51 posts tagged ‘social issues’
Nikki Haley Sucks and Is Also Inadvertently Hilarious
Jezebel,
Nikki Haley is such a uniquely, nauseatingly awful politician because she insists on play-acting as the reasonable adult in the room. In reality, she’s said she would ban abortion if she could, she wants to defund schools that teach whatever she deems to be “critical race theory,” and, as of Thursday night, she… Read more...
A Proposed Update to Florida’s Wrongful Death Law Could Screw Over Abortion Providers
The Florida legislature is kicking off 2024 by considering a bill that would amend the state’s wrongful death law so that people could sue over the loss of an “unborn child.” The bill, called Civil Liability for the Wrongful Death of an Unborn Child, was pre-filed for this legislative session at the end of 2o23 and… Read more...
It’s Now Even More Dangerous to Be a Pregnant Person in Texas
On Tuesday evening, the famously conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas ruled that emergency rooms aren’t required to perform life-saving abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), regardless of federal guidance. Read more...
Nikki Haley Calls Voter Who Asked Her About Civil War a 'Democrat Plant'
Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and supposed Republican party wunderkind running for president, found herself in hot water on Wednesday evening when she answered a voter’s question about what caused the Civil War and declined to talk about the role of slavery. “I think the cause of the Civil War was… Read more...
Wyoming Abortion Clinic Arsonist Ordered to Pay $300K on Top of 5-Year Prison Sentence
A federal judge has ordered the 22-year-old Wyoming woman who pleaded guilty to setting fire to an abortion clinic in 2022 to pay nearly $300,000 in damages, on top of the five-year prison sentence she’s currently serving. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson determined that Lorna Green, who was… Read more...
2023 Was a Big Year for Medication Abortion on TV
In June 2022, Roanne Bardsley, a U.K.-based screenwriter, was writing the first season of what soon became Netflix’s YA hit, Everything Now, when she saw the news: The U.S. Supreme Court had just overturned Roe v. Wade. As she returned to writing shaken by this development, she pivoted, changing a subplot about a… Read more...
Cher files for conservatorship of youngest child Elijah Blue Allman
AV Club,
Cher has filed for conservatorship of her youngest son, Elijah Blue Allman, amid his alleged ongoing struggle with substance abuse and mental health issues. According to documents filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court (via People), the 77-year-old singer is seeking to be the sole conservator of her 47-year-old son’s… Read more...
Demand for Abortion Increased Under Florida’s Ban. Anti-Abortion Activists Think Another Ban Will Fix This.
Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, every state neighboring Florida—Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina—has been affected by total or near-total abortion bans. In October, the Society Of Family Planning reported that, between April 2022 and June 2023, monthly abortion rates in these states… Read more...