This goes beyond just aborting winning every time it gets on a ballot. This also puts Trump between a rock and a hard spot. He keeps trying to play both sides and deny responsibility for outlawing abortion. But President Biden isn't going to let him pointing out Trump wants a national abortion ban. So Trump is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. If Trump comes out in favor of a national abortion ban he alienates about 60% of the country. But if Trump says he does not want a national abortion ban he alienates his anti abortion base.


Democrats hit Trump on abortion in key U.S. election states

Agence France-Presse
April 2, 2024 1:51PM ET









Democrats blitzed target states Tuesday with a campaign to mobilize voters on reproductive rights ahead of November's US election, highlighting efforts by Donald Trump and the Republicans to curb abortion access.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries headlined a "field hearing" in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a day after a ruling by the state's Supreme Court paved the way for a six-week abortion ban to come into effect next month.

Meanwhile President Joe Biden's election campaign launched an ad reminding voters of Trump's role in ending the federal right to abortion.

Conservatives have been seeking to enact severe curbs on reproductive health care nationwide since the US Supreme Court -- bolstered by three Trump appointees -- gutted abortion access in 2022.

Republicans claimed victory in the ruling -- which overturned the nearly 40-year-old "Roe v. Wade" precedent -- and quickly enacted strict bans or restrictions in most states they control.

But a comfortable majority of Americans think abortion should be legal in most cases, according to extensive polling, and around half of states have measures in place to protect access.

"Florida is now ground zero in the fight to protect a woman's freedom to make her own reproductive healthcare decisions," Jeffries said at the hearing in Fort Lauderdale, attended by health secretary Xavier Becerra.

The Florida ruling makes it one of the most restrictive states, prompting Biden -- only the second Catholic president in US history, after John F. Kennedy -- to warn that many women do not yet know they are pregnant at six weeks.

"Yesterday's extreme decision puts desperately needed medical care even further out of reach for millions of women in Florida and across the South," he said in a statement.

In a move that tempered activists' dismay over the ban, Florida's high court also decided that November's ballot can include an amendment enshrining abortion rights in the state's constitution.

It would permit abortions until "viability," or about 24 weeks, as is supported by the 60 percent of Floridians it would need to pass, according to early polling.

Democrats target 'winnable' Florida
Since Roe fell, abortion rights advocates have won seven straight referendum victories.

Meanwhile, Republicans have struggled to stake out a definitive position on the issue, and were punished in the 2022 midterm elections as candidates lost key battlegrounds to rivals supporting abortion rights.

Trump criticized Florida's ban when he was competing for the Republican presidential nomination against the Sunshine State's popular governor, Ron DeSantis, who signed it into law.

The 77-year-old former president gets a vote on the ballot initiative as a Florida resident, but hasn't said whether he will support it.

Democrats are giving women's bodily autonomy top billing again in 2024, characterizing Trump as the architect of attacks on reproductive rights in a long-shot bid to make Florida competitive in the state's Senate race.

The Biden campaign argued in a memo that Florida is "winnable" if abortion remains "front and center" in the election.

And in a new 30-second ad launched Tuesday, the campaign shows Trump bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade, part of a $30 million effort targeting voters in the swing states.

"Because for 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated -- and I did it. And I'm proud to have done it," Trump is seen saying.

Vice President Kamala Harris warned that millions of women in Florida and beyond would experience the "cruel reality" of traveling hundreds or thousands of miles to get abortions, while doctors would be threatened with prosecution "for doing their jobs."

"It is not enough that millions of women in America have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers," said Harris, who has led a nationwide tour to highlight the abortion issue.

"Yet, if Donald Trump has his way, he'll gut abortion care in every state across the country -- and he has the plans to do it."

https://www.rawstory.com/democrats-hit-trump-on-abortion-in-key-u-s-election-states/

 

A Texas woman is suing the prosecutors who charged her with murder after her self-induced abortion
Lauren Mascarenhas, Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN
Wed, April 3, 2024 at 12:56 PM MDT·5 min read
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Lizelle Gonzalez was arrested and charged with murder in Starr County, Texas, in 2022 after using abortion medication to self-induce an abortion 19 weeks into her pregnancy. The then-26-year-old spent two nights in jail, as her name, mugshot and private medical information made national news, the lawsuit said. The charges were dismissed days later.

