All Georgia Democrats’ Angry Arguments Against A Clarence Thomas Statue Fall Apart
The state of Georgia should enthusiastically vote to erect a statue honoring Justice Clarence Thomas and his life of service.The state of Georgia should enthusiastically vote to erect a statue honoring Justice Clarence Thomas and his life of service.Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signs law criminalizing the distribution of abortion pills through mail
Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Lee signed a bill into law on Thursday that increases criminal penalties for anyone found to be distributing chemical abortive pills through either telehealth programs or the mail.
The Tennessean reported that this new legislation will prohibit any remote distribution of chemically abortive pharmaceuticals. However, the law will not prohibit the prescription of such substances in person by a physician.
After prescribing chemical abortives to patients, physicians are not required to monitor them during or after they take the drugs, but they are responsible for a ensuring a follow-up appointment with the patient within two weeks. Should this procedure not be followed, the legislation stipulates that they will be committing a Class E felony punishable by a fine up to $50,000.
Chemical abortive pills are increasingly common among women seeking to terminate early-term pregnancies up to 10 weeks. In 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the delivery of these drugs, along with telehealth being allowed to dispense the pills amid access concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists previously endorsed chemical abortions as a safe procedure.
According to the most recent available data, more than 75% of abortions in Tennessee occurred within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy in 2018.
The new Tennessee legislation mirrors pro-life initiatives that have gained traction across the U.S. in recent months following the FDA’s approval of chemical abortive distribution and in the days since a draft majority opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court leaked indicating that the nation’s highest court was preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The leaked draft decision comes from a case pertaining to a challenge to a pro-life law in Mississippi.
Chief Justice John Roberts issued a statement confirming the authenticity of the leaked draft opinion. Roberts said that the draft opinion was not final and that the court’s consensus could change.
In 2019, the state of Tennessee passed a law that would automatically ban abortion in the state if the Supreme Court overturns or alters Roe v. Wade. The law would make it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion, while the women seeking abortions would be exempt from prosecution.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, a leftist nonprofit organization that is, according to its website, “committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide,” more than 20 states are prepared to implement additional abortion restrictions should Roe v. Wade be overturned.
Amazon will reimburse employees $4,000 if they cross state lines to get an abortion
Amazon is committing to financing the abortions of its employees.
On Monday, the second-largest private employer in the U.S. told its staff that it will pay up to $4,000 annually in travel expenses for “non-life-threatening medical treatments including abortions.”
Reuters reported that Amazon’s decision to subsidize its employees' abortions places the online mega-retailer on a growing list of large corporations with similar policies on the books. Citigroup Inc. and Yelp Inc. both announced that they would subsidize the abortion process for their employees in response to Republican-backed state laws limiting abortion access.
In a similar vein, the popular ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft previously vowed to cover the legal fees for drivers in Texas who encounter legal difficulties for driving women to abortion clinics, Fortune reported.
The company’s new benefit will have retroactive coverage and is available to both its U.S. employees and their covered dependents who are enrolled in either the Premera or Aetna health plans. The reimbursement benefits are available to employees at all levels of the company. Warehouse workers and executives alike can be reimbursed for expenses incurred in their pursuit of an abortion.
However, in order to qualify for the reimbursement, the individuals seeking to receive an abortion must travel more than 100 miles.
Amazon announced that it would start financing abortions the same day that it stopped offering U.S.-based employees paid time off when they get diagnosed with COVID-19.
On Monday, a draft decision indicating that the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturnRoe v. Wade was leaked to the media.
The draft is of the court’s majority opinion and is written by Associate Justice Samuel Alito. It is believed that the opinion had already circulated inside the court prior to it being leaked.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito wrote.
“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division,” Alito continued.
The draft decision is related to an outstanding challenge against a piece of pro-life legislation out of Mississippi.
“The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” Alito concludes. “On the contrary, an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment persisted from the earliest days of common law until 1973.”
Clarence Thomas laments cancel culture and lack of civility in recent remarks
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas lamented the state of the nation and condemned cancel culture and court packing in a Friday address.
While speaking to a charitable foundation run by former Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, the Associate Justice criticized the notion of court packing, National Review reported.
He said, “You can cavalierly talk about packing or stacking the court. You can cavalierly talk about doing this or doing that. At some point the institution is going to be compromised.”
“By doing this,” he continued, “you continue to chip away at the respect of the institutions that the next generation is going to need if they’re going to have a civil society.”
He went on to address the ongoing phenomenon of cancel culture, lamenting the effect it he believes it will have on younger generations of Americans.
“I’m afraid, particularly in this world of cancel culture attack, I don’t know where you’re going to learn to engage as we did when I grew up,” Thomas said, “If you don’t learn at that level in high school, in grammar school, in your neighborhood, or in civic organizations, then how do you have it when you’re making decisions in government, in the legislature, or in the courts?”
Thomas has his own experiences with being “canceled.”
During his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 1991, Thomas was humiliated and raked over the coals by the media and liberal politicians who sought to prevent him from serving on the country’s highest court.
Then-Senator Joe Biden — who was serving as the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee — grilled Thomas over sexual harassment allegations from Thomas’s longtime assistant Anita Hill. The whole fiasco amounted to what Thomas called a “high tech lynching” and ended with his confirmation to the Supreme Court.
In recent weeks, members of the legacy media have been amplifying their attacks on Thomas and his wife, Ginni.
The Washington Examiner reported that Ginni Thomas’s role in the conservative activist group Liberty Central — an organization that files amicus briefs for cases being heard at the Supreme Court — led to many people — particularly members of the media — calling for Justice Thomas’s recusal from any case for which his wife’s organization was involved.
The Guardian reported that Thomas said that he held “civility as one of his highest virtues” and that he “learned to respect institutions and debate civilly with those who disagreed with him” as a student.
His Friday remarks indicate he is worried that future generations will not be as committed to the civil preservation of America’s institutions.
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