Again. Law firms should be set up near every hospital.

Let's stop being anecdotally outraged and get to the solution zone.


Law firms should be set up near every hospital.

ALL law firms should advertise heavily and invite ALL women to stop in for consultation before they enter the nearby hospital.

No pregnant female should walk into ANY hospital without a lawyer. 10% of every legal firm's budget is set aside for pro bono legal work.

Don't talk about affordability; women of childbearing age cannot afford NOT to lawyer up.

For profit corporate medicine doesn't GAF about humans -- not just the female ones -- or the harm, loss or damage to their families. Collateral damage of 'standard treatment' is written off as a 'loss.'

Women are now caught up in lawyer wars, which constitutional lawyers are losing; childbearing women will literally die because corporate power has captured Big Med.

No one is saying this is the only solution to bad medical care, which women as a group already disproportionately suffer loss, harm and damage because of. But this solution will discourage corporate healthcare from prioritizing profit over services. There is also the solution of women moving to more safe states that don't abuse and criminalize women.

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Malcolm Nance About The Insurgency America Is Suffering

There's no clear understanding of MAGAts and trumpcult through an intellectualized politics that they wouldn't admit to and actually don't give a damn about, anyway.

They are about "replacement" fear, along with being on the side of Might Makes Right, and for the last two years, guns, militias, their slow roll mass ideological "lone wolf" mass shootings while their sympathetic law enforcement stand by and do nothing. While SCOTUS open the door to ... we know.

What Nance talks about is not our future but our present. On the ground, where it doesn't matter what the 77% think about an armed and motivated 23%.

And so, while we talk the politics of the midterms,
we can't act as if the insurgency we're experiencing can also be referred to in the political abstract.

I'd recommend reading Malcolm Nance's They Want to Kill Americans, recently released.
In it he lays out MAGAts evolution into an insurgency since Obama (he just returned from a tour of combat in Ukraine). It contains recent familiar history, but he's solid and succinct on
-- their self radicalizing history,
-- their further grooming through Q;
-- their seizing on ex-military whose sense of betrayal justifies their reason to find enemies and fight
and
how these groups have come to conclude together that we liberals need to be literally wiped out.

His book helps us better see the radicalized dark forest we've tried to find our way out of over past decades.

He lays out the insurgency; unfortunately, he's clear but a bit short on solutions (only about 18 pages of that, which also totally ignore funding sources). I'd say it's because he's really got a counterterrorism bias, and is also constrained, as we all are, with Rule of Law (and our urge to stay fair and keep the faith) in the face of Americans out there who want us dead.

But re counterterrorism, military training, active duty 'enforcers' involvement in trumpism, he's the real deal.
My overall take: Over the next two years, know your enemy, because your enemy has plans for you, women and our descendants.

The Oath Keepers testimony on July 12? It's worse than they said, and worse than you think.

Currently reading Malcolm Nance's book,
They Want to Kill Americans.(2022)

It presents the kind of scary truth that sharpens awareness, focuses and prepares one,
and so I can't not recommend it.

As a longstanding expert in foreign insurgency, Nance applies his experience to show that since 2017, when the armed alt-right officially 'came out' in Charlottesville, the armed alt-right's later attacks reveal a trend.
-- They blend into the 74 million who voted for tfg,
-- have formed an internet cult,
-- have become indistinguishable from the average trump voter.
-- The Q factor is the spread of their gospel of dismantling a cabal of satan-worshipping liberals, Hollywood elites, and
-- their trump-led "storm" that would kill or arrest tens of thousands of liberals & Democrats.

Nance cites Mao's 3-phase modern insurgency -- which is what America has:
phase 1 -- try to gain legitimacy by tearing down a solidly elected government through extreme political positions & propaganda
phase 2 -- armed resistance
phase 3 -- terrorism

He cites four wings of the trump movement he calls TITUS (Trump Insurgency of the United States):
-- the trump family
-- the republican party & voters
-- militias and terrorists
-- cults, whether Q or christian fundies

As Sinn Fein was composed of a political party and a terrorist wing, so too with this insurgency using republicans as its political wing and cover for "the largest armed rebellion since the Civil War."

Look to your neighbors and family for advocates for rule of men dictatorship, for those who want to take a hard right turn from democracy toward authoritarianism. Family holidays won't be the same with them with open discussion of hatred and mass murder. The pandemic didn't alleviate their radicalization; it made it worse.

Nance reveals who the insurgents are, and the roots of their future radical extremist behavior.
He offers strategies that empower individuals, civic groups, local, state and federal govts to counteract and prevent the agitation that threatens our "consent of the governed" country at large.

His book shows that they are radicalizing, arming and planning to kill Americans. To install a dictatorship.
He offers a text from the U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, and the U.S. Army Improvised Munitions Handbook.

