Once the GOP is done with birth control they're coming for gay marriage & ultimately, civil rights laws themselves including the rights to assembly, free-speech & due process. Winter is coming... In about six months, women in thirty Republican-controlled states will probably lose their right to get an abortion.

The Supreme Court and the Constitution don't "grant" or "give" Americans rights: they recognize rights and define the extent to which they can be infringed upon by our government, theoretically balancing private rights against the public good.

That said, the Court can take away rights, although throughout their 240+ year history they've only done it in a big way once: in 1896 with their Plessy v Ferguson decision that, until they reversed it in 1954 in Brown v Board, took away the freedom and voting rights of African Americans for half a century.

In the case of Roe v Wade, the Court ruled in 1973 that women have both the 14th Amendment "liberty" right to control their own bodies and the 4th Amendment "privacy" right to keep it between themselves and their physicians.

Now, in a repeat of Plessy, it appears the Court is preparing to take away a constitutional right, this one being the right of women to autonomy over their own bodies.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Next Up On GOP's Agenda: Stripping Women Of Political & Economic Power " by Thom Hartmann.

Site: "Christians for Personhood".

Article: "US Roman Catholic Bishops and National Right to Life*** do NOT support Personhood legislation" by Christians for Personhood.

Bill: "Kansas House Bill No. 2253".

Bill: "Maine HP0837 An Act To Allow a Wrongful Death Cause of Action for the Death of an Unborn Child".

Bill: "Texas SB4".

Article: "What Actually Happens When a Country Bans Abortion" by Amy Mackinnon.

Site: "Personhood Alliance".

Article: "Misjudging early embryo mortality in natural human reproduction" by Gavin E Jarvis.

Article: "Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973–2005: Implications for Women's Legal Status and Public Health" by Lynn M. Paltrow, Jeanne Flavin.

Article: "Bill Declaring Personhood Begins at Conception Passes Tennessee General Assembly" by Republican Daily.

Article: "Panty Grab: How Evangelicals Are Rewriting Sexual Privacy Rights" by Imani Gandy.

Article: "Cytotec for Abortion: Everything You Need to Know" by Safe2choose.

Article: "Georgia Just Criminalized Abortion. Women Who Terminate Their Pregnancies Would Receive Life in Prison." by Mark Joseph Stern.

Article: "How the Catholic Church came to oppose birth control" by Lisa McClain.

Tweet: "Exclusive: Last night I told Governor Greg Abbott I was concerned about birth control and the morning after pill incentivizing women to be promiscuous.
Abbott appeared to support outlawing both contraceptives, and said that "basically, we've outlawed abortion in Texas."" by Lauren Windsor.

Article: "Private: Supreme Court Erodes State Workers' FMLA Rights" by Sarah Crawford.

Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Saudi app criticized for feature to control women's travel" by Rachel Lerman, Aya Batrawy.

Bill: "Arkansas SB417 An Act To Modify The Definition Of An Unborn Child In 9 The Criminal Code And In Wrongful Death Actions...".

Article: "Women could get up to 30 years in prison for having a miscarriage under Georgia's harsh new abortion law" by Grace Panetta.

Article: "The Personhood Bill Is An Affront To Women" by Madhuri Sathish-Van Atta.

Article: "Mom Arrested After Utah Stillbirth" by AP.

Article: "Va. House passes "personhood" abortion bill" by AP.

Article: "Mifeprex (mifepristone) Information" by FDA.

Article: "Troubling Trend: More States Hostile to Abortion Rights as Middle Ground Shrinks" by Rachel Benson Gold, Elizabeth Nash.

Article: "The U.S. Is Tracking Migrant Girls' Periods to Stop Them From Getting Abortions" by Jennifer Wright.

Article: "Rick Santorum: States Should Have Power To Ban Birth Control, Sodomy" by Laura Bassett.

Site: "Lauren Windsor".

Article: "Ohio introduces personhood bill to recognize all abortions as murder" by Calvin Freiburger.

Article: "Personhood bills introduced, gain traction across U.S." by LifeSiteNews.com.

Article: "Periods As Protest: Indiana Women Call Governor To Talk About Menstrual Cycles" by Camila Domonoske.

Article: "The Fruit of Angela Carder's Agony" by NY Times.

Article: "Pregnant, and No Civil Rights" by Lynn M. Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin.

Article: "'Periods for Pence' Campaign Targets Indiana Governor Over Abortion Law" by Mitch Smith.

Article: "A Stillborn Child, A Charge of Murder and the Disputed Case Law on 'Fetal Harm'" by Nina Martin.

Article: "It isn't justice for Purvi Patel to serve 20 years in prison for an abortion" by Jessica Valenti.

Article: "New Texas law bans abortion-inducing drugs after seven weeks pregnancy" by Melody Schreiber.

Article: "Indiana prosecuting Chinese woman for suicide attempt that killed her foetus" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "'I'm still nervous,' says soldier who shot Nicolae Ceausescu" by Emma Graham-Harrison.

