If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. --Joe Ettor (IWW labor organizer)
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Friday, October 11, 2024
DeSantis and other Forced-Pregnancy / Forced-Birth Operatives Focus on Illegal Operations to Fight Against the Pro-Abortion / Reproductive Healthcare Movement; all while Two Major Hurricanes Approached, Slammed into, and Left Devastation Behind in Florida and the SouthEast.
1). “Ron DeSantis is Using Tax Payer Dollars to Campaign Against Abortion + Melania Trump is Pro-Choice?”, Oct 10, 2024,Erin Ryan and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco discuss issues including Abortion and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Hysteria, duration of video 30:51, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgg5-WrXUms >
2). “Watch the Ad Florida Republicans Are Trying to Keep Off the Air”, Oct 7, 2024, Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day, The political ad in question is embedded in the article, duration of that video 0:31, at < https://jessica.substack.com/p/watch-the-ad-florida-republicans >.
3). “Woman Investigated for Pregnancy Loss..in New York”, Oct 10, 2024, Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day, An interview of Valenti, of 10:36 duration is included in the article. Also there are links to two podcasts one a bit less than an hour long (on We Can Do Hard Things) and one a few minutes longer than an hour (from Next Question with Katie Couric), at < https://jessica.substack.com/p/woman-investigated-for-pregnancy >.
Introduction by dmorista: In a determined and implacable and totally illegal campaign Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is working to defeat Proposal 4, the Abortion Rights proposal. For starters he has mobilized the “Election Police” he established a couple of years ago, to go to people's homes who signed the petition to put Proposal 4 on the ballot. He and the Florida Legislature started a new state agency dedicated to providing Forced-Pregnancy / Forced-Birth disinformation and propaganda, a blantantly illegal project. The Agency is directly operating to intimidate and disinform the population of Florida about what is going on with the Proposal 4 campaign. And now DeSantis has begun to threaten local TV stations that are airing political advertisements with prosecution and high fines using an obscure state law that is generally used in regulating slaughter houses and malfunctioning septic systems. Various aspects of this are discussed in Item 1)., “Ron DeSantis is Using ….”, Item 2)., “Watch the Ad Florida Republicans ….”, and Item 3)., “Woman Investigated for ….”. This Lincoln Project video is an interesting campaign ad aimed at fathers of young women who would be harmed or killed by the Trump Abortion Bans pointing out they could lose their daughters forever.
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Ron DeSantis is Using Tax Payer Dollars to Campaign Against Abortion + Melania Trump is Pro-Choice?
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Watch the Ad Florida Republicans Are Trying to Keep Off the Air
Click to skip ahead: Attacks on Democracy outlines the latest insanity in Florida. In All About Georgia, the state Supreme Court has reinstated a 6-week abortion ban. Everything you need to know about Kamala on Call Her Daddy. The news on EMTALA & SCOTUS is disappointing, but not surprising. In 2024, news on Tim Walz, Melania Trump and JD Vance. In the States, news from Delaware, Colorado and Texas. Stats & Studies looks at the anti-abortion researchers suing over their studies being retracted. In the Nation, some quick hits. Finally, some Book Tour News!
Attacks on Democracy
Let’s talk about what Donald Trump means when he says that abortion will be “up to the states”: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is threatening television stations that run ads for Amendment 4 with misdemeanor charges. Just when I think I’ve lost my ability to be shocked!
The Florida Department of Health sent a letter to WFLA TV, telling its vice president that running the Amendment 4 ad—which features a woman talking about her experience with a doomed pregnancy—puts people’s health and lives at risk. The letter threatens that if the station doesn’t remove the TV spot, the state will move ahead with legal proceedings and that breaking the law could lead to misdemeanor charges.
It doesn’t get more clearcut than this. As Nikki Fried, chair of the Florida Democratic Party, tweeted, “Floridians, THIS is not democracy!”
“We do not live in a free state, free of government interference, free of government intimidation and free of government overreach,” she said.
And as journalist Jason Garcia notes, this letter comes at the same time that DeSantis is using taxpayer dollars to run ads attacking Amendment 4 everywhere from ESPN and CNN to the fucking Weather Channel. (Using the power of state agencies to lobby against a citizen initiative is against the law, but a judge ruled in favor of DeSantis regardless last week.)
