Have you ever worried you were pregnant when you didn't want to be? Imagine how much more often that would happen if condoms and cycle tracking were your only options. Imagine how many days of your life would be spent worrying.

The callous opinions in Skrmetti last week and Dobbs three years ago today underscore that the Supreme Court keeps punting human rights to a democratic process that the Roberts court broke.

Wrote about it for @democracydocket.com:

Even assuming, for the sake of the argument, that Smith lacks personhood, that doesn't mean there aren't legal interests on her end. Trusts & Estates law wouldn't exist if that were true. We could simply ignore every last will and testament. We could discard remains regardless of a person's wishes.

I can’t recommend this enough.

UNBREAKING, a new project from @lizneeley.bsky.social & co, documents & explains our many concurrent institutional collapses.

It’s beautifully executed work, full of intellectual & moral clarity. 3 pages are live, more will come. It’s SO GOOD, & I learned so much.

Today I learned that the author of this 1977 op-ed was the most important college mentor for the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.

Affirmatively Furthering Environmental Racism www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

Raskin: "This is what Viktor Orban has done in Hungary -- to clear out the civil service with real expert professionals and people devoted to the public interest and replace them with a bunch of party hacks and sycophants to the dear leader."

🗣️ Personhood is NOT “a strategy to ban abortion.” It is a strategy to *redefine the relationship between pregnancy-capable bodies and the state*

And it is WORKING because Repro lawyers and advocates are so myopically focused on abortion!

WOMEN ARE (ALLEGEDLY) PEOPLE, TOO
Joanna L. Grossman
scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Imagine being forced to stay pregnant and give birth to a baby who suffers for the short period of time they survive after birth, all to satisfy the abstract moral preferences of self-righteous strangers.

This is what is most horrifying about the anti-abortion movement's insistence that people carry fetuses with lethal anomalies to term and give birth

Thanks, Greer. We wrote about this in our op-ed that was published last year. Sad that we have to keep reminding people about the traumatic experiences of those affected. www.scientificamerican.com/article/anti...

The Acting Solicitor General has notified Congress of DOJ's intent to ask #SCOTUS to overrule Humphrey's Executor—a major 1935 ruling upholding the independence of agencies like the FCC, FTC, NLRB, etc.

fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

Because *less* independence is what we need...

This story on the link between pregnancy and homicide is bone-chilling. 🛟 #reprosky

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The legislature has apparently chosen to blame doctors, asserting that the law is clear, but failing to explain how, or how doctors are supposed to know when they're allowed to intervene to help pregnant people despite having been asked many times.

Maternal mortality review committees in states that have recently imposed strict bans on abortion have done little to determine whether the laws are contributing to maternal deaths, a ProPublica investigation shows.

➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/4iHoAlX

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Get the help you need while we're out at @ineedana.bsky.social @abortionfinder.bsky.social @abortionfunds.bsky.social, and see even more resources below! ☃️

A deep dive into the digital footprint of Luigi Mangione, a man radicalized by pain.

shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ce...

In one of the strangest chapters of my life, I spent several months in the trenches of Big Headlight, looking to understand just how and why headlights became brighter than the sun. Answers, graphs, penis sketches—it's all here, on the brand new Ringer site:
www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...