(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . This Week in the War on Women [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-02-03 “He Was Nothing” Last week a jury awarded E. Jean Carroll $83,000,000 $65,000 000 of which was punitive damages, in her second defamation civil case against Donald Trump. Her first interview was with Rachel Maddow on Monday. She talks openly, among other things, about how it felt to be in the same room with her abuser for the first time since her assault and how different her feelings were seeing him from her feelings beforehand: He is nothing. You don’t have to be afraid of him. Before this exerpt, Maddow details Carroll’s remarkable career before Donald Trump raped her. She deserves every penny of those damages. In this election year, when it seems the whole Republican party (with a few notable exceptions) has capitulated — where they will not pass a bill about the border that they demanded because Trump said it would be bad for his election — let us remember that he only gets his power from other people. That makes what is happening even more dangerous. As always, this diary would not have been possible without the WoW crew, this week especially Angmar and mettle fatigue. Abortion And Reproductive Health Seven women are suing Tennessee because of it’s anti-abortion law and how it affected them personally. One of those women, K. Monica Kelly tells her story here. *** 150 members of Congress, led by the Congressional Women’s Caucus, have sent a letter to President Biden and the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Justice asking for action regarding women who are charged with crimes related to pregnancy or pregnancy outcomes. We urge you to use your authority, and all existing remedies at your Departments' disposal, to provide direct public educational, financial, and legal services support to any person who experiences or is threatened with pregnancy criminalization, and to interrupt that criminalization before it occurs and remedy its aftermath by taking these additional steps: ● Investigating any prosecutions of people with pregnancy-related conditions as unlawful under federal statutes that prohibit discrimination by law enforcement on the basis of sex, including on the basis of pregnancy; ● Reiterating hospital and medical staff obligations to maintain patient privacy under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, investigating when there is evidence that patient privacy has been breached, and pursuing appropriate legal remedies against violators; and ● Enforcing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which prohibits discrimination in health care on the basis of sex, including on the basis of pregnancy, against federally- funded health care entities whose personnel improperly report to law enforcement when patients miscarry, terminate a pregnancy, or seek other pregnancy-related care. www.npr.org/... *** Meanwhile in Ohio, where voters passed an abortion rights measure: The state asked a Hamilton County judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Ohio's ban on abortions after embryonic cardiac activity is detected, which is about six weeks gestation. The position confused attorney Jessie Hill, who represents abortion clinics challenging the law. Hill said there's no question that the entire law is unconstitutional after voters approved Issue 1 in November. "It's disappointing that they couldn't just come out and say that," Hill said. Yost all but said it in a legal analysis his office distributed before the November election: "Some of Ohio’s laws may be defensible, but the Heartbeat Act would not exist if Issue 1 passes." www.cincinnati.com/... *** Research: Access to telehealth abortion care can determine whether a person can obtain an abortion in the United States. People of color, young people and those with low incomes tend to benefit most from telehealth abortion. *** Violence Against Women​ [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/3/2220358/-This-Week-in-the-War-on-Women?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/