The arrest took place months before Roe v. Wade was overturned by the US Supreme Court and at a time when abortions after six weeks were illegal in Texas. However, pregnant people cannot be criminally prosecuted for their own abortions under state law – not now, nor at the time of Gonzalez’s 2022 arrest.


Gonzalez is now suing prosecutors, claiming in her lawsuit they knowingly misrepresented facts and disregarded her rights in order to have her arrested and charged, irrevocably changing the course of her life.

The complaint was filed last week against Gocha Allen Ramirez, the Starr County district attorney, Alexandria Lynn Barrera, the assistant district attorney, and the county itself. CNN has reached out to all the defendants.

Starr County told CNN it has yet to be served with the lawsuit. Gonzalez’s attorneys said they anticipate the county will be served soon.

“We have no doubt that the Starr County District Attorney, and his office, were well-aware that Texas law exempts a woman who receives an abortion, by any means, from a murder charge and yet chose to pursue an unjust and unconstitutional indictment,” Gonzalez’s attorneys, Cecilia Garza and Veronica S. Martinez, told CNN in a statement. “Such a flagrant violation of Ms. Gonzalez’s basic civil rights cannot be regarded as a mere ‘mistake.’”

Ramirez is facing professional consequences beyond the lawsuit.

An investigation by the Texas State Bar found this January that Ramirez had committed professional misconduct and fined him $1,250, as well as placing his license under probated suspension for one year, beginning Monday.

Prosecutors in Ramirez’s office tried to “pursue criminal homicide charges against an individual for acts clearly not criminal pursuant to Texas Penal Code” and Ramirez “failed to refrain from prosecuting a charge that was known not to be supported by probable cause,” reads the findings of a state bar’s investigatory panel, which Ramirez signed in acknowledgment.

According to the panel’s findings, although Ramirez denied that he was ever briefed on the facts of the case before it was prosecuted by his office, investigators determined he was consulted by a prosecutor in his office beforehand and permitted it to go forward.

Barrera, who had only been admitted to practice law in Texas just over five years before the incident, has not faced public disciplinary action for her role in prosecuting Herrera, state bar records show.

The complaint notes Gonzalez self-induced an abortion in January 2022 using misoprostol, a pill that can be used on its own or with another medication, mifepristone, to complete a medication abortion.

After Gonzalez was examined at Starr County Memorial Hospital, staff reported the abortion to the Starr County District Attorney’s Office, in violation of federal privacy laws, the document alleges. CNN has reached out to the hospital, which is not named as a defendant in this suit, for comment.

The complaint alleges Ramirez and Barrera “made misrepresentations of the facts and the law to a grand jury, recklessly and callously disregarding the rights of Plaintiff, allowing a malicious prosecution to commence against her.”

The days Gonzalez spent in jail were filled with fear, confusion and anger, her attorney Martinez told reporters Tuesday. The experience took such a toll that Gonzalez had to be transported to the hospital for hyperventilation and shortness of breath on her second day in jail, she said.

“She was released from custody only after she posted the $500,000 bond and not because the charges were dismissed,” Martinez added. Charging documents confirm Gonzalez’s bond was set at $500,000.

Days after Gonzalez was charged, Ramirez announced his office was dropping the charges, stating she had not committed a criminal act.

“In reviewing this case, it is clear that the Starr County Sheriff’s Department did their duty in investigating the incident brought to their attention by the reporting hospital. To ignore the incident would have been a dereliction of their duty,” he wrote in an April 10, 2022 news release.

But the complaint alleges “based on information and belief,” neither the Starr County Sheriff’s Office nor the Rio Grande City Police Department performed an investigation in the case, rather the district attorney’s office “initiated and performed its own investigation based on reports from hospital personnel.”

The Starr County Sheriff’s Office, which arrested Gonzalez, told CNN it had no comment but shared Ramirez’s April 10 statement.

After Gonzalez was “involuntarily and detrimentally thrust into the public eye,” the attention was only heightened by news of the charges being dropped, the complaint states.