Here’s the ad DeSantis doesn’t want Floridians to see:
All About Georgia
Just a week after a judge struck down Georgia’s abortion ban in a blistering ruling, the state Supreme Court has put a hold on that decision—which effectively reinstates the ban. That means by 5pm today, abortions in Georgia after 6 week are illegal. You can read the decision here.
The Court’s move comes after state Attorney General Christopher Carr appealed the repeal of the ban, claiming that Georgia patients “will not suffer much harm” if the law were reinstated. It was just a few weeks ago that news broke of at least two women killed by the state’s ban. (Even the state’s own maternal mortality committee found the ban to be responsible for their deaths.)
Monica Simpson, executive director of SisterSong, called the decision “unconscionable, especially after the loss of Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller.”
“Today, the Georgia Supreme Court sided with anti-abortion extremists. Every minute this harmful six-week abortion ban is in place, Georgians suffer. Denying our community members the lifesaving care they deserve jeopardizes their lives, safety, and health—all for the sake of power and control over our bodies.”
As the Center for Reproductive Rights pointed out on Twitter, there’s a sliver of good news: The Georgia Supreme Court, at least for now, left in place part of the ruling that blocked a law that allowed state prosecutors broad access to abortion patients’ medical records.
I’ll have more on the ruling and what comes next soon, but in the meantime: I’m so very sorry, Georgia.
Kamala on Call Her Daddy
While we’re talking about the consequences of Georgia’s abortion ban, let’s talk about the interview Vice President Kamala Harris gave to Alex Cooper at the massively popular podcast Call Her Daddy. In addition to talking about Donald Trump’s ‘post-birth’ abortion lies and the attacks on Harris for not having biological children, the presidential candidate spoke at length about about the death of Amber Nicole Thurman.
I noted last month when Harris spoke about Thurman’s death that she did something unprecedented for a presidential candidate—she normalized abortion. Harris did the same thing in this interview, saying Thurman was “so excited and so ambitious, and she had plans.”
“Then she found out she was pregnant and she didn't want to go through with her pregnancy,” she said. Again, this may seem like a small thing but it’s really not. Framing abortion as a normal decision one makes when a pregnancy doesn’t align with their life’s plans is actually quite radical. Though it shouldn’t be!
Where Harris really shone in this interview, though, was when she talked about the lie of abortion ban ‘exceptions,’ specifically the exception for women’s lives.
“OK, so you believe there's an exception that the person should receive abortion care if the life of the mother is at risk. You know what that means in practical terms? She’s almost dead before you decide to give her care. What? So we're going to have public health policy that says a doctor, a medical professional waits until you're at death's door before they give you care. That's outrageous that anybody would be saying that that is acceptable policy. So until everything that that physically could happen to your body in terms of deterioration, only at the point that oh, she might die, is she going to get care? Where is the humanity?”
Where is the humanity. That’s the exact right question. And you should listen/watch to the interview yourself because there’s no way for me to capture the energy in the room; Harris was pissed when she was talking about ‘exceptions.’
There’s also an amazing moment when she responds to the attack from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said last month that children keep you humble and that “Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.” Harris’ reply? “I’m not aspiring to be humble.” Put that on a t-shirt and call it a day.
You can watch a segment of the interview below, but listen to the full thing here. (Harris’ remarks on exceptions start at minute 28.)
EMTALA & SCOTUS
Just as I was ready to send out the newsletter, I found out that the Supreme Court declined to hear the Biden administration’s appeal on emergency abortions in Texas. As you may remember, the administration (rightly!) argued that Texas’ ban conflicts with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), which requires hospitals to give life-saving and stabilizing abortions.
In January, the notoriously conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an unanimous ruling that said EMTALA doesn’t require abortions and doesn’t preempt Texas law. What’s more, the judges ruled that when emergency room doctors are faced with a patient who has a dangerous or life-threatening pregnancy, they have a responsibility to “stabilize both the pregnant woman and her unborn child.” In other words, a 6-week embryo would warrant as much emergency treatment as you do.
