Protest sign: "It's so bad even the introverts are here."

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North Korea fires missile, Japan retracts take-cover warning

Source: Reuters

SEOUL/TOKYO, April 13 (Reuters) - North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Thursday, South Korea and Japan said, prompting an alert for residents in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido to take cover.

Japanese authorities later retracted the alert, saying an emergency warning system had made an erroneous prediction the missile would fall near the island.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-fires-missile-into-sea-off-east-coast-south-korea-says-2023-04-12/

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Bald eagle confronts its reflection

Appropriately symbolic of America needing to take a long hard look.

Josh Hawley, wife Erin at center of TX abortion drug ban

As a Texas federal judge deliberates his decision in a high-profile case that could impose a nationwide ban on a leading abortion drug, reproductive rights activists are now raising scrutiny about a member of the plaintiffs’ legal team: Erin Morrow Hawley, attorney and wife of Missouri senator Josh Hawley … Hawley is one of the main lawyers arguing on behalf of conservative legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom, which sued the Food and Drug Administration last November for its approval of the abortion medication.

“They are partners in this crusade,” a reproductive rights advocate said of Josh and Erin Hawley in an interview with Vanity Fair, noting the congressman’s conservative record on abortion in the Senate and his wife’s work to ban abortion and limit access through litigation. “Their political partnership shows how coordinated the antiabortion movement is—working at all levels of government to take away access—even after we lost the fundamental right to abortion.”

Hawley’s involvement in conservative legal causes is well documented. As The Kansas City Star reported, she serves as senior counsel at the ADF, which was involved in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that ultimately led to the fall of Roe v. Wade. Indeed, as the newspaper noted, Hawley’s appearance at Georgetown Law earlier this month—an event titled “After Dobbs”—drew criticism from student groups and reproductive rights activists. 

Senator Hawley, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has played a significant role in shaping the nation’s courts; he previously threatened to block the confirmation of a judge whom he deemed insufficiently antiabortion, and he has pushed for nominees to have records indicating the belief that the ruling in Roe v. Wade was wrong. “Republican elected officials have been promising for years to appoint pro-life judges to the bench,” Hawley said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times in fall 2020. “And over and over, we see judges get appointed, they turn out not to be for life when it really comes down to it. So I just gave voice to what people have been saying for years and a deep frustration they feel.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/erin-josh-hawley-abortion-medication-texas-lawsuit

Mastodon: All we had to do was overturn Roe v. Wade

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