Advocates for women and their reproductive rights describe the incident as a brazen attempt to restrict access to healthcare for women.

“In this case, the Starr County District Attorney and Assistant District Attorney had absolutely no right to pursue a murder indictment in what was clearly just another effort to exert control over a woman’s deeply personal family planning decision and decision about her own bodily autonomy – and in direct opposition to the vast majority of Americans who support abortion pill access,” Rachel O’Leary Carmona, executive director of Women’s March and Women’s March Network, told CNN in a statement.

Months after Gonzalez’s arrest, Texas implemented a near-total ban on abortion, with murky exceptions for medical emergencies. State law protects patients who obtain an abortion from criminal liability, though medical professionals can be prosecuted for performing abortions.

“In a world of extremist red-state abortion laws, what we are seeing play out in Texas is some of the most indefensible, most radical instances of state officials going out of their way to punish and control women who desperately need abortion care,” Carmona added.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-woman-suing-prosecutors-charged-231501471.html

 

Uh oh.
You're gonna trigger the despicables.

 

This is both typical and laughable of Trump. First brag that he will come up with a plan on abortion that everyone will like.


Trump promises a ‘deal’ on abortion that will please everyone. It likely doesn’t exist.
Should Trump appear vague or duck the issue, some of his supporters fear it will allow the Biden campaign to tie him to the more extreme wing of the anti-abortion movement.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/07/trump-abortion-democrats-republicans-00150800

But of course he was just lying as always.

Trump punts on abortion — now says it will be entirely up to states
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-abortion-2667716934/


But now he has jumped from the frying pan to the fire.


'Deeply disappointed': Top anti-abortion group whacks Trump for punting issue
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-abortion-2667714084/

 

Technically, it's only banned in 14 states

 

We keep seeing that despicables are only capable of criticizing Trump for any of his actions, inactions, and slips. They twirl and pee at every opportunity, drawing the attention to Trump.

We know this is because they can't find anything positive to say about Brandon.

Correction,
This is because they can't find anything positive to say about brandon that isn't a lie or propaganda.

 

‘Trump Is Simply Lying’: Biden Goes OFF On Trump Over Abortion In Blistering Statement
Tommy ChristopherApr 8th, 2024, 11:09 am
2552 comments





President Joe Biden went off on former President Donald Trump on the issue of abortion after Trump released a rant accusing Democrats of “executing babies” and bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade — but saying states should now decide.

Trump posted a four-and-a-half-minute Truth Social video Monday morning that leaned heavily into the well-worn and false attack on Democrats that they believe in legally “executing the baby” after it has been born. He also bragged about ending Roe and appeared to take the position that states should decide limits on abortion — while urging them to take measures that would still allow Republicans to win elections.


In a blistering statement emailed by the Biden-Harris campaign to Mediaite, the president torched Trump at length, accusing him of “lying” and of “scrambling” to avoid political damage from the overturning of Roe, and promised to restore abortion rights:

“Donald Trump made it clear once again today that he is – more than anyone in America – the person responsible for ending Roe v. Wade. He is – more than anyone in America – responsible for creating the cruelty and the chaos that has enveloped America since the Dobbs decision.

“Trump once said women must be punished for seeking reproductive health care – and he’s gotten his wish. Women are being turned away from emergency rooms, forced to go to court to seek permission for the medical attention they need, and left to travel hundreds of miles for health care. In states like Florida, abortion will likely soon be illegal before many women know they’re pregnant. Because of Donald Trump, one in three women in America already live under extreme and dangerous bans that put their lives at risk and threaten doctors with prosecution for doing their jobs. And that is only going to get worse. With all his empty words on fertility treatments, Trump doesn’t tell you the MAGA Republicans he controls in Congress have put forward bills that could ban fertility treatments and that the Speaker of the House he empowered is one of the strongest supporters for a national abortion ban in the nation. Let there be no illusion. If Donald Trump is elected and the MAGA Republicans in Congress put a national abortion ban on the Resolute Desk, Trump will sign it into law.

