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Mifepristone, round 2
A previous lawsuit to ban the drug used in about half of all US abortions failed at the Supreme Court for technical reasons. But a new suit fixes those problems. It also introduces some truly weird...
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Republicans Scramble to Contain Their Abortion Disaster
Trump’s let-the-states-decide statement looked clever until Arizona actually decided. All across the country, the abortion issue has been helping Democrats and hurting Republicans. For decades it...
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The Arizona Abortion Ruling
The result is horrible, but it’s a correct reading of the the legislature’s mess. Before he was appointed to the Supreme Court, Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes is supposed to have admonished an idealistic...
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The Supreme Court will have to carry this case to term
The mifepristone suit from Amarillo is so embarrassingly bad that even the Court’s conservative majority can’t justify doing what it wants. The anti-abortion-pill case that right-wing culture-war...
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Sweet Home, Gilead
With its ruling affirming the rights of “extrauterine children” and invoking “the wrath of a holy God”, the Alabama Supreme Court takes a giant step towards theocracy. Given all the bad press Alabama...
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Republicans think they’ve found a way to pitch abortion bans
Abortion bans are unpopular, unless their advocates can demonize the opposing position and distract voters from what they really want. Since the Dobbs decision last year, abortion has been a winning...
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A right-wing judge takes aim at medication abortions
Someday soon, a perfectly safe abortion drug could become unavailable nationwide, even in states that defend reproductive rights. That sounds so crazy that most of us have a hard time taking it...
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Closing Argument: Abortion
https://madison.com/opinion/cartoon/hands-on-wisconsin-end-of-roe-means-fewer-rights-for-women/article_5769a345-2d8d-5b54-8307-4fa275b9a8e7.html Will women make their own decisions, or will government...
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The Battle for Voters’ Imaginations
https://www.theeditorialcartoons.com/editorial-cartoon/Nick+Anderson%27s+Editorial+Cartoons/2022-07-28/195313 Post-Dobbs, voters are imagining very different abortion scenarios than the ones the...
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No Victims Allowed
Right-wing policies have obvious victims, but right-wing voters can’t be allowed to notice them. This week, reports of a pregnant 10-year-old brought out the full arsenal of denial. In the TV version...
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Three Supreme Court decisions with long-term consequences
https://claytoonz.com/2022/06/26/scotus-erode-us/ Scrapping abortions rights got the headlines. But don’t ignore the Court’s assault on gun regulations and the separation of church and state. Late...
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Who’s to blame for overturning Roe?
https://www.timesfreepress.com/cartoons/2022/may/07/overturned/5402/ There’s plenty of blame to go around. The two featured posts today look at the leaked Alito opinion overturning Roe v Wade through...
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What Alito wrote
https://www.ajc.com/opinion/mike-luckovich-blog/54-mike-luckovich-going-going-gone/PW5FT437ZJENHNII5YQRL2STFM/ A summary of his arguments, and how they might be used to take away other constitutional...
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Where Does the Religious Right Go After Roe?
https://politicalcharge.org/2021/09/04/the-weeks-best-cartoons-texas-abortion-ban/ Suppose the Supreme Court reverses Roe v Wade this term. Then what? The Dobbs case. The Supreme Court has already...
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The Roe v Wade Death Watch
https://www.ajc.com/opinion/mike-luckovich-blog/125-mike-luckovich-no-choice/RLWAWD4BKNGUHMOWE2YYL7TJQY/ Despite numerous claims during confirmation hearings that they would respect precedent,...
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A Dozen Observations about Abortion, Texas, and the Supreme Court
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/sep/03/opinion-john-deering-cartoon-about-texas/ As you undoubtedly already know, the Supreme Court refused to interfere with the new Texas abortion ban, which...
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Crime and Punishment: Did Trump Spill the Beans on the Pro-Life Movement?
Did Trump get the pro-life position wrong? Or just express it too bluntly? Fact-checkers tell us that Donald Trump makes mistakes all the time. [1] But Wednesday something unusual happened: He made a...
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The 2016 Stump Speeches: Bernie’s Epistle to the Falwellites
[This article is part of a series on the speeches of 2016 presidential candidates. A previous Bernie Sanders speech was discussed here.] I finally got around to watching Bernie Sanders’ speech to the...
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Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party
Tea Partiers say you don’t understand them because you don’t understand American history. That’s probably true, but not in the way they want you to think. Late in 2012, I came out of the Lincoln movie...
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There’s Something About Todd
I strongly advise you not to read this post. Your browser has a Back button. Use it. I don’t know what it is about Todd Akin. The whole point of the Weekly Sift is to filter the junk and hype out of...
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