Melissa's Musings(My opinionated view of life)

Molly Farrell and Jie Park: Benjamin Franklin’s Guide to Arithmetic and Abortifacients on Livestream : Watch Clark University Live and On-Demand's Molly Farrell and Jie Park: Benjamin Franklin’s Guide to Arithmetic and Abortifacients on Livestream.com.

For Ben Franklin, abortion was basic arithmetic : NPR

South Carolina bill outlaws websites that tell how to get an abortion - The Washington Post : Legal scholars say the proposal is likely a harbinger of other state measures, which could have a chilling impact on First Amendment-protected speech.

10-year-old girl denied abortion in Ohio This child got pregnant from rape, and the f*cked up Republicans won't let her have an abortion.  They want a child to bear her rapist's baby.  It's not bad enough she's been sexually abused, but they want her to go through a pregnancy and childbirth which could actually kill her. Yeah, that's real "pro-life."  NOT! That's disgusting and reprehensible and I'm tired of Republicans ruining this country. The SCOTUS is corrupt. 

For Ben Franklin, abortion was basic arithmetic : NPR

The Torah of Reproductive Justice (Annotated Source Sheet)

JCPA Condemns Supreme Court Decision Overturning Roe v. Wade - Jewish Council for Public Affairs Jewish law states that a pregnant person's rights take precedence over an unborn potential person. A potential life which only becomes a person when emerging from the womb. Overturning Roe V. Wade violates a Jewish person's First Amendment right to practice our own religion. The Christian right is now legislating their own beliefs, and that is unconstitutional. Individual religious beliefs are not allowed in jurisprudence.  That is unconstitutional. The last time I checked, the USA was not a Christian theocracy, and that is what is happening in the The USA. That's the GOP's goal. They've wanted Christian rule for a long time. Some of them have even admitted it.  That is not going to happen in my USA.  

Why Abortion Is More Than Just a Women's Rights Issue - CNET : Reproductive care affects everyone, including men and nonbinary, trans and intersex people.

Synagogue challenges Florida abortion law over religion | AP News : ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A new Florida law prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks with some exceptions violates religious freedom rights of Jews in addition to the state constitution's privacy protections, a synagogue claims in a lawsuit. It does violate it.  If Roe V Wade is overturned it will be trampling on the rights on every non-Christian group.  No other religion believes the same as the Christians.  So everyone else should be bringing lawsuits...and the SCOTUS cannot deny someone's right to their own religion.

As a young rabbi, he helped women obtain illegal abortions. At age 90, he’s fighting for them once again – The Forward

No Rape, Incest Exceptions in Pending Louisiana Abortion Law | Louisiana News | US News This horrifies me.  A girl can become pregnant when she's 11 or younger. The younger a female is, the more dangerous a pregnancy or childbirth is for her to go through.  So they're basically potentially pitting the 11 year old girl's life vs a baby's.  They're pitting one child's life against a potential baby's life.  If that doesn't horrify you, you have something wrong with you.r

The Lancet warns US Supreme Court over abortion

Doctors on an Abortion Ban: Unnecessary Health Risks, Stress on Safety Nets | Duke Today : DURHAM, N.C. -- An abortion ban would create a broad swath of unnecessary health risks for women while also creating risk and reluctance for doctors who care for them, three Duke doctors said Tuesday. In overturning Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court would put myriad new obstacles in the path of pregnant women while adding significant stress to the nation’s already-burdened social safety net, experts said during a virtual media briefing for journalists. (Watch the briefing on YouTube.) Here are excerpts: ON ABORTION AND INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM Dr.

No-exception laws, once too harsh even for anti-abortion Republicans, gain traction across US | Abortion | The Guardian

Guide to Abortion Privacy — Digital Defense Fund

Rally planned by Jewish advocates for abortion rights takes on new significance - Jewish Telegraphic Agency : Liberal Jewish groups responded to the Supreme Court news by vowing to ramp up their advocacy.

The US Supreme Court is wrong to disregard evidence on the harm of banning abortion

Supreme Court could OK new defense of Kentucky abortion law - ABC News The Supreme Court is negligent.  Roe V Wade is still the law.  The fact that this SC is not properly adjudicating based on their personal opinions is beyond disturbing,

Judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions : AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., calling it an “offensive deprivation" of a constitutional right by banning most abortions in the nation's second-most populous state since September .

Congresswomen share deeply personal stories about their abortions: 'We have nothing to be ashamed of' [Video] : In testimony at a congressional hearing on reproductive rights Thursday, Reps. Cori Bush, D-Mo., Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Barbara Lee, D-Calif., shared deeply personal stories about their own abortions.