“Here’s what Donald Trump doesn’t understand: When he ripped away Roe v. Wade, he ripped away a fundamental right for the women of America that the United States Supreme Court had affirmed and reaffirmed for 50 years. As a fundamental right, it didn’t matter where you lived. It was granted to you as an American, not as a resident of any state. Generations of women had come to rely on that right. Now we’re in the extraordinary position where women today have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers. That has never happened before in America. And it cannot be allowed to stand. I am determined to restore the federal protections of Roe v. Wade. So it won’t matter where you live in America: The fundamental right to choose for women will once again be the law of the land. If you give me and Vice President Harris a Democratic Congress, that is exactly what we will do.

“Trump is simply lying. There was no groundswell of support in America for overturning Roe. In fact, support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been. The real truth is Trump made a political deal in 2016. He promised to appoint a Court that would get rid of Roe. And he had to make good on that debt. So he did. It was never about public policy or what was right or what Trump believed. It was always about politics.

“Trump admits as much in his statement today. Having created the chaos of overturning Roe, he’s trying to say, ‘Oh, never mind. Don’t punish me for that. I just want to win.’

“Trump is scrambling. He’s worried that since he’s the one responsible for overturning Roe the voters will hold him accountable in 2024. Well, I have news for Donald. They will. America was built on personal freedom and liberty. So, there is nothing more un-American than having our personal freedoms taken away. And that is what Donald Trump has done.

“As I have said many times since the Dobbs decision, Donald Trump and all those responsible for overturning Roe don’t have a clue about the power of women in America. But they are about to find out.”


https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump...-trump-over-abortion-in-blistering-statement/

 

Not to be out done by the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans trying to drag is back to the Jim Crow 1950's or the ones trying to drag us back to the Dark Ages the Arizona Supreme court is dragging women back to the 1860/s



Arizona's top court revives 19th century abortion ban
Brendan Pierson and Nate Raymond
Updated Tue, April 9, 2024 at 3:11 PM MDT·5 min read
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By Brendan Pierson and Nate Raymond

(Reuters) -Arizona's top court revived a law dating to 1864 on Tuesday that bans abortion in virtually all instances, another setback for reproductive rights in a state where the procedure already was barred starting at 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled 4-2 in favor of an anti-abortion obstetrician and a county prosecutor who took up defense of the law after the state's Democratic attorney general declined to do so.

Justice John Lopez, who like all of the court's members was appointed by a Republican governor, wrote that to date, the state's legislature "has never affirmatively created a right to, or independently authorized, elective abortion."

"We defer, as we are constitutionally obligated to do, to the legislature's judgment, which is accountable to, and thus reflects, the mutable will of our citizens," Lopez wrote.

The state high court lifted the stay on enforcement of the 19th century law but will only allow it to be enforced prospectively. It stayed enforcement of its decision for 14 days to allow the parties to raise any remaining issues at the trial court level.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, in a statement called the ruling "unconscionable and an affront to freedom," and stressed that she would not prosecute any doctor or woman under the "draconian law."

"Today's decision to reimpose a law from a time when Arizona wasn't a state, the Civil War was raging, and women couldn't even vote will go down in history as a stain on our state," she said.

While Mayes said she would not enforce the law, local prosecutors could. One, Republican Yavapai County Attorney Dennis McGrane had intervened in the litigation to defend the statute in order to enforce it.

The ruling marked the latest legal setback for abortion rights, following a ruling last week by the Florida Supreme Court that cleared the way for a Republican-backed law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect.

States were allowed to adopt such bans after the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022 overturned its landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade that had made access to abortion a constitutional right nationwide.

Democratic President Joe Biden in a statement called the Arizona ruling the "result of the extreme agenda of Republican elected officials who are committed to ripping away women’s freedom."

"Millions of Arizonans will soon live under an even more extreme and dangerous abortion ban, which fails to protect women even when their health is at risk or in tragic cases of rape or incest," he said.

VOTERS MAY DECIDE

Fourteen other states have banned nearly all abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday said access to abortion should be determined by the states, and stopped short of proposing a national ban that could imperil his chances with swing voters in the November election.

In Arizona, the issue could ultimately be decided by the voters, after a group of abortion rights advocates last week said it gathered enough signatures to put on the November ballot a measure that would enshrine in the state's constitution a right to an abortion until fetal viability.

