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Friends! What are your favorite essays about identity loss and renewal? Asking for a student.
Jonathan Mitchell didn't get the outcome he wanted in a 2020 case about birth control provided by Title X family planning clinics, so he found a new plaintiff and teamed up with both Ken Paxton and Stephen Miller's America First Legal to sue again. Gift link: wapo.st/4c4F9DR
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is suing the Biden administration over a policy that allows adolescents to access birth control without their parents’ consent, arguing that the rule violates state law requiring guardians to consent to their children’s use of contraceptives.
Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said he was protecting parental rights in Texas; analysts say it’s an effort to upend a federal rule for the whole country.
Iowa’s law that bans abortion after six weeks takes effect tomorrow morning. Currently, 14 states have near-total bans at all stages of pregnancy and three states — Iowa will make four — ban abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. t.co/fE9lMhorlF
Iowa’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant.
I took a two-and-a-half week vacation and somehow I still feel like an anxious wreck, I am apparently incurable
Me in December when SCOTUS took the abortion pill case:
The Supreme Court took another abortion case, but the real threat is the media narrative. SCOTUS will likely swat the sham lawsuit away on standing grounds, earning it headlines about “protecting abortion.” But it won’t change the fact that a GOP president could still enact a national ban in 2025
Experts think SCOTUS will rule against a challenge to mifepristone—which could trick voters into believing they “protected abortion” in a crucial election year.
Fighting for someone you love in America’s health care system is painful. I don’t understand how we got here. I don’t understand how we aren’t all rioting in the streets all the time.
Been a long time since my news alerts resulted in a dopamine hit
“These are very, very tightly packed tents,” he said. “And a fire like this could spread over a huge distance with catastrophic consequences in a very, very short space of time.”
Apropos of absolutely nothing, but my neighbor recently put up a flag that says STAND FOR THE FLAG, KNEEL AT THE CROSS so the assessment that straight white men love flags checks out over here