The Biden administration wanted SCOTUS to step in, but today they declined. We saw the Court do a similar dance of avoidance in their decision on Idaho’s abortion ban and EMTALA: There, the justices essentially kicked the decision back down to a lower court (it wasn’t a ruling on the merits of the case).
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote at the time that the ruling “is not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho.”
“While this court dawdles and the country waits, pregnant people experiencing emergency medical conditions remain in a precarious position, as their doctors are kept in the dark about what the law requires. This Court had a chance to bring clarity and certainty to this tragic situation, and we have squandered it. And for as long as we refuse to declare what the law requires, pregnant patients in Idaho, Texas, and elsewhere will be paying the price.”
I mean really. How is it possible that emergency abortions are up for debate? If you need a reminder about what’s at stake, consider re-reading my column in response to the Fifth Circuit decision:
2024
Harris’ Call Her Daddy interview was just one of several big abortion-focused interviews this weekend. Because I’ll do anything to put off talking more about Melania Trump, let’s start with Gov. Tim Walz.
As I long-warned would happen, conservatives have glommed onto Minnesota’s pro-choice law in the lead up to the election, claiming it allows abortion ‘up until birth’ and using it as supposed proof that Walz is an extremist. So we knew it was going to come up in his interview this weekend with Fox News.
But Walz handled the interview like a pro, and hit back against a barrage of abortion misinformation. When Fox News’ Shannon Bream attacked Walz as signing a law without “a single limit through nine months of pregnancy,” for example, the vice presidential candidate stayed on message. He said, “this puts the decision with the woman and her healthcare providers.”
Most importantly, Walz reminded viewers about the consequences of abortion bans—like women going septic—and the fact that Donald Trump wants to pass a national abortion ban. Naturally, Bream tried to defend Trump, saying that the disgraced former president has claimed he wouldn’t sign a ban. “Are you calling that just it’s a flat-out lie?,” she asked Walz. His answer? “Yes, of course.”
And it is a lie! You all know about the language games Trump and JD Vance are playing with the word ‘ban’; that’s why I was so happy to see this piece from Adam Serwer at The Atlantic delve into just that:
“[A] ‘national minimum standard’ is just another phrase for federal abortion ban, like calling soccer ‘football’ instead. Although Vance did not specify a window of time for such a standard, the only point of one would be to ban abortion outside it.”
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Okay, onto Melania. As you know, the former first lady has suddenly revealed that she’s a passionate pro-choice advocate—right in time to distract from the news of women dying in anti-abortion states a few weeks before the election. In an interview with Fox News, Melania expanded on the sentiment:
“I believe in individual freedom. I want to decide what I want to do with my body. I think I don’t want government in my personal business I think it’s very important.”
When asked about writing the book before the election and the timing of this announcement, Melania said, “the books was written months before.” As I said to Chris Hayes on MSNBC, they must really think we’re stupid. The Trump campaign is pulling out every stop to make people believe he’s ‘softened’ on abortion rights, and announcing that the first lady is pro-choice and can somehow influence him is part of that lie. As the BBC notes, there’s even a history of Republican first ladies announcing their support of abortion rights in an attempt to soften their husbands’ image. So yeah, I call bullshit.
Speaking of bullshit, let’s talk about how Vance—who has been working to appear more moderate on abortion rights—slipped up and gave up the game. The Republican vice presidential candidate told a reporter from RealClearPolitics this weekend that he would defund Planned Parenthood:
“We don’t think that taxpayers should fund late-term abortions. That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around; it will remain a consistent view.”
The Washington Post points out that Planned Parenthood gets a large amount of funding through Medicaid and federal grants in order to provide things like birth control and cancer screenings for low-income Americans. In fact, it makes up for 34% of the organizations’ revenue. So what Vance is talking about is gutting funding for vital low- and no-cost healthcare services. I really hope we get more than a few headlines on this one; it’s important.
In the States
I truly cannot imagine anything better than Sen. Ted Cruz losing Texas because of abortion rights. Is it possible? Maybe! Cruz’s opponent, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, is barely trailing the Republican—and folks seem to think it’s largely thanks to anger over the state’s abortion ban.