Abortion rights measures have prevailed everywhere they have been on the ballot since the Supreme Court's decision.

At issue in the Arizona Supreme Court case was an 1864 law that banned abortions except to save the woman's life, and imposed a penalty of up to five years in prison for anyone who performs an abortion.

Planned Parenthood, which provides abortions and other healthcare services, sued the state in 1971 to challenge the 1864 law. A judge ruled in Planned Parenthood's favor and issued an order blocking the law following the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade ruling.

In March 2022, the governor at the time, Republican Doug Ducey, signed the new law that banned abortion after 15 weeks. Like the 1864 statute, it carries a penalty of up to five years in prison for anyone who performs or helps a woman obtain an abortion.

In July 2022, then-Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed a motion in the Planned Parenthood case to challenge the judicial order that blocked the 1864 law and let prosecutors enforce the ban. A court granted that request in September 2022.

After Planned Parenthood appealed, a state appellate court in December 2022 once again blocked the 1864 ban from being enforced against doctors, though it allowed enforcement against non-physicians who perform abortions. The state's newly elected Democratic governor, Katie Hobbs, and attorney general Mayes, declined to appeal further.

That led obstetrician Eric Hazelrigg and McGrane to intervene in the case to defend the 1864 law before the state's Supreme Court. Hazelrigg runs a network of crisis pregnancy centers - facilities where pregnant women are counseled against having abortions.

They are represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group behind other challenges to abortion rights including an effort to restrict access to the abortion pill.

Vice Chief Justice Ann Timmer, in an opinion joined by Chief Justice Robert Brutinel, dissented from Tuesday's ruling, saying had the legislature intended for the near-total abortion ban to take effect, it could have done so during its 2023 session.

"And in my view, the majority mistakenly returns us to the territorial-era abortion statute last operative in 1973," she said. "I would leave it to the people and the legislature to determine Arizona’s course in the wake of Roe’s demise."


https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizonas-top-court-revives-19th-171325746.html


But it should be a big help to President Biden and the Democrats. whenever abortion is on the ballot both abortion and the Democrats win.


Arizona abortion rights amendment backers says they've gathered signatures needed for 2024 ballot
First to NBC News: Arizona for Abortion Access says it’s exceeded the state petition signature threshold by over 120,000, with plans to keep gathering until a July 3 deadline.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...ckers-says-gathered-signatures-nee-rcna145922

 

The Arizona Supreme Court decision is going to have huge impact nation wide because its so symbolic and easy to understand. It says women are supposed to be in the 1860's before they even had the right to vote. And with Trump saying abortion should be left up to the states this is a perfect example of how extreme treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans are willing to be. And women will vote against that.



'Earth-shattering': Arizona GOP in full-on panic 'seismic' ruling will cost them election

Adam Nichols
April 10, 2024 9:19AM ET









Republicans are in full-on panic mode amid fears that a Civil War-era law is about to bring a near-total abortion ban in Arizona — thus threatening to decimate the GOP’s election chances in a key battleground state.

Pending appeals, the law will go into effect in the next few weeks. It will put the issue front and center of the November election, and is expected to have a "seismic impact,” the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

“I’m trying to think of when there was a more stunning political phenomenon injected into an election cycle, and I can’t think of one,” Stan Barnes, a Republican consultant and former member of the state legislature, told the Post. "It’s just a powerful change in the political landscape leading up to the 2024 general election.”

Republican operative Max Fose said the state Supreme Court’s decision will, “definitely give Biden a leg up going into the election.”

“If we look at it, it’s like 9 percent of the electorate is Republican swing voters,” he said. “That represents 234,000 people. They just slummed those people over to Biden’s corner.”

The court on Tuesday ruled an 1864 law that totally bans the procedure apart from in instances when it will save the mother’s life was enforceable, despite the fact that it was put on the books before Arizona was even a state.

ALSO READ: EXCLUSIVE: Congress raids presidential campaign fund in surprise reversal

Previously, Arizona law allowed abortion up to 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The decision sent shockwaves throughout the state and the nation. Even Kari Lake, a vocal pro-lifer and the Republican Senate candidate for the state, called for it to be halted — just two years after she supported it.

