William Lindsey 

"Twice divorced serial philanderer Donald Trump doesn’t have social conservatism. He has a politically expedient con. Trump has convinced Christian nationalists he was anti-choice in public while attempting to limit the political damage of anti-choice policies behind the scenes. And that con is running headlong into the consequences of the actions he took to sustain the con."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #KamalaHarris #abortion #ReproductiveRights
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https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/09/01/there-are-no-backsies-on-dobbs/

There Are No Backsies on Dobbs - emptywheel

Horserace journalists have been loathe to hold Trump accountable for the things he did as President. But Kamala Harris has finally made Trump own something, his role in stripping women of their bodily autonomy. In response, Trump has started to panic.

emptywheel
Sep 1, 2024 at 3:26pmWeb
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Sep 1, 2024

"Trump had wanted to run on other policies, immigration and Trump’s distorted claims about the economy, but now he’s having to answer for his anti-choice policies….

No matter how many contradictory statements Trump makes about what a second Trump term would do, there’s no escaping what his first term did do. There are no backsies on Dobbs. There are no backsies on Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett."

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Show threadPeter ButlerSep 1, 2024

@wdlindsy Wheeler mentions that Anya Cook will be part of the campaign’s first "reproductive freedoms” event in Palm Beach

I had not read about Cook before, though I know stories like this are happening all over anti-abortion states

It’s a powerful story

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/10/pprom-florida-abortion-ban/

https://archive.ph/kgTZ5

Two friends were denied care after Florida banned abortion. One almost died.

New abortion restrictions have disrupted the standard of care for a pregnancy complication both women experienced late last year

The Washington Post
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Sep 3, 2024
@peterbutler Thank you very much for these links. I hadn't heard of Anya Cook, and am grateful to learn more. Both links opened for me, and for that, I'm also very grateful.