The Texas Tribune points out that Cruz has been uncharacteristically silent on the issue, and that Allred’s campaign has started airing ads that attack Cruz for his anti-abortion record. Cruz declined an interview with the Tribune, but that’s okay because the publication outlined his extremist opposition to abortion in detail.
For example, Cruz doesn’t support a rape and incest exception; he also literally ran from questions about Kate Cox, who was denied an abortion in Texas despite having a doomed and dangerous pregnancy.
I’ll update you as new polls come in, but fingers and toes crossed because abortion ousting Cruz would just be a delight.
“I think it’s interesting that we have people who will never understand what it means to carry a child…that they are the ones with the loudest voice and opposition to what folks who actually carry pregnancies to term, what they are asking for.”
- Monica Simpson, executive director of SisterSong, in an interview about Georgia’s abortion ban
Some great news in Delaware, where a new law goes into effect in January that mandates health plans cover abortion care—including private plans, state employee insurance plans and Medicaid. The bill’s sponsor, House Majority Leader Melissa Minor-Brown, said, “I know what it means for a woman to have access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care, and I'm so proud that as a state, we have taken steps to ensure that we're protecting women in our state and we're protecting providers in our state.”
We all know by now that abortion being legal in a state doesn’t mean that it’s accessible. Take this report from The Denver Post on abortion availability in Colorado, where despite some of the most pro-choice laws in the country, many counties still lack access. Part of the issue is the increase in Catholic hospitals, which don’t offer abortion, birth control or sterilization. That’s why the state has passed an important new law, set to take effect this month, which requires hospitals to disclose any restrictions on the types of care they offer. While it won’t do anything to increase access, at least patients will know where they can and can’t get care.
Quick hits:
A court struck down an anti-abortion lawsuit challenging Oregon’s law requiring that employers’ insurance plans cover abortion;
A full-spectrum doula in Nebraskatalks about why she’s supporting the abortion rights amendment there;
And the Midwest Newsroom and Emerson College Polling Center has new info on what midwestern voters think about abortion rights.
Stats & Studies
Remember how two major anti-abortion studies were retracted by their publisher back in February? Well, States Newroom reports that the anti-abortion activists behind the so-called studies are now suing Sage Publications, claiming that the retractions were politically-motivated and have led to “enormous and incalculable harm” to their professional reputations. (I’d say the shitty studies did that, but what do I know!)
Oh, and you’ll never guess who is bringing the suit on behalf of the ‘researchers’: Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). That’s right, the ultra-conservative legal group who argued in front of the Supreme Court against mifepristone and emergency abortions. You’d think that if you wanted to prove that your studies aren’t anti-abortion bunk, you might choose a lawyer with less obvious baggage.
ADF wants Sage to arbitrate with the ‘researchers’, rescind the retraction and “remedy the reputational damage the researchers have suffered at the hands of abortion lobbyists.”
In case you need a refresher: Several independent reviewers found that the articles had “unjustified or incorrect factual assumptions,” “material errors” and “misleading presentations” of data. The authors of the two studies also had major undeclared conflicts of interests; nearly all were affiliated with groups like the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) and the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
The reason this is so important is that these studies were used in major abortion cases—Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk cited them in his ruling against mifepristone, for example. Anti-abortion groups like AAPLOG and Charlotte Lozier are working hard to appear scientifically-credible in the hopes that their bad data and research will continue to be used in suits, legislation and beyond. So ensuring that these studies get retracted—and stay that way!—is vital, vital work.
In the Nation
The Washington Post on how blue states are ‘Trump proofing’ abortion rights;
A new study shows that more women are seeking sterilization post-Dobbs;
Sally Field shared the harrowing story of her illegal abortion before Roe was enacted;
The New York Times on the women sharing abortion stories in battleground states;
And NPR on anti-abortion ‘abolitionists’ who want to criminalize IVF.
Book Tour News
I’ve been out doing press and events for the book nonstop and am definitely exhausted—but I’m also so grateful to all of the newsletter folks who came out to say hi! It’s such a pleasure to meet some of you real life. I’ll also be sending out info tomorrow about some online events for Abortion, Every Day readers, including a livestream and live-chat about the book.