It follows Donald Trump’s announcement earlier in the week that abortion legislation should be up to states to decide, and fears that the issue could be a major deciding factor nationally in November’s election.

Democratic strategist Tony Cani said it’s “going to be catastrophic” for the GOP.

“This is earth-shattering,” he told the Post. “This is going to create an overwhelming wave of voters who otherwise might not have been enthusiastic about this election, or otherwise might not have voted at all, to go in and vote literally for their lives and for their rights.”



https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-abortion/

 

Actually, Biden endorsed it long before Trump! Trump just made it happen!

 

Its really to see how much the Arizona Supreme Court decision has treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans are panicked just by how fast they are trying to back up from it like a crawdad that just saw a Cajun.

Kari Lake was all for the 1864 law before she was against it. But that won't help here because Lake has a long history of being anti abortion. And of course gives her Democratic opponent Ruben Gallego the great opportunity to ask was Lake lying then or is she lying now? Either way she's a liar that will take away a woman's fight to abortion.



Kari Lake Blasts Abortion Ban She Once Was ‘Thrilled’ About

OUTLAWED
The state’s highest court reinstated a law from 1864.



Rebecca Noble/Getty


The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to reinstate a 160-year-old abortion ban—and Republicans who previously backed it, including Senate candidate Kari Lake, immediately began flip-flopping.

The court overturned a 2022 law that allows for abortions until 15 weeks, paving the way for an 1864 ban that prohibits the procedure in almost all cases, except to save the life of the mother.

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The state’s highest court first heard arguments on the case in December, after the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that the two conflicting abortion bans needed to be “harmonized.”

The justices said in a 4-2 decision Tuesday that the overturn of Roe v Wade, the federal law protecting abortion until viability, meant there is nothing barring the decades-old ban from taking effect. They ruled the law can be enforced in 14 days, and until then the parties can raise additional constitutional questions with a lower court.


The decision follows a ruling from the Florida Supreme Court last week allowing a six-week abortion ban to take effect there, bringing the number of states with near-total abortion bans to 16.

An umbrella group called Arizona for Abortion Access announced last week it has gathered enough signatures to place a measure on the November ballot asking voters to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.

Much like in Florida, where advocates lined up a similar ballot measure, experts believe it could bring more Democratic voters to the Arizona polls in November.

In a statement after the decision was released, Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee President Heather Williams called Arizona “one of the most important battlegrounds in 2024,” adding that Democrats are “just a handful of seats away from flipping each chamber of the Arizona state legislature.”

Meanwhile, avowedly anti-abortion Republicans like Lake, who is running against U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D) for an Arizona Senate seat, attempted to distance themselves from the decision.

Lake, who previously called the 1864 ban a “great law,” said she opposes Tuesday’s ruling and called on the state legislature to come up with an “immediate common sense solution that Arizonans can support.”

“I am the only woman and mother in this race,” Lake said in a statement. “I wholeheartedly agree with President Trump—this is a very personal issue that should be determined by each individual state and her people.”

Lake previously attempted to walk back her statements on the law—which she told a conservative radio host she would be “thrilled” to see take effect—in an interview with NBC News earlier this month.

Despite reiterating her support of the territorial ban as recently as November 2023, Lake told NBC she no longer supports it, and said she “trust the people of Arizona to vote on this, if that’s what happens, and get this right.”

Gallego, meanwhile, called Tuesday’s decision “devastating” and said politicians like Lake “are forcing themselves into doctor’s offices and ripping away the right for women to make their own healthcare decisions.”

Lake was not the only anti-abortion lawmaker seeking distance. U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani, a Republican running for re-election in a vulnerable district in November, previously said abortion should be a left to the states but called the Arizona Supreme Court ruling a “disaster” on Tuesday.

“The territorial law is archaic,” he said in a statement. “We must do better and I call on our state policymakers to immediately address this in a bipartisan manner.”

Ciscomani previously voted to ban the sale of abortion medication at retail pharmacies, to prohibit the Defense Department from paying for military members’ abortions, and to prohibit the use of federal funds from paying for the procedure as part of larger spending and defense bills.