Article: "Fact check: Post detailing 9 things women couldn't do before 1971 is mostly right" by Jessica Hill.

Article: "Montana House Advances 'Personhood' Bill to Limit Abortions" by AP.

Article: "Texas Senate Bill 8: Medical and Legal Implications" by Kari White, Gracia Sierra, Laura Dixon, Elizabeth Sepper, Ghazaleh Moayedi.

Case: "Roe v. Wade".

Article: "Hormonal contraception" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Puritans" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The religious right wants states' tax dollars, and the Supreme Court is likely to agree" by Ian Millhiser.

Tweet: "CPAC is going to Budapest. Mike Pence was just in Budapest talking about his hopes for the Supreme Court outlawing abortion. Tucker Carlson embraced Orban and his anti Semitic fascist state on Fox prime time. Why are they all going to Hungary? What magnetic force is drawing" by Steve Schmidt.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Antonie van Leeuwenhoek" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Homunculus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump Lands in Saudi Arabia on First Overseas Visit of Presidency" by Ali Vitali and Saphora Smith.

Article: "Codification (law)" by Wikipedia.

Site: "Equal Rights Amendment".

Article: "Catholic Church and abortion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kavanaugh, who told Senate Roe v. Wade was 'settled as precedent,' signals openness to overturning abortion decision" by Amy B Wang.

Article: "Most Vaccinated Americans Plan To Get A Covid Booster Shot—Except Republicans, Poll Finds" by Alison Durkee.

Article: "A timeline of Trump's public events between his previously undisclosed positive COVID test on September 26 and his hospitalization on October 2" by Jake Lahut.

Article: "America Must Never Forget what Trump & the GOP Did On April 7th, 2020" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "With "Midnight" Executive Order, Meatpacking Slaughterhouses Become Trump's Forced-Labor Camps of Human Sacrifice" by Mark Karlin.

Article: "How the Coronavirus Death Toll Compares to Other Deadly Events From American History" by Olivia B. Waxman and Chris Wilson.

Site: Trump Death Toll.

Article: "Abram Gives Lot First Choice".

Video: Is GOP Responsible For God's Death? (w/ John Fugelsang).

Article: "Michigan school shooting suspect's mom thanked Trump for right to bear arms in 2016 open letter" by John Wright.

Article: "Amy Coney Barrett: spotlight falls on secretive Catholic group People of Praise" by Stephanie Kirchgaessner.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Hour Three: Conversations with Great Minds
- David Cay Johnston Investigative Journalist & Co-founder of DCReport.org / Pulitzer Prize Recipient (2001) / Distinguished Visiting Lecturer-College of Law and Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University / Author of 8 books including his latest, The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family

Book: Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else by David Cay Johnston.

Book: The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind by David Cay Johnston.

Book: It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston.

Book: The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston.

Article: "Frederick Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fred Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fred Trump admits to being in business with mafia member" by TrumpFile.org.

Article: "Meet the Convicted Cocaine Trafficker Donald Trump Called a 'Credit to the Community'" by Brendan O'Connor.

Article: "Eric Trump 'said we have all the funding we need out of Russia', golf writer claims" by Rachael Revesz.

Article: "Donald Trump Jr. Pictured at 'We Build the Wall' Event With Neo-Nazi Collaborator Jack Posobiec" by Michael Edison Hayden.

Article: "Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to fraud after arrest on luxury yacht" by Victoria Bekiempis.

Article: "Steve Bannon pardon: Trump pardons Steve Bannon as one of his final acts in office" by Pamela Brown, Paul LeBlanc and Kaitlan Collins.

Article: "Ivanka's Trademark Requests Were Fast-Tracked In China After Trump Was Elected" by Tommy Beer.

Article: "Timeline on Jared Kushner, Qatar, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House Policy" by Ryan Goodman and Julia Brooks.

Article: "New financial disclosure shows growing Jared Kushner wealth, debt" by AP.

Article: "Trump's son-in-law Kushner trying to raise capital for investment firm" by Stephen M. Lepore.

Video: President Obama Roasts Donald Trump At White House Correspondents' Dinner! (2011).

Article: "Trump aide says they paid actors to appear at his 2016 presidential campaign announcement" by Oma Seddiq, Adam Wren, Tom LoBianco, Nicole Gaudiano, Warren Rojas, Darren Samuelsohn).

Article: "Trump's business career is more connected to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy than we ever knew" by Grace Panetta.

Article: "Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump: a peculiar relationship" by Mohamed Dabo.

Article: "Inside Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner's new $24M mansion in 'Billionaire Bunker' development that has its own POLICE FORCE" by Luke Kenton, Lauren Fruen.

Article: "Jared Kushner's $1.2 billion miracle" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Trump 'refusing to pay' Rudy Giuliani's legal fees after falling out" by Luke Harding.

Article: "Senate Intelligence Committee releases final report on 2016 Russian interference" by Olivia Gazis, Stefan Becket.

Article: "How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations" by Shane Goldmacher.

Article: "Josh Hawley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tom Cotton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ted Cruz" by Wikipedia.

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