Thursday, January 26, 2023

GET ME REWRITE: Wyoming GOP fights crime and inflation with anti-gay, transphobic bill

 
Photo credit:  State of Wyoming (work mask added)
Top headline:  NBC, 10/16/2022
Bottom headline:  Cowboy State Daily, 1/20/2023

From the Cowboy State Daily:
Sen. Bo Biteman, R-Ranchester, told the Senate Education Committee during its Friday meeting that he wonders if the bill should limit teaching those topics into the higher grades as well. 
“I get a lot of emails on this, and I hear a lot form my constituents that yes, even in junior high, high school they want to know what’s going on,” Biteman said. “They don’t want to be cut out of the picture.”

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GET ME REWRITE: Kansas GOP fights crime and inflation with plan to farm out abortion restrictions to cities and counties


Photo credit:  Kansas Legislature (work mask added)
Top headline:  NBC, 10/16/2022
Bottom headline: Kansas Reflector, 1/23/2023

From the Reflector:
The latest in a series of attempts to restrict abortion, Senate Bill 65 would give cities and counties the right to enact stricter laws on abortion than current state law. Sen. Chase Blasi, R-Wichita, introduced the bill without putting his name on it as a sponsor. 
Under current state law, use of drugs or devices that inhibit ovulation, fertilization or implantation of the embryo — meaning birth control, such as IUDS, pills and condoms, are deemed legal, as is disposing of the products of in-vitro fertilization before implantation, such as fertilized eggs. The state, along with any political subdivision of the state, doesn’t have the right to prohibit these practices and devices. SB65 would keep this section of the law intact, but allow local governments to limit abortion.

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GET ME REWRITE: Florida GOP fights crime and inflation with attack on abortion pills

 

Top headline:  NBC, 10/16/2022
Bottom headline:  Florida Bulldog, 1/22/2023 
In April, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a Florida law that forbids abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape, incest or sex trafficking. Controlled by DeSantis appointees, the Florida Supreme Court is expected to uphold the law against a privacy challenge. Now the Republican-led Legislature apparently wants to sabotage pill-induced abortions. As of this month, Florida laws that criminalize direct access to abortion pills conflict with a federal guideline that allows it.

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