Rep. David Schweikert, another Republican running in a vulnerable district, said the issue should “decided by Arizonans, not legislated from the bench” and encouraged the state legislature to address the issue “immediately.”

Schweikert previously sponsored the Life At Conception Act, a federal ban on abortion from the moment of conception.

Democrats and abortion rights supporters also denounced the decision, with Attorney General Kris Mayes calling the ban “unconscionable” and reiterating her vow not to prosecute anyone for violating it.

Athena Salman, director of Arizona campaigns for Reproductive Freedom for All, said the law will “put people in life-threatening situations and force many to flee the state for the care that they need.”

“We won’t stop fighting back alongside our partners to restore abortion access in Arizona,” she said in a statement.

Planned Parenthood of Arizona said in a statement that it would continue providing abortions through 15 weeks for “a short period of time” before the decision takes effect.

“Let me be clear, this is not the end of our fight,’ said Planned Parenthood Arizona President Angela Florez. “While today we feel frustrated and dismayed with the Court for stripping our legal right to essential health care, we must harness our anger and take action. We must spread the word and urge our lawmakers to support reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizona-court-just-took-abortion-back-to-1864

 

Yeah this is the funniest thing about it. Now Trump and treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans have managed to piss their right flank off.


'Lied to us for decades': Christian conservative uncorks Biblical rant on GOP

Brad Reed
April 10, 2024 2:29PM ET




Evangelical pastors pray over Donald Trump. (Official White House Photos by Joyce Boghosian)




Christian conservative broadcaster Steve Deace is not at all happy with the way that former President Donald Trump and many Republicans have run away from the issue of abortion rights.

Writing on Twitter Wednesday, Deace accused the GOP of pulling a long con on anti-abortion voters in the United States, as he said that they used the anti-abortion cause to secure votes while then running away from the issue once it became politically unpopular.

"We thought Roe was a shibboleth of the damned for Democrats, but it was for both parties," he argued. "For it also allowed Republicans by and large to lie to us for decades... Now that Republicans have a chance to show they are sincerely pro-life, and act on decades of speeches and promises, they are by and large punting and cowering -- starting with the guy responsible for overturning Roe itself. Now plenty of our own teammates are also showing they're fine sacrificing kids on the altar of personal convenience, just like all the single moms in the Democrat Party."


Deace wasn't just content to level charges of hypocrisy against the GOP, however -- he also had a biblical warning for all of America that God might soon get fed up with us.

"Some of the harshest moments in the Scriptures stem from when we embrace the killing of children," he said ominously. "The final straw for Israel was when the people went down into the Valley of Ben Hinnom and cast their babies into the fire for the demon Molech, setting the stage for their diaspora."

He ended his angry tirade by informing America that it could not possibly win in a fight against God.

"We are playing a very dangerous game as a people," he said. "A game we cannot win. Don't say we weren't warned."


https://www.rawstory.com/msn-uk/steve-deace-2667740613/

 

'I'm out': Former Trump campaign staffer says ex-president has 'lost her vote'

David McAfee
April 10, 2024 4:41PM ET




Donald Trump frowning (Mandel Ngan:AFP)




"I'm out," said Donald Trump's former campaign staffer on Wednesday.

Lizzie Marbach, a former director of communications at Ohio Right to Life who also worked for the Ohio GOP and Trump's 2020 campaign, said the former president recently took things a step too far and failed to earn her vote.

Marbach specifically pointed to a CSPAN video showing Trump suggesting Arizona went "too far" in enacting a law that essentially outlaws abortion.


"Did Arizona go too far?" the reporter says. Trump then replies, "Yeah, they did. That'll be straightened out. As you know it's all about state's rights. It'll be straightened out. I'm sure that the governor and everybody else are going bring it back to within reason."

Marbach was not impressed.

"This is it. I’m out," she said Wednesday. "Trump has officially lost my vote. No sincere Christians can vote for Trump while he is now openly [and] boldly advocating for abortion. This is not a matter of Christian liberty anymore. It’s sinful to vote for the man."

She also tagged her former boss in a post that reads, "Child sacrifice is not something Christians can compromise on."