In the meantime, if you’re not sick of hearing me talk about abortion yet, listen to my interview with Bay Area public radio station KALW here, watch me rant about Melania Trump with Chris Hayes here; and hear me tell Ali Velshi what the endgame is for the anti-abortion movement is here. I’ll also be on The Daily Show (gulp!) this Wednesday evening.
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Woman Investigated for Pregnancy Loss..in New York
Click to skip ahead: In Criminalizing Pregnancy, a New York woman is being investigated for her pregnancy loss. In the States, news from Arizona, Georgia, Indiana and Texas. Ballot Measure Updates from Florida. In the Nation, some quick hits. In 2024 news, Donald Trump is trying to reach ‘terminally online’ young men by going on podcasts. And in You Love to See It, my appearance on the Daily Show pissed off a conservative media outlet.
Criminalizing Pregnancy
Usually when I cover news of women being criminalized for miscarriages or stillbirths, the story is coming from a state like Alabama or Georgia. But pro-choice laws don’t always protect people from being targeted for their pregnancy outcomes, and today’s news is a perfect example of that.
It’s following all of the hallmarks we’ve seen in other, similar cases: Local media is covering a woman’s pregnancy loss as a crime story and calling the fetus a ‘baby’ in sensationalized headlines; and police are considering using a law seemingly unrelated to abortion. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told a local outlet that they’re working with the district attorney to determine if she’ll be arrested and charged. “Most likely it would lead to the arrest of concealment of a human corpse, which is a [class] E felony,” he said. (Please know this not actually a crime, despite police statements: Repro rights attorneys tell me that New York doesn’t classify a fetus as ‘human remains’ until later in pregnancy.)
But again, this is typical: You may remember that when Brittany Watts in Ohio was arrested after miscarrying, she was charged with ‘abuse of a corpse.’ And—as groups like If/When/How have noted—prosecutors may also bring charges like ‘chemical endangerment’ or ‘practicing medicine without a license.’
I’ll keep you updated on the story if charges are brought, but as I’ve said so many times before, this is obscene even if this young woman isn’t arrested. Imagine going through a traumatic pregnancy loss in a public place and instead of getting help, you’re questioned by the police.
This is part of the reason New Yorkers should be spreading the word about Prop 1, the equal rights amendment on the ballot in November: It protects abortion rights and prevents discrimination based on pregnancy or pregnancy outcomes.
Abortion, Every Day catches the stories that mainstream publications miss, and connects the dots so that you don’t have to. But the newsletter can’t do it alone! Help AED keep going and growing by signing up for a paid subscription:
In the States
One of the primary reasons pregnancy criminalization happens is thanks to fetal personhood; we know that when fetuses are treated as legal human beings, the people carrying them are often not. Take what happened this week in Georgia, where a football player was arrested for assault and battery on a fetus. That’s right: After Colbie Young allegedly abused his ex-girlfriend, he wasn’t arrested for hurting her—only her pregnancy.
These are the kinds of cases we can expect to see more and more of as fetal personhood continues to take hold in the states across the country. And as I pointed out on TikTok yesterday, it’s a good reminder that conservatives attack on abortion rights was never just about rolling back reproductive rights—but erasing women’s humanity.
Speaking of the consequences of abortion bans, let’s talk about what’s happening in Arizona, where a new study finds that the 15-week abortion ban is costing the state billions every year. In fact, the report from the non-partisan Grand Canyon Institute estimates that because of the way the ban pushes Arizona women out of the labor market and disincentives workers moving to the state, the ban could cost the state as much as $3.4 billion every year.
Researchers say that thanks in addition to decreased participation in the workforce among women, Arizona’s ban is also impacting healthcare more broadly, education, and business in the state. Applications for medical residencies in the state have already dropped by over 18%, for example, and everyone from college students to employees are looking to live in states with access to reproductive healthcare. The authors write, “Arizona is losing out in efforts to attract talent to the state.”
We knew this would happen; feminists have long warned that banning abortion isn’t just bad for women and democracy, but the economy. I just wonder how long it will take Republicans to catch on (or care).
A reminder: Arizona voters will have a chance to restore abortion rights this November via a ballot measure.