Better to be a wrong pessimist than a wrong optimist, I say.
Going forward, we should be beyond the "bothered" and "concerned" mindset re this armed and radicalized threat.
And we should quickly learn the difference between risk and threat.

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Transcript: Biden Remarks On His Executive Order for Protecting Reproductive Health Care Services

It's easy to notice that media often neglect President Biden's daily speeches; probably per their bosses' policy to give minimal and minimizing coverage of an effective Democratic president.

But what Joe Biden said today deserves full media coverage on behalf of Americans that made that media rich.


Joe Biden's bold statement on behalf of the American majority today (excerpt shading is omitted for readability):

"...today’s Supreme Court majority is playing fast and loose with the facts. Even 150 years ago, the common law and many state laws did not criminalize abortion early in pregnancy, which is very similar to the viability line drawn by Roe.

But the Dobbs majority ignores that fact. And the Dobbs majority ignores that many laws were enacted to protect women at the time when they were dying from unsafe abortions.
This is the horrific reality that Roe sought to end. The practice of medicine should not — emphasize — should not be frozen in the 19th century.
So, what happened?

The dissenting opinion says it as clear as you can possibly say it. And here’s the quote: “Neither law nor facts nor attitudes have provided any new reason to reach a different result than Roe and Casey did.” And that’s has changed — excuse me — and “All that has changed is this Court.” End of quote.

All that has changed is this Court.

That wasn’t about the Constitution or the law...
It was about a deep, long-seething antipathy towards Roe and the broader right to privacy. As the justices wrote in their dissent, and I quote, “The majority has overruled Roe and Casey for one and only one reason: because it has always despised them, and now it has the votes to discard them.”unquote...

... what we’re witnessing wasn’t a constitutional judgment. It was an exercise in raw political power. On the day the Dobbs decision came down, I immediately announced what I would do.

But I also made it clear, based on the reasoning of the Court, there is no constitutional right to choose. Only the way — the only way -- to fulfill and restore that right for women in this country is by voting, by exercising the power at the ballot box...

I know it’s frustrating and it made a lot of people very angry. But the truth is this — and it’s not just me saying it; it’s what the Court said: When you read the decision, the Court has made clear it will not protect the rights of women. Period. Period.

After having made the decision based on a reading of a document that was frozen in time in the 1860s, when women didn’t even have the right to vote, the Court now — now — practically dares the women of America to go to the ballot box and restore the very rights they’ve just taken away.

...One of the most extraordinary parts of the decision, in my view, is the majority writes, and I quote, “Women…” — it’s a quote now, from the majority — “Women are not without electoral or political power. It is noteworthy that the percentage of women who registered to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of the men who do so.” End of quote.

Let me repeat the line: “Women are not without electoral…” and/or political — “or” — let me be precise; not “and/or” — “…or political power.”

That’s another way of saying that you, the women of America, can determine the outcome of this issue...

I don’t think the Court or, for that matter, the Republicans who for decades have pushed their extreme agenda have a clue about the power of American women. But they’re about to find out, in my view.

It’s my hope and strong belief that women will, in fact, turn out in record numbers to reclaim the rights that have taken from them by the Court.

And let me be clear: While I wish it had not come to this, this is the fastest route available. I’m just stating a basic, fundamental notion.

The fastest way to restore Woe [sic] — Roe is to pass a national law codifying Roe, which I will sign immediately upon its passage at my desk.

And we can’t wait. Extreme Republican governors, extreme Republican state legislatures, and Republican extremists in the Congress overall — all of them have not only fought to take away the right — our rights — but they’re now determined to go as far as they can.

Now the most extreme Republican governors and state legislatures have taken the Court’s decision as a green light to impose some of the harshest and most restrictive laws seen in this country in a long time. These are the laws that not only put women’s lives at risk, these are the laws that will cost lives.

What we’re witnessing is a giant step backwards in much of our country. Already, the bans are in effect in 13 states. Twelve additional states are likely to ban choice in the next coming — in the coming weeks.

And in a number of these states, the laws are so extreme they have raised the threat of criminal penalties for doctors and healthcare providers. They’re so extreme that many don’t allow for exceptions, even for rape or incest. Let me say that again: Some of the states don’t allow for exceptions for rape or incest.

This isn’t some imagined horror. It’s already happening. Just last week, it was reported that a 10-year-old girl was a rape victim in Ohio — 10 years old — and she was forced to have to travel out of the state, to Indiana, to seek to terminate the presnency [pregnancy] and maybe save her life. That’s — the last part is my judgment. Ten years old. Ten years old. Raped, six weeks pregnant. Already traumatized. Was forced to travel to another state. Imagine being that little girl. Just — I’m serious — just imagine being that little girl. Ten years old.

