"The Dobbs decision was just about state's rights." What a cruel and dangerous joke.



Texas counties trying to prevent people from using roads to get an abortion grows
Associated Press
Updated Tue, October 24, 2023 at 6:57 PM MDT·3 min read
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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A Texas county near New Mexico — where abortion is legal — has banned helping people traveling to get an abortion in one of the newest ways conservatives are trying to restrict abortion access since the fall of Roe v. Wade.

Lubbock County is the largest of four Texas counties that have now adopted a version of the measure, which would be enforced through lawsuits filed by private citizens against people who help women obtain abortions. It is the same legal mechanism Texas used to enact a strict abortion law in 2021 before the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the state last year to ban nearly all abortions entirely.

Commissioners in the west Texas county adopted the measure 3-0 at a meeting Monday, rejecting some requests to postpone the vote.


The ordinance "has many legal problems,” said Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish, the county's top elected official. “This ordinance, however, does not have a problem with its intent or the intent of those who are passionate about this."

The measures expand on city ordinances rural Texas cities began passing in 2019 to ban abortion within their boundaries, even if the cities did not have a clinic performing abortions. Critics have attacked the campaign as an effort to intimidate women from seeking abortions in places where it remains legal.

Mark Lee Dickson, a Texas pastor who has led the efforts, praised the vote.

“Guys, I long for the day (when), coast to coast, abortion is considered a great moral, social and political wrong and is outlawed in every single state,” Dickson told commissioners.

No violations of the travel prohibition have been reported in the counties with similar measures already on the books. The measures would not punish women who are seeking the abortion but would present legal risks to people who help transport them to get the procedure.

Legal experts have questioned whether the ordinances could be enforced.

“We haven’t had this kind of issue tested, so it’s really kind of a case of first impression,” said Seema Mohapatra, a health law expert and law professor at Southern Methodist University.

The Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office declined to comment on the ban or its implementation.

Lubbock County has about 317,000 residents and far outnumbers the population of the three other Texas counties — Mitchell, Goliad and Cochran — that have approved the ordinance in recent months, with each county's population counting fewer than 10,000 residents. Highways through Lubbock County run to New Mexico, which has some of the most permissive abortion laws in the U.S.

The ban does not apply to cities within Lubbock County, including the city of Lubbock, which has about 264,000 of the county's residents. Lubbock voters in 2021 adopted a similar measure.

“Texans already live under some of the most restrictive and dangerous abortion bans in the country, yet anti-abortion extremists continue to push additional unnecessary, confusing and fear-inducing barriers to essential healthcare,” said Autumn Keiser, spokesperson for Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas.

Texas is one of 13 states that bans abortion at all stages of pregnancy. In August, a Texas judge ruled that the state's ban was too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications. But that ruling was swiftly put on hold following an appeal by the state.

The Texas law was passed prior to the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 ruling that overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that allowed abortions nationwide.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/west-texas-county-bans-travel-175306680.html

 

The ordinance "has many legal problems,” said Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish, the county's top elected official.
No violations of the travel prohibition have been reported in the counties with similar measures already on the books.
Legal experts have questioned whether the ordinances could be enforced.​

 

Judge blocks Kansas abortion restrictions, demonstrating 2022 vote’s enduring effect
2023/10/30
Published
2023/10/30 18:15 (EDT)
Updated
2023/10/30 20:14 (EDT)

Priscilla Jones, left, and Janisha Lopez work at the reception desk of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Kansas City, Kansas. - Tammy Ljungblad/Kansas City Star/TNS
A Kansas judge blocked a series of abortion restrictions Monday, a decision further elevating the state’s standing as a crucial regional access point for individuals seeking to end their pregnancies.

Johnson County District Court Judge Christopher Jayaram issued a temporary injunction stopping officials from enforcing a 24-hour waiting period for abortions. He also halted enforcement of rules mandating abortion providers, without evidence, post information in clinics and online warning abortions can increase risk of breast cancer and premature birth in future pregnancies.

The injunction puts decades of anti-abortion policies enacted by the Republican-controlled Legislature at risk of unraveling after voters last year overwhelmingly rejected a state constitutional amendment that would have empowered legislators to ban the procedure.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion in 2022, Kansas has emerged as a bulwark of access amid a national patchwork of state bans and restrictions. Several nearby states — including Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas — ban the procedure. The number of abortions performed in Kansas grew by 57% last year, driven entirely by an increase in out-of-state patients.

