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Does Georgia's fetal 'personhood' law mean a pregnant wom...

The anti-abortion movement is rallying around new laws that establish fetal 'personhood.' Doctors are scrambling to adjust, but even conservatives don't always agree on how they should be applied.

Adriana Smith was declared braindead while about 8 weeks pregnant. Without her family's consent she has been kept on life support as an due to Georgia's heartbeat law, in order to incubate the fetus inside of a corpse.

The baby was (predictably) born very prematurely this week via urgent C-section, weighing less than 2 pounds. This puts him under the "extremely low birth weight" category puting him at very high risk of intraventricular hemorrhage (bleeding into the brain), necrotizing enterocolitis (his gut essentially digesting itself), respiratory failure (he will be on a ventilator for in all likelihood months), dysphagia (he will be on a feeding tube for months if not IV nutrition), retinopathy of prematurity (high risk his retina literally rips itself off from the back of his eyeball) among many other horrific things.

If he's one of the fortunate few to survive all that, he faces a hugely increased risk of chronic pulmonary and GI complications. Cerebral palsy. Psychiatric illness. Marked learning disabilities. Blindness. Deafness.

Just so y'all are aware of the actual consequences of these laws.

Forensic teams have begun exhumations at the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Ireland, once overseen by devout Catholic nuns.

What investigators believe to be nearly 800 infants and toddlers, aged from 35 weeks in utero to about three years old, were discovered buried in an old septic tank.

O’Donnell asked about the Dobbs decision from 2022, which overturned the longstanding Roe v. Wade guaranteeing women the right to abortion in all 50 states. Barrett joined the majority in voting 6-3 to overturn the nearly 50-year precedent.

"The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs gave that decision to the democratic process and to the states,” Barrett said. "It didn’t roll back rights. It didn’t render abortion illegal, unconstitutional, or anything else. And in effect, many states very fully protected abortion rights, more than under the regime of Roe since the time of the decision in Dobbs.”

O’Donnell challenged Barrett, saying, "But it rolled back a federal right to abortion. A constitutional right to an abortion.”

"Well, what it said is that the Constitution had not protected the abortion right under the Due Process Clause. And it said that Roe had been an error and Casey had been an error to hold otherwise,” Barrett said. The 1992 Casey decision reaffirmed the right to abortion, but added an "undue burden” standard meant to balance a woman’s right to choose with states’ rights to protect the unborn.

Barrett said the controversial Dobbs decision led her to obtain a bulletproof vest to protect herself, and that she had to judiciously explain to her seven children why she needed it.

At Yale no less

"Planned Parenthood is facing a repayment obligation of close to $2 billion because it continued to fill its coffers with taxpayers' money even after two states had already disqualified it," Lichter said. "If that obligation stands, it will strike a serious — even existential — blow to Planned Parenthood’s national operations and potentially change the abortion landscape in this country forever."

The argument? Our lawyers said we could?

Planned Parenthood has argued it has immunity because its counsel advised it to collect the payments during the injunction period.

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Conservatives are in revolt over the approval of a new abortion drug by Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Food and Drug Administration.

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Still have not heard of any submissions before congress that falls within the constitution.

Surprised?