Moira Donegan Mother Jones is tracking the encampments, demands & responses from schools:

motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Unpopular opinion: Dependence on a man is not liberating for women, actually.

'This is a common sleight of hand in anti-feminist feminism, deployed like a party trick: dependence, it turns out, is the ultimate freedom.'

Moira Donegan reviews Lisa Selin Davis's confused history of homemakers: bookforum.com/print/3004/lis…

The children in the mass graves had their hands zip tied behind their backs.

The doctors in the mass graves had their hands zip tied behind their backs.

They were executed en masse, 300 of them.

300 people who people who lived, breathed, loved, laughed, mattered.

Kagan: your position would apply even if there were no death exception! A state tomorrow could say, even if there's an ectopic pregnancy, EMTALA has nothing to say about it!

Turner: EMTALA is more humble.

Kagan: 'It may be too humble for women's health, you know?'

“put down the bassinet,
pick up the bayonet,
give up detergent,
become an insurgent!”

chant led by a contingent of women at Banard protesting against the imperialist war on Vietnam

Seems clear to me after today's oral arguments that SCOTUS is soliciting a case in which they can recognize fetal personhood.

That's it. After just shy of two hours, it seems clear that only three justices will say it is the federal government's prerogative to require hospitals to offer emergency abortions to stabilize women facing major health consequences from their pregnancies.

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In response to a final question from Jackson, Prelogar says there's no confusion about what Congress was trying to do with EMTALA.

One fascinating dimension of this is how much the attorneys have focused on the reality in Idaho right now: this feels very much also like a fight abt whether post-Dobbs bans are reasonable and operating smoothly or have put doctors & patients in an impossible situation

Prelogar again talks about the twice-monthly airlifts of patients experiencing pregnancy emergencies out of state that are being reported by Idaho hospitals.

Atty for the US explains what's actually happening on the ground: weekly airlift transfers of pregnant patients out of the state.

I guess the growing avowedness of this kind of misogyny is at least more honest.

Just read yet another book review that uses the term “feminist” as a shorthand for “intellectually unserious.”

One of THE major arguments abortion opponents make against broadening important exceptions: mental health justifications are an invitation to fraud/elective abortion. A revealing q and answer.

I have about as low an opinion as possible of the anti-choice movement and I did not think anything could surprise me anymore. But I’m really chilled by Idaho’s arguments at SCOTUS this morning. These people are bloodthirsty.