Jayaram’s order comes in a lawsuit brought by abortion providers challenging several Kansas restrictions. The case is an early test of the limits of a landmark 2019 Kansas Supreme Court decision that upheld the right to abortion by finding the state constitution protects the right to bodily autonomy.

Under the state Supreme Court decision, restrictions on abortion must clear an extremely high bar, backed by evidence that they are narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest.

“Because a woman’s right to bodily autonomy (including her right to decide whether to terminate or continue a pregnancy) is fundamental, the Court concludes, for purposes of this request for temporary relief, that the State’s rationale and schemes simply do not survive constitutional review” under the Kansas Constitution, Jayaram wrote in his opinion.

Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits in their lawsuit, Jayaram found, entitling them to a temporary injunction.

Portions of the law were first enacted in 1997. Lawmakers have amended the law several times since, most recently adding a policy this year requiring providers to tell patients a medication abortion may be reversible, though the science is unproven.

Abortion rights supporters immediately hailed the decision.

“Each day these restrictions were in effect, we have been forced to turn away patients for reasons that are medically wrong and ethically unjustifiable,” Emily Wales, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, said in a statement.

“Today’s ruling is a crucial step in achieving what Kansans emphatically supported in August 2022: abortion access without political interference,” Wales said. “No patient should be denied care because they printed a form in the wrong color, but that is precisely what these laws have mandated us to do.

Alliance Defending Freedom, which pursues lawsuits on behalf of social conservative causes and is assisting Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican, in defending the abortion restrictions, in a statement said Kansas women had been empowered for decades to make fully informed decisions about ending a pregnancy.

“These kinds of informed consent laws reflect the long-standing will of the people of Kansas, but Planned Parenthood challenged the law because it impacted their bottom line. Planned Parenthood has made it clear that its goal is to withhold information from women, bypass ultrasounds, and refuse to meet with women before an abortion,” Alliance Defending Freedom spokesperson Bernadette Tasy said in a statement.



https://nordot.app/1091848368845914510?c=592622757532812385

 

Indiana attorney general reprimanded over abortion doctor remarks
David Thomas
Thu, November 2, 2023 at 1:00 PM MDT·2 min read
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Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) announces the 2018 budget blueprint during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington

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(Reuters) - A divided Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday publicly reprimanded Republican Attorney General

for statements he made about a doctor in the state who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio.

The court found that Rokita violated professional conduct rules for lawyers when he described Dr. Caitlin Bernard in a July 2022 Fox News interview as an "abortion activist acting as a doctor" who had failed to report past child abuse cases.


Rokita admitted his comments violated rules barring lawyers from making public statements with a substantial likelihood of "materially prejudicing" a case, the state's high court said.

Two of the panel's five justices dissented on the proper punishment, calling a public reprimand "too lenient" due to Rokita's position as attorney general and "the scope and breadth of the admitted misconduct."

Rokita claimed vindication in a statement, saying he was not found to have violated state law or anyone's privacy and was not fined. He blamed the disciplinary case on "liberal activists" who "hate the fact that I stand up for liberty."

Bernard's case became a flashpoint in the debate over abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that guaranteed federal abortion rights.

Rokita accused Bernard in a November 2022 medical licensing board complaint of violating her patient's privacy rights and failing to immediately report child abuse to Indiana authorities.

The board in May reprimanded Bernard for speaking publicly about her patient's condition in violation of privacy laws and fined her $3,000.

A lawyer for Bernard did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Bernard has said the Ohio child was referred to her three days after Roe was overturned.

Ohio and other states quickly enforced strict limits on abortion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, sometimes without exceptions involving rape. The Indiana Supreme Court in June upheld a law banning nearly all abortions in the state.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/indiana-attorney-general-reprimanded-over-190028219.html

 

This will be an interesting test to see how stupid Johnson is. Treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans in the Senate are essentially asking him to lie. Because of course they intend to pass a national abortion ban. But they don't want to do that before an election because they know they will lose. But will Johnson be able to resist? His primary objective is to inflict Sharia Las For Christians enforced by the American Taliban on the nation so he might be stupid and ignorant enough to try and outlaw abortion before the election.



GOP senators warn new Speaker on abortion
Alexander Bolton
Sun, November 5, 2023 at 4:00 AM MST·7 min read
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Republican senators worried about winning back the Senate majority in 2024 are waving Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) off from moving any national abortion legislation before next year’s election.

