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#Maine #GovernorJanetMills fires back after #Trump's demand for 'full throated apology'

by Randy Billings, Mon, March 24, 2025

Mar. 24—"Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Monday brushed off President Donald #Trump's weekend demand that she issue a 'full throated apology' for publicly challenging him during a White House event last month.

"The governor responded to Trump's social media post while at a public event in Bangor. But it was not an apology.

"Mills contested Trump's claims that he wants to protect women through his executive order barring #TransgenderAthletes from women's sports, pointing out that women in the United States and around the world will be hurt by his moves to eliminate #ForeignAid, attack #SocialSecurity and #Medicaid, and impose #tariffs that will spark #TradeWars and drive up consumer prices.

"'If the current occupant of the White House wants to protect women and girls, he should start by protecting the women and teenage girls who are suffering #miscarriages and dying because they can't get basic, life-saving health care in states across this country,' Mills said, according to the Bangor Daily News. 'If he truly cares about women and girls and people of this country, let's see the economic plan. Let's see the health care plan. Let's see the education plan.'

"Mills, who was in Bangor celebrating the purchase of a mobile home park by its residents under a new state law, added that 'if he cares about women and girls, he should talk about the little girls and boys and infants in #Sudan and other countries who are dying right now because he has cut off their supply of food and life-saving medicines.'"

Read more:
yahoo.com/news/gov-mills-fires
#TrumpIsABully #USPol #MaineResists #MaineResistance #SeeYouInCourt #ProtectTransYouth #FuckTrump
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Resist #Authoritarianism #USAID #ProBirth #WomensHealthCare #GirlsHealthCare #ReproductiveRights #GovernorMills

Yahoo News · Gov. Mills fires back after Trump's demand for 'full throated apology'By Randy Billings, Portland Press Herald, Maine
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Not just #Maine -- all of #NewEngland is being targeted! And don't get me started about #ProBirth types! They don't give a SHIT about feeding children after they are born!!!

New England schools and food programs take ‘devastating’ hit after #USDAFundingCuts

The more than $1 billion in federal funding helped #schools, #ChildCare programs, and #FoodPantries in 40 states to buy produce and other items from local farmers.

By Amanda Gokee and John Hilliard Globe Staff, Updated March 12, 2025, 3:03 p.m.

"In October, the USDA announced $1.7 billion for states and #tribal governments to purchase #locally and #regionally produced foods for #EmergencyFoodAssistance, including free meals for schools and child-care programs.

"That funding included $1.2 billion to support local food purchases with schools, child-care facilities, food banks, and other institutions, according to the USDA. School meal programs would get $500 million to make food purchases, and states, territories, and #TribalNations would receive another $500 million. Child-care facilities were supposed to get $200 million, the USDA said.

"The money earmarked for food banks, schools, and child-care facilities was meant to help them meet the needs of their recipients and help ensure they had access to healthy foods, according to the USDA at the time."

Original article:
bostonglobe.com/2025/03/12/met

Archived version:
archive.ph/AvN3n#selection-248
#USPol #FundingCuts #BadDOGE #Hunger #HungerGames #KillThePoor

The Boston Globe · USDA cuts ‘devastating’ for New England schools, food programsBy Amanda Gokee, John Hilliard
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SCOTUS just gave abortion clinics a rare win

But more significant threats from Trump’s Department of Justice remain.

by Julianne McShane, 2/24/2025

"Abortion rights advocates took the court’s rejection of the cases as a win, albeit a limited one.

"Katie O’Connor, director of federal abortion policy at the National Women’s Law Center, said that while the organization was “relieved” to hear about the court’s decision, “anti-abortion extremists are now more emboldened” thanks to Trump.

"Last month, for example, Trump’s DOJ announced it would limit enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a 1994 federal law that prohibits physical force, threats, or intimidation against people trying to access reproductive health clinics. While the law has been used to prosecute both anti-abortion protesters targeting abortion clinics and abortion rights protesters targeting anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, Trump baselessly claimed the Biden administration 'selectively weaponized [the law] against Christians.' The new DOJ guidance—which says the FACE Act should only be used in 'extraordinary circumstances' or cases involving 'death, serious bodily harm, or serious property damage'—reportedly has abortion providers bracing for more intense protests and fearing more violence. (The DOJ’s directive to limit FACE Act enforcement, though, does not override the legality of buffer zones, which are controlled by state and local law enforcement.)"

Read more:
motherjones.com/politics/2025/
#AbortionRights #WomensRights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #BodilyAutonomy #BirthControl #PlannedParenthood
#ProBirth is not #ProLife!

Mother JonesSCOTUS just gave abortion clinics a rare winBut more significant threats from Trump's Department of Justice remain
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New York doctor indicted for prescribing #AbortionPill in #Louisiana

By SARA CLINE and GEOFF MULVIHILL
Updated 2:53 PM EST, January 31, 2025

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — "A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the #DeepSouth state, which has one of the strictest near-total #AbortionBans in the country.

"Grand jurors at the District Court for the Parish of West Baton Rouge issued an indictment against Dr. #MargaretCarpenter; her company, #NightingaleMedical, PC; and a third person. All three were charged with #CriminalAbortion by means of #abortion-inducing drugs, a #felony.

"The case appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another state, at least since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned #RoeVWade in 2022 and opened the door for states to have strict anti-abortion laws."

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#ProBirth #Fascism #USPol #AntiabortionLaws #AntiAbortionLaws #HandmaidsTale #WelcomeToGilead

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Catholic Nun Explains Pro-Life In A Way That Will Stun Many (Especially Republican Lawmakers)

Thursday, July 30, 2015

"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."
Sister Joan Chittister, Benedictine Nun

dailykos.com/story/2015/7/30/1
#ProLife #ProBirth #PlannedParenthood #ReproductiveRights

A photo of an older woman with grey hair, with her hands clasped. "I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is." Sister Joan Chittister, Benedictine Nun
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Um... Proving again that #ProBirth is NOT #ProLife!

In states that ban #abortion, #SocialSafetyNet programs often fail families

By LAURA UNGAR and KIMBERLEE KRUESI, December 27, 2024

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — "Taylor Cagnacci moved from California to Tennessee with hopes of starting a new chapter in a state that touts a low cost of living and natural beauty.

"But she’s infuriated by Tennessee’s meager social services, which leave her and many other moms struggling in a state where abortion is banned with limited exceptions.

"'I was going to have my child no matter what, but for other women, that’s kind of a crappy situation that they put you in,' said Cagnacci, a 29-year-old Kingsport mom who relies on #Medicaid and a federally funded nutrition program. 'You have to have your child. But where’s the assistance afterward?'

"Tennessee has a porous safety net for mothers and young children, recent research and an analysis by The Associated Press found. It’s unknown how many women in the state have given birth because they didn’t have access to abortion, but it is clear that from the time a Tennessee woman gets pregnant, she faces greater obstacles to a #HealthyPregnancy, a #HealthyChild and a financially stable family than the average

"Like other states with strict abortion bans, Tennesseans of childbearing age are more likely to live in maternal care deserts and face overall doctor shortages. Women, infants and children are less likely to be enrolled in a government nutrition program known as #WIC. And Tennessee is one of only 10 states that hasn’t expanded Medicaid to a greater share of low-income families."

apnews.com/article/abortion-te
#AbortionBans #SafetyNets #ChildPoverty #FoodInsecurity #USPol

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#ForcedAbortion and #sterilization, arguably the most ghoulish facet of #China’s one-child “social engineering,” have left an indelible mark on hundreds of millions of #ChineseWomen, physically and mentally.

The one-child rules have gone, but the wounds of the past cast long shadows.

China’s one-child policy hangover: Scarred women dismiss #Beijing’s #ProBirth agenda
edition.cnn.com/2024/08/18/chi

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2019: #SisterJoanChittister's 2004 quote on '#ProLife' versus 'ProBirth' goes viral

"The quote — which Chittister confirmed she said during an interview with journalist Bill Moyers in 2004 — said: 'I do not believe that just because you are opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, a child educated, a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.""
#Abortion #AbortionRights #ProBirth #Welfare #Poverty #Housing #ImmoralMajority #Fascism #RabidRight

ncronline.org/news/sr-joan-chi

"l do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, | think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would | think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.” Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun, on Bill Moyers' show in November of 2004
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