In a separate post, Marbach added, "It’s not about politics. This has gone too far. There is no amount of 'lesser of two evils' speeches that could ever make me vote for someone pro-child sacrifice."

She received pushback from her followers, and one social media user shared her statement and wrote, "This is what happens when you let women vote."

But Marbach stood by her statements, later saying, "Idk if you guys know this, but politicians have to earn votes. They aren’t entitled to them."

"Christ is king, not Trump," she said. "Which means when he crosses the line [and] spits on God, we should call him out every time. Spread the word."


https://www.rawstory.com/trump-arizona-2667741815/

 

So with Trump this week saying abortion is an issue the states will have to decide, the liberals triggered and have been laying out all manner of accusations on Trump.
Including that he wants to punish doctors who perform abortions.
No matter what it takes, eh?

Fact Check: Posts Claim Trump Said Doctors Should Be Punished for Performing Abortions. Here Are the Facts (msn.com)
Fact Check: Posts Claim Trump Said Doctors Should Be Punished for Performing Abortions. Here Are the Facts
Story by Nur Ibrahim
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump said in April 2024 that doctors who perform abortions should be punished.

Key Facts:

• On April 10, 2024, former U.S. President Donald Trump was asked by a reporter if he thought doctors who perform abortions should be punished.
• Trump did not explicitly answer the reporter's question.
• Trump actually said: "I'd let that be to the states. You know, everything we're doing now is states and states' rights. And what we wanted to do is get it back to the states, because for 53 years it's been a fight. And now the states are handling it. And some have handled it very well, and the others will end up handling it very well. And those are the things that states are going to make a determination about."

On April 10, 2024, former U.S. President Donald Trump responded to a reporter's question about whether doctors who provide abortions should be punished. He made his comments after the Arizona Supreme Court revived an 1864 law that banned almost all abortions in the state. The court opinion suggested but did not explicitly state that doctors providing abortions could be prosecuted under this law.

A number of posts on X claimed Trump called for doctors to be punished and thrown in jail for providing abortions. Some even stated that he wanted to be allowed to "personally" throw doctors in jail for carrying out abortions.

Other users, including Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, claimed that Trump was saying that "states should be allowed to throw doctors in prison for performing abortions."

In reality, Trump equivocated on the issue. In response to the question, he said the matter should be left up to the states (leaving open the possibility that a state could punish a doctor for carrying out an abortion).

According to video footage published by The Washington Post, the reporter asked, "Do you think a doctor should be punished [if they] perform abortions?"

Trump responded: "I'd let that be to the states. You know, everything we're doing now is states and states' rights. And what we wanted to do is get it back to the states, because for 53 years it's been a fight. And now the states are handling it. And some have handled it very well, and the others will end up handling it very well. And those are the things that states are going to make a determination about."

The exchange can be found here:
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The Washington Post noted that the GOP released a 2022 memo that explicitly stated, "Republicans DO NOT want to throw doctors and women in jail" as well as "Mothers should be held harmless under the law." The memo was presented as a Republican attempt to counter what the party called Democrats' "lies" about their abortion positions. However, numerous GOP-sponsored bills from that time did threaten doctors with jail.

The Post also noted that Trump was not asked specifically about putting doctors "in prison" (as claimed in some social media posts), even though the Arizona law threatens that punishment. He was asked about punishment more broadly, though the context was clearly about Arizona.

In March and April 2024, Trump was punting on questions related to specific abortion laws, and focused on states' rights as a way to avoid taking a firm position pro or con, according to The Post. However, we have reported how he had frequently taken credit for overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed federal abortion protections for all women.

Trump's stance on abortion has shifted considerably over the years. He commented on Arizona's abortion ban on April 10, 2024, saying he felt it went too far, without getting into specifics, saying it would be "straightened out." He added, "It is all about states' rights." Trump also said he would not sign a nationwide abortion ban if he were elected to the White House, reversing his position as a 2016 candidate and during his first term in office when he had supported a federal abortion ban. In 2016, he also said there "has to be some form of punishment" for women who were seeking abortion.

 

Trump actually thinks he won the 2020 election. I wouldn't trust that man decision making, eh