Johnson, an outspoken Christian conservative who says his political worldview is guided by the Bible, remains a mystery to GOP senators even after meeting them for the first time at last week’s Wednesday lunch. The 51-year-old lawmaker rose from relative obscurity to win the Speakership late last month.

The early media coverage of his sudden ascension to power has focused on his work as a lawyer for a conservative law firm before coming to Congress and his outspoken stances on abortion, gay rights and the role of religion in public life.


Johnson called abortion a “holocaust” in a 2005 newspaper op-ed and earned an A+ ranking during his congressional career from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, a leading antiabortion group.

In 2021, he co-sponsored the Heartbeat Protection Act, which would subject physicians who performing an abortion on a fetus with a heartbeat to criminal penalties, and a bill to implement a national ban on abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy but made exceptions for when the life of a mother is endangered.

This year, he co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act, which declares “the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization.”

He introduced legislation in February to criminalize the transport of a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without satisfying parental involvement law.

A major question at the start of Johnson’s Speakership is whether he will insert Congress into the national abortion debate by bringing to the House floor bills to restrict abortions in various circumstances nationwide or insert abortion-related policy riders to must-pass spending bills.

Johnson suggested after winning the Speaker’s gavel that it was ordained by God, telling colleagues “that Scripture, the Bible, is very clear: that God is the one who raises up those in authority.”

And he told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he takes his political worldview from the Bible, not pollsters.

“I am a Bible-believing Christian. Someone asked me today in the media, they said, it’s curious. People are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun? I said, well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s — that’s my world view. That’s what I believe,” Johnson said.

But Republican senators warn that it would be a major political mistake for Johnson to attempt to restrict abortion on the national level before the 2024 election, urging him to leave the issue entirely to the states.

“I’m still trying to figure out what his real priorities are. Obviously, we know he is strong right-to-life supporter but whether or not he would work to advance” abortion restrictions “remains to be seen,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who supports abortion rights.

“Based on some of the conversations we’ve had in our conference, there’s been a lot of discussion about the political implications of a vote on abortion that would basically federalize, outlaw abortions. It would be viewed as not politically helpful,” Murkowski said of the desire among Senate GOP colleagues to steer clear of a national abortion debate.

A Republican senator who requested anonymity to discuss party strategy said Johnson would commit political malpractice if he does anything to further elevate abortion as an issue in next year’s Senate and House races.

“He’s now got 221 people he’s got to figure out how to get consensus from and [abortion] is just not a consensus issue now,” the senator said, referring to the size of the House GOP conference.

“That’s not a fully uniting position. I think what he keeps looking for — if I were him and I think he is — are fully uniting positions such as Israel [aid] with an offset. Maybe Ukraine with [border] policy changes,” the lawmaker added.

Johnson acknowledged to Fox’s Hannity that Congress is deeply divided on abortion policy.

“We argued my entire career for 25 years that the states should have the right to do this,” he said when asked about setting abortion policy. “There’s no national consensus among the people on what to do with that issue on a federal level for certain.”

He called Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case establishing a constitutional right to abortion, “probably worst Supreme Court opinion” and hailed the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned it as a “reset.”

Democrats relentlessly attacked Republican candidates on abortion during the 2022 election, a strategy that appeared to pay off when they expanded their Senate majority to 51 seats and didn’t lose as many House seats as initially forecast.

Johnson’s counterpart, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), says the abortion debate should be left entirely to the states in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade. He has argued that national abortion legislation has no chance of mustering the 60 votes needed to pass the Senate.

Other anti-abortion Republican senators share that view.

“I don’t know what they’ll do in the House. My preference is that the turning over of Roe v. Wade was designed to allow the states to make that decision. It may be messy in terms of lots of states having different points of view but eventually you’ll end up with a national consensus about where it should be based on what the states find works for them,” said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.)

Rounds warned of a national political backlash if Republicans in Congress push strict national abortion laws.

“None of this is going to be perfect,” he said. “If you go all-in and you have an absolute, strict abortion bill — and if it doesn’t pass muster and people return it — they may very well go the wrong direction and have a very liberal law that doesn’t save lives.”

But some Republican senators argue that Congress should set national standards for abortion, despite the political risks of pushing an issue that Democrats will try to use as a bludgeon in the campaign.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, told The Hill that he will introduce a national 15-week abortion bill, something he said he would like to do before the end of the year.

“I think it’s a very reasonable position. Puts our nation in line with the civilized world,” he said of a 15-week abortion ban “with exceptions” for rape, incest and protecting the life of the mother.

