Jessica Valenti: Abortion, Every Day (10.6.22) Daily round-up of abortion issues

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- A new Mississippi law gives tax breaks to companies that donate to anti-abortion orgs

- 66 clinics across 15 states have stopped offering abortion care since Roe was overturned

- Students across the country walked out in protest of abortion bans

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Abortion, Every Day (10.6.22)
Mississippi gives tax breaks to companies that donate to anti-abortion orgs
1:21 PM · Oct 6, 2022

https://jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-every-day-10622#details

In the states…

This is infuriating: Gulf States Newsroom reports a new Mississippi law gives corporations tax breaks if they donate money to crisis pregnancy centers. The Pregnancy Resource Act set aside $3.5 million dollars in tax credits for companies in 2022, nearly $550,000 has already been claimed. But here’s the kicker: The Mississippi Department of Revenue won’t release any information on the companies who took advantage of the tax credit. Unbelievable. (ProPublica has a story from earlier this summer about a similar law in Missouri.)

A Georgia court will hear arguments in a lawsuit against the state’s abortion ban before election day, after a judge rejected the state’s request to push the trial until after the midterms. Also from Georgia: Dr. Nisha Verma, an OBGYN in the state spoke at the White House Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access this week, talking about how many patients she’s had to turn away:

“I have had teenagers with chronic medical conditions that make their pregnancy very high risk and women with highly desired pregnancies who receive a terrible diagnosis of a fetal anomaly cry when they learn that they can't receive their abortion in our state and beg me to help them.”

Also in Georgia, Republicans are standing by Senate candidate Herschel Walker, despite the revelation that he paid for a girlfriend’s abortion.

In Wisconsin, Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, candidate for U.S. Senate, spoke to women in Eu Claire about abortion access. Afterwards, he took questions from reporters and said something I really appreciated. When asked about when abortion should be restricted—Republicans’ current favorite claim is that Democrats support abortion ‘up until birth’—Barnes didn’t take the bait: “This is about treating each situation uniquely...If a person is to arbitrarily set a date, that creates more opportunities for devastating situations.” This is the right response; no defensiveness, no equivocating. (Here’s a short run-down of abortion and the race for governor in the state, as well.)

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Nevilledog]

2. ...

[Solly Mack]

3. I find myself wanting to smack the shit out of some people.

And just keep smacking.

[Nevilledog]

4. Yeah....I pretty much can't tolerate the fuckers in AZ.

Best for everybody that I just work on my Afghan in silence.