Does anyone believe that it’s the highest majority view that that should not be able to be dealt with, or in any other state in the nation? A 10-year-old girl should be forced to give birth to a rapist’s child? I can tell you what: I don’t. I can’t think of anything as much more extreme.

The Court’s decision has also been received by Republicans in Congress as a green light to go further and pass a national ban. A national ban. Remember what they’re saying. They’re saying there’s no right to privacy, so therefore it’s not protected by the Constitution, so leave it up to the state and the Congress, what they want to do.

And now my Republican friends are talking about getting the Congress to pass a national ban. The extreme positions that they’re taking in some of these states. That will mean the right to choose will be illegal nationwide if, in fact, they succeed. Let me tell you something: As long as I’m President, it won’t happen, because I’ll veto it.

So the choice is clear. If you want to change the circumstances for women and even little girls in this country, please go out and vote. When tens of millions of women vote this year, they won’t be alone. Millions and millions of men will be taking up the fight alongside them to restore the right to choose and the broader right to privacy in this nation, which they denied existed.

And the challenge from the Court to the American women and men — this is a nation. The challenge is: Go out and vote. Well, for God’s sake, there’s an election in November. Vote, vote, vote, vote. Consider the challenge accepted, Court.

But in the meantime, I’m signing this important executive order. I’m asking the Justice Department that, much like they did in the Civil Rights era, to do something — do everything in their power to protect these women seeking to invoke their right:

In states where clinics are still open, to protect them from intimidation.
To protect the right of women to travel from a state that prohibits seeking the medical attention that she needs to a state to provide that care.

To protect a woman’s right to the FDA-approved — Federal Drug Administration-approved medication that’s been available for over 20 years.
The executive order provides safeguards to access care. A patient comes into the emergency room in any state in the union. She’s expressing and experiencing a life-threatening miscarriage, but the doctor is going to be so concerned about being criminalized for treating her, they delay treatment to call the hospital lawyer who is concerned the hospital will be penalized if a doctor provides the lifesaving care. It’s outrageous. I don’t care what your position is. It’s outrageous, and it’s dangerous.

That’s why this executive order directs the Department of Health and Human Services — HHS — to ensure all patients, including pregnant women and girls experience pregnant — experiencing pregnancy loss get emergency care they need under federal law, and that doctors have clear guidance on their own responsibilities and protections no matter what the state — no matter what state they’re in.

The executive order protects access to contraception — that I’m about to sign.
Justice Thomas himself said that under the reasoning of this decision — this is what Justice Thomas said in his concurring opinion — that the Court “should reconsider the constitutional right to contraception — to use contraception even among married couples.
What century are they in? There used to be a case called — Connecticut v. Griswold [Griswold v. Connecticut], which was declared unconstitutional in the late ‘60s. It said a married couple in the privacy of their bedroom could not decide to use contraception.

Right now, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, the Affordable Care Act guarantees insurance coverage for women’s health services, including — including free birth control. The executive order directs HHS to identify ways to expand access to reproductive health services, like IUDs, birth control pills, emergency contraception.

And equally important, this executive order protects patient privacy and access to information, which looking at the press assembled before me, probably know more about it than I do.

I’m not a tech guy. I’m learning.
But right now, when you use a search engine or the app on your phone, companies collect your data, they sell it to other companies, and they even share it with law enforcement. There’s an increasing concern that extremist governors and others will try to get that data off of your phone, which is out there in the ether, to find what you’re seeking, where you’re going, and what you’re doing with regard to your healthcare.

Talk about no privacy — no privacy in the Constitution. There’s no privacy, period.

This executive order asks the FTC to crack down on data brokers that sell private information to extreme groups or, in my view, sell private information to anybody.

It provides private health information — it protects private health information in states with extreme laws.

And the executive order strengthens coordination at a federal level. It establishes a task force, led by the White House Department — and the Department of Human Services, focused specifically on using every federal tool available to protect access to reproductive healthcare.

You know, let me close with this: The Court and its allies are committed to moving America backward with fewer rights, less autonomy, and politicians invading the most personal of decisions.

Remember the reasoning of this decision has an impact much beyond Roe and the right to privacy generally.
Marriage equality, contraception, and so much more is at risk. This decision affects everyone — unrelated to choice — beyond choice. We cannot allow an out-of-control Supreme Court, working in conjunction with the extremist elements of the Republican Party, to take away freedoms and our personal autonomy.

The choice we face as a nation is between the mainstream and the extreme, between moving forward and moving backwards, between allowing politicians to enter the most personal parts of our lives and protecting the right to privacy — yes, yes — embedded in our Constitution.

This is a choice.

This is a moment — the moment — the moment to restore the rights that have been taken away from us and the moment to protect our nation from an extremist agenda that is antithetical to everything we believe as Americans...."



Full Transcript:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/07/08/remarks-by-president-biden-on-protecting-access-to-reproductive-health-care-services/


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