Asked about criticism from fellow Senate Republicans who say taking up abortion legislation before the election would be serious political mistake, Graham said lawmakers should tackle important issues.

“Haha, democracy, you know, important issues,” he said with a short laugh when asked about pushback from GOP colleagues. “The Democratic position is to allow abortion on demand up until the moment of birth.”

Senate Democrats last year tried to pass legislation to codify the right to an abortion established by Roe v. Wade, which previously allowed states to restrict abortion after the point of fetal viability. The bill included language to allow abortion after fetal viability if a doctor determines it’s necessary to protect the life or health of a mother. Senate Republicans blocked the legislation.

Abortions in the third trimester are rare and usually reserved for when a fetus has a serious abnormality.

McConnell expressed his displeasure with Graham last year when the South Carolina senator unveiled his 15-week abortion ban shortly before the midterm election.

McConnell made it clear that he wouldn’t bring Graham’s bill to the floor if Republicans controlled the Senate majority.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senators-warn-speaker-abortion-110000779.html

 

Right to abortion wins again.


Ohio votes to guarantee abortion rights in its state Constitution
With the victory on Issue 1, abortion rights advocates are on a 7-and-0 ballot measure winning streak since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

Grace Panetta

Political reporter



Published

November 7, 2023, 6:52 p.m. MT
Ohio voted to guarantee a right to abortion and other reproductive health care in the state’s Constitution, Decision Desk HQ projects, in the latest victory for abortion rights advocates at the ballot box.

The constitutional amendment, Issue 1, enshrines a right to abortion, contraception, miscarriage care and fertility treatment in Ohio. The amendment will take effect in 30 days.

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Ohio was the only state voting directly on abortion in 2023, drawing national attention and tens of millions in outside spending. The passage of Issue 1 makes for a 7-and-0 ballot measure winning streak for reproductive rights advocates since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

The victory of an abortion rights ballot measure in a state that twice voted for former President Donald Trump gives a boost to advocates seeking to put similar measures on the ballot in red and purple states in 2024.

“As it relates to passing Issue 1, the stakes could not be higher,” Democratic Rep. Shontel Brown, who represents Cleveland in the House, said Tuesday. “Ohio continues to be a barometer, a test case, if you will, for the rest of the country.”

A coalition of Ohio physicians and reproductive rights advocates started working in 2022 to get Issue 1 on the ballot. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade that June, Ohio’s six-week abortion ban, which has no exceptions for rape or incest, went into effect. The state’s ban made national news with the case of a 10-year-old rape victim who was forced to travel to Indiana for abortion care and stories of couples who had to leave the state for care for nonviable pregnancies.

A lower court blocked the ban in late 2022, allowing providers to perform abortions through 22 weeks of pregnancy, and the Republican-controlled state Supreme Court heard arguments in a case challenging the ban in late September.

Proponents of Issue 1 argued the measure would protect Ohioians from government interference in private medical decisions. Their ads also highlighted the lack of exceptions for rape and incest in the ban.


Rather than defend the six-week ban, opponents of Issue 1 argued the measure would go too far, asserting it would allow unlimited abortions through all nine months of pregnancy. The amendment allows for restrictions on abortion after the point of fetal viability, and abortions later in pregnancy are rare in Ohio.

Opponents also argued the amendment would infringe on parental rights and would threaten Ohio’s law requiring parental consent for minors receiving abortions, though legal experts said the amendment would not automatically invalidate the parental consent law.

Republican leaders in the state, where the GOP has a legislative supermajority, have also taken costly and unprecedented efforts to thwart the measure’s passage.

After previously canceling August special elections due to their high costs and low turnout, Republicans added one back solely for a vote on a GOP-backed measure to raise the threshold for passing a citizen-led amendment from a simple majority to a 60 percent supermajority. Republican leaders including Secretary of State Frank LaRose explicitly said the vote was about stopping November’s Issue 1 from passing.

Ohio voters, including many Republicans and independents, rejected the August measure by a margin of 14 points. The result, and the massive turnout in an August special election, was an encouraging sign for abortion rights supporters. Early voter turnout was also high in the November election, and Issue 1 supporters outspent their opponents on the airwaves and on digital ads.

False and misleading claims about the measure and misinformation about abortion — some of which came from official government sources and elected leaders — also became widespread in the final weeks of the campaign.

Many abortion rights advocates saw Issue 1 as a fight over not just reproductive rights but over Ohio’s democracy itself. In 2024, the state has a critical U.S. Senate race on the ballot, and advocates are aiming to put an amendment establishing a citizen-led redistricting commission on the ballot.

