women’s march in support of abortion rights before a federal court in the state capital of Santa Fe.
House Speaker Brian Eolf said on Twitter on Tuesday that “the trend in this country is dangerous. Today it is a loss of access to care; the next is contraception. “
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OVERLAND PARK, CAN. – Dr. Iman Alsaden, medical director of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, said that her organization already had an idea of what the landscape would look like after Rowe against Wade.
Texas’ ban on abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy took effect in September, leading to a 2,500 percent increase in the number of Texas patients at her group’s clinics in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
“Since that day, my colleagues and I have been regularly treating patients fleeing their communities to seek care,” Alsaddon, who is in Overland Park, Kansas, told reporters during a conference call Tuesday.
She said many of these patients were forced to drive for hours to make appointments on time and to fight to arrange travel and childcare.
“They take time off from work, take time away from school and take time away from their family responsibilities to receive the care they can receive safely and easily in their communities by September 2021,” Alsadden said.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California voters may have a chance to add abortion protection to the state constitution this fall.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and senior lawmakers pledged Monday to amend the November ballot to “strengthen the right to vote.”
Newsham has vowed to turn California into a haven for abortions. U.S. lawmakers have approved 13 bills to fulfill that promise, including proposals that could use taxpayers’ money to pay people in other states to visit California for abortions.
On Monday night, News and legislative leaders added another proposal to their list: an amendment to the state constitution. They did not provide further details, except that they said they would retain the right to choose.
Newsom’s office says its goal is to put the amendment to a vote in November.
Two-thirds of the legislature is needed to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot. Democrats control so many seats that they can garner the necessary votes without relying on Republicans.
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FARGO, North Dakota – The only abortion clinic in North Dakota assures patients that their appointments will remain for now.
Tammy Kromennaker, who owns and operates the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo, said on Tuesday that she had posted a notice on the clinic’s website informing women that abortion was still legal and that their appointments at the clinic were safe.
Politico issued an expired draft Supreme Court opinion late Monday, showing that a majority of the court is ready to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling in Rowe v. Wade, which legalizes abortion across the country.
Kromennaker said she had also talked to staff about the draft opinion, stressing that this was not yet the final decision. This is a message she has seen from abortion providers across the country.
She says she already had a plan to open a clinic on the other side of the Minnesota River if a 2007 North Dakota law banning abortion was triggered by a Supreme Court decision, and the leak simply made that move. even more urgent.
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AUSTIN, Texas – A Texas Republican, author of the most restrictive abortion law in the United States, says he looks forward to Rowe v. Wade ending up in the “ashes of history.”
U.S. Sen. Brian Hughes introduced Senate Bill 8, which bans abortions in Texas after approximately six weeks of pregnancy. The law applies only through private cases and a guarantee of at least $ 10,000 to successfully sue a doctor or anyone else who helps a woman have an abortion.
State data shows that abortions in approximately two dozen clinics in Texas have fallen by about 50 percent in the three months since the law went into effect in September, up from a year earlier.
Hughes told the Associated Press in a text message: “When Rowe’s parody of Wade is finally in the ashes of history, more small lives can be saved and more mothers can be helped.”
Amy Hagström Miller, president of Whole Woman’s Health, says her four clinics in Texas have spent months preparing to cancel Roe. She says her staff tells patients and callers that abortion is still legal for now.
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