Dispatches From The War On Women: Another Hit To Roe v. Wade

Welcome to Dispatches, your round-up of the latest news from the frontlines of the War on Women. Have a story from your state or an idea on how to push back? Share them here and fight back against the War on Women.

A federal district judge in Mississippi upheld the states restrictive new TRAP law but also ruled the state’s only abortion clinic can remain open while it tries to comply with the new regulations. It’s a tepid victory for Mississippi women and a glimpse into what we can expect other Republican administrations to take up next term. This is how Roe v. Wade is overturned–not with one massive legal challenge that rips the precedent away, but will hundreds of individual state restrictions that chip away at access and affordability so that abortion rights are legal in name only.

The Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union sued to block Arizona’s 20-week gestation abortion ban.

It used to be considered fringe to join “alternate” governments or declare yourself sovereign. Now it makes you part of the Iowa GOP candidate pool.

Mitt Romney campaigned with Dick Cheney but neither camp wanted the press to know about it.

Also, why is it so hard to confirm when Romney was at Bain?

There was also a rumor, briefly, that Mitt Romney was considering former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice as his running mate. Here’s Jeff Fecke as to why that was never a real story to start.

For many Americans, calling in sick to work can mean losing your job.

However this story offers a glimmer of hope that the judicial system might be waking up to the abuses of the private corrections economy and the return of the debtor’s prison.

A new study finds more and more Americans losing confidence in religious institutions. Gee, wonder what could bring something like that on?

We marked the 100th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s birth and marveled at how the more things change the more they stay the same.

In stark contrast to Guthrie stands Hank Williams Jr.

Wells Fargo agreed to pay $175 million to settle claims it discriminated against blacks and Latino families in mortgage fees and services.

Yes, your beauty products may be slowly killing you.

This is pretty cool: 175 former NFL and NBA dancers who are also scientists and engineers, mathematicians, IT professionals, and molecular science Ph.D.’s have joined forces to become the Science Cheerleaders to promote the STEM fields.

Here’s a first: A GOP member of Congress who supports marriage equality.

Finally, meet Mya and her moms.

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Tim R.

1:19PM PDT on Jul 18, 2012

@Ahron ~ Cute, but a reliable article relies on this one thing in journalism known as "facts"; in which anyone can make up a rant, but can they prove any of it happened? And why would I trust a site that has a link that says "Stop Dictator Obama"? Not even FOX has ridiculous links like that on their site! Not to mention, the majority of Obamacare has not even taken effect yet. So, what you have here is another site that tries to look professional but all they do is spread BS stories that have absolutely no merit. Nice try though, Arhon. Maybe you should go post that link at FOX, I'm sure you'll find plenty of believers, or at least people that don't use their brain. ;-)

July 18
send a green star

Ahron E.

12:56PM PDT on Jul 18, 2012

Beth K. Tim R. see
Death Panel for seniors over 75
http://www.infowars.com/death-panels-senior-claims-government-denied-him-medical-care/

11:35AM PDT on Jul 18, 2012

@Michael ~ The one I love is when Catholics make the claim that their church is the one Christ started, and they are simply continuing his work. Considering Catholicism's dark history, I would dare to say that it is not the church Christ intended nor would he want it to continue.

l b.

7:35AM PDT on Jul 18, 2012

John Z - While I respect your right to believe (and practise) anything you wish, might I respectfully point out that others might not / do not share your convictions. Some of us believe quite differently, and feel very strongly that your beliefs do not have precedence over our own. (Especially when those beliefs are in direct conflict with each other) You and I apparantly are fans of "cutting the rhetoric" - so I'll make this short and sweet: Do not attempt to force your morality and beliefs on those who have their own, because this is nothing more than a very thinly veiled attempt to control another human being and force them to live your way. Live life -yours - to the best of your ability, letting every action resonate with your inner beliefs, and the rest of us will do the same. It really is that simple. I will make the best decisions for me, regarding MY body and circumstances - and YOU can do the same. It's called respect; you don't have to like the choices I make, but you do need to accept that they are mine to make as a completely autonomous human being.. I don't know the author of the following, but it seems apropro: " I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for every thing I do."