Brown also said it was important for the state to send a message to national Republicans that abortion is “a losing issue” for them and they would be “on the wrong side of history.”


https://19thnews.org/2023/11/ohio-issue-1-results-abortion-ballot-measure/

 

This would be awesome! Every state should do this!

 

Abortion rights supporters won an Ohio ballot measure and the Democratic governor of beet-red Kentucky held onto his office by campaigning on reproductive rights and painting his opponent as extremist on abortion.

 

Democrats also won control of both Houses in Virginia where the governor crafted a new abortion message of not a ban but "restrictions after 15 weeks" saying just trust us if Republicans win we won't ban abortion. But the voters didn't believe them. Democrats also elected a Pennsylvania Supreme Court that campaigned on upholding abortion rights.

Which is why treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans want to do away with democracy so they can just dictate Sharia Law For Christians enforced by the American Taliban. You just can't allow people to vote on things like abortion.



Rick Santorum Blames ‘Very Sexy’ Issue of Abortion for ‘Disaster’ in Ohio


Former Republican senator turned Newsmax pundit Rick Santorum says “very sexy” issues like abortion bringing out young voters is evidence that “pure democracies are not the way to run a country.” Speaking late Tuesday after Ohio voters approved a measure legalizing recreational marijuana and a separate measure to uphold the right to abortion in the state’s constitution, Santorum said including such topics on the ballot means “a lot of young people come out and vote.” “It was a secret sauce for disaster in Ohio. I don’t know what they were thinking,” he said. “That’s why, thank goodness that most of the states in this country don’t allow you to put everything on the ballot. Because pure democracies are not the way to run a country.”




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i was hoping to watch more Fox News copium tonight but they've already pivoted to Gutfeld!








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8:23 PM · Nov 7, 2023


https://www.thedailybeast.com/rick-...ortion-for-disaster-in-ohio?ref=home?ref=home

 

As Susan Sarandon said in the movie Whitecastle, "Merle Haggard could be President and it wouldn't make a difference to me."

Most people don't care about politics because they don't see that it matters in their life. This works for book banning and gerrymandering. Abortion is a different thing. Conservatives cannot rely on voter apathy on this one and they know it.

Their only option is voter suppression and political manipulation to prevent the question being presented to the people.

The dilemma for conservatives that have campaigned against abortion is they cannot pledge to make abortion illegal in the states where the vote was held. They have spent decades promising to fight abortion rights and now that's been pulled out of their greasy hands.

I've seen news stories that say "GOP stunned by Ohio Vote." No they aren't. This is exactly what they expected to happen.

 

There is a lot of evidence you are right about this. The right to abortion hits women where they live. It is autonomy over their own bodies. Women can deeply empathize with the victims of rape and incest. And just over all for most women this is the first time they have had a right taken away from them. And they are not willing to get drug back to the 1950's of being barefoot and pregnant.


And the political observers are pointing to exactly the same things you are. The majority of Americans tend to be apathetic about politics. And Americans tend to have a 30 second attention span and a two week memory. So no matter what the issue is it tends to come and go without any staying power. But not when it comes to abortion. The right to abortion and voting against people that are trying to take that right away instead of fading away continues to gain momentum and voters.

 

The American hater demonstrates yet again the utter disrespect despicables have for Americans, and in particular women. He happily asserts that Americans typically have an attention span comparable to a Gold fish and the memory of a cocker spaniel.
And then he heaps insult on insult claiming that women are only concerned about their sex lives and the ability to, without restriction, unload that nasty collection of cells that occasionally result from having sex.

No matter one's politics, to minimalize a woman's emotions surrounding abortion is despicable. Shooter doubts there are many women who make the abortion decision, whatever it is, lightly, with the attention span of a gold fish and the memory of a cocker spaniel.

Shame on you Stumbler.

 

And this from a repuke! The hypocrisy, oh the hypocrisy.

 

I will just put this here because I unfortunately used Jezebel as a source a sometimes and then found out the hard way they were really bad and far outside journalistic standards. So I am not surprised to see them biting the dust. And its a good thing.


Jezebel shuts down, lays off staff in ‘excruciating’ decision, parent company says
Oliver Darcy, CNN
Thu, November 9, 2023 at 9:41 AM MST·2 min read
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Jezebel, the punchy feminist blog with an outsized influence on internet culture, will suspend operations and lay off its staff effective immediately, its parent company G/O Media said Thursday as it announced broader restructuring in its portfolio of digital news outlets.