Meanwhile, abortion rights is taking center stage in Indiana’s gubernatorial race, with Democratic nominee Jennifer McCormick releasing a detailed plan on how she would use the office to restore and protect abortion rights. Remember, Indiana has effectively a total abortion ban, with ‘exceptions’ that are near-impossible to use. Just last month, for example, a court declined to broaden the ban’s health exception, even though doctors have made clear the law is putting patients’ lives at risk. The rape exception, which supposedly allows for care in the first ten weeks of pregnancy, is similarly problematic: Abortions in can only be performed in hospitals, and hospitals pretty much refuse to offer care.
It’s also worth remembering that Indiana has been at the center of the fight for abortion privacy: Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita has been trying to make women’s abortion reports public records in the same way birth and death certificates are.
Given all that, McCormick has laid out what she calls a “common sense abortion rights” plan. And it’s a good one: In addition to protecting the privacy of medical records (including the individual abortion reports that Rokita are targeting), McCormick’s plan calls for appointing abortion rights supporters to state boards and commissions like the Indiana Medical Licensing Board, prioritizing funding for reproductive health (as opposed to crisis pregnancy centers), and shifting the focus “from enforcement to compliance assistance for clients and providers.” In other words, helping providers deal with the bullshit law rather than using the bullshit law to punish them.
McCormick also said that she would lobby for citizen-led ballot initiatives so that Hoosiers could repeal the ban altogether. (Right now, only the Indiana legislature can initiate a constitutional amendment.)
It’s clear that McCormick understands how vital the restoration of abortion rights are, and in a moment when the race is closer than expected, it’s a good time to spread the word to your friends in the state.
Finally, reproductive rights and justice group the Afiya Center says that the Supreme Court’s decision not to take up the fight over emergency abortions in Texaswill hurt Black women in the state. As you know, SCOTUS declined to take up the Biden administration’s appeal of the Fifth Circuit decision that said Texas doesn’t have to adhere to EMTALA and that EMTALA doesn’t require emergency abortions.
In other words, the Court allowed Texas to continue to deny women abortions in hospital emergency rooms, even when their health and life is at risk.
In a statement, the Afiya Center said, “Black women will suffer unnecessary injuries, risk criminal prosecution, and worst of all preventable deaths due to this ruling.” Deputy director D’Andra Willis also pointed out the higher maternal mortality rate for Black women, and how that will impact care for those with dangerous pregnancies. “Now you have doctors who don't feel safe, doctors who believe, and I want to say have been criminalized for just doing the very thing that they took the oath for,” she said.
And Texas Monthly on the Texas doctor working to expand abortion access in Ohio.
Ballot Measure Updates
Let’s talk about what’s happening in Florida, where Republicans—led by Gov. Ron DeSantis—have been pulling out every dirty trick imaginable to stop voters from having a say on abortion rights. In addition to opening up a bullshit voter fraud investigation into Amendment 4, complete with sending cops to voters’ homes, DeSantis’ administration is using taxpayer funding to run ads opposing the pro-choice ballot measure and threatening television stations that run Amendment 4 ads with criminal charges.
It appears that the full-scale Republican assault on the pro-choice ballot measure may be working: polling from the New York Times/Sienna Collegeshows that 46% of voters say they’ll support Amendment 4, which is far short of the 60% needed. But don’t lose hope yet; other polling has looked very good for the ballot initiative, and as the Times point out, the language they used to poll voters this time around is different. (Past polls with higher support used the exact language that voters will see.)
Regardless of the polling for Amendment 4, we know that voters in Florida—including the majority of Republicans—oppose the state’s abortion ban. People want abortion rights restored, and everything that Republicans are doing in the state is about suppressing those votes.
And The 19th writes that the Arizona ballot measure could shift the narrative on Latinas and abortion.
Listen Up
I’ve been having some incredible conversations about abortion lately, with two of my favorites coming out today! First up, I spoke to Katie Couric and Cindi Leive on Next Question, where we got into media coverage, conservative language tricks and more:
I also had an incredible conversation Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle at We Can Do Hard Things about everything from attacks on birth control and shame, to connection abortion rights has to democracy.
In the Nation
Mother Jones reports on the abortion rights activists with chronic illnesses and disabilities;
Forbes has a state-by-state rundown of abortion laws;
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