John Z.

5:46AM PDT on Jul 18, 2012

Regardless the rhetoric, abortion remains the heartless murder by brutal dismembering of a tiny innocent child, butchered limb by limb, within what should have been the warm and loving sanctuary of his or her mother.

Is it any wonder the late Pope John Paul II coined this present generation "the culture of death" cautioning the only solution being repentance and a return to the "Gospel of Life".

History has shown that cultures reap as they sow. I am saddened to think of the consequences of refusal to heed the warnings.

Rowena T.

4:09PM PDT on Jul 17, 2012

Pam - those prices are shocking and it makes me even more glad for the NHS. Apart from anything else it paid for my cancer treatment, which I'm sure I could not have afforded otherwise. Where I live paying for contraception is not an issue unless one chooses to buy condoms from a shop. Anything else is free and readily available assuming the patient in question is healthy enough to use them (no incompatible medical conditions etc.) What better use of taxes can there be? I am happy for my taxes to be put into sexual health and to pay for devices, such as the implant, that low-paid people (like me, actually!) would not be able to afford otherwise.

July 17
send a green star

1:10PM PDT on Jul 17, 2012

'You cannot currently send a star to Gene because you have done so within the last week."

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Thank you Gene for your thoughtful, well reasoned post which reaffirms the concept of ...LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS FOR ALL.

Gina C.

12:24PM PDT on Jul 17, 2012

I think a few people on here need to be reminded that a FETUS is NOT A BABY. It is a fetus UNTIL it is OUT of the womb BREATHING ON ITS OWN.

To give a fetus more protections than a member of this planet already here is riidculous. SO a woman is forced to continue a pregnancy that can kill her so this fetus MAY live, as many pregnancies end naturally..so the mother dies and theres ANOTHER child in foster care. ANOTHER HUMAN LIFE ON THIS PLANET THAT NO ONE WANTS. R U GONNA ADOPT IT? Your so damn concened with all these fetuses being forced into being born into babies, WHERES YOUR CONCERN FOR THE MILLIONS OF CHILDREN ALREADY HERE WITH NO FAMILIES OR THE ONES BEING ABUSED, NEGLECTED OR KILLED?? well? what about them??? WELL????????

EVERYONE has a right to their opinion and in this country you even have the right to express it as loudly as you want.
HOWEVER, you do NOT have the right to FORCE your opinions and views on others and to make them follow YOUR plan for THEIR LIFE..

I dont want anyone anywhere to feel any type of pain. people make decisions for themselves and THEY have to live with them. THEY are the ones who deal with the consequences. NOT YOU. SOmetimes NOT bringing a POTENTIAL life into this world is saving that potential life a LIFETIME OF PAIN...
EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON and it has nothing to do with YOU and what YOU WANT FOR HER. MAke your own decisuons and respect HERS

Maryann B.

10:27AM PDT on Jul 17, 2012

if you don't believe in abortion you have the right not to have one, but you do not have the right to keep others from having the same choice. you also have the right to your religion, but you do not have the right to force me to believe in that religion or to follow its rules. freedom of religion also means freedom from religion. If the various religions want to dictate the laws in this country they should give up their tax exempt status and actually become a part of the country. Can you imagine what would happen to the deficit if all the churches paid taxes. Especially the Catholic religion, they are one of the wealthiest and yet they break all kinds of laws, like protecting pedophiles, but are upset because they have to follow labor laws like paying for contraceptives, not supplying them, but having their insurance companies pay for them. They are not stopping the use of contraception, but are denying people that choice. Yet think of how many potential humans they are keeping from life by not allowing their priests to marry. what hypocrisy, they want to defend marriage by not allowing gays to marry, but they are against marriage by not allowing priests to marry. I don't understand their reasoning.

8:29AM PDT on Jul 17, 2012

Pam - Fortunately for me I live in England where (prescribed) contraceptives are always free. I'm afraid I've no idea how much it cost the NHS but there was no problem getting hold of it. My GP was happy to put it in for me too. The whole process was over in about 20 minutes.

I agree - contraception/abortion should always be freely and easily availably, and free in cost.