Jim Spanfeller, chief executive of G/O Media, said in a memo to staff obtained by CNN that the company had tried to sell the publication, but that after talks with two dozen potential buyers, “we could not find Jez a new home.”

“As of this week we are making the very, very difficult decision to suspend publication of Jezebel,” Spanfeller said. “Few decisions over the course of my career have been as excruciating, and I want to make clear this is in NO WAY a reflection on the Jezebel editorial team.”


Spanfeller said he has not “given up” on finding a buyer for Jezebel, which he described as having a “storied legacy as the website that changed women’s media forever.”

Spanfeller additionally announced Thursday that G/O would undergo broader restructuring that will result in layoffs.

“We have been operating over the last few quarters with an eye towards efficiency and being budget conscious. I had been hoping that by doing so we could see our way through these dark times in our industry,” he told employees in his memo. “And indeed, we held out far longer than most. But we can hold out no longer.”

In total, the suspension of Jezebel’s operations and other restructuring actions will “result in the departure of 23 editorial staffers,” Spanfeller said.

The cuts come as the broader media industry continues to struggle with a weak advertising climate. Vice also announced cuts to its news team on Thursday. And across the media landscape, cost cutting and layoffs have been rampant over the past year.

“Just about every company in our space has found themselves in similar circumstances,” Spanfeller said.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/jezebel-shuts-down-lays-off-164139135.html

 

Let me put this in language I think might be better understood.

No, you stupid ignorant treasonous non-fucker. God didn't give you any God damned fucking rights dip shit. Your rights are in the Constitutions and God doesn't have a fucking thing to do with it. On purpose you shit heel. We the people govern ourselves. Not God.

But are you really suck an ass that you cant see your own hypocrisy. You're a Heritic you God damned asinine babbling non-fucker. Both God and Jesus made it really clear they don't need a bunch of limp dick little helpers.

Its the Constitution traitor. Not the Bible. You drizzling ass liar. You swore to YOUR God an oath to that.

Ohio Republicans Say It’s Their ‘God Given Right’ to Restrict Abortion Access
Nikki McCann Ramirez
Fri, November 10, 2023 at 2:39 PM MST·2 min read




“To prevent mischief by pro-abortion courts with Issue 1, Ohio legislators will consider removing jurisdiction from the judiciary over this ambiguous ballot initiative,” Ohio House Republicans wrote in a statement released Thursday. “The Ohio legislature alone will consider what, if any, modifications to make to existing laws based on public hearings and input from legal experts on both sides.”

Ohio banned abortion in the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, but legal challenges to state’s abortion laws left residents’ reproductive rights in limbo until Tuesday’s ballot measure. The strategy Republicans are now proposing would essentially strip Ohio’s courts of the authority to repeal existing abortion restrictions before the new amendment goes into effect on December 7.


“No amendment can overturn the God-given rights with which we were born,” state Rep. Beth Lear (R-Galena) added in the Republican’s statement. Another representative, Jennifer Gross (R-West Chester), claimed the referendum had only passed due to “foreign election interference.”

Rep. Bill Dean (R-Xenia) said the amendment “doesn’t repeal a single Ohio law,” and that its language is “dangerously vague and unconstrained, and can be weaponized to attack parental rights or defend rapists, pedophiles, and human traffickers.”

Ohio is not the only state where Republicans are attempting to undermine pro-choice ballot initiatives endorsed by constituents. In Michigan, two anti-choice activist groups are working with Republican lawmakers to sue the state and block the implementation of that state’s voter-approved constitutional amendment.

Stacey LaRouche, press secretary to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, told The Detroit News that “it shouldn’t be lost on people that these right-wing organizations and radical Republicans in the Michigan Legislature are cherry-picking courts to try to once again overturn a constitutionally guaranteed right because they can’t win with voters.”

Ballot measures supporting reproductive freedom have been approved in all seven states where they have been put to voters. Despite Republicans claiming that the end of Roe signified the return of the abortion issue to the will of individual states, they clearly remain determined to undermine reproductive rights no matter what any state’s voters have to say about them.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/ohio-republicans-god-given-restrict-213951995.html

 

Tell us how you really feel why don't you, American hater?

 

Wow. That's a crock of shit!

 

My head is just spinnning from these well thought out, eloquent, informed, and insightful Leftfuck arguments.

Yep... spinning like Linda Blair's head in 'The Exorcist.'

LOL - Billy Preston said it best: