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Plan B has a shelf life of 4 years
Plan B has a shelf life of 4 years
Plan B has a shelf life of 4 years
Plan B has a shelf life of 4 years
Plan B has a shelf life of 4 years
Plan B has a shelf life of 4 years
Plan B has a shelf life of 4 years
Plan B has a shelf life of 4 years
Plan B has a shelf life of 4 years
(Also, you can get 4 months of over the counter birth control (progestin-only pill form) at Costco for $50. Or 3 months on Amazon for about $45.)
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
Julianne McShane at MS NOW:
The Department of Veterans Affairs has implemented an abortion ban after the Department of Justice issued a memo last week that prohibited the VA from providing abortion services to veterans and their dependents who become pregnant as a result of rape or incest or in cases when life or health are endangered by carrying a pregnancy to term. The memo, issued December 18 and authored by Joshua Craddock, deputy assistant attorney general of the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, states that the Biden-era rule that allowed the VA to provide limited abortion counseling and services to more than 9 million veterans and their beneficiaries is not valid.
Screenshots of what appears to be an internal memo sent Monday to the leaders of the VA’s 18 regional care systems by the VA’s under secretary of health — obtained by the national legal nonprofit Democracy Forward and provided to MS NOW — state that the VA must comply with the DOJ memo effective immediately. The directive also states that the changes to the VA policy “do not prohibit providing care to pregnant women in life-threatening circumstances, including treatment for ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages.” The government argued in its proposed rule in August that the VA “has never understood this policy to prohibit providing care to pregnant women in life-threatening circumstances” and said “for the avoidance of doubt” this exception would be spelled out in the new policy. Pete Kasperowicz, press secretary for the VA, confirmed to MS NOW in a statement Tuesday morning that the VA is no longer providing abortions as a result of the memo.
“DOJ’s opinion states that VA is not legally authorized to provide abortions, and VA is complying with it immediately,” Kasperowicz said. “DOJ’s opinion is consistent with VA’s proposed rule, which continues to work its way through the regulatory process.” Kasperowicz did not immediately respond to further questions. The VA’s compliance with the memo speeds up what would have otherwise been a lengthier implementation of the ban. After the proposed rule was published in the Federal Register in August — the first step in the federal rule-making process — that triggered a 30-day public comment period that attracted more than 24,300 comments. The next step in that process is the publication of the final rule in the Federal Register, and the implementation of the ban, at the earliest, 30 days later. But the final rule has still yet to be published in the Federal Register. Abortion rights advocates slammed the news on Tuesday.
[...] The DOJ memo follows a proposed rule, filed by the Trump administration in August, to reverse a Biden-era rule from September 2022 that was part of a bid to safeguard abortion access after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade that June. The Biden administration’s rule said the VA could provide abortion services when pregnancies were a result of rape or incest or when the life or health of the pregnant person would be endangered. At the time, then-VA Secretary Denis McDonough called it “a patient safety decision.” The filing of the proposed reversal unleashed a torrent of opposition from abortion rights supporters, who said it would amount to one of the strictest nationwide abortion bans, given its potential impact in states where abortion is not otherwise banned. More than a dozen states currently ban abortion in almost all circumstances.
The Trump Regime’s Veterans Affairs implements a draconian abortion ban that bars the VA from providing abortion services to veterans and their dependents who become pregnant as a result of rape or incest or in cases when their health is endangered by carrying a pregnancy to term.
See Also:
Mother Jones: Trump Administration Bans Abortion Care for Veterans
Anyone who knows me well knows that Hollanov and abortion are basically my two main special interests, and I have been fundraising for abortion funds in the midwest for over a decade. This is truly my life's passion. So I’m so excited to be raising money through the National Network of Abortion Funds with these cute (if I do say so myself!) tote bags!
The tote bags are $30 and proceeds will go to helping people leave Indiana (where abortion is essentially totally illegal except in very rare cases that require involving the legal and medical systems in extremely invasive and harmful ways) to get safe, legal abortion care.
You can get one here!
These will only be available until May 15, so don't wait if you really want one. And if you want to donate but don't want a tote bag, DM me and I can send you a link to make a small donation.
And if you don't have the funds to spare (really, who does in these times?) a reblog to boost the fundraiser would also be a big help.
Let's help our neighbors in Indiana get access to the abortion care they need ❤️
Amidst all the chaos and heartbreak, there's still some wins to be celebrated!
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed House Bill 3709, which requires Illinois colleges and universities to provide students access to contraception and abortion medications at campus pharmacies starting this school year. This win deserves an extra shout because the bill was an initiative from University of Illinois students!
Gov. Pritzker also signed other bills this past week that will improve access to abortion medications and protect all Illinois healthcare workers from prosecution in other states for providing abortion care in the state.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed the final two bills from the spring session Friday, giving his approval to more than 430 bills approved by lawmakers this year.
The decision highlights the potential of religious liberty claims to fight abortion restrictions.
We joined this case to ensure that those who have a religious belief that support it are able to obtain an abortion when needed. As a result
A unanimous Supreme Court preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. last year.
THANK FUCKING GOD
"The Supreme Court on Thursday [June 13, 2024] unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.
The nine justices ruled that abortion opponents lacked the legal right to sue over the federal Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the medication, mifepristone, and the FDA’s subsequent actions to ease access to it. The case had threatened to restrict access to mifepristone across the country, including in states where abortion remains legal.
Abortion is banned at all stages of pregnancy in 14 states, and after about six weeks of pregnancy in three others, often before women realize they’re pregnant.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was part of the majority to overturn Roe, wrote for the court on Thursday that “federal courts are the wrong forum for addressing the plaintiffs’ concerns about FDA’s actions.”
The opinion underscored the stakes of the 2024 election and the possibility that an FDA commissioner appointed by Republican Donald Trump, if he wins the White House, could consider tightening access to mifepristone, including prohibiting sending it through the mail...
Kavanaugh’s opinion managed to unite a court deeply divided over abortion and many other divisive social issues by employing a minimalist approach that focused solely on the technical legal issue of standing and reached no judgment about the FDA’s actions...
While praising the decision, President Joe Biden signaled Democrats will continue to campaign heavily on abortion ahead of the November elections. “It does not change the fact that the right for a woman to get the treatment she needs is imperiled if not impossible in many states,” Biden said in a statement...
About two-thirds of U.S. adults oppose banning the use of mifepristone, or medication abortion, nationwide, according to a KFF poll conducted in February. About one-third would support a nationwide ban...
More than 6 million people [in the U.S.] have used mifepristone since 2000. Mifepristone blocks the hormone progesterone and primes the uterus to respond to the contraction-causing effect of a second drug, misoprostol. The two-drug regimen has been used to end a pregnancy through 10 weeks gestation...
Biden’s administration and drug manufacturers had warned that siding with abortion opponents in this case could [have] undermined the FDA’s drug approval process beyond the abortion context by inviting judges to second-guess the agency’s scientific judgments. The Democratic administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, which makes mifepristone, argued that the drug is among the safest the FDA has ever approved."
-via AP, June 13, 2024
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Note: A massive relief and a genuine victory - this will preserve access to the medication used in 2/3rds of abortions last year, for at least another 2 years. (Probably minimum time it will take Republicans to get their next attempt before the Supreme Court.)
Still, with this, a sword that has been hanging over our heads for the last two years is gone. There will be a new one soon, but we just bought ourselves probably at least 2 years. The fight isn't over, but this is absolutely worth celebrating.
