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What GOP's European abortion example looks like in France, 3 July

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. both cited European abortion limits in their opinions in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case [opinions]. More recently, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham Cracker, who has called for a national ban on abortion < wipes tears > after 15 weeks of gestation, told reporters on Capitol Hill that a first-trimester [12 weeks] abortion limit would put the U.S. in line with other peer nations < wipes tears >.
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"Forty-seven of 50 European nations have national limits on abortion between 12 and 15 weeks," Graham said in April after former President Donald Trump said he would leave abortion policies to the states. "This is the civilized world's position." But in one of those countries, France, which bars elective abortions after 16 weeks gestational age (14 weeks fetal age < wipes tears > ), the comparison falls flat.
For one thing, France holds the distinction of being the only nation that has enshrined the right to an elective abortion in its constitution. And while French law bars elective abortions < wipes tears > after the first trimester, that ban includes SWEEPING EXCEPTIONS, including medical exceptions that IN SOME CASES allow women to access legal abortion through the third trimester [26 weeks].
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archive Restrictions as to Reasons® (2014-2022), Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 1992

GENOCIDE JOE: Look. I have a cognitive test every single day. Every day I have that test. Everything I do. You know, not only am I campaigning, but I'm running the world. Not—and that's not hi—sounds like hyperbole, but we are the essential nation of the world.

reproductiverights.org (USA) UPDATE 2024!

The World's "Broadly Legal" Abortion Laws

by Cat on Sun Jul 7th, 2024 at 04:05:55 PM EST
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Let My Security Shield Down (none / 1)

Became vulnerable in an unknown setting I couldn't control all variables as President ... I shouldn't hold events past 4pm my advisors tell me ...

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: It was a ~~bad episode~~ - ~~jet-lag~~ cold that made me feel terrible. No indication of any serious condition. I was exhausted. I didn't listen to my instincts in terms of preparing and-- and a bad night.
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PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Because I was sick. I was feeling terrible. Matter of fact, the docs with me. I asked if they did a COVID test because they're trying to figure out what was wrong.
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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: And-- how-- how quickly did it-- did it come to you that you were having that bad night?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Well, it came to me I was havin' a bad night when I realized that even when I was answering a question, even though they turned his mic off, he was still shouting. And I-- I let it distract me. I-- I'm not blaming it on that, but I realized that I just wasn't in control.

Biden's evolving reasons for his bad debate: A cold, too much prep, not feeling great and jet lag | AP News |

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Sun Jul 7th, 2024 at 04:38:02 PM EST
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archive Coke or Jet Lag? in Ruble and Yuan

by Cat on Sun Jul 7th, 2024 at 05:53:13 PM EST
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strana | Democratic donors are considering ways to elegantly remove Biden from the race - Mass media, 8 July
"Some believe that it would be a mistake for Biden to leave before he becomes the party nominee, as this would deprive him of the opportunity to appoint a successor. Others believe that it is better to do it earlier, to give time for the promotion of a new candidate."

rollcall | OpEd | Biden is not the candidate Democrats want voters to focus on, 8 July

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Yes, Vice President Kamala?! Harris would be the likely Democratic nominee, and she is not without political baggage. But she is not unacceptable to many voters the way an elderly Biden is, and she would bring some assets with her, including her age and potential appeal to core Democratic constituents.
Biden's exit from the presidential race wouldn't guarantee anything for his party. Harris could lose. But a Harris-Trump contest would at least give Democrats an opportunity to make 2024 about Trump's weaknesses and flaws. With Biden as the Democratic nominee, that's not possible.

abcnews | Biden sends defiant letter to Democrats says time to end questions, come together, 8 July: "He railed against party 'elites' in an angry call into MSNBC's 'Morning Joe.'"

Read: Fellow Democrats,...Copyright 2024 The Associated Press.
Hear: "Morning Joe" phone call, 8 July A/V (EN) 00:18:50
"reading from the list of lies," average voter tantrum @ 13:30, France @ 15:15

by Cat on Tue Jul 9th, 2024 at 01:03:35 AM EST
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thehill | Biden campaign releases ad narrated by rape victim to HIT Trump, Vance on abortion (17.07.24)
The campaign plans to run the ad, which will receive a seven-figure investment [sic], across BATTLEground states and will place it during the WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday, "60 Minutes," "The Bachelorette," and pre-Olympics coverage. The Biden campaign has highlighted Vance's stance on abortion since Trump named him as his vice president on Monday, calling him "proudly anti-choice. Vice President Harris, who has been the leading voice out of the White House on reproductive rights, went after Vance in a video published Wednesday over his support for abortion restrictions.

by Cat on Thu Jul 18th, 2024 at 12:30:05 AM EST
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Chinese firms probed over mandatory pregnancy tests - media, 17 July

More than a dozen companies in China have been sued for allegedly making female job applicants take pregnancy tests, which is illegal under Chinese law, the country's official Procuratorate Daily news outlet reported on Monday [15.07.24].
chinajusticeobserver | SPP Launches Official English Website (05.06.24): The official English website of the SPP is established and maintained by China Daily.
According to the report, the Tongzhou District prosecutor's office in Nantong in the eastern province of Jiangsu launched an investigation into the matter in January after being tipped off by a local group of public welfare volunteers.
scmp | 'Men only' job adverts prompt women's rights group in China to take on employers over gender discrimination (18.02.21): In October 2014, they launched the Weibo account "Inspection Squad for Workplace Gender Discrimination"
After going through the records of two major public hospitals and a medical exam center, investigators found that 168 women seeking work at 16 different companies had taken pregnancy tests as part of their pre-employment health checks. They also said the companies' recruitment and staff insurance records indicated that the women had been asked to take these tests, though in most cases the requests were not part of the officially documented requirements, but given verbally during job interviews.
The reason prospective employers gave for the practice and their reluctance to hire pregnant women was the excessively high maternity benefits they would have to pay after the new employee takes maternity leave.
pkulaw.cn | Amending the Population and Family Planning Law of the People's Republic of China (2021), 2021
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Chinese law prohibits employers from including pregnancy tests in pre-employment physical checks, along with other forms of gender discrimination, such as asking female applicants about their marital status or plans to have children. However, according to research last year by the Inspection Squad for Workplace Gender Discrimination watchdog, male applicants still have an advantage over women in some spheres, including government jobs. The research found that out of nearly 40,000 jobs in the national civil service, 10,981 were marked as men-only compared with 7,550 for women.

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by Cat on Sat Jul 20th, 2024 at 07:16:42 PM EST
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ChatGPT | Support for legal abortion ["for any reason"], 9 July
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Around 6 in 10 Americans think their state should generally allow a person to obtain a legal abortion if they don't want to be pregnant for any reason, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That's an increase from June 2021

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Seven in 10 Americans think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, a slight increase from last year, while about 3 in 10 think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.
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"NORC probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, designed to be representative of the U.S. population"

Views on abortion have long been < wipes tears > nuanced and sometimes contradictory. The new AP-NORC survey shows that even though the country is largely antagonistic to restrictions on abortion, a substantial number of people hold opinions and values that are not internally consistent.
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by Cat on Wed Jul 10th, 2024 at 02:58:21 AM EST
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