#reproductive rights

[fixing-bad-posts]

abortions empower women. it is necessary, and is totally acceptable. Me like abortions because they free us.

[vaspider]

The AZ Senate had the votes to repeal the ban last week, so a repeal seems likely. While this would simply put a newer 15w ban in place, this is an immediate benefit to a lot of people who are pregnant and don't want to be, and an indication that the GOP is unable to stand in the face of how pissed off people are.

If you live in AZ, especially, but even if you don't, you need to read the whole article, bc I guarantee that the GOP where you live is going to try to pull bait-and-switch tactics similar to those being tried in AZ, where a pro-reproductive-freedom item is on the ballot. GOPers there are going to try to confuse the vote into failure.

[soberscientistlife]

Trump Appointed Amy to replace RBG, who then lied about Roe.

A vote for Biden is a vote for women's human rights.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[rejectingrepublicans]

[redditreceipts]

[rapeculturerealities]

Biden moves to shield patients’ abortion records from GOP threats - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04/22/abortion-medical-records-patients-biden-hipaa/

The Biden administration on Monday announced new rules intended to protect the privacy of patients seeking abortions, and the health workers who may have provided them, from Republican prosecutors who have threatened to crack down on the procedure.

The rules strengthen a nearly 30-year-old health privacy law — known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA — to offer more robust legal protections to those who obtain or provide reproductive health care in a state where it is legal to do so. The final policy prohibits physicians, insurers and other health-care organizations from disclosing health information to state officials for the purposes of conducting an investigation, filing a lawsuit or prosecuting a patient or provider. It covers women who cross state lines to legally terminate a pregnancy and those who qualify for an exception to their state’s abortion ban, such as in cases of rape, incest or a medical emergency.

Under previous rules, organizations were allowed to disclose private medical information to law enforcement in certain cases, such as a criminal investigation. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services said they had heard from patients and providers who were confused about their legal risks or had even deferred care amid GOP threats in the nearly two dozen states with abortion restrictions.

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[destielmemenews]

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[mysharona1987]

This sounds like something from The Handmaid’s Tale, ffs.

[liberalsarecool]

Pro-choice is about so many things other than abortion that you should keep your nose out of.

[soberscientistlife]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[nicostiel]

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